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Aisha Sultan: Why everyone loved Dolly

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Riding in the backseat of a long, black Chevy Caprice Classic in 1983, I heard an unforgettable melody.

A woman’s light and airy soprano harmonized with a man’s velvety baritone.

Sail away with me

To another world

And we rely on each other, ah-ah

From one lover to another, ah-ah

To my 9-year-old ears, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers' ...Read more

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Anita Chabria: LA D.A. Nathan Hochman changed his mind. Is that such a bad thing?

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L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman did something last week few prosecutors ever do — changed his mind in public, swapping out felony charges for misdemeanors in the case of an LAPD officer accused of secretly taping homophobic, racist and misogynistic remarks made by colleagues.

Since then, Hochman has been slammed for playing ...Read more

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Abby McCloskey: The Texas Senate race is becoming a debt debacle

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Republicans don’t tend to run for office promising to rack up new federal debts. Especially in Texas. But that’s what state Attorney General Ken Paxton is doing in his campaign for the U.S. Senate.

Affordability tops the list of concerns for Texans this midterm cycle. A recent Fox News poll found Texas voters care most about inflation and ...Read more

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David M. Drucker: The left's antisemitism is still festering

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It shouldn’t have taken this long for prominent Democrats to confront their party’s antisemitism problem. But left-wing influencer Hasan Piker apparently crossed a line.

Even before the 2026 primary election season began, many leading Democratic officials had buried their heads in the sand, telling themselves that their party, nor its ...Read more

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Commentary: No rising star today could stay neutral like Dolly Parton

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Dolly Parton died Tuesday at 80, and for a moment, America did something it almost never does. It agreed on someone. Democrats and Republicans, the churched and the unchurched, posted the same grief for a devoutly, openly Christian woman claimed just as hard by people who can’t stand each other. It looked like proof that faith still could ...Read more

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Commentary: Forget about COVID-19's origins. Focus on preventing the next pandemic

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More than six years after a novel coronavirus spread to the United States, our nation’s leaders are still locked in a partisan cage-match over the origin of the pathogen. The neverending cycle of recriminations and scapegoating is a waste of time and money — and worse yet, it undermines everyone’s common goal of preventing future waves of ...Read more

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Commentary: We're stuck with the dollar as the global currency, along with all the downsides

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Vice President JD Vance’s recently resurfaced comments rightly question whether the U.S. dollar should continue to be the world’s reserve currency. He has also recognized that the problem dates back 40-some years, thereby indicting President Reagan and his Fed chairman, Paul Volcker. Equal blame should go to President Carter, who appointed ...Read more

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Commentary: What 'affordability' really means to working-class voters

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Democrats’ obsession with “affordability” is right on target, given that American workers’ share of GDP is near the lowest ever recorded. Today, 61% of Americans are skimping at the grocery store, and housing and childcare are unaffordable even for many college grads.

So it’s not surprising that “affordable basics” are the top ...Read more

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LZ Granderson: Michigan race tests whether voters care more about issues or identity

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Nestled between two large lakes, near the northwest tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, you'll find more than 1,000 acres of land dedicated to the performing arts.

The list of children who have spent time there and gone on to have distinguished careers is extensive. Oscar winner Da'Vine Joy Randolph. Grammy winner Norah Jones. Emmy winner ...Read more

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Trudy Rubin: Trump's Ukraine negotiators are too chicken to visit Kyiv and support its independence

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There were two noticeable no-shows as Western leaders gathered Monday to mark the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence — and its five years of resistance to Vladimir Putin’s effort to re-subjugate the country to Russian rule.

There were multiple news reports that President Donald Trump’s clueless peace envoys — son-in-law Jared ...Read more

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Editorial: Ruling unlikely to effect the November election

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Democrats are in a tizzy over a recent Supreme Court ruling that allows a presidential order on mail ballots to move forward — for now. But the decision was technical in nature and will almost certainly have no practical effect on the November election in Nevada or elsewhere.

In March, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that he ...Read more

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Editorial: Celebrate Dolly Parton's sparkling legacy of wit, generosity and empathy

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From the time that she first stepped onto the Grand Ole Opry stage, it was clear that the tiny girl from the Tennessee mountains was special. Johnny Cash introduced her, and she sang alongside her uncle — who had bought her her first guitar, and became her first songwriting partner, helping her create hits that would propel other country ...Read more

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Editorial: A court victory for accountability, democratic oversight

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Law enforcement agencies, including in Las Vegas, have increasingly employed surveillance devices to record the activities of unsuspecting drivers (see: Flock cameras), raising obvious constitutional and privacy concerns. Ironic then, that many police departments become agitated when onlookers record the actions of officers.

Last week, a ...Read more

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Gautam Mukunda: Pete Hegseth fails to understand bureaucracy

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On the morning of July 15, a Blue Angels F/A-18 came in over Florida’s Pensacola Beach so low it sent umbrellas and beach chairs tumbling while children covered their ears due to the loud noise. The next morning, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on social media that “The flyovers will continue until morale improves.” That was supposed...Read more

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Editorial: The AI vultures are monetizing the dead. Your old emails might be worth millions

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If you recently left a job, it’s likely you lost access to your old inbox and the saved records of those tedious Zoom or Teams meetings. Leaving such digital detritus behind now is part of life. But we doubt you anticipated your employer being able to make money from what you had to say while gainfully employed.

Consider what just happened ...Read more

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Commentary: OpenAI says ChatGPT is safer for teens. Now it needs to show proof

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Last week, OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT for Teens, a new user experience crafted to help young people “learn, think critically, deepen understanding, and use AI with confidence.” Maybe most importantly, OpenAI vowed that it would place any users its system “estimates” to be under 18 into the system “automatically.”

For nearly a ...Read more

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Commentary: The long tradition of lawyers defending US democracy

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For centuries, lawyers have been leaders in establishing and protecting our democracy and its cornerstone, the rule of law. They have challenged tyrants, whether it be King George III in our nation’s founding or President Donald Trump, a wannabe king, today.

Lawyers swear to do this in an oath, which is a condition of admission to the bar, to...Read more

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Editorial: Football is America's game. Its players deserve better protection

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The opening of another season of college football and the NFL are right around the corner, and like most of you we are excited for what’s to come.

Football is an incredible game, combining skill, speed, strength, violence and (perhaps most underrated) the task each and every play of having 11 men working in concert to run or pass the weirdly ...Read more

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Editorial: The US can't fake its way out of fiscal trouble

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The U.S. government, steward of the world’s largest economy, faces a darkening fiscal outlook as sovereign borrowing costs surge. Unfortunately, it seems intent on trying any fix except the one that might help.

In a trend affecting the entire developed world, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note has risen to 4.7%, from 4.4% less than two ...Read more

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Rosa Prince: Harry and Meghan are already annoying British taxpayers

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Six years on from their dramatic UK departure, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are returning from California with their two small children. Royal watchers have many questions: Where will they live and where will Archie and Lilibet go to school? What does this say about Harry’s strained relationship with his father King Charles and brother ...Read more

 

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