philip lewis
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“Jonathan Capehart, the Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist, has taken a buyout at The Washington Post after 18 years with the paper, Axios' Sara Fischer has learned.”
People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/…
Stephen Colbert replies to Trump saying “his talent was even less than his ratings”
Jon Stewart reacts to CBS cancelling "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and tells corporations and advertisers to "sack up"
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Judge sentences ex-officer in Breonna Taylor raid to nearly 3 years in prison, declining DOJ request of no prison time.
EXCLUSIVE: It's a ‘Dawson’s Creek’ reunion! Katie Holmes is set to write, direct, and star in ‘Happy Hours,’ a new feature film trilogy co-starring Joshua Jackson, Deadline has learned. ‘Happy Hours’ is described as a story about two people (Jackson & Holmes) navigating their…
For more than 50 years, Sesame Workshop has been proud to partner with PBS to bring learning and joy to children across America. Generations of children have benefitted from the public investment that has enabled PBS to do such important work, and the need remains. PBS, we’re so…
A statement from Dr. Martin Luther King's family on the release of the records: "During our father’s lifetime, he was relentlessly targeted by an invasive, predatory, and deeply disturbing disinformation and surveillance campaign orchestrated by J. Edgar Hoover through the FBI"



Tracee Ellis Ross pays tribute to her late "Reed Between the Lines" co-star Malcolm-Jamal Warner




The same FBI that killed him?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration releases thousands of FBI records on Martin Luther King Jr., despite his family's opposition.
Scoop: A WSJ reporter was slated to be part of the travel pool this weekend when Trump travels to Scotland. After the paper's Epstein story last week, the WH booted them from the pool. w/ @iriesentner politico.com/news/2025/07/2…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration releases thousands of FBI records on Martin Luther King Jr., despite his family's opposition.
Twelve-time All-Star Chris Paul has agreed to a deal with the Los Angeles Clippers, CAA's Steven Heumann, Ty Sullivan and Jessica Holtz told ESPN. Paul had multiple suitors, but chose the contending Clippers and their shared history in L.A. for his likely final, 21st NBA season.
LA is suing Airbnb. The city filed a lawsuit alleging that Airbnb illegally raised prices for thousands of properties after January’s devastating fires. Los Angeles claims that the sudden increases violated California’s law against price gouging.
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases whatimreading.net/p/trump-admini…
Bystanders helped civilians evacuate their vehicles during yesterday’s flooding in Maryland:
CRAZY story. An 82-year-old from Chile lost his green card. In June, he went to pick up a new one from @USCIS. While there, he was handcuffed and detained by ICE. An unknown caller then told family she could help, then later said he’d died. But now he’s turned up in Guatemala!
Allentown grandfather’s family was told he died in ICE custody. Then they learned he’s alive — in a hospital in Guatemala, they say trib.al/yYtCqpK