NPR CEO Katherine Maher hit back Friday after a week of right-wing frothing over one editor’s essay accusing the publicly funded newsroom of having a liberal lean.
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“Brandy Hellville,” which premiered on #Max this week, pulls back the curtain on one of the strangest, most exclusive clothing stores in the country.

Fletcher Peters reveals the most shocking revelations about #BrandyMelville here:

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A Chris Farley biopic is coming to the big screen with the help of “Saturday Night Live” boss Lorne Michaels, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Israel was accused of targeting journalists on Friday after several reporters were injured during an attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to CNN.
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The long-running show, which started as an alternative to “The View,” will end later this year.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis approved controversial pro-law enforcement legislation on Friday that effectively guts citizens’ ability to investigate police misconduct.
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Iconic fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has died at the age of 83, his company announced Friday.
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Multiple people were injured on Friday when a big rig truck smashed through the front of the Department of Public Safety office building in Brenham, Texas.
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Some Apple users were disgruntled this week when they discovered that typing the word “Jerusalem” into their iPhones brought up a Palestinian flag emoji, according to USA Today.

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Fox News, Newsmax, and Univision, along with a host of far-right podcasters and social-media influencers, were sued last month for wrongly identifying a man as the neo-Nazi shooter who killed eight people last year in Texas.

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The House on Friday narrowly passed a two-year extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the warrantless surveillance of foreigners located abroad, after a dramatic revolt led by 19 hard-line Republicans.
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The Democratic National Committee paid more than $1.5 million to offset Joe Biden’s legal costs during Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into the president’s handling of classified documents, according to Axios.
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MAGA Gov. Kristi Noem was banished from the Rosebud Indian Reservation in her own state of South Dakota on Thursday, the fourth Lakota tribe to bar her from its lands in recent months.
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EXCLUSIVE: The company that saved Donald Trump with a $175 million bank fraud bond is playing an insurance game that has experts questioning whether New York will ever see the money.
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“Remember…OJ said something to the effect of…I could kill her (Nicole) and get away with it,” Jenner wrote on X on Friday.
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“I shouldn’t have “f*ckin’ said f*ckin’ anything,” Sherman said of her impulsive response to the viral TikTok this week, “She said some sh*t for attention.”
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Latest: A top US military commander, Kurilla, is in Israel as fears mount that the region could be on the brink of all-out war and Biden warns of a possible “significant” Iranian attack on Israel. Israel has promised to respond in kind. The Daily Beast thedailybeast.com/iran-israel-bl…

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Theda Hammel’s Stress Positions manages to be a COVID movie without being a “COVID movie,” using the pandemic as mere backdrop for a slyly hilarious comedy about life on pause.
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