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Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday said, simply and for the first time, that "white nationalists are racists." That remark to reporters marked a reversal from days of controversial comments to the contrary, which had drawn criticism from Democratic leaders and head-scratching from some of Tuberville's Republican colleagues. Earlier on Tuesday, the senator told ABC News that white nationalists shouldn't all be labeled as "racist" while also insisting he opposes racism. Tuberville, a former college football coach first elected in 2020, had been pressed on his stance by ABC's Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott, who asked him, "Can you explain...

“Literally, there were fireworks on our first date,” Chasten Buttigieg said last year. “It was kind of ridiculous, I know, but I was hooked" Pete Buttigieg, then the first-term mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was years away from declaring himself a Democratic candidate for president when he matched on the dating app Hinge with Chasten Glezman, then a master’s student in education living in Chicago. Three years later and they were married, an occasion marked by The New York Times. As Buttigieg, 37, recalls on the newest episode of the podcast LGBTQ&A, available on Tuesday on Luminary, he came across...

During a Wednesday appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, Katie Couric revealed that “a long time ago” she and the New Jersey politician went on a blind date together at a New York Giants game. “Wow, this just in!” she playfully exclaimed as the audience reacted with surprise. “He was really nice,” Couric, 62, said of Booker, 49. “Did we kiss?” she said. “No, we did not kiss.” Still, she had only kind things to say of Booker and Dawson, his newly confirmed girlfriend, whom Couric praised as “very cool” in part thanks to her political activism. “I really like...