No Matter Who’s Pushing for Masks, This GOP Gov Says No

By Hunter Woodall

“I don’t think there’s any good political reason not to have a mandate,” said Dale Bratzler, the chief COVID officer for the University of Oklahoma. “I just don’t get it.”

By Erin Banco, Will Sommer

Promoted by the Trump campaign and the increasingly unhinged QAnon conspiracy cult, a bogus COVID-19 statistic briefly took root—and tied up CDC officials.

By Molly Jong-Fast

Trump didn’t do anything especially outrageous in Kenosha, except for the fact of going there in the first place.

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By Erin Banco, Asawin Suebsaeng

For months senior White House officials have discussed the idea of limiting in-person congressional briefings in order to prevent leaks to the media.

By Dean Obeidallah

His defense of Kyle Rittenhouse and the paintball-shooting Portland horde make it official. Fascism is a specific thing, and Donald Trump is it.

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Rep. Mike Garcia wasn’t even in Congress when one of the bills he touted passed—but nearly all of his Republican colleagues voted against it.

“If he wouldn't have shot them guys it would have been him,” one Trump supporter said of Kyle Rittenhouse, accused of murder at a recent protest in the troubled city.

Russia’s troll farm paraded as a nonprofit news organization, using unsuspecting freelancers and AI profile photos to criticize Biden from the left.

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 ‘I WAS STUNNED’

Sanders claims that, during a summit in 2018, the North Korean leader winked at her.

 SOUNDS FAMILIAR

It echoes one of the attack lines most used by Trump and his re-election campaign.

 CLEAN SHAVEN

It’s like an electric razor for couches is extremely satisfying to use.

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