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A man who jumped to his death from a Royal Caribbean cruise last week was identified by media outlets Wednesday as Levion Parker, a 20-year-old Floridian who regularly posted about hunting and fishing.

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Staffers at The Wall Street Journal were hit by another round of layoffs on Wednesday, multiple sources confirmed to The Daily Beast, with employees on the video and social media desks most impacted.

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Despite the implication of its title, Franklin is not a comprehensive biopic of Benjamin Franklin; rather it’s a narrower drama about his 1776-1785 time in France attempting to secure an alliance to help America triumph in the Revolutionary War. That was, to be certain, a key period in the tale of both the nation and the Founding Father. Nonetheless, Apple TV+’s eight-part series, which premieres Apr. 12, is the dreariest sort of history lesson, as bloated and clunky as it is shallow and suspense-free. Читать дальше...

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The daughters of late congresswoman Bella Abzug allege the documentarian behind a film about the feminist icon is a fraud who duped her and a slew of famous family friends—including Hillary Clinton, Barbra Streisand, Nancy Pelosi, and others—into participating in a project she now disavows as having done “irreparable harm” to her mom’ legacy.

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Arizona Republicans refused to vote on a bill to repeal the state’s extreme abortion ban Wednesday, a day after Republicans—including President Donald Trump—attempted to distance themselves from the decision.

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The Biden administration believes that an Iranian attack on Israel is imminent, according to a Bloomberg report released Wednesday.

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Some of the Abbott Elementary teachers are starting to worry about the kids. Are they on their phones too much? And what are all those weird clapping games they play? The Daily Beast’s Obsessed has your exclusive first look at the latest episode of the ABC sitcom, in which the kids are getting cult-y.

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Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner insisted on Wednesday that she’s never heard Donald Trump peddle an antisemitic trope about Jewish Americans who vote Democrat—just moments after the former president tripled down on an antisemtic trope about Jewish Americans who vote Democrat.

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President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the U.S. is “considering” dropping its years-long attempt to prosecute Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who was central to publishing a trove of classified U.S. military intel starting in 2006.

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Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has worked on hundreds of police brutality cases—representing the families of Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, Tyre Nichols, Ahmaud Arbery, Daunte Wright, and Jacob Blake, winning multimillion-dollar settlements, and earning the nickname of “Black America’s attorney general.”

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The University of Cologne withdrew renowned philosophy scholar’s invitation for a visiting professorship over her support of Palestine, citing the school’s ties to Israel.

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Lunchables, the ready-to-eat plastic trays of lunch meats and cheeses, have some surprise ingredients: plasticizers, carcinogens, and lead.

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Prince William took a tentative step on his return to public life on Wednesday with a social media post praising one of England’s leading soccer players who had announced her retirement from the sport at an international level.

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Travis Kelce has been dating Taylor Swift, the most famous pop star in the world, since at least September of 2023, which means he’s had plenty of time to adjust to his new reality. On the latest episode of his New Heights podcast with brother Jason Kelce, however, Travis joked that he’s still unsure how the relationship even started.

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A Republican politician on Long Island—who just last week held an umbrella over former President Donald Trump’s head at the wake for a slain New York City police officer—has come under fire over a controversial plan to organize what critics contend is essentially a “personal militia.”

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In his first major public appearance since the premiere of ID’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, Drake Bell opened up about “being in the fire” after sharing his story of sexual abuse for the first time.

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A new slander trial against Amanda Knox began in Italy on Wednesday, almost a decade after her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate was tossed out by the country’s highest court.

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Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, was sentenced Wednesday to spend five months in the infamous Rikers Island complex in New York City—the same facility he served time in just months ago.

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The Biden administration on Wednesday unveiled the first-ever national drinking water standard imposing limits on so-called forever chemicals that public water systems will have to implement.

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From split allegiances and fractured lineages to tensions between truths and lies, reality and fantasy, capitalism and communism, and war and peace, dualities run rampant in The Sympathizer, Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar’s seven-part HBO adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 novel. Internal and external tug-of-wars are the order of the day, as are people who’re multiple things at once, and that’s not even referring to the fact that the series co-stars recent Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. Читать дальше...

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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) says she simply “misspoke” when, in a speech to school children this week, she confidently explained that the moon is “made up mostly of gases.”

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The former assistant principal of a Virginia school has been indicted on eight felony counts of child neglect in connection with a high-profile incident last year in which a teacher was shot by a 6-year-old.

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If HBO’s The Last of Us ushered in a new era of standout video game adaptations, Prime Video’s Fallout (April 10) takes that evolution to the next level, so perfectly capturing the look, sound, scope, and spirit of its source material that those familiar with Bethesda Game Studios’ superb role-playing franchise will be over the moon with its every spot-on detail. Neophytes, meanwhile, will get a magnificent introduction to this sprawling... Читать дальше...

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Peter Phillips, Princess Anne’s eldest son and the late Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest grandchild, has split from his girlfriend Lindsay Wallace after three years, it was reported Wednesday.