The mass murder of 50 worshippers inside two Christchurch, New Zealand, mosques could not deter President Trump from his appointed rounds. On Friday, he did not consider postponing or even de-emphasizing a ceremony in the Oval Office marking his first veto, rejecting the Congressional block on his dubious national emergency …
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Over its first three seasons, Catastrophe was one of the great miracles of Peak TV, a comedy as hilariously profane as it was startlingly tender. Co-creators and stars Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan played a trans-Atlantic couple (also named Rob and Sharon) who do everything out of order: they meet, …
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The story of boy band Svengali turned Ponzi schemer Lou Pearlman is the focus of an upcoming YouTube documentary. In the first trailer for The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story, former boy banders discuss how, despite selling millions of records and selling out arenas, the mastermind behind the …
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President Trump has some bold thoughts on airplane technology. “Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly,” the president tweeted Tuesday morning. “Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT. I see it all the time in many products. Always seeking to go one unnecessary step further, …
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Hillary Clinton will not seek a rematch with Donald Trump. The popular-vote winner from 2016 told reporters for News 12, a Hudson Valley station in New York, that she is not a going to be a candidate in 2020: “I’m not running,” Clinton said — but quickly added: “I’m going …
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R.-Ohio) is many things: an ardent climate change denier, a fierce opponent of reproductive rights, an advocate for “traditional” marriageand a staunch defender of the President’s right to straight-up lie to the American people. He is also alleged to be something else: an ignorer of rampant campus …
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President Trump will meet with Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Wednesday. It will be the second time Trump has met with the North Korean dictator since taking office, the first coming last June when the two leaders convened in Singapore. Trump emerged from that summit speaking breathlessly about the …
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Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler deftly handled stand-in opening monologue duties for the host-less Academy Awards Sunday as they arrived onstage to introduce the first category of the night, Best Supporting Actress. The trio opened with a few knocks on the Academy, with Rudolph noting the absence of …
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On Saturday, February 2nd, a made-up DJ played to more than 10 million made-up characters in a made-up world. And the real-life music industry gasped in unison. The fictional DJ has a name: Marshmello. No one truly knows his identity, thanks to his white bucket helmet with an unambiguous painted …
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On a cold day in February 2017, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo spent a few minutes before a scheduled appearance at the opening of a new casino in Schenectady bantering with reporters about weed. A lifelong law-and-order Democrat, Cuomo swung to the right of his party when it came to …
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