Dec 20, 2024 · [walks out to greet you as you pull into my circular driveway] There you are! Oh my goodness, look at you! You look so festive! Why don’t you leave your bags in the breezeway for now and come on in? And MERRY CHRISTMAS! My gosh, I can finally say it! …

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Jan 3, 2025 · This is what's going to happen in 2025, according to the Defector staff. Samer Kalaf "Face with bags under eyes" becomes a very popular emoji to use. Donald Trump exacerbates the Caitlin Clark culture war around the start of the WNBA season, to the point that it provokes some kind of labor action by the players.

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Jan 5, 2025 · What has it been like to watch the Giants this year? In 1184, Henry VI, King of Germany, of the royal house of Hohenstaufen, was marching to war in Poland, from his capital in Aachen. His path took him through Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia, which had been unsettled ever since Henry’s father, the Holy […]

Nov 20, 2024 · Augusta Britt has had, by any reasonable accounting, an extraordinarily rich and interesting life, and seems like a vivid and fascinating person. By her mid-teens in the mid-1970s, she was a pistol-packing Arizona refugee from her own abusive family and any number of atrocious foster homes. She met the novelist Cormac McCarthy by a motel […]

Dec 25, 2024 · Do you realize that this is the 12th year we’ve run this series? Time really flies when you don’t have something lodged up your butt. But for those of you who do, read on to see if you made this year’s list of the weirdest stuff that entered America’s orifices. If …

Feb 1, 2023 · Politics reporter Marc Caputo announced on Tuesday that he is leaving his job at NBC News. This sudden career change comes one week after Caputo spent a day chronicling on Instagram his recent eviction of a tenant renting a home Caputo owns in Key West, through screenshots of text conversations with the tenant and property manager.

Jan 28, 2025 · LAS VEGAS — There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it. The air is all wrong, there's simultaneously too much in it and not enough of it. Everyone I spoke to about the Consumer Electronics Show before I went to it earlier this month kept describing it in terms that involved wetness in some way.

4 days ago · The president loves to sign papers at the big-boy desk. But the executive order on DEI, like so many that have flooded the byways of Washington, D.C., is revealing in that it plainly lays out the tactic closest to the heart of Trump's personal persecution narrative—the witch hunt.