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Trump Continues to Break Promise to Release Post-Assassination Attempt Medical Records
Brendan Smialowski/AFPFormer President Donald Trump continues dodging his pledge—following the July assassination attempt where he was wounded in his right ear—that he would “very gladly” release his medical records, according to a report by The New York Times.If he wins reelection next month, Trump, 78, would eventually surpass President Joe Biden, who turns 82 next month, as the oldest Oval Office holder in history.Biden and Trump’s election opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, have also declined to release comprehensive medical records.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Melania Trashes Her Own Husband’s Stances on Abortion and Immigration
Alon Skuy/Getty ImagesMelania Trump on Thursday released a video speaking out on women’s right to access abortion while another leaked passage from her upcoming memoir confirmed she once told her husband to drop a notoriously brutal immigration policy.Former President Donald Trump has bragged about his role in ending the constitutional right to abortion and says he is happy to allow the states to decide whether residents should be able to access locally a full range of women’s healthcare.His wife apparently wants to make it clear that she sees things very differently—and right before the election. “Individual freedom is a fundamental principle that I safeguard,” the former first lady says in a brief clip posted on social media. “Without a doubt, there is no room for compromise when it comes to this essential right that all women possess from birth. Individual freedom. What does my body, my choice really mean?”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Queen Elizabeth’s Last Co-Star Is Back in a New Trailer—as a Baby
StudioCanalQueen Elizabeth II’s final co-star, Paddington Bear, is headed back to movie screens this fall, and a new trailer shows footage of the marmalade-munching bear as a baby bruin. The new film, Paddington in Peru, sees the eponymous bear return to the land of his birth to find his Aunt Lucy. When she herself is found to be missing from her retirement home, Paddington and his London hosts, the Brown family, get sucked into a mission to discover the lost city of El Dorado.In one scene, viewers will get a glimpse of Paddington as a baby as he recalls his upbringing with Aunt Lucy.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Trump-Backed MAGA Senate Candidate Hits Drag Queens During Bizarre Cannibalistic Rant
WAVY TV 10/YouTubeRetired Navy Captain Hung Cao, the Trump-backed Republican running against Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, went on a bizarre and disturbing rant Wednesday, blaming a drag queen for low military recruitment numbers and saying the U.S. military needs people “who are going to rip out their own guts, eat them and ask for seconds.”During a televised debate, moderator and WRIC anchor Deanna Allbrittin asked Cao to explain a tweet where he claimed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices—which he alleged were a “growing obsession” of the Biden administration—were to blame for eight-decade low military recruitment numbers.“When you’re using a drag queen to recruit for the Navy that’s not the people we want,” replied Cao. “What we need is alpha males and alpha females who are going to rip out their own guts, eat them, and ask for seconds. Those are young men and women that are going to win wars.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Grandparents Found Hugging After Being Killed in Hurricane Helene Disaster
Laurel Lindsay/Second Baptist Church of Beech Island, S.C.A couple in South Carolina killed by a tree falling on their bedroom during Hurricane Helene was found hugging each other, according to their grandson.Marcia, 74, and Jerry Savage, 78, were lying in bed at their house in Beech Island when the tree crashed down on their bedroom, their grandson John Savage told the Associated Press. “All you could see was ceiling and tree,” the 22-year-old, who was in the property at the time, said. “I was just going through sheer panic at that point.”Savage told the news agency that his grandparents were found hugging each other in the bed. He said his family believe God intended for them to be taken together rather than allowing one of them to live without the other.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Cynical Trump, Who Wants Death Penalty for Drug Offenders, Pledges to ‘Save’ Silk Road Drug Market Founder
Reuters/Brian SnyderDuring his final weeks in office in 2020, President Donald Trump considered granting clemency to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the internet’s best-known drug market, the Silk Road. On Wednesday, the former president upped the ante and said he would personally “SAVE” the dark web impresario, who is serving a life sentence.“I WILL SAVE ROSS ULBRICHT!” he wrote, in an all-caps post on his financially embattled Truth Social network.Ulbricht, who used the online handle “Dread Pirate Roberts,” was convicted in 2015 on seven counts including selling narcotics and money laundering, as well as running a “continuing criminal enterprise”, a charge usually reserved for kingpins like Gangster Disciples leader Larry Hoover and Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Prince William Loses His Voice Cheering His Side at Famous Soccer Victory
James Gill - Danehouse/Getty ImagesPrince William lost his voice at the soccer Wednesday night, after joining in wild celebrations as he cheered on his side, Aston Villa, to a historic victory against elite German side Bayern Munich.William, 42, was a month away from even being born at the two sides legendary last meeting—a European cup final in May 1982, which Villa won.The prince, sporting his new beard, looked relaxed and happy as he watched the game, no doubt buoyed by ongoing positive news about his wife’s health.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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New Netflix Menendez Brothers Doc Wants You to Think They’re Innocent
Vince Bucci/AFP via Getty ImagesHaving allowed Ryan Murphy to make his case against Lyle and Erik Menendez with his eight-part dramatic series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, Netflix now lets the infamous brothers tell their own tale in The Menendez Brothers, a feature-length documentary, premiering Oct. 7, that paints them in a wholly sympathetic light.Those who’ve rallied behind the siblings and their claims that they murdered their parents because of lifelong sexual abuse and an imminent fear for their lives will eagerly take to director Alejandro Hartmann’s non-fiction film, whose main draw is new telephone interviews with the imprisoned convicts. Anyone less convinced of their “abuse excuse,” however, are likely to find it a distasteful attempt to paint the men not as victimizers but as victims of their parents, the media, and an unjust legal system.On Aug. 20, 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez used shotguns to literally obliterate their parents as they sat watching TV in the family’s lavish Beverly Hills home. The explanation they ultimately gave for this crime was a history of heinous rape and abuse at the hands of their father José, an entertainment industry powerhouse whom they both adored and feared, as did their mother Kitty, who they allege knew about and ignored their mistreatment.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Jimmy Kimmel Calls Mike Pence Trump’s ‘Baby Reindeer’
ABCA bombshell 165-page filing from Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion case was unsealed on Wednesday; and among its many damning allegations, late night host Jimmy Kimmel seemed most stunned by allegations surrounding Trump’s relationship with Mike Pence.“I knew Trump pressured Mike Pence to break the law. I just didn’t know how many times he did it,” Kimmel remarked in his Wednesday monologue.“There were meetings, phone calls, text messages. Pence was basically Trump’s Baby Reindeer,” Kimmel joked, referring to the hit true crime Netflix mini-series that dropped in April, 2024. The show revolved around a man being obsessively stalked by a woman, with her behavior towards him growing increasingly deranged as the series went on.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Melania Heaps Praise on Husband Donald Trump in Rare Fox Interview
Fox NewsMelania Trump showed some rare support for her husband, former president Donald Trump, in an interview alongside Fox News host–and longtime friend–Sean Hannity.The former first lady has become increasingly outspoken as she hawks her forthcoming new book, Melania. Earlier Wednesday, a report in The Guardian revealed Melania Trump’s pro-choice views on abortion; a key issue in the 2024 presidential race.She sat down with Hannity on Tuesday, the Fox host revealed. The interview will be split into two parts, with the first aired on Wednesday night. The interview sees Trump heaping adulation and affection on her husband.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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CNN Host Hammers GOP Rep Over JD Vance’s Non-Answer on 2020 at Debate
CNNCNN anchor Kaitlan Collins repeatedly pressed GOP Rep. Tom Emmer—who helped with JD Vance’s debate preparations—about the Ohio senator’s refusal to say that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate against Tim Walz.On The Source, Collins asked Emmer if, during preparations, Vance’s response to Walz’s question was rehearsed. But Emmer wrongly insisted that Vance did respond to the simple question.“He answered it. You don’t like the answer, but he answered it. This is something that you folks in the media want to focus on on a regular basis,” Emmer said, echoing what Vance told an audience earlier in the day. “Thank goodness JD Vance and Donald Trump are focused on the election and how to fix this country. So I think he did answer the question.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Kamala Harris Consoles Families While Surveying Hurricane Damage
Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesVice President Kamala Harris embraced families as she surveyed storm damage in Georgia on Wednesday, offering residents comfort in the aftermath of the devastation of Hurricane Helene.The Democratic vice presidential nominee traveled to Augusta, where she toured a Red Cross relief center, met with local officials, passed out food, and delivered remarks on federal disaster support, according to the Associated Press.“The president and I have been paying close attention from the beginning to what we need to do to make sure the federal resources hit the ground as quickly as possible,” Harris said, according to The New York Times. “That work has been happening.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The Osmond Family Cheating Scandal Rocking ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/BravoThe Real Housewives of Salt Lake City have hit Milwaukee and brought with them something entirely foreign to the region: relentlessly aggressive gossip. Each lady brought rumors and nastiness aboard the tiny private jet, packed away to use at the most inopportune moment possible. They’re the best.After a tumultuous ropes course that left the group in utter chaos, Whitney tells her husband that she feels the ladies are finally in a good enough place for a trip. It’s one of those moments where the forces of Bravo friction are stronger than anything based in reality, as a typical friend group might cancel a trip given everyone’s fighting. But this isn’t a typical friend group, it’s a reality TV cast. And everyone’s vying to be employee of the month.The gossip is all destructive, absurd, and utterly salacious. Only in Salt Lake City would a bodacious browgirl have the smoking gun that a Z-list Osmond descendent is cheating on a Housewife. Angie, hair stylist to the stars, obviously has the hookup to all the cosmetology drama, and she knows she has to tell Britani.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Giuliani’s Daughter Hasn’t Spoken to Dad About Her Harris Endorsement
CNNCaroline Giuliani, the 35-year-old daughter of Rudy Giuliani, explained on CNN Wednesday what motivated her to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris—a decision that she said hasn’t yet come up in conversations with her MAGA father.Giuliani, who threw her support behind Harris in a Vanity Fair column Monday, first told CNN’s Erin Burnett how she came to that conclusion, which wasn’t “made lightly.”“Figuring out how to articulate these feelings with the storm that I‘ve been experiencing over the last couple of years—the emotional storm was really hard, and also figuring out if I had the fortitude to share it, knowing that it could definitely damage my relationship with my dad in the last years of his life was really, really painful,” she said on OutFront.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Trump Is Absolutely Fuming Over the Release of Bombshell Election Case Doc
David Swanson/ReutersDonald Trump is clearly not happy about the release of a bombshell 165-page motion Wednesday filed by special counsel Jack Smith which lays out a sprawling timeline of how the former president attempted to claw his way back into power after losing the 2020 election. The former president initially laid out his case in various Truth Social posts later on Wednesday, claiming the unsealing of the document was another Democratic plot. He then repeated many of those claims in an almost-two-minute rant with NewsNation Wednesday night, in which Trump bragged about winning the classified documents case in Florida, described Democratic opponent Kamala Harris as “more incompetent than Biden,” and claimed the accusations within the document are “nothing new.” Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Prosecutors Are Overwhelmed With Evidence on Trump Suspect
Martin County Sheriff's OfficeFederal authorities prosecuting would-be presidential assassin Ryan Routh, who they allege tried to shoot Donald Trump on a golf course last month, have asked for more time to analyze the mountains of evidence they’ve gathered in the case.In a filing on Wednesday, prosecutors argued that the case against Routh is “unusual and complex,” and motioned to have upcoming deadlines canceled and the case removed from the trial calendar.Routh, 58, was initially charged right after the incident on Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida with owning a firearm as a convicted felon and possession of a weapon with an obliterated serial number. Prosecutors added the attempted assassination charge days later.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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I’m Calling It: This Is the Most Underrated Brand in Men’s Skincare Right Now
Scouted/The Daily Beast/Caldera + Lab. Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission.I’ve been a big fan of Caldera + Lab ever since its game-changing facial serum came onto the market in 2021. To this day, The Good Serum is one of my favorite ever skincare products of all time. Since then, Caldera + Lab has expanded its product line with more skin and hair products. While it’s technically a men’s skincare company, all of Caldera + Lab’s products are unisex, and I would highly recommend the serum no matter your gender. Even the beard oil could double as a face or hair oil. Either way, if you love luxe skincare products made from natural ingredients, this eco-friendly brand should absolutely be on your radar. Imagine if Kiehl’s or Grown Alchemist were out there wild harvesting high-altitude plants, wildflowers, and natural oils from the Teton Mountain Range in Wyoming or the glacial fields of the North Pacific. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Calvin Klein’s Ex-Boy Toy Slammed for Being Tenant from Hell
Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagesCalvin Klein’s ex-boy toy Nick Gruber has been accused of being a drug-slinging roommate from hell by a California man battling Parkinson’s Disease—and now a judge ruled the man must pay Gruber for the trouble.Santa Rosa resident Richard Jones told ABC 7 News that he and his husband, Alfonso Monreal, took Gruber in as a tenant in 2021. However, things quickly turned sour, according to Jones.“I don’t want this to happen to anybody else,” said a teary-eyed Jones in an interview with ABC 7 News host Dan Noyes. At first, Gruber “seemed like a very nice guy” and he made a “good first impression,” said Jones. “He’s young, single, so he said.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Matthew Perry Doctor Pleads Guilty, Could Get 10 Years
Michael Blackshire/GettyOne of the doctors responsible for helping supply Matthew Perry with ketamine, which contributed to the Friends actor’s death in his hot tub last year, pled guilty on Wednesday, according to ABC News.Former San Diego physician Mark Chavez admitted to submitting a fraudulent prescription to obtain ketamine for Perry, and pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine—a charge for which he could serve up to ten years. Chavez was charged along with urgent care doctor Salvador Plasencia, a dealer named Erik Fleming, Perry’s live-in assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, and “ketamine queen” Jasveen Sangha.Chavez is the third accused to plead guilty, after Iwamasa and Fleming, each of whom prosecutors offered lesser charges to in exchange for their help in taking down Sangha and Plasencia, their case’s two lead defendants. Both Sangha and Plasencia have pleaded not guilty to their charges. Sangha has been accused of housing a “drug-selling emporium” in her apartment, and selling the drug all over Los Angeles, earning her the moniker “ketamine queen.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Bombshell Filing Reveals Trump’s Flippant Reaction to Pence’s Jan. 6 Danger
Reuters/Carlos BarriaA bombshell filing out of Donald Trump’s election subversion case was unsealed Wednesday, revealing a trove of damning allegations about how the former president acted on and around Jan. 6, 2021. Among the nastiest accusations in the 165-page document was how Trump allegedly reacted to learning from an aide that his vice president, Mike Pence, had been taken to a secure location in the U.S. Capitol for his safety. Trump’s alleged response to that news: “So what?”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Three More Women Claim They Had Relationships With RFK Jr. in Past Year
Michael M Santiago/Getty ImagesMultiple women claimed they had romantic relationships with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—but the married former independent presidential candidate has so far denied having any affairs.Three women began sharing their experiences with Kennedy in a group text message thread, sources told Mediaite. The three women all know Kennedy from their work with Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine nonprofit Kennedy chaired for years, but has since taken a leave of absence.Representatives for Kennedy told Mediaite that the story was “untrue,” insisting that “Mr Kennedy has had no romantic relationships with any woman other than his wife since their marriage.” A representative for Kennedy did not immediately return requests for comment from the Daily Beast.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Tim Walz Drops the Mr. Nice Guy Routine and Attacks JD Vance
Getty Images/Andrew HarnikKamala Harris’ campaign promised Tim Walz would take a more aggressive approach on the campaign trail following a staid debate Tuesday night, and the vice presidential contender immediately delivered. Speaking at a rally in York, Pennsylvania, the Democratic VP candidate ditched the Mr. Nice Guy routine to revive his favorite attack on the Republican ticket. “Turns out, Donald Trump's people and their definition of freedom is freedom to invade your doctor's office, freedom to invade your bedroom,” Walz said. “They’re super concerned about all of our bedrooms. That’s not normal. That is not normal.” Speaking to the suggestion that, as a teacher, he should stop calling others “weird,” Walz said, “Then quit doing weird things, and that’s how that works.” And while Walz celebrated the “civil, but spirited debate” he and JD Vance had Tuesday, he also said that Vance had gaslighted the audience by trying to mislead them on Trump’s record. Walz is set to launch an even more aggressive travel and media blitz in the coming days, which will include two national TV interviews and a late-night appearance, according to the Harris campaign.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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John Amos’ Family Raise Question of Possible Elder Abuse in His Death
Shareif Ziyadat/WireImage via Getty ImagesThe same day it was announced that John Amos, who starred on the sitcom Good Times and the miniseries Roots in the 1970s, had died in August at the age of 83, a group of concerned relatives and friends released a lengthy statement challenging the circumstances surrounding his death.“We refuse to rule out the possibility of foul play,” they said.The statement was posted to Facebook early Tuesday evening, just hours after Belinda Foster, a woman identified as Amos’ publicist, confirmed his death. She supplied several outlets with a statement on behalf of Amos’ son, Kelly Christopher Amos, who called the veteran actor “a man with the kindest heart” and a “TV father” to many fans.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Melania Trump Flaunts Pro-Choice Views in New Memoir: Report
Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesMelania Trump, the former first lady and wife of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, proudly professes her support for abortion and a woman’s right to choose in her forthcoming memoir, according to The Guardian.The newspaper published several pro-choice excerpts of Melania on Wednesday. “It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,” she writes.“Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes,” Melania goes on.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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October Surprise: Vance Finally Seizes on Walz Flub and Cruz Feels Heat
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters/GettyWelcome to October Surprise, the Daily Beast’s daily countdown to the biggest election of our lifetime. It’s only 34 days until Election Day and here’s what’s happening in the race to the White House between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Subscribe here to receive this first in your inbox.THE DOWNLOADThings aren’t looking too good for notorious Republican Party hardliner-in-a-hardline-state Ted Cruz’s re-election hopes.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Diddy’s Billionaire Buddy Ron Burkle Is No Stranger to Controversy
Eugene Gologursky/WireImage via GettyRon Burkle is currently in headlines for his failed bid to erect an outlandish townhouse in the British countryside. But the billionaire investor—whose portfolio includes tech giants like Uber and Airbnb, the stylish hotel chain Soho House, and the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins—is hardly a newcomer to controversy.In fact, his personal history is riddled with ties to contentious and disgraced public figures (Sean “Diddy” Combs, Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein, and Michael Jackson, to name a few), massive lawsuits often related to his aggressive business tactics, and a saga involving the FBI that resulted in a New York Post writer being fired for extortion.Reportedly worth around $3 billion, Burkle comes from comparatively humble beginnings.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Opinion: Opinion: It’s Time for Joe Biden's Administration to Declassify All Its Khashoggi Intelligence
Illustration by Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/AP ImagesSix years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered by the Saudi Arabian government. The US government has since declassified some information on Khashoggi’s murder, including its judgment that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammad bin Salman approved the order to “capture or kill” Khashoggi. But far too much remains hidden, and this secrecy both prevents accountability and serves to endanger other journalists.This is unacceptable, especially while the Biden administration upholds a State Department determination that MBS has “sovereign immunity” for his role in the murder—at least while he is head of the Saudi government.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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‘It’s Ka-Ma-La’: CNN Anchor Ends Interview With Trump Aide
CNNCNN anchor Jim Acosta abruptly ended an interview with Corey Lewandowski Wednesday after the longtime political advisor to Donald Trump repeatedly mispronounced Kamala Harris’ name. Lewandowski, who appeared on CNN Newsroom, mispronounced Vice President Harris’ name throughout the interview, a tactic used by several MAGA insiders and Trump himself, despite Acosta’s multiple attempts to correct the conservative political strategist.“Corey, you’ve been in this business a long time. I think you’re a mature grown up. It’s Ka-ma-la Harris. Can you just say Kamala?” the CNN anchor asked, to which Lewandowski refused. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Vance Rips Walz After Missing His ‘Friends With School Shooters’ Flub
YouTube/Fox 2JD Vance returned to slamming Tim Walz on the campaign trail less than 24 hours after an unusually cordial debate between the vice presidential candidates.“I talked to the president afterwards,” Vance said at a rally in Auburn Hills, Michigan Wednesday. “He said that Tim Walz said he was friends with school shooters twice.”Vance had missed the flub entirely.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Milli Vanilli Is Hotter Than Ever Thanks to the Menendez Brothers
Frank Trapper/Corbis via Getty ImagesIn addition to shedding light on the 1989 Menendez murder case, another byproduct of Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has been the resurgence of the popular late 1980s and early 1990s singing duo Milli Vanilli. Remember them?Well, if not, Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, the duo that was Milli Vanilli, broke onto the scene in 1989 with hits like “Blame It on the Rain” and “Girl I’m Gonna Miss You,” but fell victim to what might be considered by today’s standards a total cancellation when the public learned that they were actually lipsynching their lyrics.When their dubbed vocals were made public, Milli Vanlli was stripped of their Best New Artist Grammy they snagged at the 1990 awards ceremony, and essentially thrown out of the business.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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