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Why Trump Won’t Stop Suing the Media and Losing

Why Trump Won’t Stop Suing the Media and LosingWhy would the most notoriously cash-strapped man in America waste money on frivolous lawsuits?On Monday, Donald Trump—whose lawyers recently announced that he can’t come up with the money to post a $454 million bond in his civil fraud case—fired off yet another suit against a news organization that reported facts he didn’t like. The targets this time are ABC News and its anchor George Stephanopoulos, who Trump alleges defamed him by stating that Trump had been found liable for raping E. Jean Carroll.The case looks like a sure loser. Trump was technically found liable under New York law for sexual abuse, not for rape, but the judge in the civil case ruled that, by forcibly penetrating Carroll’s vagina with his fingers, “Mr. Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms. Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood.” But no matter. The Stephanopoulos…


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Budget fashion brands pledge clearer green claims

Budget fashion brands pledge clearer green claimsAsos, Boohoo and George at Asda will make changes after intervention from the competition authority. ….. Read More.BBC NEWS – Business | Business & CommerceWed, March 27, 20241 day ago


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It’s Not Ronald Reagan’s Party Anymore

It’s Not Ronald Reagan’s Party AnymoreFor those of us who very much want to see Donald Trump defeated in November by the widest possible margin, the news on Friday afternoon that former Vice President Mike Pence would not be endorsing his former boss seemed encouraging. Not that Pence commands a large faction of voters. Given that he dropped out of the Republican presidential-primary race late last year after failing to rise above the lower single digits, there’s no reason to assume that he does. Still, every prominent, normie Republican who rejects Trump moves us further down the road.But toward what?A lot of my Never Trump allies on the center-right feel sure that Pence’s refusal to endorse the man he served for four years points the way (or “creates a permission structure,” as the fashionable parlance has it) for Republican voters to abandon the former president. By joining Nikki Haley, Mitt…


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America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.

America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.This article was adapted from Nuclear War: A Scenario, published March 26, 2024, by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright 2024 by Annie M. Jacobsen. Nuclear war is madness. Were a nuclear weapon to be launched at the United States, including from a rogue nuclear-armed nation like North Korea, American policy dictates a nuclear counterattack. This response would almost certainly set off a series of events that would quickly spiral out of control. “The world could end in the next couple of hours,” Gen. Robert Kehler, the former commander of US Strategic Command, told me in an interview. We sit on the razor’s edge. Vladimir Putin has said he is “not bluffing” about the possibility of using weapons of mass destruction should NATO overstep on Ukraine, and North Korea…


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Fresh Listen: ACM Country Small-Market Nominees

Fresh Listen: ACM Country Small-Market NomineesWhen radio stations or their hosts submit airchecks for radio awards, they’re usually heavily edited “greatest hits” reels. They start out with a barrage of big-name morning-show guests. There are usually highlights from radiothons or other public service promotions. In between, there’s very little sense of what the station sounds like in real time.  When I monitor a radio station or personality, I usually have a different checklist. Did I feel like there was something going on at the station? Did I laugh, (or choke up)? Did I learn anything about life in the market?  When I listened to the ACM Station of the Year winners two years ago, they did a good job on that score, as one would hope. But so did this year’s Small-Market ACM Country Station of the Year nominees, including the “choked-up” part. In that last ACM listen, there was…


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Two Birders Claimed a Key Record on the Same Day—and Feathers Flew

Two Birders Claimed a Key Record on the Same Day—and Feathers FlewThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In late 2023, 70-year-old birder Peter Kaestner was within striking distance of a goal that had never been accomplished: seeing more than 10,000 different species of birds in the wild. Such a record had previously been unthinkable, but with new technology facilitating rare bird sightings, improved DNA testing identifying a growing number of bird species, and public listing platforms making it easier to keep track of and share findings, more super-birders are inching towards the five digits. Just as Kaestner approached the finish line for his record 10,000 birds, though, a previously unknown competitor by the name Jason Mann flew in out of nowhere to snatch the record out from under him. “When I was in college, the very first book listing the birds of…


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