Month: February 2021

On the same day that rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol, Trump administration officials held an auction to sell oil-and-gas-drilling leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The leases—which President Joe Biden has since moved to suspend—were meant to be a last-ditch triumph for the Donald Trump administration, which waged a madcap campaign to put parts
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Scheana Shay is tired of the ‘tedious messages’ spamming her DMs, sent from critics who have been judging the ‘Vanderpump Rules’ star’s choices amid her pregnancy. So, Scheana defended herself! Scheana Shay, 35, finds all the unsolicited advice and mom-shaming in her DMs “annoying.” The Vanderpump Rules star didn’t hold back while calling out all her followers
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Midnight movie sendup Popcorn bears all the hallmarks of an ’80s horror movie. Fueled by nostalgia, the slasher features haunting vignettes, films within movies, a melodramatic killer, and a jovial tone amplified by its atypical filming location. Released on February 1, 1991, Popcorn brought the ’80s spirit into the ’90s and delivered one of the most entertaining slashers to
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Humza Yousaf put forward the proposed amendment to his hate crime bill. (Getty/Fraser Bremner) The Scottish government has pulled an amendment that sought to exempt “criticism of transgender identity” from hate crime laws. The country’s justice minister Humza Yousaf announced via Twitter on Monday (1 February) that he had pulled a planned amendment to the
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Silento allegedly gunned down his cousin, and now he’s facing a murder charge for it. The “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” rapper was arrested Monday for allegedly murdering Frederick Rooks after an investigation into the man’s death … according to the DeKalb County Police Department. Cops say they found Rooks shot to death inside a home
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Exclusive Kevin Hart isn’t letting that horrific 2019 car wreck hold him back from one of his passions … he’s about to add another souped-up whip to his collection, and it’s a BEAST. Sources familiar with the deal tell us Kevin recently bought a new muscle car from SpeedKore in Wisconsin, dropping several hundred thousand
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As you’ve probably heard by now, Republicans are having a bit of an intraparty squabble re: where they want to stand on batshit-crazy conspiracy theorists, violence as an acceptable way to protest election results, and calls for the execution of politicians one disagrees with. On one side, you have people like Representative Liz Cheney, who
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Horror pairs well with any genre. Horror comedies, horror westerns, horror romance; well, you get the gist. However, in terms of maximum chills or creativity, the marriage of horror and sci-fi often reigns supreme. The extreme isolation of deep space, creatures from other worlds or dimensions, man’s hubris causing dire consequences, dystopian nightmares, science experiments
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Layshia Clarendon said they felt freedom and euphoria after having top surgery. (Instagram/LayshiaC) Basketball player Layshia Clarendon has described the euphoria they felt after having top surgery amid a wave of support from professional sports organisations. The trans non-binary Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) player, who is currently New York Liberty guard, shared on Friday
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Pussy Riot have shared the music video for a new song called “RAGE.” It arrives days after three members of the Russian art collective—Masha Alekhina, Viktoria Naraxsa, and Lucy Shteyn—were arrested following protests calling for the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Check out the chaotic visual below. Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova and Chris Greatti
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Lauren Oyler is the kind of literary critic who makes thin-skinned writers think twice about putting their thoughts onto the page. She once questioned if New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino had ever met someone who wasn’t pretty (yikes!) and asserted that the best-selling novel American Dirt could have “perhaps used a little more self-doubt” (…fair).
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After Donald Trump became the first president in United States history to be impeached for a second time, he struggled to find lawyers to represent him, which probably had something to do with the violent insurrection he incited. Then Lindsey Graham reportedly recommended Butch Bowers to him, and it appeared the South Carolina attorney would
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Are there opposing views to voting rights history in the United States? According to some Board members of the Lafayette Parish Library in Louisiana, there are, and by not presenting opposing sides, the library isn’t serving its patrons well. Teresa Elberson, a long-time employee of the Lafayette Parish library and current system director, stepped down
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