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Facebook Says Trump Can’t Go Back to Sh*tposting Yet

By Adam Rawnsley and Jamie Ross

The social network’s oversight board upheld the Trump ban for now, but slammed Facebook for its arbitrary decision and told it to hold a review within six months.

Fugitive QAnon Fan Runs Up $10,000 Diner Tab—and Bails

By Will Sommer

QAnon promoter Richard Potcner urged National Guard soldiers in the Capitol to order on his tab at a local diner, then crowdsourced to pay the bill. But he stopped paying.

How Forest Whitaker Is Changing Hollywood

By Marlow Stern

The star of “Godfather of Harlem”—and the last Black man to win the Best Actor Oscar—is helping shape the industry on both sides of the camera.

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Billionaire Perplexed His Underpaid Oil Workers Are Striking

By Tarpley Hitt

There’s a picket line outside John Catsimatidis’ United Metro Energy—and he’s pleading confusion.

Secret U.S. Intel Reports on Joe Exotic Actually Exist

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Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer sit down with The Intercept’s Ken Klippenstein to discuss the federal government’s bizarre, and at times frightening, secret obsessions.

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The Godzilla-Inspired Metal Band Preaching Environmentalism

By Nick Schager

Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier opens up about their most activist album yet and why he’s not afraid to be called a “hippie” by his headbanging contemporaries.

The Real Obstacle to a New Normal? Anti-Vaxxer Parents.

By David Axe

Vaccine skeptics have marred the rollout of safe and effective shots from the jump. Now things may get truly ugly.

Has COVID Zapped the Fun From ‘Real Housewives’?

By Kevin Fallon

The return of TV’s best reality show is cause for celebration. Cause for concern: Tuesday night’s confusingly subdued premiere. Is there hope for this pandemic season?

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1. McCarthy Abandons Cheney, Backs Trumpist Stefanik: PunchBowl

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The newsletter reports the top House Republican has been meeting with colleagues to help a bid to install Rep. Elise Stefanik in the Trump critic’s place.

2. Barr’s Memo on Not Charging Trump Must Be Made Public: Judge

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A federal judge ruled that the decision not to charge Trump with crimes found by Mueller’s probe had already been made by the time the memo was written, so it should be released.

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4. DOJ Asks for Outside Lawyer to Sift Through Rudy Evidence

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Federal prosecutors reportedly cited “the unusually sensitive privilege issues” related to the Giuliani case in making their request.

5. World’s Oldest Person Ditches Olympic Relay Over COVID Fears

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Kane Tanaka, 118, has decided that taking part would be too risky after a cluster of cases were linked to the event.

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