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Monti Rock III, Gleefully Untalented ‘Tonight Show’ Favorite, Dies at 86

He couldn’t sing, dance or tell funny stories. But Johnny Carson loved him and his persona: a D-list star clinging to celebrity.

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Monti Rock III in 1975. He was a flamboyant dresser, a transparently gay man in the subversive style known as camp in the mid-60s.
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Epstein’s Remote Zorro Ranch Is Searched by New Mexico Investigators

Some of the disgraced financier’s victims have said they were trafficked at the property south of Santa Fe, where the nearest neighbors are miles away.

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Lawmakers voted to impanel a bipartisan four-member “truth commission” with subpoena power to investigate Zorro Ranch.
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Lawmakers Pressure Hochul to Raise Taxes in New York

The State Assembly and Senate are each calling for the state to raise taxes, piggybacking on a push by Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani have become allies, but she has resisted his calls to raise taxes on the rich.
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Oil Prices Will Remain High as Iran War Continues

While officials look for ways to ease oil shocks, experts say higher prices will likely persist until traffic through the Strait of Hormuz returns.

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Black smoke filled the skies above Tehran on Sunday morning after Israeli airstrikes struck energy facilities overnight.
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Iran War Sends Tremors Through the Global Economy

Also, a giant mirror could soon be sent into space. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

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Smoke from an oil storage facility that was struck this weekend billows over Tehran.
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