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I had very little interest in watching the Super Bowl, as someone who pays extra for ad-free streaming experiences, has a perpetually divided attention span, and doesn’t eat meat or dips. But Nickelodeon—and SpongeBob SquarePants—had other plans for me. For the first time ever, the kids cable network simulcasted the biggest sports game of the year, alongside its network parent channel, CBS. (This was also only the second time ever that the Super Bowl aired on two channels at once.) And with it came an appropriately silly... Читать дальше...

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Court records revealed Monday that the woman allegedly behind a shooting at Joel Osteen’s megachurch in Houston was Genesse Moreno, a 36-year-old who had a string of previous arrests that included assault, drug, and weapons charges.

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Last fall, when Jon Stewart’s relationship with Apple TV+ came to an abrupt end, The New York Times reported that it was the tech company’s concerns over potential coverage of China and artificial intelligence that ultimately killed his short-lived streaming show The Problem With Jon Stewart.

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Last night, the Kansas City Chiefs pulled off a narrow victory over the San Francisco 49ers to clinch their second consecutive Super Bowl win as Taylor Swift, surrounded by fellow celebrity friends, cheered jubilantly for her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, from the sidelines. The viewership numbers will almost certainly reflect that a new record-setting amount of people tuned in to watch America’s star couple do their respective things, representing just the latest summit in Swift’s career. Читать дальше...

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Monty Python legend Eric Idle has revealed that he’s still working at 80 because of financial reasons, using an extraordinarily candid series of public remarks to criticize streaming services and even his former comedic colleagues.

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The Australian politician who famously threatened to euthanize Johnny Depp’s pet dogs faces calls for his resignation after being filmed lying drunk in the street while talking on his cellphone.

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A soccer player died after being struck by lightning during a game in Indonesia over the weekend, reports say.

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A group of people in San Francisco’s Chinatown completely destroyed a Waymo driverless car on Saturday, smashing its windows before setting it on fire with a firework, authorities said.

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A woman who disappeared after setting out alone on a hike on Mount Baldy has been found dead, authorities said, ending a weeklong search-and-rescue effort hampered by dangerous weather conditions.

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An American woman was killed in Mexico on Friday night when she was hit by gunfire that erupted in a beach club in the resort of Tulum, officials said, in what is believed to have been a dispute between drug dealers.

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Faced with a federal judge in the Donald Trump Mar-a-Lago classified documents case who keeps making bizarre rulings clearly favoring the man who appointed her, federal prosecutors have resorted to citing case law that Aileen Cannon should know for one major reason: She worked on it herself.

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Jim Mordecai was a star football player, a high school teacher, a Future Farmers of America bigwig, a landscape architect, and a respected and well-liked presence in his Bay Area community. He was also a tyrannical husband and father who sexually assaulted young girls (including his stepdaughters), manipulated and tortured relatives, and tore his multiple families apart.

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Dakota Johnson might not come across as the most obvious choice to helm a major studio blockbuster. Even with her track record of starring in the juggernaut Fifty Shades franchise, Johnson, with her vaguely above-it-all demeanor and pointed sense of humor, comes across as the sort of person who doesn’t take anything too seriously.

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“Ceasefire now!,” demand left-wing critics of Biden administration policy towards the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. But what, exactly, does that mean?

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With their new documentary The Space Race (premiering on National Geographic Feb. 12 and streaming on Disney+ and Hulu Feb. 13), directors Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and Lisa Cortés have a specific, admirable goal: to spotlight the under-discussed stories of Black astronauts during the height of NASA’s space program.

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Editor’s note: This story has been edited to remove the word “allegedly” in reference to the abduction of Fernando Simon Marman and Louis Har by Hamas militants.

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Of all things to send the Beyhive into overdrive, a Verizon Super Bowl commercial has to be one of the most unexpected.

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“You are going to survive.”

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It was always a fool’s errand to discount the talent and power of Usher leading up to the R&B icon’s Super Bowl LVIII halftime show. Sure, you could argue that the height of the crooner’s success came two decades ago, despite his several hits in the years since. But after the rollicking display of jaw-dropping showmanship and sex-on-legs charisma that he brought to the world’s biggest stage, there is no denying that Usher has been—and always will be—a certified hitmaker. Читать дальше...

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2024 presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized just hours after a vintage ad promoting his campaign aired during Sunday’s Super Bowl LVIII, prompting an angry response from at least one other member of the clan.

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Democrats are in need of a reality check. The stakes are too high for us to indulge in the kind of denial, self-deception, and illusions that are a too-common reaction to many of the biggest challenges we face as a party and a country. Indeed, reality is our greatest strength and our best defense. Only failing to acknowledge it can undo us.

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Men’s marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum died alongside his coach after a car accident in his home country of Kenya on Sunday, officials confirmed. Kiptum was 24.

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The Kansas City Chiefs are Super Bowl LVIII champions, and Taylor Swift can hardly contain her excitement.

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was admitted into the critical care unit at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Sunday “for supportive care and close monitoring,” officials said Sunday night.