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Trump administration intensifies legal challenges four days before the midterms

The shorter the countdown until the midterms, the more aggressive the Donald Trump administration gets in its election-related legal challenges. On Thursday, the federal government stepped up its offensive in an effort to show that thousands of people without the right to vote are planning to participate in upcoming elections in California, Washington and other states. It has also scrutinized Mary Peltola, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Alaska after The New York Times reported that Peltola’s team maneuvered to recruit a third candidate with the same name as her Republican rival in an effort to split the Republican vote in the state’s election.

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Mary Peltola in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 18.
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David Schulner, screenwriter: ‘One vote prevented Trump from destroying the safety net of health care for the whole country. That’s when I saw how fragile our system is’

David Schulner, creator of the series 'New Amsterdam', at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital complex in Barcelona.

The screenwriter David Schulner, 52, walks the corridors of Vall d’Hebron hospital in Barcelona imagining plots for an episode he will never shoot. New Amsterdam ended in 2023, but every time he steps into a hospital he feels like he’s back on set because the series was filmed in real New York hospitals. And he thinks about “things we could have done better, and things that the science has changed,” he says in a room at the Barcelona public hospital complex. He speaks a few hours before giving a talk on how to use reality in medical fiction at the third International Congress on Health Communication.

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Schulner, photographed at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital complex in Barcelona.Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin in 'New Amsterdam'.
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Patrick Stewart dies: The iconic actor’s career in pictures

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Patrick Stewart with 'Blackie' in a production of Shakespeare's 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona', in December 1970. Trained in Shakespearean theater, at first he did not receive a very warm welcome in the television industry, precisely because of that classical background.

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Patrick Stewart and his wife Sheila Falconer in California in January 1988. Stewart was married three times. His first marriage, to Sheila, lasted from 1966 to 1990 and they had two children, Daniel and Sophia. Between 2000 and 2003 he was married to Wendy Neuss. His last wife was the singer Sunny Ozell.

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Patrick Stewart in a promotional photo for 'Star Trek' in L.A. in April 1990. For 176 episodes, between 1987 and 1994, he embodied Captain Jean-Luc Picard, a role that turned him into one of the most popular and beloved television actors for decades.

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Patrick Stewart and William Shatner during an event to commemorate 'Star Trek' in Los Angeles in 1991. At first, very few people believed that Stewart could successfully take over from Shatner as the captain of the USS Enterprise.

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Patrick Stewart getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in December 1996. It was not his only accolade: in 2001 he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, and was knighted by her in 2010.

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Patrick Stewart and Stan Lee at the premiere of 'X-Men' in New York in the year 2000. For over a quarter of a century he had been playing Professor Charles Xavier in Marvel's X-Men saga. He plays the role in the upcoming 'Avengers: Doomsday' (2026).

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Patrick Stewart on the set of 'Star Trek: Nemesis'. The role of Captain Picard in the television series brought him fame and fortune, and led to several movies and videogames based on it.

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Hugh Jakcman, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in Cannes, in 2006, for the premiere of 'X-Men The Last Stand'.

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Patrick Stewart and his last wife, Sunny Ozell, in California in 2024.
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