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At this time’s high tales
Former President Donald Trump handily gained the New Hampshire main, bringing him one step nearer to securing the Republican nomination. Whereas New Hampshire was seen as Nikki Haley’s greatest likelihood to disrupt his momentum, the previous U.N. ambassador instructed supporters final evening that ”this race is much from over.” Learn extra takeaways right here.
- NPR’s Tamara Keith tells Up First from New Hampshire — which Trump gained regardless of its giant share of independents — that Haley wants ”a dramatic shift in Republican voting habits” to knock him down.
- Nevada is the subsequent state to vote, however Haley is already centered on her dwelling state of South Carolina, the place she lags within the polls. NPR’s Ashley Lopez says the state has ”a really completely different model of Republican,” including that GOP voters there aren’t searching for a Trump different.
- NPR crunched the numbers and located that the earliest a presidential candidate has locked up the nomination was John Kerry in February 2004. Try this timeline for particulars.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a main election evening get together in Nashua, N.H., on Tuesday as Vivek Ramaswamy, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Eric Trump watch.
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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a main election evening get together in Nashua, N.H., on Tuesday as Vivek Ramaswamy, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Eric Trump watch.
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President Joe Biden gained the Democratic main as a write-in candidate. His identify wasn’t on the printed poll due to a dispute between the state and nationwide get together over the first calendar. Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., seized the opening to launch a long-shot problem, which prompted the state grassroots marketing campaign to put in writing in Biden’s identify. Phillips positioned second.
The U.S. Training Division tells NPR it is going to repair a math mistake with its Free Utility for Federal Scholar Help (FAFSA) that will have price college students $1.8 billion in federal assist. The issue is the results of a congressionally-mandated overhaul of the shape that did not regulate for inflation.
- The division says it is going to repair it in time for the 2024-2025 college 12 months, however hasn’t specified how. Monetary assist consultants and school directors say it may both attempt to repair it earlier than sending pupil FAFSA knowledge to schools, or ship the improper knowledge for now and promise to replace it later.
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Crystal Hefner’s memoir ”Solely Say Good Issues” describes her years on the Playboy Mansion.
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Crystal Hefner’s memoir ”Solely Say Good Issues” describes her years on the Playboy Mansion.
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This essay was written by Michel Martin. She hosts Morning Version and Up First. She’s beforehand hosted Weekend All Issues Thought-about, the Take into account This Saturday podcast and Inform Me Extra.
I requested my in-house younger grownup focus group if they’d ever heard of Playboy; that is the Gen Z take as instructed to me:
The Woman: Photos of ladies, not porn however provocative pics. Like a joke. Persons are like Playboy bunnies for Halloween.
The Boy: Sizzling ladies being instructed by males what to do. Lingerie. Primarily sizzling ladies. A giant deal again within the day.
A giant deal again within the day is true. The lads’s magazine based by Hugh Hefner was a VERY massive deal within the ’60s and ’70s for the shiny nude centerfolds but additionally, sure, for the long-form reporting, top-notch fiction, vocal assist for liberal causes like LGBTQ+ rights and marijuana legalization. Hefner’s LA dwelling, the Playboy Mansion, was a celeb hotspot. In fact, many individuals noticed the entire scene as sexist and degrading… as a result of, duh.
On one among my first journeys as a reporter, I occurred to be staying close to the flagship Playboy in Chicago, and even now, I bear in mind the modern façade. It is not my factor, however I may see why it was some folks’s factor.
However that is one purpose I used to be interested by studying the brand new memoir by Crystal Harris Hefner, Hefner’s third spouse and now widow. What WAS behind that façade?
Perhaps it will not shock you to know that there actually was ugliness behind that shiny picture, however what fascinated me was why, as late as 2008—a 12 months when girls have been operating for President, operating companies, had gone to the moon, had set Olympic information—was a younger, college-educated girl like Crystal prepared to decorate up as a horny maid to get together on the mansion, get picked out of the group by Hef’s safety guards, starve herself, surgically alter herself, all that… simply to be a part of that crowd?
? Me too.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Margot Robbie as Barbie and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the titular characters in two of the 12 months’s most talked-about films.
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Margot Robbie as Barbie and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the titular characters in two of the 12 months’s most talked-about films.
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- Oppenheimer dominated the Oscar nominations as anticipated, although there have been additionally loads of snubs and surprises.
- The Los Angeles Occasions laid off almost 1 / 4 of its newsroom, simply the newest in a wave of main media layoffs.
- Billy Joel says he’ll launch his first new music in almost twenty years — known as ”Flip the Lights Again On” — in February.
This text was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi. Suzanne Nuyen contributed.