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Binance Founder Gets 4 Months Behind Bars for Money Laundering Pedro Fiuza/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange has been sentenced to four months in prison for allowing money launderers to operate virtually unchecked on his platform.Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to one count of failing to take required anti-money-laundering measures last November, the same month he resigned from Binance. The company has since agreed to pay a $4.3 billion fine in federal court to settle a lawsuit brought last June by the Commodity Futures and Trading Commission.As he sentenced Zhao, U.S. District Judge Richard A. Jones noted he’d prioritized “Binance’s growth and profits over compliance with U.S. laws and regulations,” according to The Verge.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Scandal-Scarred Ken Paxton Supports His Pal Trump in Court Justin Lane/GettyWhile Melania Trump has steered well clear of her husband’s legal proceedings, the former president had a curious supporter present in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday for his landmark hush-money trial: MAGA-fied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.Paxton, who last month settled felony securities fraud charges by agreeing to fork over nearly $300,000 in restitution for misleading investors in a Dallas-area tech startup, along with a promise to do 100 hours of community service and undergo 15 hours of legal ethics training, was seated in the front row of Courtroom 1530.“With President Trump in NYC to sit through this sham of a trial,” Paxton posted to X, formerly Twitter, prior to his arrival at the Lower Manhattan courthouse. “This trial is a travesty of justice. I stand with Trump.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Trump Being Thrown in Jail for Contempt Could Really Happen Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / GettyThis morning, Justice Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s election interference case in Manhattan, found the defendant in contempt of court. The judge concluded Trump engaged in nine willful violations of prior court orders that sought to preserve the integrity of the criminal proceeding against the former president.While some might have gotten their hopes up that Merchan might jail Trump for his behavior in violation of those orders, thus far he’s only been fined. But that doesn’t mean Trump isn’t in considerable legal jeopardy.It might not take much to push Merchan over the edge, and for Trump to find himself in jail. And that’s exactly what Merchan made clear in today’s decision.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Sec of State Brad Raffensperger Calls Out Larry David for ‘Picking on Georgia’ HBOGeorgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger still has a little bit of a bone to pick with Curb Your Enthusiasm star-creator Larry David over the show’s depiction of his state’s ban on giving voters food or water.In the first episode of Curb’s final season, David invoked Georgia’s newly passed 2021 law as he is shown getting arrested after giving his friend Leon’s aunt a bottle of water as she waited in line to vote. “That’s barbaric, what kinda law is that, are you serious?” David says as he’s being taken away by two cops. The subsequent trial against David’s character extends throughout the show’s final season.During an interview on the New Yorker’s Radio Hour podcast this week, Raffensperger instructed David to “clean up your own house before you start picking on Georgia,” citing New York’s similar state law which also prohibits distributing food and water to waiting voters. He also mistakenly referred to New York as David’s home when he has actually lived in California for decades. Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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King Charles ‘Reinvigorated and Fired Up’ by Public Duties, Sources Say Suzanne Plunkett/Pool/ReutersFriends of King Charles III spoke of their delight today after the king undertook his first full public engagement in several months, an almost hour-long visit to a cancer treatment center in London.One friend said “satisfaction was written all over his face,” and another source said that while the past few months have been “the hardest time of his life” they expected the king to be “reinvigorated and fired up” by being back out among the general public.However, highlighting that Charles is not out of the woods yet, after the engagement Charles went for treatment, understood to be radiotherapy, for his own cancer.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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The Jenna Ortega ‘Miller’s Girl’ Age-Gap Discourse Is Out of Control Zac PopikIf you spend too much time on the internet, it can start to feel like everyone is talking about age gaps all the time—and if they’re not talking about them, they must be solemnly thinking about them. This week, the discourse has regrettably come for one of our most beloved and promising stars, Jenna Ortega. Her latest movie, Miller’s Girl, is trending on Netflix after its release earlier this year; it features a sexual relationship between her character, the ridiculously named “Cairo Sweet,” and her literature professor, played by the much older Martin Freeman.According to various publications, viewers are reeling from the scandalous relationship in this movie—the word “controversial” has really seen its stock rise this week—but, to be honest, normal people on the internet don’t seem to care. So, wherefore all the coverage? Apparently, the alleged furor over this movie has gotten so bad that Martin Freeman is out in the online streets teaching basic media literacy, and yet, I have not seen a single post about this pop up on my timeline organically. Is this what happens when we stop teaching critical thinking in schools, or is the entertainment media world just short on newsworthy topics to cover this week?By all accounts, Miller’s Girl is a trashy throwback thriller of questionable quality that, regardless of its level of accomplishment, should not be taken as an endorsement of student-teacher relationships. That said, it’s unclear how many people are actually sincerely “unsettled” by the film, as a headline in The Independent claimed soon after its January release. Most of the tweets cited in that particular article seem more like social media puffery than actual concern. See: “MARTIN FREEMAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO JENNA ORTEGA” and “I don’t like to think of Freeman having sex with anyone, let alone someone less than half his age. I imagine he is smooth inside his pants, like a Ken doll.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Hakeem Jeffries Swoops In to Save Mike Johnson From ‘Pro-Putin’ GOP Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesHakeem Jeffries, the House minority speaker, and other top Democrats have announced that they will come to the aid of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), agreeing they won’t let the embattled Republican lose his job.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) put forward a motion to vacate Johnson from the speakership over a month ago, in an ultimately fruitless effort to stop the House from passing an aid bill for Ukraine.On Tuesday morning, Jeffries (D-NY), Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA), and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-CA) released a statement declaring their intention to shoot down Greene’s motion, and “turn the page on this chapter of Pro-Putin Republican obstruction.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Fox News Quietly Deletes Hunter Biden ‘Mock Trial’ Special Following Lawsuit Threat DNCC via Getty ImagesFox News appears to be taking Hunter Biden’s lawsuit threat quite seriously.The network has quietly pulled down its six-part “mock trial” series from its digital streaming service Fox Nation after lawyers for the presidential scion warned the network of their intention to sue for defamation.Besides quietly taking down The Trial of Hunter Biden from its streamer, the network also deleted a promotional video promising Fox News viewers an “inside look” at the “mock trial,” which was presided over by former reality-TV star Judge Joe Brown.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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John Mulaney Reveals How Lorne Michaels Helped Scare Him Straight COURTESY OF NETFLIXComedian John Mulaney has had a chaotic past couple of years, having spectacularly fallen apart in the public eye via his rehabilitation for drug and alcohol abuse, the collapse of his marriage to now-ex-wife Anna Marie Tendler and his resurrection, of sorts, via the excellent Netflix comedy special Baby J (2023), in which he dives deeply into his issues with drugs—but stays away from touching the ex-wife stuff. On the latest episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, the talk show launched by David Letterman years after the conclusion of his legendary run of the Late Show, Mulaney shared how a well-timed phone call from Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels kept him in line as he worked towards recovery while in rehab. Mulaney said that Michaels told him: “I knew John Belushi for seven years. I’ve been talking about him for 48 years. That’s the shrapnel that happens when someone goes down like that. John didn’t want to die. He didn’t plan to. Just because it’s a story, just because it’s set in stone like history, people don’t want to die from this.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Drew Barrymore’s Kamala Harris Interview Is the Cringiest Thing You’ll See This Week ParamountKamala Harris stopped by The Drew Barrymore Show on Monday to chat about being the vice president and, perhaps more importantly, a step-mother. In the day since the quick interview, Drew Barrymore has gone viral for inching so close to Harris on the production couch and her plethora of questions about becoming “Momala.”Momala, in case you haven’t heard, is the pet name Harris’ step-children (Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s biological kids) call her. It certainly sounds a whole lot nicer than “step-mother,” which sounds like an antagonist in a Disney princess movie, or anything of that sort. Momala has been around since Harris campaigned for vice president with Joe Biden, but following this interview, the title is really having its moment.“You are a step-mother to Ella and Cole,” Barrymore begins, sounding a little weepy to be chatting with such an influential woman. “I have such an investment in this question, because I too am in a beautiful dynamic.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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I Traveled Solo on a Contiki Group Experience—Here Are My Honest Thoughts Scouted/The Daily Beast/Balate Dorin/iStock.Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission.I vividly recall the terror that crossed my mother’s face when I shared my plan to backpack solo across Europe for a month. She was playing into that typical mom-drama where they think you’re going to die at any moment. For context, I had just graduated college and felt it was the most appropriate time to venture alone and see a little slice of the world. What I didn’t know then was that I was going to be so extremely bored for 75 percent of the trip. I had unknowingly signed myself up to wander aimlessly in a foreign land with nobody to share this amazing experience with. To give some credit to my mother, I even did feel a bit unsafe at times (You were right, Mom!). Okay, and maybe I met a few cool people at the hostels I was staying at or in the pub, but our travel plans never seemed to line up, and so I would eventually be on my own again. Enter the solution: Contiki. Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Weird Russian Stunt Sending Peacocks to the Frontline Backfires Denis Balibouse/ReutersA Russian zoo has attempted to do its part in the country’s war against Ukraine by sending two peacocks to the battlefield to “inspire” troops in intense combat.The Lipetsk Zoo announced the special delivery in a post to the social networking site VK on Tuesday. “For guys in difficult combat situations, the beauty of birds inspires and brings a piece of joy. This is not an advertisement for the zoo, but a gift from the heart. We hope that the beauty of these birds will brighten up soldiers’ everyday life in combat,” the zoo wrote.A brief video shared with the post showed a masked soldier standing in front of an enclosure with the peacocks. He said every soldier would have a chance to gaze at the birds and get a bit of “spiritual peace.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Trump Is Allowed to Attend Barron’s High School Graduation After All Giorgio Viera/AFP via GettyAfter weeks of bellyaching and carrying on about how he would “not be allowed” to take a day off from his criminal hush-money trial to attend his 18-year-old son Barron’s high school graduation, Donald Trump will, in fact, be permitted to go, Judge Juan Merchan said Tuesday. Following the first day of proceedings earlier this month, Trump lambasted Merchan, ranting, “[I]t looks like the judge will not let me go to the graduation of my son.” Moments later, he expressed displeasure because the trial made it so “that I can’t go to my son’s graduation.” The former president also took to Truth Social to slam Merchan well in advance of any ruling, writing: “Who will explain for me, to my wonderful son, Barron, who is a GREAT Student at a fantastic School, that his Dad will likely not be allowed to attend his Graduation Ceremony, something that we have been talking about for years, because a seriously Conflicted and Corrupt New York State Judge wants me in Criminal Court on a bogus ‘Biden Case’ which, according to virtually all Legal Scholars and Pundits, has no merit, and should NEVER have been brought.” Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Sword Attack Rampage Leaves 14-Year-Old Boy Dead, Cops Injured The Telegraph / YouTubeA 14-year-old boy died Tuesday after being stabbed in a sword attack in London that hurt several other people, including police officers, local authorities said.The deceased child has not been identified, but his death was confirmed by police after a 36-year-old man was arrested following the disturbing incident in the Hainault area of northeast London. The Metropolitan Police said its officers were first called shortly before 7 a.m. “to reports of a vehicle being driven into a house” and warnings that “people had been stabbed.”Chief Superintendent Stuart Bell, who leads Scotland Yard’s local policing for the East Area Command, said in a later update that the boy had died after being taken to a hospital. “The events of this morning are truly horrific and I cannot begin to imagine how all those affected must be feeling,” Bell said.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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‘Succession’ Star Brian Cox Slams The Bible: ‘Worst Book Ever’ Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBOBrian Cox gave his take on the world’s most popular book this week in an interview on The Starting Line podcast with Rich Leigh, slamming the Bible as the “worst book ever.”The Succession star said he thinks religion “holds us back because its belief systems, which are outside ourselves, they’re not dealing with who we all are, they’re dealing with well, ‘if God says this and God does that.’”Cox has become known for his very strong, unfiltered public opinions. Most recently he stated that Joaquin Phoenix was “truly terrible” in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon and added that he could’ve “played it a lot better.” Now, he’s got some spicy words for the Bible and religion, which he ultimately calls “stupid”—mostly because of the “patriarchal” lens it puts on the world.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Pro-Palestine Protesters Barricade Themselves Inside Columbia Building Caitlin Ochs/ReutersPro-Palestinian protesters stormed into a Columbia University building and barricaded themselves inside early Tuesday, the latest dramatic escalation in the ongoing demonstrations denouncing Israel’s war in Gaza currently blazing at campuses across the country.Dozens of protesters used tables and chairs to block the entrances to Hamilton Hall in the early hours, according to the Columbia Daily Spectator. Activists inside the building—which was once occupied during a 1968 civil rights and anti-Vietnam war protest—reportedly unfurled banners reading “Free Palestine” and “Hind’s Hall” in reference to Hind Rajab, the 6-year-old Palestinian girl who was found dead in February after making a desperate phone call for help.Columbia started suspending students on Monday if they broke a 2 p.m. deadline to vacate an encampment nearby. Such students won’t be able to graduate or return to university housing. It’s not year clear how many individuals have been hit by the suspensions. Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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‘Stereophonic’ and ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Lead 2024 Tony Award Nominations Julieta CervantesAlicia Keys’ musical Hell’s Kitchen and David Adjmi’s critically adored play Stereophonic, about a 1970s band rehearsing and combusting in an atmospherically rendered recording studio, each picked up 13 nominations Tuesday, leading the contenders for theater-land’s Oscars which will be televised on CBS on June 16. The Outsiders musical, based on S.E. Hinton's classic 1967 novel, picked up 12 nominations.One notable snub was for movie star Steve Carell, locked out of the Best Actor Play category for his title role in Uncle Vanya—his co-star William Jackson Harper beat him to the nomination instead. (Danny DeVito was also snubbed for his role in the poorly received I Need That.) Also nominated were Leslie Odom Jr. for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, Succession star Jeremy Strong for An Enemy of the People, Liev Schreiber for Doubt, and Michael Stuhlbarg for Patriots.The Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play category is a vibrant list of boldface names: Sarah Paulson for Appropriate, Rachel McAdams (Mary Jane), Jessica Lange (Mother Play), Betsy Aidem (Prayer for the French Republic), and Amy Ryan for Doubt: A Parable.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Hush-Money Judge Slaps Trump With $9,000 Fine for Running His Mouth Seth Winnig/Getty The third week of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York got off to an aggressive start on Tuesday morning, when the former president was swiftly fined $9,000 by the judge for repeatedly making public comments about jurors and witnesses—ignoring the court’s gag order that sought to stymie an ongoing MAGA intimidation campaign.New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said prosecutors had clearly proven that Trump was violating his court order in nine out of 10 instances, fining him $1,000 for each violation.“The people met their burden of proof and demonstrated contempt,” Merchan said with little fanfare.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’: A New Holocaust Drama That Couldn’t Be Timelier Martin Mlaka / Sky UKThe Holocaust is the wound that never heals because the hate that fueled it is always here, and one need only look and listen today—with Jews persecuted and demonized at home and abroad, and with vehement calls for their expulsion and extermination as commonplace as they were in the 1930s and 1940s—to be reminded that antisemitism is the world’s eternal ugliness. Thus, Peacock’s six-part limited series The Tattooist of Auschwitz arrives at a particularly auspicious moment. Inspired by both Heather Morris’ best-selling 2018 book and the memories of its main character, it’s a stirring tribute to the perseverance of one man and, by extension, to all who survived the horrors of Hitler’s genocide, and who were rewarded for their triumph with a lifetime of pain, guilt, heartache, and ghosts that refuse to go quietly into the terrible night.Spearheaded by director Tali Shalom Ezer and writer Jacquelin Perske, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which premieres May 2, is, in several ways, a familiar tale refracted through a novel lens, and at times, its framing device proves a tad clunky. Nonetheless, such intermittent gracelessness is overshadowed by the proceedings’ complexity, poignancy, and horror. In Melbourne, Australia circa 2003, hospital worker Heather (Melanie Lynskey) visits the apartment of Lale Sokolov (Harvey Keitel), a widower and Holocaust survivor to whom she’s been referred by a friend. Lale wants someone to pen his life story and Heather is an aspiring writer. Despite not being Jewish or having any first-hand relationship with the atrocities of WWII, she agrees to the task, sitting with Lale in his sunlit living room as he slowly recounts his unthinkable ordeal.That begins in 1942 Slovakia, where twentysomething Lale (Jonah Hauer-King) hears that one member of each Jewish household must report to the authorities for work duty. Lale volunteers and is promptly loaded into an overcrowded train and transported to Auschwitz II—Birkenau, the most infamous of the Third Reich’s numerous concentration camps. Upon arriving, he displays courage to the man tasked with giving him his forearm number, and following a nearly fatal illness from which he recovers thanks to his friend’s bravery, he lucks into a job as a tattooist. Through this assignment, he eventually meets Gita (Anna Próchniak), and it’s love at first sight. Amour doesn’t blossom easily in this environment, however, and their ensuing attempts to forge a bond, and to help keep each other alive, involves compromises and choices of a dreadful sort, many of them enabled by a sociopathic Nazi guard named Stefan Baretzki (Jonas Nay) who takes Lale under his wing.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Kimberly Guilfoyle Unveils Her Dog Charity Book at the Perfect Moment Chip Somodevilla/GettyWith the nation still reeling from South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s literary boasts about shooting her puppy to death, Kimberly Guilfoyle has decided that now is the time to pull the trigger on promoting her new dog-themed children’s book.Guilfoyle, an adviser on Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign and now the fiancée of his son Don Jr., unveiled her forthcoming book The Princess & Her Pup on Monday. The work’s self-described “pro-God, pro-America” publisher says the book follows the story of “Princess Kimberly” who is “afraid of almost everything” until she “meets a little pup who’s scared too.”Guilfoyle also announced on X that 10 percent of the proceeds from the book will go to supporting Furry Friends, a nonprofit “which provides complete care for abused and abandoned dogs and cats.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Tucker Carlson Posts Deranged Interview With ‘Putin’s Brain’ via X / Tucker Carlson Tucker Carlson has interviewed a Russian fascist philosopher whose ideas, he falsely brags, are “so dangerous” that “Amazon won’t sell his books.”“Aleksandr Dugin is the most famous political philosopher in Russia,” the ousted Fox News host wrote in teasing the 20-minute interview he shared on X late Monday with a man dubbed “Putin’s brain” by some and dismissed as a fringe crackpot by others.In hyping up Dugin, Carlson went on to stress that “the Ukrainian government murdered his daughter,” referring to Daria Dugina, who followed in her father’s footsteps and cheered on attacks on Ukraine until she was killed in a car bombing near Moscow in August 2022.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Trump Is Wrong. Columbia Isn’t Anything Like Charlottesville Caitlin Ochs/ReutersLast Thursday, Donald Trump stood in the hallway of a Manhattan courtroom, where he is on trial for falsifying his business records, and once again attempted to rewrite history. Comparing the antiwar protests now spreading across college campuses to the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, Trump claimed Charlottesville was “nothing...[like] the kind of hate that you have here.” The night before, Trump had written on Truth Social, “Charlottesville is like a peanut compared to the riots and anti-Israel protests that are happening all over our country.”Meanwhile, Trump has been echoed by a chorus of politicians, including Democrats like Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), who tweeted, “Add some tiki torches and it’s Charlottesville for these Jewish students,” and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), who opined that, “I know the people saying this aren't, you know, white Aryan males with tiki torches, but they have the same message.”From the standpoint of those who lived through these events, the comparison is not only unwarranted. It is not only unreasonable. It is, ultimately, unconscionable.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Ukraine’s ‘Harry Potter Castle’ Burns in Deadly Russian Missile Strike Sergey Smolentsev/ReutersAt least five people have died after a Russian missile attack hit an ornate mansion in Ukraine affectionately known to locals as the “Harry Potter Castle,” officials said Tuesday.Ukraine’s State Emergency Service shared a video showing the building in a seafront park in the southern city of Odesa engulfed in flames after the strike Monday. The agency initially said four people had been killed and another 32 injured, including two children.On Tuesday, regional governor Oleh Kiper said another man had died in the hospital. He added that eight people are still in serious condition and that four of those are in an “extremely serious condition, including a four-year-old girl.” He also said that a day of mourning had been declared throughout the Odesa region.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Cancer Be Damned, King Charles Is Back On Duty Suzanne Plunkett/ReutersKing Charles III looked cheerful and happy Tuesday, as he carried out his first official public engagement since being diagnosed with cancer.He was accompanied by his wife, Queen Camilla, as he visited a cancer treatment center in London, England.The royal couple arrived at University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre shortly after 11 a.m. in the state Bentley, a ceremonial vehicle fitted with extra large windows that Charles has been using while traveling in London on state and personal business in recent months to make sure he can be easily seen and photographed.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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This Week in the Trump Trial: Michael Cohen’s Banker Reopens His Account Adam Gray/ReutersThe third week of Donald Trump’s hush money trial will get underway in Manhattan on Tuesday morning with more testimony from a private banker who took the stand last week to talk about his work for Michael Cohen, Trump’s erstwhile attorney and fixer.Gary Farro, Cohen’s contact at First Republic Bank in 2015, has spoken about opening two accounts for Cohen—including the one which Cohen used to make a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels to stop her speaking out about an alleged 2006 one-night stand with Trump. Trump has denied having sex with the porn star.That payment is at the heart of the case. Prosecutors claim that Trump engaged in an illegal scheme to influence the 2016 election in which damaging stories about him were bought and buried in a “catch and kill” scheme, and that he sought to cover up the true purpose of the payments. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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The Best New Product Launches From Anine Bing, Urban Decay, Wrangler, and More Scouted/The Daily Beast/Retailers.MOScouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission.New Kids on the Block helps you navigate all the latest and exciting launches from our favorite brands and retailers, all in one place.Somehow, April is already drawing to a close, which means that Gemini season (and summer, of course) is on the horizon. April brought forth many spring showers, a once-in-my-lifetime solar eclipse, and a slew of new product drops that have become new obsessions. Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Arrests After Student Protest at Virginia Commonwealth University: Reports Wikimedia CommonsA Monday gathering of dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University was broken up by law enforcement officers in riot gear and gas masks, who witnesses said moved in on the “Liberated Zone” with tear gas and zip ties. The Richmond Times-Dispatch and ABC 8News reported that several arrests had been made, but it was not immediately clear on Monday night how many protesters had been detained or transported to jail. The protest began that morning on a grassy patch outside the school’s James Branch Cabell Library, with protesters waving signs, setting up tents, and chanting “Free Palestine.” Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Newsmax Host Eric Bolling Goes Off the Rails Over Biden Eating Salad NewsmaxPresident Joe Biden’s eating habits are no longer just the subject of Fox News host Jesse Watters’ invaluable scrutiny, after Newsmax host Eric Bolling grew increasingly angry Monday with the president eating salad at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner over the weekend.Bolling, channeling his inner Sean Hannity, concluded his opening monologue by saying that Biden isn’t fit enough for the job he holds.“Here is the president of the United States, the man with the nuclear codes at his fingertips, grappling with a bowl of lettuce. He can barely feed himself,” Bolling insisted, instructing his audience to watch a clip of Biden eating.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Seth Meyers Sounds Off on ‘Psycho’ Kristi Noem for Killing Her Dog NBCGiven the speed at which the news cycle is moving these days, it would be impossible for a late-night host to take a two-week vacation and not miss some pretty major stories; like a former president dozing off during a certain, historic criminal hush-money trial—and more than once.It’s a lesson Seth Meyers learned the hard way this month, but he was back with a vengeance on Monday and ready to recap all the wildest news stories he missed. While Donald Trump’s courtroom siestas were an obvious topic of conversation for the Late Night host to catch up on, he was much more interested—and outraged—in Kristi Noem’s bizarre decision to write about the time she murdered her puppy.In a new memoir, aptly titled No Going Back (which likely sums up her chances of being named Trump’s running mate), the South Dakota governor described the 14-month-old wirehaired pointer named Cricket as “untrainable,” “less than worthless… as a hunting dog,” and “dangerous to anyone she came into contact with.”Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com
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Laotian Immigrant Battling Cancer Named One of the $1.3B Powerball Winners Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesOne of the three winners of the record-breaking $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot is a 46-year-old immigrant from Laos who has been battling cancer for the last eight years.Speaking to the press at the Oregon Lottery headquarters in Salem on Monday, Cheng “Charlie” Saephan said he and his friend, Laiza Chao, 55, went in together on a batch of tickets that contained the winning numbers. Saephan and Chao will split the money, with Saephan sharing his half with his wife, Duanpen, 37.They are taking a lump sum payment of $422 million after taxes, according to the Associated Press.Read more at The Daily Beast.thedailybeast.com