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Jon Stewart Blasts ‘Trump Cancel Culture’ After Harrison Butker Outrage
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Comedy CentralChiefs kicker Harrison Butker has stirred up controversy after a right-wing rant during a commencement speech earlier this month where he complained about abortion rights, “degenerate cultural values” and encouraged the female graduates to focus on getting married and having kids. The subsequent response by Fox News, who claimed Butke
Otterbox Just Launched Its Most Luxe Phone Case to Date—And It’s Plant-Based
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Scouted/The Daily Beast/Otterbox. Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission.If an ultra-rugged military-grade phone case fit for a construction site (or the apocalypse) comes to mind when you think of Otterbox, you’re not wrong, but despite their reputation for unparalleled, rug
Arizona AG Dishes Details on How Indicted Giuliani Finally Got Served
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CNNRudy Giuliani’s love for live streams allowed Arizona authorities to finally serve him, the state’s attorney general told CNN on Monday.The former New York mayor, who was indicted in the battleground last month for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election there, was served just after his 80th birthday party on Friday night in Palm Beach, Florid
Team Trump Vows to Sue ‘Pretend Filmmakers’ Behind ‘The Apprentice’
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Mark Peterson/Getty ImagesAs if Donald Trump wanted to actually spend more time in court, his campaign is now threatening to sue the makers of The Apprentice after it was reported the biopic, which premiered at Cannes on Monday, features a scene in which Sebastian Stan’s Trump violently rapes his first wife.“We will be filing a lawsuit to address t
Fani Willis Tells Maddow: ‘Should Feel Sorry’ for Those Attacking Her
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MSNBCFulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, in a rare television interview with MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow, expressed her determination to not let threats and pressure from Republicans at the local, state and federal level prevent her from doing her job, which at the moment includes leading a high-profile case against former President Donald
Opinion: Prospective Jurors in Carlos Watson Fraud Trial Had No Idea Who He Was
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David Dee Delgado/ReutersHad he still been a daytime anchor on MSNBC, Carlos Watson would no doubt have spent Monday marshaling reports about the Trump hush-money trial in downtown Manhattan.Instead, Watson was on the other side of the East River, sitting as a defendant in Brooklyn Federal Court, awaiting the start of jury selection in a multi-mill
Spoiler Alert: Billionaire Trump Mega-Donor Gave Another $5M to RFK Jr.
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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyBillionaire mega-donor Timothy Mellon, who has poured millions into a super PAC supporting Donald Trump, gave another $5 million to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in April, according to newly released campaign finance filings.The gift is sure to stoke speculation that Mellon believes Kennedy’s prese
OpenAI Yanks AI Voice That Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson Amid Blowback
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Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty ImagesOpenAI is shelving an artificially intelligent voice assistant that has drawn scrutiny and criticism in recent days over its suspicious resemblance to the voice of Scarlett Johansson.“We’ve heard questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT, especially Sky,” the company said on Monday morning. “We are work
Opinion: 5 Rock Solid Theories on What Went Wrong for Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck
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The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesSome people look at the apparent rough patch in Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s marriage and ask, “Why?” Others look at it and ask, “Why not?”Based on clues planted in Lopez’s documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told, and a knowledge of celebrity couples, it’s easy to theorize which marital stressors led to this s
Trump Media Reports $327M First Quarter Loss, Posts Revenue of Just $770K
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STR/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesTrump Media & Technology Group, the company that owns Truth Social, on Monday posted an alarming loss and less than $1 million in revenue in its first quarter since going public. Trump Media, which began trading in March under the ticker symbol DJT, reported $770,500 in revenue—crediting its “nascent advertising initiat
Embattled FDIC Chair Says He’s Ready to Resign After Damning Workplace Probe
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Reuters/Evelyn HocksteinMonths after he was accused of overseeing a “boy’s club” workplace rife with misogyny and harassment, the FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg said Wednesday he’s prepared to step down once a successor is confirmed. “In light of recent events, I am prepared to step down from my responsibilities once a successor is confirmed,” he s
Mayor Eric Adams May Rescind Diddy’s Key To New York City
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Raymond Hall/GC ImagesThe fallout from the video showing Sean “Diddy” Combs assaulting his ex Cassie Ventura continues, as New York City Mayor Eric Adams is potentially reconsidering Diddy’s key to the city award, per PIX11.Adams presented the Harlem native the award in Times Square in 2023, for “his contributions to music, business, and philanthro
‘Mean Girls’ Party Barred Server Due to Weight, Suit Alleges
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John Lamparski/WireImageA server at The Ribbon restaurant on the Upper West Side is suing his place of employment and Paramount Pictures, the distributor of the 2024 musical film Mean Girls, for discrimination, because, the server says, he was prevented from working at a release party for the movie because of his weight. In his lawsuit, which was f
Doomsday Dad Chad Daybell’s Kids Take Stand in Murder Trial
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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Rexburg Police DepartmentThe night before Tammy Daybell was found dead in her Idaho bedroom in October 2019, the doomsday novelist’s wife told her son that all she wanted was her favorite meal and some rest.“She said, ‘I don’t feel good today; I don't want to cook. Can you go get some M
Jen Psaki Reveals How She Really Felt About Fox’s Peter Doocy
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Dia Dipasupil/Getty ImagesJen Psaki might not be President Joe Biden’s press secretary anymore, but there are some memories of the White House Press Briefing Room that you just can’t shake.Almost exactly two years after departing the position and taking up a gig at MSNBC, people are still asking her about her frostiest relationships with the room’s
Hecklers Drown Out Trump’s Bootlicking Brigade Outside Courthouse
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TIMOTHY A. CLARY/GETTYA cadre of MAGA loyalists who had gathered to show their support for Donald Trump during his hush-money trial was shouted down by a bevy of cowbell-clanging anti-Trump protesters on Monday when they tried to speak outside of a lower Manhattan courthouse.In what has become a familiar scene, several of the former president’s all
Ivan Boesky, Partial Inspiration For Gordon Gekko in ‘Wall Street,’ Dies at 87
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Getty ImagesIvan Boesky, the infamous inside trader who at least partially inspired the fictional character Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film Wall Street, died on Monday, his daughter confirmed. He was 87.Marianne Boesky told CNN her father died in his sleep, but did not share additional details about his cause of death. In an Instagram post, she calle
The Scandalous Trump Movie at Cannes Could Be an Oscar Contender (Really!)
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Mongrel MediaOne of the scariest moments in a film this year will invariably belong to Jeremy Strong.Early into The Apprentice, the new film about Donald Trump’s rise that premiered Monday at the Cannes Film Festival, Strong, playing notorious lawyer Roy Cohn, takes Trump, played by Sebastian Stan, into the room where he secretly records phone call
Trump Trial Judge Seals the Courtroom to Unleash on MAGA Lawyer
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Steven Hirsch/Pool via ReutersThe judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan suddenly sealed his courtroom on Monday afternoon, kicking all reporters out so he could engage in a brawl with Robert Costello, a MAGA-friendly lawyer who played a key role in the attempted backchannel between Michael Cohen and the Trump White House in 20
Charlamagne Tha God Finally Condemns Diddy After Defending His Legacy
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Rick Kern/Getty Images for iHeartRadioOn Sunday, Sean “Diddy” Combs posted a video apology that followed CNN’s bombshell release of 2016 hotel surveillance footage in which the rapper and mogul could be seen throwing his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, to the ground and kicking her. Combs said he was “disgusted” by his behavior, for which he “sought
Opinion: Trumpy GOP Leaders’ Big Week of Indefensible Hypocrisy
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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyA famous 1980s anti-drug PSA features a son being confronted by his dad, who asks him: “Who taught you how to do this stuff?” The kid replies, “You, alright. I learned it by watching you!”Today’s right-wing leaders could be forgiven for having a similar answer for their toxic comportment
RFK Jr. Suffers Gaffe of His Own as He Names Wrong Iranian Leader
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Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via GettyRobert F. Kennedy Jr., whose pitch to voters has centered around his relative youth and mental sharpness, made a gaffe of his own Sunday when he suggested that whoever wins the White House in November should be sitting down with a laundry list of authoritarian leaders from around the worl
Eddie Vedder Calls Harrison Butker a ‘F*cking P*ssy’
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Luke Hales/Getty, Gilbert Flores/GettyThis past weekend, as Pearl Jam performed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, frontman Eddie Vedder sounded off on Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker’s controversial commencement speech. Butker has gotten heaps of backlash over his virulent address at Benedictine College last weekend, in which he shared his b
Simone Biles Finally Cracks Over Hubby Jokes: ‘Fuck Off’
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Reuters/Patrick GorskiSimone Biles has had enough with the jokes suggesting her husband, the Chicago Bears defensive back Jonathan Owens, is a nobody compared to her.She snapped in a fiery Instagram story Sunday night, writing over a pastel background that those continuing to slight Owens were being “disrespectful to my relationship and my husband.
Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon’ Is a Misogynistic, Racist, Retrograde Mess
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Cannes Film FestivalEarly on into the three hours of viewing Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 I thought back to last year’s Cannes Film Festival, where I saw Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon for the first time. That brilliant movie is a full throated condemnation of the genocide of Native Americans by white people w
Demi Moore Talks Explosive Full-Frontal Nudity at Cannes
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Pascal Le Segretain/Getty ImagesDemi Moore’s graphic body horror movie The Substance has made a huge splash at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Winning a reportedly raucous 11-minute standing ovation and plenty of raves from critics—as well as a handful of winces from queasier audiences—The Substance has been called an “instant classic.” A good ha
Jordan Klepper Gets John Bolton to Agree Trump’s a ‘F*cking Moron’
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Comedy Central/screengrabFor his latest “Fingers the Pulse” special on Comedy Central, airing Monday, May 20 at 11:30 p.m. ET, The Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper turns his eye toward Russia. But instead of traveling to Moscow, Klepper focuses on the “Moscow Tools” here in America who—wittingly or not—have been doing Vladimir Putin’s biddin
Biden Says He Was Still VP During COVID and Obama Sent Him to ‘Fix It’
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Elizabeth Frantz/ReutersPresident Joe Biden erroneously claimed on Sunday he was still serving as vice president during the COVID-19 pandemic.Speaking at a dinner for the NAACP in Detroit, Michigan, Biden went on a tangent proclaiming he was on the ground in the state to help out as the virus raged on, at the request of former President Barack Obam
‘The Substance’: Demi Moore Stars in the Grossest Movie at Cannes
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Cannes Film FestivalWhen I say The Substance, the Demi Moore-starring movie that rocked Cannes, is bloody that’s an understatement. Take the amount of blood you think could be in this movie and double it. No, triple it. At one point during the runtime you will think you have seen the bloodiest part, but just you wait. It gets bloodier.And yet the b
Stepbrother to European Royal Mysteriously Disappears in Malibu
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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s OfficeCalifornia police say there’s “concern” for the well-being of Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark’s stepbrother, who mysteriously disappeared from the posh coastal community of Malibu over the weekend.A barefoot Attilio Brillembourg, 53, vanished without a trace at around 1 a.m. Saturday near the 6000 block of