AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) made his bid to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as the GOP Senate Leader official on Thursday, but first took a moment to spar with another Texas Republican, the state’s scandal-plagued attorney general Ken Paxton. McConnell announced Wednesday that he would step down as Senate Minority Leader. He was first elected to the Senate in 1984...

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This year's Oscars are alomost here. The ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 10, which means you are running out of time if you want to watch all the major nominees before the ceremony. While you've probably already seen biggies like Oppenheimer and Barbie, there are eight other Best Picture candidates to catch, not to mention dozens more in...

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AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is set to step down as the Senate GOP’s leader in November, reported the AP Wednesday, ending a historic run as a party leader in the upper chamber. The powerful Republican has suffered health scares in recent months and has been out of step with former President Donald Trump, his party’s presumptive nominee, on a...

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In many ways, Mastodon reminds me of things I really liked about Twitter. It has all kinds of people posting about topics I'm interested in and it can surface the wackiest posts in a way that appeals to me. A slew of great third-party apps is another of the reasons why I find myself using Mastodon more than any other Twitter alternative. While...

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House Republicans’ star witness in their push to impeach President Joe Biden was discredited when it was revealed that he lied to the FBI, but a writer for the New York Post thinks he might have a “different story to tell” — if he doesn’t die first in prison like Jeffrey Epstein did. The NY Post‘s Miranda Devine promoted her new column on...

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Best Buy Drops is Best Buy’s in-app feature that gets you access to popular products for low prices—but only for a limited time or until supply runs out. Today, Best Buy Drop has the iRobot Roomba Combo i5+ available for $299.99 (originally $549.99), the lowest price it’s been over the last four months (according to price-checking tools). For reference, the robot vacuum has...

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This ECS LIVA mini box desktop is on sale for $99.99 right now (reg. $219). It's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64-bit Windows OS, and it's ideal for those who want to test Snapdragon (ARM) apps on Windows. However, it’s also a budget option for standard users or basic gamers. An incredibly small form factor of less...

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Former President Donald Trump and GOP leaders are furiously distancing themselves from Alabama’s bombshell IVF decision, but White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called BS in a blistering memo tying the decision to Trump and House Republicans. The Alabama Supreme Court unleashed political hell recently with a decision ruling that embryos frozen for IVF treatments are actual children, and destroying them can be...

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Ex-presidential niece Mary Trump ripped MSNBC over the ouster of progressive host Mehdi Hasan, saying the network is “elevating the wrong people.” Hasan announced he was leaving MSNBC in January after the network canceled his show, telling viewers of his final program that he would be moving on rather than staying as a contributor. The host of The Mary Trump Show podcast and strident...

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 Attendees at this weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, D.C., were completely split on who they want to see as Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate. The results of a straw poll were announced Saturday night after the gathering of right-wing participants were asked to choose among 17 contenders. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R)...

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Reporters pressed Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) about dropping out of the GOP primary race just minutes after she cast her vote in her home state of South Carolina. Haley has resisted leaving the race so far, despite lagging behind former President Donald Trump and amid growing pressure from some Republicans to hand Trump the nomination. One reporter asked Haley if she didn’t outperform...

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Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and members of his administration laughed out loud as a reporter asked if Newsom might be better than President Joe Biden to go up against ex-President Donald Trump, then pushed back with effusive praise of Biden. Chatter about Biden’s age reached a fever pitch when special counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s handling of sensitive documents dropped, and was chock full of damaging...

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If you're looking for a new show to binge this weekend, and you subscribe to Hulu, continue reading for the best new shows the streaming service has to offer, including the second season of true-crime docuseries Death in the Dorms, quality reality mini-series Operation Arctic Cure, and more. Death in the Dorms, Season 2 This true crime series roots around in the darkest...

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You can get Skoove Premium piano lessons on sale for $149.99 right now for a lifetime subscription or $39.99 for a one-year subscription. The app comes with over 400 lessons and thousands of instructional videos from experienced Skoove music instructors, and it also provides real-time feedback so you can improve every step of the way. It was an App Store Editors Choice with...

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The narrative is that Americans like everything big—our cheeseburgers, our SUVs, and, of course, our homes. But the fact is apartments have been getting smaller, dropping from an average of 941 square feet in 2012 to an average of just 887 square feet today. That’s 54 fewer square feet, or the loss of one whole small room from our lives. And it’s not...

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It frustrates my youngest son that he's still too young to watch Jurassic Park while his older brother has now seen it twice and watches the Netflix spin-off Camp Cretaceous regularly. However, the future paleontologist/astronaut/doctor/first responder (he likes jobs) can watch plenty of dino-centric content appropriate for his age, with much of it falling into the educational realm. We're Back: A Dinosaur Story (1993) It's a plot...

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