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Jan 01, 2050
Kevin Lamarque/ReutersJohn S. McCain III, an American hero who served as a Navy captain and a member of Congress for 57 years, died on TKTKTK DAY. He was 81.
McCain was a giant of the United States Senate and a lifelong public servant who won respect and admiration from his colleagues on Capitol Hill and world leaders for his staunch advocacy of democratic principles and his defiant policy positions, particularly on issues relating to the military and national security.
He was a tough and, at times, feisty and brash legislator, but he forged friendships and bonds that cemented his place in history as a dealmaker. His political opponents sometimes branded him a war-monger and a reactionary at worst but never doubted his unwavering adherence to his principles, his tireless support for American troops, and his enduring commitment to public service.
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Mar 19, 2024
Caitlin Ochs/ReutersDonald Trump has once again hinted that, under a second Trump administration, Prince Harry could be kicked out of the United States if he is found to have lied on paperwork about his drug use.
Trump told Nigel Farage in a GB News interview to be broadcast Tuesday, when asked what he would do if allegations that Harry may have lied on his visa forms proved accurate: "We'll have to see if they know something about the drugs, and if he lied they'll have to take appropriate action."
Farage asked if "appropriate action" could mean "not staying in America," to which Trump replied, according to a report in the Daily Mail, "Oh I don't know. You'll have to tell me. You just have to tell me. You would have thought they would have known this a long time ago."
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Mar 19, 2024
Gonzalo Fuentes/ReutersAn awards ceremony where Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, and others were set to be given an award in the name of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg won't go ahead as scheduled, the foundation running the event announced Monday, after backlash from the late Supreme Court justice's family.
Julie Opperman, chair of the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation, said in a statement that the "planned ceremony in April 2024 will be canceled" and addressed the criticisms at this year's list of recipients, which also included entrepreneur Martha Stewart, actor Sylvester Stallone, and Michael Milken, the financier convicted on felony fraud counts and later pardoned by Donald Trump. "Keeping in mind that our goal is only to do good, the Foundation is not interested in creating controversy," Opperman wrote in the statement.
The honor, originally named the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award when it was first given out four years ago, included men on its slate of recipients for the first time this year. When the list of 2024 honorees was announced last week, Ginsburg's daughter slammed the selections as "an affront to the memory of our mother."
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Mar 19, 2024
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyDonald Trump's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, paid $82,500 last week to settle a lawsuit alleging that it had silenced a sexually harassed waitress by tricking her into an unfair hush money deal, according to the ex-employee's lawyer.
But the curiously worded contract left the former president's own attorney Alina Habba—a rising star in his orbit—wide open to getting sued herself.
Trump and his top advisers are already a magnet for legal trouble. Habba, who already settled a discrimination lawsuit by her former legal secretary, is no exception. But now she faces the wrath of Alice Bianco, who was once a waitress at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, the real estate tycoon's summertime abode.
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Mar 19, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.
Donald Trump may generate daily headlines with his bombastic statements and myriad legal troubles, but of all the important 2024 election-related issues worth discussing there is one in particular that deserves highlighting, according to The New Abnormal co-host Andy Levy.
The Trump campaign was in full damage control last week after the former president called in to CNBC and suggested making cuts from Medicare and Social Security, which offer financial care to retired Americans or those with a disability.
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Mar 19, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/NetflixFor the pop culture obsessive, Girls5Eva is nothing short of a gold mine. Practically every other line contains a thrilling little nod to a moment in pop culture history, whether it be a has-been pop star, a modern-day icon of the music industry, an HBO prestige drama or a hyper-niche meme.
Filled with wacky, but actually good, fake pop songs (that are often earworms and sometimes tearjerkers) and quickfire comedy that recalls its natural predecessor 30 Rock, Meredith Scardino's musical comedy is currently enjoying its resuscitation in the form of a third season and full relaunch on Netflix after being canceled by Peacock in 2022. The show follows a group of ex-girl group stars, Dawn (Sara Bareilles), Wickie (Renée Elise Goldsberry), Gloria (Paula Pell), and Summer (Busy Phillips), who reunite after 20 years to rekindle their group.
Girls5Eva makes no secret that it's parodying the wild and hyper-specific landscape of the '90s pop music industry, frequently cutting to clips of the girls on MTV, in conversation with Carson Daly, performing in increasingly ludicrous, sexist music videos, giving all-access tours of their bus, and even taking part in tasteless charity Christmas pop songs. For anyone who grew up watching the Spice Girls, NSYNC, S Club 7, and the Backstreet Boys, it's all instantly recognizable stuff.
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Mar 19, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Apple TV There are roughly 47,000—oh, wait, a new Netflix Original just dropped; make that 47,001—TV shows and movies coming out each week. At Obsessed, we consider it our social duty to help you see the best and skip the rest.
We've already got a variety of in-depth, exclusive coverage on all of your streaming favorites and new releases, but sometimes what you're looking for is a simple Do or Don't. That's why we created See/Skip, to tell you exactly what our writers think you should See and what you can Skip from the past week's crowded entertainment landscape.
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Mar 19, 2024
Johan Paulin/Netflix(Warning: Spoilers ahead for Young Royals.)
Edvin Ryding and Omar Rudberg are slowly coming to terms with the sad reality they must say goodbye to Young Royals. The Swedish coming-of-age show premiered in 2021 and instantly became a beloved teen drama that gripped fans worldwide with its central queer romance.
Ryding and Rudberg previously had a taste of fame—Ryding's acting career started when he was 5 and Rudberg was part of the popular Swedish boy band FO&O. However, the spotlight of Young Royals was a whole new level of attention, with the second season ranked the third-most-streamed non-English language series on Netflix worldwide. So now, after three dramatic seasons, the pair are emotional as they bid a bittersweet farewell to their precious characters and the show they love so deeply.
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Mar 19, 2024
ABCDonald Trump's beef with Jimmy Kimmel just keeps escalating.
Ever since Kimmel used the Academy Awards stage to embarrass Trump in front of the world by reading the former president's scathing review of Kimmel's hosting skills, the former president has been desperate to spin the narrative and paint himself as the winner of this particular showdown.
On Monday, Kimmel upped the ante once more by showing just how little Trump's die-hard supporters know about the world around them.
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Mar 18, 2024
Go Nakamura/ReutersTexas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has remained defiant amid a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Monday that extended an administrative stay blocking a controversial immigration law from taking effect in the state amid a legal showdown over the border crisis.
The one-page order handed down by the conservative Justice Samuel Alito was issued several minutes after a deadline he set a week ago, eliciting a few moments of confusion as to whether the freeze had lapsed. The latest stay did not include a new deadline, effectively suspending the law indefinitely as the high court weighs its next steps.
Texas' Senate Bill 4, signed into law by Abbott in December, empowers state and local law enforcement to arrest people on suspicion of illegally crossing the southern border. It was originally set to go into effect earlier this month, but has faced an uphill battle after the Justice Department stepped in, arguing it is "flatly inconsistent" with Supreme Court precedent.
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Mar 18, 2024
NewsNationRobert F. Kennedy Jr. took partial credit Monday for several dozen members of his family meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on St. Patrick's Day, telling NewsNation's Chris Cuomo that he's happy to have "played a role" in bringing about the visit.
Kennedy initially challenged Biden for the Democratic nomination and is now running as an independent, though his candidacy is opposed by several relatives in part due to his conspiratorial attitudes that include vaccines. A Super Bowl ad by a pro-Kennedy Super PAC ripping off John F. Kennedy's 1960 campaign spot didn't help matters, either.
Kennedy reacted to the photo first by downplaying the size of the group gathered around Biden, which he said was "a very small percentage of my family."
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Mar 18, 2024
John Fleenor/Disney(Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Bachelor Season 28, "The Women Tell All.")
For the first half of Bachelor Joey Graziadei's "The Women Tell All" reunion, everything unfolded as expected. Season alums like Maria Georgas, Sydney Gordon, and Lea Cayanan rehashed old feuds, while others, like Jennifer "Jenn" Tran, shed bittersweet tears about the time they spent with the hottest and most emotionally intelligent man this franchise has seen in decades. About halfway through the night, however, the proceedings took a turn as host Jesse Palmer addressed the audience directly.
Prompted by a tearful disclosure from the season's third runner-up, Rachel Nance, Palmer called out the rise in bullying that Bachelor contestants have endured this season. In Nance's case, a lot of the online hatred was racist harassment.
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Mar 18, 2024
Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesRep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) may have been kicked out of a performance of the musical Beetlejuice last September, but a part of her never really left that Denver theater, as evidenced by her comments in a recent interview.
Speaking on KHOW's Dan Caplis Show on Friday, the Colorado congresswoman referenced the day she was ejected from the Denver Center for Performing Arts for obnoxious behavior like vaping, singing, and groping her date as she responded to a question about what scandals might emerge in her future.
"As far as [opposition] research, I am very clearly an open book," she told Caplis. "And I can't even go to a theater without that being, you know, broadcast to the world."
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Mar 18, 2024
Jay Paul/ReutersThe MAGA-friendly federal judge who keeps siding with Donald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago classified records case has forced prosecutors to make a stark choice: allow jurors to see a huge trove of national secrets or let him go.
U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon's ultimatum Monday night came as a surprise twist in what could have been a simple order; one merely asking federal prosecutors and Trump's lawyers for proposed jury instructions at the upcoming trial.
But as she has done repeatedly, Cannon used this otherwise innocuous legal step as yet another way to swing the case wildly in favor of the man who appointed her while he was president.
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Mar 18, 2024
Emilio MadridIt isn't such a leap for Jeremy Strong, famed for playing Kendall Roy in Succession, to play the suddenly demonized local doctor Thomas Stockmann in Amy Herzog's new Broadway adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. (Circle in the Square, booking through June 16).
For one, both Succession and this adaptation, directed by Sam Gold (who is married to Herzog) know how to crunchily position drama and wit, profundity and comedy, alongside one another. This Enemy of the People is notably funny in both its smarts and pacing, and even its later gathering darkness—when Stockmann is viciously trounced and isolated by his townsfolk—is studded with light, and the certainty of his self-preservation.
Both Kendall and Thomas are both different breeds of a broader genus of black sheep—zealously attached to following their own paths, both convinced of their rightness and righteousness, and to hell with anyone who doesn't follow them. They will court you for your support, but stay true only to their own inner compasses, moral and otherwise. Both Kendall and Stockmann are happy to be their own human islands, come what may. The tension watching Enemy of the People is ours, rather than theirs—observing what this town's present and future is, and its vibrating significance for the future of our own compromised, fragile democracy.
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Mar 18, 2024
RumbleOn the eve of Peter Navarro's first day in prison, the former White House aide to Donald Trump maintained Monday that his four-month sentence is a worthwhile "sacrifice," considering the Americans who have died for their nation.
Appearing on Donald Trump Jr.'s podcast the same day the Supreme Court quashed his last-chance request to delay his sentence, Navarro felt it appropriate to refer to those who have "lost their lives for the defense of this country" while describing his own situation.
"Men and women of America throughout our history have shed blood—lost their lives—for the defense of this country, the defense of what we stand for, the defense of our values, the defense of our Constitution," Navarro told Trump Jr. "And for me, it's a much smaller sacrifice to be willing to go to prison, as I now have been ordered to do, to defend what is really one of the most important principles of the Constitution, which is the constitutional separation of powers."
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Mar 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesAs the tween "Sephora kid" epidemic makes headlines, parenting, or the lack of it, has become a larger cultural discourse. While parents have been making socially questionable decisions since the first child was born, these choices didn't always come with people on the internet judging their every move.
Different renditions of the phrase "I am not raising my kid like that" have plagued the internet since before Sephoragate. These comments usually come from yet-to-be parents and young people who criticize the parenting decisions of older generations. As Gen Z become parents, they're planning on de-introducing things that millennial and Gen X parents led with—one of the biggest is not raising an "iPad kid."
The term itself refers to a generation of children born into the boom of smartphones, growing up reliant on technology like touchscreens and constant internet access. While previously a loosely defined term for children who were handed devices in social situations, iPad kids are shifting from parenting to scientific discourse.
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Mar 18, 2024
Heino Kalis/ReutersNobel Prize-winning Canadian economist Robert Mundell, often referred to as the "father of the euro," died at his palatial home in Italy without a will in 2021. Now his heirs are squabbling over the villa and millions of dollars in assets they believe were illegally commandeered by his widowed second wife.
According to a lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court on Friday, the plaintiffs—William, Robyn, Alexander, and Lily Mundell—accuse Robert Mundell's wife, Valerie Natsios-Mundell, of fraud and other misdeeds. They are seeking their alleged share of the estate, plus punitive damages and attorney fees.
"It's beautiful," Robyn Mundell told The Daily Beast of the villa. "We grew up there and spent every summer [there] with our kids." She added that her father used to host conferences at the home "every summer with famous economists like John Nash."
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Mar 18, 2024
Jay Paul/ReutersDonald Trump once again pushed an antisemitic trope during a radio interview Monday, claiming that Jews who vote for Democrats "hate Israel" and "their religion."
Appearing on former Trump White House aide Sebastian Gorka's show on the Salem Radio Network, Trump was asked about some Democrats' comments that have been critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week, for instance, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called Netanyahu one of several "major obstacles" to peace between Israel and Palestine, and said he supported an election to replace him.
"Why is it, seemingly, that this administration, including Chuck Schumer in the Senate, so hate the man that Israel chose as their prime minister?" Gorka asked. "Why do the Democrats hate Benjamin Netanyahu?"
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Mar 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyPortions of the internet spent Monday pondering the following question: if the most famous woman in the world, whose whereabouts has prompted the exchange of countless billions of terrabytes of data in recent weeks, went to a kids' sports match and farm shop over the weekend, wouldn't someone have got a photo?
The grand enigma of the whereabouts and wellbeing of Princess Kate Middleton got even more curious Monday morning, when the Sun carried a front page picture of a happy looking Kate accompanied by the headline that she had been "seen out with (husband Prince) William" at a sports event for her kids and at a local farm shop in Windsor on a "public trip."
Only one problem; this juicy royal apple had a worm. As a community "context" note swiftly appended to the Sun's X post made clear: "This post and accompanying image are misleading. The photo of Kate used here is from last autumn. Kate was not seen by any verified sources and there are no photographs of her ‘public trip.'"
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Mar 18, 2024
Arizona State LegislaturePart of Eva Burch's job is to make policy decisions as an elected senator in the Arizona State Legislature. But earlier this month, she found herself on the receiving end of her colleagues' strict laws on abortion.
Burch rose at the end of a floor session on Monday to share her personal experience with an unwanted pregnancy and call for better legislation in Arizona, where abortion is outlawed after 15 weeks.
The senator recently learned that she was pregnant, but that there was no chance for her to carry the pregnancy to term. Because of Arizona's restrictive health care laws, Burch experienced firsthand the reproductive realities that the Legislature had created.
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Mar 18, 2024
Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty ImagesAn attempt by Donald Trump to block Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen from testifying at his upcoming criminal trial in New York was thrown out on Monday by the judge overseeing the case.
The former president's legal team had requested both Daniels and Cohen's testimony be barred, saying in a filing last month that Cohen was a liar and that Daniels is an opportunist.
"Similar to Cohen, she seeks to tell contrived stories with salacious details of events she claimed occurred nearly 20 years ago," his lawyers wrote.
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Mar 18, 2024
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Amazon is ushering in spring with—you guessed it—a new sale offering seasonal savings on par with its hallmark Prime Day and Black Friday deal events. The new Big Spring Sale will kick off on Wednesday, Mar. 20, and run through Mar. 25. As with most of Amazon's major sale events, the deals will span almost all of the e-tailer's digital shelves, including electronics and appliances, luxury beauty and grooming, apparel, and home decor.
This year's Big Spring Event will also include notable savings (up to 50 percent off) on seasonal items like Easter basket stuffers, spring cleaning essentials, protective eyewear for watching the upcoming Solar Eclipse, and warm-weather items, helping you start spring with some new gear. Unlike some of Amazon's sales, the Big Spring Sale is open to everyone (including those who don't have an Amazon Prime membership), but Prime members will have access to exclusive deals, extra savings, and ultra-fast shipping.
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Mar 18, 2024
Reuters/Elizabeth FrantzPeter Navarro saw his last-ditch plea to stave off prison denied by the Supreme Court on Monday, meaning the former aide for Donald Trump must surrender to a federal prison in Miami on Tuesday afternoon to serve a four-month sentence for ignoring a subpoena from Congress.
Navarro filed an emergency stay appeal on Friday, asking the high court to allow him to remain out of jail as he attempts to have his contempt of Congress conviction reversed on appeal.
That motion was denied on Monday afternoon, less than 24 hours before the 2 p.m. deadline he was issued. If Navarro serves his full four-month sentence as expected, he'll turn 75 the same week he's set to be released.
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Mar 18, 2024
Jane Barlow/Pool via ReutersWhen Catherine, Princess of Wales was spotted at a local farm shop near her family's home in Windsor, England on Saturday, tabloid stories about the sighting of the recently reclusive royal were oddly devoid of any photographic proof. Royal fans, well-wishers, and the growing contingent of conspiracy theorists wildly speculating about Kate's disappearance from the public eye since undergoing abdominal surgery late last year just had to take their word for it.
But on Monday afternoon, a 38-second video purportedly showing the outing was finally published in tandem by The Sun and TMZ—though neither outlet gave a reason for the delay.
The cell phone footage appears to capture Kate walking alongside her husband, Prince William, in leggings and a sweatshirt. The Sun, describing her as "relaxed and happy," reported that the footage had been obtained "just hours" after its initial report about the shopping trip was published on Sunday.
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Mar 18, 2024
Randy Holmes/GettyBill Maher is moving to CNN. Well, at least re-runs of his long-running HBO late-night talk show are.
The cable news network announced on Monday that Real Time with Bill Maher, now in its 22nd season, will begin airing "encore presentations" of its Friday night broadcasts on CNN. The replays will be broadcast on Saturday nights at 8 p.m. ET and start on March 23.
"The addition of Real Time With Bill Maher to CNN's weekend primetime lineup marks the start of a commitment and investment into topical entertainment programming that we're bringing to the weekends," CNN Executive Vice President of Talent Amy Entelis said in a statement. "We've seen that audiences enjoy Bill's perspective and approach to news and information, and we're looking forward to the show now being on CNN."
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Mar 18, 2024
Reuters/Handout/Vyacheslav Gladkov via TelegramRussia has allegedly lost 600 men in the attacks on its border regions in recent days, and the operation has hindered Vladimir Putin's war efforts by keeping his troops distracted, according to Ukrainian intelligence.
The armed offensive—waged by three anti-Kremlin Russian militia groups earlier this month—has also left more than 800 Russians wounded, according Andrii Yusov, a representative of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense's Main Intelligence Directorate. Speaking on a telethon Monday, Yusov added that 20 Russian armored vehicles and seven tanks have been damaged in the attacks, which he described as having caused "serious enemy losses."
The militia groups—the Freedom of Russia Legion, the Russian Volunteer Corps, and the Siberian Battalion—have said that the intended goal of their campaign is to bring an end to
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Mar 18, 2024
Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for BETInsecure star Amanda Seales says she's ready to "shift out" of the industry after what she perceives to be continual shunning from Black Hollywood.
On Sunday, the actress and comedian took to Instagram to vent to her 2.2 million followers. "I just wanna say something. If it wasn't for y'all, I would really think that I ain't doin' shit," she said in a candid video. "Because the industry I'm in does not recognize me.
"And to be clear," she continued, "I'm speaking about the Black spaces in the industry I'm in, 'cause y'all know I don't give two damns about any of these other spaces."
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Mar 18, 2024
River Callaway/WWD via Getty ImagesTallulah Willis revealed that she has autism on Friday, the first time she's opened up about the diagnosis.
In a video shared to Instagram, the 30-year-old actress posted a throwback photo of her as a child, touching dad Bruce Willis' face while he answered interview questions.
"tell me your autistic without telling me your autistic ??," she joked in the video's caption.
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Mar 18, 2024
Pacific Press/GettyThe conservative influencer Isabella DeLuca, a former intern of Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), was indicted Monday on allegations she passed a stolen table to rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 that was then used to attack police.
DeLuca, who's in her early 20s, has been charged with theft of government property and four other standard counts that have been doled out to more than 1,000 Capitol rioters.
Included in the FBI's 17-page indictment are a dozen images that allegedly show DeLuca inside and around the Capitol on Jan. 6. The feds said they were able to identify DeLuca in part because she posted a selfie on the day of the riot to her Instagram story, wearing a distinct brown jacket.
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Mar 18, 2024
Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty ImagesKing Charles III is still very much alive and kicking, according to Buckingham Palace, which on Monday was forced to respond to a report to the contrary.
The false alarm that the 75-year-old monarch had died "unexpectedly" on St. Patrick's Day went viral after a phony palace announcement was circulated by Russian media outlets.
The British embassy in Ukraine quickly denied the proliferating rumors, tweeting that they were "fake."
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Mar 18, 2024
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesJustice Stephen Breyer believes his former colleagues on the Supreme Court are steering the country in the wrong direction, and his forthcoming book, Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism, is "meant to sound an alarm."
That's according to The New York Times, which on Monday published an eye-opening interview with the 85-year-old jurist-turned-Harvard Law professor.
"Something important is going on," said Breyer, whose book will be released on March 26, the same day the Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding the availability of mifepristone, the so-called abortion pill.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Michael Ochs Archives via Getty ImagesThe fitness guru Richard Simmons scared fans Monday morning when he cryptically posted "I am ....dying," but his manager cleared up the confusion a few hours later, saying his client is still "very healthy and very happy."
"Happy to report Mr. Simmons is very healthy and very happy," said his manager, Michael Catalano, in a statement to The Daily Beast. "I would continue to watch his posts for updates."
That's welcome news to many after Simmons, 75, posted a confusing thread to X that suggested he might be ill. Turns out, it was just a motivational message.
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Mar 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty The eternal victim of our time, Donald Trump, wants you to know that he is a deeply misunderstood man. The former president, who incited the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, is offended that anyone would think that he was talking about violence when he used the word "bloodbath."
On social media Monday morning, Trump lashed out at the "Fake News Media, and their Democrat Partners in the destruction of our Nation," for distorting what he said at a rally Saturday in Vandalia, Ohio.
When he warned that there would be "bloodbath" if he wasn't elected, Trump insisted, "he was simply referring to imports allowed by Crooked Joe Biden, which are killing the automobile industry."
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Mar 18, 2024
Scott Olson/Getty ImagesDonald Trump on Monday defended his dark prediction about a "bloodbath" for the country if he doesn't win the presidency this fall, accusing the media of taking his words out of context.
In a post on Truth social, the Republican candidate said the "bloodbath" comment only applied to the auto industry—which he was discussing at the time of his concerningly worded statement.
"The Fake News Media, and their Democrat Partners in the destruction of our Nation, pretended to be shocked at my use of the word BLOODBATH, even though they fully understood that I was simply referring to imports allowed by Crooked Joe Biden, which are killing the automobile industry," he wrote. (The United Auto Workers' union, for their part, has endorsed Biden for president.)
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Mar 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyRussian President Vladimir Putin continued to maintain his unrelenting grip on power through the latest sham election, in which none of the other contenders had any hopes, plans or even dreams of winning. The only peace candidate, Boris Nadezhdin, was threatened by top pro-Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov and prevented from participating in the election. Some of his supporters are now being arrested and their homes are being searched by law enforcement. The main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, died suddenly in prison, just in time for Putin's big show.
Leonid Slutsky of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), who ended up in the last place, hammered home the obvious, as he said during a TASS press conference, "In these elections, the main point is not victory but participation." Slutsky added, "This percentage—the difference between the three candidates—does not matter in the slightest. It matters that we participated in the historic campaign for the Russian presidential election, which once again
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Mar 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyTwo Irish icons teamed up this past weekend to make this year's St. Patrick's Day celebrations go down in history. Normal People's Paul Mescal and The Bear's Ayo Edebiri—who is not technically Irish, but for all intents and purposes, she "is" of the Irish people, per a running joke—posed together for a photo captioned "Happy St. Paddy's" on Instagram. Okay, I'll cheers to that. Sláinte!
And yet, this adorable pic of the stars—who fans want to date, but are "just friends," per TMZ—wasn't the best post of the weekend. Because as soon as famed romance author Emily Henry reposted the photo on her
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Mar 18, 2024
Nashville Metro PoliceNashville police have released video that shows one of its officers had a brief exchange with college student Riley Strain before he went missing over a week ago.
The conversation is unremarkable but is another piece of the puzzle of where Strain went after being kicked out of country star Luke Bryan's bar, 32 Bridge, on March 8.
"How you doing, sir?" Officer Reginald Young asked Strain as he passed the 22-year-old on Gay Street near the Woodland Street Bridge, which spans the Cumberland River.
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Mar 18, 2024
Nashville Metro PoliceNashville police have released video that shows one of its officers had a brief exchange with college student Riley Strain before he went missing over a week ago.
The conversation is unremarkable but is another piece of the puzzle of where Strain went after being kicked out of country star Luke Bryan's bar, 32 Bridge, on March 8.
"How you doing, sir?" Officer Reginald Young asked Strain as he passed the 22-year-old on Gay Street near the Woodland Street Bridge, which spans the Cumberland River.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
NASAThe legendary NASA astronaut Tom Stafford, who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his famed handshake in space with a Soviet cosmonaut amid Cold War tensions, died Monday at 93, his namesake museum announced.
Stafford died in Indian Harbour Beach—a coastal city fittingly located in the heart of Florida's "Space Coast," just 20 miles south of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The director of the Stafford Air & Space Museum in his hometown of Weatherford, Oklahoma, told News 9 that Stafford died after battling an "extended illness."
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Mar 18, 2024
Paul Hennessy/Getty ImgaesA professor at a Virginia university was found dead one day after he disappeared during an Orlando conference, local police said.
David Hanbury, a psychology professor at Averett University, was attending the Southeastern Psychological Association Conference near Universal Studios when he was reported missing on Friday evening.
The next day, police responded to a call about an "unattended death" at Club Orlando, which is close to the city center.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Samir Hussein/WireImage/GettyOn the latest episode of the Armchair Expert podcast, Road House stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor reflected on their remake of the action classic—which apparently involved a lot of injuries and infections on Gyllenhaal's part.
"We're fighting on the floor, fighting around tables, we're fighting around glass," Gyllenhaal said of their work on the movie. In one particular scene, he said, "I put my hand on the bar," pressing right into "fucking straight glass."
"I felt the glass going in my hand," he recalled. "I remember the feeling [and] went, ‘That's a lot of glass.'"
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool via ReutersElon Musk claimed in his much-awaited Don Lemon interview that Donald Trump didn't ask him for money during their meeting earlier this month and that even if he had, he had no plans on weighing in on the 2024 presidential election—for now.
"I don't want to put a thumb on the scale monetarily that is, you know, significant.," Musk told Lemon in an hourlong interview published on Monday. The meeting, he claimed, happened after Trump stopped at a breakfast Musk had with a friend and didn't include anything Trump has not already said publicly.
Musk said he had no current plans to endorse a candidate in the race, though that could change in the final weeks before November. However, he did acknowledge he was "leaning away" from President Joe Biden.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Reuters/Kevin LamarqueA report published Monday by the National Institutes of Health said it found no evidence of brain injuries in the U.S. diplomats who suffered from the still-unexplained Havana Syndrome, raising more questions about the mystery ailment.
The institutes' report, which compiled five years of research into two studies, comes after staff members at the U.S. embassy in Havana complained of headaches, dizziness, nausea, and fatigue between 2016 and 2018. Soon after, symptoms were reported by embassy, intelligence, and U.S. military staff who worked in Asia and Europe.
The syndrome's emergence strained U.S. relations with Cuba and stoked fears that a foreign power may have been behind a stealth attack, possibly involving pulsed radio-frequency energy.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Brendan McDermid/Reuters A New York City woman claims that Mayor Eric Adams sexually assaulted her three decades ago, masturbating in front of her when she turned down his demands for oral sex, according to a bombshell $5 million lawsuit filed Monday.
The claims add another layer of tumult to Adams' already-tumultuous tenure, which has the first-term mayor facing an FBI investigation into allegations he helped the Turkish government sidestep the city's fire code to erect a 35-story diplomatic facility. Federal agents in November raided the Bronx home of Adams' top fundraiser, and seized Adams' phones and iPad, as part of the probe. Adams reached the rank of captain in the NYPD, was elected to the New York State Senate after he retired in 2006, and was elected mayor in 2021.
"I am proud to file this complaint on behalf of my client, a woman whose strength astonishes me," Megan Goddard, a lawyer for accuser Lorna Beach-Mathura, told The Daily Beast in an emailed statement shortly after she filed the suit in New York State Supreme Court.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Brendan McDermid/Reuters A New York City woman claims that Mayor Eric Adams sexually assaulted her three decades ago, masturbating in front of her when she turned down his advances, according to a bombshell $5 million lawsuit filed Monday.
The claims add another layer of tumult to Adams' already-tumultuous tenure, which has the first-term mayor facing an FBI investigation into allegations he helped the Turkish government sidestep the city's fire code to erect a 35-story diplomatic facility. Federal agents in November raided the Bronx home of Adams' top fundraiser, and seized Adams' phones and iPad, as part of the probe. Adams reached the rank of captain in the NYPD, was elected to the New York State Senate after he retired in 2006, and was elected mayor in 2021.
"I am proud to file this complaint on behalf of my client, a woman whose strength astonishes me," Megan Goddard, a lawyer for accuser Lorna Beach-Mathura, told The Daily Beast in an emailed statement shortly after she filed the suit in New York State Supreme Court.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Jehad Alshrafi/GettyFamine is imminent in northern Gaza, and all of its 2.2 million people are facing dire food insecurity, the U.N.'s food agency said Monday.
Three hundred thousand people remain trapped in the north, where the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said famine is expected to arrive between now and May. The agency said that one in three children in the northern region is now "acutely malnourished or ‘wasted,'" putting them at immediate risk of death.
Cindy McCain, director of the WFP, said the famine was man-made and urged Israel to allow humanitarian aid to reach starving refugees within Gaza.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Alyssa Pointer/ReutersDonald Trump simultaneously claims he's much wealthier than a court says but too broke to appeal the judgment that threatens to take away those very riches.
In a court filing written with glaring irony, Donald Trump's lawyers on Monday revealed that the real estate tycoon has failed to secure the gigantic, half-billion dollar bond required to temporarily halt the New York Attorney General from seizing his properties after he lost a bank fraud trial.
The deadline clock is now ticking, with only a week left until AG Letitia James can ask a judge for permission to start grabbing Trump's Monopoly board portfolio. The former president has until Sunday, March 24, to obtain what amounts to a massive loan—with a surety company guaranteeing to the court that Trump will pay his financial penalty if he ultimately loses the case on appeal.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Alyssa Pointer/ReutersDonald Trump simultaneously claims he's much wealthier than a court says but too broke to appeal the judgment that threatens to take away those very riches.
In a court filing written with glaring irony, Donald Trump's lawyers on Monday revealed that the real estate tycoon has failed to secure the gigantic, half-billion dollar bond required to temporarily halt the New York Attorney General from seizing his properties after he lost a bank fraud trial.
The deadline clock is now ticking, with only a week left until AG Letitia James can ask a judge for permission to start grabbing Trump's Monopoly board portfolio. The former president has until Sunday, March 24, to obtain what amounts to a massive loan—with a surety company guaranteeing to the court that Trump will pay his financial penalty if he ultimately loses the case on appeal.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
NBC NewsThe father of Laken Riley, the Georgia nursing student killed while jogging in February, says he's "angry" his daughter's death is being exploited in political debates ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
In a Today show interview that aired Monday, Jason Riley addressed the furor that has exploded around the killing and immigration policy after José Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan national who allegedly entered the U.S. illegally in 2022, was arrested in the case. "I feel like she is being used somewhat politically," Jason said of his slain 22-year-old daughter. "It makes me angry."
"She was much better than that," he continued. "She should be raised up for the person that she is."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Guglielmo Mangiapane/ReutersPope Francis has congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election, according to a Russian state media report Sunday.
While many Western governments and leaders condemned the Russian election as a sham involving no meaningful opposition, Leonid Sevastyanov, the head of the World Union of Old Believers, claims the pontiff thought it was worth congratulating Putin on his new six-year term, according to RIA Novosti. "The Pope congratulates Vladimir Putin on his election as President of the Russian Federation," Sevastyanov, who is reportedly in contact with Pope Francis, was quoted as saying.
The Daily Beast has contacted the Vatican for comment.
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Mar 18, 2024
Citizen appA wild police chase through Los Angeles on Saturday night came to an abrupt end when the suspect crashed her car into the Pacific Ocean.
Authorities said California Highway Patrol officers had tried to pull over the silver BMW X3 for speeding at around 11:21 p.m., but the driver sped off instead. The woman—who had two Boston terriers in the back of the vehicle—allegedly fled to the Venice Beach area where she proceeded to drive into the water.
Dramatic video footage posted to the Citizen app shows the SUV partially submerged in the surf as a police helicopter buzzes overhead while a crowd of bystanders watch the scene unfolding from a pier.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Russian ambassador to the United States says he plans to complain to American officials about security failings at the embassy in Washington, D.C. on Sunday as voters cast their ballots in the Russian presidential election.
Anatoly Antanov told reporters that "traitors" were allowed "to block the entrance to the Russian embassy and interfere with Russian citizens" as they tried to vote, according to RIA Novosti. He added that the Russian diplomatic mission would make a complaint about the matter on Monday and, if necessary, "express the most severe protest regarding the issue of ensuring the security of the Russian embassy."
Protesters opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin gathered at the embassy on Sunday carrying Ukrainian flags and anti-war signs. Similar actions were launched at polling stations in Russian cities and other international locations as part of the "noon against Putin" protest plan backed by the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny before his death last month. Over 2,000 people—including Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaya, were estimated to have taken part in one demonstration outside the Russian embassy in Berlin.
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Mar 18, 2024
9 News Australia YouTubeA man died in Australia after falling from a hot air balloon over a residential area on Monday.
The victim, who has not been named, plunged from the basket around 30 minutes into the flight as the balloon passed over the suburbs of Melbourne in the southern state of Victoria. Local authorities are speaking to the balloon's passengers and pilot to establish the circumstances surrounding the man's fall, but police say the death is not being treated as suspicious.
Residents in the area described hearing a disturbing sound at the time of the incident. "My brother heard like a loud bang, almost like something—like a large item falling in your house," one person told Nine News. "It wasn't until we heard all the sirens that we came out."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyIt would be hard to argue that Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) is guilty of the worst sin in today's GOP—being a dreaded RINO, or "Republican In Name Only."
The Illinois congressman endorsed Donald Trump for president and voted with him 93 percent of the time during his administration. Bost voted to throw out the electoral votes of states Joe Biden won in 2020. And Trump has even endorsed his 2024 re-election bid, saying Bost is doing a "fantastic job."
None of it has been enough to stop a far-right challenger from casting Bost as the epitome of a RINO—forcing the incumbent into a brutal political dogfight ahead of Tuesday's primary election.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesMove over swing voters, independents, NASCAR dads, and soccer moms. So-called "double-haters" might be the most important voting bloc this year.
In case you missed the memo, "double-haters" are voters who don't like either Donald Trump or Joe Biden. This is an emerging cohort that many of us can identify with (although I try not to venture into "hate" territory).
Every year, we are treated to a plethora of news stories about undecided voters. You know the cliché: people who are socially liberal and fiscally conservative. Because these voters (who somehow manage to make it through life without picking a team) are persuadable, they get a ton of ink and disproportionate attention from politicians. If you like receiving voter mail, tell a canvasser you're not sure which candidate you like—but that you definitely plan on voting.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyPARIS—When Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for their depiction of a lesbian relationship in breakout French hit Blue is the Warmest Colour in 2013, it marked the first time two actors were awarded the prize alongside the film's director, Abdellatif Kechiche. But it soon emerged that the women were scarred by their performances, not least by a 10-minute sex scene that took 10 days to shoot. In an interview with The Daily Beast soon after the film's release, the actors described the experience as "horrible" and said they would never work with Kechiche again.
"The thing is, in France, it's not like in the States," Seydoux said. "The director has all the power. When you're an actor on a film in France and you sign the contract, you have to give yourself, and in a way you're trapped."
Ever since #MeToo began to expose the vulnerability of actors to sexual abuse, U.S. film productions have started hiring "intimacy coordinators"—a person tasked with ensuring the physical and psychological well-being of actors in scenes involving sex and nudity. Last year's deal between the actor's union SAG-AFTRA and Hollywoo
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Mar 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesA disproportionate amount of driver and pedestrian deaths occur at night, partially due to low visibility, according to AAA. While only a quarter of all driving in the U.S. takes place at night, that's when 77 percent of all pedestrian deaths and 50 percent of all driver deaths occur.
However, 64 percent of drivers in the U.S. "do not regularly use their high beams," according to AAA. Drivers are choosing the risks of darkness over the risks of glare.
"We've all been there: You're driving at night, squinting ahead, wishing you had more light to see the road, but you don't switch on your high beams because you don't want to blind oncoming drivers," AAA wrote in a press release.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Jerry Glaser/CBP"Each seizure saves lives." That's what New York State Police acting Superintendent Steven James said last month after his team seized 5,000 fentanyl pills.
But are ever-increasing fentanyl seizures a sign that we're finally winning the war on drugs? Not even remotely. Indeed, the evidence shows the opposite: Fentanyl seizures don't save lives; they take them.
Now, there's recent research that backs up this counterintuitive dynamic. Researchers reported in the American Journal of Public Health that disruptions to the drug market resulting from police drug busts in Indianapolis during 2020 and 2021 increased fatal overdoses over three weeks within a 500-meter radius of the drug seizure. Fatal overdoses doubled by two weeks after the drug bust.
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Mar 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Peacock(Warning: Spoilers ahead for Apples Never Fall.)
Type A characters whose single-minded drive is a benefit and a curse are an Alison Brie TV specialty. Rumors keep swirling about a forthcoming Community feature-length film, but for now, "Six Seasons and a Movie" remains a fun reference rather than an actuality. While fans wait for Greendale College's most famous alumni's return, Brie steps outside the tightly wound box she's known for on that show to play free spirit Amy Delaney in Peacock's mystery drama Apples Never Fall.
While the likes of Annie Edison from Community and Trudy Campbell from Mad Men would struggle to take Amy's penchant for hope circles and positivity ceremonies seriously, Brie delivers a different version of the single-minded drive that has made her work on those beloved TV series and other gems like GLOW so memorable. Throw in a picture-perfect family with a truckload of secrets and parents played by Annette Bening (in her first major TV role) and
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Mar 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Apple TV What's the deal with Florida these days? It seems like everyone is migrating to the Sunshine State—and specifically Palm Beach—for a little vacation. There was Annette Bening in her rotten new limited series, RHONY star Tinsley Mortimer for her long-awaited fairytale wedding, and, of course, Donald Trump for the annual barnacle-boiling convention known as the Mar-a-Lago New Year's Eve party. Deny it all you want, but Palm Beach is having a moment.
Now, allow Kristen Wiig and a crew of consummate costars to elaborate on why this spring break destination is becoming so popular again. In the new series Palm Royale, which premieres on Apple TV Mar. 20, Wiig plays a woman with big ambitions and little money who is determined to break into the Palm Beach social scene in 1969. And while tales of enterprising strivers aren't exactly new, the show finds plenty of innovation in its sun-drenched setting, letting Florida's newcomers and its fully blossomed biddies go at it in pursuit of meaningless power. While its side narratives about the burgeoning women's rights movement fall flatter, Palm Royale has enough Aqua Net and quaaludes to buoy the series. A bewitching performance by
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Mar 18, 2024
HBO/screengrabJohn Oliver got one quick joke off at Kate Middleton's express during the opening moments of HBO's Last Week Tonight on Sunday. At the top of his quick recap of the week, the fellow Brit cracked, "A certain someone's Adobe free trial expired in a pretty public manner," as the Princess of Wales' now infamously doctored family photo appeared on the screen beside him.
It wasn't quite the 30 minute deep dive into the mystery surrounding Middleton that some viewers may have been hoping for, but the throwaway line perhaps makes more sense when you consider Oliver may have realized he went a little too far earlier last week during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
"I was out. I thought, let's all just ignore this, we've moved on—until the photoshop thing," Oliver said when asked directly about what in the world was happening with the royals. "It feels like you're almost handling badly in an impressive way at this point."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Jamie McCarthy/Getty ImagesWhen members of the Kennedy clan gathered to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, they did so with a very special guest of honor: the president of the United States.
That one of the most well-known family dynasties in the country might choose to hang out with its most powerful man isn't necessarily surprising. But it did mark a sharp rebuke to the one relative noticeably absent from a warm family photo the group snapped together on Sunday: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is currently mounting his own quixotic independent campaign for the White House.
"It's not enough to wish the world were better, you must make the world better," Kerry Kennedy, the younger sister of RFK Jr., wrote in a X post sharing the photo. "@POTUS President Biden, you make the world better."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/HBOA few months have passed, and now, Herbert Zubak (Matthias Schoenaerts) has almost completely taken over Elena Vernham's (Kate Winslet) chancellorship. The Regime is changing hands. Everyone in the palace is drinking tea brewed in wormy dirt. How scrumptious.
But even the muddy tea is complicated: It requires the use of three soils from three different areas of the country in the warm water. If any of the palace staffers screw this up in the slightest, they'll be ousted. Most of Elena's employees have grown jumpy, Nicholas (Guillaume Gallienne) warns Elena: "Not hugely terrific for morale, is it?" he asks.
"No baby fat," Elena snarks.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyTara Harding is a nurse practitioner who's been helping North Dakota women get pregnant for five years. But for her own fertility treatment, Harding is going to Colorado.
The 38-year-old runs a women's health clinic in Bismarck that specializes in fertility treatment. In June, she plans to have surgery to address one of her own health concerns: endometriosis, a uterine condition that makes it more difficult to conceive. If she can't conceive naturally after that, she will turn to in vitro fertilization—just not in her home state.
"I'm not going to take any risk with [my embryos] locally and be worried about not being able to move forward with the treatment." she said.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyExpectant parents invite doctors and nurses into the delivery room, not police officers. But law enforcement agencies have backdoor access in New Jersey.
The intrusion starts within 48 hours after birth, when maternity ward workers prick an infant's heel to collect blood for laboratory testing. The screening allows for early detection of rare conditions like cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease.
All states do this. But afterward they destroy the paper cards they use to collect dried bloodspots. New Jersey keeps the blood.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesDonald Trump has even more choice words for Jimmy Kimmel.
In a Sunday appearance on Fox News' MediaBuzz, the former president addressed the viral moment at the Oscars earlier this month where Kimmel, who was hosting, all but paused the ceremony to read Trump's scathing "review" aloud to the whole audience. (Adding, for good measure: "I'm surprised you're still up. Isn't it past your jail time?")
Prompted by Fox host Howard Kurtz, Trump took a moment to delight in his own TruthSocial post—"I said some other pretty good things"—before getting into the Kimmel-bashing.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Carlos Barria/ReutersJonathan Glazer shocked audiences when he used his Oscars acceptance speech to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, comparing today's Israel to Nazi Germany. But not all of his colleagues from the award-winning film The Zone of Interest agree with him.
In an appearance on the Unholy podcast last week, Zone of Interest executive producer Danny Cohen said that he wholeheartedly disagreed with Glazer's statements at the awards ceremony.
"I just fundamentally disagree with Jonathan on this," Cohen told hosts Yonit Levi and Jonathan Freedland. He agreed that the war is "tragic and awful" and blamed Hamas for the loss of civilian life in Gaza.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Natalia Kolesnikova/Pool/AFP via Getty ImagesA coordinated protest effort by Russian voters was unleashed at polling stations across the country on Sunday as they demonstrated their opposition to President Vladimir Putin, who is poised to win an election that only ever had one possible outcome: extending his political reign for another six years.
Putin, 71, faced little real opposition in the fight. His fiercest opponent and biggest threat, Alexei Navalny, died in a remote Arctic penal colony almost exactly a month ago, having been sentenced to more than three decades behind bars on charges internationally condemned as bogus and politically motivated.
His widow, Yulia Navalnaya, had urged Russians to turn out at noon on Sunday to quietly protest Putin, with multiple outlets reporting that lines at polling stations and Russian embassies around the world appeared to grow around midday. "You can ruin the ballot, you can write Navalny on it in bold letters, and even if you don't see the point in voting at all, you can just come and stand at the polling station and then turn around and go home," she encouraged them, according to Axios.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Natalia Kolesnikova/Pool/AFP via Getty ImagesVladimir Putin excoriated U.S. democracy on Sunday in a speech claiming victory in the Russian presidential election that, despite a war aboard and protests at home, only ever had one possible outcome: extending his political reign for another six years.
"Out of every voice, we are building a common will of the people of [the] Russian Federation," he said from his campaign headquarters in Moscow, according to the BBC.
He shrugged off international criticism—including from the United States, where a White House National Security Council spokesperson decried the elections as "obviously not free nor fair."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Fox NewsDonald Trump claims he'd be able to end the war in Gaza simply by pressuring Israel to seek out peace.
During an interview with Fox News' MediaBuzz, Trump blasted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and said Israel should disassociate itself from Democrats. He then claimed that he would tell Netanyahu to end the war "quickly," urging the country to move on from a state of violence.
"I think you have to finish it up and do it quickly and get back to the world of peace," Trump told host Howard Kurtz. "We need peace in the world."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Illustration by The Daily Beast/Bucks County District AttorneyThe man who allegedly killed three people and sent his Pennsylvania town into lockdown has been charged with multiple offenses in New Jersey, where authorities say he stole a car before driving across state lines to shoot and murder his relatives.
Andre Gordon, 26, was charged by New Jersey authorities with first-degree carjacking and multiple counts related to unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition. According to the criminal complaint, Gordon had an unregistered semi-automatic "ghost gun" rifle which had no serial number and an unknown make and model.
Charges in Pennsylvania, where the murders occurred, are still pending.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Robert Nickelsberg/GettyA former Idaho State Police Trooper currently on trial for the alleged murder of his wife was arrested on Friday night at Spokane International Airport in Washington.
Daniel Howard, who is accused of faking his wife's suicide after he allegedly choked her to death, was booked into the Spokane County Jail around 10:40 p.m. on Friday. He was later transferred to the Kootenai County Jail on Saturday, where he remained as of Sunday morning.
It's unclear what Howard was doing at the airport, but his bond conditions included an 11 p.m. curfew and a requirement to stay two miles away from an airport, according to KHQ.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
CNNIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forcefully pushed back against Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's Senate-floor condemnation of his government, saying the U.S. shouldn‘t try to dictate how or when another government conducts its elections.
"I think what he said is totally inappropriate," Netanyahu said on Sunday's State of the Union. "It's inappropriate for him to go to a sister democracy and try to replace the elected leadership there. That's something that Israel, the Israeli public does on its own, but we're not a banana republic."
Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official, excoriated Netanyahu's government for the high civilian death toll in Gaza and demanded Israel hold new elections to deal with the country's response to Hamas and the Oct. 7 attack. "Nobody expects Prime Minister Netanyahu to do the things that must be done to break the cycle of violence, preserve Israel's credibility on the world stage, and work toward a two-state solution," Schumer said.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Chris Jackson/Pool via ReutersKate and William "will not be rushed" into talking
Friends of Kate Middleton tell the U.K. Sunday Times that she has been "devastated" by the furor over the doctored Mother's Day image she and Prince William distributed last week showing her and her three children, which caused a frenzy of rumor and speculation about her health—and the state of their marriage. The paper says Kate is now considering revealing details of her health mystery—though how, when, and where are still unknown.
In a detailed report, the paper's royal editor Roya Nikkhah writes that Kate and William have been "shaken" by all the rumors and conjecture, which went into overdrive when the image showed she wasn't wearing her wedding ring.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Chris Jackson/Pool via ReutersKate and William "will not be rushed" into talking
Friends of Kate Middleton tell the U.K. Sunday Times that she has been "devastated" by the furore over the doctored Mother's Day image she and Prince William distributed last week showing her and her three children, which caused a frenzy of rumor and speculation about her health—and the state of their marriage. The paper says Kate is now considering revealing details of her health mystery—though how, when, and where are still unknown.
In a detailed report, the paper's royal editor Roya Nikkhah writes that Kate and William have been "shaken" by all the rumors and conjecture, which went into overdrive when the image showed she wasn't wearing her wedding ring.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.
Donald Trump's unfounded new claim that Hillary Clinton used acid to delete her emails shows the former president doesn't quite grasp how the BleachBit software program works.
"They released Hillary Clinton. She hammered her phones, she used all sorts of acid testing and everything else. They call it BleachBit, but it's essentially acid that will destroy everything within 10 miles," he told Newsmax. "I mean, what she did was unbelievable. Nothing happens to her."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and Courtesy Kittery Police Department/Murder, She ToldIt took two missed Sunday phone calls for Reeves K. Johnson III's family to worry about him.
The 31-year-old had recently moved to Kittery, New Hampshire, where he got a welding job and rented a cabin. An art lover with long brown hair who enjoyed reading and playing his guitar, Johnson was known in his family as someone who didn't waste his words, especially about his private life. But he rarely missed a Sunday phone call to his family and wrote short letters every two weeks.
"My parents tried Reeves after they got home from their Bermuda trip in February of 1983," his sister Sally Swartz told The Daily Beast this week. "But we couldn't get a hold of him. He was not the type of person to just go off and vanish. He wouldn't go off the grid."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and FluentPetIt's hard to flip through animal videos on social media without coming across the hexagonal buttons made by FluentPet, a start-up determined to help animals talk to humans. The company's patented product allows animals to "talk" by pressing individual buttons, each of which produces the sound of a single word or phrase, like "play" or "outside."
The end result, at least in the context of TikTok and Instagram, has been an endless stream of videos in which animals string together several words in a similar cadence to Apple's Siri, assuming she'd been dropped in water first. The platforms are now heavily saturated with videos of dogs having existential crises, cats engaging in emotional blackmail, and even the occasional horse attempting interspecies communication.
Such videos have helped FluentPet to sell more than two million buttons since its launch in June 2020. But dominating social media is not the only goal of the pet-focused startup, which outlined plans to power a dog-based economy in a patent granted to the company in 2022. "Dogs already make excellent aids in a security context, in helping with patrols," the patent reads. "With rudimentary language abilities, dogs could potentially even replace humans in this r
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Mar 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and FluentPetIt's hard to flip through animal videos on social media without coming across the hexagonal buttons made by FluentPet, a start-up determined to help animals talk to humans. The company's patented product allows animals to "talk" by pressing individual buttons, each of which produces the sound of a single word or phrase, like "play" or "outside."
The result, at least in the context of TikTok and Instagram, has been an endless stream of videos in which animals string together several words in a similar cadence to Apple's Siri, assuming she'd been dropped in water first. The platforms are now heavily saturated with videos of dogs having existential crises, cats engaging in emotional blackmail, and even the occasional horse attempting interspecies communication.
Such videos have helped FluentPet to sell more than 2 million buttons since its launch in June 2020. But dominating social media is not the only goal of the pet-focused startup, which outlined plans to power a dog-based economy in a patent granted to the company in 2022. "Dogs already make excellent aids in a security context, in helping with patrols," the patent reads. "With rudimentary language abilities, dogs could potentially even replace humans in this role—or
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Mar 16, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Apple TV /Emma Fraser"Oversexed, overpaid, and over here" was a common refrain that underscored the tension between the stationed U.S. troops and the local British during WWII. It is a phrase uttered in the Apple TV historical epic Masters of the Air when American Major Harry Crosby (Anthony Boyle) ventures out of East Anglia to Oxford's hallowed academic grounds as part of an allied conference. However, the interactions between the U.S. airmen and the locals in Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk, are far from prickly, and the close bonds remain more than 80 years later.
When Major John "Bucky" Egan (Callum Turner) and his best friend, Major Gale "Buck" Cleven (Austin Butler), depart Thorpe Abbotts at the end of the series (and in real life), locals turned out in their Sunday best to wave farewell to the 100th Bomb Group, who had called this slice of rural East Anglia home for the last two years. Cows are shown grazing beside a burned-out wreckage of a B-17 Flying Fortress, offering a reminder of the losses that led to the "Bloody Hundredth" nickname—as well as what was here before the war came to these shores.
Lying about 100 miles north of London, Thorpe Abbotts is Masters of the Air's beating heart, and the control tower from that historic time still stands today. In fact, if you venture to the
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Mar 16, 2024
PBSAlice & Jack boasts the Masterpiece brand, two charismatic and engaging leads, and an initially intriguing story about the intricacies, complications, and madness of love. None of those, however, can outweigh the grating manipulations and frequent inanity of Victor Levin's six-part PBS drama, premiering Mar. 17, which asks the excellent Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson to sell a variety of plot points that strain credibility to preposterous lengths. Despite a few genuinely touching moments, it's far too daft to enchant.
In London some years ago, Jack (Gleeson) and Alice (Riseborough) meet for a first date facilitated by a matchmaking app. Jack is a reserved and sincere biomedical researcher determined to save the world one cured disease at a time, whereas Alice is a forward, shoot-from-the-hip financial wizard who wastes little energy on things (and people) she doesn't want. No sooner have they met than Alice decides that she definitely wants Jack, inviting him to either depart as friends or come back to her apartment. Given how taken he is with her, Jack naturally opts for the second option. Post-sex, Alice says that he's wonderful and then kicks him out, telling him not to call or text. The look in her eye—equal parts smitten and sad—indicates that she's immediately fallen hard for him, as he has for her, and yet when he does reach out the following day, she ignores him. When Jack sees her that night with another man, he takes it on the chin and tries to move on with his life.
This is the recurring st
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Mar 16, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesThe grumblings started early. It was just a few days into 2024, and music forums, subreddits, and Twitter replies to a benevolent insider by the moniker of "Festive Owl" were crawling with angry Coachella fans. There was a time, they were eager to remind you, that Coachella's lineup dropped in the first week of January. But last year, and now this year, the days passed with radio silence. Eventually, other festivals butted in: Boston Calling, Alabama's Hangout Festival, Bonnaroo, and Governor's Ball all unveiled their lineups in early January.
Even other festivals were pissed. Coachella holds embargoes on artist announcements, meaning other events that share artists with the California festival can't announce their lineups until Coachella does. Resonate Suwannee, an EDM festival in Florida, delayed at least one artist announcement due to "the radius clause of a certain festival in California." Their passive-aggressive callout incited a panic among Coachella's terminally online: What could be delaying the lineup announcement? Was Goldenvoice, the promoter behind the festival, scrambling to find a headliner? Maybe Coachella booked Taylor Swift, but she was forcing them to announce on the 13th, to celebrate her lucky number? Whatever it was, the well-oiled machine that used to reliably deliver shiny, untouchable lineups had rusted.
There are always the haters when a lineup gets announced. But when Coachella finally drop
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Mar 16, 2024
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastOn February 23, a Tennessee federal judge granted a preliminary injunction sought by the attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia against the NCAA's name, image, and likeness (NIL) enforcement rules.
In response, NCAA President Charlie Baker issued a memo on March 1 to member institutions informing them that "the Division I Board of Directors directed NCAA enforcement staff to pause and not begin investigations involving third-party participation in NIL-related activities." The upshot? No more regulation of NIL in college sport.
This development was heralded as a "gut punch for the NCAA" and "the clearest sign yet that
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Mar 16, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and Elizabeth Helgelien/YouTubeA wild feud between a rising GOP star and her late ex-husband's mom erupted into public view on Wednesday when candidate Elizabeth Helgelien's infuriated former mother-in-law accused the MAGA-centric Nevada politician of being a liar and an adulterer.
Daniel Halseth, Christine Halseth's son, was stabbed to death in 2021 by the couple's teenage daughter, Sierra Halseth, and her boyfriend, Aaron Guerrero. The pair are now serving life sentences.
In a scathing op-ed published Wednesday in The Nevada Globe, Halseth pleaded with Helgelien to drop out of the race for the state's 3rd Congressional District "for my family's sake, and out of respect for voters and the office she's seeking."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 16, 2024
Mario Anzuoni/ReutersJeremy Renner said his former Avengers co-star Robert Downey Jr. kept him happily distracted during his time in the ICU, after he suffered a snow plowing accident in January, according to a People exclusive.
"We ended up having really great chats on FaceTime, like we were dating or something," Renner said.
In an interview on ABC News, the actor said he was "awake through every moment," of the accident which crushed his leg, and remembered "all of" the pain he experienced.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 16, 2024
NewsmaxDonald Trump, who was impeached for inciting his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn his 2020 electoral loss, warned on Saturday that there will be a "bloodbath" for the auto industry if he doesn't win the election this November.
In his first campaign appearance since officially becoming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, the former president headlined a rally in Ohio to whip up support for Bernie Moreno ahead of Tuesday's GOP Senate primary. Moreno, a hardliner endorsed by Trump, is locked in a three-way primary race with state Sen. Matt Dolan and Secretary of State Frank LaRose.
However, Trump was far more interested in airing his grievances about the dozens of criminal indictments he's currently facing and the decisive election he lost to President Joe Biden than he was in actually campaigning for Moreno. Furthermore, he painted an extremely dark and dystopic vision for the nation if he were to once again lose to Biden this fall.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 16, 2024
Precinct/InstagramA Crescenta Valley town councilman who was caught peeing on the door of an LGBTQ bar has resigned from his post.
Chris Kilpatrick handed in his resignation on Thursday after he was identified as one of two men who publicly urinated in the employee entrance to downtown Los Angeles' Precinct bar. According to a statement released by the council, Kilpatrick resigned right before he was supposed to have a "special meeting" with the council president to discuss his conduct.
Kilpatrick's offense was caught on security camera and posted to the bar's Instagram on Tuesday as a PSA.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 16, 2024
Kevin Dietsch/GettyAn apoplectic Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) complained on Friday that Judge Scott McAfee should have recused himself in the Fani Willis case because he once "worked for" the Fulton County district attorney and donated to her campaign.
The MAGA congresswoman's arguments were summarily dismissed by legal experts, however, who noted that Greene did not cite a "sufficient basis for judicial recusal" and that McAfee's ruling was highly critical of Willis' "unprofessional" behavior.
Following Willis' combative testimony in which she defended her romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she assigned to the election interference case against Donald Trump, McAfee ruled that there was a "significant appearance of impropriety that infects the current structure of the prosecution team." He added that it could only be resolved if one of them left the case, resulting in Nathan Wade tending his resignation hours later.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 16, 2024
Police Watch via YouTubeNew police body camera footage shows a drunk passenger swearing and wetting herself while being escorted out of an airport.
In September, an inebriated woman was attempting to fly from Dallas-Fort Worth Airport to Colombia when she got into an alleged altercation with airport staff. The woman had become belligerent after she was told to consolidate her carry-on items, and had taken swings at the airline staff who tried to talk to her.
She was arrested for public intoxication after two staff members said they wanted to press charges against the woman for assault, according to The Daily Mail.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 16, 2024
Matthew HatcherA suspect has been identified in a Saturday shooting that left three dead and the Philadelphia suburb of Falls Township temporarily under a shelter-in-place order.
After fleeing the scene, the suspect eventually holed up in a New Jersey home and held hostages for hours. Police were ultimately able to safely free the hostages while the suspect remained barricaded in the house.
During a press conference in Falls Township at 2 p.m. local time, authorities said that 26-year-old Andre Gordon killed the mother of two of his children, describing the shooting as a domestic violence incident.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 16, 2024
Matthew HatcherA suspect is now in custody following a Saturday morning shooting that left three dead and the Philadelphia suburb of Falls Township temporarily under a shelter-in-place order.
After fleeing the scene, 26-year-old Andre Gordon eventually holed up in a New Jersey home and held hostages for hours. Police were ultimately able to safely evacuate all of the hostages while the suspect remained barricaded in the house.
Through mid-afternoon, local law enforcement was still negotiating with the alleged murder suspect in an attempt to get him to come out of the home and surrender peacefully.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 16, 2024
Matthew HatcherA suspect has been identified in a Saturday shooting that left three dead and the Philadelphia suburb of Falls Township temporarily under a shelter-in-place order.
According to local law enforcement, police were dispatched to investigate reports of a shooting. The initial investigation determined that 26-year-old Andre Gordon, driving a stolen vehicle, had allegedly killed two people at a residence in the township around 8:52 a.m. local time.
Gordon, according to police, then shot and killed another individual before fleeing the scene, eventually stealing another car at gunpoint in the parking lot of a Dollar General. Police believe that Gordon knew all of the victims, outside of the person he carjacked.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 16, 2024
Monica Schipper/Getty Images for The Recording AcademyMonica SchipperCeline Dion posed in a photo with her sons in a post to raise awareness for Stiff Person Syndrome.
The singer was diagnosed with the rare, incurable neurological illness in 2022. The illness restricts mobility by causing extreme muscle rigidity and painful spasms.
"Trying to overcome this autoimmune disorder has been one of the hardest experiences of my life, but I remain determined to one day get back onto the stage and to live as normal of a life as possible," she wrote in an Instagram post for International SPS Awareness Day. "I am deeply grateful for the love and support from my kids, family, team and all of you!"
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 16, 2024
Drew AngererFormer Trump White House aide Peter Navarro is begging the highest court in the United States to intervene so he doesn't have to report to prison next week.
Filing an emergency appeal to the United States Supreme Court on Friday, Navarro is asking the court to allow him to remain out of jail as he attempts to overturn his conviction of contempt of Congress.
The MAGA loyalist appeared to run out of options on Thursday when his last-gasp effort to avoid prison time was unanimously rejected by a federal appeals court. In its ruling, the three-judge panel said that Navarro had failed to answer "substantial questions of law" that could overturn his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 House committee.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 16, 2024
Department of Environmental Conservation via TwitterEnvironmental conservation police seized an 11-foot long blind alligator on Thursday that the owner was letting play with human guests, including kids.
Owner Tony Cavallaro had installed an in-ground swimming pool inside of his home in Hamburg, New York where he'd been keeping the 30 year-old alligator on an expired permit.
The owner "allegedly allowed members of the public to get into the water to pet the unsecured alligator," according to a press release from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Public contact with such an animal is prohibited by DEC guidelines.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 16, 2024
Real Time with Bill MaherLate-night host Bill Maher sparred with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) over the one-time Donald Trump critic's MAGA flip-flop, noting on Friday night that she was "very hard" on the former president following the January 6 insurrection.
During an appearance as a panelist on Real Time with Bill Maher, Mace insisted that her shift towards Trump in recent years was largely due to President Joe Biden and his policies, complaining that his administration has been "that bad." Maher, meanwhile, wondered if her recent embrace of Trump had more to do with the changing demographics of her congressional district.
"When you ran in 2020, you won by one point. Then they redistricted your area, and I think it was less Black people, and then you won in 2022 by 14 points," Maher stated. "Does that explain the shift in your politics? Because you used to be a little more to the middle."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 16, 2024
SOPA ImagesElon Musk and Don Lemon are going through a nasty professional breakup, and now things are getting downright silly.
On Wednesday, Lemon announced that the Musk had pulled the plug on his forthcoming show on the billionaire's social media site, saying that the temperamental X owner hadn't liked the questions Lemon asked him during an interview.
Musk has responded by echoing claims that Lemon had been asking for too much from the company in return for his new gig.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Mar 16, 2024
Anna MoneymakerThe Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors filed a motion Friday in bankruptcy court to force Rudy Giuliani to sell his $3.5 million Florida condo to help pay off some of his debts.
Last year, the former New York City mayor was ordered to pay more than $148 million to the two election workers he was found to have defamed.
Wandrea ‘Shaye' Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman say they were subjected to numerous violent and racist voicemails after Giuliani shared a video from a vote counting center in Fulton County, which he falsely claimed showed the two women scanning ballots multiple times to help Joe Biden.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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