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Schools Chancellor David Banks, ‘Intifada High’ Principal Debbie Almontaser met with anti-Israel imam, outraging Jewish teachers
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NFL legend gives Tom Brady crucial broadcasting advice ahead of first season in the booth
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In the Chesapeake Bay, a piece of history for sale
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We're in a post-truth world now. So, how can we escape the mass delusions?
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Why both sides in America's partisan war feel like they're losing
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution’ On Netflix, A Documentary About Great Strides Forward For LGBTQ+ Comedians
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Assistant who David Beckham ‘cheated’ with allegedly found him in bed with another woman: book
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Add a rainbow to your apartment with this LED corner lamp
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White Sox vs. Tigers: MLB odds, picks, best bets for Saturday
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Who’ll win big in NYC’s casino race? Gambling experts set the odds on Jay Z, other top contenders
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Scorching temperatures persist as heat wave expands for millions in U.S.
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Church that hosted Al Capone’s wedding, 20 other sites by Gowanus Canal test positive for dangerously unsafe air
A famous church that once hosted notorious gangster Al Capone’s wedding and at least 20 other sites near Brooklyn’s toxic Gowanus Canal are in need for one hell of a clean-up after recently testing positive for dangerously unsafe air, The Post has learned.
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Russia targets Ukrainian energy facilities with new barrage of missiles
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Inventor and futurist talks his hopes for the advancement of AI and technology
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TikToker Natalie Violette wows millions with make-up challenges, including ‘prison’ look
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Masked anti-Israel protestor who accosted Jewish man on NYC subway revealed
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Beat the city heat! This air cooler is cheaper than your AC bill
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Donald Trump Should Remain Gagged, Says Former Lawyer
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Sonia Sotomayor Just Sounded a Dire Warning About Marriage Equality
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Female bosses have surfing club at Rockaway Beach: ‘Everyone wants to catch that wave’
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Family of 6 dead found dead by rescuers after landslide in eastern China
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Target of botched hit ordered by Paris Hilton’s ex-biz partner ‘very scared’ he’ll try to kill him again
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Mother of Rachel Morin: The Biden administration doesn't 'value life'
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How the UN emboldened Hezbollah terror regime as war with Israel imminent: 'Complete failure'
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Can you name 3 not-so-bad things about aging? How about 2? How about 1?
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NASCAR News: Martin Truex Jr. Replacement Revealed After Accidental Slip Up
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WNBA Power Rankings: Connecticut Sun Shine, Caitlin Clark and Fever Rising
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I Raced the 1000 Miglia in a $15 Million Mercedes-Benz
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Mom Singing Alternative to Nursery Rhyme Delights Internet—and Baby
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A Reading List of Atlantic Profiles
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.In 2023, Chris Heath noted in an Atlantic article that Tom Hanks is a curious person. “Hanks is at his most animated when the words coming out of his mouth are something along the lines of ‘I just learned recently why there’s so many covered bridges in America. You know why there’s so many covered bridges in America?’ And he’s off,” Heath writes.These are the sorts of things you can learn only by spending time with someone. Access to our most well-known cultural figures is limited, so when they bring a profile writer into their world, it’s an act of trust—and it presents an opportunity to learn something truly new about what inspires their work. Today’s newsletter rounds up some memorable Atlantic profiles of actors, comedians, showrunners, and TV writers.Atlantic ProfilesHow Tom Hanks Became Tom HanksBy Chris HeathThe actor—and now novelist—reflects on how he got here, and the other lives he might have lived instead.Read the article.The Godfather of American ComedyBy Adrienne LaFranceThe funniest people on the planet think there’s no funnier person than Albert Brooks.Read the article.How Daniel Radcliffe Outran Harry PotterBy Chris HeathHe was the world’s most famous child star.Then he had to figure out what came next.Read the article.Still Curious? The most quietly radical writer on television: Alice Birch has brought her scabrously funny writing to shows such as Succession, Normal People, and Dead Ringers, Sophie Gilbert wrote in 2023. How Taylor Sheridan created America’s most popular TV show: Inside Paramount’s Yellowstone juggernaut Other Diversions The one place in airports people actually want to be What to read to understand how people get tricked Americans have lost the plot on cooking oil. P.S. Courtesy of KV I recently asked readers to share a photo of something that sparks their sense of awe in the world. This is the first time I viewed the sun perfectly placed in-between the buildings at sunset with its reflection so elegantly reaching towards me,” KV, 68, in Central Park, wrote. “This moment has stayed with me ever since.”I’ll continue to share your responses in the coming weeks. If you’d like to share, reply to this email with a photo and a short description so we can share your wonder with fellow readers in a future edition of this newsletter or on our website. Please include your name (initials are okay), age, and location. By doing so, you agree that The Atlantic has permission to publish your photo and publicly attribute the response to you, including your first name and last initial, age, and/or location that you share with your submission.— Isabel
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All The Washington Post Has Is Its Credibility
Hours after my Washington Post colleagues and I published the first of several articles in 2017 about the Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore’s history of pursuing teenage girls, the Republican nominee’s powerful allies launched an elaborate campaign seeking to discredit the story.The best-known of these efforts was an attempt carried out by the far-right activist group Project Veritas to dupe us into publishing a false story, an operation we exposed. But there were others, perhaps none more insidious than the spreading of false rumors across Alabama that The Washington Post had paid Moore’s accusers to come forward, and were offering thousands of dollars to other women for salacious stories about him.[From the June 1926 issue: Journalism and morality]There is a reason Moore’s allies used this particular tactic: They knew that any whiff of a financial motive behind the stories would taint them. There is also a reason their efforts failed. And there is a reason I’m bringing this up seven years later.The practice of paying for information violates ethical standards at The Washington Post, where I worked nearly 20 years, and is forbidden in most American newsrooms. Will Lewis, the paper’s new British publisher, engaged in the practice when he was an editor at The Daily Telegraph, paying about $120,000 to secure information that led to a major government scandal. Lewis has defended his decision. Further reporting by the Post and The New York Times has linked him to using fraudulently obtained records in news stories, which he has denied.The controversy around Lewis is not some small matter of different journalistic methods. The reputation of the Post newsroom has been built upon readers’ trust that reporters do not pay sources, much less steal documents, hack computers, or engage in other deceptive news-gathering practices that have been associated with a certain kind of British journalism and the worst of American tabloid journalism. This is why the Roy Moore stories were not vulnerable to the attacks launched against them. How their credibility was achieved remains highly relevant.First of all, the women who came forward—all of them using their full names—did so at great personal risk and for no reason other than that they wished the voting public to know the candidate as they did. None of them had slick lawyers or PR firms or shady intermediaries; all suffered an array of consequences for their decision to go public with their stories. Our primary source was working as a payday-loan clerk at the time, missed weeks of work, endured an array of threats, and essentially went into hiding after the first story appeared.Second, my colleagues Beth Reinhard and Alice Crites and I spent weeks doing what Washington Post journalists do: old-fashioned reporting. This entailed long conversations, patience, and knocking on the same doors again and again. It entailed going through court records and vetting the minute details of the stories the women told us. It entailed vetting the accusers themselves. We earned the trust of our sources with the only assurance any journalist can provide: that we would do our work thoroughly and carefully and ethically and see where the reporting took us.[From the November 2023 issue: How we got ‘democracy dies in darkness’]Third, and perhaps most important, we were transparent, laying out our reporting methods in the stories. Readers could see that we were playing no tricks.The campaign to undermine the credibility of these stories was relentless. The elaborate Project Veritas operation got the most attention. But the false rumors that we’d paid for information were potentially more damaging in the way they sought to cast news-gathering as a cheap and tawdry affair. The conspiracy-peddling website Gateway Pundit spread a false story based on a false tweet claiming that a colleague of mine had been “outed” for offering $1,000 to Moore’s accusers. In Alabama, a minister claimed to have received a call falsely purporting to be from a Washington Post reporter trying “to find out if anyone at this address is a female between the ages of 54 to 57 years old, willing to make damaging remarks about candidate Roy Moore for a reward of between $5,000 and $7,000.”The truth is that reporters earn revelations by listening, digging, and bearing witness. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward did not pay for information that led them to uncover the Watergate scandal; Bart Gellman did not pay Edward Snowden. David Fahrenthold did not purchase the Access Hollywood tape.As publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Lewis did not institute the practice of paying for information, and he has pledged not to do so at the Post. This is a relief, to a degree. Journalism cannot afford to undermine itself. Since 2017, the kinds of active-measure attacks we faced while reporting on Moore have only become more ubiquitous. Threats against journalists are rising. Efforts to undermine legitimate reporting are sadly succeeding in many corners of the country. The Post and other newsrooms should defend the values and practices that produce journalism in the public interest, and that cynical forces would like to see swept away.
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Stream It Or Skip It: Gangs Of Galicia’ On Netflix, Where A Madrid Lawyer Moves To Galicia To Look Into Her Father’s Secret Life In A Crime Family
There's an interesting story buried under all the standard crime family plot devices in this new thriller from Spain.
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How Rose Kennedy became the most dangerous member of the famous family
Much is known about the Kennedy women — Jackie, Caroline, Carolyn — but for many, Rosemary Kennedy remains an enigma. And for good reason. Headstrong and carefree — but plagued by mental health challenges — Rosemary remains the least known (if not forgotten) Kennedy. And in her new book Ask Not: The Kennedys and the...
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How Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger almost eluded capture
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St. John’s looks like a classic second-year Rick Pitino team
From Providence College to the Knicks and Kentucky to Louisville, Rick Pitino’s teams have traditionally taken major leaps in his second season.
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If it’s 100 degrees out, does your boss have to give you a break?Probably not.
Cutchogue, N.Y.: Farm worker Pedro Alejandro Deleon wipes his face of sweat while working on stringing up tomato plants at Wickham's Fruit Farm, in Cutchogue, New York, on July 20, 2022. (Photo by Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images) It’s a hard time to be someone who works in the heat. Regions of the US are in the midst of record-breaking high temperatures, brought to us by a heat dome covering parts of the Midwest and Northeast. This week, approximately 270 million people will have experienced temperatures of 90 degrees or more. It’s an unforgiving start to a summer that projections show could be the hottest on record. Exposure to extreme heat can be deadly— around 1,200 Americans die from it every year (a number that’s likely severely undercounted), making extreme heat perhaps one of the deadliest of all weather events in the US. And even when heat doesn’t kill or hospitalize people outright, it can silently harm our physical and mental health through straining the heart and altering our behavior around risks. The National Weather Service recommends people spend time in air-conditioned spaces, shade, and to consistently hydrate during intense heat waves. But for more than 30 million workers whose job requires them to work outdoors, like farmworkers or construction workers, those NWS recommendations aren’t often accessible, let alone guaranteed, on the job. The very nature of their work leaves them as much as 35 times more at risk of dying from heat exposure than the general public. And heat waves like this one are expected to increase in frequency thanks to climate change. Lulu Guerrero, an undocumented farmworker in Colorado, told Vox she has fainted twice from the heat — once last year and once the year prior. “Two years ago, the temperature was about 105 degrees,” she said in Spanish. “It’s very difficult for us, because we still have to keep working to earn money, because of the needs we have. These are the experiences working in the fields leave you with — sometimes beautiful, sometimes very hard.” It’s not just outdoor work that puts people at risk of heat injury or death. Some indoor workers, like airplane cabin cleaners or kitchen cooks, also experience scorching temperatures in their line of work, as confined spaces and proximity to ovens without AC can cause a person to overheat. How one perceives and responds to heat varies from person to person, but the Occupational Health and Safety Administration says that a wet bulb temperature (a more accurate method of understanding heat risk by measuring temperature, humidity, and sunlight) of 77 degrees or more can make strenuous work unsafe. From 2011 to 2021, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 436 workplace deaths due to heat exposure, and from 2010 to 2020, almost 34,000 workers suffered a heat-related injury that required time away from their job. OSHA has pointed out that it’s likely that these numbers are also a vast undercount. We know how dangerous heat can be, and we know that danger is likely to amplify with each summer, yet there’s no federal protection for workers against heat. But that might change soon. In 2021, after years of worker activism on the issue, OSHA began the process of developing a ruling on a heat workplace standard, with the aim to reduce heat-related injuries and death on the job. This standard would create a set of obligations that employers must comply with to protect their workers from heat. It generally takes about seven years for OSHA to publish a final ruling. Right now, the proposed rule is under review in the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs — but there’s no telling when it will review the proposed rule, or what the exact text of the proposed rule says. OSHA might face some resistance, though. Historically, some employers and business groups have been opposed to a mandatory heat standard and have lobbied against it in the past. And if Donald Trump wins the presidency, it would likely upend the standard entirely. Time will tell what a final ruling for a workplace heat standard will be, and how well it will align with the needs of workers. Which invites the question: what would strong workplace protections against heat look like? What workplace protections we do (and don’t) have against heat Long before President Joe Biden pushed for OSHA to develop a heat illness prevention rule, OSHA has understood heat as a hazard to workers — they created their first document for recommended heat standards back in 1972. Their webpage on heat exposure details how to spot heat illness and injuries, heat-related case studies from past OSHA investigations, and even updated criteria for a recommended heat standard for employers. But that’s all it is: recommendations, guidance, suggestions. Unlike OSHA’s work safety standards, such as respiratory protection or their hazard communication standard, none of the things OSHA lists on heat exposure are mandatory for employers to comply with until a final rule on heat is published. What employers do have to comply with is OSHA’s general duty clause, which requires that they ensure the workplace is “free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees.” In theory, this includes hazards like extreme heat. But in practice, it leaves a lot of room for employer discretion, and very little room for workers to demand more protections. In absence of a federal rule, five states have passed some sort of heat protection standards: California, Colorado, Minnesota, Washington, and Oregon. In 2022, Oregon’s state OSHA adopted heat protection rules for both outdoor and indoor workers, and just this week, California approved heat standards for indoor workers nearly 20 years after they implemented a workplace heat rule for outdoor workers, the first of its kind. The other states offer protections for only certain groups of laborers — Washington covers outdoor workers only, while Minnesota covers indoor workers and Colorado covers agricultural workers. Notably missing from this list are some of the United States’ hottest regions, such as the South, which is overwhelmingly dominated by state Republican legislatures. That doesn’t mean efforts haven’t been made to implement heat protections in those places, statewide or locally. In Texas, city councils in Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio passed ordinances to protect construction workers from the heat. But all of this was overturned by the Texas legislature in 2023, when lawmakers passed a bill that restricted Texas counties and cities from developing laws that go beyond state law. The Florida legislature did the same when Miami-Dade County was on course to pass a heat protection standard for outdoor workers, a devastating blow to workers and labor advocates. States developing heat protections for workers is a step in the right direction — but it’s only possible when the state government isn’t hostile to such regulations. A federal ruling would supersede any state laws on workplace heat standards (or lack thereof). What could strong workplace protections against heat look like? The bare minimum needs for a federal workplace heat standard are “really pretty simple,” says Kristina Dahl, a principal climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists. “It’s water, shade, and rest. And each of those needs to become progressively more present as the temperature or heat index increases.” But Dahl also emphasizes that there should be clear standards for water, shade, and rest. There’s a difference between drinking cold water and drinking water that’s turned hot from the sun; between a true 15-minute rest break and doing light work while on a break; between resting in the shade of a truck and resting in the shade of a tent with air conditioning. Dahl also wants to see workers’ wages protected during these breaks. In a report she co-wrote about the risk outdoor workers face from their exposure to extreme heat, Dahl said one of their findings was that “there’s the potential for workers to lose a lot in earnings if they’re not getting paid for these increasingly long rest breaks as the temperature increases.” The protection of pay is key for ensuring workers’ safety, says Antonio De Loera-Brust, communications director for United Farm Workers. A lot of outdoor workers make less than the national median income, which makes any potential loss to a paycheck especially difficult. Agricultural workers in particular make low wages as is, and it’s still common for farmworkers to be paid by how much crops they harvest, rather than a secured hourly wage. All of this forces workers to decide between their income and their safety. “The economic incentive for workers who are living paycheck to paycheck, or living in poverty, or struggling with food on their own tables, is to push themselves to the limit,” De Loera-Brust told me. “They will push their bodies past the breaking point, and will suffer severe health consequences up to and including death, which happens every year.” According to OSHA, 50 to 70 percent of heat-related fatalities occur during the first week of work, because workers had not adequately acclimated to the heat. In Florida, a young farmworker died from the heat on his first day of work in January 2023. To prevent these unnecessary deaths, Dahl recommends “at least a two-week acclimation period, where there’s increasing work time in the heat.” And it’s not just those new to heat-exposed work who need to be acclimated to the heat — returning workers who have been away for an extended period, such as seasonal agricultural workers, also need time to get used to the heat again. Last July, another young farmworker in Florida named Efraín López García died on the job, after working on farms for nearly a decade. His coworkers said they were never trained on how to spot heat illness or give first aid, the Miami Herald reported. To prevent tragic deaths like López García’s, it’s critical that a heat standard also includes mandatory training for workers to recognize the signs of heat stroke and exhaustion, first aid, and what their rights are — all provided in the language they speak. Even if all criteria for a strong heat standard is met, then comes the issue of enforcement. A lot of workers in industries exposed to heat, like agriculture and construction, are undocumented. Retaliation for standing up for their basic rights and needs can be a real threat to their income and livelihood, and can discourage workers from enforcing standards. There needs to be some sort of combination of worker empowerment, whether through unions or worker collectives, and anti-retaliation measures to ensure that the heat standard is actually imposed. How different these key demands from workers and advocates will be from the final ruling on a heat standard is still up in the air. Even in some of the best-case scenarios, obstacles to a strong, enforceable rule lie ahead. What we know about OSHA’s proposed heat standard, and what stands in the way While the details of OSHA’s proposed rule are not available to the public yet, we do have some idea as to what it might have included so far. According to recommendations from OSHA’s National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety & Health work group, the proposed ruleis aimed at both indoor and outdoor work, and it may include the following: a temperature trigger for when the standard would take effect, mandatory rest breaks, access to shade and water, heat illness prevention training, and an acclimatization period for workers to get used to the heat. Are you a business owner with employees who work in the heat? Here’s how you can protect them. It’s likely that we’re still years away from OSHA enforcing a standard to prevent heat illness and death, and until then, we’re bound to see more workers get injured or killed from extreme heat.If you’re an employer of workers exposed to heat, here are just a few key recommendations around heat safety in the meantime,according to NIOSH: Rest breaks:Allow for workers to cool down by ensuring consistent breaks, and increase rest breaks as the weather gets hotter. Hydrate:Provide enough potable water for all workers, and make sure it’s in easily accessible areas. Acclimatize:Gradually expose new workers to the heat for at least two weeks before they complete a full day’s worth of work in the heat. Also, talk to your employees. Workers on the ground will have crucial knowledge about what’s necessary to protect themselves from extreme heat, so their input and participation in creating a standard will be key to ensuring that it actually works. A lot of this aligns with what workers and advocates are calling for. But we’re likely still months from a published proposed rule and years away from a final ruling, says Jordan Barab, former deputy assistant secretary of labor at OSHA and writer of the newsletter Confined Space. A lot could happen in the meantime, and it also provides ample room for threats to the rule — one major one being if Trump wins the presidency this fall. Trump would likely kill the OSHA’s initiative to develop protections against heat entirely, Barab told me. But if Biden can hold onto the White House, there’s a much better chance at seeing the rule come to life — though it will still be met with opposition. Some businesses and employers aren’t excited about the prospect of being required to protect workers from heat, and have actively lobbied against it at the federal and state level. They have said that such a standard would be too much of a burden for employers, and that they’re already doing what would be mandated (which, if that’s the case, then why worry about a standard being written down?). “We can certainly expect this one to be challenged in court,” Barab said about the heat standard. While OSHA generally wins these legal battles, it’s still another obstacle that can cause delays. But in the meantime, some workers are taking matters into their own hands by writing heat provisions into their union contracts. At the end of the day, a federal ruling on a workplace heat standard would take some of the current pressure off workers to be solely responsible for their health on the job and move a large part of that responsibility onto employers. And with each summer we wait, more and more workers’ lives are at risk. “The clock is ticking,” said De Loera-Brust. “It’s already been over 100 degrees in much of the country this year. No one wants to be the last farmworker to die of heat. ”
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Years after the end of COVID, NYC remains trapped in ‘Long Lockdown’
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Judge Judy renders verdict on Trump v. New York case: 'Nonsense'
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Wisconsin woman attempted to poison veterinarian husband with animal euthanasia drugs to steal assets: police
Amanda Chapin pleaded no contest on Friday to a charge of felony first-degree reckless endangering safety. She faces up to 12.5 years behind bars for poisoning her husband, 71.
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Trump endorses Ten Commandments in Louisiana schools: 'Revival of religion'
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The Trump Drug Rebate Rule Would Have Saved Seniors Billions; Biden Repealed It and Gave Billions to China EVs
This is yet another instance where Democrats will sacrifice the needs of vulnerable Americans on the altar of their Green God. The post The Trump Drug Rebate Rule Would Have Saved Seniors Billions; Biden Repealed It and Gave Billions to China EVs appeared first on Breitbart.
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