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Ryan O'Neal, star of 'Love Story' and 'Peyton Place,' dead

Oscar-nominated actor Ryan O’Neal, star of several landmark films including “Love Story” and “Paper Moon,” has died, according to his son, Patrick, who posted the news to social media. He was reportedly 82. “My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us,” Patrick O’Neal wrote. He added: “My father Ryan O’Neal has always been my hero. I looked up to him and he was always bigger than life.” O’Neal’s breakout role was in 1967 o ...

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Appeals court upholds gag order on Trump in Washington case but narrows restrictions on his speech

Updated 2:27 PM EST, December 8, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday upheld a gag order on former President Donald Trump in his 2020 election interference case but narrowed the restrictions on his speech. The three-judge panel’s ruling modifies the gag order to allow the Republican 2024 presidential front-runner to make disparaging comments about special counsel Jack Smith. But the court upheld the ban on public statements about known or reasonably forese ...

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RNC Backs Out Of Hosting Debates After Trump Refuses To Participate

Dec 8, 2023, 04:31 PM EST After hosting four events in which their front-runner, former President Donald Trump, refused to participate, the Republican National Committee on Friday threw in the towel and announced it wouldn’t host any more 2024 primary debates. The decision doesn’t preclude other organizations, like news networks, from hosting their own independent debates ― but they won’t have the Republican Party’s blessing. “We have held four successful debates across the country wit ...

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GOP Hardliners Threaten Speaker Johnson Over Ukraine Funding

December 8, 2023 at 1:43 PM EST Ultraconservatives in the US House warned new Speaker Mike Johnson that any attempt to pass Ukraine aid before the US stems migrant crossings at its southern border would foment a rebellion on his right flank. The hardline House Freedom Caucus stopped short Friday of explicitly threatening Johnson’s job, but their statement further imperils the bipartisan push to send $66 billion in fresh military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. The House plans to leave Washi ...

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U.S. vetoes UN resolution backed by many nations demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza

Dec 8, 2023 4:33 PM EST The United States vetoed a United Nations resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza. Friday’s vote came after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for the first time invoked Article 99 of the U.N. Charter, which enables a U.N. chief to raise threats he sees to international peace and security. He warned of a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza. U.S. Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood said halting military action would allow Hamas to continue to rule G ...

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Former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger says 'If Trump is nominated, I'll vote for Biden'

(CBS News) Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger describes himself as politically "homeless," at odds with a party he views as "anti-constitutionalist." He believes former President Donald Trump will be the 2024 Republican nominee — and if that's the case, Kinzinger intends to vote for President Biden. "I don't even have to hesitate. Do I agree with everything Joe Biden's doing? No, of course not. He's a Democrat. I'm an old-school Republican, I'll say. But I believe he's a good man, and I believe he's focused on the Constitution. I believe he's not looking for reasons to violate the Constitution like Donald Trump is. I wouldn't hesitate at all," he said.

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Dear GOP: You'll Never Wash the Stink of Trump Off You or Your Party. Never.

(Thom Hartmann) After the corruption of the Coolidge and Hoover administrations crashed the world economy, kicking off the Republican Great Depression in 1929, it took your party decades to rid itself of the stink. After Nixon extended the Vietnam War to get himself re-elected, unnecessarily killing over 20,000 American soldiers and a million Vietnamese civilians, and then got busted for Watergate and the bribes he solicited in the White House, it took you almost a generation to rid yourselves of the stink. But you’ll never rid yourself of the stink of Donald Trump.

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'He is hated': House Republicans secretly consider expelling Matt Gaetz after booting George Santos

(USA Today) Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., continues to draw the ire of his Republican colleagues in the House weeks after he led the ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., from the speakership, with some of his detractors privately floating expelling him from Congress. Several Republican House members, many of whom are still angry at Gaetz for his antics that have impeded McCarthy and the majority of the conference from passing legislation, have begun to discuss Gaetz’ ongoing investigation by the House Ethics Committee in the wake of the expulsion of embattled former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y.

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Kevin McCarthy Is Fleeing the Dumpster Fire. And He's Not the Only One.

(Slate) Congress is shedding members at a near-record rate. As Axios reported, 13 senators and representatives announced in November — before Thanksgiving! — that they won’t seek reelection next year. That’s the highest number of defections in one month in over a decade, per Ballotpedia.

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