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In fact, on Monday, MSNBC beat Fox News in primetime in both total viewership and the key 25-54 advertising demographic. The Rachel Maddow Show, which now only airs on Mondays, defeated Hannity by over 500,000 viewers overall. The 8 p.m. hour, anchored by Will Cain, only pulled in 1.62 million viewer

President Trump floated the idea of withdrawing the U.S. from NATO among his officials several times last year, The New York Times reported late Monday night. Unnamed officials, both current and former, told The Times that Mr. Trump said he didn’t see the point of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and viewed it as a drain on U.S. resources. The complaint came around the time of the last NATO summit in July 2018. The president was very vocal in the days leading up to — and during — the summit about his criticism on NATO burden sharing. He repeatedly called...

Choking game's deadly lure: Some kids cut off own their own oxygen supply for the lightheaded buzz, but the consequences can be deadly By COURTNEY HOLLANDS The Patriot Ledger NORWELL - Brian Moore was halfway through his freshman year at Norwell High School, playing basketball, studying for his driver's license and dating the prettiest girl in the sophomore class. On a day in January, he got together with friends down the street to eat Chinese food and watch the movie ‘‘Anchorman.'' He came home around 7 at night to finish schoolwork and kissed his mom on the cheek as his...

Perhaps I'm overreacting, but a recent phenomenon is starting to get to me. Within the past ten days or so, two perfect strangers have approached me and said I look like John Kerry. I don't do anything to provoke this. I'm just me. It happened again tonight at the mall when I was picking up new eyeglasses. The lab tech, apparently thinking he was Jay Leno, stepped out of the lab in his little smock and said, "Hey, does anybody ever say that you look like John Kerry?" My wife grabbed her sides in laughter (she knows I hate this)....