The Playing Field: When Sports Go Global Kay Bradley, Andrés Martinez, and Paul Poast discuss how sports are crossing borders, attracting new audiences, and reflecting broader global trends.

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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

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TMZ asking RFK, Jr. about his obsession with roadkill is the journalism we need. A+ work. Even his aides had to hold back the laughter.

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Donald Trump’s latest crypto corruption: A Mar-a-Lago party for his coin buyers Want to get in the room with the president? Stock up on his pointless meme coin.

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Video authentically shows sparse crowd for JD Vance at Turning Point USA event Videos, images and reporting from the event showed many empty seats at the event with Vance in Athens, Georgia.

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Calling Out the Con Man In Chief From affordability to tax cuts, Trump is reneging on so many promises

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Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to plead guilty in child sexual abuse case, adding to pattern Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 rioters were already indefensible. As many of them run into fresh trouble with the law, the move continues to look even worse.

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Hey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States.

Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay.

Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.

THE SENATE IS VOTING ON THE BOUNDARY WATERS RIGHT NOW!

Tonight, while most people are watching TV or putting their kids to bed, the U.S. Senate is taking a vote that could permanently end protections for one of the most beloved wilderness areas in America.

Life comes at you fast

You know why Trump says “the U.S. government must put military protection over funding for Medicaid, Medicare and daycare”? Because those programs don’t help him personally, while exploiting the military allows this man facing accelerating physical & mental decline to feel powerful.

Trump DOJ dumps January 6 sedition convictions The White House is turning the lies that sparked the insurrection into government policy.

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The scammers profiting off Trump's immigration crackdown Fake judges. Fake lawyers. Real deportations.

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Tucker Carlson's biggest conspiracy theory yet It only involves Donald Trump, neocons, Israel, Satan, and nuclear weapons.

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Podcast: Soccer, Culture Wars, Trump and Globalization | The Soccer Business Just a few decades ago, soccer was considered to be as un-American as socialism and the country’s most famous sports journalists actively hated and mocked the sport. For most of the 20th century, socc...

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Justice Department moves to toss seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members...

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A non-exhaustive list of Trump's deleted posts He's just posting through it.

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The American experiment has been infected by oligarchs How our tax system guarantees extreme wealth concentration.

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Protecting ourselves from Trump’s descent into madness. April 14, 2026

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Words & Phrases ‘Short term extortion’

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Roger Sollenberger: Péter Magyar, the new Hungarian prime minister, says CPAC was paid by the Hungarian government and will not be any longer

Oh my what a Schlapp in the face this is

Holy Hell The Pope holds his own against Trump

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Trump’s DOJ plans to settle Colony Ridge case without compensating victims - The Texas Tribune The Biden administration sued a Texas land developer accused of duping tens of thousands of Hispanic residents. Trump’s DOJ is now offering an unprecedented settlement that experts say could target th...

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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

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DOJ Wants to Scrap Watergate-Era Rule That Makes Presidential Records Public Eliminating the Presidential Records Act would allow private actors to hold the keys to American history, forever.

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A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury. An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.

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