The move marked a reversal from a day earlier, when Greene appeared to retreat from her threat to trigger a vote to remove Johnson as speaker.

Con otra remontada cuando parecía desahuciado, el Real Madrid doblegó el miércoles 2-1 al Bayern Múnich y se clasificó a la final de la Liga de Campeones por tercera vez en tres temporadas.

Officials suspect it is the same bear that has been seen roaming across Maryland in recent days.

Thousands watch the closely guarded Olympic flame arrive into the Old Port of Marseille, on May 8, 2024.

The Mets will not get a chance to go for a three-game sweep on Wednesday.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/ReutersThe bombshell testimony of Stormy Daniels in Donald Trump’s election interference case was certainly dramatic, but other events that took place may mean we are closer than ever to the former president facing the prospect of jail time.It was the statements made by one of Trump’s lawyers that could land him an evening on Rikers Island, and also potentially get that attorney in ethical trouble herself.The coverage of the trial focused mostly on Stephanie Clifford’s (aka Stormy Daniels’) testimony, including quite specific allegations related to her supposed interactions with the former president.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Prince Williams/FilmMagic/Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Rémy MartinRapper 50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, filed a defamation lawsuit against his ex-partner, Daphne Joy this week. Back in March, Joy publicly accused Jackson of raping and physically abusing her during their relationship, claims which Jackson says are baseless. Jackson claims in his suit that Joy (full name Daphne Joy Narvaez) made allegations were not only “false and defamatory,” but that were a “calculated attack”—an attack that his lawyer says was likely motivated by Narvaez's relationship with embattled hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.“Despite being given ample opportunity to retract a false and malicious retaliatory accusation, Ms. Narvaez has shamefully chosen to interfere with her 11-year-old son’s relationship with his loving father by falsely calling him a ‘rapist,’” Reena Jain, one of Jackson’s lawyers, told The Daily Beast in a statement. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Kylian Mbappé está por convertirse en el más reciente astro con un contrato exorbitante que se marcha del Paris Saint-Germain sin conquistar la Liga de Campeones.

What Mike Johnson ouster?

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) pulled the trigger on Wednesday on her motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from the speakership, a move that sets up a full vote in the House on his fate.While that vote will mark the second time in seven months that House Republicans have voted on removing their own Speaker—an unprecedented sign of chaos—Greene is all but certain to fail in her quest to boot Johnson as Democrats will likely help table the motion.For starters, the Georgia Republican has only garnered two additional members to publicly support her motion, Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ). The latter has expressed to reporters that he does not believe the motion to vacate should be triggered this week.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Teoscar Hernández drives in all three runs, including a two-run homer in the sixth inning, to support Gavin Stone in a 3-1 win over the Marlins on Wednesday.

Martin Lawrence announces his first stand-up comedy tour since 2016. It kicks off a month after his movie with Will Smith, 'Bad Boys: Ride or Die,' premieres.

A Drug Enforcement Administration official told Congress that illegal pills are being delivered to Americans' doorsteps "like Uber Eats."

John Mulaney’s latest Netflix foray, a live late-night show for six nights only, features people, places and things specific to Los Angeles.

Virginia first lady Suzanne Youngkin, Attorney General Jason Miyares and resident Christine Wright have launched programs to address the fentanyl crisis the commonwealth is facing.

"The Fall Guy Stuntacular Pre-Show" is the live show, based on the movie, based on the TV show. Got that? It's at Universal Studios Hollywood through next weekend.

DraftKings, one of the leading sports betting sites, offers a simple promo for new customers in over 20 sports betting states.

The Blueshirts have a commanding 2-0 series lead as they head down to Raleigh for Games 3 and 4.

Ippei Mizuhara, a former Japanese interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtanti, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges, admitting he stole millions of dollars and filed a false tax return as he tried to cover massive gambling debts.

"This man is f--king unhinged," one woman wrote in a text message to a colleague describing her boss, Tobias Henning, after a one-on-one meeting.

The Fox News Health Newsletter brings you trending and important stories about health warnings, drug shortages, mental health issues and more in this weekly recap.

Shaq responded in a post on Instagram to what Henderson had written about their marriage in her book.

Travis Kelce was reportedly stunned over the comments from actress Jana Kramer about how the Kansas City Chiefs star is allegedly "always drunk."

A World War I monument in Central Park defaced by protesters this week has left veterans groups and local officials frustrated and infuriated.

The settlement between ACLU-D.C. and Jackson-Reed High School averts a legal showdown over the Arab Student Union’s outreach efforts following the Israel-Gaza war.

DOE Chancellor David Banks grilled by Congress on Wednesday over his response to egregious incidents of antisemitism in New York City schools.

Posts on the website and Instagram page of Music Midtown, a music festival in Atlanta that draws tens of thousands of people annually, said the event will not take place this year.

Jurors side with former students at Saint Francis High school who were expelled in 2020 for photos in which they wore acne masks.

Camila Cabello suffered an awkward wardrobe malfunction while attending the Met Gala, having her underwear exposed in front of the cameras.

The Department of Justice said on Wednesday that Ippei Mizuhara agreed to plead guilty to illegally transferring $17 million from the bank account of MLB superstar Shohei Ohtani.

An anti-Israel protester who reportedly was arrested this morning at an encampment at George Washington University says her movement is "stronger than ever."

Kate Hudson spoke about Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell's long-lasting relationship, and shared how close her family is, joking they're "nuts."

Oceanwide Plaza, the bankrupt, unfinished development in downtown Los Angeles that became a canvas for trespassing graffiti artists, is officially on the market.

A trio of bungling jewel thieves with terrible aim ended up running for their lives when the would-be victim fought back, then rammed one robber with his car, cops said.

New York Post readers can use the Caesars promo code NYPNEWS1000 to get up to $1,000 in bonus bets for any sport.

U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky has ruled 2 Arkansas high school teachers cannot be prevented by the state from discussing critical race theory in their classrooms.

A pharmaceutical company has recalled tens of thousands of units of its eyelid wipe product made for dogs.

President Biden's decision to delay arms shipment to Israel is a very small and belated gesture that may nevertheless make a point.

The viral Taylor Swift lyric is particularly poignant for those of us who sob while squatting.

The Glenwood Resource Center in Glenwood, Iowa, is set to permanently close after investigators determined intellectually disabled patients were mistreated at the facility.

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Former college football star Johnny Manziel and model Josie Canseco cozied up and posted a kissing video on Tuesday. Manziel even drops the L-word.

One Florida couple is cashing in on their mega property in Florida for quite a payday. 

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesA group of Republican lawmakers introduced a bill on Wednesday which would send “any person convicted of unlawful activity” at a college or university, to do community service in Gaza for six months.The bill, dubbed the “Antisemitism Community Service Act,” was introduced by Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), and backed by Representatives Jeff Dunch (R-SC) and Randy Weber (R-TX), as part of two bills which take aim at college students.The bill seeks to punish students opposing the U.S.-backed genocide, by sending them to the very place where Israel has used U.S. funds and weapons to kill over 34,700 people, obliterating homes, and displacing nearly two million of Palestinians.Read more at The Daily Beast.

New York City Public Schools Chancellor David Banks on Wednesday told lawmakers there have been 281 reported antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents within his school system since Oct. 7.

"These depraved savages won't stop until my family is DESTROYED and the MAGA movement is RIPPED TO SHREDS," read a Wednesday fundraising email, which included a "demand a mistrial" button.

Scapegoating is one of humankind’s primal rituals, dating back to the Book of Leviticus, in which God commanded the prophet Aaron to lay hands on a goat, confess the sins of his tribe, and then send the animal into the desert. Throughout centuries and across cultures, the historian René Girard once argued, warring factions have settled disputes by agreeing upon a figure to collectively blame—a resolution that is ugly and unfair but, more than anything, cathartic.Perhaps this tradition helps explain what’s been so satisfying about watching two of the 21st century’s most important musicians, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, try to destroy each other. The rap feud that has engulfed public attention in recent weeks has been litigated in breathtaking, twisty-turny songs packed with very 2020s references—to Ozempic, disinformation, AI, Taylor Swift, and elite pedophile rings. These two superstars have leveled accusations so nasty that cancellation, today’s standard punishment for celebrity wrongdoing, hardly seems sufficient. Thus far, the consensus is that Lamar has “won” the war—but in that case, Drake’s defeat is really what’s significant. We’re witnessing the modern implementation of an ancient rite, the desecration of an individual for the moral cleansing of the masses.The conflict was sparked by what now seems like a quaint dispute: Who’s the greatest rapper? A verse by J. Cole on a Drake song last fall postulated himself, Drake, and Lamar as hip-hop’s “big three.” Earlier this year, Lamar replied with a correction: “It’s just big me,” he rapped in a tone of seething hostility. Cole issued and quickly retracted a reply, but Drake took Lamar’s bait, and the two men began volleying diss tracks. Over eight songs—plus one interlude!—in less than a month, the question of who’s a better rapper has given way to a more profound debate about hip-hop, masculinity, and nothing less than the nature of evil.Beef is older than rap, but this showdown is new in its scale and velocity. When Jay-Z and Nas scrapped in the early 2000s, they did so at a time when rap was not quite yet synonymous with pop. But in today’s fractured musical ecosystem, the 37-year-old Drake, who has had 13 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and the 36-year-old Lamar, the only rapper to ever win a Pulitzer, have achieved a rare level of name recognition. The most consequential rap beef ever, between Biggie and Tupac, simmered for months and unfolded via physical releases, local radio, and in-person dustups. By contrast, Drake and Lamar are using fast-twitch digital technologies to record tracks at whim, circulate them around the planet instantly, and feed a teeming ecosystem of commentators, remixers, fans, haters, and voyeurs.This global audience has long been primed for the showdown. Since the early 2010s, Drake and Lamar have reigned as the yin and yang of popular rap: the entertainer and the artist, the hedonist and the monk. Drake has flooded the marketplace with hits, collaborations, and tie-in products. His sound is chameleonic, borrowing unapologetically from far-flung subgenres and scenes, and his lyrical outlook is pettily, proudly self-interested. Lamar, by contrast, expresses himself in carefully honed albums exploring how to live ethically in a fallen world. The Compton native’s music, for all its experimental edge, roots itself in the bounce and attitude of West Coast hip-hop. These two men have long been in a cold war, trading covert lyrical insults that fit with the ideological and aesthetic clash they both seem to represent.So when Lamar rapped, “I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress” on last week’s diss track “Euphoria,” he was harvesting from richly tilled soil. The hatred he spoke of was both visceral and intellectual; the song argued that the mixed-race Drake was insufficiently Black, or at least exploitative and cringey in his performance of Blackness. “It’s not just me,” Lamar rapped, referring to his distaste for Drake and the people he surrounds himself with. “I’m what the culture feelin’.” He was, by this logic, unleashing the pent-up resentment of true rap fans against a man he later labeled a “colonizer.”Others can debate Lamar’s racial claims, but on some level the attack represents a desperate wish: for Drake, along with all he represents, to be cleanly excised from modern hip-hop culture. The maddening truth for Drake’s critics is that he, in a fundamental way, is modern hip-hop culture—the genre’s sound and social cachet over the past 15 years are inextricable from his success. On the diss track “Not Like Us,” Lamar rapped a list of well-respected artists such as 21 Savage and Young Thug who have lent Drake “false street cred.” This attack cut Drake, but it also called attention to how many rappers have mingled their brands with his. Even for Lamar, the relationship between realness and commercialism isn’t neat: As Drake pointed out in his own diss tracks, Lamar has worked with Maroon 5, Swift, and Drake himself.[Read: How the Pulitzers chose Kendrick Lamar, according to a juror]As the feud between the men escalated, a more explosive issue came to the fore: Which of these men is worse to women and children? Lamar’s attacks were blunt, labeling Drake a deadbeat father and a “predator.” He addressed pitying verses to Drake’s young son (whose existence was first publicized in a 2018 diss track by Drake’s rival Pusha T) and to an 11-year-old daughter, whom Drake allegedly has been keeping secret. He also said that Drake leads a crew of “certified pedophiles” that is systematically luring “victims all inside of they home.” Drake, meanwhile, has called attention to rumors that Lamar beat the mother of his child.None of these claims is verifiable. Drake has denied Lamar’s accusations: “Just for clarity, I feel disgusted, I’m too respected / If I was fucking young girls, I promise I’d have been arrested,” he rapped on “The Heart Part 6.” He also claimed that his camp intentionally leaked the lie that Drake was hiding a daughter in order to cause confusion. As for the claim that Lamar committed domestic violence, the rapper denied it years ago in a radio interview—and, in his recent diss tracks, repeatedly (albeit vaguely) said that Drake is lying about Lamar’s family.Truth, however, doesn’t really matter in this battle. The PR narrative is clear-cut, classic, and irresistible. People like Drake are “not like us,” as Lamar put it in a track that will have listeners singing along and dancing to lyrics about child trafficking all summer. Lamar has spun a populist narrative in which cultural elites are vampiric abusers from whom regular folks need to hide their daughters. The power of that kind of rhetoric has been well demonstrated in national politics—and has crowd-pleasing appeal at a time when hip-hop titans such as Diddy are facing legal trouble in connection with alleged sex crimes (allegations that he denies). It is easier to say “not like us” than to dwell on the reality that predation happens everywhere in American life, in unfamous communities, workplaces, and homes.Drake has turned in some of the best rapping of his career over the past few weeks, but the substance of his disses isn’t landing. Many of his attacks draw from Lamar’s own catalog—which is all about how society’s moral corruption is perpetuated not by far-off villains but by our own selves. Lamar’s most recent album, 2022’s Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, told of his own infidelity, brutality, misogyny, pride, and a bucket of other sins. Drake’s lyrics have invoked those admissions to show that Lamar isn’t a saint, but the problem with this logic is not simply that Lamar has already confessed. It’s that Drake, the more popular artist, is just a more appealing vessel upon which to project communal shame.Indeed, Drake’s shunning has been a group activity. The feud really kicked off in March when Drake’s frequent collaborators Future and Metro Boomin released two albums full of Drake disses. (The first album featured Lamar’s “it’s just big me” verse.) Rick Ross, A$AP Rocky, and Kanye West have jumped in with their own digs. Each of these figures has his own reasons for beef, but the gist of their attacks has been tonally similar, laced with disgust. Most hilariously—and tellingly—Metro Boomin made a beat with a sped-up chorus about Drake’s alleged plastic surgery, and invited anyone to remix it. Amateurs on TikTok, YouTube, and other platforms have used that beat to recap the very same talking points that Lamar has been using.“This shit was some good exercise,” Drake muttered, resignedly, in his most recent salvo. If he now retreats from the spotlight for a period, what has been accomplished? Lamar has proved himself to be an even savvier operator than once thought, and the breakneck rudeness of “Euphoria,” “Not Like Us,” and Drake’s “Family Matters” are going to remain a guilty thrill to listen to—but the meat of the dispute between these rappers has hardly been addressed. Surely misogyny and abuse will not disappear from society. Hip-hop probably won’t revert to some purer, more righteous form of itself. Some people may even use this war of words to try to perpetuate the bloodiest tendencies of the genre’s history; yesterday, a drive-by shooter injured one of Drake’s bodyguards, for as-yet-unknown reasons.The most likely legacy of this battle will be in accelerating the record industry’s strategic use of gossip and metanarrative. Music was once a social, local art form that fostered cultural cohesion; now it’s an on-demand utility that insulates people in their headphones. Commanding mass attention in this era is a difficult task, but the artists who are able to do so—Drake and Lamar, yes, as well as storytellers such as Swift and Olivia Rodrigo—make the internet feel like a village from our distant past. We can send strangers into the desert and feel some absolution, whether we’ve earned it or not.

This week in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president, Stormy Daniels gave explicit and disturbing testimony and sparked an angry reaction from Donald Trump.