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One man’s trip to the most magical place on earth ended with him bloodied, bruised, and behind bars earlier this year after he got wasted and made fun of a woman with Down Syndrome, sparking a bar brawl with her family.

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The March jobs report may have exceeded economists’ expectations, but because some jobs went to migrants, it inevitably became Fox News fodder for Maria Bartiromo and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).

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Morgan Wallen fans took a moment during his Indianapolis concert on Friday to boo Taylor Swift after the singer had a little fun noting his accomplishment in selling out a stadium.

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Days after seven World Central Kitchen humanitarian workers were killed by Israeli troops, chef José Andrés condemned Israel’s war in Gaza as a “war against humanity itself” as he called for an independent investigation into the attack.

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A California man who allegedly set fire to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office was arrested on Sunday, the Department of Justice said in a release.

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During an “exit interview” on Sunday Today with Willie Geist ahead of Sunday night’s series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David shared his best explanation yet for why he’s ending his iconic HBO series after 12 seasons and nearly 25 years.

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Prince Andrew and a very lucky dog

The day after the release of Netflix drama Scoop, a much-hyped adaptation of how BBC Newsnight secured its newsmaking 2019 Prince Andrew interview, the Sun reports that Andrew almost found himself at the heart of another headline-making incident. The paper said that the prince almost accidentally knocked over a small black dog that ran in front of his Range Rover on Windsor’s Long Walk on Saturday. The dog had run in front of the vehicle with Andrew oblivious to its presence.

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Ever since a mysterious white substance later confirmed to be cocaine was found in the White House in July 2023, Donald Trump has been full of theories of how it got there and who it belonged to—and relishes every chance he has gotten to share those assumptions.

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Inducting a new member into the Saturday Night Live Five-Timers Club—an unofficial collection of celebrities who have hosted the show five or more times—is typically a momentous occasion. But former SNL cast member, and current star of the new Apple TV+ miniseries Palm Royale, Kristen Wiig might have just experienced the most star-studded induction ceremony of anyone who came before her.

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It wasn’t so long ago that the House Freedom Caucus was known, essentially, as a loyalist organization for Donald Trump.

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Justin Peck knows the campfire at the center of his Broadway dance-led show Illinoise (St. James Theatre, April 24 to Aug. 10) very well indeed. It doesn’t just warm the hands of the characters, and encourage the telling of stories, including the tale of love and tragedy related by lead character Henry (Ricky Ubeda)—it also stands for the power of theater that has nourished Peck himself, one of America’s most celebrated living choreographers, since he was a little boy.

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Religious leaders in Boston have rallied together to demand reparations for Black Americans, including a call for $15 billion from city authorities and white churches to help bridge the equity gap and tell a story of enslaved people in the northeast “that is rarely talked about.”

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Netflix’s mind-bending 3 Body Problem is one heck of a ride, and it's only getting started. The series, created by Alexander Woo and Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, follows a group of scientists who get entangled with the San-Ti, an alien race headed for Earth. That’s an extremely simplified way to summarize the series, which deals with some seriously complicated ideas, including the titular three-body problem—one... 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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A charity tied to effective altruism—a movement that preaches doing the most good with as much money as you can get—has listed a $20 million mansion for sale, just months after being ordered to return a $26.8 million donation to victims of incarcerated crypto-criminal Sam Bankman-Fried. The sale, first reported by The Telegraph, comes as the group’s British arm, Effective Ventures UK, is shutting down amid an investigation by a government charity commission. Читать дальше...

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Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, ID's four-part docuseries about the abuse suffered by various Nickelodeon employees during the reign of mega-producer Dan Schneider—including Drake & Josh star Drake Bell, who revealed his own horror story involving pedophile staffer Brian Peck—painted an ugly picture of a toxic culture and the wreckage it caused in the lives of both children and adults.

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Patricia Highsmith’s classic 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been made into two sterling films: 1960’s Purple Noon starring Alain Delon, and 1999’s The Talented Mr. Ripley headlined by Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Nonetheless, Netflix’s new Ripley stands head and shoulders above its predecessors (and most modern TV offerings) as an adaptation par excellence.

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eA former Massachusetts city councilor who fled to Russia and joined the military there as he was due to stand trial in the U.S. on child pornography charges says he hopes to gain Russian citizenship.

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University of South Carolina’s star women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley lent her support to trans women in sports on Saturday, giving a direct answer at a press conference that left no uncertainty to her position.

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Activist Greta Thunberg, 21, was detained at a Saturday climate demonstration in The Hague, where she and the other protesters planned to block the intercity A12 motorway.

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A New York University student who was suspended for tearing down pro-Israel posters on campus is suing the school for allegedly unfairly sanctioning her, according to a complaint filed April 5 by the student’s lawyer.