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President Joe Biden is racing into yet another battleground state

Governor Gavin Newsom took to social media over the weekend to announce that California’s tourism is at “an all-time high," while on top of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Members of an Anti-Israel encampment at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., apparently called for the beheadings of school administrators.

Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for May 8, 2024.

The Constitution is not determined by the founders, judges, or even Supreme Court justices. We still get to decide what it should mean.

Leaving out the Reconstruction Amendments just doesn’t work for modern America.

Kentanji Brown Jackson joined the Supreme Court with a big idea.

You can’t understand our profoundly unique relationship to our founding text without understanding this.

This term, it might get even worse.

I carried a musket. I housed soldiers. I felt patriotic! And I learned a lot.

What now?

This fall, Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce will be seen playing a character on Ryan Murphy’s latest horror series.

The move came as D.C.’s police chief and mayor are scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill about police’s previous refusal to move on the demonstrators.

For those who are struggling to get enough sleep, the ABCs may be the key to getting more Zs. Experts weigh in on the effectiveness of a simple sleep hack.

John Lamparski/Getty ImagesKristi Noem has spent the past few weeks fighting a firestorm of criticism about the contents of her new book—the one in which she boasts about murdering her pet dog, Cricket, in a gravel pit, discusses botching the execution of a goat, and dishes details on a dubious meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.So she’ll probably be somewhat relieved that Amazon appears to have imposed a limit on reviews for No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forward, which was published Tuesday. The online retail giant said it had “noticed unusual reviewing activity” on the book and therefore restricted the reviews, which are now completely invisible on the memoir’s page as of Wednesday morning—though reports about what was being said before the restriction came into force will be difficult reading for the South Dakota governor.Goodreads, the Amazon subsidiary where bookworms share their literary recommendations and reviews, has similarly imposed “temporary limitations on submitting ratings and reviews” of Noem’s book. “This may be because we’ve detected unusual behavior that doesn’t follow our review guidelines,” an explanatory note reads when attempting to add a review as of Wednesday morning.Read more at The Daily Beast.

After catching a monster-sized, 101-pound blue catfish in the Ohio River, teen Jaylynn Parker has officially received the Ohio state record after landing in the fish on April 7.

Former USMNT member and current Fox Sports analyst Stu Holden explained why he believes the Paris Olympics for the women's national team is crucial to reassert dominance.

The widow of comedian Bob Saget rushed to social media to wish her new beau a happy birthday -- making it the first post of them together on Instagram.

A cargo aircraft has made an emergency landing at Istanbul Airport after its front landing gear failed

Two people and their dog have been killed after their mobile home exploded in the middle of the night, police said.

Temperatures make a run toward 90 degrees today. Some storms could be strong with heavy downpours tomorrow.

The IDF claim to have captured the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing on May 7 as they plan to send a delegation to Cairo for continued ceasefire talks with Hamas. The move is an attempt to put more pressure on Hamas in negotiations, a source told CNN.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, comedic actor Jon Lovitz knocked Democrats for their growing opposition towards Israel in the months following the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas.

Huy Fong Foods said it was halting its Sriracha sauce production until after Labor Day. Experts said the blame lies on a severe drought in Mexico.

China lifted its one-child policy nearly a decade ago. A growing number of couples aren't having any.

The latest word game from "The New York Times" has become a viral hit since its release last summer.

Kate's 2023 cycle competition in Wales with her husband Prince William has featured in a new viral video.

The ousted GOP incumbent previously described her county as "very conservative."

"On a day meant for remembrance, Ukraine was hit by a severe missile and drone attack," Ukraine's defense ministry said.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty images/ReutersOld (internet) habits die hard.When The Daily Beast revealed in January that Rep. Jamaal Bowman had promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories on his blog while working as a public school principal, the New York Democrat maintained it was just a bygone phase, and that his days of marinating in the nether-swamps of online paranoia were long over. But his personal YouTube account, where he continued to follow new channels and create playlists as recently as last month, indicates his taste for fringe content has endured into his tenure on Capitol Hill.Bowman’s page, which uses his longtime screen name “Inner Peace” and features his image and videos from the middle school he once led, subscribes to dozens of bewildering and bizarre accounts—including known Russian and Chinese disinfo peddlers, flat earthers, musings about UFOs and “signs you’re being prepared to cross to the new earth,” a U.S.-born Muslim influencer who killed a German citizen and provoked attacks on American businesses in Egypt, and many arcane online realms in between.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photo by Jennifer Clasen / HBOThe last time Nikki Glaser was on The Last Laugh podcast, our conversation ended up producing material for her stand-up act. Now, in her return to the show, she apologizes for throwing me “under the bus” before sharing even more unfiltered thoughts about her objections to motherhood, her struggles with suicidal thoughts, and the very tricky balance between self-censorship and saying something she knows could get her “canceled”—all of which are integral to her latest HBO special Someday You’ll Die.The comedian also reveals her approach to roasting Tom Brady at Netflix’s epic live event last weekend; explains why she decided to leave it all on the table with her jokes about Ted Cruz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and other political figures while guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live; and shares how she’s feeling about turning 40 next month.Before we can talk about her new special, we have to clear the air about the moment in her previous special, Good Clean Filth, when she directly called out the headline that topped her first appearance on this podcast: “Nikki Glaser Would Rather Be Fuckable Than Funny.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

A 34-year-old Idaho man has been imprisoned for at least 30 years after "purposely" trying to spread HIV through sexual contact with both men and teenage boys.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyA lyrical feud that began simmering between megastar rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar two months ago has, within the past short week, escalated into all-out war, with Drake suggesting in his latest releases that Kendrick tried to cover up allegations of committing violence against one of his partners. Kendrick, on the other hand, has perhaps gone even further in suggesting that Drake is a pedophile who keeps “sex offenders...on a monthly allowance” at his self-founded record label OVO Sounds. And these are just a small proportion of the bombs that Kendrick and Drake (real name Aubrey Drake Graham) have lobbed at one another via the six new songs dropped since April 30 (four are by Kendrick; two by Drake). Rap stars publicly beefing with one another in the form of diss tracks—songs written exclusively to criticize or insult a rival—is a well-established tradition, and the best diss tracks can be measured by how willing the artist is to really go there. Read more at The Daily Beast.

April 2024 was the hottest April on record. It was also the Earth’s 11th consecutive month of record-breaking heat.

Everett Collection“I was always moaning about the original film, because there was no real joy in it,” Ringo Starr recalls to The Daily Beast of the 1970 documentary film Let It Be, which was released just weeks after news of the Beatles’ split had hit the press.Since Peter Jackson’s Get Back documentary premiered on Disney+ in 2021, even the most casual Beatles fan knows what Starr is talking about. The Let It Be film and album were a dismal affair for all involved. Salvaged from the ashes of Paul McCartney’s idea for the Beatles to “get back,” literally, to their roots by writing and recording a new album, the nearly 60 hours of footage filmed by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg during January 1969 chronicled the end of the greatest creative collaboration of the last century.But Let It Be got only a limited theatrical release in 1970, after which it remained unavailable to see for decades. Now, at long last, a restored version arrives on Disney+ this week.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Republicans are keeping the pressure on NPR and CPB after a senior editor at the former alleged a partisan bias in the newsroom that affected coverage.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Apple TV+Dark Matter is the second Apple TV+ series in the past two and a half months to revolve around quantum entanglements, flip-side doppelgangers, and intertwined multiverses, as well as to initially let viewers get out ahead of its central mystery. Yet unlike the listless Constellation, writer Blake Crouch’s adaptation of his own 2016 novel is a descent down a what-if rabbit hole that continually ups the head-spinning ante. Mining its now-familiar conceit for maximum reality-warping madness, such that every new twist builds logically and crazily from its last, this nine-part drama, premiering May 8, is a superior slice of small-screen science fiction. It’s a series that knows exactly what it wants to be and where it wants to go—the two precise things that elude its protagonist, who winds up at war with himself in ways that are both figurative and loopily literal.(Warning: Minor spoilers ahead.)In modern-day Chicago, Jason (Joel Edgerton) teaches quantum physics at Lakemont College to kids who don’t seem to care much about his lecture on Schrödinger’s Cat and quantum superpositions—a paradox which argues that objects can simultaneously exist in two different states. Jason lives in a cozy home with his art gallery curator wife Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) and their teenage son Charlie (Oakes Fegley), and by all reasonable accounts, they appear to be a close-knit and content clan. Even so, when Jason is encouraged by Daniela to join his old friend Ryan (Jimmi Simpson) at the local bar in order to celebrate Ryan winning a Pavia prize in physics, his old, lingering regret—about giving up his promising research career for quiet, modest domesticity—bubbles to the surface, this despite the fact that Ryan offers Jason a lucrative gig in his forthcoming start-up venture.Read more at The Daily Beast.

“The sky is the limit for him. I see him doing exactly what he wants to do and more.”

Apple TV+As if being a freelancer weren’t hard enough, try being a freelancer chasing down invoice payments halfway around the world, after already getting conned into shelling out thousands of dollars in pursuit of your biggest Tinseltown dreams. That’s the reality that more than 500 people were put through—to varying levels of severity—in the grandiose scam chronicled by Hollywood Con Queen, the new three-episode docuseries dropping on Apple TV+ May 8.What begins as a record of an impressively detailed swindle gnarls itself into a portrait of online deception, mirroring scandals big and large, from the Harvey Weinstein case to something as relatively niche as a recent scam by a disgraced RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant. Hollywood Con Queen is a quick binge that has everything fraud-obsessed viewers could want, as long as one of those things isn’t an overarching point. While the show is a blast to watch, it’s another instance of a docuseries spinning its wheels, needlessly bloating itself to keep its audience engaged. But even though the ending might leave something to be desired, the show’s journey there is compelling, thanks to some novel firsthand documentation and one egocentric enigma behind the whole thing.If you’re familiar with the 2014 Sony hack and its subsequent info leaks—or if you’re a chronically online social media user, hypnotized by her wig at the Challengers premiere—the name Amy Pascal might ring a bell. Pascal is the former chairperson of Sony Pictures Entertainment whose name appeared several times in those leaked documents almost 10 years ago, mostly in an innocuous correspondence with Rooney Mara over a scrapped Girl with the Dragon Tattoo that still haunts me. In 2017, Pascal once again found herself inadvertently at the scene of a crime, when a fraud used Pascal’s name to impersonate the mogul and deceive freelance photographer and videographer Will Strathman. The fake version of Pascal repeatedly lured Strathman to Bali, at his expense, to photograph storyboards for an equally bogus project. It was a months-long process that ended only after Strathman’s father got in touch with Pascal’s people, who told him the harrowing truth: They had received numerous complaints of the same nature.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/HuluGrowing up, Thomas Kail—the Tony award-winning and Emmy-nominated director—loved It’s A Wonderful Life. “We were this Jewish family living in Northern Virginia and my mother loved Jimmy Stewart. That movie was always on,” Kail told The Daily Beast’s Obsessed over Zoom. Though he was unaware that directing was even a job at the time, Kail’s discovery of who made the film—Frank Capra—sent him on a journey to discover what else Capra made, and who inspired him to make films. “It was definitely a gateway,” said Kail.Since finding his passion for theater in his early twenties, Kail has become a prominent stage director, helming musicals like In the Heights, Sweeney Todd, and Hamilton (for which he won a Tony). He’s also directed countless plays, and has broken into television, directing episodes of 2 Broke Girls, Up Here, and the special Grease Live. He also created Fosse/Verdon, which stars his wife Michelle Williams.His latest project—the Hulu limited series We Were the Lucky Ones, tells the incredible true story of the Kurcs, a Jewish family who defied the odds by surviving the events of the Holocaust. Kail served as executive producer, and directed the series premiere and finale, which is now available to stream. The series has received critical acclaim, and even screened at the United Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. “It was a night that will be held in our hearts and never forgotten,” Kail said.Read more at The Daily Beast.

During his visit to Europe, China’s top communist made clear his preference for dealing with the individual—whether Hungary or France—over the collective, such as NATO and the E.U.

Family of Florida teen hopes that felony arrest will be good 'learning experience' for the 'young kids involved' in Boca Bash trash-dumping incident.

Former President Trump's criminal trial reached a fever pitch Tuesday amid salacious testimony from Stormy Daniels that prompted a motion for a mistrial and a scolding from the judge.