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McCain was a giant of the United States Senate and a lifelong public servant who won respect and admiration from his colleagues on Capitol Hill and world leaders for his staunch advocacy of democratic principles and his defiant policy positions, particularly on issues relating to the military and national security.

He was a tough and, at times, feisty and brash legislator, but he forged friendships and bonds that cemented his place in history as a dealmaker. His political opponents sometimes branded him a war-monger and a reactionary at worst but never doubted his unwavering adherence to his principles, his tireless support for American troops, and his enduring commitment to public service.

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Billowing plumes of grit and sand kept drivers from inching along at more than a glacial pace on Monday, SFGate reports, with winds blowing hard and fast enough for the dust to sting the skin of any attendees unfortunate enough to have gone bare-legged. The storm apparently started up on Friday night before gathering steadily over the weekend.

Bad weather had already once threatened to turn the festival into a rerun of the horror show that engulfed last year's event, with around 12 hours of non-stop rain forcing organizers to briefly close their gates before things had even kicked off on Aug. 25.

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Some people, of course, manage to stay friends with both parties.

Now José Andrés is having a go at being allied with both Prince Harry and Prince William.

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The Australian supermodel nicknamed "The Body" reveals in her new book that she even went against the wishes of some members of her family to take a holistic approach to her illness.

Macpherson, 60, says the diagnosis was seven years ago and she is now in clinical remission or, as she puts it, "utter wellness."

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The Republican nominee's nephew appeared on MSNBC's Deadline: White House after Donald Trump spent the weekend defending himself from a firestorm of criticism over his controversial visit to Arlington National Cemetery last week, where a member of his campaign staff allegedly got into a physical altercation with an official at the burial ground.

Host Nicolle Wallace asked Fred Trump about the story and his uncle's previous slights against wounded and killed service members, including his reported descriptions of the fallen as "suckers" and "losers" (Donald Trump denies making the remarks, despite his own former chief of staff claiming that he did).

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Warning: There will be consequences. You will be ostracized by the moms planning the town's annual "Girls' Night Out." (For the uninitiated, these still happen, at least in NYC suburbs, where adult women call themselves girls and need a sanctioned activity to drink.)

The good news is, as a parent who challenged the de facto school ruler, I can attest that, like Gloria Gaynor, you will survive.

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Speaking after an introduction by Joe Biden, who hailed his decision as nominee in 2020 to select her as his vice president as "the single best decision I made as president of the United States of America," Harris spent much of her time pleading her case that an administration under her would be more beneficial to workers than her opponent, Donald Trump.

"As we fight to move forward, Donald Trump is trying to pull us backward, including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize, she said."

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Donald Trump is at it again. Appearing on Fox News with Mark Levin over the weekend, among the list of questionable quotes from the former president during his interview is one in which he appears to have created a new storyline regarding his former vice president, Mike Pence.

The comments came as Trump highlighted Harris' cross-examination of Brett Kavanaugh during a 2018 Senate confirmation hearing. At the time, Trump had nominated Kavanaugh as a justice on the US supreme court.

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Their first appearance on the campaign trail together since Biden announced his withdrawal in July, the president focused his speech on his special bond with Harris, hailing his decision as nominee in 2020 to select her as his vice president as "the single best decision I made as president of the United States of America."

He also spoke of the pitfalls of another Trump presidency, notably to labor unions. "Remember, Trump, for four years, promised every month, infrastructure week, for four years he promised that," Biden said, Harris standing behind. "He didn't build a damn thing. Nothing. I mean it, not nothing."

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Chestnut, who holds 55 eating related world records, put down 83 hot dogs and buns, seven more than his 2021 personal best. Meanwhile, Kobayashi fell short at 66 hot dogs.

"I've been trying to hit 80 hot dogs for years, and without Kobayashi I was never able to do it,'' the American eating legend said, according to USA Today. "He drives me. We weren't always nice to each other, but I love the way we push each other to be our best.''

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Dubbed "Flagstock," the event is being staged for the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill students who protected the American flag from being pulled down and touching the ground during a pro-Palestinian protest in April.

It was a group of roughly two dozen UNC fraternity who guarded the flag, after the protestors had already taken it down once before. The image of them holding it up amidst the charged crowd that surrounded quickly went viral. The Trump campaign used the footage in videos. Several of the members spoke at July's Republican National Convention.

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"If your ears have been exposed to the abominable sounds of Lara Trump singing, you might be entitled to compensation," political commentator Travis Akers posted on X, formerly know as Twitter.

The duet, which "honors heroes and their bravery," includes the highly auto-tuned RNC Chairwoman singing lyrics like "You're climbing up the ladder, and the screams get louder, you're my hero." The music video was first posted online on Aug. 23, but it took until now for the horror to sink in among unfortunate listeners.

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There are three converging plot threads in King Ivory, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival. One involves West (James Badge Dale), a cop tasked with defending Oklahoma from gun crime, alongside his wife and two kids. Then there's Smiley (Ben Foster), an inmate at a maximum security facility who earns his freedom via shocking acts. Finally, drug cartel leader Ramón Garza (Michael Mando) traffics people from Mexico to Oklahoma, but he becomes the target of a police hunt when one of his routine trips goes horribly wrong.

The most intriguing plot involves Garza and the teenager he trafficked from Mexico. The boy has aspirations of being an accountant (his mother hopes he'll be a doctor) and his parents risk everything to get him there, offering the deed to their farm in

The report Monday in the Daily Telegraph, citing sources in Harry's camp, sought to rubbish claims in the Mail on Sunday that Harry was "turning away from all sorts of Hollywood publicists and is seeking counsel from his old friends and associates."

Harry, who turns 40 this month, visited the U.K. last week for the funeral of his uncle, Robert Fellowes, who was married to Princess Diana's elder sister, Jane.

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If you've spent the holiday weekend streaming Netflix's number one movie, perhaps you're among us.

Where were you when Glenn Close—bald, with razor teeth, possessed by a demon—cooed in a high-pitch voice, "I can smell your nappy p---y!"?

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According to data from AdImpact, the Trump campaign and its affiliated super PACS shelled out 57 percent of the their television spending to anti-Harris campaigns, compared to the 8 percent dedicated to anti-Trump ads by the Democratic ticket, from Aug. 23 to Aug. 29.

"This is a moment in the message arc of us seeking to define her, she's seeking to define herself," a Trump adviser told The Washington Post. "We have a defined candidate—everyone knows everything about the person. There's lots of new information about Kamala Harris that people just don't know."

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The Room Next Door, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, is a gorgeous film about the unbreakable bonds of friendship. It's slower and more contemplative than what we've come to expect from Pedro Almodóvar, yet this bold new avenue feels like a perfect fit.

His first feature film in the English language (after the gay cowboy short Strange Way of Life), Almodóvar's dialogue is not lost in translation. It's sparkling, refreshing, natural, and profound. The Room Next Door is largely a two-hander, with Moore and Swinton alone together on screen for the vast majority of the film. Nearly every scene is a pairing—rarely does a third person enter a scene. This is a film about connections between two people, be they friends or lovers, and how they interact with one another in times of uncertainty. It's often poetic and uplifting: "There are lots of ways to love inside of tragedy," on

"He's a good tennis player. And somebody ran up (and said), ‘Barron! Barron! Your father's been shot!,'" the former president recounted. Trump said that Barron reacted immediately: "He loves his father. He's a good kid, good student. And he ran, ‘Mom! What's going on? What's going on?"

According to Trump, his wife, Melania, was watching coverage of the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania and saw the attempt on his life play out live. "She was watching it live. Can you imagine? And then I got up and let people know I was okay. Fight. Fight. Fight. But it was a big hit," Trump said.

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Still, there's a sense that there's more anticipation for what's coming up this fall. There are huge, long-awaited sequels that are almost guaranteed to mint money: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Gladiator II, Moana II. The Wicked movie will take over the entire nation's Thanksgiving. And the Lady Gaga Joker musical is coming, too. Add in some major awards contenders, like A Real Pain, His Three Daughters, and Will & Harper, and it's an excitingly stacked fall at the movies.

Here's our guide to the 30 films coming up that especially c

Trump was talking to the host of Life, Liberty and Levin to spruik his latest book in part two of the pre-recorded interview. At one point, Levin discusses the former president's legal troubles and the Department of Justice's intentions to "keep smearing you"; notably Jack Smith's revival of the DOJ's federal election interference case.

"It's so crazy that my poll numbers go up. Whoever heard—you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have every right to do it—you get indicted and your poll numbers go up," Trump said. "It's such nonsense."

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"She never did," he posted on Truth Social on Sunday afternoon, over a doctored image of the vice president in a Golden Arches baseball cap. "Lie!"

The post comes after a Moms for Liberty convention in Washington on Friday when the former president told supporters: "She also said, ‘I worked at McDonald's.' Turned out she didn't work at McDonalds. After an exhaustive study that took about 20 minutes, they found out she never worked there. There's a lot of fake stuff going on," Trump alleged.

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Allegations arose last week that a member from the Trump campaign was involved in a physical altercation with an official from the cemetery who was attempting to stop the campaign filming in a restricted section of the site. The Trump campaign has denied the allegations, despite cemetery and defense officials confirming an incident took place.

Trump shared a statement from the Trump campaign to his Truth Social page Sunday, describing it as a "MUST READ AND WATCH."

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Wall Street taught us that "money is a b---h that never sleeps." Industry's Rishi Ramdani (Sagar Radia) takes this lesson to heart in Sunday night's episode, which cranks up the anxiety to new levels. If you thought Season 3 was already barrelling forward, then apparently the ceiling for tension has no limit for HBO's investment bankers.

In Episode 4, Pierpoint is still riding the storm of what is now the Lumi failure, as the green energy company has gone into administration and the British government will likely provide emergency relief. Eric (Ken Leung) attempts to downplay the seriousness of this development during a staff meeting, but later admits to Rishi they are "on the precipice of a crisis." But Lumi has little to do with the adrenaline-fueled Rishi-focused roller-coaster that takes place over this episode's 48 hours, proving Industry is at the top of its game as its characters continue to flail.

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Harris' team views the optics of her face-off with the former president as crucial, according to sources close to the vice president, one of whom told NBC News her campaign wants to "remind people of what it was like during Donald Trump's years."

Of the issues she is likely to address, Harris is expected to drill the former president on his role in Republicans backing out of a bipartisan border bill in February. The Democratic presidential nominee's other goals reportedly include articulating how she thinks her presidency would serve everyday Americans—and staying focused amidst what are sure to be personal attacks.

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Adetshina had been competing to become Miss South Africa when she became the target of accusations that she wasn't a South African citizen; a requirement for all contestants in the pageant. Normally, South African citizenship requires being born in South Africa to at least one parent who's either a citizen or permanent resident. In interviews, Adetshina said she was born in Soweto—a Johannesburg township—to a Nigerian father and a South African mother with Mozambican roots, and grew up in Cape Town.

Adetshina was not the first contestant in the pageant to face such cyberbullying and abuse many commenters labeled xenophobic. But while pageant organizers initially came to her defence, sustained uproar on social media soon caught the attention of the country's Department of Home Affairs. At one point, South Africa's Minister for Sports, Art and Culture tweeted that, "We truly cannot have Nigerians compete in our Miss SA competition," adding that Adetshina's participation gave him "funny vibes."

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In a contentious exchange on Meet the Press Sunday, Kristen Welker pressed Cotton on whether or not Trump broke the law by making campaign content out of the pictures and videos taken there.

Trump attended a wreath-laying ceremony honoring 13 service members who died withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2021. One of the soldiers, Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, is buried in Section 60. Trump posed for photos with the Hoover family at his grave. Trump's spokespeople have denied any wrongdoing, claiming they were given permission to film ahead of the visit. Cemetery and defense officials have denied this.

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The conservative group's "Joyful Warriors" summit, which organizers billed as "the ultimate gathering of parents fighting to defend their parental rights and improve education in America," drew around 600 attendees over its four days of programming, according to The Atlantic.

Many "stood in awe" of the grotesque, psuedo-satirical painting, the magazine reported.

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J.Lo made a triumphant return to the social media platform with a carousel of carefree snaps posted Saturday with "Oh, it was a summer"—a tres casual reference, presumably, to the whirlwind of breathless will-they-won't-they-and-what-about-the-Dunkin'-gift-cards speculation surrounding the state of her and Ben Affleck's marriage in recent months. (That speculation all culminated, of course, in a divorce filing.)

The slideshow began with Lopez looking demure in a mirror selfie, sporting a black tank top and high ponytail. Her next photo was a Hallmark card-worthy quote reading, "Everything is unfolding in divine order."

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The radical Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which ran on nativist anti-immigrant populism, led Sunday's election in the East German state of Thuringia with 32.8 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results. The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) fell to second place with 23.6 percent.

The AfD also came in a close second place in the neighboring state of Saxony, less than a point behind the CDU.

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The radical Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which ran on nativist anti-immigrant populism, led Sunday's election in the east German state of Thuringia with as much as 33 percent of the vote, according to multiple exit polls. The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) fell to second place with 24.5 percent.

AfD was also tracking a close second place in the neighboring state of Saxony, just over a percent behind the CDU.

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They work alone, and only alone. Wolfs are fixers—they do the work that nobody else is willing to do, and they do it discreetly. Wind up with a dead guy in your hotel room? A Wolf is who you call to make sure that guy not only is no longer in your room, but that there's no trace that that person ever was anywhere near you at all. These are the people who work in the underbelly of society, leaving no trace. They have names, and they may even have families. But you'll never learn anything about them. "There's nobody who can do what I do," George Clooney's character tells Margaret.

Except there is someone who does exactly what Clooney's character does. He's another Wolf, and he's played by Brad Pitt. While Margaret called Clooney's Wolf, the hotel, spying on its guests, called Pitt's Wolf. And as these people thrive on working entirely alone, they have no idea who one another is. But there's one thing that they can both agree on: They don't want to work with anyone else. Ever. But they decide the only chance they have of completing this task is for the pair of them to do something they'd never dream of doing: Working together.

During a Sunday appearance on CNN's State of the Union, former Democratic congresswoman and current Trump acolyte Tulsi Gabbard described Trump's trip to the cemetery—and Section 60 specifically— as a "very grave and somber remembrance and honoring of those lives that were lost."

The Republican presidential nominee was invited to a wreath laying ceremony by the family of fallen Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover to mark the third anniversary of a suicide bombing at Kabul airport during the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2021. Hoover was one of 13 American service-members killed in the attack on Abbey Gate at the airport's perimeter, where evacuees were being processed.

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In remarks during a panel on The Chris Wallace Show, Lowry first granted Vance "obviously did have a rocky introduction to national life." Citing the furor surrounding his now-infamous "childless cat ladies" criticism as just one example, Lowry continued to note that Vance is, "not necessarily the most warm and fuzzy campaigner, but he a is proven tireless, fearless, really effective spokesman for this ticket."

In a moment of truly-limber talking head contortion, he then asserted that Vance "as far as I can tell, has not had one misstep."

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The latest clip from Vance's misogynistic playbook to make the rounds emerged Saturday: In a resurfaced podcast interview from 2021, the Republican nominee for vice president said professional women choose "a path to misery" by elevating their careers over having children.

"You have women who think that truly the liberationist path is to spend 90 hours a week working in a cubicle at McKinsey, instead of starting a family," Vance said.

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The former White House communications director recycled allegations that the former first lady is not keen on four more years in the White House during an interview with the MeidasTouch podcast over the weekend.

Claiming Melania "is tired of all this nonsense," Scaramucci said of the 2024 presidential campaign,."Nobody wants (Kamala Harris) to win more than me—maybe Melania Trump, that could be the only person I can think of."

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According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, a representative for Glezmann's family wrote to senior U.S. national security officials last week and accused them of neglecting his case.

George Taylor, the family's representative, asked national security adviser Jake Sullivan, lead hostage negotiator Roger Carstens and others in an e-mail "to exhibit the necessary courage and leadership that it takes to facilitate the release of George."

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A film I was not hyped for whatsoever was The Brutalist, a 215-minute (that's three-and-a-half hours) epic directed by Brady Corbet, which just debuted at the Venice Film Festival. I was left cold by his first film, The Childhood of A Leader, and fell on the very negative side of his divisive Vox Lux. So when I sat down for Corbet's latest, I can't say I was vibrating with anticipation. But all those minutes later, I left the cinema with one thought: I've just seen a masterpiece.

The Brutalist is epic in scale and timeline, taking place over 30 years, but it manages to feel remarkably intimate. The film follows Jewish immigrant László Tóth (Adrien Brody) who flees post-war Hungary in 1947 for the promise of the American dream. His wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) is still in Europe with her niece Zsófia (Raffey Cassidy). While he waits to be reunited, he struggles in poverty for years, shoveling coal to get enough money to stay in a shelter. László is a gifted and celebrated architect in Europe, a fact that seems to mean very little in post-war America.

"Heartbroken at the loss of my younger brother ?? and knowing he's finally at peace ?????????," Ndefo's sister Nkem wrote Saturday in a Facebook post. She did not immediately provide any further details on Ndefo's passing.

Ndefo's character on Dawson's Creek was the boyfriend of lead character Joey Potter's older sister, and was frequently used on the show to highlight racism experienced by Black men in small-town America. In addition to acting, Wells, a graduate of Yale's drama school, was a writer and yoga teacher and volunteered at the nonprofit Arts Alliance for Humanity at the Santa Monica Playhouse.

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Friends of Princess Diana's birth family, the Spencers, have told The Daily Beast that Prince William agreeing to attend Robert Fellowes' funeral service in the knowledge that Prince Harry would be there has "cast a glimmer of hope in an otherwise deeply depressing impasse."

The clan are also "working hard to get the brothers to reconcile."

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In other words, their hoards are a 3-D model of the human brain, complete with well-worn neural patterns, piles of distractions everywhere and the terror of knowing that behind every door (and underneath every tower of junk) are scary things not dealt with.

These shows always unfold the same way: there's an intervention by loved ones—Please mom, let us throw the cat pee yarn balls away!—and the ensuing days of unloading the hoarder's house and putting all their stuff out onto the front lawn and into the sunshine. There's resistance, anger and pain, but there's also, often, some real progress. "Why was I afraid of opening this door?" people say. "Why was I carrying all this around all these years?"

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I don't even know how to translate that for 2024, when we're still in an era when there's more TV than ever before, splintered across so many networks, services, and streaming platforms that paying for them all would be triple what a cable bill used to cost. And yet…is there anything good to watch?

My first pass at a running list for this fall TV preview clocked in at about 80 shows—and that was with me being judicious. Yet I expect that, come mid-September, you'll catch me complaining about how there's nothing to watch. Before that cynicism sets in, however, there's excitement: There's a lot coming in the next few months to be hyped about!

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"When evil people plot, good people plan." I still subscribe to this civil rights movement mantra, especially in the run-up to this most consequential of elections. We have less than 70 days to make an impact—for me, and other Vice President Harris supporters, it's all hands on deck.

I like Kamala Harris because of her policies and economic plans, her determination to protect reproductive rights and to see through climate change legislation and an assault gun ban, and her plans to allow people the opportunity to purchase their homes. I know how important that was in my New Orleans neighborhood after Hurricane Katrina.

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The Order, Jason Kurzel's unnerving based-on-real-events drama, recounts one of the earliest skirmishes in the battle between law enforcement and hate groups intent on sowing civil disorder, focusing on an early 1980s organization that sought to instigate a race war. Featuring a standout performance by Jude Law as an FBI agent determined to prevent a tragic massacre, it's a history lesson that compensates for a lack of breakneck thrills with ominous timeliness.

As with Kurzel's prior true-crime effort, 2021's Nitram, The Order—premiering on Aug. 31 at the Venice Film Festival, after which it'll appear at the Toronto International Film Festival—is a story about disaffected young white men traversing empty landscapes stained with hate and violence that fester and spread in the dusty sunlight. Moreover, it's about children whose corrosive hearts and minds are unpredict

The report says Harry, who paid a flying visit to the U.K. this week for the funeral of his uncle by marriage, Lord Robert Fellowes, has reportedly turned to former royal aides in a quest to rehabilitate his image.

A source is quoted in the Mail as saying: "Harry is turning away from all sorts of Hollywood publicists and is seeking counsel from his old friends and associates…he is rethinking the way he operates."

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Attracting a star-studded list of guests from around the world, the ceremony, held at Norway's Union Hotel in Geirangerfjord, included a mix of Norwegian and American customs, according to photos made public from the gathering.

But the celebration is far from over. The day's schedule reportedly included a red carpet arrival, the nuptials, a gala dinner, and a co*cktail hour that was expected to last until 3 a.m., the Daily Mail reported.

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"I'm 100% opposed to all his ideology," Jeff Walz, 67, wrote of the Minnesota governor in a series of comments on Facebook published by the New York Post. The Florida resident and registered Republican, who donated to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, also mused about publicly endorsing the GOP ticket.

The political rift between the Walz siblings emerged after far-right activist Laura Loomer discovered a post made by Jeff Walz, the day the former president was indicted over hush money payments made to p*rn star Stormy Daniels.

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The Q&A session was Walz and Harris' first joint interview, watched live by nearly 6 million viewers on Thursday night, and Bash covered a wide range of topics—most of them addressing claims made by her opponent, Donald Trump.

In a series of analytic videos made exclusively for The Daily Beast, Särnblad said that upon reviewing the video for microexpressions, Harris seemed to be "growing in her confidence."

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"You have women who think that truly the liberationist path is to spend 90 hours a week working in a cubicle at McKinsey instead of starting a family and having children," the GOP vice presidential nominee says in the audio clip. "What they don't realize—and I think some of them do eventually realize that, thank God—is that that is actually a path to misery."

Donald Trump's running mate specifically referenced his female classmates at Yale Law School, who "are caught up in a rat race that... is making them really miserable." Vance met his wife, Usha, while studying alongside her at the elite university.

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Amendment 4 includes legislation that would bar the state from adopting further abortion restrictions and overturn its current six-week ban.

Earlier in week, Trump, a Florida voter, had distanced himself from that ban, calling it "too strict." He reiterated that stance on Friday in an interview with Fox News during a campaign stop in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

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Scoop, real name Isaac Freeman III, was headlining the Green & Gold Party when he suffered a medical emergency as he was hyping up the crowd for the next song. In social media clips, a shirtless Scoop can be seen stepping up to a DJ booth before falling back out of view.

The venue's emergency crews rushed over to administer CPR, and paramedics were called to the park around 8:33 p.m., TMZ reported. Scoop was taken away on a stretcher and transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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Miyazaki is behind some of the most beloved films of the last 40 years, including My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Spirited Away (2001), and Ponyo (2008). A new documentary by Léo Favier, Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature, explores the director's challenging rise to the top of the animation, arguing that his films are best appreciated in an environmental context—Miyazaki's boundless passion for nature and his relationship with the world around him is crucial to appreciating his work.

Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, has three intertwining narrative threads: an exploration of the state of the world, a timeline of Miyazaki's life, and the films Miyazaki directed. Favier is a passionate advocate for Miyazaki's films, and the viewer always has a clear idea of what Miyazaki and the world was going through when each of the films featured in Spirit of Nature were being made.

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"Doctors killed Matthew Perry,"the host said during the "New Rules" segment of his talk show. "... Matthew Perry asked his doctor, ‘Is ketamine right for me?' And his licensed and trained legitimate doctor texted another doctor and wrote, ‘I wonder how much this moron will pay… Let's find out.'"

Hours before Maher's show, one of the two physicians charged in the Friends star's October 2023 death pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute the surgical anesthetic ketamine. Dr. Mark Chavez also agreed to surrender his medical license. The other medical practitioner, Dr. Salvador Plasencia, maintains his innocence and is expected to appear in court on Sept. 4.

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During this time, Cotton periodically filled in for his commanding officer and personally supervised several internments in Arlington National Cemetery's Section 60, where the dead from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are buried.

"I understand why some people call this bucolic patch of land the saddest acre in America, but I prefer to think of Section 60 as the noblest acre in America," he writes in Sacred Duty. "The nobility of Section 60 runs deep in the soil of Arlington and in the soul of our nation."

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In a wide-ranging conversation with co-founder Tiffany Justice—which covered transgender rights, Trump's Scottish heritage, and Elon Musk—the former president claimed Ivanka gave up "making so much money" on her shoe line to take on a serious role in his administration. "It was so hot," he said about her shoe, clothing, and accessories business, which shuttered in 2018 due to poor sales, NBC News reported.

Trump said he initially wanted to appoint Ivanka as United Nations ambassador, recalling that he told her she "would be a great ambassador to the United Nations, United Nations secretary." He added, "There'd be nobody to compete with her. She may be my daughter but nobody could have competed with her, with her rat-tat-tat, the whole deal she's got."

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Today's battleground is Nevada, a state whose people are divided between those complaining about water shortages and those mesmerized by the Bellagio fountains; between those who own gold mines and those who dine at the Golden Corral. (As they say, always bet on the pot roast.)

A little history to get us started: Nevada joined the union 160 years ago, right before the 1864 election. Its statehood was fast-tracked, in fact, in an effort to give Abraham Lincoln three additional electoral votes and a Republican majority in Congress. (Historians believe this is the first time the GOP tried to fix an election, although for once it was for a good guy.) Lincoln went on to win re-election and soon celebrated at Ford's Theater—or as John Wilkes Booth called it, Target Center.

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Having survived the snobbery and ruthlessness of the French court—who was this tacky foreigner, who might also be a witch—in the first season, Season 2 has been all about Catherine trying to settle into her Regency while her son Henry III attempts to navigate a still-treacherous court. It all sounds so promising, but things start badly and get worse quickly.

Fending off potential challenges to the Crown from both the Roman Catholic Guise family and the Protestant House of Bourbon, the tragic death of her son Hercule, and a dizzyingly tactical Queen Elizabeth of England (Minnie Driver, having the most fun at every moment)—it's exhausting! In the end, Catherine decides half-measures are useless, and deploys another son, Anjou, alongside her Flying Squadron of female spies, to assassinate nearly every one of her religious and political rivals.

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They are now less than 7 miles from the city gates. Tatargami, a Ukrainian officer posted a Twitter thread where he blamed "delayed mobilization... ineffective recruitment and awful commanding culture."

While the West has contributed to Ukraine's failings with slow aid deliveries and needless restrictions on weapons systems, critics say the buck must ultimately stop with Ukraine's political and military leadership.

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As Trump spoke onstage, a man in the audience attempted to enter the cordoned-on press pen, according to multiple reports and videos from the scene. The individual was able to breach a barrier of bicycle racks surrounding the pen, and was climbing a riser on which reporters and cameramen were stationed when he was tackled and subdued by security officers and law enforcement officials, who eventually tased him.

The unnamed man was subsequently taken into custody, the Johnstown Police Department told the Daily Beast Friday night, but has subsequently been released. No information of his identity or potential motive has yet been made public; speculation on social media has presented him as either an incensed Trump supporter or a radicalized counter-protester. Pick your poison!

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The cruise company ""humbled by the scale of what it takes to reactivate a 30-year-old vessel from a four-year layup," Villa Rie Residences marketing manager Sebastian Stokkendal said in a statement provided to the Associated Press.

While work continues to shore up the vessel, onboard activities and meals are offered during the day, but passengers in the Odyssey's 509 cabins are required to disembark every evening, and are shuttled to local hotels.

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"I wasn't doing it—I don't need publicity," he said. "I get a lot of publicity. I would like to get a lot less publicity."

In fact, the former president whose career was built on publicity improbably claimed: "I would hire a public relations agent to get less publicity."

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Walz, the first lady of Minnesota and a former English teacher, took aim at Vance for his latest attack on childless women, this time when it was revealed that he slammed a teachers' union leader for not having a "single child."

The attack on Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, had been made by Vance at a Christian forum in 2021 with the audio unearthed this week by the left-leaning Heartland Signal. "Randi Weingarten, who's the head of the most powerful teachers' union in the country, she doesn't have a single child," Vance said in 2021. "If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone." Weingarten herself called the comments "nonsensical" and pointed out that she considers herself a mother by marriage to her wife's two biological children.

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Except Yoshii is a wolf in sheep's clothing: He knows exactly what the devices are worth, and he's going to profit massively, selling them for 200,000 yen a piece. He works at a clothing factory, but he spends all of his free time reselling—staring at his computer screen waiting for prices to drop and opportunities to present themselves so he can pounce. Whether it's video games, concert tickets, or limited edition figures, nothing is off limits; profit is all that matters.

Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa has long been fascinated by the way tech impacts our lives, and in Cloud, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, he examines those people you love to hate—resellers—with spellbinding effect. At least for the first hour.

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CNN reported Friday that lawyers for Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss have asked a federal judge for control over a laundry list of Giuliani's personal assets that can be liquidated to pay damages. On the list were over two-dozen designer watches, a Mercedes-Benz, an estimated $6 million condo in New York, a $3.5 million condo in Florida and a trove of sports memorabilia including New York Yankees World Series rings.

If the court order is approved, Giuliani will have seven days to turn everything over.

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It was a strong night for CNN, which has struggled recently to reach the ratings of Fox News or MSNBC. Although it's a much lower audience rating than Harris and Walz's big DNC speeches, it's still a promising stat for the Harris campaign, continuing a trend of her events receiving higher viewership than those from her opponent.

When Trump gave a town hall on CNN in May 2023, one of his first proper campaign events of the 2024 election cycle, only 3.3 million viewers tuned in. And more recently, when Trump did his first joint sit-down with running mate JD Vance this July, they drew in an estimated 4 million viewers

"I think we all love each other, and there's a lot of humor," RFK Jr. said in an exclusive interview with the Daily Beast. But, he acknowledged that "people have strong opinions about things."

The Kennedy scion's estrangement from much of his family surfaced after he became a strong opponent COVID-19 vaccines and circulated unfounded claims about the 1968 assassination of his father, Robert F. Kennedy Sr.

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On one hand, it's the entire point of the fantasy at play: The chemistry between actors should be so believable that you're convinced that the people you're watching are smuggling that spark into their real lives. On the other hand, we're all just kind of pervy. It's fun to imagine that these super hot, super famous people are boinking.

This grand, horny tradition is fed by countless instances of the fantasy coming to fruition: real-life celebrity couples whose romance started on set, from Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, to Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, to Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez (the O.G. version). The cynical Hollywood industrial complex isn't ignorant of this. Whether it's Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, or Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey, co-stars who weren't actually hooking up (or so they say…) have been more than happy to indulge fans' thirsty wishes and play the part for attention. We certainly never mind. Even the farce is fun—though these people's spouses ma

Caitlin Upton was 18 and competing in the Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant when her stumbling response to a question about why some Americans couldn't find their own country on the map became an early viral sensation.

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future," said Upton, who was Miss Teen South Carolina at the time.

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"I was like, ‘Oh, okay. Well, that makes sense.' How can you catch every molecule?,'" she explained. "I'm not good in science or math, but I expected it could come back. I kind of forgot about it for nine years. I forgot I had cancer."

Jackson, who was in the cast of Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1992, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, and went through chemotherapy to treat it. She told People that she wasn't fully certain if her cancer had gone into remission afterward, but she's back to taking treatments again.

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As Friend demonstrated his eerily accurate impression of the former president, Obama couldn't help but crack up. "Are you fired up and ready to vote?" the comedian asked.

"I'm pretty fired up," the real Obama replied, joking that he sounds "a lot better" than he thought he did. Then, nothing that Friend is both taller and (at just 26 years old) younger than he is, Obama added, "This is sort of an upgrade."

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The Reverend Dan Tansey told the Daily Mail he didn't see the estranged royal brothers speak to each other, but noted a "lot of family members and friends speaking to them" at the reception following the service. Multiple U.K. outlets reported that the brothers were not seen speaking when they left the service.

The service, held Thursday at St Mary's Church in Snettisham, Norfolk, marks the first time William, 42, and Harry, 39, can be placed at the same location in a year, The Telegraph reported. The brothers have seldom been seen together since Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, quit their royal duties and moved to California.

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While Babygirl, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, is, in fact, tremendously horny, it's also surprisingly funny—it's perhaps more of a sex-comedy-thriller than an all-out sexual thriller a la Fatal Attraction. (At one point, it feels as if Babygirl is going in this direction, but it laughs it off and gets back to business).

This is a film about negotiating power dynamics. You hear the sounds of Romy (Nicole Kidman) moaning before you see anything. In the opening scene, Romy has sex with her husband Jacob (Antonio Banderas). When they finish, he says "I love you," a fiery passion in his voice. "Love you," Romy responds, but there's a hollowness to her words. Romy slips out of bed and masturbat*s to p*rnography in another room. Romy has intense desires her husband cannot fulfill.

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But Elon Musk has repeatedly voted by mail—when he voted at all.

The billionaire Tesla and X boss became one of the most vocal opponents of mail-in ballots at the same time as he drifted rightward from what he claimed was a "100 per cent Democratic" voting record.

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"I do not look forward to other posts I need to write, about everything that's gone wrong with HOUSE OF THE DRAGON… but I need to do that too, and I will," Martin wrote. "Not today, though."

It's a surprising comment from the author, as he's so far largely avoided saying anything too negative about the series. Even when Game of Thrones turned into a widely-panned disaster in season 8, Martin avoided any severe criticism of the showrunners.

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This is despite the fact that Trump and his backers have actively to block its release in the U.S. altogether. After the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, billionaire Dan Snyder was so displeased with the film's negative depiction of Trump, and tried to prevent the film from getting a theatrical release in the United States.

Snyder was able to do this because he had indirectly financed the film, although Deadline now reports that his company, Kinematics, has since been "bought out of its share in the movie in addi

Former president Donald Trump said in an NBC News interview Thursday that he doesn't support the six-week abortion ban put in place in his adopted home state of Florida, arguing that it's too restrictive. A ballot initiative that Floridians will vote on in November would overturn the ban, an initiative of Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans.

"I'm going to be voting that we need more than six weeks," Trump said.

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He singled out West Wing star Bradley Whitford, slamming him as a "bully" and a "coward" after the actor criticized Hines for not speaking out against the endorsem*nt.

"I've seen bullying by this character in The West Wing who is acting like a bully and a coward, he's not being very manly. Let me put it that way," Kennedy said. "If he were, he would confront me directly, rather than going after my wife, whom he knows and whom he knows does not support my decision."

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He singled out West Wing star Bradley Whitford, slamming him as a "bully" and a "coward" after the actor criticized Hines for not speaking out against the endorsem*nt.

"I've seen bullying by this character in The West Wing who is acting like a bully and a coward, he's not being very manly. Let me put it that way," Kennedy said. "If he were, he would confront me directly, rather than going after my wife, whom he knows and whom he knows does not support my decision."

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"The Columbus Blue Jackets are shocked and devastated by this unimaginable tragedy," Gaudreau's Ohio-based team said in a statement. "Johnny was not only a great hockey player, but more significantly a loving husband, father, son, brother and friend. We extend our heartfelt sympathies to his wife, Meredith, his children, Noa and Johnny, his parents, their family and friends on the sudden loss of Johnny and Matthew."

The two brothers were scheduled to participate in their sister's wedding Friday, Matthew as a groomsman and Johnny as the ring bearer, according to ceremony details posted on wedding planning site The Knot.

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Moore was deployed to Afghanistan from August 2005 to March 2006 and won several awards, including the National Defense Service Medal, but said on a 2006 White House Fellowship application that he had Bronze Star, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.

In an interview with the newspaper, Moore said he made an "honest mistake." In a statement later posted to X, he claimed that he included the honor at the encouragement of a senior officer who told him he had recommended Moore for a Bronze Star.

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Trump shared the bizarre image, which originated from an X user who posts mostly about the former president and Indian politics and cinema, just before midnight Thursday on his social media platform Truth Social.

Trump's head is superimposed over Superman's in such a poorly edited fashion that a shadow appears to ooze out of the lower folds of his neck. The head of his running mate, JD Vance, is superimposed over the head of Batman, with the spiked tips of the Gotham crime fighter's cowl, representing bat ears, erupting from the Ohio senator's hair.

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Bogged down in the Donbas, humiliated by Ukraine's cross-border incursion into the Kursk region, the Russian strongman faces the clearest threat to his authority since last year's abortive Wagner revolt.

And with his back against the wall, Putin is at his most dangerous, according to critics who describe his "street thug" mentality. The fear is that the Moscow bully could double down on his Ukraine gamble by making war on another front, taking on NATO in the Baltic states.

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Political campaign activity is banned at the cemetery, including filming and photography, but Trump's team tried to gather promotional footage for the Republican standard bearer at a Monday appearance alongside Gold Star families.

Trump staffers reportedly got into a verbal and physical altercation with a staffer at the cemetery who tried to stop them from illegally filming and taking photographs in Section 60, an area largely reserved for graves of soldiers who served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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The friend told The Daily Beast: "Andrew can sit tight and run out the clock."

Asked if they were suggesting that Andrew thought Charles might die before he could evict Andrew, the friend said Andrew simply intended to stay in the property, which he is legally entitled to do, having a lease on it that will not expire for over 50 years and can be bequeathed to his children, until his brother accepted he had the legal right to stay there.

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Describing this two-hour, 20-minute film (which has been sitting on the shelf for close to four years) as a hagiography is to understate its fawning celebration of its subject, who's presented as not merely a charismatic actor and effective statesman but as God's chosen warrior in a titanic battle between good and evil. Regardless of how you feel about Ronald Reagan the president, most will be united in finding this biopic a preachy, plodding, graceless groaner.

Reagan, which hits theaters Aug. 30, begins with the March 30, 1981, attempted assassination of the newly elected commander-in-chief by John Hinckley Jr.—a calamity that's preceded by Reagan telling an AFL-CIO conference, "Our destiny is not our fate. It is our choice. You and your forebearers helped build this nation. Now help us rebuild it." Left out of this scene is Reagan's "Make America Great Again" remark, no doubt to avoid drawing parallels between its protagonist and Donald Trump, and it's the first of innumerable instances in which McNamara and screenwriter H

The New Abnormal co-host Danielle Moodie was appalled at reports this week alleging a "physical altercation" between a Trump employee and Arlington National Cemetery official.

Moreover, despite allegedly being told twice before the former president's visit, Trump's team tried to film and photograph in a section of Arlington where only cemetery staff are allowed to film or take pictures.

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A Harris presidency may not be as exciting as Trumpian insults and reality TV antics. But Americans have a choice: Do we want politics as entertainment, or politicians who put their heads down and get stuff done?

Harris and her running mate Tim Walz sat down with CNN's Dana Bash after weeks of avoiding press interviews (CNN has reportedly also requested a sit-down with Donald Trump and JD Vance, and has yet to see their invitation accepted).

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A Harris presidency may not be as exciting as Trumpian insults and reality TV antics. But Americans have a choice: Do we want politics as entertainment, or politicians who put their heads down and get stuff done?

Harris and her running mate Tim Walz sat down with CNN's Dana Bash after weeks of avoiding press interviews (CNN has reportedly also requested a sit-down with Donald Trump and JD Vance, and has yet to see their invitation accepted).

Read more at The Daily Beast.

"It was Joe Biden," Harris said in an interview aired on CNN Thursday night, reflecting on the July 21 call she got at her residence at the Naval Observatory. "And he told me what he had decided to do."

President Biden was letting her know he couldn't go on. He was abandoning his reelection effort in the wake of a disastrous presidential debate performance that laid bare his frailties and sparked a coup of epic proportions.

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This message came through loud and clear not because Harris and Walz were in any way challenged by the questioning they faced from CNN's Dana Bash. Quite the contrary, they handled all of them with flying colors. But rather the insipidity and formulaic nature of Bash's questions—queries that for the most part merely echoed, and thus inadvertently lent credibility to, the limp GOP critiques of Harris and Walz—made it clear why such interviews add so little value to voters.

The vast majority of the questions posed by Bash during the course of the interview simply picked up and repeated one of the critiques with which Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance have sought to slow down the rapid rise of their Democratic opponents in the polls.

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The Democratic candidate has come under scrutiny for a series of statements from his past which appeared to exaggerate his service record in the National Guard and for his 2006 campaign for Congress, when his spokespeople tried to deny he had been drunk when convicted of a DUI.

In his joint CNN interview with Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, he gave a lengthy answer when asked by the network's Dana Bash about a claim in 2018 that he carried guns "in war" despite never having been in combat—but never apologized for the claim, which Republicans including his rival JD Vance have called "stolen valor."

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"I think the six weeks is too short, it has to be more time," the former president told NBC News during a Michigan campaign stop.

He added, when pressed about his plans to vote on the amendment in November, that he would "be voting that we need more than six weeks." He also expressed support for exceptions in the law for rape, incest, and when necessary to protect the life of the mother, according to NPR.

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Previews of the interview began to trickle from around 4p.m. EST, and Trump, speaking at a rally in Potterville, Michigan, criticized Harris for appearing alongside vice presidential pick, Tim Walz.

"She didn't want to go it alone. How do you think President Xi is going to think of this," he chuckled. "He's just savoring it."

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Previews of the interview began to trickle from around 4p.m. EST, and Trump, speaking at a rally in Potterville, Michigan, criticized Harris for appearing alongside vice presidential pick, Tim Walz.

"She didn't want to go it alone, how do you think President Xi is going to think of this," he chuckled. "He's just savoring it."

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So it's only fitting that Tamra Judge—the woman who single-handedly propelled the Real Housewives franchise to focus on intergroup conflict—would host the ladies for a The Traitors-themed dinner.

Utilizing the sinister backdrop of a rustic mansion and the even more harrowing presence of Teddi Mellencamp, the dinner's a dream, and the most invigorating group event of the season, despite a relative lack of drama. Every good traitor knows you must build trust in your fellow faithfuls before going in for the kill, and this episode serves as an expert reset before the second half of the season.

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New Kids on the Block helps you navigate all the latest and exciting launches from our favorite brands and retailers, all in one place.

It's officially late summer, but instead of waiting for fall's official ‘hard launch' in Sept., brands are deciding to release some of their best drops, between the traditional seasonal lines of the year this August. From nostalgic hydration boosters to stench-proof machine-washable flats, brands rolled out some of my favorite products of 2024 this August.

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"I go there and they ask me to have a picture. And they say I was campaigning. I don't need—the one thing I get is plenty of publicity. I don't need that. I don't need the publicity," Trump said Thursday during a campaign stop in Michigan, after falsely saying his visit occurred Wednesday.

Trump, who added that he was "asked to go" to the cemetery, took photographs with the family of Taylor Hoover, a Marine killed in the 2021 Abbey Gate bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Read more at The Daily Beast.