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In a rare sight of intense emotion, Nikki Haley fought back tears as she spoke about her husband’s deployment during a campaign speech in South Carolina on Tuesday afternoon.

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A bankruptcy judge ruled on Tuesday that to appeal the $148 million ruling in his recent defamation case, Rudy Giuliani must acquire third-party funding that’s approved by the court.

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Tom Sandoval, the villain at the center of last year’s Vanderpump Rules cheating scandal, is doubling down on the victim narrative he’s been peddling ever since he was caught stepping out on his girlfriend of a decade, Ariana Madix, with co-star Rachel Leviss.

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The litigious wrath of Taylor Swift is well-documented and much-feared in the industry, but Jack Sweeney, a college student with a passion for publicly documenting private jet journeys taken by the rich and famous, is pushing back against the pop star. On Monday, Sweeney announced on X that he had sent a dismissive reply to Katie Wright Morrone, Swift’s attorney, in response to a cease and desist letter Morrone sent that demanded that Sweeney stop posting Swift’s jet journeys online.

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A man suspected in a recent murder at a New York City hotel has been arrested in Arizona after allegedly stabbing two women.

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Boy Meets World stars Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, and Will Friedle used the latest episode of their rewatch podcast to address their experiences with convicted sexual abuser Brian Peck.

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Mommy vlogger Ruby Franke was sentenced to four consecutive one- to 15-year prison terms in her child abuse case on Tuesday.

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The Bachelor hasn’t seen someone like Maria Georgas in years. The 29-year-old executive assistant from Ontario, Canada is the kind of contestant who keeps us all on our toes: One minute, she’s making fun of our leading man Joey Graziadei’s taste in movies, and the next she’s “slipping into something more comfortable” in a group date. This week, she even managed to playfully trick him into saying “I love you” in French. On top of all this, she’s been front-and-center all season... Читать дальше...

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Much like its characters, Jon Gunn’s Ordinary Angels overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds. Written by actress Meg Tilly (Agnes of God) and filmmaker Kelly Fremon Craig (Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret), the movie evolves, in real time, from a mechanical, saccharine drama by a faith-based studio to a rousing tale of altruism and neighborly good will whose disparate pieces are glued together by a supremely dialed-in cast led by Reacher’s Alan Ritchson.

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Despite the backlash over his All-Star weekend comments about New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu, NBA analyst Kenny Smith said he was actually “advocating” for the WNBA player and that the controversy was “much ado about nothing.”

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear another case about race and education, rejecting a challenge brought against a Virginia public school’s admissions policy designed to encourage diversity among its students.

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The 25-year-old man arrested in the murders of two people in a University of Colorado-Colorado Springs dorm room was the roommate of one of the victims, authorities say.

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Prince William made an unprecedented royal intervention into international affairs Tuesday, as he waded into the Gaza conflict by issuing a statement calling for an end to the war.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday did not attend the opening of what may be his final U.K. legal effort to stop his extradition to the U.S. to face spying charges, with his lawyer saying he was unable to attend for health reasons.

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The widow of Putin foe Alexei Navalny was temporarily booted from X shortly after using the platform to vow to continue her husband’s fight against Vladimir Putin.

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A zookeeper at a university in Nigeria was killed by a lion he was feeding on Monday afternoon, the college said in a statement.

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Russia’s Vladimir Putin promoted a top prison official accused of tormenting Alexei Navalny behind bars just three days after the Kremlin foe died in prison.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin gifted a car to his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un over the weekend, state media reported Tuesday, the latest goodwill gesture amid deepening ties between their regimes.

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First came the internal grumbling about Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.

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When Saturday Night Live introduces host Shane Gillis—the comedian who was hired and quickly fired from the cast in 2019 over his history of racist, homophobic, and transphobic comments—on Feb. 24, some viewers will inevitably find their way back to his podcast. Those who keep listening will eventually meet Bill McCusker, the brother of Gillis’ co-host Matt McCusker, and Andrew Pacella, their longtime friend. The two have appeared nearly 20 times since 2019 on Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast... Читать дальше...

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As a leading Republican candidate for the highly competitive U.S. Senate race in Ohio, Bernie Moreno has leaned on his personal story as an immigrant from Colombia who built a national auto dealership empire.

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Listen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.

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If there were ever a series that could afford to take a massive swing in its finale, it’s True Detective: Night Country. After all, the fourth season of HBO’s True Detective series’ central mystery involved a group of scientists that were all killed at the same time, their frozen bodies discovered together in the tundra. And those same scientists remained frozen, their giant ice block kept cool in the town’s community center. They called it a “corpsicle!” That’s wild in the best way—absurd, eerie, and spine-chilling. Читать дальше...

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Fresh off the success of its One Piece adaptation, Netflix’s next cartoon-to-live-action series is Avatar: The Last Airbender, based upon the Nickelodeon cartoon that began airing in 2005. Beloved by fans for nearly 20 years, the adventures of Aang, a being known as the Avatar, and his friends have continued to be influential, spawning a sequel, comics, and even a (widely panned) movie adaptation.

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There are roughly 47,000—oh, wait, a new Netflix Original just dropped; make that 47,001—TV shows and movies coming out each week. At Obsessed, we consider it our social duty to help you see the best and skip the rest.