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WASHINGTON —  Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison after a landmark verdict convicting him of spearheading a weeks-long plot to keep former President Trump in power, which culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Rhodes was sentenced in a federal courthouse in Washington that sits less than a mile from the Capitol. He is the first Jan. 6 defendant convicted of seditious conspiracy to receive his punishment, which will set the standard for a slew of…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Life Eating & Drinking Culture Books Make Deb Perelman's recipes for carrot tarte Tatin, toasted ricotta gnocchi with pistachio pesto and ginger garlic chicken noodle soup Get the latest from Laura Brehaut straight to your inbox Sign Up Clockwise from top left: carrot tarte Tatin, ginger garlic chicken noodle soup and toasted ricotta gnocchi with pistachio pesto. PHOTOS BY DEB PERELMAN Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Life Eating & Drinking Culture Books 'I am forever trying to populate my forever files when I cook, where I'm not just making a roast chicken. I want to know if this is the roast chicken recipe I'm going to be making' Get the latest from Laura Brehaut straight to your inbox Sign Up Deb Perelman is a New York City-based home cook, photographer and creator of the acclaimed blog, Smitten Kitchen. PHOTOS BY CHRISTINE HAN, LEFT, AND DEB PERELMAN Reviews…

The final countdown has begun for leap seconds. A global group of scientists and government officials voted (almost unanimously) Friday to axe the small time adjustment method, in a change scheduled to take place by 2035.Leap seconds have been used since 1972, and over the past 50 years have caused big headaches for the tech industry. Now, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures has formally agreed with the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, that it’s time for the practice to end. In a resolution at the bureau’s 27th…

In Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, there is the One Ring of Power, forged by the Dark Lord Sauron, but it was not the only ring of power. There were 20 rings of power created during the Second Age of Middle Earth, as it was Sauron’s intent to manipulate and wield control through these rings, seducing the wearers to evil. The poem written by Tolkien about the rings goes like this, “Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,One for…