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4+ hour, 37+ min ago   (119+ words) “A 21-year-old recent college graduate was behind an anonymous website that put out widely shared fake election polling in Wisconsin, Nevada and California,” The Guardian reports. Said Rahil Prakash: “I wanted to see if fake polls could really penetrate the…...

4+ hour, 35+ min ago   (124+ words) “The Trump administration is opening a new front in its campaign to remake higher education: threatening the American Bar Association’s power to accredit law schools,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The action escalates the Trump administration’s long-running feud with the…...

4+ hour, 28+ min ago   (290+ words) Vanity Fair: “In public, White House press office staff are belligerent toward members of the media, hurling insults and invective. But in private? They’re cordial, efficient… even charming. Reporters fear what’s next.” Goddard spent more than a decade as managing…...

4+ hour, 42+ min ago   (116+ words) “If any politician wants to get mothers on their side, they should adopt this issue. It’s such an obvious electoral winner. And what I’ve learned is there is no force in the universe stronger than mothers trying to protect their…...

4+ hour, 39+ min ago   (127+ words) “British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he will shift responsibility for economic growth away from the UK Treasury and toward his new office in the north of England,” Bloomberg reports. “Burnham’s premiership, which began last month, has focused on giving…...

17+ min ago   (808+ words) Several recent attempts to shame and deny LGBTQ families and young people reveal a web of hypocrisy and long-standing lies. In July, the Seattle-based organization Them Before Us, whose stated mission is “defending children’s right to their mother and father,…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (768+ words) A healthcare worker’s first overnight shift near a graveyard took a turn she still can’t explain. In a now-viral TikTok video, the creator behind @thenursesjournal shared a story that has left viewers both unsettled and fascinated. During her shift at a…...

1+ hour, 6+ min ago   (260+ words) Every procedure comes with risks, no matter how minimally invasive it might be. The problem with facial filler is tied to a problem that the cosmetic and beauty industry has been seeing that’s difficult to solve effectively: fraud. Ideally, only…...

42+ min ago   (1370+ words) The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 21 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Virginia Heffernan: Thanks for having me, Greg. Sargent: So Marjorie Taylor Greene is almost like a MAGA oracle at this…...

2+ hour, 47+ min ago   (123+ words) The popular “contract-trading platforms” have election workers worried about our electoral system - and their lives. Hundreds of millions of dollars, desperation for insider info, fury and accusations of conspiracy when it doesn’t go your way—is this gambling or elections?...