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Michelle Obama shares untold stories behind ‘The Look,’ including that iconic pants outfit in case something popped off

Michelle Obama had a homecoming of sorts on Wednesday night while promoting her new book, “The Look,” in Washington, D.C., the city where she first moved in 2009, becoming forever etched in U.S. and Black history as America’s first Black First Lady. “I’m home,” Mrs. Obama said to thunderous applause at a live taping of her “IMO” podcast attended by theGrio at the historic Sixth & I in D.C., just a mile away from the White House, where she lived […]

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House Ethics Committee accuses Gaetz of ‘regularly’ paying for sex, including with 17-year-old girl

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying for sex, including with a 17-year-old girl, and purchasing and using illicit drugs as a member of Congress, as lawmakers released the conclusions of a nearly four-year investigation that helped sink his nomination for attorney general. The 37-page report by the bipartisan panel includes explicit details of sex-filled parties and vacations that Gaetz, now 42, took part in from 2017 to 2020 while the Republican represented Florida’s western Panhandle. Congressional […]

todayDecember 23, 2024 1

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Trump hurls a string of insults at Harris including ‘lazy,’ a racist trope against Black people

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump unleashed a series of personal attacks at Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her “lazy” — a word long used to demean Black people in racist terms — and repeatedly questioning her intelligence and stamina. At an event Tuesday in Miami aimed at courting Latino voters, Trump said he said Harris was “lazy as hell” for not holding a campaign event. Trump’s comments ignored that Harris spent her day in meetings in Washington and recording interviews with Telemundo and […]

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Harris accepts rules for Sept. 10 debate with Trump on ABC, including microphone muting

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted the rules set forth for next week’s debate with former President Donald Trump, although the Democratic nominee says the decision not to keep both candidates’ microphones live throughout the matchup will be to her disadvantage. The development, which came Wednesday by way of a letter from Harris’ campaign to host network ABC News, seemed to mark a conclusion to the debate over microphone muting, which had for a time threatened to derail the Sept. […]

todaySeptember 5, 2024 1

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Inside Biden’s Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony honoring Black luminaries, including the ‘grandmother of Juneteenth’

The “Grandmother of Juneteenth” and the man who contributed to parts of of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous speech received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Bide at the White House on Friday. They were among 19 people, including current and former elected officials, to be given the highest civilian honor. Known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” for her decades of work pushing for Juneteenth to become a federal holiday, Opal Lee is a 97-year-old retired […]

todayMay 4, 2024 1