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Rupert Murdoch has revealed that he’s engaged to Ann Lesley Smith just six months after the pair first met.

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Prince Harry is likely to face fresh criticism over his work for Netflix after producers on its tentpole show, The Crown, mocked up a ghoulish, post-crash replica of the car his mother, Princess Diana, was traveling in when she was killed.

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Kristen Kish never wanted to be on Top Chef. Now that 10 years have passed since she fought her way back from elimination to become the second woman to earn that coveted title, she says she has even less interest in returning to the competition again.

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In his seminal public relations book How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie warns about the risks of confrontation.

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The peak days of Tumblr—overwhelmed with photos of white women at Coachella wearing flower crowns—successfully turned a bunch of millennials and even some Gen-Zers on to late 1960s and ’70s fashion.

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This is the latest in The Daily Beast’s series on underrated destinations, It’s Still a Big World.

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When I enter Meg Stalter’s Airbnb in Austin, Texas—where she’s staying during this year’s SXSW festival—I’m shocked at the difference between our lodgings. “I love the vibe in here,” I tell her, half-forgetting that she didn’t design the space herself. I’m staying on the other side of the city, in a house decorated to suggest the Roaring Twenties-era art deco. Think velvet couches, black porcelain toilets, and a whole lot of Pâtes Baroni artwork. Читать дальше...

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David Koresh was the leader of a doomsday cult whose members believed he was the messiah and that they were destined to perish in a conflict with the U.S. government. And on April 19, 1993, following a 51-day standoff with the FBI, that prophecy came true. Setting his Mount Carmel ranch compound on fire, thereby killing dozens of his own disciples (including children), Koresh committed the unthinkable. Thus, when someone refers to this incident in Waco: American Apocalypse as a “tragedy,”... Читать дальше...

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Allies of former President Donald Trump are taking increasingly bigger swings at Ron DeSantis as it becomes clearer that the Florida governor could jump into the 2024 presidential campaign.

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Early in the new documentary about her life, Donna Summer says, “You're looking at me, but what you see is not what I am. How many roles do I play in my own life?”

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A Colorado dentist was charged with murder on Sunday after his poisoned wife was taken off life support, police said.

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It’s a health care nonprofit intended as a lifeline to New York City’s poorest and most vulnerable communities—but it’s become a money hose for the former chief fundraiser of the Democratic National Committee.

Julieta Cervantes

The thrills of the revival of Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ on Broadway (Music Box Theatre, booking to September 17) are many, and pulsatingly beautiful to behold. There is, principally, the mesmerizing dancing of the 16-strong cast (one was absent from the performance this critic attended), and around them all that accentuates their physicality: Robert Brill’s simple design of scaffolds and descending curtains, Reid Bartleme and Harriet Jung’s sexy, playful costuming, David Grill’s lighting (bulbs of all colors flashing... Читать дальше...

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As Bruce Willis’ family marked the occasion of his 68th birthday on Sunday, the actor’s wife took to social media to share a heartfelt tribute to him—and open up about the reality of caring for a loved one with frontotemporal dementia.