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Republicans pay the price for Trump’s wall crusade:

Republicans might be resorting a lot more often to prayer — the new strategy several senators have adopted for dealing with their capricious President — because of the forces unleashed by the latest fraught moment of the Trump era.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did manage to avert the political disaster of a new government shutdown by securing a pledge Thursday that President Donald Trump will sign a federal funding bill that lacks money for his wall.
But he may be paying the price for years to come.

That’s because the President’s response to a futile effort to squeeze lawmakers for wall funding is to obliterate a constitutional guardrail in a way that could fundamentally alter the power balance between the presidency and Congress.

CNN has seen tape Avenatti says shows R. Kelly having sex with underage girl:

Prosecutors investigating R. Kelly are looking into a newly surfaced video featuring the R&B superstar, lawyer Michael Avenatti told CNN.

CNN has seen the VHS tape that appears to show Kelly having sex with a girl who refers to her body parts as 14 years old. Avenatti, who is representing a man he calls a whistleblower against Kelly, says he handed the tape to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Chicago last weekend.
“My client knows the identity of the girl and R. Kelly. He identified the two of them on the videotape. He worked for and has known R. Kelly for decades and he met the girl on a number of occasions,” Avenatti said.

Holy cabbage! Australian couple grows giant vegetable:

An Australian couple staved off pests for more than nine months to grow a giant cabbage almost as big as a person.

Rosemary Norwood and her husband, Sean Cadman, who live in the Tasmanian valley of Jackeys Marsh, began growing the giant vegetable in April last year at their eco-tourism guesthouse.

Regina King aims to give us all the feels:

In one way, we all owe thanks to Sally Field for the wonder that is Regina King.

You see, it was Field’s work in “Sybil” and “Norma Rae” that started King on a path toward acting.
King remembers watching Field in those two projects and thinking that the roles, so vastly different, didn’t even feel like they were being played by the same person. But they were one magical performer.
“She made you laugh. She made you cry. She was sexy, she was charming,” King says. “I felt so many emotions watching both of those movies, and I just was like, ‘I want to make people feel like that.'”

5-Star Recruit Jalen Johnson Taunted by Students with Photo Resembling Blackface:

Jalen Johnson is one of the country’s most highly regarded high school basketball players, but he was reportedly subjected to taunts Wednesday night by an opposing student section, which distributed a picture that resembled his wearing blackface.

Mark Stewart of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (h/t USA Today) reported the news, noting it occurred when Johnson’s Nicolet High School defeated Port Washington 75-40 in a game in Port Washington, Wisconsin.

Students from Port Washington distributed a picture of Johnson wearing a skin care mask that resembled blackface and displayed them behind the basket during free throws.

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