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When the Chinese spy balloon was shot down on Feb. 4 by the U.S. Air Force, you might have thought that was the end of it. Just another odd geopolitical quirk that popped up before we all moved on to the next diplomatic crisis. Little did anyone know, it was actually just the beginning of what would become a brand new trend of mysterious flying objects in our skies.

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An Arkansas cop accused last summer of viciously beating a handcuffed man—the shocking scene caught on video by a horrified bystander—wiped his department-issued phone to destroy evidence that further implicated him, an FBI search warrant affidavit obtained by The Daily Beast alleges.

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Newsmax host and serial plagiarist Benny Johnson was so mad that “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was performed at this year’s Super Bowl that he demanded the hymn—often referred to as the Black national anthem—be made “illegal.”

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Paul Tremblay has a fun party game he stores in his back pocket. It’s a little twisted, considering he wrote The Cabin at the End of the World, the book upon which M. Night Shymalan’s new horror Knock at the Cabin is based. No, it doesn’t involve asking, “Who would you kill out of your two closest loved ones?” It’s actually a little darker than that.

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A former NFL player turned educator has filed a discrimination complaint against a Massachusetts school district and several local agencies for “explicitly racist behavior” while he was serving as superintendent.

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Chinese military balloons have been entering Taiwan’s airspace “very frequently” for years, according to a Financial Times report.

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The countdown has begun, now that a judge in Georgia has ordered key portions of a secret grand jury report to be made public—one that decided whether an Atlanta-area prosecutor should seek to indict former President Donald Trump for trying to fake election results there.

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It hardly comes as a revelation that the media and entertainment mogul Sumner Redstone—who controlled two of the planet’s most influential companies, Viacom and CBS, almost until his death in 2020 at age 97—was something of a monster; he evoked, by most accounts, an oversexed combination of Shakespeare’s King Lear and Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Children.”

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Channing Tatum has done so much for the world. From his iconic Lip Sync Battle performance to writing a series of children’s books and single-handedly attempting to save the studio comedy, he’s basically the man that Bonnie Tyler was describing in “Holding Out for a Hero” when she asked for a “Streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds.” But perhaps his greatest gift to humanity is this: inspiring a generation of men to dance.

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JJ Villard’s King Star King was a direct descendant of the works of Robert Crumb, the underground cartoonist whose famously freaky output—including Zap Comix, which he founded, and Fritz the Cat—were gloriously demented satires of 20th-century America that nonetheless exuded a nostalgic fondness for the not-so-distant past.

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Episode five of The Last of Us does something crucial: It clarifies that it is not just a show about surviving an apocalypse. It is a show about family—and the things that we must do to protect our own, even if they are just the family we have found for ourselves.

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The Devils Hole pupfish is the rarest fish on the planet, with fewer than 200 in the world. Though the stats are not quite as stark, Black women divers are also a rarity. More than 85 percent of professional divers in the U.S. are men, 63 percent of all divers are white, and 9 percent Black, according to Zippia.

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Many people thought once Donald Trump was out of the White House that Trumpism—the belief that white evangelical Americans are exclusively responsible for what makes America great, and that their greatness is being disregarded as the country’s demographics shift and ancient norms are challenged—would exit the stage in disgrace with him.

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Did you know that the average length of a football game is nearly 3.5 hours, with around 11 minutes of actual play? Good thing there are tons and tons and tons and tons of commercials to stuff into those extra 199 minutes.

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When Rep. George Santos (R-NY)—allegedly—gave his campaign $705,000, he claims to have done so in the form of personal loans. And thanks to a Supreme Court ruling last year in favor of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), he can still repay himself every penny.

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Tonight, the world’s most famous lingerie saleswoman made a major career pivot. After an extended hiatus from the stage, Rihanna shook Arizona's State Farm Stadium with a medley of her iconic hits that melted faces on pure nostalgia factor alone. It was a show that only someone like Rihanna—who has too many chart-topping songs to count on two hands—could achieve. And that’s because, like Rihanna, it was far more chill compared to the unforgettable halftime shows of the recent past. Читать дальше...

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David Jolicoeur, the rapper known as Trugoy the Dove, who made up one-third of De La Soul, the influential Long Island hip-hop trio, has died, the group’s representative confirmed Sunday. He was 54.

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After an unbelievably rocky road to its release, Warner Bros. has finally unveiled the first full-length The Flash trailer during the Super Bowl commercials. The film stars Ezra Miller, who has “begun ongoing treatment” after a series of violent incidents, after making their debut as the DC character in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016.

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The Super Bowl will return tonight as the Philadelphia Eagles throw down against the Kansas City Chiefs in Glendale, Arizona—but, more importantly, the brands will be fighting for your attention. Every big advertiser is competing once again, with Busch going against Michelob Ultra, Pringles versus Popcorners, and M&M’s going toe-to-toe with…Fox News?

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The U.S. military on Sunday shot down an as-yet-unidentified object over Lake Huron in Michigan, Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) told The Daily Beast.