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Watch Stacey Abrams Star in a Super Bowl Ad

Abrams in 2018.John Amis/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic legislative leader who ran a spirited campaign to be Georgia’s governor in 2018, features in a television ad set to run in the state on Super Bowl Sunday. The ad boosts Fair Fight, Abrams’s initiative to…

Trump Has Spent 75 Days of his Presidency at Mar-a-Lago

Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November 2018.Susan Walsh/AP/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump passed Super Bowl weekend at his Mar-a-Lago club and estate in south Florida, pushing the running tally of time he’s spent at the property since his 2017 inauguration to 75 days. The club doubled initiation fees after Trump’s…

The LA Rams Integrated the NFL 73 Years Ago

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Did you know that the NFL desegregated one year before Major League Baseball? I didn’t. Kenny Washington and Woodrow Strode, college football stars who had played at UCLA with Jackie Robinson, were signed by the LA Rams in 1946. Both were past their prime, but…

Trump Says He Plans to Keep US Troops in Iraq

President Donald Trump speaks at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, December 26, 2018.Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he is committed to pulling troops out of Afghanistan and Syria. But in at times rambling remarks to CBS’s Face the Nation, Trump…