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The English actress Glynis Johns, who played the suffragette mother Mrs. Banks in the Disney classic Mary Poppins in 1964, died Thursday at 100 years old, her manager confirmed to multiple media outlets.

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Another Star Wars project has been announced, a movie to be directed by the Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and focused on sequel trilogy protagonist Rey (Daisy Ridley). With it comes another round of apoplectic rage from the usual suspects.

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The son of legendary music artists John Lennon and Yoko Ono joined the fray of the ongoing diversity, equity, and inclusion discourse following the resignation of former Harvard President Claudine Gay, in a Wednesday afternoon post on X, formerly Twitter, writing, “Have you guys heard of DEI? It stands for ‘Dumb Evil Idiots.’”

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One week before Netflix debuted Dave Chappelle’s incendiary comedy special The Closer—in which the comedian defended rapper DaBaby’s homophobic rant and backed J.K. Rowling amid controversy over her anti-trans remarks—former Netflix staffer B. Pagels-Minor recalls that they started to receive distressing messages from colleagues.

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Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie made his annoyance with Hugh Hewitt crystal clear during a contentious Thursday morning clash, telling the conservative radio host that this was the least “substantive” interview he’s ever done.

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House Democrats on the Oversight Committee released documents Thursday showing that Donald Trump’s businesses received at least $7.8 million from 20 foreign governments while he was president.

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Well, it’s official—Shia LaBeouf is a Catholic now. More than a year after the actor professed his love for The Latin Mass, inspired by his role as an Italian priest in Padre Pio, he’s been received into the Church and is even mulling the possibility of becoming a deacon.

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Five Illinois voters have formally called on the state Board of Elections to bar Donald Trump from the ballot in the state’s primary election on March 19 and the general election on Nov. 5, becoming the 34th state to challenge his candidacy.

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Vili Fualaau, the ex-husband of Mary Kay Letourneau, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for raping Fualaau when he was 12 and she was 34, is speaking out against the new film May December. Fualaau’s life story—he fathered two children with, and later married, Letourneau, his former sixth grade teacher—was specifically cited by the filmmakers as inspiration.

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In the wake of Claudine Gay’s resignation as president of Harvard, billionaire investor Bill Ackman posted a 4,000-word essay to his X account railing against diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and suggesting that Gay was hired for the job because she had advanced that line of thinking.

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When you think of hypnosis, you’ll likely conjure up images of strange men with twirly mustaches dangling a pocket watch in front of your eyes while they drone, “You’re getting sleepy… very sleepy.” Contrary to popular belief, though, hypnosis is much more than that.

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On Thursday morning, we all woke up to see two phrases trending. “Jeremy Allen White” and “Calvin Klein” were at the top of my search bar on X (formerly known as Twitter), meaning only one thing could be possible: A hot, possibly lewd set of photos of The Iron Claw star had dropped in the wee hours of the morning, our first foxy favor of 2024.

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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says Donald Trump needs to pick someone who “tells him the truth” as his 2024 running mate—someone just like her.

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A U.S. airstrike in central Baghdad killed the commander of an Iran-backed militia Thursday, potentially escalating tensions in the region amid rising fears of Israel’s war against Hamas spiraling into a wider international conflict.

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Authorities on Thursday morning responded to reports of a shooting at Perry High School in Iowa, about 25 miles from Des Moines.

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Nicole Scherzinger is set to bring her award-winning performance as Norma Desmond in Jamie Lloyd’s hit London production of Sunset Boulevard to Broadway in 2024.

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Prince Andrew has been accused of participating in an orgy with “numerous” “under-aged girls” at Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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A father and son in Texas have been arrested in connection with the killings of a pregnant teenager and her boyfriend who were found shot dead in a car, police said Wednesday night.

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With just two weeks to go before Donald Trump enters Round 2 of his civil rape trial against journalist E. Jean Carroll, the former president’s lawyers are grasping at straws—and getting repeatedly slapped down by an increasingly impatient federal judge.

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Chief Justice John Roberts issued his 2023 year-end report for a year in which the U.S. Supreme Court suffered a historic loss in credibility caused by reveals of undisclosed benefits given to the justices—in the case of Justice Clarence Thomas, the value likely in the millions—and the thoughtless glee with which the newly empowered conservative majority overturned precedents to further a Federalist Society agenda.

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Director J.A. Bayona is drawn to calamities and the unimaginable fortitude—and providence—required to survive them, and 11 years after he tackled those subjects with 2012’s The Impossible (and then, in far more fantastical terms, with 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), he revisits them with Society of the Snow, a dramatized account of the 1972 Andes flight disaster. Though now an oft-told tale (including by 1993’s Alive), Bayona’s latest feature finds new measures of beauty and horror amidst its wreckage... Читать дальше...

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Not 20 minutes into Good Grief, the feature-length directorial debut from Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy (streaming on Netflix Jan. 5), the actor—who also wrote and stars in the film—tees up the first of several soft-spoken meditations on loss. “I’ve been reading that the brain is like a muscle,” Levy’s character, Marc, says about the recent death of his husband. “That’s why getting over a death is so hard: because your brain has been trained to feel things for a person. And when they go away... Читать дальше...

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Dionne Warwick batted down a report that she intends to grace a fundraiser for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with her presence later this month, calling it “absolutely ridiculous.”