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Born 82 Years Ago in Louisiana, the 80s Country Hitmaker Whose Songs Have Been Recorded by Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, and the Oak Ridge Boys
This piece marks the anniversary of country singer-songwriter Eddy Raven’s birth in Lafayette, Louisiana, on 19 August 1944, tracing his path from teenage rock musician to chart-topping Nashville hitmaker. His significance lies as much in his songwriting as his performing career, with tracks he wrote being recorded by major country stars including Waylon Jennings, Merle…
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The Freedom Caucus is having a brutal primary run
The hard-right Freedom Caucus has struggled to elevate its picks this year.
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Facial recognition at matches, Baltimore crime, US wage study, Watkins bid, Weezer’s Gold Album
Google rolls out AI study tools for back-to-school, while Britain debates facial recognition at football grounds; Baltimore’s crime drop and a US wage-hike jobs study also feature, alongside Watkins and Vinicius transfer news and Weezer’s acclaimed new record.
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Shirley MacLaine makes rare video appearance, pokes fun at 1960s movie flop
Shirley MacLaine, now 92, made a rare video appearance this week to mark a screening of her 1969 musical “Sweet Charity” at a New York theatre, using the occasion to poke gentle fun at the film’s poor box-office performance on release. The appearance is notable given how infrequently the veteran actress appears on camera these…
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Trump claims he will meet with Kim Jong Un, North Korea has 57 nukes
Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump claims he will meet with Kim Jong Un, North Korea has 57 nukes President Trump told reporters that he would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this year as he warned the isolated…
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Ex-Senator Kyrsten Sinema accused of ‘grooming’ married Special Forces vet boyfriend into sordid affair while he battled depression, scorned ex-wife claims in face-to-face testimony
Kyrsten Sinema, the former US senator from Arizona, has been publicly accused by the ex-wife of her boyfriend of “grooming” him into an affair while he was struggling with depression. The ex-wife delivered the claims in face-to-face testimony, alleging that Sinema pursued the man, a married Special Forces veteran, and exploited his vulnerable mental state…
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Love You to Death review – is this all they asked the woman who faked her son’s illnesses?
Lisa Hayden-Johnson was convicted of child cruelty, but she still insists that she didn’t do anything wrong – and barely gets a grilling about it. Her children, who speak for the first time in this documentary, deserve much more There’s an increasingly common pattern emerging whereby documentary makers take a story that was run through…
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Turley says fake pollster ‘raises an interesting legal question’
Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University Law School professor, on Wednesday said the fake pollster that claimed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) and former Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong (D) led in their respective races by wide margins “raises an interesting legal question.” “The disclosure that Median Strategies released fake polling on major political…
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Lindell calls for self-funded recount after 11-point loss in Minnesota governor’s primary
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell is privately funding a hand recount and audit of Minnesota’s Republican gubernatorial primary, which he lost by roughly 11 percentage points. Lindell in a statement Wednesday cited multiple “irregularities” that he said were caught by his team during election night — including what were described as vote totals that moved backward during…
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Democrats Choose Socialism in the Sunshine State
Angie Nixon is an odd choice to run for Senate in a deeply conservative state.