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Despite high hopes to finally hear a former Playboy Playmate talk about her alleged long-running sexual affair with Donald Trump, Manhattan prosecutors revealed the decision Thursday to not put Karen McDougal on the witness stand.

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The first performance of the European leg of Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour is underway in Paris, and for weeks, diehard Swifties have been desperate to find out whether she’d be altering her three-hour set to accommodate the release of her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department.

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Ultra-MAGA South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has become quasi-infamous for admitting to having cold-bloodedly assassinated a puppy and a goat, but in her newly released memoir, the right-wing true believer recounts an “inspirational” episode by which her own negligence nearly killed or seriously maimed untold numbers of innocent motorists.

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Justin and Hailey Bieber are getting ready for somebody to love.

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As someone who grew up with a Tumblr blog dedicated to Teen Wolf, Supernatural, and Glee, I spent most of my adolescence exploring the queer potential of various shows—just like any queer kid who spent time in fandom spaces. These shows all alluded to some of their most beloved characters being queer, and only some of them actually followed through. This is called queerbaiting, a term which refers to when shows and their creators use queer coding to keep viewers’ attention... Читать дальше...

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A federal appeals court dismissed Hunter Biden’s latest attempt to get his gun case thrown out on Thursday, all but ensuring the president’s son’s appearance in court next month.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has given conflicting explanations on how he learned about a worm that he said implanted in his brain—one of the strangest stories in the presidential race so far.

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Spicy material might be coming to AI-powered chatbots run by OpenAI, according to a sneaky commentary hidden in a document published by the artificial intelligence pioneer.

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The family of the Black airman slain by Florida police in his own home last week held an emotional press conference Thursday morning, describing their loved one as a true patriot and someone who exemplified the American dream.

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The reversal of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction was a gut punch to the accusers who testified at his trial. But as prosecutors prepare to retry him, a new bill making its way through the New York state legislature could give them a powerful weapon.

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After news broke that Barron Trump would be a delegate at the Republican National Convention it left many people wondering—what will the 18-year-old actually do in the role?

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Matt Rife isn’t sorry for his controversial jokes about domestic violence. In fact, he’s doubling down on them.

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A man calling himself a “eunuch-maker” who mutilated customers and made cash selling extremely graphic videos of the procedures online was sentenced by a British court to a minimum of 22 years in prison on Thursday.

Marius Gustavson, a 46-year-old Norwegian, pleaded guilty to a range of charges including conspiring to commit grievous bodily harm and five counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. A sentencing... Читать дальше...

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The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, my favorite film property, is slowly morphing into yet another cursèd cinematic universe that will haunt me with new installments of diminishing quality until the day I die. I mean, seriously, who in Galadriel’s name actually wants a whole new set of movies built around Gollum?!

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Elon Musk’s neurotech startup Neuralink said Wednesday it has run into problems with a brain chip it implanted into a 29-year-old quadriplegic man earlier this year, with the issues considered so serious, it reportedly considered having the implant removed entirely.

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Senior Israeli politicians have expressed anger and dismay at President Joe Biden’s warning that he would halt shipments of U.S. weapons to Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a full-scale ground invasion of Rafah—the city in southern Gaza where over a million Palestinians are sheltering from the conflict.

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John Mulaney has no intention of making his six-episode live Netflix show, Everybody’s in L.A., more coherent. As he put it during the show’s fourth episode on Wednesday night, “People keep asking me, ‘When is this show gonna make sense?’ When L.A. does.” That said, this installment—which focused on the paranormal—might’ve been the strangest yet. The disorganized vibes began almost immediately, when Mulaney skipped over the monologue and threw the show over to a live performance from Weezer... Читать дальше...

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Katherine Asplundh, the TikTok influencer who unintentionally went viral with her attempts to get an Instagram user to give her their handle, has now deleted her own account amid an intense online backlash.

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Stormy Daniels’ second day on the witness stand started with a fiery clash on Thursday, as Donald Trump’s lawyer zeroed in on the glaring contradiction that the porn star now says she wanted “the truth to be printed” about her sexual affair with the politician—when instead she readily chose to be paid by him for her silence in 2016.

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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) showed up in court Thursday for Donald Trump’s hush-money trial.

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A Boeing 737 plane skidded off the runway during takeoff at an airport in Senegal, the country’s transport minister said Thursday, leaving multiple injured.

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Vivek Ramaswamy praised Ann Coulter Wednesday for telling him that she would not have voted for him on the grounds that he is “an Indian.”

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Donald Trump’s allies in the press are doing their best to spin Stormy Daniels’ testimony about her alleged sexual tryst with the former president as a MAGA win.

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Donald Trump’s hush money trial will resume Thursday with more testimony from Stormy Daniels, the porn star whose claims of a sexual encounter with the former president and a subsequent payment to keep quiet about it are at the center of the prosecution’s historic criminal case.

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TIJUANA, Mexico—You know you’ve screwed up when even Mexico’s notorious drug cartels think you’ve gone too far.