WASHINGTON — At 12:53 p.m. on January 6, minutes before the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory would begin, pro-Trump marchers broke through a security perimeter on the west side of the U.S. Capitol. For the next seven hours, those protesters scaled the Capitol walls, attacked police officers, vandalized the …
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Dr. Anthony Fauci called the latest round of bogus attacks on him from Republicans “anti-science” and “nonsense” during a Friday interview. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow asked the White House’s chief medical adviser about the baseless accusations thrown his way by Republicans since the release of a trove of Fauci’s emails this …
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Fresh off being named to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021, Tina Turner will rerelease her 1989 album Foreign Affair as a deluxe reissue featuring the original LP, a 1990 concert performance, B-sides, remixes, and more. The four-CD/one-DVD Foreign Affair: Deluxe Edition will also feature Turner’s …
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Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and BTS had their appearances in Friends: The Reunion edited out of the HBO Max special upon its release in China this week. In the special, Bieber shows up as “Spudnik” during a Friends-inspired fashion show, Lady Gaga performs “Smelly Cat” with Lisa Kudrow and BTS …
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The long-awaited Britney Spears jukebox musical Once Upon a One More Timehas rescheduled its premiere to this November. The new show was originally supposed to debut in Chicago in 2019 before it was delayed to April 2020. The Chicago run was subsequently canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Once Upon …
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Texas is now home to one of the country’s most restrictive abortion laws. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill banning abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, before many know they are pregnant. The law also only allows exceptions for medical emergencies, but not for rape or …
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Joel Greenberg, consummate Florida Man and now-infamous running buddy of Rep. Matt Gaetz, pleaded guilty on Friday to 6 of the 33 federal charges he’s been slapped with since last summer. One of the charges to which he admitted in federal court is sex trafficking a minor, noting in the …
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Trojan Records is set to reissue its legendary 1971 collection The Trojan Story — a three-LP set that helped introduce the world to artists like Jimmy Cliff, the Maytals, Desmond Dekker, and Lee “Scratch” Perry — for its 50th anniversary this June. Long out-of-print, the 50-song anthology — due out …
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Again and again throughout Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad, the Oscar-winning Moonlight director will pause the story to present a tableau of his huge cast of black characters. These shots are stunning in their composition, as if Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton are …
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Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Department of Justice will open an investigation into the Louisville Police Department and the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government over issues involving use of force, discriminatory policing and more. The decision, announced Monday, April 26th, comes just days after the DOJ announced a similar …
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