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After weeks of back-to-back mass shootings across the United States, President Joe Biden addressed the nation in an emotional evening speech on Thursday where he urged Congress to pass sensible gun reform laws. 

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The Democratic challenger for the Senate in Kentucky, Charles Booker, released a campaign ad featuring him wearing a noose. In the ad, he directly challenges incumbent GOP Senator Rand Paul on his political stances, likening his terms in office to having a noose around one's neck.

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Apparently, Elon Musk is under the impression that anyone cares or is surprised by the fact that he plans to start voting Republican—if he wasn’t already. 

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In today’s episode of Y’all’s Ex-President Just Be Out Here Saying Sh**, Don’t He? Donald Trump, America’s former commander-in-lies-and-losses, is bigly mad New York Attorney General Letitia James because he’s a big, rust-colored septuagenarian baby. This time, Trumpty-Dumpty is throwing a tantrum because he lost a motion Tuesday seeking to get a New York court to […]

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Shaun King has left Twitter, again. This time the controversial activist has seemingly departed in lieu of billionaire Elon Musk's purchase of the social media app—but it hasn't stopped him from getting slandered by all sectors of Twitter in his absence. 

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New York Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin resigned from his position on Tuesday after pleading not guilty in a federal courtroom to charges of bribery and wire fraud among other offenses brought against him. He had surrendered to FBI agents earlier in the day who undertook the action based on their investigation into his affairs which began last November.

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A report by the Washington Post and CBS News delivered the explosive news that Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent over two dozen text messages to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential Election. The texts are currently being investigated by the January 6th Committee.

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Break out your umbrellas, good people, because the forecast predicts a 99.9999 percent chance of “water is wet” news. It appears that researchers have been studying mental, intellectual and cognitive natures of different voter and ideological demographics and it turns out—Republicans are dumb AF.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to become the 116th Justice of the United States Supreme Court officially began today. The four days of hearings opened up in Washington D.C. with opening statements by the Senate Judiciary Committee, with Jackson in position to be the first Black woman named to the nation's highest court backed by a slim Democratic senate majority.

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Right now the national average for gas prices in America stands at about $4.43 for regular unleaded and everyone is asking what very much seems like a simple question: WTF?

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Former child star and actor Ricky Schroder shared a video of himself having a meltdown over being denied entry to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and Museum in Kansas after refusing to comply with their policy of visitors wearing a mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

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Since early on in the COVID-19 public health crisis, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been hellbent on running his state with a “don’t listen to the health experts, listen to me” mentality. It’s bad enough that even in the early stages of the pandemic, DeSantis was trying his best to dead social distancing ordinances, but […]