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It’s not yet noon in Portland when Natalie Morales repairs to a modest Airbnb and plops on to a couch next to a deep-slumbering lap hound named Taco, a very good dog. Morales is filming a feature about veterans with PTSD that’s only pressing on through the writers’ strike because it’s an independent film. Its small budget and tight schedule has Morales on call six days a week. But intense work schedules are nothing new for the 38-year-old multi-hyphenate dark comedy queen, whose deadpan acting credits run from Parks and…

Scientists told AFP that Heartland Institute's book for school teachers is packed with misleading claims that poke holes in established climate science. From crops to corals, a book circulated by a controversial US think tank is riddled with misleading claims about established climate science, in what campaigners slam as a bid to "infect" young minds. …

SACRAMENTO —  Mike Lindell — chief executive of MyPillow and a prominent pro-Trump election denier — is excited about what’s going on in Shasta County.Swept up in unproven voter fraud claims, the hard-right majority on the rural Northern California county’s Board of Supervisors has canceled its contract with Dominion Voting Systems and is considering requiring votes to be counted by hand. “Every county should do that,” Lindell told Times reporter Jessica Garrison in an interview. “I think that’s great that they’re…

WASHINGTON—Trans-Atlantic ties are starting to fray as French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders chafe at new U.S. policies they say compound economic woes fueled by the war in Ukraine and the resulting energy crisis.Russia’s war in Ukraine has reinvigorated the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and ignited a boom in trade and investment between the U.S. and Europe. But after nearly a year of unity as the U.S. and its allies confronted the fallout from Russian President…