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Kristi Noem Cries ‘Fake News’ After Disastrous Interview on CBS
Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesGov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota would like to speak to the manager.The Republican took to social media on Sunday to complain that she’d been unfairly grilled by Margaret Brennan in a catastrophic appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation hours earlier, alleging that her Democratic counterparts would never have been subjected t
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Trump VP Hopeful Tim Scott Repeatedly Refuses to Say He’d Accept a 2024 Loss
NBCSen. Tim Scott (R-SC) clearly wants to be Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee, enough that he is willing to discard the 2024 election if Trump loses—despite voting to certify his 2020 loss.Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker on Sunday pressed Scott on whether he’d accept the 2024 election results if the Republican ticket loses, noting t
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Sen. Mark Kelly: Kari Lake’s Glock Comments ‘Could Get People Killed’
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesSen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) raised the alarm over GOP senate hopeful Kari Lake’s suggestion that voters “strap on a Glock” to prepare for the election season, saying it has the potential to incite violence.“It’s dangerous,” Kelly told Kristen Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press. “What Kari Lake said could res
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Kristi Noem Sits Down for Brutal CBS Grilling Over Bizarro Book Anecdotes
CBS NewsKristi Noem capped off an embarrassing week with a brutal CBS Face the Nation appearance, in which host Margaret Brennan unrelentingly grilled the South Dakota governor on the controversies surrounding her forthcoming book.At one point in the book, titled No Going Back, Noem recalled meeting North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, claiming he “u
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Katt Williams Takes on Reparations and Hunter Biden in Live Netflix Special
Clifton Prescod/NetflixINGLEWOOD, California—Given a live global platform Saturday night by Netflix, Katt Williams closed out an electric hour of comedy punctuated by multiple audio/visual cues with a call for the United States to pay out reparations for enslaving generations of Black Americans, and citing our eager willingness to fund other nation
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Prince William Is ‘Worried’ About ‘Caged Lion’ King Charles: Report
Suzanne Plunkett/Pool/ReutersHarry and Charles to reunite?Prince Harry and King Charles could reunite on Wednesday, when Harry is set to attend a celebration to mark the Invictus Games’ 10th anniversary at St Paul’s Cathedral, and Charles the first Buckingham Palace garden party of the year, the Sun reports. Both events are set to end around 6pm, a
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VIDEO: Houston Cops Rescue Man and Dogs Trapped in 10 Feet of Water
Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via GettyAs flooded southeast Texas braces for more rain on Sunday, Houston police have released bodycam video showing members of its marine unit rescuing a man and three dogs.The group was trapped in 10 feet of water in a trailer park close to where the San Jacinto River enters Lake Houston until first responders l
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Hunt Underway For Infant Abducted From Double Murder Scene
New Mexico State PoliceNew Mexico police are hunting for a 10-month-old baby girl who they believed was abducted by the person who killed her mother and another woman and left her 5-year-old sister wounded.An Amber Alert was issued for Eleia Maria Torres after the grim discovery at Ned Houk Park in Clovis on Friday afternoon.Police found the two wo
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Kristi Noem’s New Dog Pleads for His Life on SNL
NBC/screengrabSaturday Night Live has just returned from a three-week break, and the big story everyone was hoping they’d cover was Kristi Noem and her poor dog, Cricket. South Dakota’s Republican governor (and VP hopeful) sparked viral outrage recently when she announced in her novel, with seemingly little prompting, that she’d once murdered her 1
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SNL Takes Aim at Pro-Palestine Campus Protesters in Cold Open
NBC / SNL It wasn’t completely unexpected when this week’s Saturday Night Live focused its cold open on the massive wave of student protests throughout America, but the exact direction it chose was still a surprise. Rather than a news report or a sketch involving protester characters themselves, SNL chose to open up with a fake talk show.Called “Co
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Nick Fuentes: ‘I Totally See Myself Accidentally Killing My Wife’
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.White supremacist and proud incel Nick Fuentes has shockingly suggested he may accidentally kill his wife—that is if he ever finds a woman who would voluntarily choose to marry him.“I totally
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Is Bari Weiss Embarrassed by the Intellectual Dark Web?
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesIt’s been six years since Bari Weiss published a long, glossy, and much-discussed New York Times profile, titled, “Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web.” The subheading declared an “alliance of heretics is making an end run around the mainstream conversation” and asked: “Sh
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How Stan Smith Became Hip Hop’s Most Unlikely Icon
Courtesy of Uninterrupted“I think every community embraced that shoe: hustlers, drug dealers,” Pharrell Williams says near the beginning of the new documentary Who Is Stan Smith?, about the legendary tennis star whose Adidas sneaker bearing his name (and face) became a cultural touchstone across three generations and counting. “If we’re gonna be re
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The GOP Stealth Plan to Win Over Asian American Voters
AFP via Getty ImagesWhen The Daily Beast reported on the plans to make the Republican National Committee “white again” in March, the party was quick to deny that it was deprioritizing voters of color—even though the committee was scrapping plans to open new minority outreach centers.Since then, there’s been little word about what exactly Republican
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J.Lo’s Career Identity Crisis Needs a New ‘Monster-in-Law’
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Everett CollectionWelcome to modern rom-com week at The Daily Beast’s Obsessed! In honor of two big romance releases this week—The Fall Guy and The Idea of You—we’re celebrating everything we love about the last 15 years of romantic comedies.Jennifer Lopez has the work ethic of 100 people, 15 hor
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Stylist Icon Law Roach Listens to Critics. Just Don’t Come for Zendaya.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesLaw Roach is no stranger to controversial looks. Whether the renowned celebrity stylist and image architect is showing up bulge-first to the 2023 CFDA awards or dressing his longtime client Zendaya in ostentatious tennis couture for her Challengers press tour, Roach is unafraid of ris
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New Claim Puts WaPo Boss Will Lewis in Crosshairs of Murdoch Scandal
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesActions taken in 2011 by senior executives of Rupert Murdoch’s London tabloids, following revelations about industrial-scale hacking in their newsrooms, have come back to bite them.New reporting in the British magazine Prospect, by Nick Davies, who first revealed the criminal activity i
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The Mounting List of Global VIPs Who Detest Elon Musk
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesElon Musk is flying high across the world stage making business deals, getting high profile photo-ops, and making enemies out of world leaders along the way.Musk, the billionaire chief executive of Tesla and owner of X, jetted off to China earlier this week to meet with Chinese Premier
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Kristi Noem Killed Her Dog—Then Ruined This GOP Fundraiser
Mandel Ngan/GettyA GOP fundraiser in Colorado that was supposed to be headlined by Kristi Noem has been scrapped because of threats triggered by the revelation that she shot a dog she “hated” years ago.In a statement posted to social media, Jefferson County Republican Party Chair Nancy Pallozzi said the group thought “the timing was perfect” when t
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The Colin Farrell ‘Sugar’ Twist Was Called the Worst Ever. We Think It’s Genius.
Apple TV+(Warning: Spoilers ahead!)Colin Farrell is an alien. Okay, the actual Colin Farrell is not an alien (as far as I know), but he plays one in the Apple TV+’s neo-noir Sugar. Considering the streamer’s penchant for space-related science-fiction stories, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. However, the blue-face bombshell at the end of the sixt
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Marlon Wayans Says Weinsteins ‘Raped’ Him With Bad Movie Deal
Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images Doubling down on his belief that it takes offensive material to reach some heights of comedy, Marlon Wayans compared a sour movie deal with the Weinstein brothers to the scores of women who accused Harvey Weinstein of rape and sexual assault.The comments came from an interview with The New York Times’ David Marchese, re
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J.K. Rowling Is So Transphobic Even Elon Musk Wants Her to Shut Up
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesJ.K. Rowling has been on the anti-trans train for years, but her ramblings have gotten so exhausting that even anti-LGBT loudmouth Elon Musk wants her to move on.Replying to a verbose (700+ words!) post by the Harry Potter author from nearly a month ago, Musk voiced his agreement with the general th
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Ted Cruz Is Not Pleased With Comedian Tom Segura’s ‘Motherf*cker’ Story
Win McNamee/Getty ImagesSen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has seen that viral stand-up bit about him, and he’s not laughing.On the most recent episode of Meghan McCain’s podcast ‘Citizen McCain,’ the Republican Senator from Texas got the opportunity to respond to a hilarious story from Tom Segura’s latest Netflix special Sledgehammer, where the stand-up comedia
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Students Won’t Stop Protesting for Palestine, Even During Their Own Graduations
Nic Antaya/Getty ImagesDozens of pro-Palestine student protesters briefly interrupted Saturday’s commencement ceremony at the University of Michigan, according to The New York Times. Students opposing Israel’s deadly military campaign in Gaza, marched toward the stage, shouting “Regents, regents, you can't hide! You are funding genocide!” Other stu
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Bill Maher Blasts AG Merrick Garland for Failing to Prosecute Trump
HBOBill Maher ripped “Attorney Genial” Merrick Garland a new one during Friday night’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher for allowing Donald Trump to continually skirt federal prosecution for his alleged crimes. “And finally, new rule: At the top levels of our federal government, giving a guy a job because he got screwed over for another job, is
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California Man Charged With Sending Death Threats to Fani Willis
Alex Slitz/Getty ImagesA southern California man was charged with sending death threats to Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis over her prosecution of Donald Trump, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Georgia announced Friday.Marc Shultz, 66, of Chula Vista, made his first federal court appearance in San Diego on Thursday
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Francis Ford Coppola Heartbreakingly Dedicates ‘Megalopolis’ Trailer to Late Wife
Instagram/Francis Ford CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola has unveiled the first teaser for his upcoming sci-fi film Megalopolis, dedicating the release to his late wife Eleanor.In a post made to Instagram, Coppola celebrated his wife’s birthday while introducing the world of Megalopolis. Eleanor was a documentary filmmaker and mother to Sofia, Roman, and
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Drake and Kendrick Lamar Threaten to Go Nuclear in Newest Diss Tracks
Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty ImagesDrake and Kendrick Lamar drifted ever closer to mutually assured destruction on Friday, as the two rappers went nuclear in a set of dueling diss tracks.The two rappers have been beefing since March, when Lamar hopped onto a Future and Metro Boomin’ track called “Like That,” to push back on Drake and J. Col
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Caitlin Clark Shines in Her WNBA Debut for Indiana
Gregory ShamusCaitlin Clark has starred in her WNBA debut game Friday night for the Indiana Fever as she scored a team-high of 21 points. Despite the Fever losing 79-76 to the Dallas Wings, Clark put on a fine display scoring a deep 3-pointer for her first basket as a professional just a minute into the game.The two-time NCAA women’s basketball pla
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Brittney Griner Describes Life Behind Bars As ‘Putin’s Pawn’ in New Book
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty imagesBrittney Griner, the 6-foot-9-inch WNBA player known for having broken barriers in women’s basketball, including for being the first openly gay athlete to score a Nike deal, recounts the miserable 10 months she spent imprisoned in Russia in her new book Coming Home, which she wrote al
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