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In one of several lengthy tangents during a campaign stop in Michigan, former President Donald Trump went on a self-contradictory rant about electric vehicles.

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Kanye West allegedly told students at his embattled Christian private school he wanted to shave their heads and lock them in “cages,” spewed antisemitic rhetoric at staff meetings, and even boasted about using school funds on a multimillion-dollar trip to Paris, a former employee claims in an explosive new lawsuit.

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University of Kentucky dancer Kate Kaufling, 20, has died from a rare bone cancer on Sunday, just months after she shared a video celebrating the end of her chemotherapy treatment.

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A daytime fire at a massive nightclub in central Istanbul left 29 people dead on Tuesday—a tragedy that’s led Turkish authorities to detain eight people, Reuters reported.

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Jackass star Steve-O is coming up on 16 years of sobriety, but not everyone is willing to accommodate him as he abstains—one such person, allegedly, is Bill Maher.

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A top contender for Thailand’s throne—and the $40 billion fortune attached—reached a deal with American Express to pay down tens of thousands of dollars in overdue credit card bills in March, not long after The Daily Beast exposed court proceedings over the debt last month.

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Just hours after a New York judge expanded a gag order to stop Donald Trump from making nasty attacks against his daughter, the ex-president posted a clip to Truth Social on Tuesday in which the Fox News commentator Brian Kilmeade slammed her.

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The Daily Caller has retracted and removed an article falsely accusing the Biden administration of banning religious designs on Easter eggs submitted to a White House art contest.

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Comedic writer and actor Joe Flaherty, who starred in the cult comedy show Freaks and Geeks, died on Monday. He was 82.

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A beloved middle school math teacher was gunned down in front of her children after they were abducted at gunpoint by her estranged husband, who forced them into his rental car in southeast Florida, police said.

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A week after The Daily Wire parted ways with far-right pundit Candace Owens amid her lengthy public feud with the site’s co-founder Ben Shapiro, Megyn Kelly asked Shapiro if the ouster of the MAGA provocateur was proof that his publication is only about free speech “until it comes to Israel.”

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Certain Hollywood stars give the impression of having appeared, out of nowhere, fully formed. But Australian actress Rebel Wilson, whose breakout role in Bridesmaids led to global fame with the Pitch Perfect franchise, meticulously crafted her ascent, honing her skills and her persona while serving as her own best hype woman.

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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has signaled his support for J.K. Rowling’s views opposing a new hate crime law in Scotland, saying people should not face criminal punishments “for stating simple facts on biology.”

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A 22-year-old senior at Pennsylvania’s Bucknell University was found dead at a fraternity house over the weekend, authorities said.

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A pair of companies that own and manage the ship that crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge before its collapse last week are asking a federal judge to limit their legal liability in connection with the disaster, which killed six people and brought chaos to the city’s port.

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A dual U.S.-Canadian citizen was among seven food aid workers killed in an Israeli military strike on a humanitarian convoy in Gaza, the World Central Kitchen said Tuesday.

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A child was killed and two others were seriously injured Tuesday when a student opened fire at a school in southern Finland, local authorities said.

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A federal judge in California ruled against Hunter Biden on Monday, rejecting eight separate motions from the president’s son arguing that the tax charges he’s facing should be thrown out.

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While Donald Trump occasionally rolls out new lines for his rally speeches and interviews based on a hot topic of the day, his rants have largely stayed the same for many years. One topic Trump has brought up at nearly every appearance is his hatred of wind turbines, which he calls “windmills.”

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For nearly a year, two of the loudest members of Congress—Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)—have quietly pursued a First Amendment lawsuit in California, as Politico recently revealed, with essentially no public spectacle, statements, or fundraising solicitations.

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In our current age of decision fatigue, Netflix comedy specials have become one of the streaming giant’s most saturated genres. With virtually (pardon the pun) nothing to distinguish its specials beyond standard titles usually following a [comedian’s name followed by a generic verb/noun] format, it can be difficult to know where to start. Many of us fall into the same trap every time we open Netflix’s comedy page: Watching the latest special from the same mainstream comedians we have been watching for years. Читать дальше...

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

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When it comes to film festivals, Los Angeles seems to be cursed. This doesn’t make a ton of sense, considering Los Angeles is the home of Hollywood. And yet, unlike New York—which hosts the New York Film Festival every fall, along with other fests like Tribeca and DOC NYC—Los Angeles has faced a real festival drought in the past half-decade.

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“What is going on?”

That question pretty much summed up Jon Stewart’s feeling about the media outrage surrounding Donald Trump’s recent—and, yes, ill-advised—decision to post a video to his Truth Social account of a pickup truck with a photo of a hogtied Joe Biden emblazoned across the back.

Tasteless? Sure. Unpresidential? Most definitely. Par for the course for Trump? Absolutely. But what really took The Daily Show host aback was the extreme reaction—or some might say... Читать дальше...

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John Cardoza, an actor starring in the Broadway adaptation of The Notebook, was robbed “at gunpoint” in a Dunkin’ Donuts in New York City on Sunday afternoon—around an hour before he was set to take the stage for a matinee performance.