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Former President Donald Trump was handed a staggering defeat on Friday when New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur F. Engoron issued a 92-page order barring him from “serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years,” forbidding his two adult sons from doing so for two years, and fining the lot of them more than $364 million for engaging in “repeated and persistent” financial fraud.

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It’s not often The Traitors fans are this devastated to see a Traitor go home. For weeks, Survivor legend Parvati Shallow has ruled the screen alongside her fellow mistress of murder, Real Housewives of Atlanta alum Phaedra Parks. Parvati started out the game as a Faithful, but after her recruitment to the dark side of the castle, she went into full villain mode, donning her “predatory headbands” and sizing everyone up with her icy stare. Has anyone in reality... Читать дальше...

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North Carolina health officials ordered the removal of all children from a nature therapy program in the Appalachian Mountains on Friday, nearly two weeks after a pre-teen suspiciously died there less than 24 hours after he arrived.

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Donald Trump’s wealth was decimated on Friday when a New York judge ordered him and his lieutenants to pay more than $372 million for engaging in bank fraud, simultaneously yanking away the family’s control of his eponymous real estate company.

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When 35-year-old Bärbel Gansau was murdered in her sleep in June 1978, police were stumped.

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Snoop Dogg announced his brother’s death on Friday through a series of posts dedicated to the late Bing Worthington’s memory.

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He didn’t have to go. In August 2020, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny had been poisoned, probably at the direction of Russian president Vladimir Putin, who saw in Navalny one of the vanishingly few legitimate threats to his reign.

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Paramore has declined a Tennessee resolution celebrating the band for their recent Grammy wins after the state’s GOP-led House of Representatives snubbed fellow winner Allison Russell.

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Two teenagers were criminally charged in Kansas City on Friday in connection to the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade that killed a beloved local DJ and injured two dozen others this week.

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There’s a reason that Jennifer Lopez said that “everybody thought [she] was crazy” for making her $20 million musical fantasia/”cinematic odyssey” This Is Me…Now: A Love Story. The film was released on Prime Video on Valentine’s Day, and, now that we’ve seen it we can confirm it was one of the most bizarre and indulgent pop-star vanity projects I can remember watching. That is also why it’s so good—and, in different ways, both a refreshing departure for J. Lo and completely on-brand. Читать дальше...

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OpenAI teased a text-to-video AI generator that’s capable of creating incredibly detailed and realistic videos based off of text prompts on Thursday. The model, called Sora, can create videos up to 60 seconds long and is currently being tested with OpenAI’s risk assessment team along with “a number of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers” before an eventual launch to the wider public, according to the announcement.

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Ohio police found a body they believe to be that of missing 5-year-old foster child Darnell Taylor, ending a search and Amber Alert issued two days earlier in tragedy.

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ father testified Friday that there was nothing strange about his daughter keeping cash on hand and using it to pay back special prosecutor Nathan Wade for their vacations.

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A few days after she alluded to Native American “misrepresentation” at the Super Bowl, Lily Gladstone has doubled down on her criticism of the Kansas City Chiefs.

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After months of flirting with a potential third party presidential campaign in 2024, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced on Friday he will not run for the White House, a move that will relieve fellow Democrats who saw the senator as a guaranteed spoiler candidate.

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis found herself in an unusual position this week: inside a courtroom witness box.

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Alexei Navalny’s wife said on Friday she did not know whether to believe the “awful” news of her husband's death, if only because Vladimir Putin and his government were “always lying.”

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Taylor Swift on Friday donated $100,000 to a fundraiser for the grieving family of Lisa Lopez-Galvan, the Kansas City radio DJ killed in a shooting at a parade to celebrate the Chiefs’ Super Bowl win this week.

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The House committee investigating alleged antisemitism at elite universities will subpoena Harvard University for documents relating to its handling of campus speech.

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Donald Trump railed against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Thursday after she testified in a misconduct hearing which could see her kicked off the election interference case she brought against the former president.

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A pastor famed for helping people escape North Korea was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday for sexually abusing teenage defectors in his care.

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Friends of the royals reacted with fury today after Prince Harry used an interview on ABC’s Good Morning America to discuss his father King Charles’ cancer diagnosis, and agreed with an interviewer’s suggestion that it could have a “reunifying” effect on the family.

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Alexei Navalny’s long struggle against President Putin began with a humorous blog and culminated in repeated demonstrations of his willingness to risk his own life. According to the Russian authorities on Friday, he has now died in prison.

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One-time “Twitter Files” journalist Matt Taibbi stepped up his feud with Elon Musk Thursday by sharing screenshots of a conversation they’d had in which the billionaire told him frankly: “You are dead to me.”

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When ABC News reported on Wednesday that the House Ethics Committee had acquired text messages between a young woman involved in the sex trafficking investigation and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a Gaetz spokesperson told ABC that the congressman “does not know anything about the woman you’re referencing.”