Karolina Wojtasik / MaxThere have been five—count ‘em, five!—entries in the Pretty Little Liars franchise since the pulpy teen drama, based on the popular book series, premiered in 2010. That’s 14 years, more than 150 episodes, and countless actors calling their parents to tell them that they got their big break, only for their respective series to get canceled before their SAG card could even arrive in the mail. All of the spinoffs and continuations of Pretty Little Liars have been unsuccessful, failing to generate even an iota of the massive buzz that teenagers heaped onto the franchise’s first televised iteration in the 2010s.In 2022, it looked as though the curse plaguing Pretty Little Liars had lifted. A new reboot, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, came in swinging, looking to rectify the mistakes that old spinoffs had fallen prey to. Original Sin was edgier, meaner, and filled to the brim with cursing and bloody violence, two things that the franchise was always missing due to the constraints of its home on network television. This new Pretty Little Liars was streaming on Max, and there, the show could go wild. Any restrictions that had previously hindered the franchises’ ambitions were removed, helping the reboot—which fashioned itself as a teen horror slasher—feel more innovative than any of the franchise’s previous spinoffs. A cast of talented young actors, some brilliantly written twists, and a devoted fan base that will follow PLL wherever it goes helped on that front, too.Original Sin’s supreme quality makes the show’s new, inferior continuation (with an equally substandard subtitle), Pretty Little Liars: Summer School, all the more disappointing. Where Season 1 of this new PLL was saucy and surprisingly brutal, Season 2 is trite and unambitious. Anyone exhausted by horror that uses grief and trauma as the basis for their frightening imagery will be completely drained by Summer School. This season takes that weary allegory and plops it on top of the events of Original Sin, hoping the two will eventually coalesce into something watchable. But despite some decently cheeky attempts at expanding the story and its characters, keeping up with Pretty Little Liars: Summer School feels more like homework than a vacation.Read more at The Daily Beast.

La candidatura de Brasil para organizar el Mundial de fútbol femenino de 2027 quedó mejor evaluada que aquélla conjunta presentada por Alemania, Holanda y Bélgica, en un reporte presentado el martes por la FIFA.

Aficionados al fútbol de todo el mundo tendrán a partir de ahora un día para celebrar año con año al deporte más popular del planeta: El 25 de mayo.

UCLA supplements its haul of transfers with a second freshman as Harvard-Westlake star point guard Trent Perry announces his commitment.

Elected officials in Portland are disapproved of by the overwhelming majority of local voters living in the metropolitan area, according to a new poll.

Shea Langeliers disparó un jonrón de dos carreras en camino a una actuación de cinco remolcadas, la mejor de su vida, en el primer duelo de una doble tanda, en que los Atléticos de Oakland doblegaron el miércoles 9-4 a los Rangers de Texas.

Jalen Brunson was subbed out of Wednesday's game with 3:32 left in the first quarter and was not seen on the bench early in the second.

Kevin Costner's returning to the silver screen with his passion project, "Horizon," which premieres later this month at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez has announced charges against 3 men accused of targeting and soliciting sex with underage children through the use of Meta's social media platforms.

Pete McCloskey, the former California Congressman who ran for president in 1972 against incumbent Richard Nixon, has died at age 96; he is survived by his wife and four children.

Brothers Robert and Johnny Watson were sentenced alongside Danie Kelly to life in prison for killing a family in Washington state in 2017.

"This is the first faculty-led encampment in the US. We hope it will not be the last. We thank our students for showing us the way; for being our teachers."

Steve Albini, a producer for Nirvana, the Pixies, PJ Harvey, and other prominent musicians of the era, has died of a heart attack. He was 61.

The 2024 Tribeca Festival is switching it up this year and will be hosting a celebration of Fest co-founder Robert De Niro.

Reba McEntire is officially reuniting on screen with her former "Reba" cast member Melissa Peterman and boyfriend Rex Linn in her new sitcom, "Happy's Place."

Ohio official warns that a law to deter Ku Klux Klan demonstrations could be used to charge students who wear masks during pro-Palestinian protests.

Alex Verdugo started his 35th game of the season at left field on Wednesday night against the Astros in the Yankees’ 38th game.

The vote followed a nearly three-hour meeting Wednesday in which USC's faculty members criticized the decisions of President Folt and provost Andrew Guzman.

Top-seeded Granada Hills wins its City Section softball playoff opener over Venice via mercy rule. El Camino Real. Birmingham and Carson also advance.

Rep. Adam Schiff picked up the endorsement of his old Senate primary foe Rep. Barbara Lee. In the process he also helped her doing some fundraising for campaign debts.

CNNPresident Joe Biden said Wednesday that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders an invasion of Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, then he will not supply Israel with any more American-made weapons.In an interview on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront a week after Biden paused weapons shipments, the president also acknowledged that those weapons have been used to kill civilians in the territory.“Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” he said.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The reputation of the U.S. has suffered globally over the last year while a majority of its citizens believe that unfair elections and/or election fraud threatens democracy.

A hate-filled stranger yanked a hijab off a teen’s head and snarled “you don’t need to be wearing that here” on a Manhattan street last month, authorities said Wednesday. The grinning man ran up to the unsuspecting 17-year-old girl and snatched the covering on April 28 around noon on East 44th Street near Second Avenue in...

A marine expert told The Post it was more than likely that the "interaction with the vessel contributed to her death."

Bette Midler said she wishes she had sued a teenage Lindsay Lohan after the child actor dropped out of her short-lived sitcom "Bette" following the pilot episode in 2000.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/ReutersWhen Google co-founder Sergey Brin began openly dating Nicole Shanahan, in 2015, some members of his circle assumed it was a fling. Fresh out of law school, she was 12 years his junior, with few of the qualifications that might level the power dynamic with the world’s seventh-richest man. “I thought, okay, she’s fine,” a person close to the situation told The Daily Beast. “And then it went on.”By the time they married, in 2018, Shanahan had slingshotted into Silicon Valley stardom. She socialized with other billionaires’ plus-ones, distributed millions to pet causes—sometimes igniting controversy—and worked to distance Brin from his ex-wife, 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, who had remained close with the billionaire, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the relationships.But almost as quickly, Shanahan’s marriage to Brin deteriorated. The couple squabbled over the right approach to raising their daughter, who was diagnosed with autism, and Shanahan chafed at Brin’s left-brain thinking. There was also the matter of her alleged affair with Elon Musk in 2021, a betrayal so profound and astonishing that the starchy pages of The Wall Street Journal might briefly have been confused for a tabloid.Read more at The Daily Beast.

In the already peculiar case that embroiled Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, this is just another odd twist. 

Before the jokes started flying in about the legendary quarterback during the Netflix special, there was some "real" tension between Bill Belichick and Patriots owner Robert Kraft, according to Julian Edelman and Drew Bledsoe.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene triggers long-shot effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson from leadership post.

A hateful message saying "F*** the Jews. Free Palestine" has been scrawled in blood red ink onto the wall of a Brooklyn school.

He told CNN Israel has used American bombs to kill civilians in Gaza.

Alabama has scheduled a second nitrogen gas execution — this time, it will be used on triple homicide convict Alan Miller, who is set to die on Sept. 26.

After a scintillating major league debut last weekend, the 24-year-old is scheduled to face the Braves on Saturday for his first home start. Based on what he saw last year, Scott has a good idea what to expect at Citi Field.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of legislation further regulating online platforms' interaction with underage users.

Venezuelan citizen Jose Ibarra faces murder charges after a grand jury concluded he intended to rape an Augusta University College of Nursing student.

Retired NFL star Jason Kelce is curious about what motivated seven-time Super Bowl winner Tom Brady to subject himself to a brutal roast by former teammates and celebrities.

Win McNamee/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesWhile the family patriarch spends his days in Manhattan Criminal Court attempting to fend off 34 felony counts of falsifying business records involving a six-figure payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels, only one member of the Trump clan has appeared at the former president’s trial.Adult son Eric showed up in the courtroom gallery this week to observe testimony in his father’s case, but none of the other kids—or Trump’s third wife Melania—have been there to hear the twice-impeached ex-commander-in-chief’s dirty laundry being entered into the public record.Here’s what they’ve been up to while Big Papa sits through a trial which, if he’s convicted, could send Trump to prison for up to four years.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The Department of Water Resources has issued a caution advisory warning residents to avoid Silverwood Lake, due to harmful cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae.

New Jersey mom Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez recounts the day she was working on her doctoral dissertation presentation from Rutgers University when she went into labor.

A woman shot and killed her husband and her sister before trying to kill her brother - but her brother was armed and killed her in a shootout, according to Kentucky State Police.

As graffiti vandals in Portland jockey for notoriety and positioning on the sides of buildings, police are struggling to catch perpetrators and clean up the city.

A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port over the weekend with a 44-foot dead endangered whale across its bow, marine authorities confirmed.

House Democrats joined Republicans in an overwhelming vote Wednesday to defeat a motion brought by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson from his leadership position.

Luke Terpstra, 30, of Grant, Michigan, has been charged with two felonies for allegedly plotting to bomb the Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts.

No importa si Nemo gana el Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión este fin de semana —lo que lo convertiría en el/la primer concursante no binario en llevarse a casa el micrófono de cristal_, el cantante ya es un éxito.

Elijah Nouvelage / AFP via Getty ImagesEven Donald Trump seemed peeved by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) ill-fated attempt to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson Wednesday, with the former president posting to his Truth Social platform that she was risking “CHAOS” in the chamber and making Republicans look bad.“I absolutely love Marjorie Taylor Greene. She’s got Spirit, she’s got Fight, and I believe she’ll be around, and on our side, for a long time to come,” Trump began, before laying into her plan to eject the second GOP Speaker of the House in less than a year.“Right now, Republicans have to be fighting the Radical Left Democrats, and all the Damage they have done to our Country. With a Majority of One, shortly growing to three or four, we’re not in a position of voting on a Motion to Vacate.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

CNN's Erin Burnett talks to President Joe Biden about how he is facing Trump in the 2024 election, and what advice former President Obama is giving him.

Bette Midler regrets doing her short-lived 2000 CBS sitcom, 'Bette.' She also wishes she had sued Lindsay Lohan for bailing on the show after doing its pilot.