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Fox News waved the white flag on Tuesday, settling with Dominion Voting Systems just hours into the first day of the bombshell trial over whether the conservative cable giant committed “actual malice” by peddling election fraud lies about the voting software firm.

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About a month after authorities found Lori Vallow’s long-missing children buried in the backyard of her apocalyptic author husband’s Idaho backyard, her eldest son finally decided to call her in jail to get some answers.

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As The Super Mario Bros. Movie keeps leveling up toward the $1 billion mark at the box office, it's starting to find crossover success on other charts. The film’s one song, an improvisational-sounding ballad performed by Jack Black’s Bowser, has entered the Billboard charts this week—a surprising, career-making achievement for the comedian.

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Scandoval took a twist into the desert on Monday evening when Tom Sandoval used his Instagram story to call out Miraval, a luxury wellness resort in Arizona, for using their Instagram account to cheekily hint at his presence, thereby allegedly violating his privacy.

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Megan Thee Stallion has shared a deeply personal new essay for Elle in which she addresses her assault trial against Tory Lanez for the “final time.”

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Sudan’s military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have reached a ceasefire agreement after four days of violent clashes throughout the country.

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Netflix is continuing its run of airing berserk sex scenes this April. First, there was the sequence in Beef, where Ali Wong's character masturbated with a gun Now, there’s a similar scene in Obsession involving a pillow. Oh, that poor pillow. It didn’t deserve its fate.

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In just two days, a rare hybrid solar eclipse will transfix viewers in Australia, Indonesia, and other parts of Southeast Asia. It’s a rare occasion, even for solar eclipses: During the 21st century, just 3.1 percent of solar eclipses will be hybrid—the last one occurred in 2013, the next one will be in 2031, and then you’ll have to wait until 2164 to spot this rare phenomenon.

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Fort Lauderdale last week was inundated with a historic downpour that caused massive floods and catastrophic property damage, upending the lives of thousands of people. According to experts and meteorologists such as Dan DePodwin of AccuWeather, this level of rain was so historic and rare that it is expected to only occur once every thousand years. Some areas saw over 25 inches of rain.

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Mrs. Davis is a case of “too much” being a good thing—until it isn’t. Damon Lindelof’s latest (co-created by Tara Hernandez) follows a nun battling an omnipotent A.I. while searching for the Holy Grail, and even that summary only skims the surface of its myriad interests and influences, among which one can also count Lindelof’s Lost, The Leftovers, and Watchmen. The show is a million different things at once, which is initially exhilarating. Alas, that heady buzz doesn’t last... Читать дальше...

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Rep. George Santos (R-NY) announced Monday that he would, counter to previously reported promises, run for another term in Congress. But it’s his latest campaign finance report—filed just a few days earlier—that’s truly mystifying watchdogs, as Santos made yet another seemingly inexplicable change to a central question about his finances: How, and now when, did he loan his campaign hundreds of thousands of dollars?

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The Greeks would be pleased with Barry’s fourth (and final) season, which has reaffirmed a long-held truth about this show: It is the literalization of those famous faces of Grecian drama, the laughing-and-crying masks representing the muses Thalia (comedy) and Melpomene (tragedy). Once a comedy with a lot of darkness, the HBO marvel has evolved into something haunting, sorrowful even. Yet when those laughs do come—and thank goodness... Читать дальше...

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This is the latest in our series on underrated destinations, It's Still a Big World.

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Jena Friedman wants you to know that she’s in on the joke. And in her new book of essays, pointedly titled Not Funny, she deftly demonstrates how she has become one of the most uncompromising comedic voices of her generation, from her days as a field producer on The Daily Show, to her Oscar-nominated writing on Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, to her first hour-long stand-up Ladykiller, in which she delivered some killer abortion jokes while pregnant with her first child.

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Over the last week, an Idaho jury has heard prosecutors argue that Lori Vallow killed her two children and her husband’s former wife—and that her doomsday-focused faith allegedly fueled the 2019 slayings, which they say were premeditated.

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Clarence Thomas’ “grifting” faucet just won’t turn off, says an exasperated Danielle Moodie on this episode of The New Abnormal politics podcast.

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In my recent review of Beau is Afraid, I claimed that Ari Aster’s wildly imaginative latest was like nothing he’d ever produced before. That remains true, so long as the discussion is strictly confined to his feature oeuvre. Nonetheless, the origins of his third film are clearly traceable to the eight shorts he helmed before making a splash on the international scene with 2018’s Hereditary—including one that serves as the direct... Читать дальше...

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“Where’s Melania?” is a question that has been asked so frequently over the past several years—particularly in the weeks following Donald Trump’s indictment and arrest—that the former First Lady might as well be wearing a red-and-white striped sweater and bobble hat. All of which gave Laura Benanti’s Melania Trump a great excuse to make a triumphant return to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday night.

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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is calling for the resignations of four county officials after the McCurtain Gazette-News obtained an audio recording of them making racist comments and discussing their strategy for having journalists killed and buried.

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For the last few months, Jamie Thomas has gone to the Rock Church in Virginia Beach every Sunday. He’s not there to worship. Instead, he stands on the sidewalk outside the megachurch, holding a bullhorn and chanting, “John Blanchard is a pedophile!”

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He didn’t even last one Scaramucci.

Four days after declaring he “wouldn’t wipe my ass with Twitter,” Matt Taibbi returned to the platform on Monday night, sharing his latest Substack post.

The anticlimactic return comes barely a week after he made a dramatic exit from the social media site following a public spat with the site’s owner, Elon Musk. One of Musk’s handpicked disseminators of the so-called Twitter Files, Taibbi said this month that Musk had made Twitter “unusable”... Читать дальше...

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Back when Jim Jordan was a collegiate wrestling champion, the strategy would have been called a double misdirection duck under.

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A 65-year-old northern New York man was hit with second-degree murder charges Monday after shooting and killing a woman whose group had mistakenly pulled into his driveway while looking for a friend’s house, according to authorities.