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Kylie Jenner’s on-and-off-again paramour Travis Scott tends to be a controversial character in the celebrity universe—he’s recently, for instance, been accused of assaulting a sound engineer and of hitting a fan in the head with a cell phone, both of which Scott has denied. Now, the Houston rapper is being called out by Chicago Bulls legend Dennis Rodman over a sneaker design.

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Actor Lance Reddick, who became well known for playing Cedric Daniels in the beloved HBO series The Wire, has died, according to multiple reports. He was just 60.

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“In every great Russian writer,” wrote Virginia Woolf, “we seem to discern the features of a saint, if sympathy for the suffering of others, love towards them, endeavor to reach some goal worthy of the most exacting demands of the spirit constitute saintliness.” She wasn’t wrong, but being English, her attention was drawn to the fashionable literature a continent away to the East instead of to the West.

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Hulu has a flurry of new series releasing this April—as if the backlog of the million things releasing in March (Succession, Ted Lasso, Yellowjackets…need we say more?) wasn’t enough to keep us busy through the end of 2023. But no, there’s more on the way, so keep streaming!

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Disney+ doesn’t just have The Mandalorian to keep us entertained this April. Well, the streamer does have more episodes of Baby Yoda’s series. But there’s also a brand new live action adaptation of one of Disney’s most beloved animated films, a brand new drama series, and more heading to our homes next month.

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Tyra Banks is moving on from Dancing With the Stars. After three seasons spent hosting the celebrity competition show, Banks will not return next season and is instead looking to pursue new business ventures, per Variety.

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Given that Servant, the Apple TV+ show about a family reeling from the aftereffects of tragedy and their megalomaniac nanny who may or may not have supernatural powers, was an M. Night Shyamalan project, fans knew to expect a twist.

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The family of a South Carolina teenager whose mysterious roadside death has been linked with the once-prominent Murdaugh family says his body will be exhumed.

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It all got a little tense on Fox & Friends Friday morning as the hosts rowed with each other about President Biden’s media arrangements.

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As Donald Trump prepares for an indictment that could come any minute now, one of his top lawyers is apparently trying to use another case to siphon information about every possible pending investigation into the former president—including ones that Trump might not even know about yet.

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By now, you’ve probably heard about the new TV series Swarm that’s about Beyoncé fans but not about Beyoncé fans. Donald Glover and Janine Nabers’ new Prime Video show, out today, follows a troubled young woman (Dominique Fishback), whose obsession with a pop star resembling the “Crazy In Love” singer takes her down a disturbing path.

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Inside affords the opportunity to spend 105 minutes in the sustained company of Willem Dafoe as he slowly disintegrates under the strain of physical confinement and psychological torment—a prospect that sounds a lot better than it turns out to be. The feature debut of Greek filmmaker Vasilis Katsoupis, which hit theaters Mar. 17, is another in a long line of films in which a character is trapped in a single location (think Ryan Reynolds in a coffin in Buried, or Tom Hanks on a deserted island in Cast Away)... Читать дальше...

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To watch Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of late has been to watch a game of escalating recklessness played out on a national scale. Desperate to extricate himself from his corruption trial, he has formed an unprecedentedly hardline coalition, which on one hand has given power to bigots and extremists long confined to Israel’s fringe and on the other is pushing radical judicial reforms that risk tearing the country apart—both socially and democratically. Читать дальше...

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Conservative critic Bethany Mandel was the physical embodiment of a deer in the headlights this week.

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“Nothing is politically right,” said the grandfather of Irish independence, Daniel O’Connell, “that is morally wrong.” The history of Ireland, though, might be seen as a war between politics and morals.

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Mike Pence is digging in his heels on a so-called joke about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg he delivered during a black-tie dinner in Washington, D.C. last weekend.

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If you’re a Republican voter who may soon be forced to decide between Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis as your 2024 presidential candidate of choice, you might find yourself caught in the middle of a game of Weird or Weirder.

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We should all look on the bright side of global warming, Tucker Carlson argued Thursday night.

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Thousands of people furious with the French government’s plan to raise the retirement age by two years gathered to stage a protest on Thursday, with the demonstrations escalating into clashes with the police and fire-setting after reports emerged that President Emmanuel Macron would ram the reform through without a parliamentary vote.

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What is Parade trying to show? What is it trying to say? These are the questions left on this critic’s mind after seeing this musical for a second time—first at New York City Center Encores last year, its production now transferred to Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (booking to August 6).

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Speaking out against a proposed school breakfast and lunch program, Republican state Sen. Steve Drazkowski said this week that he “has yet to meet a person in Minnesota that is hungry.”