‘People Are Greedy’: The Absurd Power Bills Slamming Texans

By Pilar Melendez, William Bredderman, Steven Monacelli

As millions of Texans remain in the dark amid power outages from a historic winter storm, wild swings in the price of power have left others with bills they simply can’t afford.

By Lloyd Grove

Marrying shock-jock bravado with incendiary right-wing rhetoric, Limbaugh became AM radio's most popular talk-show host and took an entire political party with him.

By Lachlan Cartwright

The porn star appeared on Michael Cohen’s podcast to call out her former lawyer: “I was never comfortable being alone with him and he got very controlling.”

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By Alaina Demopoulos, Kristopher Fraser, Tim Teeman

Designers are confronting the pandemic directly, indirectly, and via utter escapism, as seen at LBV, Rebecca Minkoff, Collina Strada, Loring, C+plus Series, and Jonathan Simkhai.

By Arya Hodjat

A class action suit alleges Keith Gill “took on the fake persona of an amateur, everyday fellow, who simply was looking out for the little guy” in order to recruit investors.

By Spencer Ackerman

Officials stressed that the vaccine is “clearly safe” but acknowledged a need for more education.

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By Pilar Melendez

Several officers were injured in their chaotic, repeated attempts to kick Daniel Egtvedt out of the Capitol, prosecutors say.

By David Rothkopf

They don’t see the attempted insurrection of Jan. 6 as a crime, or even a loss of control to the most extreme elements of the party. They see it as a failure to seize control.

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WHERE’S THE HOSPITALITY?

Ron Kim, a Democrat from Queens, told CNN that Cuomo made the threat after he called for scrutiny into the governor’s handling of nursing home deaths during the pandemic.

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“I wouldn’t be complaining,” the Florida governor said.

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 WTF?

In an interview with Elle, FKA twigs likened her abusive relationship with LaBeouf to being slowly and unsuspectingly boiled to death.

 WHAT’S HIS DEFENSE?

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said they held back on officially nominating two female generals, with the fear Trump might hamper their promotions.

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