His handling of this pandemic is how history will remember Donald Trump. Fifty years from now, historians will not spend much time on Russiagate, Robert Mueller, or dirty dossiers and alleged pee tapes, nor will massive tax cuts for the rich or the endless petty insults and the litany of …
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John Oliver dissected President Donald Trump’s disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic as well as the growing unease and confusion around the United States on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, which was itself rattled by the pandemic. Oliver opened the show by stating that this wouldn’t be a normal episode. Not …
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Spike Jonze has shared the first trailer for his upcoming film Beastie Boys Story. Billed as “the story of three friends who inspired each other and the world,” the movie showcases the history of the New York group as band members Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz reflect back on their …
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Lady Gaga‘s flamboyant visual style has inspired the name of a newly discovered insect species. Kaikaia gaga is a new genus of the treehopper bugs found almost three decades ago near the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, the Fader reports (via Illinois News Bureau). Brendan Morris, a PhD candidate in entomology …
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President Trump is the master of saying the quiet part out loud, and on Friday he showed no signs of relinquishing that title. While speaking at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Trump said he would prefer not to allow the more than 3,500 people aboard …
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Soledad O’Brien likes to tell a story: Eleven years ago, a senior employee at CNN — “my boss’s boss’s boss” — called her into his office to upbraid her about a comment she had made while promoting her multipart series Black in America. At a panel, O’Brien had said she …
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President Trump threatened to sue Robert Mueller and the prosecutors who were involved with the Roger Stone case. Per usual, the president’s rant came via Twitter. In a rambling burst of Tuesday morning tweets, Trump threatened to sue “everyone all over the place.” The president’s latest outburst came after Judge …
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The Who kicked off their 2020 tour on Wednesday with a pair of intimate acoustic shows at the PRYZM nightclub in London, one of the tiniest venues they’ve played in decades. Both gigs (which were just eight songs each) were heavy on hits like “Substitute,” “Pinball Wizard,” and “Won’t Get …
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Parasite! Parasiiiiiiite! All the good stuff on Oscar Night happened in the final half hour. Parasite became the first non-English-language movie ever to win Best Picture, while Bong Joon Ho was a walking, talking, hair-wagging embodiment of everything to love about the movies. First, Bong won Best Director and gave …
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Harry Styles was forced to cancel his Super Bowl Weekend gig in Miami Friday after “extreme weather” swept into the area. Styles, who performed alongside Lizzo at that singer’s showcase the previous night, was booked to perform at the Planet Pepsi Zero Sugar concert at the Meridian venue. Lizzo was …
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