The five now-fired Memphis cops accused of beating Tyre Nichols to death at a traffic stop have all been charged and booked into Shelby County jail.
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gonna have to take a couple extra naps that day so I can stay up to watch this
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BREAKING: Five now-fired Memphis police officers were booked in jail on Thursday after the group was accused of severely beating Black driver Tyre Nichols.
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Here’s that information about how to assist those displaced by the Regal apartment fire:
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So awful. Glad everyone is okay but thinking of all these people that just lost everything.
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Photos show the aftermath of a devastating fire at the Regal Apartment building in Charleston.
The latest info --> wchstv.com/news/local/inv
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More than 16 million signed up for Obamacare insurance, a new record huffpost.com/entry/obamacar (by )
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Meta is giving Trump his Facebook and Instagram accounts back. I wrote about the implications of this decision yesterday, including interviews with Facebook's former director of public policy , as well as and . Read here:
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Kevin McCarthy appointments to the new House subcommittee on the govt's Covid response: Republicans who have spread dangerous misinformation about Covid, compared wearing masks to the Holocaust and suggested omicron was a Democratic hoax.
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So many questions about why this played out the way it did... huffpost.com/entry/6-year-o (story by )
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Relieved that the top two on this list are two of my favs
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All the data we have show that California's strict gun laws are highly effective. The two mass shooting this week don't change that, despite the picture Republicans have tried to paint. More from me:
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NEW -- There's a 239-ish-pound, orange elephant in the room at the RNC meeting in California that no one really wants to talk about it.
Even though he was the biggest reason for the party's three straight bad elections.
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The first Native American woman in space goes for a space walk
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Tech and media companies are laying people off partly because of recession fears that may prove unfounded
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Nick Fuentes, Nazi-loving insurrectionist, has been allowed back on Twitter, giving him a big megaphone.
He's the latest fascist has reinstated. Fuentes, currently advising Ye's antisemitic prez campaign, has called Hitler "really fucking cool"
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3 new anti-trans bills in the WV House today:
HB2972 - Prohibit public university names for GAC
HB2998 - Prohibits nonbinary marker on birth certificates
HB3001 - Prohibit punishment for teachers who refuse to use correct pronouns #wvpol
Bill tacker: bit.ly/3XyOOMx
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Split screen between Dem elites + grassroots on Arizona continues
-Dem Senators dodging questions on Gallego
-Online donations to Replace Sinema PAC up 300%
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Had the honor of interviewing costume design legend Ruth E. Carter for “Who’s Behind the Clothes.” We chatted about Afrofuturism, the design process behind #WakandaForever, how @theblackpanther sequel honors Chadwick Boseman & more. My latest @HuffPost: huffpost.com/entry/costume-
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Postpartum care isn't just the right thing to do — it's lifesaving.
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There should be a word for the feeling of resignation that happens just before you google a new product, knowing you're gonna be inundated with ads for that thing + related stuff on every social media channel for the next 12 months, at least.
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Pamela Anderson alleges in her upcoming memoir that "Home Improvement" star Tim Allen exposed himself to her on the set of the hit show
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Brandon Tsay, whose family owns Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio, said the gunman was looking for people to shoot.
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Gallego is the favorite to earn the Democratic nomination for a potential three-way race.
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The official biographical directory for members of Congress has no info for George Santos except his birthday
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In which George Santos, international man of mystery, presents a dilemma for the organizational directory:
huffpost.com/entry/santos-o
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Abortion rights groups worry that Alabama AG Steve Marshall’s comments signal the next chapter in the anti-abortion movement, even if his plan has legal hurdles.
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Several of the Republicans calling on George Santos to resign also took money from Santos' PAC ... will they give it back? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
huffpost.com/entry/george-s via
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Republicans have hostage - the debt ceiling - but not yet coalesced around a demand.
Not clear what they'd want Social Security and Medicare, though there are some recent proposals on the shelf.
and I take a look.
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Ah, yes, a journalist's natural instinct: trust the person in charge/with all the money
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During the newsroom meeting, executive Lee Wolverton defended the company’s decision, explaining that Gazette-Mail employees should respect Skaff because he holds the purse strings. dragline.org/stories/gazett
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MY LATEST: How outrage over a single book led to the smearing of staff and the defunding of this small town library.
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BREAKING: Lisa Marie Presley, singer and daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest in her home. She was 54.
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Garland names special counsel to investigate Biden classified documents huffpost.com/entry/merrick- (by )
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NEW: The seditious conspiracy trial involving five Proud Boys leaders began in earnest Thursday with opening statements, in which prosecutors cast the street gang as a driving force behind the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Judge a man by his friends
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Exclusive: @HuffPost has obtained text message conversations between Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson. We’re publishing the full texts. Here’s some of what we found:
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