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Roseanne Barr is still not done talking about her politics, as well as her ABC show’s cancellation, but that was just the tip of the iceberg during her appearance on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast this week.

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A registered sex offender in Virginia allegedly masqueraded as a hot prospect being wooed by the Houston Astros, persuading a local mother and daughter to give him money and a place to live, with the promise of $5.5 million once he signed his impending contract with the 2022 World Series champions.

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Federal prosecutors revealed Monday that they nabbed Manuel Rocha, the former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia who was arrested on accusations he spied for Cuba, by tricking him into believing an FBI agent was his new contact from the Cuban government.

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Tyler Goodson, a character from the hit podcast S-Town, was shot and killed by police over the weekend.

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The hard-right Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) on Sunday held its annual dinner—and its featured guest was none other than newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson, who received the organization’s Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Defender of Israel Award.

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Long before Jonathan Majors allegedly attacked his ex-girlfriend in the back of a chauffeured car, the actor “engaged in a cruel and manipulative pattern of abuse” against choreographer Grace Jabbari, New York prosecutors claimed in court on Monday.

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The snubbing of Florida State University’s football team from the college football playoff on Sunday has gone political, with Donald Trump saying disgruntled fans should blame Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for the team being left out of the final four.

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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has suspended his longshot bid for the presidency, having generated little traction with GOP voters since throwing his hat in the ring this summer.

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Now former-Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has wasted no time turning his congressional expulsion lemons into lemonade, apparently signing up to sell personalized videos through Cameo.

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Julia Roberts is remembering her ex Matthew Perry after his “heartbreaking” death.

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Singer Billie Eilish called out Variety for “outing” her in a red caret interview over the weekend, saying she has no interest in discussing her sexual orientation.

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Israel ordered residents to evacuate from areas in southern Gaza on Monday where thousands of Palestinians had already fled as the north of the enclave was razed by a brutal campaign of bombing and ground operations over recent weeks.

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ISIS says it is responsible for the deadly bombing of a Catholic mass inside a university gymnasium in the Philippines on Sunday.

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A Japanese tourist died on Sunday after completing the world’s highest commercial bungee jump in Macau, local media reported.

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Donald Trump has categorically denied a story that he became depressed and stopped eating after his 2020 election loss, claiming instead that he was actually “eating too much” at the time.

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For two years now, a senior lawyer at the New York Attorney General’s Office has been trying to get top bosses to listen to his claims that the agency’s chief prosecutor has potential conflicts of interest and hid unsavory professional relationships.

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Five years after a powerful House Democratic leader was toppled by an unknown Democratic socialist named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the organized effort to elect more progressives has yielded the most left-wing crew of lawmakers ever to serve in Congress.

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At Thanda Safari, a nature reserve in the KwaZulu-Natal province (KZN) of South Africa, a conservation team stands over the motionless body of a female black rhinoceros. With a chainsaw, a rhino custodian removes the anesthetized animal’s horns. The procedure has become one of the best deterrents against poaching of the ungulates, whose horns are used as both unproven medical treatments and status symbols—and fetch more than the price of gold in Asia. Читать дальше...

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When 40 of the U.S.’s richest residents pledged to give away half their net worth in 2010, news outlets heralded the business giants who were “giving back in a big way.” Now, with more than 200 wealthy individuals and couples signed onto the Giving Pledge, a new report finds it might not be as big as expected.

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Benny Safdie is having an unparalleled 2023, co-starring in both the year’s best film (Oppenheimer) and television show (The Curse), the latter of which he created with Nathan Fielder, and which stands as the most daring, original, and mind-boggling series in recent small-screen history. It’s a triumphant twofer for the 37-year-old multihyphenate and, when coupled with his exceptional supporting work in April’s Are You There God? Читать дальше...

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There’s a lot of sexy things happening in Tran Anh Hung’s latest film The Taste of Things, a romance between Eugenie (a luminous Juliette Binoche), a chef, and Dodin (Benoît Magimel), the gourmand she works for. Their chemistry is crackling (perhaps since the two actors were a couple decades ago) in every scene they share. And if you’ve ever wanted to see Binoche sponge-bathe herself, this is the film for you. Читать дальше...

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Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter, the activist Ndileka Mandela, has expressed solidarity with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, comparing their plight to the early life of her grandfather, the global civil rights icon.

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John Oliver got to lord over the demise of not one but two infamous political figures on this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight, after the death of Henry Kissinger at 100 and the expulsion of freshman Rep. George Santos (D-N.Y.) from Congress.

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San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw and Philadelphia Eagles security chief Dom DiSandro were both escorted out of Sunday’s game after tangling on the sidelines in the third quarter.

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Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner has addressed bombshell accusations by a woman claiming to be his ex-girlfriend who said the 72-year-old airbrushed his life story for television.