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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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May 04, 2024
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesJ.K. Rowling has been on the anti-trans train for years, but her ramblings have gotten so exhausting that even anti-LGBT loudmouth Elon Musk wants her to move on.
Replying to a verbose (700 words!) post by the Harry Potter author from nearly a month ago, Musk voiced his agreement with the general thrust of her points—which amounted to several blocks of reheated ideas on why she thinks transgender women aren't women—but gently guided her to other endeavors.
"While I heartily agree with your points regarding sex/gender, may I suggest also posting interesting and positive content on other matters?" the billionaire, who has tirelessly platformed right-wingers and fascists, wrote.
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May 04, 2024
Win McNamee/Getty ImagesSen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has seen that viral stand-up bit about him, and he's not laughing.
On the most recent episode of Meghan McCain's podcast ‘Citizen McCain,' the Republican Senator from Texas got the opportunity to respond to a hilarious story from Tom Segura's latest Netflix special Sledgehammer, where the stand-up comedian says Cruz is his neighbor and that the U.S. senator once asked him about the origin of the word "motherfucker" when he saw Segura walking in front of his house.
Segura claimed the politician later reappeared outside his house and apologized for their awkward encounter, before once again pontificating on the origins of the curse word.
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May 04, 2024
Nic Antaya/Getty ImagesDozens of pro-Palestine student protesters briefly interrupted Saturday's commencement ceremony at the University of Michigan, according to The New York Times.
Students opposing Israel's deadly military campaign in Gaza, marched toward the stage, shouting "Regents, regents, you can't hide! You are funding genocide!"
Other students flashed Israeli flags and caps adorned with the Star of David. Overhead one plane flew by, carrying the message "Divest from Israel now! Free Palestine!" while another flew by with a banner that said, "We stand with Israel. Jewish lives matter."
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May 04, 2024
HBOBill Maher ripped "Attorney Genial" Merrick Garland a new one during Friday night's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher for allowing Donald Trump to continually skirt federal prosecution for his alleged crimes.
"And finally, new rule: At the top levels of our federal government, giving a guy a job because he got screwed over for another job, isn't a good reason to give a guy a job. Especially if the job is Attorney General. And especially if it's during a time when we need a tough AG to catch a real criminal."
Maher was of course talking about Attorney General Garland, "who, spoiler alert, sucks," according to the talk show host. But Maher didn't just turn his ire on Garland who he dubbed "Attorney General Barney Fife," but on the Democrats who appointed him.
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May 04, 2024
Alex Slitz/Getty ImagesA southern California man was charged with sending death threats to Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis over her prosecution of Donald Trump, the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Georgia announced Friday.
Marc Shultz, 66, of Chula Vista, made his first federal court appearance in San Diego on Thursday, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement. He had been indicted by a federal grand jury on April 24 and will be formally arraigned in Atlanta in June.
Shultz allegedly threatened Willis' life in several comments posted to YouTube livestream videos on Oct. 4 and Oct. 5, vowing to violently murder her. In the comments, he lobbed racial slurs at the D.A. and said she "will be killed like a dog," according to the indictment and the U.S. Attorney's release.
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May 04, 2024
Instagram/Francis Ford CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola has unveiled the first teaser for his upcoming sci-fi film Megalopolis, dedicating the release to his late wife Eleanor.
In a post made to Instagram, Coppola celebrated his wife's birthday while introducing the world of Megalopolis. Eleanor was a documentary filmmaker and mother to Sofia, Roman, and Gian-Carlo, and passed away this year on April 12 at the age of 87.
"Megalopolis has always been a film dedicated to my dear wife Eleanor," Coppola wrote in the caption on the post. "I really had hoped to celebrate her birthday together this May 4th. But sadly that was not to be, so let me share with everyone a gift on her behalf."
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May 04, 2024
Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty ImagesDrake and Kendrick Lamar drifted ever closer to mutually assured destruction on Friday, as the two rappers went nuclear in a set of dueling diss tracks.
The two rappers have been beefing since March, when Lamar hopped onto a Future and Metro Boomin' track called "Like That," to push back on Drake and J. Cole's suggestion that the three of them were in the same league. Since then, the rappers have fired off a volley of diss tracks, slowly escalating from insults to allegations.
On Friday, Drake readied his missiles, while Lamar went straight up nuclear.
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May 04, 2024
Gregory ShamusCaitlin Clark has starred in her WNBA debut game Friday night for the Indiana Fever as she scored a team-high of 21 points.
Despite the Fever losing 79-76 to the Dallas Wings, Clark put on a fine display scoring a deep 3-pointer for her first basket as a professional just a minute into the game.
The two-time NCAA women's basketball player of the year led all first-half scorers with 16 points in 16 minutes.
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May 04, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty imagesBrittney Griner, the 6-foot-9-inch WNBA player known for having broken barriers in women's basketball, including for being the first openly gay athlete to score a Nike deal, recounts the miserable 10 months she spent imprisoned in Russia in her new book Coming Home, which she wrote alongside frequent celeb memoir collaborator Michelle Burford.
On Feb. 17, 2022, Griner was detained in Russia en route to join her team UMMC Ekaterinburg when nearly empty cannabis vape pens were discovered in her luggage. She was held in various Russian jails for 10 months, before escaping the nine-year prison sentence from a Russian court in August 2022. She was ultimately released via prisoner swap, after Russia agreed to her release in exchange for arms dealer Viktor Bout in December that year.
Griner's wife Cherelle Griner, an attorney who had to graduate law school and pass the bar without wife Brittney by her side, championed her release by making public pleas in the media and
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May 03, 2024
Netflix I had no idea what to expect when I tuned into the first episode of John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A. on Friday night, but by the end, I emerged convinced that Netflix needs to give this man his own talk show. This bizarre, free-wheeling experiment in live streaming feels like the apotheosis of Mulaney's comedic evolution. As guest Jerry Seinfeld put it, "This is the weirdest show I have ever been on in my life."
Everybody's in L.A. is a six-part comedy special debuting as part of Netflix Is a Joke Fest. The first episode premiered Friday, and the subsequent five will debut Monday through Friday at 10 p.m. ET. Episodes will feature a mix of live work from Mulaney, alongside pre-taped interstitial skits. They'll each also have a theme—in this week's case, "Coyotes."
Aesthetically, the vibe here is low-budget morning show—a living room set that, as Mulaney put it, "looks like the kind of house where you'd spend a half hour trying to connect the Sonos." And thematically? Anything goes.
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May 03, 2024
Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures"Why do you want to talk about Brian?" Alexis Bloom, the co-director, with Svetlana Zill, of the new documentary Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg, asks when I raise the specter of Brian Jones, the ill-fated founder of The Rolling Stones and Pallenberg's lover during the 60s heyday of the band. "They were young, they were on drugs, he was dazzling, he was a good musician. But he beat her. He beat everyone else. It's like, she was going to stay around?"
For decades, the "cool kids" amongst Stones fans have fought for what they've felt was founder, l'enfant terrible and drug casualty Jones' rightful place of pride in the history of the band's rise, while others have wrung their hands over whether it was keyboardist, roadie and founding member Ian Stewart or Brian Epstein protégé and early manager Andrew Loog Oldham who was more deserving of the "6th Stone" moniker.
But maybe they've had it wrong all along.
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustrator by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesNumerous scary details came out of Donald Trump's recent interview with Time magazine, but few were more eye opening than an exchange that, in my opinion, didn't garner the attention it deserved.
When asked about his authoritarian rhetoric regarding being a "dictator for a day" and "suspending the Constitution," Trump responded, saying, "I think a lot of people like it."
Now, in fairness, Trump insisted that he was only joking and "being sarcastic" when he said these things. Moreover, he suggested that normal people get it, while the overwrought press (who find joking about these things dangerous and are worried about "norms" and the "social fabric") keep getting trolled by him.
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May 03, 2024
Fox NewsFox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy made a bizarre quip Friday about Paul Pelosi after a colleague hypothesized about Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients awarded by a Democratic administration, saying that Pelosi—who was struck in the head with a hammer during a home invasion in 2022—perhaps "needs the hammer instead of the medal."
The comment came during a Jesse Watters Primetime segment about how President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 people on Friday, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the former Speaker of the House.
After guest host Pete Hegseth made a point to tell viewers that Biden flubbed the name of the award as the "presidential freedom of medal," he and Campos-Duffy complained about Biden's choices, which featured the late civil rights leader Medgar Evers, John Kerry, and Simone Biles. After wistfully remembering how Donald Trump presented Rush Limbaugh with the honor, they thought of recipients they felt would have been more deserving.
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May 03, 2024
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastCome Monday night, will Lauren Sánchez go overtly demure, or all out for flesh-showcasing attention at the Met Gala? How is Anna Wintour masterminding the final look? The questions are fascinating fashion-watchers because of the headlines around a White House State Dinner in April, where Sánchez turned heads in a low-cut ruby red corset dress with sheer detailing from Rasario, an independent brand established in 2012 by designer Rasida Lakoba.
Once images of Sánchez in the dress began circulating on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) users had a lot to say. Some commented saying Sanchez's look was "totally inappropriate" and "embarrassing."
Sanchez is known for her risqué fashion choices. In January, at husband Jeff Bezos' 60th birthday during Milan Fashion Week, she wore a low-cut sheer floor-length dress with lace detail that was very revealing.
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and InstagramThis week:I Get It, BabsI've never felt more of a kinship with Barbra Streisand than when she accidentally commented on Melissa McCarthy's Instagram not realizing that everyone in the world could see.
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May 03, 2024
StarzAs if there weren't enough power struggles being waged from week to week on Mary & George, real war is brewing for the English in 1618, and Mary Villiers (Julianne Moore) and her son George (Nicholas Galitzine) are on the proverbial frontlines. Episode 5 of the deliciously provocative seven-episode limited series dials back its sexual overtones for the first time since its premiere.
If Mary & George were a lesser show, those who come to this period piece for all of its licking and lusting—of which there is so much—might be disappointed by this week's lack of copulation. But by dialing up the life-and-death stakes, and putting a sizable wedge between mother and son for the first time, Mary & George Episode 5 shows us that this series can be just as persuasive when it turns its focus from brothels to battles.
At the top of the episode, Sir Walter Raleigh (Joseph Mawle)—a soldier and explorer who was responsible for proliferating the legend of the golden city of El Dorado among the English people—has just recovered from a failed, rogue attack on Spanish troops. In a period of peace following the Anglo-Spanish War, Raleigh's assault was treasonous to England, and Raleigh kills his Captain to cover it up, but must be shipped back to England regardless to explain the organized strike on Spanish troops to King James I (Tony Curran).
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/Everett CollectionTaylor Swift has a new album, One Direction fever is back, and, in the most 2010s twist of all, we're all arguing over who is the better boyfriend between two fictional guys. Team Edward or Team Jacob? Team Gale or Team Peeta? Now, in light of Challengers premiering in theaters, the debate tearing apart the internet is: Team Art or Team Patrick?
Art (Mike Faist) and Patrick (Josh O'Connor) are two racket-wielding love interests to tennis superstar Tashi (Zendaya) in Luca Guadagnino's hot new movie. In the film, Tashi bounces between the two studs—not all that dissimilar to a fuzzy green ball—over the course of their young careers. What the internet can't seem to agree on is who, at the end, Tashi should spend the rest of her life with.
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Lucasfilm/DisneyOn April 17, 1973, George Lucas began writing the story treatment for a project known as "The Star Wars," a passion project of science-fiction and fantasy, with a nuanced critique of American imperialism. That treatment morphed into what we now know as Star Wars, a cultural phenomenon the likes of which we'd never seen, and one that endures until this day. (And it happens that today is Star Wars Day. May the Fourth be with you.)
The Star Wars franchise has a rich history, from the original trilogy and the Star Wars Expanded Universe to the Prequel Trilogy, and later, the new canon established after the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm. One constant throughout is a fanbase that is devoted (sometimes too much) to the galaxy far, far away and the stories that occupy it. Whatever era of Star Wars is your favorite, there are bound to be countless moments for you that spring to mind that you cherish, that define your love for the saga.
Whether it's a lightsaber duel that pulled you into the universe, the love story between a princess and a scoundrel, or something as simple as the beeps and boops of a little blue droid, Star Wars has something for everyone. Crafting a list of the 101 Greatest Moments across the entire saga is no easy feat, simply because everyone has different ideas and different tastes about what makes Star Wars, well… Star Wars.
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Lucasfilm/DisneyOn Apr. 17, 1973, George Lucas began writing the story treatment for a project known as "The Star Wars", a passion project of science-fiction and fantasy, with a nuanced critique of American imperialism. That story treatment morphed into what we now know as Star Wars, a cultural phenomenon the likes of which we'd never seen, and one that endures until this day. (And it happens that today is Star Wars Day. May the Fourth be with you.)
The Star Wars franchise has a rich history, from the Original Trilogy and the Star Wars Expanded Universe to the Prequel Trilogy, and later, the new canon established after the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm. One constant throughout is a fanbase that is devoted (sometimes too much) to the galaxy far, far away and the stories that occupy it. Whatever era of Star Wars is your favorite, there are bound to be countless moments for you that spring to mind that you cherish, that define your love for the saga.
Whether it's a lightsaber duel that pulled you into the universe, the love story between a princess and a scoundrel, or something as simple as the beeps and boops of a little blue droid, Star Wars has something for everyone. Crafting a list of the 101 Greatest Moments across the entire saga is no easy feat, simply because everyone has different ideas and different tastes about what makes Star Wars, well… Star Wars.
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May 03, 2024
Courtesy of Taralê WulffI was in my apartment last Thursday morning when I received a text message. "Thinking of you today. Sending love. Let me know if you need to talk."
I thought, "What a sweet message to receive first thing in the morning. I have the best friends."
He replied, "I'm seeing the headlines and immediately thought of you."
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/Everett CollectionAn off-hand remark—or a terribly misconstrued one—by a federal prosecutor at a private meeting with a defense attorney in Donald Trump's classified documents case is once again rearing its ugly head, posing yet another speed bump in the former president's already severely delayed trial.
U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon has already earned a reputation for making bizarre rulings that always favor the man who appointed her to the bench, pushing back a trial that could have started long ago.
Now comes another opportunity for Cannon to potentially side against Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith—this time over a wild story about potential prosecutorial misconduct by a key member of his team.
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / GettyMaya Hawke might play the famous novelist and essayist Flannery O'Connor in her new movie, Wildcat, but during the film's press tour, she's also taken on another, even rarer role: the chill nepo baby.
It's a known fact that 90 percent of famous Hollywood progeny break out into hives, literally or figuratively, when asked about how their parents' status helped their career. Many of them—like Lily-Rose Depp and O'Shea Jackson Jr.—sputter out some nonsense about how all their famous DNA did was get their foot in the door (which, yes, is the entire idea of nepotism). More intense nepo babies, like Ben Platt, might get yanked out of an interview by their team just a couple questions after you ask them about the dreaded discourse. Why so shy?
Compare that to Maya Hawke, who has spent years gracefully fielding these questions. In fairness, when you're starring in a film your father happened to direct, you kind of have to. Still, both Maya and Ethan Hawke have been pretty open about Hollywood's devotion to creating famous bloodlines.
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May 03, 2024
Reuters A high-school lacrosse champ and teen model from tony Greenwich, Connecticut, Hope Hicks ended up in an unenviable position on Friday: testifying against her ex-boss in the hush-money trial of Donald Trump.
Here's how the 35-year-old ended up there, year by year:
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May 03, 2024
Peter Cziborra/Reuters One New York college student was ready to spend the summer in Palo Alto with Tesla's engineering HR team. Another from Michigan spent thousands on housing for an internship in Austin, Texas, to work with the electric automaker's firmware recruiting group. A third in North Carolina was elated to join Tesla's Buffalo, New York, hub as a visual design intern.
But all their internship offers were suddenly yanked this week.
"After a single phone call of less than two minutes," one student wrote on LinkedIn, "my entire plan for this summer had vanished as if it had never even existed."
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May 03, 2024
Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty ImagesNewly released body camera footage shows two New York police officers killing 19-year-old Win Rozario last month in front of his mother and brother, who begged the officers not to shoot.
On March 27, two NYPD officers responded to a call made by Rozario himself, who had called 911 in the midst of a mental health crisis.
In the harrowing body camera videos released by the Office of the New York Attorney General, Officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco can be seen arriving at the Rozario family's home in Ozone Park, Queens, greeted by Utsho Rozario, Win's 17-year-old brother.
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May 03, 2024
Fox NewsWhen Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) added to an emerging GOP trend Friday by accusing billionaire philanthropist George Soros of funding pro-Palestine protests on college campuses, Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto shot back that there is "no proof" for her claim, adding wryly: "I just looked for the checks and I haven't seen them yet."
On Your World, Mace followed the likes of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake, each of whom have either suggested or declared outright that Soros is providing financial support for protesters at universities like Columbia, UCLA, and Rutgers.
When asked if she believed school administrations should negotiate with protesters and "put up for a vote" regarding divesting from Israel, Mace dismissed that idea, instead calling for some of the students to be deported.
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesBefore he was kicked to the curb by ABC News following a "heated screaming match" with a Good Morning America producer, star meteorologist Rob Marciano had been suspended by the network for at least a month and forced to take anger management classes after making inappropriate comments to a female producer in 2022.
According to four sources familiar with the matter, during a contentious interaction with a GMA producer two years ago, Marciano made sexist remarks during the exchange, only to later claim he was actually referencing his soon-to-be ex-wife and not his female colleague.
Marciano was then pulled off the air for weeks and made to take an anger management course, the sources say. GMA's executive producer Simone Swink, however, refused to let Marciano back on the show following his suspension due to this outburst and complaints that he might make other staffers uncomfortable. Marciano was eventually allowed to reappear on GMA and deliver weather updates to the show's audience—but only from other studios or the field.
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May 03, 2024
Alex Kent/Getty ImagesThe U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into alleged anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim, and anti-Arab racism at Columbia University, according to a group that filed a complaint against the university.
The news comes after months of student complaints about increasing harassment and the school's failure to prevent a hateful environment towards Palestinian students from taking root on campus.
The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights notified Palestine Legal, the group representing Columbia students and Students for Justice in Palestine, of its investigation, which the group shared in a public statement on Thursday. If the investigation finds Columbia violated Title VI, it could lose federal funding or "be referred to the Justice Department for further action," according to the department.
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May 03, 2024
Curtis Means/Pool via ReutersDonald Trump on Thursday paid his $9,000 fine for repeatedly violating a judge's order and brazenly launching a volley of intimidating attacks against witnesses and jurors in his ongoing New York trial.
The business tycoon has a long history of stiffing business partners and refusing to pay court ordered fees in a timely fashion, but he cut the New York State court system two checks just two days after a judge found him in contempt mid-trial.
The payments were confirmed by the clerk's office at the Manhattan criminal courthouse late Friday afternoon on a phone call three minutes before closing for the week.
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May 03, 2024
Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesMark Hamill made a surprise appearance at the White House press briefing on Friday, and not everyone is happy about it.
"How many of you had ‘Mark Hamill will lead the press briefing' on your bingo card? Hands?" the iconic actor joked, explaining that he'd just met with President Joe Biden, who'd given him a pair of sunglasses. "I love the merch, I love it all," he said.
The Star Wars actor said he was open to questions from the press, but joked that he wouldn't answer any questions about the beloved film series in which he starred.
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May 03, 2024
Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesMark Hamill made a surprise appearance at the White House press briefing on Friday, and not everyone is happy about it.
"How many of you had ‘Mark Hamill will lead the press briefing' on your bingo card? Hands?" the iconic actor joked, explaining that he'd just met with President Joe Biden, who'd given him a pair of sunglasses. "I love the merch, I love it all," he said.
The Star Wars actor said he was open to questions from the press, but joked that he wouldn't answer any questions about the beloved film series in which he starred.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty ImagesSouth Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem will appear Saturday morning at a Palm Beach donor retreat for former President Donald Trump's campaign, according to a source familiar with the speaker lineup.
It will be the first time Noem has shown her face in Trump's orbit since the news broke that she admitted in her memoir to shooting and killing a puppy—a scandal that seems to have tanked the governor's chances to be tapped as Trump's vice presidential pick.
Ever since the excerpt from the book ran in The Guardian a week ago, Trumpworld operatives have been aghast not only at the chilling anecdote but puzzled about how Noem has worsened the by doubling down on the puppy killing.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Disney / Brett RoedelFor a while there, high school sex comedies used to be the realm of the boys. In their heyday, the genre was dominated by the Superbads, the Napoleon Dynamites, the American Pies—raunchy, goofy movies about the absurdity of being a teenager, having all this energy and nowhere to put it. Then something shifted, and we started delving deeper into the other end of the spectrum, tuning in to find out what a girl actually wants and immortalizing it in absurdist, hilarious movies like Booksmart, Blockers, and Bottoms. Hulu's new comedy Prom Dates is a sibling of these, a hysterically funny odyssey through the highs and lows of a teen best friendship that pokes and prods at a familiar formula.
Graduating seniors Jess (Ginny & Georgia's Antonia Gentry) and Hannah (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series' Julia Lester) made a blood pact (complete with fainting) at 13 to have the best prom ever at the end of high school. Now that the two of them are older, wiser, with devoted boyfriends, everything seems to be going according to plan. Except, th
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May 03, 2024
XA pro-Palestine demonstration at the University of Mississippi was overtaken by counter-protesters Thursday, culminating with a viral clip of white students mimicking monkey noises and gestures in the direction of a Black woman.
That gross clip was captured moments before police shut down the demonstration entirely and escorted the outnumbered pro-Palestine protesters from the scene.
In the video, an unnamed white man in a light blue shirt is seen contorting his face to mimic that of a monkey while he motioned his arms back and forth—racist tropes historically used to dehumanize Black Americans in the south. Another man, in a blue and yellow shirt, can be seen and heard making similar monkey-like noises.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Universal/Getty ImagesJohn Leguizamo didn't hold back criticisms of his To Wong Foo costar Patrick Swayze, who died from pancreatic cancer in 2009, when asked about their time working together on the 1995 dramedy film. In a new interview on SiriusXM's Andy Cohen Live, Leguizamo said "it was difficult working with" Swayze.
"Rest in peace, I love him," Leguizamo started his remarks, before calling Swayze "neurotic and I think, maybe a tiny bit insecure." In To Wong Foo, Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and Leguizamo starred as drag queens who travel across the country together until their car breaks down in a small town. Previous recollections from former costars of Swayze have been mostly positive, but Leguizamo said he had a "different experience" working with the star.
"Wesley and I, we vibed ‘cuz ya know, we're people of color, we got each other," Leguizamo continued, but Swayze didn't like him for being an improviser, he said. "[Swayze] didn't like that, he couldn't keep up
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Mark Hill / NetflixWho among us hasn't wanted to sing along to Shania Twain's classic "You're Still the One?"
It is something Serena Croker, played by actress Sarah Jones, finds herself doing while slow dancing with her property tycoon husband, Charlie Croker (Jeff Daniels), as the legendary singer serenades the couple at Charlie's lavish 60th birthday party at the start of the six-part Netflix limited series, A Man in Full.
"That moment was a bit of a highlight of my career thus far," Jones tells The Daily Beast Obsessed. Jones didn't have much time to prepare for the encounter: Twain's cameo was kept under wraps, and even now, she still has a hush-hush mindset. "I'm so glad you brought up Shania because even at this point, I'm like, ‘Am I allowed to talk about Shania yet?'" she says.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Reuters/Michael McCoyRep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and his wife were indicted Friday on allegations they accepted $600,000 in foreign bribes from businesses in Mexico City and Azerbaijan.
The payments were allegedly paid to the Texas couple via "sham consulting contracts" into shell companies owned by the Cuellar's, the DOJ announced in a press release.
In return for the payouts, the feds alleged Cuellar used his position to influence foreign policy to favor Azerbaijan and to "pressure" top U.S. officials to push through legislation that benefitted the Mexican bank.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Reuters/Michael McCoyRep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) insisted in a statement Friday that he's innocent of any wrongdoing—a declaration that came mere minutes after NBC News reported that he would be indicted by the DOJ on Friday.
Cuellar, who's represented South Texas in Congress for two decades, wrote in his statement that "everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people" and that what he did was "consistent with the actions of many of my colleagues and in the interest of the American people."
The imminent indictment may be related to a federal probe into Azerbaijan and a group of U.S. businessmen who have ties to the country. Federal agents raided Cuellar's house and office in 2022 as part of that probe, but Cuellar tamped down the controversy by claiming he wasn't the subject of the investigation but that he'd agreed to cooperate with authorities.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Reuters/Michael McCoyRep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) insisted in a statement Friday that he's innocent of any wrongdoing—a declaration that came mere minutes after NBC News reported that he would be indicted by the DOJ on Friday.
Cuellar, who's represented South Texas in Congress for two decades, wrote in his statement that "everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people" and that what he did was "consistent with the actions of many of my colleagues and in the interest of the American people."
The imminent indictment may be related to a federal probe into Azerbaijan and a group of U.S. businessmen who have ties to the country. Federal agents raided Cuellar's house and office in 2022 as part of that probe, but Cuellar tamped down the controversy by claiming he wasn't the subject of the investigation but that he'd agreed to cooperate with authorities.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Carlos Barria/ReutersHope Hicks, Donald Trump's first political PR guru and presumed holder of all his dirty secrets, testified at the former president's New York criminal trial on Friday—and wouldn't even throw a glance at her former boss during her first hour on the witness stand.
From the moment she walked into the courtroom at 11:30 a.m., the atmosphere immediately changed. The 35-year-old publicist—who normally carries herself confidently and owns the room—slowly made her way into the courtroom through a side door that's disguised as a wall panel and uneasily made her way past the red-velvet rope that separates the battle area from the public pews. She kept her head down, with her feathered blonde hair drooping over her eyes as she gripped a black purse in her left hand.
Once she sat down, Hicks barely squeaked out an introduction.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Carlos Barria/ReutersHope Hicks, Donald Trump's first political PR guru and presumed holder of all his dirty secrets, started crying on the stand as the former president's legal team questioned her at his New York criminal trial on Friday.
Hicks instantly broke down when Trump defense lawyer Emile Bove began his cross-examination, asking her about how she was initially hired to work with the Trump Organization. After a brief break was called to allow her to compose herself, Hicks returned to the stand, taking deep breaths and refusing to look in Trump's direction.
From the moment she walked into the courtroom at 11:30 a.m., the atmosphere immediately changed. The 35-year-old publicist—who normally carries herself confidently and owns the room—slowly made her way into the courtroom through a side door that's disguised as a wall panel and uneasily made her way past the red-velvet rope that separates the battle area from the public pews. She kept her head down, with her feathered blonde hair drooping over her eyes as she gripped a black purse in her left hand.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
GoFundMeLoved ones of a pastor's wife who was found dead in a North Carolina state park with a bullet wound to her head are not convinced she died by suicide, as her husband claims.
Instead, they're pressing authorities to probe Mica Miller's death as something potentially more sinister—especially after her husband's announcement of her death a day after her body was found did little to quell rumors about the tragedy.
"This has to be at least looked into deeply," Kenn Young, Mica Miller's friend, told WPDE. "There's got to be some accountability here, because yeah, a tragic life was lost, and it's not just as simple as mental health issues."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Lorenzo Bevilaqua/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty ImagesAmy Robach and T.J. Holmes, the now publicly-coupled former ABC News anchors who were ousted from their network last year after reports of their affair hit the tabloids—both were married to other people at the time—offered words of support to Rob Marciano, a longtime ABC News meteorologist who was reportedly fired this week, via their joint podcast on Friday.
Marciano, a senior meteorologist for ABC News, was terminated this week after chief meteorologist Ginger Zee overheard accounts of Marciano getting into a "heated screaming match" with a Good Morning America producer; Zee reported the incident to the network, leading to Marciano's ousting, sources told The Daily Beast on Wednesday.
"It's tough situation," Robach said, on the latest episode of the Amy and T.J. podcast. "Yes, we have walked down that road and it's not an easy one. And I know he also has, and I think he might still be going through a divorce. So, we know what it's like to have your entire life upended, career and personal life."
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May 03, 2024
Stefanie Keenan/Getty ImagesMohamed Al-Fayed's daughter on Friday pleaded not guilty to a charge over the alleged robbery of her brother's iPhone at the family's mansion in southern England.
Camilla Fayed, 39, is accused of ordering her bodyguards to rob the device belonging to her sibling, Omar, 36, in the gym of Barrow Green Court in Surrey in May 2020. Fayed spoke only to confirm her identity and enter her plea at the hearing at Guildford Crown Court, the BBC reports.
Her husband, Mohamad Esreb, and the couple's close protection officers—Matthew Littlewood and Andrew Bott—have also each been charged with a single count of robbery in connection with the alleged incident. Esreb and Bott pleaded not guilty at the Friday hearing while Littlewood, a decorated Afghanistan veteran, was working overseas and will enter a plea at a later date, according to MailOnline.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Mahamadou Hamidou/ReutersRussia has sent troops into an air base in Niger that is hosting American soldiers, reports say, after the country's ruling junta ordered all U.S. forces to leave the West African nation.
The situation at Air Base 101 in Niamey, the capital city, comes as relations between Washington, D.C. and Moscow are at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. It's not clear how many American troops are on the base, but an unnamed U.S. official told the Associated Press that only a small number of U.S. forces remained.
The official also said the Russian troops had arrived last month after Niger told the U.S. to withdraw its almost 1,000 troops from the country. Before the junta seized power in a coup in July 2023, Niger had been an important partner in U.S. counterterror operations in the Sahel region of Africa where groups affiliated with ISIS and al Qaeda operate.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
ABC News YouTubeAuthorities in Mexico have arrested several people in connection with the mysterious disappearance of a trio of foreign tourists—including an American—who vanished in Baja California last week.
U.S. national Jack Carter Rhoad and Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinson have not been seen since April 27, according to the Robinson family. The Baja California prosecutor's office says the group were then reported missing two days later.
The three were on a surfing trip close to the municipality of Ensenada around 60 miles south of Tijuana, Reuters reports. Mexican authorities say tents, a vehicle, and a cell phone have since been found during a search in an area where the group were last seen.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Michael M. Santiago/GettyThe third week of Donald Trump's hush-money trial will come to a close on Friday after a second week of bombshell testimony about what prosecutors claim was a scheme to bury salacious, damaging stories about him in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
The Manhattan courtroom on Thursday heard more from Keith Davidson, a lawyer who represented porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal—both of whom claimed to have had sexual liaisons with Trump (which he denies). Jurors heard about Davidson's shock when he realized that he may have contributed to the success of Trump's first bid for the White House, sending a dramatic election night text to Dylan Howard, the then-editor of the National Enquirer, reading: "What have we done?"
"Oh my God," replied Howard, who participated in the so-called "catch and kill" scheme at the Enquirer to shut down embarrassing stories about Trump. When asked in court what the exchange meant, Davidson explained that the pair had an understanding that "our activities may have in some way assisted the presidential campaign of Donald Trump."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyWelcome to Trail Mix, your 2024 election sanity guide. See something interesting on the trail? Email me at jake.lahut@thedailybeast.com. To get Trail Mix in your inbox, subscribe here for free.
This week, an exclusive look at the connections between Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the MAGA-verse.
RFK'S TRUMP PROBLEMRead more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesOne year ago, Sean "Diddy" Combs attended the 2023 Met Gala dressed in an all-black ensemble by Sean John couture, representing both a comeback and a coup for the mogul's eponymous fashion brand. Clad in a motorcycle jacket and black pants combo—topped off by a cape adorned with 1,000 satin and velvet petals—that he'd designed himself, Combs was riding high and enjoying his victory lap on the red carpet.
"I had a chance to spend time with Karl when I was designing Sean John, just as a fellow designer," Combs told Vogue that evening, nodding to the evening's theme, which revolved around Karl Lagerfeld, the longtime creative director of Chanel. "[Lagerfeld] was so creative and he had such attention to detail (and) to beauty." The quote oozes insider status.
A lot can change in a year. Combs' public image is now in tatters. The rapper and mogul is facing a number of serious sexual assault and trafficking allegations put forth in multiple lawsuits filed against him since last November. In March, federal agents raided two of his homes as part of a
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesOne year ago, Sean "Diddy" Combs attended the 2023 Met Gala dressed in an all-black ensemble by Sean John couture, representing both a comeback and a coup for the mogul's eponymous fashion brand. Clad in a motorcycle jacket and black pants combo—topped off by a cape adorned with 1,000 satin and velvet petals—that he'd designed himself, Combs was riding high and enjoying his victory lap on the red carpet.
"I had a chance to spend time with Karl when I was designing Sean John, just as a fellow designer," Combs told Vogue that evening, nodding to the evening's theme, which revolved around Karl Lagerfeld, the longtime creative director of Chanel. "[Lagerfeld] was so creative and he had such attention to detail (and) to beauty." The quote oozes insider status.
A lot can change in a year. Combs' public image is now in tatters. The rapper and mogul is facing a number of serious sexual assault and trafficking allegations put forth in multiple lawsuits filed against him since last November. In March, federal agents raided two of his homes as part of a
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty imagesThe expected refusal of any members of the royal family to endorse Prince Harry's Invictus Games charity by joining him at a church service commemorating its 10th anniversary next week is a "classic example of the royals cutting off their nose to spite their face," a source has told The Daily Beast.
Harry is arriving in London next week for a PR blitz focused around a thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral in London on Wednesday for his Paralympic-style event for wounded servicemen. It is the latest sign that Harry, whose team recently hired a U.K.-based spin doctor, is far from ready to give up on winning back the hearts and minds of his native land.
The Palace declined to respond to requests for comment, but reports have made it clear that no working members of the royal family will attend the service. While there are hints he may see his father King Charles, Prince William and Kate Middleton's camp ruled out even a quick meeting with Harry soon after Harry's visit was announced. They will never forgive him for betraying fa
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May 03, 2024
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastOne irony of politics is that you are often punished for fixing a problem. The most famous example of this is Winston Churchill, who, after winning World War II, was promptly thrown out of office in 1945. No good deed goes unpunished; once you have solved our problems, we have no more use for you.
Today's Republican Party seems to understand this concept (look no further than Donald Trump sabotaging border security in order to keep the issue alive), and Democrats in Arizona, at least, apparently, do not.
In case you missed it, the Arizona Senate voted on Wednesday to repeal the 1864 abortion ban that the Arizona Supreme Court reimposed last month. All 14 Democrats (with the help of two Republicans) voted for repeal, and Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs immediately signaled she would sign the bill.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 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 gave a lengthy interview this week for a cover story in Time magazine—and it sure scared The New Abnormal co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy.
In it, the twice-impeached 2024 hopeful lays out his plans to mobilize the military domestically to deport more than 11 million people, pardon every Jan. 6 rioter, allow states to monitor women's pregnancies, withhold congressionally appropriated funding at his whims, and fire any attorney general that does not prosecute his chosen targets—among other things.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Amazon MGM/Getty ImagesWelcome to modern rom-com week at The Daily Beast's Obsessed! In honor of two big romance releases this week—The Fall Guy and The Idea of You—we're celebrating everything we love about the last 15 years of romantic comedies.
When Prime Video unveiled the first stills from its adaptation of The Idea of You, every One Direction fan came out of the woodwork to gossip about it. One could say they were up all night making conspiracy theories about the movie's plot, as they claimed it was about all the midnight memories Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde shared.
It's no secret that Robinne Lee's 2017 novel is partially inspired by Styles' career with his (now broken-up) British boy band One Direction. Director Michael Showalter's new movie, however, is a completely different case. Although the story follows a pop star in love with an older mother—and first-look images make stars Nicholas Galitzine and Anne Hathaway look eerily similar to Styles and Wilde during their two-year love affair—Lee says t
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyAll week long, feathers have been ruffling, hives of bees were buzzing in bonnets, and a record numbers of bears were being poked, all while social media hosted unprecedented amounts of tizzies. "What's the deal?" you might say in response to that, which would be apropos considering that the source of the online hubbub is the maven of that catchphrase himself, Jerry Seinfeld.
The comedian spoke to The New Yorker's David Remnick in an article published earlier this week. In the wide-ranging interview, he decried that there's a scarcity of good comedy on TV to comfort people after a day of ingesting the troubling news of the world.
I'm impressed with the lengths Seinfeld went to prove his point, going so far as to direct, co-write, and star in Unfrosted, a tediously bland "comedic" take on the origin of the Pop-Tart, enlisting dozens of his industry friends to propagate this new age of unfunny.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Apple TV (Warning: Spoilers for Sugar ahead.)
Over the course of its first five episodes, Sugar has detailed dapper movie-obsessed Los Angeles private eye John Sugar's (Colin Farrell) investigation into the baffling disappearance of Olivia Siegel (Sydney Chandler), the daughter of powerful movie producer Bernie (Dennis Boutsikaris), half-sister of scumbag former child actor David (Nate Corddry), and granddaughter of Hollywood titan Jonathan (James Cromwell). Nonetheless, Olivia's whereabouts have only been one of the mysteries at the heart of Mark Protosevich's Apple TV series, since, in various small but telling ways, it's also teased a bigger secret lurking beneath its authentic—and self-referential—noir surface. As suggested by its numerous subtle hints, that surprise has to do with Sugar and his professional and personal acquaintances, all of whom are members of a vague close-knit organization. And at the end of its sixth episode, the show finally gave up the goods, revealing the real paradigm-altering nature of its protagonist.
John Sugar is an alien. Like, from outer space. And, in particular, from a distant planet whose inhabitants resemble blue-skinned cast-offs from Avatar.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
ABCJimmy Kimmel just made history. On Thursday, the late-night host was as surprised as anyone else when his name was brought up during Donald Trump's criminal hush-money trial, which had him feeling "very excited, I'm very proud, I'm exhilarated even," as he told Thursday's audience.
"From here on, we aren't just following the Donald Trump drama in New York, we are part of it now," said Kimmel of his unexpected name check. "We are part of the official record of The People vs. Donald Trump."
Kimmel explained that Thursday's biggest "surprise bombshell, at least for us, was when prosecutors entered into evidence a series of text messages about our show."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Ben Blackall/Paramount With ShowtimeThis week's episode of A Gentleman in Moscow finally gets the heart racing. It's been five long weeks in the Metropol Hotel holding cell, but now, Count Alexander Rostov (Ewan McGregor) is breaking out.
Everything starts out like usual. We've hopped a little over a decade into the future, now in 1947, where high school-aged Sofia (Beau Gadsdon) is giving Alexander (who she now calls Papa, so sweet) flack over him caring too much about boys and homework. When Alexander catches Sofia taking piano lessons from a boy her age—gasp, piano lessons!—he screams at her in the hotel lobby. Alex is very protective over his adopted daughter.
Anna (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Olga (Anastasia Hille) have also taken part responsibility over Sofia. Anna is especially perturbed by Alex's helicopter parenting when she's been giving Sofia plenty of advice on boys. Alex demands that Anna stop trying to step over him as Sofia's primary guardian, but Anna fights back—she has done so much to help Anna become the woman she is today. Alex should be thanking her, not chastising her.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
NBC"There's a lot going on right now," Seth Meyers declared at the top of Thursday's "A Closer Look"—so much so that he repeated that claim again about four minutes into the segment.
While Donald Trump's criminal hush-money trial continues, so too do the pro-Palestinian protests popping up at college campuses across the country—and Meyers seems a little shocked that it's not the former story that has people most enthralled. But Trump and those college protests collided this week when the former president decided to call into his pal Sean Hannity at Fox News to offer his opinion on the matter on Tuesday and claim that the protests are being organized and run by some nefarious outside operation.
"Well I really think you have a lot of paid agitators," Trump told Hannity. "Professional agitators in here, too."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettySomewhere permanently lodged in the back of my mind, there's a rusted, creaking file cabinet. Open up any of the overstuffed drawers and you'll find it crammed with ex-New York Knicks: Utterly forgettable failed prospects, botched draft picks, bored and surly free agent signings, journeymen nobodies.
The truly remarkable failures are there, too. But these odd spreadsheets are mainly littered with the likes of Chris McNealy, Lou Amundson, Randolph Morris, Quincy Acy, Jerrod Mustaf, Lee Nailon, Sergio Rodriguez, things of that nature.
Fans of any bedraggled and misbegotten franchise probably have a similarly well-worn mental inventory tucked away somewhere. It's an act of self-preservation, in a way. Or at least it is for me. During the truly execrable Knicks seasons—and there have been so, so many—I've found myself frequently thumbing through it, maybe lingering on a two-week period where I thought Alexey Shved could be a rotation-grade NBA player. The present may seem hopeless, sure, and the past just as nightmarish, but maybe that doesn't matter. Perhaps, I'd tell myself, time spent devoted to a thing that doesn't love you back, that never seemed to care, really, whether you paid attention or not, is in its own way not just admirable, but beautiful.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 03, 2024
Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesThe captain of a scuba dive boat that was the site of the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison, despite the U.S. Attorney's apparent unhappiness over the ruling.
Jerry Nehl Boylan was the captain of the Conception when it caught fire and sank near Santa Cruz Island on Labor Day in 2019. In all, 33 passengers and one crew member died as a result, and the ensuing fallout prompted a number of changes to maritime regulations.
On Thursday, Noylan, 70, was sentenced by United States District Judge George H. Wu to four years in federal prison. He faced a maximum of ten years.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesThe chair of the Democratic Party in deep-red Palm Beach County, Florida, announced she was resigning Wednesday after claiming she was the victim of "vicious personal attacks" from members of her own party.
Mindy Koch said she and her staff were inundated with nasty comments from a "small minority" of Democratic Executive Committee members, something she described as akin to "MAGA tactics" used by Donald Trump, himself a Palm Beach resident.
The resignation comes just weeks after Koch was reinstated to the post by the state's Democratic party. That alone wasn't enough to keep Koch on board, however, and she chose to instead go out with a bang in a letter to the statewide party chair—and failed 2022 governor candidate—Nikki Fried.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
John P. Johnson / Netflix No Pop-Tarts-related media will ever top the conclusion to last December's Pop-Tarts Bowl, which ended with a human Pop-Tart mascot committing suicide by lowering himself into a giant on-field toaster (while holding a sign that said "Dreams Really Do Come True") and then emerging out of a distant kitchen slot as a toasted edible treat that the winning Kansas State football team hungrily devoured. Corporate marketing at its most surreal, it deservedly became a late-2023 viral sensation, and highlighted the abject absurdity of this event's every aspect. In the face of such a performance-art masterpiece, what hope was there for any competing breakfast-food entertainment?
Accepting that formidable challenge is Jerry Seinfeld, who directs, co-writes, and headlines Unfrosted, a new Netflix comedy, out May 3, about the creation of the famed morning snack. Boasting an enormous roster of funny men and women in a tale that's fashioned in a 1960s Space Race mold, it's an amusing trifle of a feature, generating more mild smiles than outright laughs. Superior to Seinfeld's prior cinematic offering, 2007's animated Bee Movie, it's content to be childishly silly rather than legitimately weird, veering between gags concerning age-old products and Jan. 6 with a mildness that keeps things pleasantly pedestrian. There's nothing particularly awful about it, but there's also very little that's memorable, save for an advertising-agency bit involving some choice cameos, the welcome participation of
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May 02, 2024
Reuters/Caitlin OchsStudent editors at the Columbia Law Review penned a letter begging the university to cancel final exams this semester as they grapple with the on-campus chaos that has consumed the school in recent weeks.
Columbia University is at the center of a wave of campus protests against Israel's brutal military campaign in the Gaza Strip, as repeated clashes with the NYPD reached a fever pitch Tuesday when officers broke into the school's Hamilton Hall—via a second floor window—to crack down on demonstrators who had holed themselves up in the building.
The law students cited this chaos as reason to have their final exams dropped, at least for this semester. In lieu of a full cancellation, they also asked for the the school to mandate pass/fail grades for this semester's exams.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Bertrand Calmeau/CBSThe third season of Ghosts has been a time of change for the spirits and livings of Woodstone Manor, so it's only natural for it to end with one of the biggest changes any person can ever make, alive or dead: holy matrimony. (Although, just how "holy" are ghosts themselves, really?)
(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)
"Isaac's Wedding" technically lives up to its title, even though Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones) ultimately doesn't end up going through with the actual matrimony part. That Isaac even makes it to the altar—to eventually say "I don't"—is still a big step for the character, especially considering how deeply closeted the 18th-century ghost was when the series began. It would have been so easy for Isaac to have said "I do" to Nigel (John Hartman), especially as the two Woodstone ghosts who were seemingly destined for each other: star-crossed gay soldiers from the Revolutionary War, able to be together forever in the afterlife. After decades upon decades of denying who he really was, Ghosts makes clear that Isaac ultimately still has a lot of time to discover what he wants. It's not like he'll be getting sucked off anytime soon.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Fox NewsCNN's on-air reference Thursday to Donald Trump's former lawyer and likely hush-money trial witness Michael Cohen's scatalogical nickname for his ex-boss received an unenthusiastic reception by Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who complained that the rival network's coverage choice should spur James Earl Jones to revoke his iconic voiceover.
Cohen's social media post last month in which he called Trump "Von ShitzInPants," perhaps in reference to unverified rumors about Trump passing gas in the courtroom, was read aloud Thursday by Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, during a contempt of court hearing. Blanche was trying to argue that it was unfair for a gag order to prevent Trump from talking about witnesses when they can talk about him.
Last week, Cohen wrote on X that he would cease mentioning Trump until he had testified in the case, in which prosecutors allege Trump—with Coh
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May 02, 2024
Fox NewsCNN's on-air reference Thursday to Donald Trump's former lawyer and likely hush-money trial witness Michael Cohen's scatological nickname for his ex-boss received an unenthusiastic reception from Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who complained that the rival network's coverage choice should spur James Earl Jones to revoke his iconic voiceover.
Cohen's social media post last month in which he called Trump "Von ShitzInPants," perhaps in reference to unverified rumors about Trump passing gas in the courtroom, was read aloud Thursday by Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, during a contempt of court hearing. Blanche was trying to argue that it was unfair for a gag order to prevent Trump from talking about witnesses when they can talk about him.
Last week, Cohen wrote on X that he would cease mentioning Trump until he had testified in the case, in which prosecutors allege Trump—with C
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May 02, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Alice BenjaminA second "black book" of contact names and numbers belonging to the well-connected dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is going up for auction in two weeks time. On May 15, the black book will be offered for private sale by sealed bids by Alexander Historical Auctions. A forensic document examiner's report on its authenticity will be provided alongside it.
Asked how much he thought it may fetch, Bill Panagopulos, Alexander's owner, told The Daily Beast, "There are no comparables for the sale of this kind of relic. But, based on my experience, if I'm pressed to offer a price I would think it would be $100,000 to $200,000, and up."
Sealed bids will be accepted for a month. If there's not an acceptable top bid, Panagopulos said, the Epstein book will be offered in an Alexander Historical's auction on July 12. There will be an estimate, but no baseline bid.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Reuters/David Dee DelgadoAn officer for the New York Police Department discharged their gun at Columbia University while working to clear out pro-Palestine protesters on Tuesday evening, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office confirmed to The Daily Beast.
The gunfire, first reported by The City, took place at the university's Hamilton Hall—the building that was taken over by protesters this week as they continue to clash with university officials and cops.
Despite there being hundreds of protesters holed up in the building at the time of the gun being fired, prosecutors told The City that only other NYPD officers were in the immediate vicinity of the scene and nobody was injured.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesOn Wednesday, the Libertarian Party made an eyebrow-raising announcement about its upcoming convention: the headline speaker will be Donald Trump. For the little-noticed third party, which has mostly been overshadowed this year by more prominent independent candidates, it was certainly an attention-grabber.
It is unusual, to say the least, for the presumptive Republican nominee to speak at an event which is also slated to nominate a candidate to run against him. It's also bizarre given that Trump is, by any measure, the exact opposite of an ideological libertarian. But beneath the incongruity, there is a certain logic on both sides of this odd exchange.
Trump, for his part, obviously seeks to undercut a perceived spoiler threat. In 2020, the Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen exceeded Biden's margin of victory over Trump in several swing states. Trump has also previously complained that his loss of the national popular vote in 2016 can be pinned on Gov. Gary Johnson's Libertarian bid, which set a record for the party by taking 3.2 percent of the popular vote.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Fox NewsFox News host Greg Gutfled on Thursday made the sweeping claim that amid the pro-Palestine protests on college campuses, there haven't been any instances of Islamophobia.
On The Five, Gutfeld took issue with President Joe Biden's remarks earlier in the day in which he condemned both antisemitism and Islamophobia.
In a speech from the White House, Biden said that "there should be no place on any campus, no place in America for antisemitism or threats of violence against Jewish students," adding: "There is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind, whether it's antisemitism, Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Doug Mills/ReutersThe B-list celebrity lawyer who scored two hush-money deals for a porn star and a former Playboy model came off as an even shadier character on Thursday, as Donald Trump's team worked hard to show that the prosecution's witness was actually engaged in a scheme to extort the politician in the weeks before the 2016 election.
The third week of the former president's criminal trial in New York has focused mostly on the dirty world of scandal coverups, with a Beverly Hills lawyer describing how worried stars, conniving publicists, and unscrupulous entertainment "journalists" manage the underground market for embarrassing information.
But while the trial on Tuesday served as a primer, Thursday showed how even now—nearly eight years after these Trump deals were put into place—a key player still couldn't come to grips with reality over exactly what he did.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
OscilloscopeWildcat, the Ethan Hawke-directed, Maya Hawke-starring Flannery O'Connor biopic, begins with a trailer for an entirely different movie, a black-and-white drama about "Star Drake," the alias of a character from O'Connor's short story "The Comforts of Home." Star Drake was dubbed the town floozy who pays for everything with bad checks. The trailer feverishly describes the plot as "the outspoken story of an indiscreet woman," a phrase that could indeed describe a movie about the author herself. But the film that follows is muted, restrained, even dreamlike, a portrait of an artist that paints her life—controversial, complicated—according to her work.
Maya Hawke plays Flannery at the cusp of her battle with lupus, the disease that took her father's life when she was a teenager, and that will claim her own at 39. The film follows along as her mother Regina (Laura Linney) transfers her from her short stay in New York amongst the literary luminaries of the time, back home to Georgia and the childhood farmhouse in which Flannery will spend the rest of her life. Hawke and Linney circle each other, as mothers and daughters with prickly relationships do. Regina has read her daughter's stories but isn't exactly a fan: "I don't understand," she says mincingly. "Why you don't want to write something that people would like to read?"
Between these scenes, the film dramatizes a few of O'Connor's short stories, including "Revelation," "The Enduring Chill," "Everything that Rises Must Converge," and "Good Country People." In a burst of stylistic flair, Hawke and Linney and the rest of the film's main cast appear as
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May 02, 2024
Peter Foley/Pool/AFP via Getty ImagesAccording to Donald Trump, he wasn't napping in the Manhattan courtroom where he's being tried for his alleged role in a hush money scheme to cover up an affair he had with a porn star. No, the former president said on Thursday, he was merely resting his gorgeous peepers for a moment or two.
"Contrary to the FAKE NEWS MEDIA, I don't fall asleep during the Crooked D.A.'s Witch Hunt, especially not today," the 77-year-old posted on Truth Social during a break in proceedings. "I simply close my beautiful blue eyes, sometimes, listen intensely, and take it ALL in!!!"
His poetic denial comes after multiple outlets, including The Daily Beast, reported that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee appeared to doze off on the first day of jury selection—a pattern he was to repeat in subsequent days.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesElon Musk said he plans to reinstate the X account of white-nationalist activist and all-around problematic podcaster Nick Fuentes.
On X on Thursday, Musk caved to a user's demand to make good on his "promise" and bring Fuentes back to the social media site, from which he has been banned for over a year.
It's unclear what Musk's "promise" was, but the billionaire has seemingly been determined to bring as many far-right voices espousing dangerous conspiracy theories back to the platform as possible.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Ada County Sheriff's OfficeFamily members of Chad Daybell—who's accused of killing three people before fleeing with his new wife to Hawaii—took the stand on Thursday, describing the "introvert" Doomsday author's increasingly extreme religious views.
"He's not a gregarious personality, is he?" defense attorney John Prior asked Daybell's mother, Sheila, who took the stand Thursday.
Sheila agreed he was not, at which point Prior asked if Daybell was a "man of the world," noting that he did not "have a lot of experiences dealing with relationships." Daybell's mother, who also called her son a shy introvert, agreed.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Reuters/Susannah IrelandKevin Spacey hit back at the United Kingdom's Channel 4 on Thursday, insulting the network ahead of a planned docuseries release that's expected to bring forward new sexual abuse allegations against him.
In a post to X, Spacey vowed that he'd respond to the allegations in full later this week, but gave a glimpse of what that response will be.
"I will not sit back and be attacked by a dying network's one-sided ‘documentary' about me in their desperate attempt for ratings," he wrote Thursday. "There's a proper channel to handle allegations against me and it's not Channel 4."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
GoFundMeBillionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10,000 to his latest worthy cause: an all-out rager for a bunch of University of North Carolina fraternity brothers who took down a Palestinian flag put up by protesters and replaced it with a U.S. flag.
Ackman, who also donated to counter-protest efforts at UCLA, where the pro-Israel crowd turned violent on Tuesday night, was matched by at least two other $10,000 donations as of Thursday afternoon. By that time, the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity had raised $424,000 of their $450,000 goal.
According to the GoFundMe, donations will go to "throw this frat the party they deserve, a party worth of the boat-shoed Broleteriat who did their country proud." It's apparently to celebrate their victory over the "commie losers" who protested Israel's continued military action in Gaza, where over 34,000 Palestinians have died in the last eight months.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Law-enforcement officers reportedly fired rubber bullets into a crowd of pro-Palestine protesters during a chaotic night of demonstrations at the University of California, Los Angeles.
All told, at least 209 people were arrested by Thursday morning at the encampment in Dickson Plaza, the LAPD said, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Overnight, a large group of officers from the LAPD, California Highway Patrol, and UCLA's campus police, converged descended on the encampment in full riot gear, ordering the group of over a thousand protesters to disperse. Many protesters remained, despite the warnings.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Doug Mills/GettyDonald Trump tried—and failed—to lure the judge overseeing his New York criminal trial into the position of greenlighting his angry screeds to ensure they don't violate a gag order that seeks to stop him from continuing to intimidate witnesses and jurors.
The move came after Trump got slapped with $9,000 in fines and a warning of a potential stay in the slammer on Tuesday, then had to fend off the risk of an additional $4,000 in penalties Thursday morning.
After a trial lunch break, the former president's legal team approached New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan with a curious request: If Trump keeps getting into hot water for sharing news stories about the trial but still theoretically has a First Amendment right to speak about the case in general terms, would the judge be willing to review and OK posts before he makes them?
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Everett CollectionItalian director Luca Guadagnino knows how to frame beautiful bodies, and they are rarely as beautiful as in his latest, Challengers. Zendaya's neverending limbs float through the air to the beats of Nelly's "Hot in Herre" and sweat drips through necks and chests and abs alike, making the toned bodies of both Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist glisten under the unforgiving sun of the small town where they face each other in a tennis match that will crown a winner in more ways than one.
If you are a human being with access to the internet and even a slight interest in pop culture, you will know by now that Challengers chronicles 12 years in the deliciously intertwined lives of tennis players Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), Art Donaldson (Faist) and Patrick Zweig (O'Connor). It is also a sports movie that understands the teasing nature of lust like few others in recent memory and, in doing so, it pays special attention to nooks and crannies of the human body that might otherwise go unnoticed in the rush to jump into a bed and seal the deal. A foot pulling a stool a little closer, a finger wiping away sugar from someone's cheek, a reddened back of the neck, a kiss planted softly on a knee.
Alas, it is one particular body part—well, a set of body parts—that gets to shine in Guadagnino's take on the sports movie: the ears. Both Faist and O'Connor have protruding ears, or otapostasis, a condition that affects only
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May 02, 2024
Department of JusticeThe Florida influencer behind the right-wing Instagram meme account Snowflake News was arrested Wednesday on charges related to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Michael Hennessey, 38, is accused of assaulting cops after he breached the Capitol—with a "Don't Tread on Me" flag in hand—and spent nearly an hour roaming and recording inside.
Hennessey was allegedly at the "forefront" of multiple charges against police, helping lead Donald Trump supporters past cops' lines to occupy restricted areas of the Capitol. After police were overwhelmed, federal prosecutors said Hennessey stopped in the House majority leader's office to take pictures during his 58 minutes inside the building.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Mark Peterson-Pool/Getty ImagesDonald Trump can dish it out, but he has shown, once again, that he simply cannot take it.
As proceedings began Thursday morning in the disgraced ex-president's criminal hush-money trial, defense attorney Todd Blanche complained to New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan that the gag order put in place to prevent Trump from intimidating witnesses, jurors, and court staff was unfair to his client.
"Everybody can say anything they want, except for President Trump," Blanche grumbled.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty Gov. Kristi Noem bet on herself and it paid off as she rose to the top of South Dakota politics.
Noem's confidence has been a hallmark of her career, as she won two terms in the state House of Representatives, four in the U.S. Congress and two as governor. She never walked away from a fight, and often rode toward them aboard her horse or motorcycle.
And now that assured, combative nature has caused a possible career-ending blunder. Noem's admission that she shot and killed a puppy and a goat—made in a soon-to-be released book—has made her the subject of derision and ridicule across the state, nation, and world. She has united Democrats and Republicans in rolling their eyes in amazement, and attacking her for her insensitivity and callous behavior.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
NOAM GALAI/GettyMSNBC host Joe Scarborough lashed out at any of his network's viewers who may support the nationwide campus protests against Israel's war in Gaza, telling them Thursday that they're "too stupid" to realize they are helping Donald Trump win.
On top of that, the Morning Joe co-anchor also urged the channel's protest-backing audience to "change to another channel" if they can't figure out the demonstrations are hurting President Joe Biden's re-election chances.
Over the past two weeks, pro-Palestinian demonstrations urging colleges to divest from Israel have rocked campuses across the country, resulting in nearly 2,000 people being arrested. Tensions have only increased in recent days, with police clearing out encampments and occupied buildings while pro-Israel counterprotestors have violently attacked anti-war demonstrators.
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May 02, 2024
Michael Tullberg/Getty ImagesTiffany Haddish said she has a good explanation for her disastrous performance at a Miami comedy show that immediately went viral on YouTube and left people who already didn't like her grinning from ear to ear.
The actress and comedian opened up about what was going on behind the scenes in a new interview on the WTF With Marc Maron podcast. Haddish said that she was "very sick," right before she went on stage. "I was not my regular self," she said on the podcast. "I was definitely very sick. I had alcohol poisoning. A part of me wants to say somebody drugged me, but who's the somebody? It's probably me," she conceded.
In clips taken the night of the Miami show, Haddish can be seen forgetting her lines and losing her train of thought on stage. "I remember I wanted to talk about some stuff," she says in the video, adding "I can't remember none of it," as she seems to babble to try and fill the time. "This'll be the only time you'll ever see me like this," she concludes, promising the crowd she'll never bomb that hard again.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesBoston Police Officer John O'Keefe was wearing just a long-sleeve T-shirt and jeans when paramedics found him lying unconscious on a fellow officer's snow-covered front lawn on a frigid morning in late January 2022.
O'Keefe, a 16-year veteran who had gone out for drinks the evening before with his girlfriend Karen Read, was bleeding from a forehead contusion, his eyes were swollen, and his body showed the "initial stages of frostbite or exposure to cold," Canton Firefighter Anthony Flematti told Norfolk Superior Court jurors on Thursday about the Jan. 29, 2022, call.
"For the exposure, I would say he was pretty underdressed," Flematti said, recounting the January 29, 2022, call. "Nothing really substantial, to be out in that type of weather."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesAfter weeks of pro-Palestinian protests and chaotic arrests on college campuses, President Joe Biden finally responded to calls for military action.
Asked on Thursday about the protests, which have spread coast to coast and resulted in an estimated 1,900 arrests, Biden gave a series of curt answers.
"Have the protests forced you to reconsider any of the policies with regard to the region?" a reporter at his Thursday press conference asked.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
CBSYou might be wondering why everyone on social media was gossiping about Applebee's on Wednesday evening. No, it's not because two characters in Challengers go on a dinner date to grab Dollaritas. It's much more harrowing than that: A player on Survivor threw a full-on temper tantrum over not getting to eat one of Applebee's (in)famous burgers as part of a reward challenge. Bummer.
Throughout Season 46, marketing strategist Liz Wilcox has become a contestant known for two things, and two things only: She's a millionaire (billionaire? No one really knows) and she has so many allergies that she hasn't been able to eat anything since the merge. Following the most recent episode of Survivor, however, Liz will now be known for a third thing—Applebee's.
Jeff Probst kicks off this week's reward challenge with a bit of an insult: "You all look noticeably smaller," Probst says. "Your bodies are shrinking." Yeah, no duh, Jeff. A couple of weeks into the season without solid food; they're ravenous! Luckily, Probst is offering the biggest reward of the season to the challenge's winner. The reward will be a feast from a certain restaurant—you might be able to guess which one I'm talking about.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Stephane Cardinale/Corbis via GettyCarla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has been questioned as a suspect in a witness-tampering case against her husband, according to local media reports Thursday.
The 56-year-old supermodel was questioned as a witness in the case last year but is now considered a suspect, according to Le Monde. The witness tampering case is linked to allegations that her husband accepted money from Muammar Gaddafi, the late Libyan autocrat, to help finance an election campaign.
Bruni-Sarkozy was at the Paris offices of the Central Office for the Fight Against Corruption and Financial and Tax Offenses on Thursday, according to MailOnline. A source told the outlet that the former first lady of France is a "free suspect," adding: "She has spoken to officers before, but not as a suspect in a case in which she's accused of trying to whitewash her husband."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
via Telegram A 27-year-old Twitch streamer was hunted down by cops in the Russian city of Krasnodar and forced to issue a public apology for saying Ukrainians are better looking than Russians.
Olga Kasyanenko, a native of Ukraine's Donetsk region who relocated to Krasnodar a few years ago, was also fined nearly $1,000 for supposedly "discrediting" the Russian military with her comments, regional police said in a press release.
Pro-war bloggers first began circulating clips from Kasyanenko's streams earlier this week, demanding authorities take action. Head of the Safe Internet League Yekaterina Mizulina, whose favorite pastime is siccing law enforcement on anyone who defies the Kremlin narrative online, then roped in local police, according to state-run RIA Novosti.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty ImagesLaurence Fox, the controversial British actor-turned-political activist, could be facing a police investigation after he allegedly posted an explicit upskirt image of a broadcaster on X without her consent.
Fox on Wednesday posted an old paparazzi shot showing Narinder Kaur sitting in a car without underwear on, according to The Daily Mirror. "This is now a police matter," Kaur wrote in a post Thursday morning along with a link to an article about the incident.
The image no longer appears on Fox's X account as of Thursday morning. According to the Mirror, the photograph was taken without Kaur's consent or knowledge and was scrubbed from online photo libraries after upskirting was made a criminal offense in Britain.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
via OK.ru Russia appears to have two new poster children for its war against Ukraine and supposed crusade to save "traditional values" from the deviant West: a cannibal and a murderer united on the battlefield.
Nearly two years after Moscow first hatched its deranged prison-recruitment scheme to use hardened criminals as cannon fodder in Ukraine, a selfie shared on social media provides a glimpse of the country's new normal.
Dmitry Malyshev, sentenced to 25 years in 2015 for murdering a man and filming himself eating the victim's heart, among other things, can be seen grinning and embracing Alexander Maslennikov, who got 23 years for murdering and dismembering two women he met at a nightclub.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Chip Somodevilla/Getty The body of a fifth construction worker killed in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was recovered Wednesday, authorities said.
The victim was identified as Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez, 49, of Glen Burnie, Maryland. He was one of six workers who went missing in the March 26 collapse.
According to the Unified Command—the multi-agency task force responding to the disaster—salvage teams located one of the missing construction vehicles and notified the Maryland Department of State Police. Gonzalez's body was located and recovered from inside the red truck, authorities said.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
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Unlike many bronzing drops on the market, the Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Hue Drops isn't a bronzer or a self-tanning serum, and that's precisely why they're my favorite glow-boosting formula. So what exactly are they, then? In a nutshell, the drops are super hydrating niacinamide serum infused with a subtle, sheer tint that gives you a buildable glow that washes right off with your makeup.
If you're already a fan of Glow Recipe's popular Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops, you're in for a treat—the brand's new bronzing Hue Drops share the same non-sticky gel formula as the original. This game-changing serum delivers the same skin-loving ingredients and lightweight texture but with the added bonus of bronze-colored pigment for an instant dose of warmth and luminosity. Best of all? If you suffer from rosacea like me, you can expect to see an improvement in redness and overall skin tone over time thanks to the inclusion of Centella asiatica.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Brendan McDermid/ReutersTwo days after a judge slapped Donald Trump with a $9,000 fine for violating a gag order, the former president faces a new contempt hearing Thursday over four more comments that prosecutors claim also breached the order intended to stop him from attacking jurors, witnesses, and others connected to his hush money trial.
The four alleged violations happened before Judge Juan Merchan warned Tuesday that the court "will not tolerate continued willful violations of its lawful orders" and would, if necessary, "impose an incarceratory punishment." Prosecutors are asking for a new $4,000 fine—$1,000 for each alleged breach—though it's not yet clear when Merchan will rule on the issue.
On the weekly day-long break from the trial Wednesday, Trump wheeled out a favorite insult to publicly criticize Merchan. "There is no crime. I have a crooked judge," Trump told supporters at a rally in Wisconsin. "He's a totally conflicted judge."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
HRH the Princess of WalesPrince William and Princess Kate have published a new photograph of their daughter Princess Charlotte on her ninth birthday. It was taken by Kate in Windsor "in the last few days," official sources said.
The couple published the photograph on social media rather than issuing it to media outlets, following the same procedure as they did on Prince Louis' birthday last week.
Issuing official photographs direct on social media appears to be a new precedent established in the wake of the furore over the family's photoshopped Mother's Day photograph.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 02, 2024
Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty ImagesThe relationship between members of the royal family and their clothes designers reached its apogee in the bond between Queen Elizabeth and her dresser, Angela Kelly. Kelly was the gatekeeper through which even family members had to pass to see Her Majesty in her declining years. She spent much of the last two years of her life with her and was at her bedside in her last days in Scotland. Even Prince Harry's relationship with his grandmother was soured at one stage by an argument with "AK47" over getting access to a tiara for Meghan.
Another close relationship has developed between William and Kate and one of their favorite designers. Relations are so close between the Waleses and Amaia Arrieta, the children's wear designer behind eponymous label Amaia, that it's worth taking seriously Arrieta's remarks in the Daily Telegraph about how she thinks the royals are doing.
The woman behind the classic-inspired look featuring long socks, smock dresses and pleated shirts with scalloped collars often worn by the Wales children at formal events has opened up about her famous clients' health struggles.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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