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Montana Legislature

A Montana state representative has gone viral for a series of comments in which she seemed to display a shocking disregard for the wellbeing of her own daughter.

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China’s Zhurong Mars rover has seen better days.

The craft hasn’t moved for months, spurring speculation that something might have gone wrong with it. On Tuesday, a designer for the Chinese Mars mission confirmed to state TV that the rover likely accumulated so much dust on its solar panels that it has been unable to power back up.

Just because the rover is likely down for the count, though, doesn’t mean that it can’t still deliver groundbreaking discoveries. Case in point... Читать дальше...

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Based on its debut trailer, released Thursday, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes looks like a deserving, very long-awaited follow-up to the beloved YA sci-fi/dystopian/thriller/action/what-have-you franchise. It’s got that retro-futuristic production design; it’s got close relationships put through the wringer; it’s got cute, talented teens forced to do very horrible things.

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A month after prosecutors say Doomsday author Chad Daybell colluded with his paramour to kill her two children, he called 911 about another death—this one a little closer to home.

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Rudy Giuliani’s consulting firm hasn’t paid its phone bill, and the carrier is dragging the disgraced former New York City mayor’s company to court over the outstanding charges.

Marvel

After a ten-year partnership with the studio, James Gunn has left Marvel for its rival DC Studios, which Warner Bros has placed him in charge of alongside co-chairman and co-CEO Peter Safran. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (in theaters May 5) is thus a swan song of sorts, marking the writer/director’s third and final MCU feature about the eccentric team of intergalactic do-gooders.

Wausau School District

Members of the Asian American community in Wausau, Wisconsin, are outraged that the school district has put a teacher it admits used racist and sexist language back in the classroom.

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UPDATE: A source close to the show has disputed the report, telling The Daily Beast on Friday that Season 2 is on schedule, has the same budget as Season 1, and that Dan Erickson, Mark Friedman, and Beau Willimon are working together without issue.

CBS

For those of us who watch these things closely, James Corden’s decision to step down as host of The Late Late Show—and, more consequently, CBS’ decision to end the franchise altogether—does not bode well for the future of the late-night comedy shows that have been a staple of network television for the past 70 years.

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New details have emerged about the police investigation into Brian Walshe, the Massachusetts man accused of killing and dismembering his real estate executive wife.

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New details are emerging in the brutal killing of a beloved Detroit neurosurgeon who was found dead in the attic of his upscale home over the weekend.

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Paul Erickson, the conservative operative who helped Russian agent Maria Butina make outreach to the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign, is still defending her name years after the whole operation went south.

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The two tracks of Rupert Murdoch’s debasement of journalism have converged into one extremely costly crisis for him. It’s clear that Murdoch’s last years as a media tycoon will be spent paying for his criminalizing of print journalism and his primetime television assault on truth.

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In our current streaming landscape, you can find a documentary about nearly every famous figure and cultural event you’ve ever heard of, from the heyday of Barney to the short-lived HQ Trivia craze. Many seem superfluous and tend to fly under the radar. However, in the wake of Harry Belafonte’s passing, there’s one that fans of television history shouldn’t overlook.

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Racist, homophobic, and sexually explicit texts describing routine brutality, faked confessions, and other civil right violations were sent between 2020 and 2021 by 17 of the 100 police officers in the Antioch, California, police department.

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Welcome to Trail Mix, a fun but nutritious snack for your election news diet. See something interesting on the trail? Email me at jake.lahut@thedailybeast.com.

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Joe Biden has only been running for president a couple days, but he’s already signaling it’s going to be a tough, shrewd campaign. At least, that’s my analysis based on his first ad.

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This week, pop superstar Ed Sheeran is facing the music in a New York City courtroom during what’s already one of the biggest musical copyright trials in years. And while the proceedings have already proven to be a popcorn-worthy spectacle—complete with a medical emergency and rousing remarks from Sheeran himself—we have to ask: Should this trial even be happening at all?

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Florida might be at the top of the risk list for anyone other than white, heterosexual, cis-identifying folk—but there are a number of other states continually vying to one-up each other to get to the top.

Showtime

Being a couples therapist requires insightfulness and patience. But it also requires a willingness to empathize with individuals that are often at their breaking point, unable (or reluctant) to investigate the root causes of their issues. Over the course of Couples Therapy’s first three seasons, Dr. Orna Guralnik has exhibited all those traits, along with humility, toughness, a sense of humor, and loyalty. Thus, when she announces at the new half-season’s onset that “I’m not the right therapist for” a pair of clients... Читать дальше...

Disney

Just as J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan remains perpetually youthful, so too does the procession of stage and screen adaptations of his tale never end—case in point being, most recently, Joe Wright’s Pan (2015) and Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy (2020). Now add to that ceaseless parade Peter Pan & Wendy, director David Lowery’s second live-action Disney re-do following 2016’s Pete’s Dragon, which by and large hews closely to its source material. Infused with bounding energy but little meaningful invention... Читать дальше...

CBS

James Corden has given his final monologue on The Late Late Show, using the opportunity to plead to Americans to look past their differences and come together.

Bravo

Sunny Hostin has taken it upon herself to lure Meghan McCain back to television—ideally as one of The Real Housewives of Potomac.

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Multiple images of nude underage girls were found on an email account linked to billionaire banker T. Denny Sanford, according to affidavits released Thursday.