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It really is tough out here for the children of the very famous and wealthy these days. This week, Romy Mars, the 16-year-old daughter of auteur film director Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars, the lead singer of the indie pop band Phoenix, went viral for a TikTok she absolutely was not supposed to be making.

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The CEO of TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, faced tough questioning from Congress on Thursday.

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Abbott Elementary star Sheryl Lee Ralph has revealed that she was sexually assaulted years ago by a “famous TV judge”—and was subsequently silenced by network executives who saw what happened.

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A 22-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly setting fire to a building that was slated to house an abortion clinic in Casper, Wyoming, causing devastating damage that prevented the facility from opening.

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Have you ever gone on vacation and forgot to water your plants—only to come back to your home and find them looking like they’re dead—or at least on the utter brink? But after a quick drink they’re suddenly brought back to life, with a strong green color and an arching height once more. Scientists have always been fascinated by the ability of plants to survive months deprived of the necessities to survive, then return to full health almost overnight. Читать дальше...

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Though Succession will be premiering new episodes all throughout April, HBO has a smattering of other options coming out. Want back-to-back Sunday night shows to fill The Last of Us void? Try pairing the Roys with Barry, which returns for its final season next month as well.

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Former President Donald Trump’s persistent threats—and those of his most vicious followers—have prompted a New York federal judge to take the remarkable step of keeping the American public from ever finding out the names of the jurors who will decide whether the real estate tycoon raped the journalist E. Jean Carroll decades ago.

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A Florida charter school principal has been ousted after multiple parents complained that their sixth graders were made to view pornography—because they looked at Michelangelo’s iconic statue of David.

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It’s all happening.

Scheana Shay’s lawyer has confirmed to The Daily Beast that the Bravo star will be present for the highly anticipated Vanderpump Rules reunion, which is set to be filmed on Thursday.

Shay’s presence at the reunion comes after a lot of coordination given her castmate Raquel Leviss filed for a temporary restraining order over an alleged attack by Shay spurred by the news of Leviss’ affair with co-star Tom Sandoval.

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Residents of an apartment building in Russia’s Yekaterinburg have just learned they’re living next door to a serial killer who was locked up in a mental hospital after he was convicted of electrocuting his victims to death.

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. fired off a warning shot to congressional Republicans on Thursday, telling them to stop interfering with his office’s ongoing secret grand jury considering criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.

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It seems like everyone has something to say on the currently unfolding “Scandoval.” The least surprising voice from the peanut gallery is former Vanderpump Rules stars Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright, who appeared on Watch What Happens Live! last night. They were there to discuss all things Tom and Ariana (but mostly Tom)—and they also have a new podcast.

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While Moscow has publicly dismissed the Hague’s arrest order for Vladimir Putin as nothing more than a meaningless piece of paper, some government officials reportedly descended into a full-blown panic in private chats after the news broke—with some wondering if they’d become the next Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels.

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Fox News host Laura Ingraham delivered some bold campaign advice to Donald Trump on Wednesday night, as the former president mounts numerous battles that include a possible indictment and an ongoing tit-for-tat with his former pal, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

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We’ve all been there.

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The world’s top alien hunter is about to embark on his most ambitious—and potentially history-making—mission yet. Harvard physicist Avi Loeb is organizing a $1.5-million expedition to Papua New Guinea to search for fragments of a very strange meteorite that impacted just off the coast of the Pacific nation in 2014.

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Idaho State Rep. Rod Furniss offered his fellow legislators a lesson in basic biology this week.

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No one makes films that are simultaneously as gritty and lyrical as Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the Belgian directorial duo responsible for some of the greatest big-screen works (Rosetta, The Son, The Child) of the past four decades.

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In case you might have been unable to ascertain from its title, The Night Agent is about an agent. The twist? He works at night. Now, that is not inherently special. McDonald’s employees work at night too, and they have to battle drunk college students stumbling in five minutes before closing, demanding McFlurrys through a cloud of Jaegerbomb haze. But the titular night agent in Netflix’s The Night Agent is an agent, who works at night, and—get this—is waiting for a phone call! Читать дальше...

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House Republicans are exhausting all their options and making a last-ditch effort to dismantle Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s probe into hush money allegedly paid by former president Donald Trump to a porn star who he shared an affair with.

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Cartoon reporter Tyler Templeton, one of the stars of Stephen Colbert-produced Tooning Out the News, was back again this week with an episode from the Conservative Political Action Conference—taking shots at MAGA luminaries such as Mike Lindell, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.

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All eyes are on Vanderpump Rules, as the explosive “Scandoval” looms over the ongoing tenth season on Bravo.

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For the last three months, Israelis have been taking to the streets in the hundreds of thousands, on a weekly basis, to protest what they see as the far-right government’s regime coup—a plan (which it has already begun implementing) to subordinate the judicial system, and change the system of governance to the point that all checks and balances on those in power are removed.

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Greg Gutfeld made a stunning inquiry during a conversation on Wednesday’s edition of The Five, asking his co-hosts whether they thought the transgender ex-NCAA swimmer Lia Thomas “has her junk.”