Watch highlights from the seventeenth episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Carey Mulligan, with Kid Cudi as the musical guest, including the “Eyes on Minnesota” cold open.
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Biden administration proposes record $6.9 billion budget for NOAA
Climate research would get a massive boost if Congress agrees with the administration’s proposal to significantly bolster the agency’s funding. NOAA is one of America’s most important scientific agencies.
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White House releases new official portraits of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Take a look at the images that will serve as the photographic representations of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris through the end of their current terms.
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How Brexit ruined Easter for Britain’s chocolate makers
“Exports of chocolate to Europe have turned into a nightmare of paperwork and delays, making fine British chocolate scarce in Europe,” The New York Times reports.
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It’s Matt Gaetz’s turn to be skewered (repeatedly!) by SNL
Watch highlights from the sixteenth episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Daniel Kaluuya, with St. Vincent as the musical guest, including the Weekend Update segment and cold open skewering Matt Gaetz.
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Amazon apologizes to Representative Pocan; admits recent tweet was a falsehood
Amazon has apologized to one of Congress’ most progressive leaders for a rude and false tweet that suggested reports about drivers relieving themselves in bottles were made up.
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SNL returns after monthlong hiatus to mock Ted Cruz and Marjorie Taylor Greene again
Watch highlights from the fifteenth episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Maya Rudolph, with Jack Harlow as the musical guest, including the Kamaala Harris Passover seder sketch.
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SNL keeps the heat on Ted Cruz, rakes Marjorie Taylor Greene in February 27th episode
Watch highlights from the fourteenth episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Nick Jonas (who also performed as the musical guest) including the vaccine game show cold open with a Ted Cruz cameo.
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Thou shalt not worship false idols? Who cares! The Trump cult has made its very own golden calf
Many in the Republican Party want public policy that is explicitly tied to fundamentalist Judeo-Christian religious beliefs. But they don’t even practice what they preach.
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Biden shifts his political operation to DNC ahead of 2022 midterm elections
The move signifies that Biden is a team player committed to the Democratic Party. In 2009, Barack Obama and his advisers chose to keep campaign data in the hands of a semi-separate outfit called Organizing For America.
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SNL skewers Ted Cruz for the second straight week over Cancun jaunt
Watch highlights from the thirteenth episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Regé-Jean Page, with Bad Bunny as the musical guest, including the cold open skewering Ted Cruz.
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SNL ridicules Republican senators for their fealty to Trump during impeachment trial
Watch highlights from the twelfth episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Regina King, with Nathaniel Rateliff as the musical guest, including the second impeachment trial cold open.
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Hundreds of legal scholars say Senate must not acquit Trump over constitutionality issue
Read a letter from hundreds of legal scholars (including several conservative scholars) calling on the United States Senate to decide whether Trump is guilty or not based on the actual evidence before the Senate.
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Watch Senator Maria Cantwell become the Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee
Twenty years after joining the United States Senate, Senator Maria Cantwell now chairs one of the institution’s most powerful committees. This clip shows her taking up the gavel.
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SNL pokes fun at sports broadcasting during 2021 Super Bowl weekend episode
Watch highlights from the eleventh episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Dan Levy, with Phoebe Bridgerton as the musical guest, including the cold open hosted by veteran SNL repertory player Kenan Thompson.
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Wyoming Republican ex-legislator on Trump: “I felt used and I felt lied to”
Speaking to The Washington Post, Amy Edmonds explained what has happened to her since she started questioning Donald Trump’s deep web of lies following the 2020 presidential election.
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SNL pays tribute to Peach State’s political metamorphosis with “BlueGeorgia” sketch
Watch highlights from the tenth episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by John Krasinski, with Machine Gun Kelly as the musical guest, including the noteworthy “BlueGeorgia” sketch.
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Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year. And it’s going to get worse.
“Global ice loss has increased rapidly over the past two decades, and scientists are still underestimating just how much sea levels could rise, according to alarming new research published this month, ” The Washington Post reports.
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Reflections on four weird years fact checking every word from Donald Trump from CNN’s fact checker
CNN has published a look back at the Trump error from its senior fact checker Daniel Dale, who got his start debunking Trump’s 2016 campaign claims.
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Cooperation is a progressive value: How an unprecedented coalition of liberal groups prepared for Trump’s war on democracy
“By the time rioters ransacked the Capitol, the machinery of the left had already been primed to respond — prepared by months spent sketching out doomsday scenarios and mapping out responses, by countless hours of training exercises and reams of opinion research,” The New York Times reports.
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Watch the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be taking office and beginning their administration in a televised ceremony at the United States Capitol.
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