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Gaza Baby Rescued From Her Dead Mother’s Womb Dies

Mohammed Salem/ReutersA premature baby girl who was saved from the womb after her mother was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza has now died as well.Sabreen Jouda passed away in a hospital in the southern city of Rafah on Thursday after surviving for five days in an incubator in a neonatal intensive care unit, her uncle told the Associated Pres

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Noem Reportedly Describes Executing Her Pet in New Book: ‘I Hated That Dog’

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via GettyReaching for an example of her unflinching preparedness to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it needs to be done, Kristi Noem landed on a chilling example: the time she killed her pet dog, Cricket, in an execution-style gravel pit slaying.The South Dakota governor, whose unbreakable devotion to D

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Trump Trial Today: Defense Team Takes Another Crack at David Pecker

Mark Peterson/AFP via GettyDavid Pecker, much like Arnold Schwarzenegger, will be back.On Friday, the former National Enquirer boss will take the stand for the fourth time this week in Donald Trump’s hush money trial to face a second grilling from the former president’s defense team. Pecker, the former CEO of American Media Inc (AMI), has already t

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Team Trump Fine With Pissing Off MAGA to Compete With Biden

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastWelcome to Trail Mix, your 2024 election sanity guide. See something interesting on the trail? Email me at jake.lahut@thedailybeast.com. To get Trail Mix in your inbox, subscribe here for free.This week, an exploration of how much Trump can run afoul of MAGA and why he would do it. Plus, life after

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FDR’s Grandson: How Trump Warped Roosevelt’s Most Famous Words

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastAbout the authors: James Roosevelt, Jr. is a grandson of President Franklin Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Henry Scott Wallace’s grandfather, Henry A. Wallace, served President Franklin Roosevelt as Secretary of Agriculture, Vice President, and Secretary of Commerce.Pop quiz: Who said t

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What Does Trump Want Most From His Next Veep? Blind Loyalty

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesDonald Trump is set to hold a “major donor retreat” next week in Florida, and it could signal the unofficial start of the presidential veepstakes.According to an invitation obtained by Politico, special guests include “Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Tim Scott of South Carolina and J.D.

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Trump’s Campaign Shifts Strategy for Its Part-Time Candidate

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / GettyListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.Republican operatives have been forced to rework their strategy to deal with Donald Trump’s absence from the campaign trail while he sits in court for his hush money trial in New York.With the former president

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‘Thank You, Goodnight’: A (Very Long) Reminder That Even Jon Bon Jovi Is Mortal

Disney/Hulu“We’re halfway there,” I said to myself at the two-and-a-half-hour mark of Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, a four-part early Christmas gift to hard-core Bon Jovi fans and a ludicrously detailed look at the pop-rock luminary’s career for everyone else.Like the anthemic songs the platinum-selling New Jersey-born singer is known f

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‘The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed’ Is the Sex Comedy You Need to See

Magnolia PicturesAn adult sex comedy that’s also the most amusingly unerotic film of the year, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, which hits theaters April 26, treads into explicit terrain in order to chart the disaffection and confusion of a thirtysomething Brooklynite in search of direction, fulfillment, and companionship.

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Magnolia PicturesAn adult sex comedy that’s also the most amusingly unerotic film of the year, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, which hits theaters April 26, treads into explicit terrain in order to chart the disaffection and confusion of a thirtysomething Brooklynite in search of direction, fulfillment, and companionship. Written and directed by star Joanna Arnow, this bracingly awkward indie—which played at last year’s Cannes, Toronto, and New York film festivals—is a portrait of millennial estrangement and discontent that, despite suffering from sporadic redundancy, strikes a raw cringe-comedy nerve.In New York City’s trendiest borough, Ann (Arnow) lies nude in bed beside Allen (Scott Cohen), an older lover whose eyes stay closed as she begins humping his leg. “I love how you never care if I cum. And you don’t do anything for me,” she announces in a monotone come-hither manner. “It’s so disrespectful and misogynist.” When she gets no response, she drops her head to his chest and asks, “Do you think people can change?” Roused to actively engage with this, Allen merely sighs and states, “I don’t know.” This prompts Ann to resume her dry-humping routine and attendant dirty talk, declaring, “I like how you don’t care if I get off because it’s like I don’t even exist.” This may be true about Allen, but he mostly just comes across as exasperated by his partner’s shtick, staring at her and saying, “Can you not?”Ann tells Allen that he’s the only one she’s seeing but theirs is a decidedly uncommitted relationship, as well as a BDSM one in which she’s the “submissive” and he’s the “master.” During their encounters, Allen has Ann do things like repeatedly suck his nipples and then run to a bedroom wall, or walk over to a dresser, bend over, and spread her cheeks—an act that’s made all the more humiliating by the fact that this positions Ann’s face directly in front of photographs of turn-of-the-20th-century immigrant relatives, whose eyes stare back at her as if asking, “Is this what we struggled for?” Ann, however, is far from a victim in this scenario, since she eagerly seeks such treatment, and her later trysts with other men further reinforce the sense that her sexual proclivities are a means of attaining the power she doesn’t have in any other aspect of her life.Read more at The Daily Beast.

‘Challengers’: The World Has Never Been So Excited to See People Kiss

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/MGMEvery once in a while—in spite of the inferno of lunacy, cruelty, and soul-crushing stress flaming all around—the world resembles one that I still want to live in, that reflects my deepest values and belief in a society that is fundamentally good.By some soul-affirming miracle that’s happening

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‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ Hangs Out With the World’s Most Annoying Kid

Ben Blackall/Paramount+ with ShowtimeHow many little women is Count Alexander Rostov (Ewan McGregor) going to befriend in A Gentleman in Moscow? Alex’s habit of acquainting himself with little girls—this sounds odd, but he’s the one doing it over and over again—has returned in the fifth episode of the season. This man really needs to get some pals

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Jordan Klepper Declares Donald Trump ‘The King of Pettiness’

Comedy CentralThat Donald Trump has a tendency toward pettiness is hardly surprising to those who have been paying attention to the former president’s antics in recent years. (See Exhibits A, B, C, D, and E.) But a late-night outburst on Wednesday attacking Bill Barr has The Daily Show correspondent and this week’s co-host Jordan Klepper declaring

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Emory University’s Philosophy Chair Arrested at Campus Gaza Protest

Reuters/Elijah NouvelageVideo taken by a witness and confirmed by local reporters captured the moment Noëlle McAfee, the chair of Emory University’s philosophy department, was dragged from a pro-Palestine campus protest in handcuffs Thursday evening—as she called on a student to let her peers know she’d been arrested. McAfee, who’s also the preside

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Mitch McConnell Breaks With Trump on Absolute Presidential Immunity

NBC NewsAs the Supreme Court weighs whether Donald Trump is shielded from prosecution for acts committed while president, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he opposes Trump’s view of absolute immunity.McConnell spoke with Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker Thursday for a pre-recorded interview set to air Sunday.During their ta

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Missing Trucker’s Body Found in Field Months After Mysterious Disappearance

GoFundMeThe search for a missing Iowa trucker came to a tragic end Wednesday, with loved ones revealing David Schultz’ body was found lying in a field, his cowboy boots still on and his keys in his pocket—details police used to identify him.Schultz, 53, disappeared without a trace on Nov. 21 in Sac City, Iowa, where his truck was left abandoned, lo

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Jessica Lange Is Thrilling, Even if ‘Mother Play’ on Broadway Isn’t

Joan MarcusLet us be clear: it is mesmerizing, a delicious treat, a little surreal, and utterly thrilling to watch Jessica Lange act on stage in Paula Vogel’s Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions (2nd Stage, to June 16). In this Broadway play, she plays Phyllis, the louche, erratic, loving, and extremely not-loving mother of Carl (Jim Parsons) and

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White House Hits Back at Trump’s Bogus Charlottesville Comparison

Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesDonald Trump’s claim that the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 was less hateful than pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses lately was “repugnant and divisive,” the White House shot back Thursday night.After proceedings in his criminal trial in New York concluded for the day, Trump sa

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Local TV Cameras Capture Passerby’s Fight With California Mayor’s Security Detail

KRON-TVA passerby interrupted a local television interview Tuesday with San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan to start a fight with one of Mahan’s security personnel, leading to an arrest for felony battery on a police officer, among other charges, local media reported.During an interview with KRON, which captured video of the altercation, Mahan was speaking o

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‘Saltburn’ for Real: Meet the Young, Rich ‘Narco-toffs’ Who Party Hard

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty The extraordinary claim by Rebel Wilson that she was invited to a drug-fueled orgy by a minor royal at an LA party was greeted with wry amusement by friends of some hard-partying members of the aristocracy and minor royals this week.Dubbed the “narco-toffs” by their peers, there has always been a sectio

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Megan Thee Stallion’s Ex-Makeup Guru Talks. It’s Not Pretty.

Prince Williams/WireImageFollowing news that Emilio Garcia, a former cameraman for rap star Megan Thee Stallion, is suing the rapper for withholding wages and creating a “hostile work environment,” including forcing him to watch her have sex in a car, another former employee of the rapper has come forward to corroborate some of his claims.Megan The

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High School AD Framed Principal With Fake AI-Generated Racist Audio: Cops

Wikimedia CommonsA Maryland high school athletic director was arrested Thursday after police said he used artificial intelligence to generate a fake audio clip of a principal making racist and antisemitic remarks—an alleged frame-job believed to have been in retaliation after the school official opened a probe into him. Dazhon Darien was arrested a

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How Fox News Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Michael Avenatti

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyOnce upon a time Fox News gleefully mocked its cable-news rivals for their breathless promotion of disgraced former Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti, who was once hyped as Donald Trump’s “worst nightmare” and even floated as a possible presidential candidate.Now that the convicte

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CAIR Calls On MSNBC to Ban ADL Boss Over ‘Iranian Proxies’ Remark

JP Yim/GettyThe Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling for MSNBC to ban Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt from its airwaves over recent comments he made about college students protesting against the war in Gaza.During an appearance last Friday on Morning Joe, Greenblatt railed against the pro-Palestinian protests ragin

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Weepy Weinstein Can’t Wait to Return to NYC

Anthony DelMundo/NY Daily News via GettyThe news that Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape conviction was overturned left his victims and #MeToo advocates reeling in disgust. But the disgraced Hollywood mogul was so happy he cried tears of joy.And now the 72-year-old, who has a host of medical problems that go far beyond his infamously deformed genital

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Columbia Professor Says He Was Racially Targeted by School’s Security

Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesA professor at Columbia University said he was the victim of targeted harassment from campus security officers after the school beefed-up safety protocols in response to the ongoing pro-Palestinian encampment.Dr. Carl Hart, a psychology professor at Columbia University, spoke to The Daily Beast about an “explosive in

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USC Cancels Graduation After Firestorm Over Pro-Palestine Valedictorian’s Speech

Wally Skalij/Getty ImagesFirst it canceled a valedictorian’s speech. Then it removed all non-university-affiliated speakers from the lineup. Now, in the latest axe to fall on the University of Southern California’s graduation festivities, the school will no longer hold its main commencement ceremony for the thousands of graduates and guests it had

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Enquirer Chief Testifies He Was Told Stormy’s Trump Story Was ‘True’

Nordin Catic/GettyMaking a deal with a porn star who said she slept with Donald Trump was a step too far even for tabloid king David Pecker, he testified on Thursday. The American Media Inc. (AMI) chief told jurors he had grave concerns that buying her story in a “catch-and-kill” scheme to protect the future president could potentially sully the Na

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Judge Upholds Trump’s $83 Million Defamation Verdict

Reuters/Brendan McDermidA federal judge in New York upheld a defamation verdict against Donald Trump, keeping him on the hook for the $83 million he owes E. Jean Carroll, the writer who accused him of sexual assault.Trump had motioned to receive a new trial, but Judge Lewis Kaplan rebuffed that effort, determining nothing was wrong with the first o

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Supreme Court Justices’ Pro-Trump Immunity Arguments Make Zero Sense

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyAfter an astonishing oral argument session before the Supreme Court, it seems highly likely that there is at least some support for the former president’s position that a president can commit crimes while in office, even ones designed to help them remain in office. And what is the reason

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Weinstein Can’t Wait to ‘Tell His Story’ at Retrial, Lawyer Says

ReutersHarvey Weinstein has been “dying to tell his story” for years—and he wants to do it on the witness stand.Hours after the New York Court of Appeals issued a bombshell ruling overturning Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, his defense lawyers took a victory lap outside of Manhattan Criminal Court to praise the decision that marks “a great day fo

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