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President Biden.

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Biden's popularity freeze

Has presidential approval become largely unresponsive to events?

President Biden.

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Biden's poverty programs stumble

The American Rescue Plan is showing why bureaucracy matters

A model.

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Victoria's Secret pivots to feminism

The lingerie brand has a new fantasy to sell women

Stacey Abrams and Joe Manchin.

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Stacey Abrams, pragmatist

Speed Reads

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Great Britain has its 1st Catholic prime minister. Surprise!

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Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert cheer Juneteenth

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Biden suspends Trump's 25 percent tariff on Scotch whisky

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Teen buys repossessed storage units, then returns everything to original owners

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House votes to repeal 2002 military authorization for Iraq War

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Almost all operations shut down as COVID-19 outbreak hits U.S. Embassy in Kabul

Politics

America on fire.

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America's backward climate politics

The Supreme Court.

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SCOTUS sides with liberalism in Fulton v. Philadelphia

The passage of the Juneteenth holiday.

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W. James Antle III

Why conservatives shouldn't oppose Juneteenth

Joe Biden

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Biden's Putin meeting rehabilitated his image in Russia

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The Nord pipeline.

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Briefing

Russia's controversial new pipeline

What the Nord Stream 2 means for Europe — and the world

Business

Houses.

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Rethinking real estate

An elephant.

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Pennsylvania GOP kills outdoor dining

Brain scan

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Mind Blown

Millionaire weeks away from selling helmets that can read your mind

Scotch

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Slàinte mhath

Biden suspends Trump's 25 percent tariff on Scotch whisky

Culture

A time clock.

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Getting holidays right

Naomi Osaka.

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taking a break

Naomi Osaka withdraws from Wimbledon, but is 'excited' for the Olympics

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom

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back to the future

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom star in voting rights ad

Juneteenth no votes

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Last Night on Late Night

Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert cheer Juneteenth

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The lost art of memorization

A flapper.

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Opinion

What will be the flapper dress of the Roaring 2020s?

Kate Winslet.

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Opinion

The culmination of Kate Winslet

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You don't want to be in a movie with Robert Pattinson

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Vladimir Putin

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1.Geneva summit

RNC slams Biden for meeting with Putin

Political Cartoon.

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7 toons about the Dems' Joe Manchin problem

Nashville.

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Bonnie Kristian

The Southern Baptist Convention is still cracking

Bernie Sanders.

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4.Sounds dope

Bernie Sanders wants to know if cannabis reporter is 'stoned' right now

5.self criticism

The bizarre reason Eric Adams refers to himself in the 3rd person

6.changing the subject

Post-meeting, Putin asks 'Who's the killer now?'

7.The big lie

Georgia election workers reportedly received a 'torrent' of threats

8.Last Night on Late Night

Late night hosts pan Marjorie Taylor Greene's Holocaust apology

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President Biden.

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Biden's popularity freeze

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Boris Johnson, Carrie Symonds

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Things that make you go hmmmmm...

Great Britain has its 1st Catholic prime minister. Surprise!

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A model.

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Victoria's Secret pivots to feminism

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President Biden.

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Biden's poverty programs stumble

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