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Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg has attended portions of about a third of Trump's trial days.

"It's important to understand that not everyone can afford to buy a shoe for 120 or 150 [dollars], but everyone wants to take part in the same trends," CEO Bjorn Gulden told investors

Cesar Conde, the chairman of NBCUniversal News, approached Welker before she took over for Chuck Todd as anchor of "Meet the Press" in September.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is asking for the public's help in identifying an infant who was left by her pregnant mother at a Lomita store.

News Media Alliance CEO Danielle Coffee – who leads a nonprofit that represents more than 2,200 publishers, including The Post – described Google’s plans as a “perverse twist on innovation” that will be “catastrophic to our traffic.”

Massive changes could be looming for the Cavaliers after being eliminated in the second round by the Celtics.

Nadine Menendez will undergo a mastectomy, her husband revealed in a statement as his trial was underway.

Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy reportedly pleaded with her husband to call Prince William and Prince Harry after they lost their mother in 1997.

The president at the school's commencement Sunday will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

The NFL is looking for a do-over from 2023 with the Jets.

The Biden administration announced Thursday that it's officially moving with a proposal to reschedule marijuana from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3.

Hours after the school’s president told students to leave the area, a pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University was dismantled by Chicago police.

A new Netflix documentary about Ashley Madison covers the dating website for cheaters, and the 2015 hack, which leaked the names of celebs like Josh Duggar, Snooki's husband Jionni LaValle, and Hunter Biden.

Ilana Glazer stars in a pregnancy comedy from Pamela Adlon that doubles as a hilarious rom-com about friendship.

Amazon MGM StudiosBarry Keoghan gave the world one of last year’s most memed and memorable musical movie moments last year when he danced naked to “Murder on the Dancefloor” at the end of Saltburn. At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, he’s back at it in Andrea Arnold’s beguiling new film Bird.(Warning: Some light spoilers from the movie ahead.)Frankly, we should have expected this. Arnold is a filmmaker who loves to swing for the fences when it comes to her soundtracks. In her last narrative feature, American Honey, she orchestrated a grimy meet cute to Rihanna’s “We Found Love” in a Kmart. Here, she has a tattooed Keoghan singing Blur.Read more at The Daily Beast.

At first, it seemed like the kind of shooting that has become all too common in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Plus, a crisp pinot grigio and a Napa Valley riesling for this week’s sips.

Switchel is essentially old-timey Gatorade!

The Justice Department officially proposed a new rule on Thursday that would reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug.

A record number of illegal immigrants from a top foreign adversary are coming across the border in never before seen numbers, according to new figures released this week.

Nikki Spoelstra isn't here for the needless commentary.

Venu Sports will be available directly through a new app and subscribers can opt to bundle the service with Disney+, Hulu or Max.

The DOJ has unsealed an indictment charging three North Korean workers and a United States citizen with allegedly engaging in "staggering fraud" through a complex scheme.

Christopher Polk/Getty ImagesCountry star Zach Bryan recently survived an ATV crash in Little Rock, Arkansas, that left him with a large gash on his arm, his girlfriend Brianna LaPaglia revealed on TikTok.The Barstool Sports commentator, who goes by the stage name Brianna Chickenfry, described being deeply shaken by the incident.“Two nights ago, Zach and I got into a traumatizing side-by-side car crash,” LaPaglia told her followers on Tuesday night. “It flipped a bunch of times, everything shattered, and thank God we had our seatbelts on. But there was a lot of blood, and we thought we were saying goodbye to each other.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Comcast staged a rare intervention over MSNBC's rampant criticism of Israel during its coverage of the deadly Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas, according to a report.

Driven in part by lived experience as two first-generation Asian Americans who grew up in large AAPI communities, Times journalists turned to Census data to quantify the size and ethnic diversity of the fastest-growing demographic in the United States.

Watching Back to Black, the new Amy Winehouse biopic, made me want to look up footage of the late British singer to be reminded of her originality and her liveliness, which no work of fiction could hope to ever fully capture. But in the search process, I ended up staring, for an inordinate amount of time, at Funko Pop dolls. Winehouse has been sold in three versions of the ubiquitous collectible figurines. Each affixes her trademark Cleopatra makeup to the same blank, black eyes that grace the Funkos of superheroes, sports mascots, and various other figures who did not sing songs about oblivion and then die of alcohol poisoning at age 27.To say that Back to Black gives Winehouse the Funko treatment on the big screen would not quite be fair; the movie renders her life with some intelligence, mercy, and painterly craft. But it certainly partakes in the tradition of turning a complex human being into a generic image, defined by superficial traits and tics, for other people to project their feelings upon. No great entertainer ever escapes this fate, but Back to Black should be an occasion to ask why cultural canonization requires such a relentless sanitizing process, and who is served by this sugarcoating.Back to Black begins with the adolescent Winehouse (played by Marisa Abela) at home with her boisterous, working-class Jewish family, singing jazz standards together. The spicy and sad songs she writes in her bedroom soon earn her international stardom—though she’s far less interested in the fame game than in her romance with Blake Fielder-Civil (Jack O’Connell), whom the film portrays as a pub-dwelling bad boy who snorts cocaine before breakfast. Her cabbie father, Mitch (Eddie Marsan); her flinty grandmother, Cynthia (Lesley Manville); and her manager Nick (Sam Buchanan) try to steer her toward stability, while paparazzi, industry pressures, and drugs tip her toward destruction. Winehouse’s real-life trajectory was chaotic, but Sam Taylor-Johnson’s filmmaking relays the emotional beats in appealingly direct ways. During Winehouse’s exciting come-up, London’s graffiti pops colorfully in the background; later, as she sinks into drugs and isolation, the city feels dead and desaturated.Abela is a remarkable actor best known for her role on the HBO and BBC banking drama Industry. That show subverts her pageant-worthy poise and winsomeness; she plays a devil disguised as an ingenue. But in Back to Black, she’s playing an ingenue disguised as one of the most caustic and willful pop stars ever. Abela nails many of Winehouse’s mannerisms, though the mouth movements she makes while singing scat vocals do look like something Kristen Wiig would do on Saturday Night Live. The bigger problem is that her version of Winehouse is unshakably sweet and hapless, a puppy dog in smeared eyeliner. Each defiant or self-destructive choice she makes therefore feels oddly under-motivated, even arbitrary.[Read: Is old music killing new music?]This is more the fault of the script than the acting. The film does not really attempt a coherent argument about what forces created such a sui generis artist, or about the ones that drove her to doom. It touches lightly upon various themes of her story—such as the U.K. tabloid industry’s savagery—without saying much about them. The one point of emphasis is Winehouse’s pivotal and intense relationship with Fielder-Civil. Their temporary breakup inspired the lyrics of her breakthrough album, Back to Black, and the best sequence of the film depicts her recording that masterpiece while stunned numb from heartbreak. But the film fails to conjure an on-screen version of Fielder-Civil with any charm, much less a perspective. The viewer is left feeling, as many onlookers at the time were, baffled by the romance.Back to Black’s cast and crew have talked proudly about not portraying anyone as a “villain,” cutting against media narratives blaming Fielder-Civil, Mitch, or anyone else for Winehouse’s struggles. The film wants to be a counterweight to the 2015 documentary Amy, which collaged material from throughout Winehouse’s life to disturbing effect. Some viewers condemned that film for using lurid paparazzi footage of Winehouse at her lowest, and Mitch has said he was portrayed unfairly. But whatever the validity of such critiques, Amy did attempt to place Winehouse’s life within a complex web of cause and effect, personal and cultural. After all, if we are going to re-create a tragedy, should we not try to understand it?Back to Black, by contrast, just makes entertainment out of a saga that was, and should be, excruciating to witness. Winehouse is reduced to a list of traits—beehive hair, jazz inflections, inexorable addiction—that can be easily reproduced in merchandise and licensing for many more years to come. What’s especially jarring is that the film romanticizes Winehouse’s distaste for stardom, careerism, and money itself (“I ain’t no Spice Girl,” she says early on). The image of the iconoclastic, pure artist remains broadly marketable; the ideals behind that image, less so.

The U.S. Treasury levied sanctions on Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska for an alleged sanctions evasion scheme aimed at unlocking frozen shares. Deripaska dismissed the sanctions.

Democrats admitted they were confused by the Biden administration's Israel policy after it proceeded with a weapons package after pausing a previous sale over Rafah.

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan sent a letter to New York Attorney General Letitia James demanding documents related to NY v. Trump prosecutor Matthew Colangelo.

Looking for something fun to do with kids in the D.C. area this weekend? Here are our top picks.

Glenn Kirschner described Trump's lawyer as making a "historic stumble" during Michael Cohen's cross-examination.

Fox Business NetworkRep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) made a bizarre claim Thursday, insisting that he has “evidence” to support his allegation that President Joe Biden was “jacked up on something” during the State of the Union address. He even offered to show his so-called proof to Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo “offline.”The MAGA congressman’s wild accusation seemed to go too far for the pro-Trump conspiracy-loving Bartiromo, who once relied on “wackadoodle” claims made by a woman who thinks she’s a ghost to peddle 2020 election lies on Fox airwaves that eventually led the network to settle a massive defamation lawsuit.Appearing on Fox Business’ Mornings with Maria, Murphy—a co-chair of the GOP Doctors Caucus— was asked to put his “doctor’s hat on” and give his take on the recently announced presidential debates between Biden and former President Donald Trump.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The Webb Space Telescope has made a new discovery, detecting the earliest known merger of black holes. One of the black holes is 50 million times more massive than the sun.

Tacos El Califa de León in Mexico City became the first ever taco stand to be awarded a Michelin star. The chef attributes his success to a simple recipe and high-quality ingredients.

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI; JIM WATSONU.S. President Joe Biden and power dozer Donald Trump agreed to debate at least twice before the November election. The first debate will be hosted by CNN on June 27 with three ground rules proposed by the Biden campaign and accepted by the Trump campaign: The debate will be staged in a TV studio, candidates’ mics will cut off when the time limit is reached, and only the candidates and moderators will be present.This is a fine start, but here are some additional ground rules that would make the debate even better.1. Candidates must agree to having a fact checker in the wings and if a candidate lies, a loud ahooga noise will sound.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Dmitry Medvedev issued a warning to other European leaders after Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot on Wednesday.

Over 1,000 Taylor Swift fans flocked to a historic church in Germany last weekend for a Swift-themed worship service featuring her music.

Trump has allegedly been passing on media statements to his political supporters

The German Society for Nature Photography (GDT) just announced the winning images in its annual members-only photo competition, selected from more than 8,000 entries in seven categories, including Birds, Mammals, Other Animals, Plants & Fungi, Landscapes, and Nature’s Studio. Contest organizers were kind enough to share some of the winning and honored photographs with us below.To receive an email notification every time new photo stories are published, sign up here.

Adam Gray/Getty ImagesNadine Menendez, a defendant in a sweeping corruption trial alongside her husband Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), has breast cancer and will be undergoing a mastectomy as treatment, her husband revealed on Thursday.The senator announced his wife’s cancer diagnosis in a statement from the courtroom where his trial on corruption and bribery charges began this week. Nadine Menendez’s trial had been delayed because of the previously undisclosed health conditions, which are now clear.“Nadine is suffering from Grade 3 breast cancer, which will require her to have mastectomy surgery. We are, of course, concerned about the seriousness and advanced stage of the disease. She will require follow up surgery and possibly radiation treatment,” Menendez said, asking for respect and privacy on behalf of his wife. “We hope and pray for the best results.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

The Flock is about to rise up again.

Coulter slammed Daniels' testimony during Donald Trump's hush money trial.

Her recent choices have given me pause.

The Mirage Hotel and Casino is closing on the Las Vegas Strip after it was acquired by Hard Rock in 2022.

"He was still half asleep and wasn't sure what he was seeing..." one social media user commented.

In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the funding mechanism that feeds the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is constitutional.

Elin Hughes-Jones' relief at her children making it out of the toddler phase has resonated with thousands.