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Alex Galbraith is Salon’s nights and weekends editor, and author of our free daily newsletter, Crash Course. He is based in New Orleans.

Tom Cruise attends the "F1: The Movie" European Premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square on June 23, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Tom Cruise turned down Trump’s Kennedy Center honor

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Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, departs from the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building on June 3 2024, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“F**k that”: Hunter Biden responds to Melania Trump’s demand for an apology over Epstein story

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Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes performs during Coachella 2010. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros frontman weighs in on “worst song of all time” discussion

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump arrive for a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s Soviet slip revives concerns about his mental acuity

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Actory Sylvester Stallone poses for a playful portrait with businessman Donald Trump at a lupus charity event held at Bud and Marla Paxon's home in Palm Beach, Florida, February 24, 1997. (Photo by Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

Trump’s hand-picked Kennedy Center honorees include Stallone, KISS

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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner speaks to reporters on Independence Mall about his office's Election Task Force and Election Day security in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 7, 2022. (RYAN COLLERD/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s DC gambit is “distraction” from his “involvement in pedophile ring,” Philly DA says

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Visits "Making Money With Charles Payne" at Fox Business Network Studios on December 04, 2024 in New York City. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

OpenAI’s Altman admits the way people might use ChatGPT makes him “uneasy”

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President Donald Trump departs the White House on July 11, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump eyes Chicago, New York City after federal takeover of DC police

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Emma Thompson meets fans during the 78th Locarno Film Festival on August 09, 2025 in Locarno, Switzerland. (Photo by Alessandro Levati/Getty Images)

Emma Thompson says Trump asked her on a date

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks with reporters in the U.S. Capitol about the presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Friday, June 28, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Trump accuses “degenerate” Pelosi of insider trading

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Chris Cuomo (Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images/Getty Images)

NewsNation’s Cuomo falls for AOC Sydney Sweeney deepfake

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Dean Cain speaks onstage at the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 25th Anniversary Reunion panel during New York Comic Con 2018 at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on October 5, 2018 in New York City. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for New York Comic Con)

Former Superman Dean Cain stumps for ICE hiring initiative

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US director Woody Allen (ANDER GILLENEA/AFP via Getty Images)

Woody Allen compares Epstein to Dracula in newly unearthed letter

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Sen. John Cornyn (Al Drago/Getty Images)

Cornyn requests FBI’s aid in returning absent Texas Democrats to state

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Former President Bill Clinton and former first lady Hillary Clinton attend the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (Photo by Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

House subpoenas Clintons, demands full Epstein files from DOJ

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Jim Acosta speaks at The Common Good, American Spirit Awards at The Plaza on November 21, 2024 in New York City (Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Acosta shares “ghoulish” interview with AI recreation of Parkland victim

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference on January 31, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Texas Gov. Abbott orders arrest of Democratic lawmakers who fled the state

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Charlamagne Tha God during an interview on "My View With Lara Trump" at Fox News. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

Charlamagne begs “donkey” Trump to keep “Epstein files” promise

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Sydney Sweeney attends the premiere of "Eden" during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on September 07, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Emma McIntyre/WireImage/Getty Images)

Sydney Sweeney revealed to be registered Republican in American Eagle ad backlash

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Former Treasury Secretary & White House Economic Advisor Larry Summers is interviewed by FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo at FOX Studios on May 24, 2017 in New York City. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images)

Trump purges make him worse than Nixon, says Summers

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US President Donald Trump delivers the commencement address at the 2025 US Military Academy Graduation Ceremony at West Point, New York, on May 24, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump calls Charlamagne “racist sleazebag” after Fox News Epstein comments

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Singer Ken Casey of Dropkick Murphys performs onstage during day 2 of Warped Tour at in Long Beach, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

Dropkick Murphys show video of “loser” Trump, Jeffrey Epstein at Warped Tour

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Pete Buttigieg speaks at a town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Photo by KC McGinnis/Getty Images)

Buttigieg: Democrats need to learn from Mamdani to beat Trumpism

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Police officers and emergency vehicles are seen in a street as police respond to a shooting incident in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York on July 28, 2025. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)

5 dead after shooting at Manhattan office building that houses NFL, Blackstone

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