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The Minneapolis Police Department—which sparked racial justice protests around the country after its fatal arrest of George Floyd three years ago—has promoted an officer with a racist past to head its homicide division, and detractors are furious with the tone-deaf move.

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The Black riverboat co-captain who went viral for his valiant efforts to fight off a group of white boaters in Alabama in August has been charged by the city of Montgomery with third-degree assault.

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A group of far-right local commissioners in Michigan has offered the county’s public health officer $4.1 million to leave her job, after trying unsuccessfully to remove her for the last 10 months.

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After years of speculation, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced Thursday that he would not seek re-election in 2024—instead teasing the possibility of exploring a third party presidential campaign.

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Fox News “straight news” anchor Harris Faulkner lashed out against “failed presidential candidate” Hillary Clinton on Thursday, claiming the former secretary of state was “so evil” for making a comparison between former President Donald Trump and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

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During a segment on The Daily Show on Wednesday night, guest host Sarah Silverman dug further into her decision to sue the OpenAI language model ChatGPT for copyright infringement.

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With a title almost as cumbersome as the film itself, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes gives viewers more of the ridiculously named characters, absurd outfits and hairstyles, and child-murder tournaments that made the franchise a YA success. What it doesn’t deliver, however, is a center of attention with even one-tenth the charisma of original star Jennifer Lawrence, or a story of any significant consequence or suspense. A dreary and protracted (165 minutes!)... Читать дальше...

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Omegle, a popular video and chat platform, has officially shuttered after 14 years. The website, which randomly connected users with each other all over the internet, drew near constant controversy and criticisms from digital safety advocates over the years for its reputation as a breeding ground for pedophiles, child pornography, and racists.

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A Kentucky mom faces two murder charges after cops say she inexplicably shot her two young sons, aged 6 and 9, dead inside their home on Wednesday morning.

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Nicki Minaj isn’t letting the internet influence her politics. In her first (and long-awaited) cover story for Vogue, the rapper talked about the backlash she’s received for voicing controversial opinions on various topics, including the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Comedian Whitney Cummings was seven months pregnant when she taped her latest stand-up special, Mouthy. But that didn’t stop her from saying whatever she wanted on stage at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles.

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The first-ever openly gay member of the New York State Senate claims he was molested nearly two decades ago by a doctor conducting a routine physical exam required of all legislators.

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Jezebel was indefinitely suspended on Thursday as major layoffs hit G/O Media, The Daily Beast has learned.

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A pair of international news agencies have denied claims in a viral report alleging that photojournalists may have had prior knowledge of Hamas’ attacks in Israel last month and even possibly “coordinated” with the militant group in order to document the carnage.

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Several fights erupted outside the screening of a film showing the Hamas attacks on Israel in Los Angeles on Wednesday night.

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Officials around the globe are scrambling to find and rescue the hundreds of men, women, and children abducted by Hamas terrorists a month after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

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Even after the GOP’s abortion rollback cost Republicans dearly in the 2022 elections, the new GOP majority in the House moved forward with policies curtailing abortion access.

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We’re little more than a week into November—have you set up your festive decorations yet? If not, why not get started a little early this year? We could use the good cheer. Bring out your garland, your fake (or real?) snow, your mistletoe, your stockings, and your warmest blankets. It’s time for the holiday season.

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There are certain people who belong in certain places. It just feels right to see them there. Andy Cohen belongs in the center of a group of women wearing outrageous outfits in a highly dramatic, often ridiculous situation.

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Nicolas Cage fans view the Oscar-winning actor’s every new film as a veritable dream come true—a fact that Dream Scenario (in theaters Nov. 10) jokily leans into via its The Twilight Zone-y premise. Kristoffer Borgli’s sophomore feature (following 2022’s Sick of Myself) stars Cage as an educator who, for reasons neither he nor anyone else can explain, suddenly appears in random strangers’ dreams, thereby flipping the mild-mannered man’s life upside-down. What begins as an amusingly demented fantasy about ambition... Читать дальше...

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The title of It’s a Wonderful Knife (in theaters Nov. 10) doubles as the film’s elevator pitch: It’s Frank Capra’s classic of Yuletide magnanimity, reimagined as a holly-bedecked horror flick. Easily enough said and sold, but actually following through on the snappy logline proves more convoluted than in the recent ready-made slasherfications of Groundhog Day (Happy Death Day), Freaky Friday (Freaky), and Back to the Future (Totally Killer).

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On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James rested her case against Donald Trump in his ongoing $250 million fraud trial. But neither the former president nor his three adult children—two of whom are their dad’s co-defendants in the case—seemed to offer much detail in their sworn testimony.

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As Steve Miller famously sang, “Time keeps on ticking… into the future.”

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This week, voters across the country rejected Republican policies and ideologies in a sweep that should have the GOP rethinking its choices. Instead, the Republican candidate “debate” Wednesday in Miami showed a party committed to doubling-down on their losing platforms.