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One’s life doesn’t start until they hear “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” the runaway hit power ballad from Welsh rock icon Bonnie Tyler, who died Wednesday at the age of 75 following complications with treatment for a perforated intestine. Countless karaoke nights and rainy drives have been scored to Tyler’s inimitable song, so much so that the opening piano notes of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” might precede Tyler’s substantial legacy.

Nature abhors a vacuum, but it’s got nothing on celebrity media, which has spent the last year buzzing with rumor, speculation, and snark about the closest thing to a royal wedding in the United States since JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. Now that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding day has come and gone, onlookers around the globe — fans and haters alike — are contending with a possibility they don’t seem to have prepared for: a near-complete lack of confirmed facts.

Joe Mitchell, a Republican running for Congress in Iowa, has made opposing lobbyists and political insiders a cornerstone of his campaign — despite a history of hiring lobbyists to advance his interests.

HOUSTON — A diverse crowd gathered Wednesday evening with a sense of anger mixed with grief for a vigil honoring Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent, where they demanded justice and that the agency leave the city. Hundreds of people flooded the residential street where the 52-year-old was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent a day before during an unspecified “targeted enforcement operation” in the predominantly Latino neighborhood in the city’s east side.

Graham Platner has mercifully concluded his time was up on Wednesday evening. In an 11-minute video, Maine’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate dropped out of the race even as he continued to forcefully deny a serious and credible allegation of rape from a former girlfriend reported Monday by POLITICO. He also displayed an unsurprising lack of awareness and accountability by casting blame on the “political establishment” for his campaign’s implosion.

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During Donald Trump’s three presidential campaigns, and throughout his first term in office, he was the darling of the National Rifle Association. On the campaign trail, he would pantomime pulling out a six-gun, telling the crowd he had a concealed carry permit and was willing to use it. Each year, Trump would show up at the NRA’s annual convention to be feted like a god by an ecstatic crowd of jubilant supporters.

Growing up in Brown County, Ohio, Karley Baurichter learned to appreciate the land her family descended from. Her grandfather, whom she affectionately called “Papaw,” would take her to nearby paylakes and teach her how to catch and clean fish.

Birthright citizenship recently survived a Supreme Court challenge. Issued just days before the nation celebrated its 250th birthday, the ruling was something to celebrate. But pro-democracy Americans should not be lulled into triumphalism. The threat to the 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship by birthright, is far from over, both from this Supreme Court and from Donald Trump.

Most Americans don’t look to their 401(k) plans for excitement or experimentation, instead relying on the promise that steady saving and sober planning will guarantee security in their golden years. But the Trump administration wants to transform the well-worn patterns of retirement investing. To do so, it is moving to weaken the main protection workers have over their retirement money.