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Anyone who has ever played The Sims can tell you: That game can get chaotic as hell. When left to their own devices, your Sims are liable to do anything from peeing themselves, to starving to death, to accidentally setting themselves (and their own children) on fire.

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During its tidal wave of major announcements Wednesday—including a rebrand from “HBO Max” to just “Max” for its streaming service—Warner Bros. Discovery officially confirmed that it is ordering a scripted series based on the Harry Potter books, which will air over the course of 10 years…and be executive produced by J.K. Rowling.

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Getting sober is no easy task. This was explained in vivid detail in the first season of Freeform’s comedy, Single Drunk Female. When viewers first met 28-year-old Samantha “Sam” Fink (Sofia Black-D’Elia) she drunkenly assaulted her boss at work, which set off a chain-reaction of chaos. Sam was sentenced to community service, went to rehab, and moved back in with her mother in the suburbs of Boston. It was a huge wake-up call and one that finally took for Sam—she finally got sober.

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If Rupert Murdoch and his family really did inspire Succession, then a new report from Vanity Fair confirms that the HBO series really nailed the tone.

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Minka Kelly is quite literally telling all in her new memoir Tell Me Everything, out May 2, including some new details about her former relationship with her Friday Night Lights co-star Taylor Kitsch.

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After months of taunting, Warner Bros. Discovery will officially launch its HBO Max rebrand on May 23.

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A Republican commissioner on the Federal Election Commission who has previously opposed efforts for government transparency asked the commission to end its practice of confirming FEC complaints, according to an internal memo.

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Cops in Louisville released several chilling 911 calls Wednesday after Monday’s massacre at a downtown bank office—including a call from the mother of the man accused of killing five colleagues before dying in a shootout with police.

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Warner Bros. Discovery announced its long-awaited HBO Max rebrand today, and it showed off a bunch of new content along with it. Between first looks at previously announced series and teasers for freshly revealed HBO and Max Original shows, the company gave subscribers a lot to be excited about once Max launches May 23.

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A married NYPD detective claims her commanding officer subjected her to an unceasing barrage of harassment, from offering her a vacation day in exchange for her underwear to sending sexually explicit text messages and “pictures of his penis and napkins with ejaculate on it.”

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Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson will return to his seat in the state’s House of Representatives after a majority of the Shelby County Board of Commissioners voted to reappoint him Wednesday. The final vote was a unanimous 7-0.

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Video footage of a Georgia athletics coach known for helping students get recruited with top-level colleges has gone viral with the coach filmed using extremely racist and vile language—and most of it is geared toward people who look like many of the students he trains.

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A young Buddhism student was raped and impregnated by her spiritual leader, who told her she should keep the baby because she would be giving birth to an enlightened guru like him, according to a lawsuit filed in Oregon.

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Fox News suffered a harsh blow in the run-up to next week’s blockbuster trial as a Delaware judge overseeing Dominion Voting System’s defamation case against the right-wing network said he plans to appoint a special master to probe whether Fox lied about withholding evidence.

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Ariana Grande is no stranger to addressing toxic fandom. In her years as an A-list pop diva, the “thank u, next” singer has been forced to defend herself from slut-shamers, rumors about her being difficult to work with, and even accusations that she milked her ex-partner Mac Miller’s death for attention. Now, Grande is urging social media users to stop commenting on her body following intense online speculation that she has an eating disorder.

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John Wick 4 was an absolute blast. Great! Fans of the franchise loved it so much, they are clamoring for more from the John Wick universe. Great!! A new series billed as “from the world of John Wick” is coming to Peacock in September. Great!!! Mel Gibson is going to star. Gre…wait—what now?

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On the sheer strength of its delightfully dopey poster alone, Mafia Mamma (in theaters Friday), was one of my most anticipated movies of the year. Really, what’s not to appreciate? Toni Collette—the titular Mafia Mamma in question—sits with an impish smirk on her face, sprawled out before a bottle of wine and a smoking gun. She is flanked by two tall, similarly gun-toting men, whose faces are cut off from the artwork. Who cares about them? This is about her: the suburban mom turned mafia don... Читать дальше...

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National Public Radio has decided it’s had enough of Twitter after “Chief Twit” Elon Musk falsely labeled the news organization “state-affiliated media,” placing it in the same league as propaganda outlets from China and Russia.

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South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott on Wednesday announced the launch of a presidential exploratory committee, laying the foundation for an eventual run against Donald Trump for the White House in 2024.

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UPDATE, 4/12/23, 10:20AM ET: The palace released a statement on Harry’s decision hours after this article published. “Buckingham Palace is pleased to confirm that The Duke of Sussex will attend the Coronation Service at Westminster Abbey on May 6th. The Duchess of Sussex will remain in California with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.”

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Donald Trump has asked a United States District Court judge to delay his upcoming rape trial in New York by a month, with lawyers asking for a “cooling off” period after the negative mass media coverage surrounding his indictment and arrest in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.

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The morning after going toe to toe online with supporters of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a special education teacher in Texas awoke to a startling image.

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