Jerome London
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AOC Dismissed Trump’s Communist Takeover Warning as ‘Very Silly,’ Citing the Frozen $7.25 Minimum Wage
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is brushing off Trump’s warnings of a communist takeover as “very silly,” pointing out that the U.S. can’t even manage to raise its long-frozen minimum wage — and casting the fear-mongering as a distraction from issues like health care. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009, and…
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New England Patriots Super Bowl Champion Dead at 38
Jordan Devey blocked for Tom Brady the year New England won it all. His wife announced his death by suicide on what would have been their 15th wedding anniversary. Jordan Devey died by suicide, leaving behind his wife Linsey and their four children. Linsey shared the news Friday. They’d married in July 2011, and their…
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ICE Spent $2 Million on Spyware That Can Secretly Take Over Your Phone and Pull Your Messages, Photos, and Location
A U.S. senator wants ICE to explain why it bought a hacking tool that’s already been used to spy on more than 90 journalists and activists abroad. He’s asking whether the agency has turned it on Americans, and ICE has until Aug. 7 to answer. The tool is called Graphite, built by Paragon Solutions and…
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Trump Used the White House Press Dinner to Joke That Gunfire at April’s Gala Made Nicki Minaj “Start Twerking.”
The April gala Trump was joking about had ended with a gunman opening fire on the crowd. Three months later he turned that night into a punchline about the rapper who’s now one of his loudest celebrity backers. The gunfire Trump referenced was real. April’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was cut short after a…
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The Treasury Says It Caught $99 Million in Federal Payments About to Go Out to Dead People
The catch came from a new screening system that checks payments against the government’s official list of who’s died. Roughly 4,900 payments got flagged and sent back before the money went out the door. Treasury screened more than 885 million payments worth nearly $2.77 trillion through the process and found about 4,900 tied to people…
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Trump Called Lebron James “Maybe A Racist” from the Oval Office, Then Said He Only Likes People Who Like Him
A White House reporter asked Trump who’s the real GOAT, Michael Jordan or LeBron James. Trump picked Jordan, called him a golf buddy and “a really good guy,” then floated that LeBron “maybe he’s a racist.” The question was about basketball. Trump made it about friendship. Speaking from the Oval Office on Friday, Trump was…
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Bill Gates Is Leaving His Three Kids About 1 Percent of His Fortune Each, and Says Huge Inheritances Are “No Favor To Kids.”
Even 1 percent of a fortune this size is still an enormous sum, but Gates says handing kids the whole thing just gets in their way. He’s part of a growing club of billionaires deciding their children should build their own paths. Most of the Gates fortune has been set aside for philanthropy, not for…
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A Florida Nurse Told a Premature Baby’s Oxygen Alarm to “Shut Up” and Muted It All Night While He Struggled to Breathe, Police Say
The baby was born at 24 weeks and needed oxygen monitored all night. Home cameras caught the nurse silencing the alarm again and again while his levels kept dropping, police say. His parents didn’t find out until morning. Home surveillance captured Sharlene Janet Pflugrad, 65, muting a premature infant’s pulse oximeter throughout an overnight shift…
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Mary Kate Golding, a Set Decorator on ‘the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ Was Stabbed to Death in Her Queens Apartment at 34
Golding’s husband was found dead hours later at a nearby park. Police suspect a murder-suicide. The couple’s baby son was home during the attack and was not hurt. Golding was found with a stab wound to the back inside her apartment on 41st Street just after midnight on Tuesday, July 21. Officers responded to a…
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Trump’s Justice Department Tried to Force New York Times Reporters Before a Grand Jury Over the Qatari Plane Story, Then Withdrew the Subpoenas
The reporters had covered why Trump left Turkey on an older Air Force One: the donated Qatari plane lacked antimissile defenses. Prosecutors backed off in court, but told the judge they could come after the journalists again. A federal prosecutor agreed at a July 23 court hearing to withdraw subpoenas that would have forced New…
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Christopher Nolan’s Films Are Preoccupied With False Identities and Unspoken Crimes, but Here’s the Real-Life Story Behind His Older Brother
Christopher Nolan has an older brother who spent years living under the alias Matthew McCall Oppenheimer, was accused of a contract killing in Costa Rica, and has never been publicly acknowledged by Christopher or their filmmaker brother Jonathan. Christopher Nolan has two brothers. The younger, Jonathan, is a filmmaker in his own right: he co-created…
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Trump Slapped 50% Tariffs on Nearly 500 Canadian Products, and Canada Answered by Keeping American Alcohol Banned
Trump just hit nearly 500 Canadian products with 50% tariffs, accusing Canada of “discrimination” against American booze. Canada’s answer: U.S. alcohol stays off the shelves, and the premiers running the ban say folding now would only invite more. “There is not a chance in hell that U.S. alcohol is going back on the shelf in…
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Terrell Owens Just Put in $25,000, Pushing the Reward for Answers in Nolan Wells’ Death to $125,000
Terrell Owens, Rev. Al Sharpton and Tyler Perry have now put real money behind one question: what happened to an 18-year-old on a Mississippi island. With Owens’ latest donation, the reward fund for information in Nolan Wells’ death has climbed to $125,000, and his family says the answers still aren’t there. Nolan Wells was 18,…
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Hunter and Joe Biden Trolled JD Vance with an Ice Cream Couch Photo After Vance Said Joe Eats It “In The Most Ridiculous, Suggestive Way.”
Vance told Joe Rogan the former president got fed ice cream “in the most ridiculous, suggestive way imaginable.” So Hunter posted a photo of himself and Joe on a couch, cones in hand, grinning right at the camera. “I don’t even know what to say anymore. Couches and now this,” Hunter Biden wrote in his…
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Millions of Gen Z Indians Are Protesting a Rigged Medical School Exam, Police Beat Them with Batons and 180 People Were Hurt
Millions of young Indians are in revolt over a leaked medical school entrance exam, and this week the standoff turned violent: police in Delhi beat protesters with batons and fired tear gas, and nearly 180 people were hurt. At the center of it is the Cockroach Janta Party, a movement that started as an online…
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South Carolina Bans Tattoo Shops Within 1,000 Feet of Any Church, School, or Playground, a Rule That Wipes Out Most of the State
South Carolina is one of the most restrictive states in the country for tattoo artists. Beyond barring shops from opening within 1,000 feet of any church, school, or playground, the state also makes tattooing anyone’s head, face, or neck a crime. That head-face-neck ban is treated as a misdemeanor, and a violation can bring a…
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D4vd Allegedly Bought a Pool, Two Chain Saws, and a Cadaver Bag Online Under a Fake Name to Dispose of His 14-Year-Old Girlfriend’s Body
Prosecutors say the online shopping cart came together in the days after 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was stabbed to death inside his Hollywood Hills home. Her torso and head were later found zipped in a cadaver bag in the trunk of his Tesla. Celeste Rivas Hernandez was 14 when she vanished in April 2025. Five…
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Alex Kolodin Still Says the 2020 Election Was Rigged, and He’s Leading by 24 Points to Become Arizona’s Top Elections Official
The office he’s favored to win is the one that certifies Arizona’s elections and tells voters they can trust the count. He was part of the “kraken” lawsuits that tried to overturn 2020, and the state bar admonished him for filing suits that had no merit. Arizona votes today in a Republican primary for secretary…