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Lights. But we knew where we really were. We were almost home. Oh, enchanted land of my childhood. A cultural petri dish from which regular issues forth greatness. New jersey, in case you didnt know it, has got beaches, beautiful beaches, and theyre not all crawling with roidraging trolls with reality shows. I grew up summering on the beaches, and they are awesome. Jerseys got farmland, beautiful bedroom communities where that woman from real housewives who looks like dr. Zeus does not live, nor...

Russian propaganda is strong. It can convince Russian ex-pats in California that Ukrainians are nationalists and Nazis.

Russian propaganda is strong. It can convince Russian ex-pats in California that Ukrainians are nationalists and Nazis.

Russian propaganda is strong. It can convince Russian ex-pats in California that Ukrainians are nationalists and Nazis.

TAMPA — As a child, Gary Rapoport didn’t question why FBI agents regularly followed his grandfather Meyer Lansky. “We would go for a walk and could see across the street there were two guys,” he said. “We’d go out to eat, and they would come in and sit down. But I never thought anything of it.” It wasn’t until Rapoport, now a 68-year-old Tampa resident, was a teenager that he learned that the ...

For decades, West Hollywood has been known as a hub of the Russian diaspora. But in the months since the Kremlin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, West Hollywood has faced a dilemma: How to celebrate Russian culture when Moscow is leveling Ukraine’s cities?