Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesPastel pink and soft vignette filters, images featuring thin girls with long eyelashes, and good grades and skincare products: These are all manifestations in the world of “Wonyoungism,” a wellness trend growing rapidly online among K-pop fans that, amidst the milky images of bows and strawberries, has faced criticism for promoting eating disorders.The term Wonyoungism itself derives from the K-pop idol Jang Wonyoung, a member of the girl group IVE. At 19 years old, Jang boasts more than 11 million followers on Instagram, and has become something of a platonic ideal for fans online. Wonyoung is confident, smart, pretty, sophisticated, according to those following her; so much so that she has evolved past a typical example of celebrity idolatry and into a theology unto herself. Using phrases like “The Wonyoung Effect” and “Wonyoung Motivation,” evangelical fans online promote a message of self-improvement centered around the singer, telling each other that by making specific lifestyle changes, they can look and, more importantly, feel as seemingly confident as Jang.The trend’s first boom happened last year, after an audio clip from an interview with Jang went viral. “I don’t care—you are you, I am me,” she says, a message that drives home two key tenets of the lifestyle: confidence and effortlessness. Inspired by the clip, the hashtag #wonyoungism bloomed among the fandom soon after; now, it currently has over 292,300 posts on TikTok, and many users post in the comments about how following the singer’s maxim—and the ways developed by fans to embody it—has changed their lives.Read more at The Daily Beast.

An upstate New York District Attorney refused to stop for police when she was caught speeding — and instead drove back to her house and called the police chief to complain about the “a–hole” officer who pursued her home, bodycam footage shows. Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley admitted that she was driving 55 mph...

When Francisco Lindor learned Jackson Holliday was optioned back to the minors by the Orioles while in the midst of a terrible start, it hit home.

A freight train carrying gasoline and propane derailed and caught fire Friday near the Arizona-New Mexico state line prompting an immediately shutdown of the busy interstate.

Even before Gerrit Cole went down with an injury in the middle of spring training, there were some questions about the Yankees’ rotation. 

The trade rumors are flying about 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel after San Francisco selected receiver Ricky Pearsall with their first-round pick on Thursday night. 

The Jets' newest receiver, Malachi Corley, already seems to be receiving a warm welcome to Mr. Rodgers’ neighborhood. 

Clippers star Kawhi Leonard only plays 25 minutes, finishing with nine points and four turnovers, in a Game 3 to the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night.

The message: “Please Let The Coach & GM Pick This Year.”

The Islanders' reaction to what is likely to be a third straight season of failing to get past the first round will tell how serious they really are.

President Biden was criticized by Fox News host Sean Hannity for his interview with "woke" shock jock Howard Stern, as well as other gaffes he made this week.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/Everett CollectionAccording to its own self-mythology, the entertainment industry is something far grander, more poetic and noble, than just a titanic money-maker. Our beloved movies and TV shows—Hollywood’s “products,” if we must call them that—are the sum of our cultural imagination, collective dreams that mesmerize and inspire.Unfortunately, that sentiment rarely seems to last when studios start looking at their balance sheets. Just ask the filmmakers behind Coyote vs. Acme.Last November, The Wrap and Rolling Stone reported that Warner Bros. Discovery planned to shelf Coyote vs. Acme—a live action/animated comedy starring Will Forte and the Looney Tunes character Wile E. Coyote—in exchange for a tax write-off. Days later, The Wrap claimed that, thanks to public outcry, the studio had changed its tune and invited the filmmakers to shop their project around to potential buyers. By February, however, the same publication reported that the company wanted $75-$80 million for the film and had rejected “handsome” offers from companies including Netflix, Amazon, and Paramount without allowing them to make counter-offers.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Grace Kim opened a four-stroke lead in the LPGA Tour’s JM Eagle LA Championship, shooting a five-under 66 in tricky conditions at Wilshire Country Club.

Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images“Bro, I already saw Tyler at Flog Gnaw,” said a guy dressed in a flowery button-down to his friend, also in a flowery button-down. Tyler, the Creator, who put on his own festival at Dodger Stadium last fall, burst through a wall, kicking off his Coachella headlining set with the buzzing bass of “IGOR’S THEME.” But by the time I met up with my friend in the crowd, the pair had already left to see Dom Dolla, the DJ playing at the Sahara stage.In a way, my friends-in-floral summarized what many, including myself, hypothesized during the lead up to this year’s fest. My doubts were never about whether Coachella would provide festival goers with exceptional music or a weekend of sweaty, sunny, sand-filled fun. My concerns were about whether this festival would matter as much as it had before.Even with a lineup of EDM rarities, ‘90s nostalgia reunions, rising pop stars, and artists from around the globe, Coachella lost a little luster without a shocking, triumphant headliner. Rumors of low ticket sales called the festival’s status into question. Headliners don’t shape the attendees’ day-to-day experience, but they do give Coachella its ubiquity and induce FOMO outside the desert. On a personal level, I, like the majority of the attendees, had a blast (Favorite sets: Militarie Gun, Chappell Roan, Tyler, the Creator, and Justice). But at the same time, it was the end of Coachella’s influence in the larger music culture.Read more at The Daily Beast.

ANDREW HARNIKThe retired cop who became the face of D.C. Metropolitan Police brutalized at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 has launched a private security business with a name evoking the attack—and is already providing services to a campaign of the congressman who helped spearhead the subsequent impeachment of President Donald Trump, as well as “major political organizations,” the pol told The Daily Beast.Federal Election Commission records show the campaign of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) paid nearly $50,000 between August and February to Lower West Terrace LLC, a venture launched by Officer Michael Fanone and bearing the name of the entrance he defended on the infamous vote certification date.As one of the managers of the second Trump impeachment trial, Swalwell committed to the congressional record Fanone’s account of the injuries he sustained during the election deniers’ bloody assault on the seat of government: Trump supporters swarmed him on the lower west terrace, tased him until he suffered cardiac arrest, and pummeled him into unconsciousness.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Un alto cargo político de Hamás dijo a The Associated Press que el grupo insurgente islámico está dispuesto a acordar una tregua de cinco años o más con Israel y a deponer las armas y convertirse en un partido político si se establece un estado palestino independiente en las fronteras previas a 1967.

Jeenah Moon/Pool via Reuters Donald Trump knows how to play to the audience, whether it’s the deluded millions of his MAGA base or the jurors in the first criminal trial of a former president.That was clear on Friday when Trump seized a moment in his criminal trial to seemingly comfort a witness—his still-loyal ex-assistant Rhona Graff.The jury had just finished listening to supermarket tabloid sleaze David Pecker testify about what prosecutors say was a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election by paying hush money to kill potentially damaging stories about Trump.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Former Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) announced Friday that he is ending his bid to represent Michigan in the US Senate, a move celebrated by former President Donald Trump, whom Meijer voted to impeach.  “I got into this race because I believed I had the strongest chance of winning in November to work to right this...

The students had been among more than 100 who were suspended for participating in an encampment at Columbia University.

El presidente Joe Biden viajó el jueves al norte del estado de Nueva York para festejar los planes de la empresa Micron Technology de construir un parque industrial de fábricas de chips para computadoras, posibilitado en parte por el apoyo del gobierno.

Three of the vandals simultaneously turned against the direction of traffic and the pursuing car, leaving a single man to take the fall.

J.D. Martinez made a solid debut and drilled his first few hits with the Mets, but he could not flip a switch for the offense against the Cardinals.

Beyond this year, Fashanu could be the long-term answer at left tackle. Smith only has a one-year contract and the Jets’ last No. 11 pick in 2020, Mekhi Becton, is now on this franchise’s list of busts in its history. 

The governor floated sending the Biden administration a letter about "persecuting a state."

The Columbia University Senate voted on a resolution to investigate the school's leadership amid anti-Israel protests that have been going on for more than a week.

The Giants went into the second day of the NFL Draft with an obvious need for a cornerback. 

StarzAs much fun as Mary & George can be, what with all of Julianne Moore’s plotting and perversion as the devious Mary Villiers, it surprises when it reminds us that a soul is lurking somewhere beneath all of the show’s delectable lechery. After a bout of orgies and murder in last week’s episode, the limited series returns tonight with an installment that’s slightly more tempered, though no less packed with sex and manslaughter—you’ve got to give the people what they want! Episode 4 sees the show continuing to operate at a level higher than contemporary series ever reach. It’s a deftly written, droll chapter in the life of Mary and her second-born son George (Nicholas Galitzine), one that pushes the show past its halfway point, but still promises plenty more action to come.Episode 4 opens in 1617, just before the show’s normal timeline, with two lowly gravediggers in Scotland tasked to dig up something from an unmarked grave. The men unearth a human heart below the soil, and, shocked, wonder what kind of demented man this organ has been passed down from. The episode makes no secret of that, cutting immediately to a sight of King James I (Tony Curran) and George in the king’s bed, naked. Why James is preoccupied with getting his hands on someone else’s ventricles and vessels we don’t yet know, but a bare heart resting six feet underground doesn’t bode well for George. James stirs and lifts George’s arm around him, stroking his soft skin, before bringing George’s forearm to his mouth and biting it like a hungry dog.When Mary meets George at the royal palace’s grounds, she balks at George’s bite mark, while George likens the force of the king’s nibble to a hunting terrier. The king approaches, overhearing their conversation, and asks who the terrier among them is. Mary, always quick on her feet, responds, “Me!” and begins to bark and growl like a dog. She’s happy to embarrass herself in this fashion if the king can remain unaware of their discussion, but when James invites Mary to toss a mouse at his prized hawk and the hawk has no response, she recoils. Whether or not the bird takes any interest in the rodent is no concern of the king’s, but Mary reacts to any social blunder like a life-threatening injury.Read more at The Daily Beast.

"Nothing ever ends."

Fox News host Jesse Watters says the Biden administration's efforts to hide President Biden's weaknesses are no longer a secret Friday on “Jesse Watters Primetime."

A federal judge in New York dismissed a sexual assault against Aerosmith's Steven Tyler for good, meaning the plaintiff can't file a suit over the claims again.

Desde que era universitario, Brad Jobling luchaba con su peso: cuando tenía unos 30 años pesaba unos 70 kilos (155 libras), pero llegó a tener 100 (220 libras).

“We can't afford to get this wrong—again,” Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, tells TIME.

The Rangers finally got it. 

For more than 200 days after Hersh Goldberg-Polin was taken hostage by Hamas on Oct.7, his mother hadn't heard his voice or seen video that proved he was alive. But that changed this week, when Hamas released a propaganda video showing Hersh – an Israeli-American – alive with his left arm amputated. CBS News' Debora Patta sat down with his mother, Rachel Goldberg-Polin, to ask about the "overwhelming and emotional" moment she saw that video and how she hopes all parties involved can reach a compromise to end the suffering.

Time heals all wounds, honey.

An Orlando, Florida, man has been charged after DEA agents seized 150 pounds of meth and additional cocaine, fentanyl and pills from two of his homes.

Los alimentos y bebidas azucarados de las cadenas de restaurantes y cafeterías de Nueva York deberán incluir en unos meses etiquetas de advertencia, de acuerdo con una ley que entrará en vigor a finales de este año.

The Oceanside Pier is the longest of its kind on the West Coast and has already been rebuilt five times since it was constructed in 1888.

Officials say sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a man who sped toward them in a vehicle as they were serving a search warrant in a neighborhood on Friday in Memphis, Tennessee

Authorities say a climber is dead and another seriously injured after falling about 1,000 feet while on a steep, technical route on Mount Johnson in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve

A night after adding protection for Aaron Rodgers, the Jets picked up a playmaker.

Belgium said they are working on supplying Ukraine with F-16s before the end of 2024.

Clark was in attendance with some of her new Fever teammates, including star center Aliyah Boston and All-Star guard Erica Wheeler.

Los cuerpos de nueve migrantes hallados en un bote africano frente a la costa norte de la región de Amazonía de Brasil fueron sepultados el jueves en una ceremonia solemne en Belém, capital del estado de Pará.

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastTo the women of the world, I—and many people on TikTok—have a question for you: Would you rather be left in the woods with a man you don’t know, or a bear?It’s an absurd question on the surface. Of course you’d rather be in the woods with a human being rather than a large beastly animal with terrifying teeth and claws that could maul and maim you. At best it could kill you instantly. At worst, it would be a prolonged death a la Grizzly Man, slowly being eaten alive.Bears don’t always stop to kill their prey before they start consuming them, either. Absolutely, no thank you.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Jasson Dominguez has been out of sight since the Yankees left spring training, but the promising young outfielder is making progress back in Tampa, Fla. 

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/XThis week:I’m Heading to the AsylumThe only thing worse than a meme that completely floods your social media timeline is not understanding what in god’s name the meme means. As a burgeoning Old Person, this has become a frustratingly common occurrence. So in between refilling my acid reflux prescription and icing my sore knees, I finally broke down and googled the provenance of the meme that had been assaulting me all week, and now I’m more annoyed than I was when I was just blissfully elderly, clueless, and out of touch.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The United Nations has said Sudanese paramilitary forces are encircling the city of El Fasher in the western Darfur region, and warned that 'an attack would have devastating consequences.'