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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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.
LaunchClimate 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.
LaunchTake 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.
Launch“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.
LaunchWatch 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.
LaunchAmazon 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.
LaunchWatch 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.
LaunchWatch 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.
LaunchMany 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.
LaunchThe 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.
LaunchWatch 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.
LaunchWatch 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.
LaunchRead 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.
LaunchTwenty 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.
LaunchWatch 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.
LaunchSpeaking 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.
LaunchWatch 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.
Launch“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.
LaunchCNN 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.
Launch“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.
LaunchJoe 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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