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TikTokers Must Take a Stand on Gaza or Face the ‘Digitine’

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesShe stands on a sidewalk in an oversized floral dress and headpiece, à la Midsommar, lip syncing “let them eat cake” as the catchy tunes of Le Tigre’s “Deceptacon” take over. Despite the bouffant hair and lavish dress, we are not in 18th century France and this is not Marie Antoinette

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Opinion: 5 Criticisms of Trump’s New York Hush Money Trial That Are Just Wrong

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyAfter hearing testimony from 22 witnesses across 16 trial days spanning five weeks, the defense and prosecution have rested in the criminal trial of Donald Trump. Most legal experts agree: Trump is in big trouble here.The prosecution’s case alleges Trump approved a hush money payment to Sto

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George Floyd’s Uncle Tells How Nephew’s Death Changed His Life

Courtesy of Selwyn JonesEvery day, Selwyn Jones misses his nephew, George Floyd.Today marks four years since Floyd, 46, was killed in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department. In death, he has become a martyr and a symbol of the oppression and violence against Black people at the hands of law enforcement.But to his uncle, he was a big, good

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Opinion: MAGA’s Lies About a Deep State Conspiracy to Assassinate Trump Will Endure

Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesA lie travels halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on. And that was before Twitter (X) came along—which explains why the canard that there was an “assassination attempt” on Donald Trump—spread like wildfire.It all started when self-described conspiracy theorist Julie

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Opinion: Billionaire Who Backs Deadbeat Donald Sues Over Unpaid Bill

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesHedge-fund billionaire John Paulson is suing a building developer over a multimillion-dollar redecorating bill for the Florida mansion where he held a record-breaking $50.5 million Trump fundraiser last month.It’s the latest legal fracas for Paulson, who is embroiled in a very bitter di

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Marvel Heroine Scarlett Johansson Will See You In Court

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesLast weekend, Saturday Night Live star Colin Jost was forced to take a public potshot at his wife during his season finale joke swap segment with co-anchor Michael Che. “ChatGPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in Her,” Jost said

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How to Get a Husky, Sexy Voice—Just Like Scarlett Johansson

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyThe world may appreciate Scarlett Johansson’s distinctive voice, but she doesn’t appreciate any perceived commodification of it outside of her own control. This week the actor accused the artificial intelligence company OpenAI of creating a virtual assistant voice that sounded “eerily si

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Opinion: ‘Good-Natured’ Trump Trial Lawyer Is Turning Into His Accomplice

Mark Peterson - Pool / Getty Images All through the hush-money trial, Donald Trump has excoriated Judge Juan Merchan and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as corrupt thugs.So, you might assume that Trump will blame them and not the lead defense attorney Todd Blanche if the case ends in a conviction.But Trump has his own logic. He repeatedly l

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Special Counsel Seeks Gag Order Over Trump’s ‘Locked & Loaded’ Claim

Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s classified documents case have asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to impose a gag order on the indicted former president after he falsely told his supporters that federal agents were prepared to kill him.Trump’s false accusation—that FBI agents were “authorized to

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Nepo Baby of the Week: Demi Moore’s ‘Gremlin Dog’ Stuns Cannes

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesNepo babies are a dime a dozen at the Cannes Film Festival, but this week, one of them has really stood out from the pack. Her name is Pilaf Moore. Perhaps you’ve heard of her? The daughter of Demi Moore, whom The Cut once described as having “all the hallmarks of an ‘It’ girl,” has bee

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Vivek Ramaswamy Repeatedly Gets Booed by Libertarians for Mentioning Trump

David Dee Delgado/Getty Images Vivek Ramaswamy was met with a wave of boos at the Libertarian National Convention on Friday for mentioning Donald Trump on the eve of the former president’s speech there. The failed Republican presidential candidate was speaking at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., when he got a distinctly negative reaction

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‘Right in the Butt’: Dirty ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Fail Belongs in Hall of Fame

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and ABCThis week:Game Show Fails Are the Best FailsApologies if, at around 7:45 p.m. Thursday night, you heard a faint high pitch noise that lasted for a full minute. That was me shrieking while watching Wheel of Fortune and witnessing a Greatest of All Time inappropriate answer to a c

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Louisiana Passes Law Classifying Abortion Pills as ‘Controlled Dangerous Substances’

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesLouisiana’s governor signed a bill into law Friday that classifies two abortion-inducing drugs as “controlled dangerous substances.”Republican Governor Jeff Landry announced the new law in a post on X. “Requiring an abortion inducing drug to be obtained with a prescription and criminalizing the use of

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RFK Jr. Desperately Wants in on the Brain Worm Jokes

Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesRobert F. Kennedy Jr. wants everyone to know he’s in on the jokes about his brain worm.At the Libertarian National Convention on Friday, the struggling presidential candidate included a punchline about the dead worm that doctors discovered in his brain, during one of his classic speeches about the COVID-19 pandemic.“Again a

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Trumpworld Claims 25,000 People Attended His Rally. Aerial Shots Show Otherwise.

ABC7 via YouTubeTrumpworld is once again splintering from reality. This time, the diversion relates to counting—specifically, how many people attended Donald Trump’s rally in the Bronx on Thursday.Trump, who has long obsessed over the size of crowds at his events, shared an article from Right Side Broadcasting Network to his Truth Social account th

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Trump’s Apparent VP Contender Proudly Flies Jan. 6-Linked Flag

Anna Moneymaker/GettySen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who is reportedly a top contender for Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, has jumped on the bandwagon of flying the Christian nationalist “Appeal To Heaven” flag.Cotton proudly announced on social media that he had installed the flag outside his Senate office. “I stand with George Washington and Marth

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Justice Alito’s Beach Home Neighbors Sound Off on That Jan. 6 Flag

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyAbout 45 minutes past the Garden State Parkway’s Judy Blume Service Area, itself precisely 24 miles southeast of the Jon Bon Jovi Service Area, the original Ron Jon Surf Shop appears, like a Jersey Shore apparition, just off Route 72.Roughly 15 minutes down Ocean County Road 607, beyond Bou

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The Complicated Legacy of Morgan Spurlock’s ‘Super Size Me’

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Roadside Attractions and Getty ImagesMorgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me documentary hit the cultural lexicon with fervor. Spurlock, who died this week at age 53, experienced massive success on the heels of the 2004 film, which would end up grossing $22 million on a $65,000 budget. Super Size Me became

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The Real Reason Texas Judge ‘Vanished’ After Haunting Trial

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/FacebookKelli Johnson, a Texas district court judge who has not been seen since the beginning of the month is not “missing,” her brother told The Daily Beast—she is out on medical leave.The rumors about Harris County Judge Johnson began swirling earlier this week, when local news station ABC13 re

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Why Hasn’t J.Lo Denounced Diddy Yet?

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and ReutersIn the past few weeks alone, everyone from 50 Cent to Charlamagne Tha God to Aubrey O’Day to Chaka Khan's adult daughter has taken the opportunity to speak out against Sean “Diddy” Combs, whose physical abuse of his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, was caught on recently unear

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Teen Arrested for Bloody Attack on UCLA’s Pro-Palestine Encampment

Wally Skalij/Getty ImagesUCLA police on Thursday arrested a pro-Israel counterprotester for his role in the violent April 30 attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus, the first such arrest made in relation to the incident.Edan On, 18, was detained in Beverly Hills and booked on Thursday into the Los Angeles County Jail on suspicion of felon

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Republican Rep’s Daughter and Son-in-Law Killed in Haiti Gang Attack

Rep. Ben Baker/FacebookMissouri State Rep. Ben Baker’s said Friday his “heart is broken in a thousand pieces” after his daughter and son-in-law were taken hostage then later killed by a gang in Haiti.His daughter and son-in-law, Natalie and Davy Lloyd, were among a group of missionaries who were ambushed as they left a church on Thursday, the nonpr

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Bodies of 3 More Israeli Hostages Recovered, Including Shani Louk’s Boyfriend

Vladimir Pesnya/GettyThe Israel Defense Forces have recovered the bodies of three more hostages who were abducted by Hamas in Gaza, including the boyfriend of 22-year-old Shani Louk, a hostage whose remains were recovered last week.The bodies of Orion Hernandez Radoux, 30, Hanan Yablonka, 42, and Michel Nisenbaum, 59, were recovered from northern G

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The Guru Helping Biden Court Nikki Haley’s Voters

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/ReutersWelcome to Trail Mix, your 2024 election sanity guide. See something interesting on the trail? Email me at jake.lahut@thedailybeast.com. To get Trail Mix in your inbox, subscribe here for free.This week, we check in on Nikki Haley voters after her big announcement. Plus a look at what’

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Morgan Spurlock, ‘Super Size Me’ Documentary Director, Dead at 53

Neil Hall/ReutersMorgan Spurlock, the Oscar-nominated director who starred in the documentary Super Size Me, has died, his family announced Friday. He was 53.The filmmaker’s family said in a statement that he “passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends” on Thursday, according to The Guardian. The statement said his death was caused by

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International Court of Justice Orders Israel to Stop Its Offensive in Rafah Now

Yves HermanThe International Court of Justice on Friday ordered Israel to halt its military offensive in Rafah, the city in southern Gaza where displaced Palestinians have sought shelter from the conflict. The decision from the court in The Hague followed a request from South Africa’s lawyers last week seeking emergency measures to order Israel to

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Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica Ball’ Film Oozes With Joy and Sweat

HBOThe start of the COVID-19 pandemic gave us some of the absolute worst media imaginable. Anne Hathaway’s luxury department store heist movie was mind-numbing, despite all of those words together suggesting something incredible. Judd Apatow’s latest effort left everyone wishing the pandemic had shut down its production. For god sake, Bette motherf

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HBOThe start of the COVID-19 pandemic gave us some of the absolute worst media imaginable. Anne Hathaway’s luxury department store heist movie was mind-numbing, despite all of those words together suggesting something incredible. Judd Apatow’s latest effort left everyone wishing the pandemic had shut down its production. For god sake, Bette motherfucking Midler agreed to be in an HBO original movie called Coastal Elites. It was a time of deep crisis.But what stands as one of the biggest pop-cultural tragedies of that time, at least for my gay ass, was the scrapped promotional rollout for Lady Gaga’s Chromatica. The superstar’s long-awaited sixth album ignited the weary souls of fans when its first single was announced in February 2020, just two weeks before the world shut down. Initially, Gaga planned an expansive album launch, the kind she pioneered for the modern pop singer—and that her own career had not seen since 2013’s hotly contested ARTPOP era. For Chromatica, Gaga had planned a surprise Coachella performance alongside Blackpink, award show performances, a worldwide promo tour, and “lots of other fun surprises” that had to be discarded when it became clear that COVID was very much here to stay. And then, there was the Chromatica Ball, the world tour originally planned for summer 2020 and that had to be delayed so many times, it became a joke among Gaga’s fans.Of all of the what-ifs that remain from the Chromatica era, its tour is not one. The show went ahead in summer 2022, selling out each of its 20 dates. Now, the sweeping production is making its way to your living room, with a high-energy concert film, Gaga Chromatica Ball, debuting on HBO May 25. The film is Gaga’s first professionally recorded concert since 2011’s Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour, which earned the singer raves while her nascent star was quickly rising. Thirteen years later, this new special replicates all of the excitement that swirled around the singer in those early years. It’s an exhilarating watch from start to finish, bolstering an already stellar show with trippy editing and crisp, stylistic filmmaking. The film refines Gaga’s big, offbeat ideas and makes them palatable enough for the average viewer, luring them into Chromatica’s pulsating electropop soundscape. Maintaining that pull for this long is a feat in and of itself, but Gaga Chromatica Ball feels like a victory lap. The movie is a celebration of the singer’s ability to pull herself and her art out of unprecedented global destruction, amplifying the album’s core themes with stunning new resonance.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Travis Kelce Finally Responded to That Divisive Harrison Butker Speech

Mark J. Rebilas/USA Today Sports via ReutersTravis Kelce says he didn’t agree with “just about any” of what his Kansas City Chiefs teammate Harrison Butker said during his extremely controversial commencement speech at a Catholic college earlier this month.The backlash was swift and furious to Butker’s speech, in which he took swipes at abortion an

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Demi Moore Brutally Calls Out Audience Member While Introducing Cher in Cannes

Ryan Emberley/amfAR via GettyDemi Moore just really wants everyone to show Cher the respect she deserves.Moore was introducing the legendary singer with a heartfelt tribute on stage in France at a fundraiser gala for AIDS research on Thursday night when she appeared to become frustrated with someone in the audience. “Are you an Emmy winner over the

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Despite New Yorker Investigation, Nurse Lucy Letby Loses Baby Killer Appeal

Cheshire Constabulary via GettyA British nurse considered to be one of the U.K.’s most prolific child serial killers in modern times has been refused permission to appeal her convictions over the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of another six.Lucy Letby on Friday lost her latest attempt to seek to overturn the convictions in a decis

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