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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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Jul 26, 2024
Lei Zhu/GettyThe reality TV show contestant who killed and ate a rare bird while filming in New Zealand claimed that other contestants were "involved" in the scandal that got him booted from the competition.
"Other teams were aware and were present and involved in this whole thing," 26-year-old Spencer ‘Corry' Jones, who appeared in the U.S. survival competition Race to Survive: New Zealand, told RealityTea in an interview published July 9—a day after the episode in which Jones was disqualified aired.
Jones, a river guide based in Wyoming, received an official warning from New Zealand's Department of Conservation for hunting down a weka bird, a flightless and endangered species that is protected under New Zealand law. The TV crew was also put "on notice" over the incident, according to local reports.
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Jul 26, 2024
Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesIn the wake of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' record-breaking fundraising numbers, Ben Shapiro has an answer for anyone wondering if Donald Trump would pick J.D. Vance as his running mate again: "I doubt it."
"I think he probably would have picked somebody like Glenn Youngkin from Virginia in an attempt to broaden out his base," Shapiro said on the latest episode of his self-titled show, according to Media Matters. "Instead, he went with J.D. Vance feeling, because he was right that at the time, he had a very solid advantage in the race against Joe Biden."
Shapiro was referring to President Joe Biden's murmuring debate performance two weeks before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week. That performance was the catalyst for Biden quitting the race and why Trump felt comfortable choosing a running mate who defies the traditions of picking a candidate that shores up support with the party's larger base.
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Jul 26, 2024
Brendan McDermid/ReutersThe FBI has reportedly confirmed former President Donald Trump was indeed shot by a bullet, ending speculation about what exactly bloodied Trump's ear.
The agency told Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich in a statement on Friday afternoon, "What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject's rifle," the statement read. The statement was also posted by Fox's Bret Baier.
The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Beast.
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Jul 26, 2024
XA great Olympics Opening Ceremony should be a profound, stirring celebration of a country's history and culture. It should also be absolutely batshit. On those metrics, I would consider Friday's kickoff to the Paris games a rousing success.
The spectacle was, from my perspective, very French: I didn't understand most of what was going on, but kept being aggressively told it was all very cool and so I convinced myself that I loved it. And then there was the Céline Dion of it all. (Not French, but can speak it!)
I could never have—even on my most potent cocktail of melatonin, weed gummy, and white wine—dreamed up the orgy of music, dance styles, and energetic skipping through the streets of Paris that made up the eclectic ceremony.
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Jul 26, 2024
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettySen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) told an audience during a 2023 event that he would like to have a beer with Jan. 6 rioter Jacob Chansley, also known as the QAnon Shaman.
"This guy who was sentenced to four years in prison for literally walking around in the Capitol," Vance said of Chansley in the video, reported by The Washington Post and Mediaite. The clip was taken "at an unspecified event in 2023 ," according to Mediaite. "We were taught it was a crazy guy with, like, the bullhorns, you know what I'm talking about? He looked like he'd be a fun guy to have a beer with, right? The Q shaman, that's what they called this guy."
"Look, this guy may have broken the law, I don't know, but he sure as heck should not be spending four years in prison," Vance added. "Nothing they showed on video would make me think that this guy should be going to prison for four years."
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Jul 26, 2024
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesDon't fuck with cats, and certainly don't fuck with "childless cat ladies." It's a truth Republican vice presidential candidate J. D. Vance has been learning the hard way in recent days, after comments he made during a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson resurfaced online.
In the interview, he described Democratic politicians and leaders as "a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made...the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children."
Vance has since received criticism from all over: from Jennifer Aniston to Gabby Giffords, as well as cat lovers, women who've struggled to start a family, quick-to-pounce Democrats and many more. But the extent of the ire he may have awoken is perhaps yet to be fully understood, especially considering the cultural pull of those who could be proudly among the "childless cat lady" lobby. It will likely take more than catnip to calm these power players down, and rightly so:
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Jul 26, 2024
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Alex Brandon/APDonald Trump ditched his ear bandage for his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday. The former president's right ear returned to public life after being injured during the assassination attempt on the former president on July 13.
The former president's large bandage became an impromptu fashion statement during the Republican National Convention with some attendees donning DIY wound dressings. Following the convention, Trump swapped out his bulky white gauze for a thin nude bandage.
Photos from Trump's sit down with Netanyahu appear to show the former president's ear intact without major scabbing or scarring. In one image, the former president points out the site of injury to the Israeli prime minister.
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Jul 26, 2024
Megyn KellySen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) doubled down on his comments "childless cat ladies" rant during a Friday appearance on the Megyn Kelly Show.
In a clip posted by the KamalaHQ X account, Vance tells Kelly "obviously it was a sarcastic comment," referring to his "childless cat ladies" comment, adding "people are focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance, and the substance of what I said, Megyn—I'm sorry, it is true."
The same audio does not appear anywhere in the full interview posted to Megyn Kelly's YouTube channel. However, Kelly and Vance do reiterate many of Vance's grievances against "anti-child" Democrats.
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Jul 26, 2024
Tasos Katopodis/Getty ImagesArizona Senator Mark Kelly is ratcheting up his bid to be wing man to newly crowned Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
And the former astronaut and Navy veteran's military and scientific bonafides just landed him a shiny new endorsement from the 314 Action Fund, a grassroots organization that elects STEM professionals who want to tackle climate change and health care.
"He uses facts, science, and data to make informed public policy decisions," Shaughnessy Naughton, the president of 314 Action Fund, said. "He can simultaneously energize the base, win swing voters, and profoundly impact this race and we are proud to stand with him."
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Jul 26, 2024
Tasos Katopodis/Getty ImagesArizona Senator Mark Kelly is ratcheting up his bid to be wing man to newly crowned Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
And the former astronaut and Navy veteran's military and scientific bonafides just landed him a shiny new endorsement from the 314 Action Fund, a grassroots organization that elects STEM professionals who want to tackle climate change and health care.
"He uses facts, science, and data to make informed public policy decisions," Shaughnessy Naughton, the president of 314 Action Fund, said. "He can simultaneously energize the base, win swing voters, and profoundly impact this race and we are proud to stand with him."
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Jul 26, 2024
XSandy Hook denier Alex Jones is convinced a video proves with "no doubt" that President Joe Biden has been replaced by someone—or something— much taller.
Jones retweeted a video on X Friday morning that appeared to be taken at the White House on the day of Biden's "pass the torch" speech. However, Jones claimed the president smiling and waving in the clip, with First Lady Jill standing nearby, was "not the real Joe Biden."
"Clearly different," wrote Jones, adding, "The legs are 6 to 8 inches longer."
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Jul 26, 2024
Christophe SIMON / AFP"Sorry, if I come up to you and kiss you," director Francis Ford Coppola boomed into a microphone on the set of his new film Megalopolis, according to an unnamed source who was there. "Just know it's solely for my pleasure."
On Friday, Variety published two exclusive video clips leaked from the set of that much-maligned epic that show the 85-year-old filmmaker walking up to a scantily clad background actor and kissing her on the mouth.
The Guardian previously reported witnesses who saw Coppola act in this inappropriate way during the film's nightclub scene and quoted him as saying he was "trying to get them in the mood."
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Jul 26, 2024
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesJ.D. Vance's sister has come to the defense of the GOP vice presidential candidate after he was criticized by actress Jennifer Aniston for a past remark that America was run by "a bunch of childless cat ladies."
Lindsay Lewis Ratliff, 44, said in a statement released by his campaign that her brother "was raised by some of the strongest women I know and went on to marry an incredibly strong woman in Usha."
Married with three children, Ratliff added: "J.D. is a testament to the women in his life, and the attacks from the media and Democrats that assume anything otherwise is vile."
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Jul 26, 2024
Reuters TVDonald Trump's former White House physician insisted Friday he is certain the former president was hit by a bullet during his assassination attempt two weeks ago.
"There is absolutely no evidence that it was anything other than a bullet," Ronny Jackson, a Republican U.S. House representative from Texas who is no longer a fully licensed physician, said in a letter posted on Truth Social.
Jackson slammed FBI Director Christopher Wray, who told Congress this week that he could not conclude whether Trump was hit or grazed by a bullet, or by flying shrapnel.
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Jul 26, 2024
Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via GettyAn actress and comedian filed the fourth sexual assault lawsuit this summer against one-time real estate heavy hitter Oren Alexander on Friday.
Renee Willett's lawsuit accuses Alexander of trapping her in his apartment nine years ago under the premises of viewing his luxury art collection before sexually assaulting her. Willett said filed her suit after reading the emotional accounts of 10 other women who alleged sexual misconduct claims against the wealthy, powerful, Alexander brothers in The New York Times this week.
Oren Alexander and his older brother, Tal, were once considered the "princes" of the luxury high-rise scene, but a series of lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct and drugging women for the past two decades has their kingdom crashing down.
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Jul 26, 2024
AURORE BELOTThis fall, former first lady Melania Trump is releasing a memoir. It will be called Melania because that is her name.
The memoir will be published by Skyhorse, where Mrs. Trump will be joined by other distinguished authors, including Rudy Giuliani, Woody Allen, Alex Jones, and the hunter who shot Bambi's mom. Ok I made that last one up but that's only because she hasn't written it yet. Oh yeah, evil hunters can be women too. Just ask Kristi Noem's dog. Check your biases, people!
There is a lot of curiosity about the former first lady's ability to write her own work after her 2016 speech that sounded suspiciously like one Michelle Obama gave and her recent statement, which was…well we'll just say weird.
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Jul 26, 2024
Theo Whiteman/HBOFound family. The hero's journey. Forbidden, unrequited love. Insurmountable odds. They're all tropes of the fantasy genre, common themes found across literature, television, film—from A Song of Ice and Fire to The Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time to Harry Potter. There is, however, one other prominent theme, one which the latest episode of House of the Dragon, titled "Smallfolk," delved into: reluctant leadership, and the suitability of those who do not seek power, but find it seeks them.
Camped out at Harrenhal, Daemon Targaryen has spent much of Season 2 contending with the mysterious Alys Rivers, while ruminating over the crown, the throne, and his past mistakes through dreams and nightmares. The most recent episode saw his proclamation before a weirwood tree that Rhaenyra "… never even wanted it", referring to the crown, to which Alys' response is a great summation on the essence of this piece: "That's perhaps why your brother gave the crown to her. Perhaps those who strive for it are the least suited to wear it." The line taps into the respective suitability to power for both Daemon and Rhaenyra, while also standing as an elegant line of dialogue in itself.
It's an idea that's in-keeping with how House of the Dragon has portrayed Rhaenyra Targaryen when compared to her counterparts on the Green side: Aegon, and now Aemond, and indeed, to Daemon him
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Jul 26, 2024
Lisa Lake/Bill Pugliano/Getty Kesha had three words for Donald Trump's vice presidential candidate when she was cornered by a paparazzo for her thoughts: "Fuck that man!'
The 37-year-old singer, who has said she prefers not to label her sexuality, was headed into LAX on Thursday, and when a reporter simply mentioned the name J.D. Vance, Kesha replied, "Boo!"
"Fuck that man! That's all I have to say," she continued. "Fuck them all!"
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Jul 26, 2024
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via GettyRep. Jim Himes (D-CT), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, appears to have a sudden interest in couches and sofas.
What started out as a mischievous fake post by a social media prankster went on to provoke a flurry of viral memes and provide salacious material for late night talk show hosts, and now it has seemingly infiltrated the upper echelons of U.S. Congress.
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Jul 26, 2024
NBCThe opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024 has begun with an assortment of all things French from Les Miserables to the can-can and one random lady dressed in a croissant dress.
The reaction online
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Jul 26, 2024
Stefan Wermuth/GettyOrganizers of the Paris Olympics will make history with the first-ever opening ceremony held outside the main arena.
Instead of being an indoor spectacular, the event will unfold along the river Seine as 10,000 athletes travel on 100 boats almost four miles from the Austerlitz Bridge, past the iconic Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, and arrive near the Eiffel Tower.
As tradition states, Greece will lead the parade, while the French delegation will be the last team announced. Other countries arrive in alphabetical order, except for the United States and Australia, which are set to be the future hosts of the Games in 2028 and 2032, respectively.
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Jul 26, 2024
Paramount Reality television has entered a new sickly sweet era. It's the feeling you get watching the rebooted Real Housewives of New York City, with its cast members unwilling to throw jabs in an attempt to protect their image. The same goes for The Bachelor or Survivor; afraid to be the villain, most cast members chart a prolonged boring streak. In a tragic move, RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars is the newest victim of the kindness economy.
The ninth season of All Stars has some great talent: Roxxxy Andrews, Gottmik, even Nina West, when she's not throwing off precariously laid sequin capes. But, with no eliminations in sight and an oddball "badge" system securing their status, the competition has stalled. In the immortal words of Lashauwn Beyond, it's become "RuPaul's Best Friend Race." Great drag, dull television.
Not even a surprise appearance from Kamala Harris in Friday's finale rescued the series.
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Jul 26, 2024
Kevin Dietsch/GettyFormer Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) has become the latest high-profile woman to spring to the defense of Kamala Harris over J.D. Vance's remarks about "childless cat ladies."
Giffords, 54, who is married to Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), almost lost her life in an attempted assassination in January 2011 after being hit in the head by a bullet. Six other people were killed in the attack.
"Vice President @KamalaHarris is a proud mom of two remarkable stepchildren—and so am I," Giffords wrote on X. "@CaptMarkKelly and I were trying to have a baby through IVF before I was shot and that dream was stolen from us. To suggest we are somehow lesser is disgraceful."
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Jul 26, 2024
Frederic J. Brown/GettyElon Musk's estranged transgender daughter has accused the billionaire of "viciously" yelling at her during a family road trip because her voice was too high-pitched.
Speaking to NBC News in her first interview, Vivian Jenna Wilson, 20, said Musk put pressure on her to appear more masculine and insisted on her deepening her voice when she was in elementary school.
"I was in fourth grade. We went on this road trip that I didn't know was actually just an advertisement for one of the cars—I don't remember which one—and he was constantly yelling at me viciously because my voice was too high. It was cruel," she said.
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Jul 26, 2024
Ueslei Marcelino/ReutersThere's something nasty in the water at the Paris Olympics—and no, it's not a giant shark.
A Wall Street Journal investigation has uncovered what it calls "one of the dirtiest secrets of the Olympic Games: Everyone pees in the pool."
That's right. The world's best swimmers, the elite of their sport, all pee in the pool. And they don't mind admitting it.
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Jul 26, 2024
Thibaud Moritz/GettyFrance's sports minister said she has not ruled out Russian sabotage after arson attacks caused chaos on the country's high-speed train network hours before the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics.
Rail services into the French capital were crippled after "malicious" fires at two key rail installations brought trains to a halt. A third attack was thwarted, but Eurostar services between London and Paris were also hit by vandalism and passengers were being advised not to travel.
"A massive attack took place last night to paralyze the high-speed rail network," SNCF, the French rail network, said in a statement.
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Jul 26, 2024
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesBarack and Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris for president, saying in a spot released by her campaign early Friday that they "couldn't be prouder" to help propel her to victory.
The 55-second ad sees Harris taking a call from the Obamas while seemingly walking backstage at a campaign event. Former President Obama's distinctive voice breaks in over the phone immediately: "Kamala!"
After Michelle greets her as well, the video cuts to a title card—"The Obamas Call Kamala"—before shifting to show the vice president standing in front of a black SUV. Holding the phone to her ear with the speakerphone button visibly on, Harris says, "It's good to hear you both."
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Jul 26, 2024
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesBarack and Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris for president, saying in a spot released by her campaign early Friday that they "couldn't be prouder" to help propel her to victory.
But the former president issued a stark warning that Democrats are "underdogs," reflecting polling which shows Harris still behind Donald Trump despite President Joe Biden dropping out of the race. His wife also promised to work to elect "my girl Kamala," suggesting the former first couple will be a major presence on the campaign trail, a potentially huge boost to the Democrats.
The 55-second ad sees Harris taking a call from the Obamas while seemingly walking backstage at a campaign event. Obama's distinctive voice breaks in over the phone immediately: "Kamala!"
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Jul 26, 2024
Animated GIF by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyOn Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray triggered a firestorm when he told a congressional hearing on the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, "With respect to former President Trump, there's some question about whether or not it's a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear."
That's right. Nearly two weeks after gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on a Trump rally, the director of America's top law enforcement agency said under oath that law enforcement did not know what caused the injury to the president's ear that launched a thousand stories of divine intervention and Trumpian heroics. Now, the New York Times reports, the FBI wants to interview Trump, as the agency examines "numerous metal fragments found near the stage" where he was speaking as the incident in Butler, Pennsylvania, unfolded on July 13.
Inevitably, Trump turned on Wray in a characteristically bellicose post on Truth Social Thursday night, claiming Wray's "only focus is destroying J6 Patriots, Raiding Mar-a-Lago, and saving Radical Left Lunatics, like the ones now in D.C. burning American flags and spray painting over our great National Monuments—with zero retribution. No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel. The hospital called it a ‘bullet wound to the ear,' and that is what it was. No wonder the once storied FBI has
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Jul 26, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty"We fall into the trap of finding someone we think we love and then locking it up, or being locked up ourselves by that," Sting told Playboy magazine in 1985. And I think we have to be bigger than that. I think our souls have to be larger. Of course, I'm as jealous and small-minded as anybody else."
While not particularly fair to the wife Sting had recently abandoned, that point of view had been fertile ground for his songwriting. In 1983, with sessions for his band The Police's fifth album looming, Sting and his new partner Trudy Styler decamped to Ian Fleming's old Jamaican hideaway Goldeneye, where he wrote the bulk of the songs that would make up Synchronicity: "King of Pain," "Wrapped Around Your Finger" and, of course, the worldwide smash he was referring to in that Playboy interview, "Every Breath You Take."
"The song is very, very sinister, and ugly," Sting would later tell the BBC. "And people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite."
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Jul 26, 2024
APWallace, an attorney and co-chair of the Wallace Global Fund, was the 2018 Democratic nominee in Pennsylvania's First Congressional District.
It's been a long time since either party had a convention that actually decided on candidates, and many Democrats worry about the potential chaos. Now that President Biden has stepped aside and Vice President Harris seems to have the nomination wrapped up, shouldn't we just let her pick her Veep and lock it in well before the convention?
Will it be Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona or Govs. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Tim Walz of Minnesota, or Andy Beshear of Kentucky? These, according to sources speaking to the New York Times, are top of the list for Kamala Harris' possible Veep picks—even if the list "remains in flux." Add to the mix (even if she says she is not interested) Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Secretary of Transportation and dynamic former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.
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Jul 26, 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.
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) may be resigning from his post on Capitol Hill later this summer after being convicted on federal bribery charges—but his real crime, according to The New Abnormal, may just be how often he ate at one particular restaurant in Washington: Morton's Steakhouse.
"His lawyers at one point mentioned that there was nothing remarkable about him having gone to the Morton's Steakhouse on Capitol Hill, with some people that were bribing him, because he ate there 250 times per year," guest host David Roth said on this week's episode.
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Jul 26, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Paramount (Warning: Spoilers ahead for Evil.)
Whether you believe demons are real or a hallucination caused by a psychological condition is all a matter of perspective on the endlessly entertaining Paramount supernatural series Evil. If you do think an accountant or businessman isn't human, check the back of their neck to look for the Velcro fastener, or suffer the consequences.
Of course, sharing such useful information with anyone, let alone your skeptical daughter, is a shortcut to your psychiatrist making an emergency in-person visit—regardless of the one-in-100-year storm bearing down on Manhattan. Sheryl Luria (Christine Lahti) might sound crazy, but her suspicions prove correct, and despite being on the lookout for this tell-tale sign, Sheryl is finally bested by former lover Dr. Leland Townsend (Michael Emerson) with some help from a human skin-wearing demon.
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Jul 26, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Bleecker Street MediaThank the movie gods that after a drought we finally have a superhero movie this week. No, not the kind in which a spandex-clad manchild delivers faux-ironic schmuck humor, but the kind that assembles a group of seniors who happen to be (or become) friends. In these comedies, they become nursing-home cheerleaders, or go to the Super Bowl, or pretend to read 50 Shades of Grey. This time, they set out to get married and get high in South Florida.
The friendship at the heart of The Fabulous Four spans decades, with Bette Midler's impulsive Marilyn as its chaotic center, for better and worse. Fresh off the death of one husband, Marilyn is ready to marry again, and summons her friends in Key West for a bachelorette celebration days before the rushed ceremony. But she and Lou (Susan Sarandon) are deeply estranged, leaving the misbehaving Kitty (Sheryl Lee Ralph) and Alice (
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Jul 26, 2024
Paradox HouseWhen horror fans talk about horror movies, they always stress one thing. No matter what subgenre the film belongs to, whether it's about hauntings, vampires, home invasions, or demonic possession, they're always "really about" something else.
Werewolf cinema has run the gamut from the bloody terror of female puberty (Ginger Snaps) to Californian serial killers (The Howling) to simple xenophobia (An American Werewolf in London), but the latest entry into the genre, English werewolf movie The Beast Within, takes on something a lot more human. It's been a while since we've gotten a good werewolf movie, and while The Beast Within may not be destined to be a classic, it has more up its sleeve than a pair of hairy claws.
After a short prologue foreshadowing a scourge of wolfy violence, we're dropped into the present-day home of young couple Noah (Kit Harington) and Imogen (Ashleigh Cummings) and their 10-year-old daughter Willow (Caoilinn Springall). They live in a large, rickety house, one of those old country estates that dot the English hills (the film was shot at Harewood Castle), and from minute one, something seems amiss. Willow has an affliction that forces her to occasionally use a face mask connected to an oxygen tank, and her housebound nature allows her to observe her parents' strained relationship.
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Jul 26, 2024
CBSIn the week since J.D. Vance (R-OH) was chosen as Donald Trump's new running mate, some may say that things haven't been going all that well for him. From his embarrassing anecdote about diet Mountain Dew to the renewed focus on his history of flip-flopping, it's no surprise to hear rumors that some Republicans are reportedly regretting the choice.
One rumor, in particular, has caught Stephen Colbert's attention. The Late Night host spoke in his Thursday monologue about the scandalous gossip that Vance once had sex with a couch.
The rumor was born from a July 15 post on X that appeared to be sourced from Vance's memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. It quickly turned into a viral meme, one so popular that the Associated Press even fact-checked it on Wednesday. AP quickly took the fact check down, with a spokesperson saying the story, "didn't go through our
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Jul 26, 2024
Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesFBI investigators have asked to interview Donald Trump as they determine whether a bullet or a piece of shrapnel hit the former president during an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
On Wednesday, while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that "there is some question about whether or not it was a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear."
According to a Thursday report in The New York Times, citing the F.B.I. and a federal law enforcement official, the agency is keen to talk to Trump in order to get a more detailed version of events surrounding the incident and, according to the official, a more complete record of his injury, The Times notes.
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Jul 25, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/BravoThis season of The Real Housewives of Orange County is asking the brave question: What will viewers think when the most annoying Housewife, Gina Kirschenheiter, gets such a prominent edit?
It's an interesting method, one riskier than you may expect from such a banner season, and one that's proving mixed results. On one hand, Gina's top billing in the drama is no doubt the calm before the Storms-Beador, but it's also testing the limits of how much we as an audience care about her, six seasons in.
Tonight's episode picks up where we left off, with Gina dramatically leaving Jenn in the dust at a coffee shop. The two ladies each call up a peer, Gina phoning Emily and Jenn FaceTiming Shannon, to relay what just happened. Gina's version of events leaves a lot to be desired, though. Don't let the newsboy cap fool you, Gina's no unbiased reporter. She's incapable of realizing that beating Jenn down isn't exactly the most effective method, nor that she comes across much less intact, despite being technically in the right.
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Jul 25, 2024
Procuraduria General de la Republica/ReutersTwo of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, including the son of infamous crime boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman, were surrendered to U.S. law enforcement agents, the Justice Department confirmed on Thursday evening.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia and Joaquin Guzman Lopez were arrested earlier the same day in El Paso, Texas, Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a brief statement.
"Both men are facing multiple charges in the United States for leading the Cartel's criminal operations, including its deadly fentanyl manufacturing and trafficking networks," Garland said.
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Jul 25, 2024
Kent Nishimura/Getty ImagesNearly two weeks after a gunman attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania, new reports are presenting more questions than answers about the shooting that day.
Did a Bullet Really Pierce Trump's Ear?FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress on Wednesday that his agency is still unsure whether Trump was hit or grazed by a bullet, or by flying shrapnel.
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Jul 25, 2024
Kent Nishimura/Getty ImagesNearly two weeks after a gunman attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania, new reports are presenting more questions than answers about the shooting that day.
Did a Bullet Really Pierce Trump's Ear?FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress on Wednesday that his agency is still unsure whether Trump was hit or grazed by a bullet, or by flying shrapnel.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
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Halloween decor may already be hitting the shelves at Home Goods, but we're here to remind you that summer is still here. That whipped cream sunscreen (yes, it slaps) is on sale at Ulta RN, and there's still plenty of time for Charlie XCX and Kamala Harris to give us some new Brat remixes. The world is your briny oyster this summer, and that includes your options for the best vacation rentals to splash around in while the temps are high.
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Jul 25, 2024
ITVPrince Harry has revealed that he will not bring his wife Meghan Markle back to the U.K. because he fears for their safety in light of the amount of negative press they have received.
The prince told the ITV documentary Tabloids on Trial, which aired in the U.K. Thursday night, that "all it takes is one lone actor, one person who reads this stuff, to act on what they have read."
Asked if he was seeking attention through the court battles with the tabloid press, Harry said: "There is more than enough attention on me and my wife anyway. There was... they pushed me too far. It got to a point where you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
ITVPrince Harry has revealed that he will not bring his wife Meghan Markle back to the U.K. because he fears for their safety in light of the amount of negative press they have received.
The prince told the ITV documentary Tabloids on Trial, which aired in the U.K. Thursday night, that "all it takes is one lone actor, one person who reads this stuff, to act on what they have read."
Asked if he was seeking attention through the court battles with the tabloid press, Harry said: "There is more than enough attention on me and my wife anyway. There was... they pushed me too far. It got to a point where you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyIn 1995's Dangerous Minds, Michelle Pfeiffer played a Marine veteran turned inspirational teacher bringing hope to the disadvantaged children of East Palo Alto at Carlmont High School.
That year, the same school saw the start of a more remarkable, real-life drama involving a tech mogul's second wife and a young Stanford Law student. They tutored disadvantaged Carlmont students, but that was just the start of a wild story of celebrity and ambition. One of the two is now a billionaire many times over who is widely respected for her continuing good works. The other sought to parlay funding from his fabulously wealthy friend in an effort to brand himself as the "new Oprah."
He is now facing a maximum of 37 years in prison for a multi-milion dollar fraud.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump took to his social media app Truth Social to vow revenge in a hypothetical scenario where Iran succeeded in assassinating him.
"If they do ‘assassinate President Trump,' which is always a possibility, I hope that America obliterates Iran, wipes it off the face of the Earth", Trump wrote. "If that does not happen, American Leaders will be considered ‘gutless' cowards!"
Trump included a brief clip of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking before a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. "Iran's regime has been fighting America from the moment it came to power," Netanyahu said. "As we recently learned, they even brazenly threatened to assassinate President Trump," he added.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesWhite House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre pointed out on Thursday that it speaks volumes that Republican congressional leaders had to admonish members to refrain from "being racist" and sexist towards Vice President Kamala Harris.
Asked about a Politico report about a closed-door meeting on Tuesday morning in which party leaders begged lawmakers to stop attacking Harris on the basis of identity, Jean-Pierre replied, "When you have the Speaker of the House [Mike Johnson]… set up a meeting to tell Republican leaders to stop being racist, to stop being misogynist, to stop being sexist, I think that says a lot that they have to be told to not do that.
"But more broadly," she continued, "I think it's—I think it's desperate. I think it's disgusting and I think it's a dog whistle. And we should not forget that she is the vice president of the United States. She's the vice president of the United States. She should get that respect."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Aaron Josefczyk/ReutersAndrew Torba, the founder of the far-right favorite social media site Gab, wrote in a blog post Wednesday that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who attempted to take former President Donald Trump's life at a campaign rally earlier this month, may have been a user of the site.
"Today Gab learned that Thomas Crooks, the deranged Joe Biden supporter who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump, may have had an account on our platform," Torba wrote in the post. "We are unable to confirm that the account in question actually belonged to him, but have reason to believe it does after receiving an emergency disclosure request from a law enforcement agency."
The account called ‘epicMicrowave' was created in September 2019 and made nine posts on the site, most of which defended various policies championed by President Joe Biden.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Instagram/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty ImagesAna Navarro, a long-time co-host of The View, posted on her Instagram Thursday an old photo of nude Melania Trump as a way to troll her husband's supporters, saying: "You wanna go low? ... I'll happily go 20,000 leagues under the sea."
It was a picture from 2000 featured in British GQ, five years before Donald Trump married her.
Navarro also included a picture of both Trumps partying with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, also from 2000. Her explanation for posting these images was that it was meant to showcase Trump's hypocrisy—and the hypocrisy of many Republican pundits when it comes to Vice President Kamala Harris.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Patrick McMullan/Getty ImagesA former Jeopardy! champion who up until a month ago taught math at an elite private school in New York City was on Thursday charged with soliciting sexually explicit images of minors, The New York Times reported.
Winston Nguyen, 37, was dramatically arrested in front of his students outside $60,000-a-year Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn last month, the Daily Beast first reported, but was released days later as authorities launched an investigation into the matter.
Using two different Snapchat accounts, he is alleged to have attempted to catfish at least six children into sending him "images of nudity and sexual performances" between Oct. 2022 and May 2024, prosecutors said.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Kevin Mohatt/ReutersOne of the more unexpected joys of the past week has been the extent to which Republicans and right wing media outlets seem lost, wandering through the forest, trying to find the perfect phrasing to properly denigrate Kamala Harris.
They don't exactly know how to hate her yet? I mean they definitely know they hate her, they just aren't sure why, or how to communicate it in a way that STICKS. And it's hard because she doesn't even remind anyone of their bitch ex-wife at all, and her cough prevention machine is concealed so perfectly into her well-fitting and attractive clothes.
"Cacklin' Kamala Harris" just doesn't have the same ring to it as "Crooked Hillary" or "Biden Crime Family," after all, and it doesn't begin to touch "Meatball Ron" or the "Old Crow."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFPVice President Kamala Harris slammed Donald Trump on Thursday for "backpedaling" on an agreement to debate her.
The former president and 2024 GOP nominee "previously agreed upon a September 10th debate," Harris said hours after a glowing reception at an American Federation of Teachers event. "He agreed to that previously; it now appears he's backpedaling. But I'm ready. And I think that voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage. And so I'm ready. Let's go."
The vice president made the comments as she returned to Washington, D.C., for a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She soon reiterated the attack on X.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Marco Bello/ReutersDonald Trump's campaign fired back at Kamala Harris on Thursday, digging in its heels over the prospect of debating the likely Democratic presidential nominee and confirming the former president will not participate-at least not yet.
Harris had hours earlier slammed Trump in response to rumblings about his decision, accusing his campaign of "backpedaling" on an agreement to debate her.
However, in confirming Trump would not partake, his campaign blamed Democratic Party instability.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Marco Bello/ReutersDonald Trump's campaign fired back at Kamala Harris on Thursday, digging in its heels over the prospect of debating the likely Democratic presidential nominee and confirming the former president will not participate—at least not yet.
Harris had hours earlier slammed Trump in response to rumblings about his decision, accusing his campaign of "backpedaling" on an agreement to debate her.
However, in confirming Trump would not partake, his campaign blamed Democratic Party instability.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters"Look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC—the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it."-J.D. Vance
The whispers are growing and the stakes are too high to stay silent. It's time to ask the question on everyone's mind: Can J.D. Vance be an effective leader while parenting three children under the age of seven?
Having children is a beautiful choice for those who want them. Raising children is also a choice but it's not always beautiful. It's a time-consuming, occasionally terrifying process. Vance made that choice and said it was the best thing he'd ever done.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Mario Anzuoni/ReutersAn account that claims to be Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk's daughter, fired back at her father in a series of Threads posts on Thursday following Musk's interview with Jordan Peterson in which he repeatedly deadnamed her and said she was "killed" by the "woke mind-virus."
"I look pretty good for a dead bitch," Wilson wrote on Threads—notably not Musk's X platform.
"This is entirely fake. Like, literally none of this ever happened. Ever. I don't even know where he got this from," Wilson said in reply to a post on Musk's X in which he claimed she "was born gay and slightly autistic."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
TMZ/screengrabPresumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has a long list of potential VP picks, and Pete Buttigieg is reportedly one of them. The Secretary of Transportation stopped by TMZ on Wednesday, where the hosts repeatedly tried to get him to confirm or deny that he wanted the job.
Although Buttigieg declined to give an answer on that front, he did respond to host Harvey Levin's question about his potential status as the first openly gay running mate. Levin asked him, "I'm wondering how you would evaluate the significance of something like that."
"I'm not saying it's not a thing, but I'm saying it's been extraordinary how people look past that," Buttigieg explained. "When I came out, I was in the middle of reelection in my home town in Mike Pence's Indiana, and I wound up getting a higher proportion of the vote than the first time, because the city I was mayor of thought I did a good job."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and BlogspotDonald Trump's running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), waxed poetic about the Zach Braff movie Garden State, shared his musings about the meaning of home, and posted emotional updates from the months before he was deployed to the Middle East on a personal blog verified by the Daily Beast.
The site, titled "The Ruminations of J.D. Hamel"—Vance's name before he officially had it changed after his wedding in 2014—was hosted on the popular early-internet site Blogger and is connected via a profile to a previously reported political blog penned by Vance called "The Hillbilly Elite."
The blog was launched in 2005, just before Vance was shipped off to Iraq to serve as a public relations specialist in the Marine Corps. In it, the future veep candidate said he spent his final days before his deployment reading a biography on Winston Churchill and his Bible. He also cried a lot, according to one post, the first time he had done so since his grandmother recently died.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Scott Olson/Getty ImagesWhen newly crowned Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris announced her candidacy roughly 100 days before the November election, she knew she could rely on a secret superpower: more than two million members of Black sororities and fraternities who quietly wield massive power to deliver her both money and votes.
Harris, a member of the historically Black Alpha Kappa Alpha since her time at Howard University, tapped into that power on one of her first campaign stops as a presidential candidate. Appearing in a cream-suit and heels, she drew rapturous applause while speaking to members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority at their annual Grand Boulé convention in Indianapolis.
Black Greek life doesn't end after collegiate community service events, boisterous house parties, and the sweet freedom of graduation. Behind the salmon pink and kelly green signage of Harris' sorority is a pearl necklace-wearing behemoth of a voter mobilization beast—and I would know.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
YouTube/screengrabVice President Kamala Harris will appear at the start of the Season 9 finale of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars on Friday, July 26, with an important message for viewers.
"Each day we are seeing our rights and freedoms under attack, including the right of everyone to be who they are, love who they love, openly and with pride," she says in an early clip from the episode. "So as we fight back against these attacks, let's all remember no one is alone. We are all in this together, and your vote is your power. So please make sure your voice is heard this November, and register to vote."
"You better vote," adds recurring judge Leslie Jones, waving a sign that reads, "Register to vote! vote.gov."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Brendan McDermid/ReutersWhatever else he may or may not be, whether or not his right ear was grazed by a bullet bloodied by shrapnel, Donald Trump is a victim of gun violence.
And numerous studies say that as many as 90 percent of gun violence victims suffer from PTSD. There is reason to believe that Trump might very well be one of them.
"Being that close to losing your life, it changes you mentally," Aswad Thomas, national director Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, told The Daily Beast.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Brendan McDermid/ReutersWhatever else he may or may not be, whether or not his right ear was grazed by a bullet or bloodied by shrapnel, Donald Trump is a victim of gun violence.
And numerous studies say that as many as 90 percent of gun violence victims subsequently suffer from PTSD. There is reason to believe that Trump might very well be one of them.
"Being that close to losing your life, it changes you mentally," Aswad Thomas, national director Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, told The Daily Beast.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Kaylee Greenlee Beal/ReutersVice President Kamala Harris is having the best week of her political career, met by exaltation everywhere she goes.
Long a presidential hopeful, Harris has never felt so loved by Democrats. After they spent weeks tearing their hair out over Biden's stumbles and frail appearance, the telegenic 59-year-old is riding high on the clear contrast with her boss—even turning the tables and painting Donald Trump as a crazy old criminal.
She has fired up those were feeling ho-hum about November: young people, women and voters of color. Charli XCX has deemed her "brat." Beyoncé let her use her track Freedom for the Harris campaign. Even her step-daughter is an icon. Democrats, from left-wing Squad members to vulnerable Democrats in battlegrounds, are all abuzz. An instant internet sensation, she can do no wrong.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Kaylee Greenlee Beal/ReutersVice President Kamala Harris is having the best week of her political career, met by exaltation everywhere she goes.
Long a presidential hopeful, Harris has never felt so loved by Democrats. After they spent weeks tearing their hair out over Biden's stumbles and frail appearance, the telegenic 59-year-old is riding high on the clear contrast with her boss—even turning the tables and painting Donald Trump as a crazy old criminal.
She has fired up those were feeling ho-hum about November: young people, women and voters of color. Charli XCX has deemed her "brat." Beyoncé let her use her track Freedom for the Harris campaign. Even her step-daughter is an icon. Democrats, from left-wing Squad members to vulnerable Democrats in battlegrounds, are all abuzz. An instant internet sensation, she can do no wrong.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Netflix and Getty ImagesWhen it comes to satire, a handful of topics are evergreen: sex, politics, and making fun of rich people. The 14th-century Italian story collection The Decameron is no exception, and neither is the 21st-century Netflix series very loosely based on Giovanni Boccaccio's plague-era masterpiece. Our own plague era may or may not be over, depending on who you ask. But the wealth gap just keeps getting bigger, and mocking out-of-touch elites who feast and frolic while the masses suffer will, sadly, not become irrelevant any time soon.
And the sex? Both versions of The Decameron delight in bedroom romps, although Kathleen Jordan's take on the material is more invested in the relationships between its characters than Boccaccio's. Rather than using a gaggle of nobles hiding out in a lavish villa as the Black Death burns through the countryside as a framing device, Netflix's Decameron stays with 10 core characters—give or take a few peasants and mercenaries—throughout its eight-episode run. This ends up becoming a liability, as the series assumes that if we spend enough time with these rotten people, we'll grow to love them. The assumption is incorrect.
The series starts off appealingly morbid, the camera following a cart piled with dead bodies over the cobblestone streets of Firenzia (a.k.a. Florence, Italy). Just before it's dumped into a river, a peasant pulls a pair of boots off of a corpse, ecstatic about their quality. It's dark and silly in a Monty Python and the Holy Grail type of way, a comedic note The Decameron will return to throughout t
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Jul 25, 2024
Fox NewsKamala Harris' campaign trolled Donald Trump after his appearance on Fox News Thursday morning with a statement attacking his age and criminal conviction.
The Republican gave his two-cents to Fox & Friends on a range of issues over the course of a roughly 30-minute interview, variously describing President Joe Biden as a "problemmed man" and slamming Harris as "real garbage." Harris for President quickly hit back, releasing a: "Statement on a 78-Year-Old Criminal's Fox News Appearance."
"After watching Fox News this morning we only have one question, is Donald Trump ok?" the statement read. It then offered a list of what the statement described as the main "takeaways Trump gave to the American people."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Getty Images/PoolLachlan Murdoch is supposed to be enjoying the 60th birthday celebration of The Australian this week. His father Rupert founded the paper in 1964 to fulfill his father Sir Keith Murdoch's dream that Australia would one day have its own national newspaper.
But instead of that dynastic vision being feted in their homeland, the Murdochs are dealing with the aftermath of a bombshell revealing that they are a deeply fractured family—and showing just how far Rupert, 93, will go to protect his idea of dynasty. In this case, from beyond the grave.
I'm writing a biography of Rupert for Hachette's Grand Central Publishing and got wind a few weeks ago that there was a kerfuffle over the family trust in the run-up to Rupert's marriage—his fifth—to the Russian-born molecular biologist Elena Zhukova. I had presumed it had something to do with the arrival of a new wife.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Charley GallayJon Stewart has made a career out of mocking the sensationalist, fast-paced landscape of modern news media, but in his latest podcast episode of The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, he seems to think journalism's reached a new low.
"I'm just gonna give you some of the examples of the whiplash that people were going through," Stewart said, focusing on the weeks of coverage between Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance and him dropping out of his presidential campaign. "So the articles were ‘the Democrats who believe Biden should drop out are insane. They are walking into a death trap. These are idiots… it's too late. It's too late for Biden to drop out. Biden is your only chance, you are idiots.'"
"Two days later they are saying, ‘Excitement around Kamala Harris are the Democrats' only chance, thank God they finally pulled the plug on this death trap of a candidacy that was Joseph Biden.'"
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Kristina Bumphrey/WWD via GettyKamala Harris' stepdaughter, Ella Emhoff, has delivered an epic comeback after video resurfaced from 2021 of J.D. Vance calling the vice president a "childless" cat lady.
Vance made the comments during an appearance on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight while he was running for Ohio's Senate seat.
"We are effectively run in this country… by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too," Vance said at the time. "It's just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and Courtesy of Subversive MediaThe July 13, 2024, attempt on former President Donald Trump's life stunned Republicans and Democrats alike, but it was hardly the first time an assassin sought to change the course of American history with a bullet. Now, a new documentary shines a spotlight on one of the men who tried to kill a sitting commander-in-chief—and gives him a chance, after more than three decades, to tell his own story.
Hinckley (streaming August 30) is a non-fiction film about John Hinckley Jr., who on March 30, 1981, shot President Ronald Reagan as he was exiting Washington, D.C.'s Hilton Hotel. The crime shocked the nation, as did the revelation that Hinckley had carried out his plot in order to impress Jodie Foster, the then-teenage actress who had mesmerized him in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. Found not guilty by reason of insanity, Hinckley was institutionalized until his release in 2016—thus paving the way for him to speak about his life and actions in Neil McGregor's forthcoming doc.
"I'm John Hinckley. I shot the President of the United States. When you shoot the president, you expect to be killed," states Hinckley in the film's theatrical trailer, during which he also discusses his fixation on Foster, whom he used to call and send letters to because "that's just what an obsessed person does." Moreover, he confesses that his motivation for t
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Jul 25, 2024
HBO(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)
There's a lot of lust on House of the Dragon, but very little affection. Instead, these scenes have often hinged on unequal power dynamics and heavy emotional baggage, with characters who squirm with guilt and shame instead of pleasure.
Think back to the sight of Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) having to indulge the slimy lord Larys Strong's (Matthew Needham) foot fetish in exchange for news of strategic importance in Season 1, a scenario that pivoted on her clear powerlessness despite her rank as queen. Even when Alicent finally engages in a consensual encounter with the knight Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) in Season 2, what should be a reclamation of her sexuality is reframed as her enduring horror at being caught.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Kamala Harris/YouTubeKamala Harris released her first official presidential campaign ad on Thursday featuring the mugshot of her Republican rival, Donald Trump.
"In this election, we each face a question," the vice president says in a voiceover as Beyoncé's song "Freedom" plays. "What kind of country do we want to live in? There are some people who think we should be a country of chaos, of fear, of hate," she says over images of Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance.
"But us? We choose something different—we choose freedom," Harris says in the ad, her first since announcing her bid for the Democratic nomination over the weekend. "The freedom not just to get by, but get ahead. The freedom to be safe from gun violence. The freedom to make decisions about your own body."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Tim Graham/GettyPrince Harry believes his mother, Princess Diana, was likely among the first victims of phone hacking by the British tabloid press.
The Duke of Sussex made the claim in an interview for a documentary, Tabloids on Trial, which is set to air on Britain's ITV1 network Thursday. The prince speaks candidly in the film about how media intrusions into his own private life made him feel "paranoia and fear" and left him distrustful of people around him.
In December, a judge in England's High Court ruled that Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) had unlawfully obtained information for stories about Harry, including through "extensive" phone hacking, awarding him around $180,000 in damages. He later settled the rest of his claim against MGN for an additional sum. In the new documentary, Harry hailed the outcome as a "monumental victory."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via GettyFormer first lady Melania Trump is releasing her first memoir in the fall.
"Melania is the powerful and inspiring story of a woman who has defined personal excellence, overcome adversity, and carved her own path," according to a description of the book on her website. "The former first lady invites readers into her world, offering an intimate portrait of a woman who has lived an extraordinary life."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via GettyYouTube star MrBeast on Wednesday addressed grooming allegations against his former co-host and longtime collaborator Ava Kris Tyson.
Tyson, 28, was recently accused by other YouTubers of sending inappropriate messages to a child when she was 20. "Over the last few days, I've become aware of the serious allegations of Ava Tyson's behavior online and I am disgusted and opposed to such unacceptable acts," MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, said in a statement on X.
Donaldson's message came a day after Tyson herself announced they had "mutually decided" she would "permanently step away from all things MrBeast." Tyson also apologized "for any of my past behavior or comments if it hurt or offended anyone" while unequivocally adding: "I never groomed anyone."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Fox NewsDonald Trump baselessly claimed Kamala Harris is "totally against the Jewish people"—apparently either forgetting or ignoring the fact her husband is Jewish.
Speaking at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday night, the Republican nominee slammed his likely presidential election rival for skipping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to a joint session of Congress earlier in the day. But Trump seemed completely oblivious to the existence of second gentleman Doug Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a vice president in American history, when making his unfounded claim about Harris being against the Jewish people.
"Now what she's doing is she's running away from Israel," Trump said at his rally. "She refuses to go to—Bibi Netanyahu is in Washington. She refuses to be there." Harris' office said she was unable to attend the joint session on Capitol Hill because of a previously scheduled trip to Indianapolis but planned to meet with Netanayhu on Thursday, according to The Hill
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Jul 25, 2024
Carl Court/GettyBarack Obama is planning to endorse Kamala Harris' presidential bid despite initially refraining from doing so, according to a report.
The former president is set to make the endorsement "soon" and has been in close contact with Harris since she launched her White House bid Sunday, sources told NBC News. One source told the network Obama didn't want his endorsement to "overshadow" President Joe Biden's moment and his televised Oval Office speech Wednesday night in particular.
After Biden dropped out of the race Sunday and endorsed Harris to become his party's nominee, Democrats across the U.S. quickly fell in line behind the vice president. But several notable key Democratic figures—including Obama—didn't immediately declare their support.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Carl Court/GettyBarack Obama is planning to endorse Kamala Harris' presidential bid despite initially refraining from doing so, according to a report.
The former president is set to make the endorsement "soon" and has been in close contact with Harris since she launched her White House bid Sunday, sources told NBC News. One source told the network Obama didn't want his endorsement to "overshadow" President Joe Biden's moment and his televised Oval Office speech Wednesday night in particular.
After Biden dropped out of the race Sunday and endorsed Harris to become his party's nominee, Democrats across the U.S. quickly fell in line behind the vice president. But several notable key Democratic figures—including Obama—didn't immediately declare their support.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastThere was an instant sense of shock, excitement, and confusion for Pod Save America fans when the trailer for the upcoming 47th season of Survivor dropped in May.
Among the contestants was that podcast's co-host, former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett, sitting in the middle of the Fiji jungle wearing a colorful Survivor headband across his forehead. "I have no outdoor skills. What am I doing here?" Lovett asks in the clip. "I went camping as a Cub Scout—I threw up and went home."
In this week's episode of The Last Laugh podcast, Lovett explains that he was one of the many people who "rediscovered" Survivor during the pandemic, binging season after season at home and wondering what it would be like to compete himself. On a lark, he submitted a self-taped audition video and got accepted. Before long, he was secretly flying across the world to join the Season 47 cast, while his podcast listeners thought he was merely on some sort of extended vacation.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Aly Song/ReutersIt's been quite the week for Elon Musk.
It started with conflicting reports that he was - or was not - donating $47m a month to Donald Trump's campaign. It continued with Tesla's disappointing second quarter earnings which revealed a 45 percent drop in profits compared to 2023—sending his net worth plummeting by $16bn. He then announced he was stalling investment in a Mexican plant until he sees if Trump, if elected, levies tariffs on Mexico.
On Tuesday he accused a ‘woke mind virus' of killing his (estranged) transgender daughter. That same day Democrats accused him of restricting access to KamalaHQ on X, while a former Trump aide claimed his endorsement for Trump was a ‘kiss of death.'
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jul 25, 2024
Aly Song/ReutersIt's been quite the week for Elon Musk.
It started with conflicting reports that he was - or was not - donating $47m a month to Donald Trump's campaign. It continued with Tesla's disappointing second quarter earnings which revealed a 45 percent drop in profits compared to 2023—sending his net worth plummeting by $16bn. He then announced he was stalling investment in a Mexican plant until he sees if Trump, if elected, levies tariffs on Mexico.
On Tuesday he accused a ‘woke mind virus' of killing his (estranged) transgender daughter. That same day Democrats accused him of restricting access to KamalaHQ on X, while a former Trump aide claimed his endorsement for Trump was a ‘kiss of death.'
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Jul 25, 2024
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/ReutersNow that Vice President Kamala Harris has all but officially been named as the Democratic Party's new presidential candidate, it's time to speculate wildly about who she'll choose to be her running mate. Already, people are hand-wringing about it being a swing state politician who can "balance" the ticket by being perceived as less liberal and more male and white.
Historically, VP picks haven't had that much of an impact on voters. The last time a swing state running mate actually helped a president win a swing state was in 1960.
That means our first brat presidential candidate should actually prioritize a veep with whom she can appropriately vibe. Someone who can match her freak. Someone who is, in short, also brat.
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Jul 25, 2024
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesHeading into the 50th season of Saturday Night Live, fans of the show and its original cast may feel they already know all of the lore surrounding them and their iconic characters, such as how Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi took two white guys in black suits and rocketed The Blues Brothers to the top of the charts with a multi-platinum album in 1978 and a subsequent movie in 1980 that co-starred Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and James Brown—and in doing so, revitalized the careers of those music legends.
And yet, somehow, there are revelations aplenty in a new two-hour oral history, Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude, debuting Thursday exclusively on Audible.
Aykroyd, now 72, narrates and presides over the retrospective, which features previously unheard audio from Belushi (who died in 1982), some of the last testimony of his widow, Judith Belushi Pisano (who died earlier this month), as well as anecdotes from Blues Brothers musical director Paul Shaffer, band members Lou Marini and Steve Jordan, plus drummer Willie Hall, Belushi's real-life inspiration Curtis Salgado, filmmaker John Landis, and his wife, costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis.
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Jul 25, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images, Wikimedia Commons and Iowa LegislatureProject 2025, an authoritarian guidebook authored by the Heritage Foundation and essentially Donald Trump's bible in a would-be second term, is cause for alarm. Elements of this goody bag of democratic destruction take aim at everything from health care and education to the civil service and establishing a unitary executive.
But for all of the red flags waving around Project 2025 should Trump win the presidential election in November, far fewer conversations are being held about how Project 2025 is already in place in conservative-led states across America. This is most evident in the field of education.
For starters, Project 2025 proposes eliminating the Department of Education in addition to relocating funds that protect civil rights to privatization efforts like voucher systems. Public money for private schools should be a non-starter. Our nation's public schools serve the highest portion of minority students, students with disabilities, and low-income students.
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Jul 25, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images, Wikimedia Commons and Iowa LegislatureProject 2025, an authoritarian guidebook authored by the Heritage Foundation and essentially Donald Trump's bible in a would-be second term, is cause for alarm. Elements of this goody bag of democratic destruction take aim at everything from health care and education to the civil service and establishing a unitary executive.
But for all of the red flags waving around Project 2025 should Trump win the presidential election in November, far fewer conversations are being held about how Project 2025 is already in place in conservative-led states across America. This is most evident in the field of education.
For starters, Project 2025 proposes eliminating the Department of Education in addition to relocating funds that protect civil rights to privatization efforts like voucher systems. Public money for private schools should be a non-starter. Our nation's public schools serve the highest portion of minority students, students with disabilities, and low-income students.
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Jul 25, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyIn January the World Economic Forum declared AI-driven misinformation one of the biggest short-term threats to the global economy. However, six months later, in the wake of Taiwanese, Indian, British, and French elections, the death of democracy and truth is starting to seem greatly exaggerated.
While there were some incidents involving AI, they didn't overwhelm societies' ability to debunk them and none of them constituted significant political disruption—even as they have become easier to make by orders of magnitude.
Experts and media outlets, once warning of electoral chaos, are now coming to terms with this awkward anti-climax.
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Jul 25, 2024
CBSNow three days into Kamala Harris' historic presidential campaign, Stephen Colbert began his Wednesday monologue by highlighting some reassuring "hard data" that proved things were looking up for Democrats.
"Yesterday, a Reuters-Ipsos poll had Vice President Kamala Harris leading former President Donald Trump 44 to 42," said Colbert, to audience cheers. "That's after a whole year of Biden trailing in the polls."
Everything just "feels better," Colbert said. He pointed out how energetic Harris' rallies have felt compared to those of Trump vice presidential pick J.D. Vance, and highlighted the surge in voter registration after Harris' campaign was first announced. The best sign of all for Colbert, however, was just how weak Fox News' attacks on her have been so far.
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Jul 24, 2024
Erin Schaff/AFP via Getty ImagesThe ex-wife of Kamala Harris' beau has expressed her support publicly for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, calling out critics for their "baseless" attacks surrounding sexist commentary about Harris' lack of biological children.
Kerstin Emhoff was married to Doug Emhoff in 1992, and the pair remained together until 2008. They had two children together, and divorced in 2008.
"These are baseless attacks. For over 10 years, since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I," Kerstin Emhoff told CNN Wednesday. She later echoed the comments to The New York Times. "She is loving, nurturing, fiercely protective, and always present. I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it."
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Jul 24, 2024
Chris Kleponis/Getty ImagesFBI Director Christopher Wray revealed during a marathon testimony on Wednesday that investigators still do not know if former President Donald Trump was grazed by a bullet or a piece of shrapnel during his attempted assassination.
Twice during the hours-long session, Wray told lawmakers that the FBI was still working to determine what exactly struck the former president on his right ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. "My understanding is that either it [a bullet] or some shrapnel is what grazed his ear," Wray told Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.).
Later during the hearing, Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked Wray if investigators knew where all eight bullets fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks ended up after the shooting.
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Jul 24, 2024
BRANDON BELLDonald Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social immediately after President Joe Biden's address from the Oval Office Wednesday night, during which he explained why he was withdrawing from the presidential race and touted his list of accomplishments while in the White House.
"Crooked Joe Biden's Oval Office speech was barely understandable, and sooo bad!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. Biden had spent the past few days recovering after testing positive for COVID last week. Wednesday's speech was the first since Biden's abrupt decision to step down from the ticket, which he announced Sunday afternoon.
Trump followed the post up with an all-caps message: "CROOKED JOE BIDEN AND LYIN' KAMALA HARRIS ARE A GREAT EMBARRASSMENT TO AMERICA — THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A TIME LIKE THIS!"
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Jul 24, 2024
Bill PuglianoAt his first campaign rally since Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee, former President Donald Trump spoke at length about his new opponent, Hannibal Lecter, and even took a moment to mock political commentators who said the Republican nominee would become "nice" after his attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania.
"You know, I was supposed to be nice. They say, something happened to me when I got shot—I became nice. And when you're dealing with these people—they're very dangerous people—when you're dealing with them, you can't be too nice. You really can't be. So if you don't mind, I'm not going to be nice. Is that ok?"
The crowd let out a cheer in response.
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Jul 24, 2024
Evan Vucci/Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden, in a live, televised Oval Office address to the nation Wednesday, explained his decision to "pass the torch to a new generation" via his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor, and, with a clear nod to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, told Americans that they have the power to make sure that "kings and dictators do not rule."
Biden, having recovered from COVID, returned to Washington from Delaware earlier in the day, marking his first time back in the White House since ending his reelection bid last weekend.
That announcement, effectively bringing an end to a half-century in American politics, was borne out of a recognition that "personal ambition" must take a back seat to the interests of the nation, he said Wednesday.
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Jul 24, 2024
Evan Vucci/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden, in a live, televised Oval Office address to the nation Wednesday while surrounded by family, explained his decision to "pass the torch to a new generation" via his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor, and, with a clear nod to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, told Americans that they have the power to make sure that "kings and dictators do not rule."
Biden, having recovered from COVID, returned to Washington from Delaware earlier in the day, marking his first time back in the White House since ending his reelection bid last weekend.
That announcement, effectively bringing an end to a half-century in American politics, was borne out of a recognition that "personal ambition" must take a back seat to the interests of the nation, he said Wednesday.
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Jul 24, 2024
Andrew HarnikVice President Kamala Harris is vetting a list of roughly a dozen potential running mates to join her on the ticket in the 2024 presidential election—including two women who, if chosen, would make up the first all-female ticket in U.S. history.
A team led by former Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly vetting the candidates, which include a litany of familiar names. Those include a number of Democratic governors of swing states, sources told the Associated Press.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is reportedly on the list—as is Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, both of whom would make history if selected by Harris.
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Jul 24, 2024
Max Mumby/Indigo/GettyRupert Murdoch is secretly involved in a Succession-style court battle with three of his children for control of his empire after he dies.
Murdoch, 93, has urged a court to block three of his children—James, Elisabeth, and Prudence—from gaining control of his family's business after he dies, according to a sealed court document obtained by The New York Times. Instead, Murdoch wants to give it to his eldest son, the politically like-minded Lachlan, allowing him to maintain the organization's conservative bent and—according to Murdoch's lawyers—not ruin its market capitalization.
The court case was started before his fifth marriage, to Elena Zhukova, 67, at his Bel Air vineyard, which Lachlan attended but the other three did not. The court documents say that Murdoch's representatives have referred to James, who has been publicly critical of his father's Fox News and his Australian newspapers, as the "troublesome beneficiary."
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Jul 24, 2024
Jim Urquhart/ReutersSen. Mark Kelly isn't hiding his ambition to be wingman to Democratic presidential nominee-apparent Kamala Harris.
Not only did the Arizona senator pull a classic campaign season flip-flop on an issue dear to organized labor on Wednesday, he also posted a new video on X showcasing his Top Gun-style Navy pilot machismo.
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Jul 24, 2024
Tullio M. PugliaThe first soccer match of the Paris Olympics erupted in chaos after fans stormed the pitch in protest of a late-game goal.
In a face-off against Argentina, Morocco led 2-0 for most of the match, but Argentina mounted a comeback in the 68th minute with a goal from forward Giuliano Simeone. In the 16th minute of stoppage time, Argentina midfielder Cristian Medina scored another goal, which would have tied the game 2-2 three minutes before the final whistle, reported The Guardian.
However, Moroccan fans proceeded to storm the field, throwing debris and what appeared to be flares. The match was suspended for nearly two hours while security cleared unruly fans off the pitch.
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Jul 24, 2024
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If you clicked through to read this article, you either A) know what "strawberry skin" is because you've done the research on your own or B) aren't exactly sure but, based on the name, think you have a pretty good idea. ‘Strawberry legs' (or ‘strawberry skin') is a harmless skin condition that makes your legs look like, well, strawberries. Think enlarged pores that look like dark seeds and red, dotted-looking skin all over the affected area. Strawberry skin is typically the result of congested pores due to hair follicles trapping oil, dirt, and dead skin cells, but it can also be caused by conditions like Keratosis Pilaris and even just using a dull razor one too many times.
After a long spring of barely shaving my legs and neglecting to moisturize them, I noticed that my legs were starting to look like... strawberries. And while I love the fruit, I don't exactly want to resemble one. Knowing that my wedding was coming up in June (and my dress was a vintage '60s mini dress), I took to Doctor Google to help me quickly get rid of my unsightly strawberry legs—and fast.
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