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A Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, who voted last month to expel three Democratic lawmakers for protesting against gun violence, belatedly resigned Thursday—three weeks after a secret ethics subcommittee found that he’d sexually harassed at least one legislative intern.

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Two Bridges Regional Jail

A creepy note left at the Maine home where a man is accused of murdering his parents and their two friends this week has provided insight into a potential motive behind the grisly crime.

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(This article contains spoilers for the finale of Season 3 of The Mandalorian.)

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Much like chicken soup, a good night’s sleep is good for the soul. And it’s not just a figurative lesson: sleep helps the brain process what it learned over the course of a day and clear toxic waste. Your glymphatic system—a relatively recently discovered network of tubes connecting the brain and bloodstream—replaces toxin-filled fluid with fresh liquid primarily during deep sleep. When this waste management system underperforms due to a lack of Z’s, it’s like when you forget to take the trash out to the curb. Читать дальше...

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Translating a perfect piece of animation into live-action filmmaking is always a challenge—and rarely one that anyone gets right. Disney’s effort to adapt 2002’s Lilo and Stitch into a live-action film, for instance, is already ticking everyone off, and it hasn’t even entered production yet.

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F. Murray Abraham issued an apology via IndieWire Thursday amidst reports that his behavior around actresses led to his firing from the Apple+ series Mythic Quest in 2022.

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A Texas man flying first class from Minnesota to Alaska to settle a dead friend’s estate allegedly forced himself on a flight attendant, calling him “beautiful” and kissing him on the neck, before wandering into the plane’s galley and breaking the pilot’s meal tray—only to later claim he didn’t recall a thing.

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It’s been a big day for space fans. Not only did SpaceX’s Starship rocket successfully launch—before exploding in a fireball much to CEO Elon Musk’s chagrin—but the Hubble Space Telescope is also celebrating its 33rd anniversary.

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You can’t really blame them for it, the thousands of tourists who flock to Newport, Rhode Island to gawk solely at the great turn-of-the-century stone palaces. In fact, it might be a blessing for the visitor with a keen eye and a more curious soul, as the real treasures of Newport, the houses that make it the city for understanding pre-modern American domestic architecture, are overlooked. Newport Cottages 1835-1890: The Summer Villas Before the Vanderbilt Era, a gorgeous new book from historian Michael C. Читать дальше...

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Love & Death has a pedigree that’s as illustrious as any recent HBO effort. It comes from David E. Kelley, the prolific showrunner who’s most recently had success with Big Little Lies and The Undoing. It stars Elizabeth Olsen as a confused, disaffected and ultimately volatile suburban housewife—a role that more than faintly recalls her Emmy-nominated turn in WandaVision. It features a stellar cast that includes Jesse Plemons, Lily Rabe... Читать дальше...

Roy Rochlin

MAGA diehard and serial blowhard Dan Bongino is no longer a Fox News star, Forbes first reported on Thursday morning.

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For quite a while, the relentless revamping of treasured children’s stories was the most annoying trend in contemporary filmmaking. No, Disney, we don’t need live action remakes for The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, and Moana, a movie that was released less than a decade ago. Who asked for Shawn Mendes crooning pop songs in a bonkers Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile adaptation? Don’t even get me started on Wednesday.

SpaceX

We have liftoff—kind of.

SpaceX’s Starship rocket successfully launched from the company’s launch site in Boca Chica Village, Texas on Thursday morning. The two-stage rocket successfully fired its first stage, climbing roughly 24 miles into the air before falling back down to Earth and exploding in a ball of expensive fire.

“Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly,” John Insprucker, SpaceX’s principal integration engineer, said in the company’s live broadcast of the test flight. Читать дальше...

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Insider will lay off 10 percent of its team, according to a memo sent out by the company’s president on Thursday.

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Michael Schumacher’s family is planning to take legal action against a magazine that claimed to have secured an interview with the Formula One champion which turned out to use quotes generated by artificial intelligence.

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The FBI has been boosting its efforts to recruit Russians with access to classified information in recent weeks, The Daily Beast has learned.

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The best thing former President Donald Trump ever did with his Batman-like forested estate north of New York City was get a massive tax break—a tax break that’s now under investigation by the state’s attorney general.

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A little over three minutes into the pilot episode of Freeform’s Single Drunk Female, we’re perfectly introduced to the series’ most important relationship: that of Samantha “Sam” Fink (Sofia Black-D’Elia) and her mother, Carol (Ally Sheedy).

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(Warning: This post contains spoilers for the first four episodes of Mrs. Davis.)

CBS

Dominion Voting Systems’ decision to let Fox News off the hook for repeatedly lying about their voting machines on the air in exchange for $787.5 million is the largest known media settlement in American history, making the deal a major news story. And while Fox has “News” right in its name, Stephen Colbert was confused as to why he couldn’t find any information about the deal when he visited FoxNews.com. “This massive settlement was the number 1 story on every single cable news network except one,” Colbert said on Wednesday night’s show.

Comedy Central

Dominion Voting Systems’ decision to settle its massive defamation suit against Fox News may end up relieving Rupert Murdoch’s checkbook of $787.5 million, but it deprived the American public of something much better: listening to inexplicably popular hosts like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham admit they lied about the 2020 presidential election to their audiences. And Jordan Klepper won’t stand for it.

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A “large and extremely dangerous” tornado ripped through a number of communities in Oklahoma on Wednesday, tearing apart homes, forming a “debris ball” and leaving a trail of devastation in its path, killing at least two people.

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I’m not sure how to recap this week’s Vanderpump Rules without first invoking Scheana Shay’s heavily memed arm tattoo: “It’s all happening.”