They’re convicted sex offenders considered so dangerous that the state of Washington — liberal, latte-loving Washington — once thought they needed to be housed on an island in Puget Sound. They’re now going to be released into communities across the state — including in homes that are next to a playground and less than a…

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The suspect, a student nurse identified as Mohammad Farooq, allegedly planned to use a homemade pressure-cooker bomb on the maternity ward of St. James University Hospital, where he worked. According to the Associated Press, Farooq is facing multiple charges including preparing an act of terrorism, possessing an explosive substance and possessing an imitation firearm. Prosecutors…

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For years now, the media have feasted ravenously upon the growing divisions that have defined today’s current era of politics. Tribalism defined the Trump era, with news cycles subject to the constant whims of his perpetual feud with the establishment as the entire country was forced into exactly two camps: anti-Trump, and everyone else. There…

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You’ll soon be hearing it: CNN has left the building. The network can no longer afford to be in Atlanta’s landmark CNN Center. Instead, after more than 35 years, CNN operations are going back to where they began in 1980, the Techwood Turner Broadcasting campus in midtown Atlanta. That’s where Ted Turner, an offbeat guy…

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County music legend Dolly Parton gave her fans a gift only she could give on her 77th birthday. “Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me! Today, I decided I’m not gonna get, I’m gonna give. My new song, ‘Don’t Make Me Have to Come Down There’ is out now,” she posted on Instagram on…

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With its sales slowing and its stock price tumbling, Tesla Inc. slashed prices dramatically Friday on several versions of its electric vehicles, making some of its models eligible for a new federal tax credit that could help spur buyer interest. The company dropped prices nearly 20% in the United States on some versions of the…

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A First Amendment feud between a college soccer player and her school has only grown worse despite the fact that she won a large monetary settlement. Former Virginia Tech women’s soccer player Kiersten Hening filed a lawsuit against head coach Charles “Chugger” Adair, saying that he verbally attacked her and decreased her playing time after…

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Hollywood director and producer Michael Bay has been charged by Italian authorities in connection with an on-set death during the filming of the Netflix movie “6 Underground,” TheWrap reported Thursday. Unlike the other famous on-set death in recent memory (here’s looking at you, Alec Baldwin), Bay isn’t accused of being involved in taking another human…

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has gently dipped its official toe into concerns that there could be a link between COVID-19 vaccines and strokes. A statement released Friday by the CDC concerning the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine said the possibility exists of a link between the bivalent form of the vaccine and stroke, all the…

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President Joe Biden may have thought that he had a brilliant response to the classified documents scandal now engulfing his presidency, but one law professor says otherwise. We have seen a number of excuses so far regarding the revelation that Joe Biden took classified documents with him at the end of his term as vice…

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