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They are both the most revered and the most maligned cooks in our culture.

We have found links between the secret network and Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor - sanctioned by the US for "the Kremlin's malign influence operations" and now a fugitive in Moscow.

To be clear, Kimmel did not malign Kirk in any way.

As conservatives lionize Kirk as a warrior for free expression, they’re also weaponizing the tactics they saw being used to malign their movement — calls for firings, ostracism, pressure to watch what you say.

The bestseller is a pack of lies that maligns Jesus and harms Catholicism, a cardinal announces.