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TAIPEI—Taiwan will hold a presidential election this weekend that will have global and regional ramifications. The frontrunner, current Vice President Lai Ching-te, has vowed to protect Taiwan’s autonomy from Chinese aggression and strengthen ties with the United States. Beijing has intimidated Taiwan by buzzing its airspace with fighter jets and sending spy balloons and satellites over the island. But there’s another enemy vying to take Lai down, and it’s on TikTok. Читать дальше...

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Listen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.

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The Showtime series The Curse is a delightful watch, presuming you enjoy having your soul dig its way out of your skin using nothing but its fingernails, then violently grab your shoulders and start shaking you while screaming, “Why in God’s name are you forcing me to watch this?!?!?!”

Hulu

If someone offered you $1 million to be hunted for sport for 30 days straight on reality TV, would you consider it? Rationality would likely end up telling you no (unless you were the Netflix producers who commissioned that Squid Game reality show); no amount of money’s worth losing your life over. But what if you were presented with a relatively attractive loophole: You can’t be killed unless you’re alone. Seems like an easy enough way around an almost certain demise. Just keep someone by... Читать дальше...

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(Warning: Spoilers for the Season 4 finale of For All Mankind ahead.)

Showtime

Wait, are we watching The Curse or The Rachael Ray Show? I pressed play on what I thought was the final episode of The Curse, so why is Rachael Ray telling me about Vincent Pastore’s new Italian cookbook and showing me his meatball recipe?

CBS

After more than three months, Thursday marked the final day of Donald Trump’s fraud trial in New York—and the former president was not about to go down without a fight, much to the delight of Stephen Colbert.

Fox News

The Pentagon on Wednesday dismissed a wild idea being kicked around in conservative circles—that pop musician Taylor Swift is a part of a government “psyop,” with the agency’s spokesperson quipping, “As for this conspiracy theory, we are going to shake it off.”

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Turns out that all the money in the world can’t buy you thick skin.

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Within seconds, F. Gary Gray’s Lift (on Netflix Jan. 12) foreshadows the kind of film it’s going to be, thanks to an uncanny music cue reminiscent of a famous classical piece: Mozart’s Symphony No. 40. The music, like the movie, feels familiar, but only because it’s riffing on something better. This composition introduces an expensive art heist in Venice involving a sprawling crew, whose members all have their own unique skills and who are all eventually roped into a blockbuster scheme: one big, final job! Читать дальше...

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George Carlin’s daughter and keeper of his estate, Kelly Carlin, isn’t laughing about a new AI-generated “special” of supposedly new material by her late father titled I’m Glad I’m Dead. As she posted Wednesday night on X: “ZERO PERMISSION GRANTED.”

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Thursday saw closing arguments in Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud case, one of the seemingly innumerable legal challenges Trump faces all stem from his alleged frauds—civil and criminal—he has perpetrated on the public. In the New York case, he is fighting to hang on to his businesses, but its trajectory also teaches us a great deal about his coming fights for his freedom in the criminal fraud cases.

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Donald Trump, when asked Thursday if he agreed with his lawyers’ argument that he would be immune from prosecution if he were to order Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political opponent while president, seemed to love the concept.

C-SPAN

Donald Trump, Jr. tried to depict the current economic climate as worse than the tail end of his father’s presidential administration, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

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The United States led a joint coalition strike against multiple Houthi targets in Yemen, retaliating against the Iran-backed militants after they ignored warnings to stop attacking international commercial vessels in the Red Sea.

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On Thursday, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots, his fiefdom for 24 years of terror, mutually parted ways after a 4-13 finish; the team’s third losing season in four years. Belichick’s teams post-Tom Brady, his longtime partner in crime, have been uninspired at best, dreadful at worst. Brady, on the other hand, won another Super Bowl after leaving the Pats, contended for an MVP, and then said goodbye to the NFL at something resembling the top of his game. Читать дальше...

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Rhode Island election officials found the names of several dead voters on nomination papers submitted on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, local authorities told The Boston Globe Thursday.

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Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) boasted to radio host and former National Rifle Association spokesperson Dana Loesch about his state’s comprehensive—and controversial—immigration policies Thursday during an interview on her show.

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Donald Trump Jr. and ex-White House trade adviser Peter Navarro appear on a list of potential defendants in a court filing Wednesday related to the sprawling bankruptcy case of a right-wing Chinese businessman accused of bilking anti-communist dissidents.

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First son Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles federal court on Thursday to three felony counts and six misdemeanors over his alleged failure to pay at least $1.4 million in federal income tax.

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There’s something permanently, intriguingly dissatisfied about the men Clive Owen plays. They rarely get what they want, and even less frequently seem pleased with their lot in life. Drug-addicted surgeons, reluctant revolutionaries, wary lovers, struggling writers: A Clive Owen character makes the best of a bad situation, often equipped with a dour voiceover or a dry quip. Not too often does he get the happy ending—in the underrated Inside Man, his master thief manages to... Читать дальше...

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The canniest celebrities know their fans, and how to play to them. And so it was that—much to the delight of the Devil Wears Prada fans in the audience at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre—Anne Hathaway and Anna Wintour made a surprise joint appearance at Wednesday night’s performance of Gutenberg! The Musical!

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Kristen Stewart finally sees the Twilight films for exactly what they are: queer classics. In the words of Michael Scott from The Office, “Oh my God! OK, it’s happening. Everybody stay calm!”