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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 20, 2024
Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via GettyRobert F. Kennedy Jr., whose pitch to voters has centered around his relative youth and mental sharpness, made a gaffe of his own Sunday when he suggested that whoever wins the White House in November should be sitting down with a laundry list of authoritarian leaders from around the world—including former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has not held office in more than 10 years.
"We need to be sitting down with other world leaders, with people like President Xi and President Putin and President Ahmadinejad, the prime minister, all the people—we can't afford to be at war anymore," Kennedy said during a speech focusing on artificial intelligence technology.
The timing of RFK Jr.'s gaffe was also unfortunate—coming just hours after news that the current president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, was involved in a helicopter crash near the country's border with Azerbaijan. It was later reported that Raisi died in the incident.
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May 20, 2024
Luke Hales/Getty, Gilbert Flores/GettyThis past weekend, as Pearl Jam performed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, frontman Eddie Vedder sounded off on Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker's controversial commencement speech. Butker has gotten heaps of backlash over his virulent address at Benedictine College last weekend, in which he shared his belief that women belong in the kitchen. In response, Vedder called the NFL kicker a "fucking pussy," according to Variety.
As he introduced Pearl Jam's gender-inclusive opening act, Deep Sea Diver, Vedder told the crowd, "The singer, Jessica, and the keyboard player, Patti, they must not have believed that ‘diabolical lie' that women should take pride in taking a back seat to their man."
"The irony was that when he was saying that, he looked like such a fucking pussy," Vedder added.
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May 20, 2024
Reuters/Patrick GorskiSimone Biles has had enough with the jokes suggesting her husband, the Chicago Bears defensive back Jonathan Owens, is a nobody compared to her.
She snapped in a fiery Instagram story Sunday night, writing over a pastel background that those continuing to slight Owens were being "disrespectful to my relationship and my husband."
"Respectfully, fuck off," she added.
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May 20, 2024
Cannes Film FestivalEarly on into the three hours of viewing Kevin Costner's Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 I thought back to last year's Cannes Film Festival, where I saw Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon for the first time. That brilliant movie is a full throated condemnation of the genocide of Native Americans by white people who claim the U.S. as their own. Horizon is not that.
Instead, one of the inciting incidents in the unwieldy film that Costner directs is a violent Apache assault on a settlement. The mostly white settlers are portrayed as terrified innocents. Sienna Miller's Frances hides underneath her house with her similarly blonde daughter (Georgia MacPhail) while her husband and son are murdered. They are shot in beatific fashion, meanwhile, the Native American assailants are shadowy figures who attack unprovoked. There are nods to nuance that come later, but far too little in the first part of Costner's passion project, which debuted at the festival.
Everything about Horizon is retrograde. Men are noble heroes (like Hayes Ellison, the drifter played by Costner) or brutes who toss around the women, themselves either saintly like Miller or frivolous and nagging. Even the score from John Debney, with its sweeping strings, feels like it was piped in the '90s. But Costner was better in that era—there's more nuance in Dances with Wolves than there is here.
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May 20, 2024
Pascal Le Segretain/Getty ImagesDemi Moore's graphic body horror movie The Substance has made a huge splash at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Winning a reportedly raucous 11-minute standing ovation and plenty of raves from critics—as well as a handful of winces from queasier audiences—The Substance has been called an "instant classic." A good handful of that talk has been about the film's explosive full-frontal nudity, which Moore spoke more about at the film's post-premiere press conference.
Revenge director Coralie Fargeat's new film follows Elisabeth Sparkle (Moore), a washed-up actress who gets fired from a TV network after being deemed "too old." Following her firing, Elisabeth is invited to a new program called "The Substance," which allows aging actresses to become their younger selves again. Moore's figure transforms into that of Margaret Qualley—although she must frequently hibernate to keep her young body available for movie shoots.
There's plenty of shock value in The Substance, early viewers have reported. For example: One of the first-look stills from the film features a woman's back being stapled together. Described by
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May 20, 2024
Comedy Central/screengrabFor his latest "Fingers the Pulse" special on Comedy Central, airing Monday, May 20 at 11:30 p.m. ET, The Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper turns his eye toward Russia. But instead of traveling to Moscow, Klepper focuses on the "Moscow Tools" here in America who—wittingly or not—have been doing Vladimir Putin's bidding.
To gain insight into what has drawn the MAGA faithful, including Donald Trump himself, to Putin, Klepper sits down with former Trump administration National Security Advisor John Bolton. And, as can be seen in the exclusive clip below, Klepper gets some surprisingly frank answers.
Klepper explained to The Daily Beast that he "wanted to wrap my head around Reagan's GOP newfound embrace of Putin," so he decided to sit down with the "most Republican" person he could find.
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May 20, 2024
Elizabeth Frantz/ReutersPresident Joe Biden erroneously claimed on Sunday he was still serving as vice president during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking at a dinner for the NAACP in Detroit, Michigan, Biden went on a tangent proclaiming he was on the ground in the state to help out as the virus raged on, at the request of former President Barack Obama.
"And when I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic," Biden said. "And what happened was, Barack said to me, ‘Go to Detroit, and help fix it.' Well the poor mayor, he spent more time with me than he thought he was ever going to have to. God love you."
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May 20, 2024
Cannes Film FestivalWhen I say The Substance, the Demi Moore-starring movie that rocked Cannes, is bloody that's an understatement. Take the amount of blood you think could be in this movie and double it. No, triple it. At one point during the runtime you will think you have seen the bloodiest part, but just you wait. It gets bloodier.
And yet the blood isn't even the part of this wonderfully batshit body horror spectacular that had me almost throwing up. It's a symphony of lurching flesh that might have you both gagging and cheering. The audience at my press screening of Cannes certainly did. We whooped, we gasped, and we clapped. It's the grossest thing you will see all year.
Directed by Coralie Fargeat, of the also bloody Revenge, the film is at its core pretty simple. Moore, who is locked in to her role, is Elisabeth Sparkle, a fading star with a workout empire called Sparkle Your Life, where she sways her booty like Jane Fonda back in the day. But she is also miserable. Hollywood—or the fake version of Hollywood with '80s flourishes that Fargeat has created—is casting her out. An executive not inconsequentially named Harvey and played with disgusting gusto by Dennis Quaid wants to replace her. (An early nasty moment involves Quaid eating shrimp with a close up on his mouth.)
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May 20, 2024
Los Angeles County Sheriff's OfficeCalifornia police say there's "concern" for the well-being of Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark's stepbrother, who mysteriously disappeared from the posh coastal community of Malibu over the weekend.
A barefoot Attilio Brillembourg, 53, vanished without a trace at around 1 a.m. Saturday near the 6000 block of Murphy Way, police said. Maps show the area he went missing from is rural by Los Angeles County standards, with a single road traversing a steep hillside with no street lights.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office deemed Brillembourg a missing person on Sunday but has released few other details about the circumstances of his disappearance. It has not indicated if it believes foul play is a factor and did not immediately respond to a request for additional information by The Daily Beast.
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May 20, 2024
Azin Haghighi/Anadolu via Getty ImagesAn Israeli official has gone on the record to deny their country was behind the helicopter crash which claimed the lives of Iran's president, foreign minister, and others Sunday.
President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and the six other passengers on board the chopper that went down in poor weather conditions were all confirmed dead Monday by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. An anonymous Israeli official told Reuters that Israel was not responsible for the incident, simply saying: "It wasn't us."
The wreckage of the crash was found early Monday in a mountainous area following a massive search and rescue operation that ran through the night. Reports had emerged a day earlier that the helicopter had suffered a "hard landing" as Raisi was traveling from the Iran-Azerbaijan border—where he'd been inaugurating a dam—on the way to the Iranian city of Tabriz.
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May 20, 2024
NBC/screengrabDrake Bell is once again discussing his decision to participate in the ID docuseries Quiet On Set, in which he shared his story of being sexually abused by dialogue coach Brian Peck.
In an interview with Today that aired on Monday, the Nickelodeon alum was asked why he wanted to share his story for the first time in the doc after so many years.
"Things were spiraling out of control emotionally and mentally," he said, "and I thought maybe this could help in the healing process and also help others who have gone through the same situations or similar situations."
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May 20, 2024
Andrea Renault/Star Max/GC Images/GettyMichael Cohen isn't just a convicted liar and disbarred attorney. He's also an admitted thief.
The testimony from the Manhattan district attorney's lead witness against Donald Trump took a dive Monday morning, when the ex-president's former consigliere got cornered during cross-examination and forced to acknowledge that he overbilled the Trump Organization by $30,000.
In a heated exchange, defense lawyer Todd Blanche flipped a switch and went back to his days as a federal prosecutor—grilling Cohen on the way he'd gotten away with a crime.
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May 20, 2024
Hollie Adams/ReutersA London court on Monday ruled that Julian Assange can appeal against his extradition to the United States, a decision which will be welcomed as a significant victory by his supporters but one which is also likely to extend his lengthy legal battle in Britain.
The ruling comes after two High Court judges in March deferred a decision about whether the WikiLeaks founder could launch a new appeal against an order from the U.K. government for him to be sent to the U.S. to face trial on espionage charges. The justices said at the time that Assange would be granted leave to appeal unless the American government could provide "satisfactory" assurances about the rights that Assange would have during a prospective trial.
The U.S. Embassy in London in April made assurances that the Australian journalist would not be "prejudiced by reason of his nationality" and said that he would be able to seek First Amendment rights. American officials also said he would not face the death penalty in his case.
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May 20, 2024
Carlos Barria/ReutersDonald Trump came out swinging Monday morning, pushing back on claims that he froze up during a speech over the weekend and asserting that an apparent mishap involving a wobbly podium was, in fact, a stunning feat of his physical talents.
On his Truth Social platform, the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee first took issue with the way his lengthy mid-speech pause at the National Rifle Association convention Saturday had been made out to be an unintentional gaffe. He said it was actually a "standard" part of his speeches and blamed President Joe Biden's campaign for the supposed misinterpretation of what happened.
"My Speech in Dallas this weekend at the NRA's ‘Endorsement of President Donald J. Trump,' was attended by a Record Crowd of very enthusiastic Patriots," he wrote. "The Biden Campaign, however, put out a Fake Story that I ‘froze' for 30 seconds, going into the ‘Musical Interlude' section, when in actuality, the 30 to 60 second period of silence is standard in every one of my Speeches where we use the Music."
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May 20, 2024
Gil Cohen-Magen/ReutersThe International Criminal Court's prosecutor on Monday said that he has requested a warrant for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas leaders.
Karim Khan, the prosecutor, said he is filing the application for the warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza. The warrants for the Hamas leaders—Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, and Ismail Haniyeh—relate to the Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel and the subsequent treatment of the hostages kidnapped during the assault.
The warrant applications will now be considered by a panel of ICC judges. The requests alone are significant, however, with the court targeting the leader of one of the U.S.' close allies for the first time, according to CNN.
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May 20, 2024
Kena Betancur/Getty Images and Reuters/Nic BothmaThe International Criminal Court's prosecutor on Monday said that he has requested a warrant for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas leaders.
Karim Khan, the prosecutor, said he is filing the application for the warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza. The warrants for the Hamas leaders—Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, and Ismail Haniyeh—relate to the Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel and the subsequent treatment of the hostages kidnapped during the assault.
The warrant applications will now be considered by a panel of ICC judges. The requests alone are significant, however, with the court targeting the leader of one of the U.S.' close allies for the first time, according to CNN.
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May 20, 2024
Carlos Barria/ReutersDonald Trump's hush-money trial will resume Monday with more cross-examination of Michael Cohen, the former president's one-time lawyer and fixer who is at the epicenter of the historic case.
It will probably be Cohen's final day on the stand after already delivering explosive testimony about his old boss' alleged involvement in the $130,000 payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence about a sexual liaison with Trump. Trump's defense attorneys will likely continue with questioning designed to chip away at the credibility of Cohen—the last prosecution witness in the trial.
Prosecutors claim Trump broke the law by falsifying business records to conceal the hush-money payment to Daniels. He did so, they claim, to protect his 2016 presidential campaign from Daniels' potentially damaging story of an extramarital one-night stand coming to light. Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges in the case and has denied having sex with Daniels.
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May 20, 2024
Paramount During its trailblazing heyday, Lollapalooza provided an unparalleled platform for the alternative. The problem was that by doing so it made the alternative mainstream, which ultimately caused the summer music festival to betray its roots—an inevitable evolution that stands as the most fascinating aspect of Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza, a nostalgia-fest which understands that all good underground things must either die or become the very thing against which they rebel.
Ironically, Michael John Warren's three-part Paramount docuseries (May 21) is somewhat undercut by a similar dynamic, given that its own desire to end on a happy note means that it must ignore the fact that there's no going home again to recapture the magic that made a sensation truly sensational in the first place. As a result, it's ultimately more promotion than critique.
Lollapalooza launched in 1991 as the brainchild of Perry Farrell, frontman for the paradigm-shifting band Jane's Addiction, who—along with cofounders Ted Gardner, Don Muller, and Marc Geiger—viewed it a way to channel the spirit of England's Reading Festival (and its ilk) by bringing together an assorted line-up of artists on a single stage. Designed as a farewell for Jane's Addiction, which planned to disband once this run of shows was completed, it quickly blossomed into an invigorating new take on an old format. Attendees were offered not just one great performance after another, but a common area filled with local avant-garde artists, social activist booths that sought to raise awareness about guns, the environment, and voting, and additional attractions that made it an immersive day-long experience directly attuned to the era's youth culture.
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May 20, 2024
Paramount During its trailblazing heyday, Lollapalooza provided an unparalleled platform for the alternative. The problem was that by doing so it made the alternative mainstream, which ultimately caused the summer music festival to betray its roots—an inevitable evolution that stands as the most fascinating aspect of Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza, a nostalgia-fest which understands that all good underground things must either die or become the very thing against which they rebel.
Ironically, Michael John Warren's three-part Paramount docuseries (May 21) is somewhat undercut by a similar dynamic, given that its own desire to end on a happy note means that it must ignore the fact that there's no going home again to recapture the magic that made a sensation truly sensational in the first place. As a result, it's ultimately more promotion than critique.
Lollapalooza launched in 1991 as the brainchild of Perry Farrell, frontman for the paradigm-shifting band Jane's Addiction, who—along with cofounders Ted Gardner, Don Muller, and Marc Geiger—viewed it a way to channel the spirit of England's Reading Festival (and its ilk) by bringing together an assorted line-up of artists on a single stage. Designed as a farewell for Jane's Addiction, which planned to disband once this run of shows was completed, it quickly blossomed into an invigorating new take on an old format. Attendees were offered not just one great performance after another, but a common area filled with local avant-garde artists, social activist booths that sought to raise awareness about guns, the environment, and voting, and additional attractions that made it an immersive day-long experience directly attuned to the era's youth culture.
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May 20, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyKHARKIV, Ukraine—Fighting on the front lines has taken a disastrous turn for the worse after Russia broke through Kharkiv's line of defense on May 10. Throughout Eastern Ukraine, the brutal repercussions of the six-month-long pause in new U.S. aid led to massive losses on the battlefield. Ukrainian soldiers risking their lives for their country are suffering from physical and psychological trauma. With few ways to decompress from the all-encompassing effects of war, many are turning to drugs and alcohol as a way to cope, which has plunged the military even deeper into darkness.
Alcohol is banned in Donbas, the region that has been the epicenter of the war, and all stores and restaurants are forbidden from selling it, but still it makes its way to the front lines via off-rotation soldiers, volunteers, smugglers who charge outlandish prices, or journalists, who bring it in as a peace offering before they begin their interviews.
Multiple soldiers who spoke to The Daily Beast claim that some of those defending Ukraine are also abusing illegal substances that they buy through shady online businesses run by the country's mafia. Some, they say, are drunk at military positions. The men claim that some of their comrades have been so drunk or high that they have killed civilians, soldiers, and animals in a blind rage or while driving under the influence.
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May 20, 2024
Liam Daniel/NetflixDearest gentle reader, I recognize that the laws of attraction can be fickle. The very same features that might make one person quiver beneath her bodice might, in fact, stir nothing but disgust for another. The flirtatious habits that once made a bachelor's eyes sparkle during one season might bore him to tears in another. Nevertheless, I must ask: What the hell is going on with the hottest brother in Netflix's Bridgerton?
No, I'm not talking about Anthony, the dreamy (now married) Viscount played by Jonathan Bailey. I'm talking about his younger brother, Benedict, whose love life has been a hot, sexy mess for three seasons. Sex appeal might be subjective, but as far as this writer is concerned our boy Benny checks all the right boxes: He's got gorgeous blue eyes, witty ballroom comments, and a soul-meltingly mischievous smile. Also, he's the most reliable of his many, many siblings. Too bad Bridgerton can't seem to decide what to do with him.
Next season will likely belong either to Benedict or his younger sister, Eloise, who already made a catastrophic debut on the Ton's marriage mart in Season 2. But if we really are moving on to Benedict, it's going to take some real finessing to stick the landing.
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May 20, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBCWhen Parks and Recreation first premiered in spring 2009, we were all living in a different world. Wide belts, baker boy hats, and multi-colored tights were all the rage. Everyone was worried about swine flu. And a charismatic politician named Barack Obama had just been inaugurated as our first Black president. For many, it was a time of hope. It's no wonder Amy Poehler's unforgettable public servant Leslie Knope and her many, many eccentric neighbors and colleagues stole our hearts.
Parks and Rec might've faced a shaky reception during its first season on NBC, but it didn't take long before the long-running sitcom became inescapable. Most of its core cast have become famous in their own right—Adam Scott, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Nick Offerman,
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May 20, 2024
Iranian Presidency/Handout/Anadolu via GettyIranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died along with the foreign minister and a number of others after the helicopter they were traveling in crashed in the country's northwest. He was 63.
The Associated Press, citing state-run news agency IRNA, confirmed the deaths, adding Iranian state TV gave no immediate cause for the crash. Iran's Press TV confirmed the deaths, though did not cite a source. The report echoes other Iranian media reports including Mehr and Tasmin.
According to The Washington Post, a state TV news anchor "choked up" as she announced the news on live television in Tehran just before 8 .a.m. local time.
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May 20, 2024
Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty ImagesIranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died along with the foreign minister and a number of others after the helicopter they were traveling in crashed in the country's northwest. He was 63.
The Associated Press, citing state-run news agency IRNA, confirmed the deaths, adding Iranian state TV gave no immediate cause for the crash. Iran's Press TV confirmed the deaths, though did not cite a source. The report echoes other Iranian media reports including Mehr and Tasmin.
According to The Washington Post, a state TV news anchor "choked up" as she announced the news on live television in Tehran just before 8 .a.m. local time.
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May 20, 2024
Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty ImagesA search-and-rescue team looking for the remains of a crashed helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi found the heavily damaged aircraft early Monday morning—but reported "no signs of life" were detected in the area and that "no survivors" had been found, according to state media.
No official death announcement has been made as of midnight Eastern Time, though one official told Reuters that Tehran was rapidly losing hope that Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, and the seven other people on board were still alive—especially given the harsh terrain and freezing conditions in the northern mountains near the country's border with Azerbaijan, where the helicopter went down.
"President Raisi's helicopter was completely burned in the crash ... unfortunately, all passengers are feared dead," the official said.
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May 20, 2024
Stephen J. Cohen/Getty ImagesBob Ritchie, a.k.a Kid Rock, will readily admit he lives in his own world—"and it's great," as he insisted to a Rolling Stone journalist in a recent interview. The rules of that world, though, apparently dictate that Ritchie can do as he likes, including get "belligerently" drunk in front of someone with a tape recorder.
After switching from white wine to bourbon and Coke midway through a sitdown with Rolling Stone, the MAGA-loving rocker began "shouting" at the journalist, David Peisner, who reports that his subject proceeded to pull out a handgun and wave it in his face.
"And I got a fucking goddamn gun right here if I need it!" he writes Ritchie yelled. "I got them everywhere!" To be fair, the preceding two hours of the interview were also pockmarked with bizarre exchanges, including a moment where Ritchie railed against immigrants before crying out "9/11!"
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May 19, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyMost podiums don't jiggle jiggle—they stand firm and proud, as much a testament to American craftsmanship as they are a metaphor for American exceptionalism, ready at a moment's notice to shield a speaker's lower half from a rapt audience, no doubt as spellbound by the lectern's lacquer finish as its lecturer's sparkling rhetoric.
But one errant podium wiggle wiggled for sure at one of Donald Trump's recent stops along the campaign trail, bringing shame down upon the good name of soapboxes everywhere as the former president leaned slightly too hard on it mid-speech, causing it to buckle under his weight.
"What a crappy contractor this was," Trump quipped to laughter at the annual Minnesota GOP dinner, observing that his podium "keeps tilting to the left—like too many other things."
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May 19, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/HBOIn the sixth episode of The Sympathizer, the General (Toan Le) is preparing a militia to invade Vietnam and stage a second Vietnam War. Great. Awesome. Definitely what the world needs: More war! But as the Captain (Hoa Xuande) tours the General's secret military base in the plains of California, he finds out something even worse about this mess—his best friend Bon (Fred Nguyen Khan) has volunteered for this doomed-to-lose army.
Captain could've just avoided this shitshow entirely if it wasn't for Bon. Sure, whatever! Send everyone back to Vietnam to lose the war all over again. But now, he has to defend his friend. Ugh. Captain sends a coded message to Man (Duy Nguy?n) that their side will end up killing Bon if the two of them don't do anything to protect their non-Commie friend. While he waits for a response, Captain does some digging to figure out where the funds for this militia are coming from.
They've got to be coming from one of the many characters Robert Downey, Jr. is playing, either CIA informant Claude or politician Ned Godwin. It's the latter, so Captain volunteers for the campaign to get insider information on the donations—proof, essentially, to send back to Man. Captain schmoozes around with Ned's wife (Veronica Della Vedova) to get access to the senator's private drawing room, where, later, he takes the donation documents.
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May 19, 2024
Courtesy of Candice MatthewsA Black civil rights activist in Texas who is notorious for "dropping the hammer for accountability on corruption" and was targeted with a racist hate letter and noose has spoken about how the threat will not stop her mission from protecting foster children of color in the Lone Star State from abuse.
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast, Dr. Candice Matthews said she was scared "at first," but that didn't deter her.
"At the end of the day, I'm the voice of the people. I'm the voice for children, the voiceless. My job is to protect the unprotected and that's what I'm going to," she said.
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May 19, 2024
60 MinutesPope Francis on Sunday railed against conservative bishops in the United States who oppose his efforts to revitalize the Catholic Church.
When quizzed by CBS Evening News anchor Norah O'Donnell over the issue on Sunday's 60 Minutes, the 87-year-old provided an unexpected response.
"You used an adjective, ‘conservative,'" Pope Francis said. "That is, conservative is one who clings to something and does not want to see beyond that. It is a suicidal attitude. Because one thing is to take tradition into account, to consider situations from the past, but quite another is to be closed up inside a dogmatic box."
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May 19, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyIt was the wobble felt around the world.
Well—at least by a room of Minnesota Republicans who watched Donald Trump's podium teeter during a speech Friday night. And, of course, the 450,000-some X-users who came upon a clip of Trump swaying on stage courtesy of a Biden-Harris campaign account that's seeking to cast the former president as over-the-hill.
As Trump delivered a speech to the annual Minnesota GOP dinner, a budget-looking podium buckled as he leaned forward to make a point. An exasperated Trump then teed off, bemoaning that the "freaking place is falling down" and chiding that the lectern was tilting further and further left like "too many other things."
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May 19, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyOver the last few days, Hunter Biden has lost his bid to delay his federal gun trial, tried to get his tax trial postponed, and learned that the benefactor funding his legal defense is out of cash.
But President Joe Biden's scandal-scarred son is ready for another fight.
Three weeks ago, his attorney sent a legal letter to Fox News threatening to sue the media empire for allegedly conspiring with Trumpland operatives and pro-Russia foreign nationals to defame him, and for exploiting his image for profit.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 19, 2024
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyAnother day, another pathetic move from disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs.
On Sunday morning, Diddy posted a public apology video via Instagram following the release of a surveillance video which showed him physically attacking his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in 2016.
"I take full responsibility for my actions in that video," Diddy says. "I'm disgusted."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 19, 2024
Screenshot/Brian Glenn/XBrian Glenn, the boyfriend of a certain "bleach-blonde" U.S. representative, shocked devotees of the MAGA YouTube channel Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) on Saturday as he declared his sudden departure from the outlet.
The announcement came at the beginning of RSBN's coverage of the NRA Convention, where the network had dutifully followed its idol Donald Trump to his planned speech. Glenn opened his broadcast with the news.
"Today, here in Dallas at NRA, is my last day on air with RSBN," Glenn said. "I've gotta say, it has been an amazing nearly four years."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 19, 2024
Arsene Mpiana/Getty ImagesAmerican citizens appear to be among a group detained in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for their alleged involvement in a failed coup attempt, authorities in the African nation said Sunday.
The arrests were made after a deadly shootout near a government official's home in the capital Kinshasa, which killed three people. Congolese army spokesperson Brig. Gen. Sylvain Ekenge said the coup, which was enacted by both Congolese and foreigners, had been quickly thwarted by national security forces.
The U.S. ambassador to the country, Lucy Tamlyn, said on X that she had been informed of the alleged involvement of American citizens and said the embassy was cooperating with the Congolese government.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 19, 2024
Anna Moneymaker/GettyRep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) attacked Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream on Sunday after Bream brought up a December 2022 New York Times article that chronicled Stefanik's transformation from a moderate Republican to a Donald Trump acolyte—one that cited Stefanik's own public comments attacking Trump.
Bream noted the article's use of Stefanik's former friends and its reference to a radio interview Stefanik gave in 2015, where she described Trump as "insulting to women," to ask her what changed to make Trump more palatable to her. The question enraged the House Republican, a potential pick for Trump's vice-presidential slot, who called it a "disgrace" that Bream would cite the Times and anonymous sources.
"It's a disgrace that you would quote The New York Times with nameless, faceless, false sources," Stefanik said, shouting over Bream's rebuttals. "They're not quoting my friends. Those names are not included because they are false smears."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 19, 2024
Lev Radin/Getty ImagesThe man accused of randomly punching actor Steve Buscemi in the face two weeks ago has been arraigned and is being held in New York City on $50,000 cash bail.
According to the complaint, Clifton Williams, 50, is charged with one count of assault in the second degree and one count of assault in the third degree. Williams allegedly punched a separate male victim nine minutes before he assaulted Buscemi, the complaint says, leaving them both with "bruising, swelling, and substantial pain," the complaint said. It did not name either of the victims, although enough information was given to identify Buscemi as the second.
At the time of the attack, police said Buscemi had been walking with a female companion in midtown Manhattan on May 8 when the attacker strolled up, punched him in the face, and then ran away, evading capture for over a week. The attack was confirmed by Buscemi's publicist, who characterized it as "a random act of violence."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 19, 2024
Elijah Nouvelage/GettyPresident Joe Biden's commencement speech at Morehouse College on Sunday went off mostly without a hitch, though a handful of students and faculty turned their backs on him as he spoke while some walked out altogether—a muted response for a modern president as pro-Palestinian sentiments continue to roil higher education.
Biden's speech at the historically Black men's college touched on many of his campaign's pillars, including his economic wins and his calls for an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza, while acknowledging policies that have boosted Black Americans. The speech was Biden's first direct interaction with college students after a month of protests across U.S. college campuses, including Columbia, the University of California-Los Angeles, and the University of Florida.
Biden was greeted with a standing ovation from multiple Morehouse alums as he took the stage, according to a video posted on social media, though students largely remained seated. About six students turned their backs towards Biden as he spoke, according to NBC News, in a continuation of various protests at commencements nationwide over the war.
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May 19, 2024
Jakub Porzycki/Getty ImagesA Bronx mother is suing American Airlines for the wrongful death of her 14-year-old son, which she claims the airline failed to prevent. She also says the airline "lost" crucial evidence in the case.
Melissa Arzu claims American Airlines broke Federal Aviation Administration policy by flying with a faulty defibrillator on board, failing to properly train flight attendants to use the machine, and then failing to provide the device when her lawyer attempted to obtain it, according to a complaint filed in the Northern District of Texas on May 13.
In June 2022, Arzu and her son Kevin Greenidge were flying from Honduras to Miami on their way back home to New York when Greenidge suddenly "experienced a medical emergency," the complaint says. Greenidge was allegedly unconscious and unresponsive, the complaint continues, and "after some delay," airline personnel assisted by directing medically-trained passengers to give the boy CPR.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 19, 2024
Jakub Porzycki/Getty ImagesA Bronx mother is suing American Airlines for the wrongful death of her 14-year-old son, which she claims the airline failed to prevent. She also says the airline "lost" crucial evidence in the case.
Melissa Arzu claims American Airlines broke Federal Aviation Administration policy by flying with a faulty defibrillator on board, failing to properly train flight attendants to use the machine, and then failing to provide the device when her lawyer attempted to obtain it, according to a complaint filed in the Northern District of Texas on May 13.
In June 2022, Arzu and her son Kevin Greenidge were flying from Honduras to Miami on their way back home to New York when Greenidge suddenly "experienced a medical emergency," the complaint says. Greenidge was allegedly unconscious and unresponsive, the complaint continues, and "after some delay," airline personnel assisted by directing medically-trained passengers to give the boy CPR.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 19, 2024
Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images for Sean \"Diddy\" CombsIn a video posted to social media on Sunday morning, Sean "Diddy" Combs claimed to "take full responsibility" for his actions in the disturbing video that showed him beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a violent fit of rage in 2016.
"I was fucked up," Diddy said in the video posted to his Instagram account, before adding, "I'm sorry."
"I mean, I hit rock bottom. I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 19, 2024
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Sources in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's camp have defended the couple after claims were made in the Daily Mail that they were flown around Nigeria for free "by an airline whose chairman is a fugitive wanted in the U.S."
The Mail said that the founder of Nigerian airline Air Peace, Dr. Allen Onyema, which provided the Sussexes with air transport during their tour of Nigeria, is wanted in the US, "facing multiple charges linked to millions of dollars' worth of alleged fraud set down in a federal indictment filed in November 2019."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 19, 2024
NBC/screengrabAbout midway through the final "Weekend Update" of Saturday Night Live's 49th season, Michael Che told a joke about King Charles and Meghan Markle that drew loud enough groans from the studio audience that he felt the need to remark, "I thought they'd like that, Colin."
But that reaction was nothing compared to what followed at the end of the segment when Che and Colin Jost brought back their recurring "joke swap" bit where they each cold-read the most offensive jokes the other could think of for them to say on live television. And while the last time they engaged in this ill-advised pursuit in December, Che invited a (fictional) civil rights icon to sit beside Jost as he told his jokes, this time he welcomed a woman who he claimed was an "actual practicing rabbi."
With that in mind, Jost kicked off the proceedings by reading this joke about the student walk-out that greeted Jerry Seinfeld's recent commencement address at Duke University. "I think that's disgraceful. During these difficult times it's important to support our Jewish friends. That's why the only chant you'll hear from me is ‘Free Weinstein.''
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May 19, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Reuters
Representative Jasmine Crockett may well be The New Abnormal's Hero of the Week for taking on America First Legal's vice president Gene Hamilton over Project 2025—a blueprint for radical government changes should Donald Trump be re-elected as president.
"It calls for eliminating the Department of Education, eliminating the Department of Commerce, deploying the military for the use of domestic law enforcement against protestors under the Insurrection Act of 1807," Crockett told Hamilton during a Republican-led House Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government earlier this week. "It also has the repealing of Schedule F status for thousands of federal employees to allow a president to replace career civil servants with unqualified partisan loyalists. That's probably my favorite of it. It also prohibits the FBI from combating the spread of misinformation and disinformation like Russia and China who are actively trying to interfere with American elections."
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May 19, 2024
Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty ImagesJERUSALEM—Israel is crippling the ability of NGOs and human rights organizations to address the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank, by smearing, threatening and torturing aid workers while using their power to limit or deny visas to people who want to come and help.
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the backbone of aid, education and support to millions of Palestinians, has been hard hit by bombing attacks on its staff and infrastructure in Gaza but also by the iniquity of red-tape facing its international staff in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.
The U.N. said its first foreign aid worker was killed by an Israeli tank attack on his marked vehicle this week in the latest escalation.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 19, 2024
NBC / SNLThe season 49 finale of Saturday Night Live opened with a message from James Austin Johnson's Donald Trump. Airing from "his new home, the barricades outside of a Manhattan courthouse," Trump confessed to his supporters that he hasn't been loving the past few weeks.
"They say very mean things about me while I'm trying to sleep," he complained, before insisting that he would love to testify in court himself. "I'm not afraid to testify at all. I'm just not going to, out of fear. You see, they do a terrible thing when you testify, which is they write it down, and we don't like that…"
As he talked, a member of the jury (played by cast member Sarah Sherman) walked on stage. She quickly realized she was on camera, panicked, and walked off. "Oh, that was a juror, did you see her face?" Trump said. "Everyone just saw her face and now her life is over, folks. My people are going to screenshot her face and dox her to hell. Oh, we love to dox."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 19, 2024
NBC / SNLThe season 49 finale of Saturday Night Live opened with a message from James Austin Johnson's Donald Trump. Airing from "his new home, the barricades outside of a Manhattan courthouse," Trump confessed to his supporters that he hasn't been loving the past few weeks.
"They say very mean things about me while I'm trying to sleep," he complained, before insisting that he would love to testify in court himself. "I'm not afraid to testify at all. I'm just not going to, out of fear. You see, they do a terrible thing when you testify, which is they write it down, and we don't like that…"
As he talked, a member of the jury (played by cast member Sarah Sherman) walked on stage. She quickly realized she was on camera, panicked, and walked off. "Oh, that was a juror, did you see her face?" Trump said. "Everyone just saw her face and now her life is over, folks. My people are going to screenshot her face and dox her to hell. Oh, we love to dox."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 19, 2024
via X A suspected meteor lit up the sky over Portugal and Spain late Saturday night, prompting witnesses to flood social media with videos of the spectacular blue fireball.
One video, apparently filmed on a driver's dash-cam, shows a burst of blue light blazing across the sky. Another captures a crowd reacting with awe and dismay as the entire sky turns neon blue while the apparent meteor falls.
Authorities in Viseu, Portugal, told Publico they had been alerted to reports of an object falling in the sky but that they had so far not been able to find whatever it was that came crashing down to Earth. The outlet said the Civil Protection agency initially reported a "meteorite fall" but then retracted that statement.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
Howard L. Bingham"We were flying by the seat of our pants," Stax legend William Bell recently recalled of the early days of the venerable label that tracked the rise of the civil rights movement. "A lot of us came in from the gospel arena, right out of church, just neighborhood kids. We learned how to craft a song as young kids, 14, 15 years old, but really, we just wanted to hear our voices on the radio."
According to legend, Stax Records replaced cotton as the single biggest product coming out of Memphis, Tennessee, during its late-1960s heyday. And if you know the Stax story, it's not hard to believe.
But if you only know the hits, and not the rags-to-riches tale of the label that made stars of Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Sam & Dave, the Staple Singers, and so many more, then you couldn't do better than STAX: Soulsville U.S.A., a four-part documentary that premieres on Max on May 20 and tracks its remarkable, and often heartbreaking, history.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/MaxHaving a one-night stand seems to have become veteran comic Deborah Vance's (Jean Smart) go-to method in confronting the two most painful moments from her past: losing a late-night talk show and losing her husband to her younger sister in one fell swoop.
In both of the last two seasons of Hacks, Deborah has had fleeting encounters that prove she has the capacity for self-reflection after a night in the sack with a hot guy—which is true even when Deborah breaks her own "no married men" rule.
(Warning: Spoilers ahead for the latest episodes of Hacks.)
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Netflix/Getty ImagesHave you ever professed feelings to the love of your life while a Pitbull song was playing in the background? Oh, you haven't? You should give it a try sometime. Clearly, it works wonders—because in Bridgerton, it leads to one of the series' greatest love stories. Pitbull is a romantic genius.
(Warning: Spoilers ahead for Bridgerton Season 3, Part 1.)
Let's set the scene: Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) is having a tense carriage ride back to her home across from the Bridgerton estate. She's fed up with Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton), who has vexed her for years as the charming boy next door. He just ruined her one chance at marriage by intercepting a proposition at a ball. And yet, he still does not seem to love her. Why, then, must he continue to take such a vested interest in her love life?
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Netflix/Getty ImagesHave you ever professed feelings to the love of your life while a Pitbull song was playing in the background? Oh, you haven't? You should give it a try sometime. Clearly, it works wonders—because in Bridgerton, it leads to one of the series' greatest love stories. Pitbull is a romantic genius.
(Warning: Spoilers ahead for Bridgerton Season 3, Part 1.)
Let's set the scene: Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) is having a tense carriage ride back to her home across from the Bridgerton estate. She's fed up with Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton), who has vexed her for years as the charming boy next door. He just ruined her one chance at marriage by intercepting a proposition at a ball. And yet, he still does not seem to love her. Why, then, must he continue to take such a vested interest in her love life?
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesThere is something preternaturally alluring about Bella Hadid. Maybe it's the supermodel-activist-lemon heiress' cheekbones, which look like Rodin's careful hands finished sculpting them just before Pat McGrath's devoted brushes dotted highlighter powder across their curvature. Or perhaps it's the Palestinian-American's fearless dedication to speaking out for what she believes in. Hadid has been strong-willed enough to suffer any detractors, consistently using her platform to speak out about Israel's virulent military campaign in Gaza, and joining the call to demand a ceasefire.
Whatever her draw is, one thing's for sure: Bella Hadid serves as often as an Applebee's waiter doing a double shift after a local junior baseball tournament. Watching her walk a runway is like catching a glimpse of Helen of Troy—suddenly, you understand how one face could launch a thousand ships. Hadid has an "it" factor that so many of her contemporaries have failed to procure, an undeniable pull that has made her the muse of designers and photographers around the world at just 27 year
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May 18, 2024
Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesDonald Trump followed up his endorsement by the National Rifle Association on Saturday with a speech stoking fears of the government under Joe Biden "coming for your guns" and a bizarre monologue set to dramatic music resembling a song favored by QAnon.
Addressing thousands of members of the NRA at their annual meeting in Texas, the former president stuck to his usual talking points, hailing the reversal of Roe v. Wade as an "amazing thing," comparing himself to Al Capone, and insisting "genius" runs in his bloodline.
Then, as he wound down, in a disorienting shift, sentimental music began to play and Trump furrowed his brow and shook his head to deliver the grim message that America is "a failing nation."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
CNN via YouTubeCNN political commentator Alice Stewart died suddenly on Saturday at the age of 58.
Authorities said they discovered her body outdoors in Bellevue, Virginia, and believe Stewart suffered a medical emergency. No foul play is suspected.
Stewart served as communications director for the presidential campaigns of former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR), former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), and most recently Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). She was hired by CNN ahead of the 2016 presidential election. She was a conservative commentator who would regularly appear on CNN, and offer criticism of former president Donald Trump.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/New York County District Attorney's OfficeShe had a simple job at a complex trial: Read a man's damning words.
Not just any man, of course. The Twitter posts on the bright courtroom screens at Donald Trump's New York trial last Friday were the thoughtless intimidation tactics of the first American president to face criminal charges in a fight that could alter the course of the country's history.
The task fell to Georgia Longstreet, a tall, unassuming 24-year-old who walks into court every morning impeccably dressed. She and her two fellow paralegals show up half an hour before the prosecution team does, lugging in binders of evidence and prepping for the seven-hour battle ahead.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
ReutersIt's been a tumultuous year for Sean "Diddy" Combs and those in his orbit, which was punctuated this month with his once-promising fashion line, Sean John, appearing to have had its website wiped from the internet.
Internet archives indicate the site's removal took place sometime between May 3 and Saturday, when The Daily Beast discovered its domain—seanjohn.com—now directs users to an "under construction" page that links to seedy webpages seemingly not associated with the brand. It appears to be the first time the domain has been in such a state since it went live in 1999, the archival service Wayback Machine shows.
It's unclear if the site's deactivation is temporary, permanent, or merely an extremely bad technical error.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
Pinal County Sheriff's OfficeA convicted sex offender was arrested on Tuesday in Arizona, seven months after he allegedly faked his own death to avoid having to register.
In October, 50-year-old Benjamin Hollins allegedly had a woman file a false police report claiming that he'd killed himself jumping off the Theodore Roosevelt Lake Bridge in Roosevelt, Arizona.
In a video statement posted to Facebook, Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb said his department had wasted "a lot of resources" searching for Hollins' body, "which was clearly not found, because he wasn't dead."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
Shanna BessonNothing about Selena Gomez's new movie that premiered at Cannes should work.
Let's just review the plot. Stay with me here.
Emilia Perez is the mostly Spanish-language story of a lawyer, Rita (Zoe Saldaña), who is hired by a notorious cartel leader, Manitas, who has been on hormones for two years, to make secret arrangements for a gender confirmation surgery. Rita makes millions in the process. Cut to four years later: Manitas is now Emilia Perez. She is impossibly glamorous and has another task for Rita. Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón) wants the lawyer, now a success in London, to retrieve her wife, Jessi (Gomez), and children from their hideaway in Switzerland and install them in a house in Mexico City, where Emilia will pose as her own kids' aunt. Jessi assumes that Manitas is dead and has no idea who Emilia really is, but she wants to return to get back together with the sexy Gustavo (Édgar Ramírez), with whom she had an affair. Later, Emilia, atoning for her crimes as the ruthless Manitas, opens a foundation to locate the bodies of disappeared people.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
Tom Williams/Getty ImagesFirebrand Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) continued to take no prisoners on a Friday night CNN appearance, doubling down on comments she made during a contentious House Oversight Committee hearing on Thursday night.
The meeting, which was supposed to be about contempt-of-Congress proceedings for Attorney General Merrick Garland, went off the rails when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) suddenly attacked Crockett's appearance during a hostile exchange of barbs on the committee floor, suggesting that Crockett's "fake eyelashes are messing up what you're reading."
The comments drew immediate outrage from Democratic reps including committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who moved to strike Greene's comments from the record. That motion ultimately failed, and Greene refused to apologize.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
XThe Biden campaign gleefully turned one of Donald Trump's favorite digs against him on Saturday, branding the 78-year-old candidate as woefully geriatric in response to his embarrassing stumble at a Minnesota rally on Friday.
Video from the event shared by Biden-Harris HQ on X showed Trump grabbing the lectern during his remarks on stage, after nearly toppling the podium over.
"A feeble Trump nearly falls down on stage after he leans on his podium too hard and then goes on an angry rant calling his event workers ‘crappy,'" the caption reads.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Reuters and Courtesy of HBOBill Maher said he doesn't understand the backlash to Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker's graduation speech at Benedictine College, in which the footballer said being gay was a "deadly sin" and lectured female graduates on the importance of being homemakers.
On the latest episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the late night host made it clear that he doesn't share Butker's personal enthusiasm for things like marriage, religion, and children. "I couldn't be more not like this," Maher said.
But Maher wasn't convinced that the outrage about Butker's comments towards women were well-founded.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
Bob D'Amico/Getty ImagesJohn Stamos remembered his late co-star Bob Saget on what would've been the actor's 68th birthday on Friday, posting a Full House reunion picture that included a rare appearance by the Olsen twins.
The actor shared a black-and-white group photo of himself and several of his co-stars from the classic sitcom—including the famously private Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who shared the part of Michelle Tanner as young children. They were joined by four other Full House OGs: Jodie Sweetin, Candace Cameron Bure, Dave Coulier, and Scott Weinger, gathered around a statue of Dumbo in Saget's home.
"Happy Birthday Bob," Stamos wrote in the caption. "This was taken as we gathered for his funeral. Though Bob wasn't there physically, his spirit was unmistakably present, wrapping us in warmth and shared memories that drew both laughter and tears."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
Darren McCollesterCollege graduates at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth were left stunned at their commencement ceremony this week, captured in footage with their mouths ajar as a billionaire announced he was gifting each of them $1,000.
Even better, the graduates would be getting the money on the spot, with the tech CEO Robert Hale Jr. handing them a pair of envelopes—each stuffed with $500 cash—as they walked across stage, he explained.
"Each of you is getting $1,000 cash right now," he said, to the crowd's bemusement.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
Jason LaVeris"Time tells truth."
That was the cryptic Instagram post left by disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean ‘Diddy' Combs just days before surveillance video would reveal the truth that he physically attacked his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in 2016.
The disturbing footage-that was originally obtained by CNN-shows Ventura trying to leave a hotel room with her belongings before being assaulted by Combs. Diddy, who was only wearing a bath towel wrapped around his waist, is seen in the triggering video grabbing, shoving, dragging and kicking Ventura on the floor. Such filmed abuse corroborates with the formal complaint Ventura filed last year against Combs in which she cited the attack as taking place "around March 2016" as her ex "followed her into the hallway of the hotel while yelling at her."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 18, 2024
REUTERSThe Los Angeles District Attorney's office has revealed why it won't be prosecuting Diddy after horrific footage showed him brutally attacking his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura at a hotel.
The office said in an Instagram post that because the alleged attack happened on March 5, 2016, the window to prosecute has lapsed. California's statute of limitations for simple assault is one year, while aggravated assault is three years.
"We are aware of the video that has been circulating online allegedly depicting Sean Combs assaulting a young woman in Los Angeles. We find the images extremely disturbing and difficult to watch. If the conduct depicted occurred in 2016, unfortunately we would be unable to charge as the conduct would have occurred beyond the timeline where a crime of assault can be prosecuted," the office said. "As of today, law enforcement has not presented a case related to the attack depicted in the video against Mr. Combs, but we encourage anyone who has been a victim or witness to a crime to report it to law enforcement or reach out to our office for support from our Bureau of Victims Services."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyAs the chit-chatting, bicycling, late spring afternoon life of Brooklyn's Prospect Park swirled around us, Corey Stoll excitedly spoke about the need to be reminded multiple times a day of his own mortality.
"My favorite app is called WeCroak," the actor said, smiling wide, holding his smartphone up. "Five times a day it sends you an alert that says, ‘Don't forget, you're going to die.' It's the best thing. Inevitably, it pings while I'm in the middle of some petty nonsense in my head. Then I get this alert, and it's like, ‘Oh yep, it really doesn't matter.'"
Mortality isn't just pinging at Stoll on his phone, The big D, the passing of time, the gritty truths of hidden history and what really matters and what does not, also form the pulsating bedrock of Appropriate, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' acclaimed 2013 play about a white family discovering some horrifically racist dirty laundry in its past.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesIf you are among the more-than-half of Americans not paying much attention to Trump's hush money trial, two pieces of news may still have managed to make their way to you: that Trump appears to be farting quite frequently, and he also seems to be falling asleep in the courtroom.
What could be funnier? Everyone loves a good fart joke. But if you tuned into Saturday Night Live this past week, their flatulence-themed sketch wasn't James Austin Johnson's Trump offering his characteristic word-salad over increasingly loud fart noises. Instead, it was host Maya Rudolph as a throw-back Hollywood starlet trying to sell decaf coffee while pretending she's not stinking up the room.
In fact, Johnson's Trump impression has not been seen since March. This absence comes during a particularly historic eight weeks, including the unofficial launch of the first election rematch of two presidents since 1892 and the start of the first criminal trial of an American president since ever. Yet instead of capitalizing on this historic moment, SNL has relegated Trump to somewhat perfunctory jokes in Weekend Update.
Read more at The Dail
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May 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesThe prosecution of Karen Read for the murder of her Boston cop boyfriend has galvanized a group of volunteers—most of whom have never even met her—to proclaim her innocence and raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for her legal defense.
Supporters of the "Free Karen Read" movement spend their free time attending Read's ongoing trial, analyzing the smallest bits of evidence, and organizing events to raise money for her defense fund.
"I made great new friends," Liz Erk, a single mother from Massachusetts who runs a PR consulting firm and went into court on Friday, told The Daily Beast. "It sounds so weird—this is a murder trial."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/LinkedIn/Facebook/InstagramIt took a chance meeting, a beach photograph, and a couple of beers for Callum Robinson to hear about San Diego photographer Randy Dible's "sacred" Mexican surfing spot.
The hulking 6-foot 4-inch Australian with shoulder-length brown curly hair stopped by Dible's photography booth near Ocean Beach on April 5, where they got chatting over a shot of a local surf break. Dible remembers a "kung-fu style grip of a handshake" and a conversation that parlayed into a hangout at Callum's house the next day to drop off the print.
Over cans of beer, the Perth native who had moved stateside a decade prior for a wildly successful lacrosse career, told Dible about his upcoming birthday trip with his brother, Jake—a doctor visiting from back home—and some friends.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/LinkedIn/Facebook/InstagramIt took a chance meeting, a beach photograph, and a couple of beers for Callum Robinson to hear about San Diego photographer Randy Dible's "sacred" Mexican surfing spot.
The hulking 6-foot-4-inch Australian with shoulder-length brown curly hair stopped by Dible's photography booth near Ocean Beach on April 5, where they got chatting over a shot of a local surf break. Dible remembers a "kung-fu style grip of a handshake" and a conversation that parlayed into a hangout at Callum's house the next day to drop off the print.
Over cans of beer, the Perth native who had moved stateside a decade prior for a successful lacrosse career, told Dible about his upcoming birthday trip with his brother, Jake—a doctor visiting from back home—and some friends.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Scott Olson/Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump, who four years ago called on Joe Biden to take a drug test prior to the pair's first debate that September, decided to make the same demand on Friday—one that Biden is sure to wave away once more.
At a campaign rally in Minnesota—where he said he would never return if he lost the state in 2020—the indicted former president recycled his old line of attack against the now-president in advance of the debate next month on CNN.
"I just want to debate this guy, but you know, I'm going to demand a drug test, by the way. I am, I really am," Trump told supporters at the state GOP Reagan Dinner in St. Paul.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/UniversalThis week:I Couldn't Be HappierIt was around minute seven of my 13-minute monologue about the plot of Wicked that I realized, wait…not everyone knows every single plot point, lyric, costume, and casting trajectory of this musical??? The three-and-a-half minute trailer for the upcoming film was released this week, prompting my TED Talk. I came up as a high school musical theater kid, then New York City college student, then gay elder millennial at a time when Wicked was a sacred, foundational text. It has been news to me that not everyone is versed in the sometimes confusifying Ozian world.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
StarzIt has been a long road to ultimate authority for Mary Villiers (Julianne Moore) and her son George (Nicholas Galitzine). The plotting duo began Starz's limited series Mary & George utterly powerless but rife with conviction. They were determined to claw, scrape, and grab at every loose strand of thread they could find to climb up in the world during King James I's (Tony Curran) rule in the 17th century. When the show began, seven episodes ago, Mary was the mother of four children, suffering at the hands of her abusive husband. George, her second-born son, was haughty and hormonal, assumed to be useless, as his parents' estate would go to Mary's first-born son, John (Tom Victor). At the series' end, Mary and George had riches, land, and titles—now the Countess and Duke of Buckingham, respectively.
But their splendors were not won without significant costs. Death and destruction followed the pair wherever they went, and naturally, all of their scheming eventually came between them. Once this wedge was in place, it was only a matter of time before their wealth slipped through their hands. Episode 7 of Mary & George, the series finale, tracks the collapse of the Villiers' manufactured empire, and gives any history-oblivious viewers (myself included, believe me) a lesson in just how trivial monarchy can be. King James may have ruled England by name, but it was Mary and George Villiers who called the shots.
Our final episode begins in 1623, 11 years after the series began. In just over a decade, Mary has shepherded herself and her son to the greatness she knew they were destined for. But George's assumption that he could maneuver
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May 17, 2024
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastI have seen my fair share of political theatrics and controversy over the years. From my 11 days as White House Communications Director in the Trump administration, to my many public trials and tribulations, I know a thing or two about what goes on behind the curtain.
Like most of us, I have been keeping tabs on the Trump trials. It is like a bad accident you drive past but cannot resist rubbernecking. Even if you hate the guy, he has turned the courthouse into a classic Trump-branded soap opera. Calling in his band of auditioning MAGA politicians, he is getting the airtime his weak ego craves.
As a true narcissist—and trust me I have seen his ego-driven and childlike behavior up close—Mr. Trump is relishing in the attention even though it revolves around his despicable behavior. Some say he is a branding genius, albeit an evil one, and as such there are strategic lessons Democrats can learn about driving the discourse, owning the plot, and writing the story.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
KSTPIn an interview with a St. Paul, Minnesota reporter that aired a few days before his scheduled appearance Friday at the state GOP Lincoln Day fundraising dinner, former President Donald Trump denied saying that he wouldn't return to the Midwest state if he lost it in 2020—but the local ABC affiliate brought the receipts to prove otherwise.
KSTP reporter Tom Hauser spoke with Trump over a video call conducted Tuesday before the indicted ex-president went to court to hear testimony from his former lawyer, Michael Cohen. Hauser at one point asked Trump about his speaking engagement and whether it should be interpreted as part of a play for Minnesota in November.
"I think at one point you vowed never to come back to Minnesota after you lost the state in 2020," he recalled. "Is this a signal that you think you have a realistic chance to win the state of Minnesota in 2024?"
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Rich Sugg/Getty ImagesAn honorary member of the Ku Klux Klan can stay on the GOP primary ballot for Missouri governor, a judge ruled Friday.
Longshot candidate Darrell McClanahan III survived a legal challenge by the Missouri Republican Party to shunt him from the ballot, which was denied Friday by Cole County Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker. The petition had argued for McClanahan's removal on the grounds that the GOP didn't properly vet McClanahan before he filed his candidacy in February; Walker, in his decision, wrote that while the GOP was free to distance itself from McClanahan, the judge would not remove him from the ballot.
McClanahan's lawyer, Dave Roland, said he believed the Missouri GOP's request was doomed from the start.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Getty ImagesNewly released documents say Moms For Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler and her GOP chairman husband went "on the prowl" in Sarasota bars to find women to have sex with.
Text messages quoted in a Sarasota Police Department (SPD) memo that was obtained by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune revealed how Ziegler sent her husband, Christian, hunting for a third sexual partner at local bars and directed him to send photos of possible hits. She allegedly told him to pretend to take pictures of his beer while photographing the women so he wouldn't get caught sneaking pictures of them.
"Don't come home until your dick is wet," Bridget allegedly told her husband.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero / The Daily Beast / Getty This year, Cannes Film Festival belongs to the Coppolas.
For nearly 48 hours, my feed has been flooded with breathless, bewildered reviews of Francis Ford Coppola's bonkers cinematic adventure Megalopolis. More impressive than all the colorful descriptors critics have used to describe this film—including "mad modern masterwork," "absolute madness," "truly epic," and "disastrous folly"—is the Avengers-like collection of Coppolas who have flooded Cannes, alongside other film-industry nepo babies. As always, the Hollywood dynasties are thriving!
Consider Megalopolis itself—a labor of love from not one, not two, but three Coppolas. Francis Ford's son, Roman Coppola, worked as second unit director on the film, while his granddaughter, famed one-time TikToker and private helicopter maven Romy Croquet M
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May 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Wikimedia CommonsA South Carolina coroner has found that John Barnett, the former Boeing quality-control engineer who blew the whistle on alleged safety concerns within the aircraft giant, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Barnett, who was in Charleston for a deposition in his whistleblower lawsuit against Boeing, was found in the driver's seat of his locked orange Dodge Ram truck at a Holiday Inn parking lot on March 9. Next to him was a notebook that contained "writing resembling a suicide note," a Charleston County Coroner's report said.
"The writings found in the vehicle were examined by the Charleston Police Department and found only Mr. Barnett's fingerprints on the notebook," the report said. "The writings contained information known only to his family."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Paul Morigi/Getty ImagesAfter CNN released horrifying footage from 2016 that showed Diddy assaulting then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, Cassie's husband put abusers on blast in a scathing letter against domestic violence perpetrators.
Alex Fine, who married Cassie in 2019, posted the letter on Instagram on Friday afternoon. He didn't hold back from flaming men who have raised a hand against the women in their lives.
"Men who hit women aren't men," Fine began. "Men who enable it and protect those people aren't men. As men violence against women shouldn't be inevitable, check your brothers, your friends and your family."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Fox NewsWith it almost certain that Fox News will not be hosting a presidential debate this year, the conservative cable giant surprisingly proposed a vice presidential debate on Friday that Donald Trump's campaign has already accepted.
Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier made the announcement during an appearance on Martha MacCallum's afternoon news program, calling it the "Wild West of debate proposals."
Fox's request to host a VP showdown comes two days after President Joe Biden and Trump agreed to debate in June and September, with CNN and ABC News moderating those events. Baier also noted on Friday that Fox News has so far been unsuccessful in getting both campaigns to agree to a standoff on the right-wing channel.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Maricopa Country Sheriff's OfficeFormer Donald Trump attorney John Eastman, who's been called the "architect" of Trump's attempts to subvert the 2o20 election results, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges in Arizona on Friday.
Eastman's arraignment was followed by the release of his mugshot, in which he stared blankly forward while wearing a navy suit and tie.
Eastman faces charges along with 17 other defendants in the Arizona case, all of whom were indicted on charges related to an alleged GOP-run scheme to put forward a slate of electors who would say Trump won the state in the 2020 presidential election despite the victory going to Joe Biden. Eastman was the first to be booked and arraigned.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/©OH CANADA LLCThe last time the director Paul Schrader filmed Richard Gere's body, it was a picture of male virility. As Julian in 1980's American Gigolo, Gere is an example of the ideal male form, either in his Armani suits or undressed. He's a man who works out hanging upside down.
Now Gere and Schrader have reunited for Oh, Canada, which just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and the image of the star is much different. Playing a man on the verge of death, Gere (intentionally) looks terrible, his face drained and full of stubble. We hear about how his body is failing him, about the cancer eating away at his insides, and the dried feces in his ass.
Oh, Canada can be a clunky film at times—with some awkward performances and labored dialogue—but it's also an often fascinating match of director and actor, in which they both seem to be trying to exorcize the demons of aging through art.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Jason Armond/Getty ImagesThe Black Lives Matter protester whose testicle exploded when he was shot with a hard-foam projectile by a LAPD officer has won $1.5 million in a settlement with the city.
The settlement doesn't admit liability on the part of the LAPD or the city of Los Angeles, the L.A. Times reported, but it does close a lawsuit brought by the protester, Benjamin Montemayor, alleging excessive use of force and other civil rights violations against the city and its police.
"This settlement shows that there are repercussions for police misconduct against the people they have sworn to protect," Montemayor said Friday in a statement provided by his attorneys.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Theo Wargo/Getty ImagesRapper 50 Cent weighed in on the latest development in the Sean "Diddy" Combs saga this week, as newly released video footage showed Diddy brutally assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie. Sharing the graphic footage to both Twitter and Instagram, 50 Cent added his two cents: "Now I'm sure puffy didn't do it, he is innocent this proves nothing! This is what his lawyers are gonna say, God help us all."
The overtly sarcastic response come after months of the "In Da Club" rapper taunting Diddy online, as multiple lawsuits accused him of abuse and assault. Last year, 50 Cent announced he was working on a documentary about the allegations against Diddy and vowed to donate the doc's proceeds to Diddy's alleged victims. Yet however admirable those intentions sound, 50 hasn't resisted discussing the project with a quip or two for his own amusement. "This is gonna break records when this drops," he tweeted about the project in March, along with a fan poster with the title called Diddy Do It?
When Combs' ho
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May 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesOutrage over Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker's commencement speech—in which he urged women to prioritize their families over their careers and railed against the LGBTQ community—has reverberated across the country and right back to his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.
Among those incensed by the speech are teachers, peers, and others in the community who spoke with The Daily Beast about their reactions to Butker's controversial remarks.
"I was sick. I was disgusted," said Amy Allen, an Atlanta real estate agent whose daughter overlapped with Butker at Westminster Schools, the elite private academy that the star athlete attended. "It just felt so dystopian and just so backward … If someone were to sit there and say that to my daughter, I would just lose it," she told The Daily Beast.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Courtesy Sam TeuschThe mom and dad of a 10-year-old boy who died by suicide after relentless bullying by classmates says he and his wife are themselves now being bullied by perfect strangers who say they failed as parents.
Sam Teusch, whose son Sammy took his own life on May 5, told The Daily Beast that he's still trying to process what happened.
"Right now, I'm fine," an emotional Teusch said on Friday. "Ten seconds from now, I might not be. It's just, like, a constant up and down and up and down. I walk past my microwave and I think of Sammy climbing up on the counter to throw in a bowl of soup, and it just knocks me down."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and ReutersFox News, the right-wing network that helped lead the charge against Colin Kaepernick and told NBA stars voicing their political opinions to "shut up and dribble," is now mounting a full-throated defense of Harrison Butker amid growing backlash to the NFL star's controversial commencement speech.
"I thought his message was quite tender," Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer said of the Kansas City Chief kicker's address.
The message Butker delivered during his 20-minute speech before the graduating class of Benedictine College, a tiny private Catholic school, quickly sparked intense criticism when he said women had been told "diabolical lies" about pursuing careers while suggesting they'd find more fulfillment as homemakers.
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May 17, 2024
Searchlight PicturesYorgos Lanthimos' most recent film, the Oscar-winning Poor Things, was ultimately a nice movie for the director. Yes, it was bizarre and filled with sex scenes, but when you really boil it down to its essence it was the uplifting story of a woman gaining her sense of self and thus unusual in his oeuvre, which is full of bleak comedies where fathers lie to their children to keep them imprisoned at home and a happy ending means blinding yourself.
Now Lanthimos and his Poor Things star Emma Stone are back and at the Cannes Film Festival with Kinds of Kindness, a film of a much different outlook on humanity. This omnibus, consisting of three stories, is brimming with cruelty as it weaves tales of people who act out to appease the ones they love—or at least think they love. You see a limb chopped off, an organ removed, and Jesse Plemons licking a gunshot wound in Joe Alwyn's hand, among other atrocities. The message of Kinds of Kindness is that to win the affection of their desires, humans will do the unspeakable and therefore are selfish and unredeemable. It's great.
It also feels like pure uncut Yorgos, working in tandem with Efthimis Filippou, with whom he also wrote the likes of Dogtooth and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, both of which have a lot in common with Kinds of Kindness given their interest in social experiments and moral quan
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May 17, 2024
Getty Images/Michael ShortA California judge came down hard on the man who broke into Paul Pelosi's home and struck him with a hammer in 2022, sentencing David DePape, a conspiracist obsessed with right-wing podcasts, to three decades in a federal prison.
It's a lengthy sentence for DePape, who will be in his mid-70s if he's to serve his federal sentence in its entirety. He faced a potential sentence of up to life in prison, but his lawyers argued he deserved only 25 years in the clink.
DePape, 44, was convicted in November on federal charges of assault on an immediate family member of a federal official and attempted kidnapping of a federal official.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Reuters/GettyRep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) has hit back at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), telling The Daily Beast that the congresswoman was trying to make her look "ghetto."
Crockett was responding after Greene said at a Thursday night House Oversight Committee meeting that Crockett couldn't read past her "fake eyelashes."
"It was absolutely a racist thing," she told The Daily Beast. "Any woman that knows anything about makeup and getting done up knows that eyelashes are one of those things that kind of come with it… MAGA has been trolling on social media for a while and it's a way of them basically calling me ghetto and things like that, because of my hair and my lashes and my nails."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
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Summer is just around the corner, which means it's time to start curating our warm-weather wardrobe accordingly. Just as the temps are heating up, Everlane released a new Everlane Editions collection, properly entitled Destination Vacation. Much like the well-curated Everlane Edition drops of the past, the resort-ready release is full of seasonal and transitional pieces perfect for both those summer vacays and everyday adventures, whether that's a tropical getaway or a trip to the office.
"For me, this Everlane Editions is more than just creating timeless garments, it's about capturing a collection that can go from closet to suitcase," Mathilde Mader, Everlane's chief creative officer, said in a press release. Each piece is meticulously designed with a spirit of wanderlust and relaxation in mind." Indeed, the wanderlust spirit is alive and well in every piece in the Destination Vacation collection.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Paras Griffin/GettyRapper and mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs can be seen physically assaulting ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in surveillance footage from 2016 published by CNN on Friday.
In the video, Combs runs down the hallway in what appears to be a hotel clad only in a towel; Combs appears to be chasing Ventura, who he catches up with at a bank of elevators.
Combs then grabs Ventura by the back of her head and throws her to the ground, where she remains, immobile, as he kicks her several times.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Noam Galai/Getty ImagesThe Israeli army has recovered from a Gaza tunnel the bodies of three hostages who died on Oct. 7 while fleeing the Hamas attack at Israel's Nova music festival.
The bodies of Shani Louk, 23, Amit Bouskila, 28, and Itshak Gelernter, 57, were recovered and identified by Israeli soldiers, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari told reporters during a press conference. All three of the hostages were attending the Nova music festival on Oct. 7 when Hamas attacked, and all three were killed while trying to escape the massacre.
"They were celebrating life in the Nova music festival and they were murdered by Hamas," Hagari said. He added that the bodies had been transferred to medical professionals for forensic examination.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
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With summer on the horizon, my skin has been craving a non-sticky, irritation-free sunscreen that not only protects me from the sun but also feels lightweight and doesn't break me out. I have oily and acne-prone skin, which means that even a dollop of the wrong SPF can lead to clogged pores and blemishes that no amount of concealer can rectify. Over the years, I've tried a laundry list of sunscreen formulas, but most of them resulted in an oily mess and a constellation of pimples on my face.
When Vacation's Classic Whip SPF30 Mousse appeared on my TikTok feed recently, I was stunned to see that the whipped cream-like product was not meant to be topped on an ice cream sundae. Plus, many TikTokers mentioned that the formula was so lightweight and non-greasy that they forgot they were even wearing it.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
Mikhail Metzel/ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin, who's historically averse to physical touch, embraced the Chinese leader Xi Jinping in a pair of awkward hugs on Friday as the two met at a northeastern China university renowned for its military defense research.
The seemingly uncomfortable—and slightly robotic—embrace appeared to have been initiated by Xi, who could be seen mouthing something while raising both of his arms to welcome in a hesitant Putin. Xi was then seen patting the Russian president's side, followed by Putin initiating a handshake as they pulled away from each other.
Awkward hugs aside, the willingness of Putin to leave Moscow for a meeting with Xi in China underscores the pair's growing alliance—something that's sure to worry Western leaders.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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May 17, 2024
GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP via Getty ImagesA French man was sentenced to five years of high-security psychiatric hospitalization on Thursday for cyberstalking and harassing global superstar Zendaya, according to the daily French newspaper Ouest-France.
The unnamed man sent the star thousands of messages, which escalated in number between September 2023 and February 2024, wherein he threatened to kidnap and rape her, according to the newspaper. Some of the messages also reportedly featured "pornographic photomontages."
Read aloud in Rennes Criminal Court, one example message sent to the star threatened the star with his knowledge of the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, into which she was flying, and said that if he didn't hear from her within 24 hours of receiving his message, "she will tremble."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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