Ms. McHugh was fired in 2017 for posting anti-Muslim tweets. She has since renounced white nationalist viewpoints and shared her emails with the Southern Poverty Law Center to “make amends,” Michael Hayden, the law center reporter with whom she initially shared the messages, said in an interview. Cas Mudde, a political scientist at the University […]
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Image copyright Warner Bros Image caption Joaquin Phoenix plays the title character in Joker Comic book film Joker passed the $1bn (£772m) mark in global ticket sales this weekend, becoming the first R-rated movie to do so. A US R rating requires everyone under the age of 17 watching the film in a cinema to
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I was feeling down on my hometown, a fractured city of appalling inequality out of which has sprung an industry that’s contributed to the ruin of our country — and also, probably, my mind. The quirky tech scene had soured, while the houses had gotten grander and the homelessness more brutal. My family has been
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Separation at the top and a few random scheduling quirks has allowed the AP college football poll voters to work a little easier this season than last. No. 1 LSU, No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Clemson held their spots in the AP Top 25 presented by Regions Bank this week. The only movement
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Thomas Jefferson believed that the rural farmer was the ideal of the American citizen. William Jennings Bryan preached something similar a century later. “Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic,” he said in his 1896 “Cross of Gold” speech. “But destroy our farms
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At least 60 percent of U.S. Superfund sites are in areas vulnerable to flooding or other worsening disasters of climate change, and the Trump administration’s reluctance to directly acknowledge global warming is deterring efforts to safeguard them, a congressional watchdog agency says. In a report being released later Monday, the Government Accountability Office called on
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Author Stephen King can’t understand why anyone is still in doubt about President Donald Trump after the first set of public impeachment hearings last week. Multiple witnesses have testified that Trump withheld aid to Ukraine to pressure the country into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden, son Hunter Biden, and conspiracy theories about a Democratic
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Online services Yahoo Japan and Line Corp. have announced they are merging By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer November 18, 2019, 9:16 AM 3 min read Online services Yahoo Japan and Line Corp. have announced they are merging. Z Holdings Corp., which owns SoftBank Corp. that operates Yahoo Japan, and Naver Corp. of South Korea,
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The Tokyo Olympic marathons and race walks are likely to start and finish in Sapporo’s Odori Park November 18, 2019, 9:25 AM 2 min read The Tokyo Olympic marathons and race walks, moved last month to the northern city of Sapporo to avoid the capital’s summer heat, are likely to start and finish in the
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When her contractions became unbearably painful, 18-year-old Perseverance Kanyoza rushed to a maternity hospital in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. But the doors were closed amid a weekslong strike by public health workers. With no money for private care, panic set in. A hospital guard directed her to a tiny apartment in the poor suburb of Mbare
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