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Are you there chatbot Jesus? It's me, Margaret.

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Douglas Yeung

Santa is worth believing in, especially when bad news abounds

It’s nearly Christmas and I know, from my own experience and from watching my children grow up, these are days when doubts about Santa Claus bubble...

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Rex Huppke

Clinton doesn't want protection from Epstein files. Trump does.

The latest batch of the Epstein files released by the U.S. Department of Justice on Dec. 23 has set the internet ablaze as a legion of sleuths sort...

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Chris Brennan 

The Democrats still have a credibility crisis. It's very clear why.

It's almost Christmas, and Democrats are the gift that keeps on giving to those of us who have known this whole time they don't have what it takes...

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Nicole Russell

No one fixed the 'curve of death.' Then it killed my brothers.

All the cars behind us stopped and tried to help. Still in shock, I kicked out the window, climbed through, grabbed the phone of the first person I...

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Giovanni Pintor 

The GOP can't seem to agree on its future. It's depressing to watch.

Less than a year after President Donald Trump began his second term, Republicans seem unserious, unfocused and fracturing before our eyes at a...

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Nicole Russell

Trump is attacking trans people to distract from his failures. Again.

President Donald Trump wants you to ignore the ways congressional Republicans are destroying health care in our country and focus on what really...

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Sara Pequeño 

Gen Z has a new American dream. 'No contact' may be a result.

When pundits and media talking heads warn that the American family is in decline, what they’re really saying is that it looks drastically different...

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Andrew Sciallo

2025 showed me how naive I was to trust our government

There is one thing we can all agree on: This year has been filled with news and happenings that just never gave us room to breathe. Regardless of...

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Staff

7 gift ideas that are totally on Trump's Christmas list

Through my numerous sources in the White House, of whom I have none, I’ve obtained an exclusive copy of President Donald Trump’s letter to Santa...

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Rex Huppke

Media lets Trump get away with lying to Americans. It has to stop.

We asked you, our readers, how we needed to change the way we write about the economy and what we as opinion writers – and the rest of the news...

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Ending property taxes sounds great. Or does it?

We are in a season of giving, but one trendy giveaway idea has actually been making the political rounds for months. Several states have been...

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Blake Fontenay 

2026 trend forecasts show white, cabbage and slop. Feels right.

It’s fitting that the Oxford University Press' 2025 word of the year is “rage bait,” because I’m convinced that’s the only way to describe...

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Sara Pequeño 

With Venezuela, Trump pushes US toward the wars he promised to end

President Donald Trump built his "America first" brand of populist politics largely on criticism of efforts at regime change in other countries,...

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Chris Brennan 

I never let my kids believe in Santa. I don't regret it.

Christmas time with kids is filled with warm, cozy traditions: Listening to Christmas music while decorating the tree, going to look at Christmas...

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Nicole Russell

We can't armor our way through mass shootings. It's the guns.

There have been at least 75 school shootings in the United States in 2025. Some of the victims of the Dec. 13 shooting at Brown University in...

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John Davenport

Why does everyone in 'I Love LA' talk like that?

In one scene of the HBO comedy series "I Love LA," Charlie (Jordan Firstman), Alani (True Whitaker) and Tallulah (Odessa A’zion) attend the funeral...

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Kofi Mframa