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Warner Bros Exec Prompts Guffaws After Announcing Bonkers New HGTV Show
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Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/GettyNEW YORK—The audience at Warner Bros. Discovery’s upfront presentation on Wednesday couldn’t believe the company’s latest reality bet—a new show starring HGTV stars and exes Tarek El Moussa and Christina Hall—so much so that they burst into laughter.WBD’s chairman and CEO of US Networks Kathleen Finch announced the new sh
Victoria’s Secret’s Controversial Fashion Show Will Return This Fall
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Matt WinkelmeyerVictoria’s Secret announced on Wednesday that this fall, the brand’s controversial and iconic Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show will return to the runway after a five year hiatus. In 2019, the show—which, since its first iteration in 1995, could always be relied upon to showcase supermodels clad in lingerie and elaborate costumes—was c
David Copperfield Accused of Sexual Misconduct With Minors in Bombshell Report
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Gary Gershoff/ReutersThe legendary U.S. magician David Copperfield has been accused of sexually harassing and acting inappropriately toward 16 women, The Guardian reported in a bombshell investigation published Wednesday.Among the most shocking allegations was a claim that the 67-year-old illusionist “drugged three women before he had sexual relati
Angie Harmon Sues Instacart Driver Over ‘Unfathomable’ Dog Shooting
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ABC/YouTubeAngie Harmon, the Law & Order and Rizzoli & Isles star who shared last month that a delivery driver shot and killed her dog, has announced that she will be suing both the driver and Instacart for damages.In an interview on Good Morning America on Wednesday, Harmon spilled more details about what happened to her beagle, Oliver, after an I
RFK Jr. Accuses Trump and Biden of ‘Colluding’ to Exclude Him From Debates
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BRANDON BELL/GettyIndependent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. railed against both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, accusing them of “colluding” to keep him from the national debate stage.Shortly after Biden and Trump agreed to meet for a June 27 debate on CNN, Kennedy claimed that his exclusion from t
Fans Are Losing Their Shiz at the (Very Long) ‘Wicked’ Trailer
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Universal PicturesWicked’s first full-length trailer dropped today, and the fans—as they are wont to do—have thoughts. Firstly: How soon can Nov. 27 roll around? We need to see this movie stat. Get time on a broomstick, because it needs to fly.There’s a lot to discuss in this trailer, which is a more fully realized version of the original teaser we
Kansas City Chiefs Kicker Offends Just About Everyone in Conservative Religious Tirade
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Cooper Neill/Getty ImagesKansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker went off on a politically conservative and deeply religious tirade, going after working women, people who identify as LGBTQ+, President Joe Biden, and other Catholics.During his commencement address on Saturday at Benedictine College, a conservative Catholic college in Kansas, Butke
Slovakia’s Prime Minister in ‘Life-Threatening Condition’ After Shooting Attack
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Radovan Stoklasa/ReutersRobert Fico, the populist prime minister of Slovakia, was shot several times in an assassination attempt Wednesday that left him in “life-threatening condition,” officials say.The 59-year-old politician was meeting with supporters in the central Slovak town of Handlova when he was attacked, according to local media reports.
Australia’s Richest Woman Demands Gallery Remove Her Unsightly Portrait
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Reuters and National Gallery of AustraliaMining billionaire Gina Rinehart, Australia’s wealthiest woman, has reportedly launched a campaign to pressure the National Gallery of Australia into removing a portrait of her drafted by the award-winning aboriginal artist Vincent Namatjira.Rinehart reportedly appealed to the gallery herself, demanding the
Sage the Miniature Poodle Achieves Canine Glory at the Westminster Dog Show
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Lucas Boland/USA Today Sports via ReutersAll hail Sage, the immaculately topiaried miniature poodle who was named Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Tuesday night.The 3-year-old from Houston, Texas, became the first female to win the coveted canine title since 2020. Her dramatic victory came at the expense of fan favorite Merce
‘Outer Range’ Season 2 Is Best Used as Background Noise
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Courtesy of PrimeAs far as ideas created under the almighty eye of the streaming algorithm go, “Yellowstone, but make it science fiction” isn’t a terrible one. The challenge here isn’t blending the Western and sci-fi genres: There’s lots of space for things to get weird in the rural West, as many films and TV series—recently, Jordan Peele’s Nope—ha
Giant Manhunt Underway to Find ‘The Fly’ After Deadly Prison Van Ambush
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Alain Jocard/AFP via GettyHundreds of law enforcement officers have been deployed to find a criminal known as “The Fly” and the gunmen who helped him escape from a prison van in France on Tuesday morning in a brazen raid that left two prison officers dead and another three seriously injured.The inmate, 30-year-old Mohamed Amra, was being transporte
OpenAI Co-Founder Who Helped Lead Coup Against Altman Is Officially Leaving
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Amir Cohen/ReutersIlya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist who played a major role in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to push chief executive Sam Altman out of the business last year, is now on the way out of the company himself.The news was confirmed Tuesday both by Sutskever and the ChatGPT maker, which announced his departure in
Trump and Biden Agree to Shock Debate Showdown Next Month
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XIn a marked departure from longstanding norms, President Joe Biden made a novel proposal to debate Donald Trump far earlier than usual—as soon as next month.For weeks, the Trump campaign has been taunting Biden, asserting he wasn’t up for a debate and challenging him to throw down “anytime, any place.”Biden is offering to debate Trump twice, not t
Despite Threats, Biden to Send Another $1B of Weapons to Israel
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Anadolu via Getty The Biden administration is moving ahead with plans to send another $1 billion in weapons and ammo to Israel, according to numerous reports citing congressional officials.The move comes just days after the White House paused a shipment of bombs, citing concerns for civilians in the Gaza city of Rafah. The new package reportedly in
Trump’s Take on Kristi Noem’s Dog-Killing Controversy: ‘She Had a Bad Week’
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AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump weighed in on the furor surrounding Kristi Noem’s book in an interview Tuesday, praising the South Dakota governor as a “terrific person” who “got hit hard” over the memoir’s contents, which included the now infamous revelation that she executed her pet dog, Cricket, in a gravel pit.“She had a bad week,” the former
Trump’s Gold-Plated Plane Clipped a Corporate Jet at Florida Airport, FAA Says
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Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesDonald Trump’s plane clipped a parked corporate jet at West Palm Beach International Airport early Sunday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.The former president’s Boeing 757 had landed at the airport in Florida at around 1:20 a.m. and was taxiing when its winglet hit the rear elevator of the stationary VistaJe
Opinion: America Deserves Every Bit of This Trump Trial Depravity
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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesWhat week are we in on the first (and possibly last) Donald Trump criminal trial? Week 3? Week 4? It’s hard to keep track. One sleepy/farty court day bleeds into another.As I write these words, Trump’s former thug, Michael Cohen, is on the stand. Last week we had Stormy Daniels. The w
‘Afraid’ Queen Camilla Tells King Charles: ‘Slow Down’
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Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero / The Daily Beast / GettyQueen Camilla is among those urging King Charles III to “slow down,” amid ongoing fears about his health and concerns the king might exhaust himself by taking on too many public engagements, thus endangering his chances of success in his battle against cancer.“She has been trying to enco
Anya Taylor-Joy's ‘Furiosa’ Press Tour Is Freaking People Out
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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/Warner Bros.Ever since her breakout role in the harrowing horror film The Witch, actress Anya Taylor-Joy has stood out as not only a talent to watch, but a formidable, unflappable presence. Maybe that’s part of why her latest interviews surrounding George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max
Mae Martin’s Sexy Inside Joke With Brett Goldstein Got ‘Really Out of Hand’
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Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty Live from the Netflix Is a Joke Fest in Los Angeles, comedian Mae Martin returns to The Last Laugh podcast to share stories about making out with Ted Lasso’s Brett Goldstein on stage, making Jon Stewart laugh on John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA, and the exhilarating feeling when a new stand-up b
Opinion: NYU Should Rename Center Funded by Trump Donor for This Hero
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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/FDNYThe words John A. Paulson Center in big white letters outside a $1.2 billion behemoth on the New York University campus deliver an unfortunate lesson: If a hedge-fund billionaire donates enough money, he can secure an agreement to have a building named after him regardless of his values.I
They Tried to Make an Amy Winehouse Biopic. We Said ‘Zzz.’
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Courtesy of Focus FeaturesFor as much as has been said about director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black—it’s exploitative, it’s too tame, the on-set photos captured during filming were already disgracing its subject’s legacy—there is ironically not much to harp on about Johnson’s film at all. It’s not because Back to Black is
Nobody’s Buying Camila Cabello’s Rebrand
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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/YouTubeOne week, the internet loathes Camila Cabello. The next, she’s It Girl of the Year. No one can decide if Cabello is cool or drool—although Cabello herself is dedicated to this edgier hyperpop reinvention heading into her upcoming fourth studio album C,XOXO, set to release June
Furious House Democrats Target Trump’s Alleged Dinner With Oil Executives
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Michael M. Santiago/ReutersHouse Democrats furious over reports of Donald Trump’s apparent offer to oil executives over a Mar-a-Lago dinner last month that if they raised $1 billion for his campaign, he would slash environmental regulation once back in office, have launched an investigation.First reported The Washington Post, sources said Trump’s d
Caitlin Clark Sets the Wrong Kind of Record in Her WNBA Debut
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Elsa/Getty ImagesCaitlin Clark set a record on Tuesday in her first regular-season WNBA game—just not the kind the rookie sensation was hoping for.The Indiana Fever guard notched 10 turnovers, the most in a debut game in league history.She did notch a solid 20 points—a team high that made her just the third WNBA player to score 20 or more in their
Driver Charged After Collision With Migrant Worker Bus Kills 8
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GoFundMeAuthorities in Florida arrested the driver of a pickup truck that slammed into a bus carrying dozens of migrant workers early Tuesday, killing eight and sending more than 40 others to area hospitals.Bryan Maclean Howard, 41, was charged with eight counts of D.U.I. manslaughter, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.The bus, carrying rough
Jan. 6 Cop Harry Dunn Loses Crowded Maryland House Primary
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Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesFormer Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn defended the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 and dreamed of returning four years later as a congressman. Tuesday, that dream crumbled when Dunn lost the Democratic nomination for a House seat in Maryland.In Tuesday’s primary, Maryland state Sen. Sarah Elfreth was pro
Capitol Rioter Loses His Bid to Return as a Member of Congress
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Will Price, West Virginia Legislative Photography via APDerrick Evans filmed himself strolling the halls of Congress as a member of the pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021. Three years later, the ultraconservative West Virginian hoped to return to Capitol Hill as a full-fledged congressman.On Tuesday, however, those
Insurgent Dem Knocks Off Wealthy Wine Mogul to Win Senate Primary
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Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesAfter a bitter primary battle against a wealthy wine mogul, Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks was projected to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maryland, laying the table for a bruising match-up with former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R).She was projected by the Associated