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Image Credit: Getty Images President Joe Biden appeared in an historic televised presidential address since stepping down from the 2024 presidential race. While speaking to the American public from the Oval Office on Wednesday, July 24, the 81-year-old began his speech by crediting his predecessors, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, “who showed us presidents
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“Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller… all the blind guys.” That’s how the multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, one of the chief architects of the British blues revival of the 1960s, who died at 90 yesterday at his home in California, described the influences that shaped his musical tastes and inspired a career that stretched
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View gallery Image Credit: WireImage It’s hard to believe it’s been more than a decade since the British boy band One Direction was formed on The X Factor. July 23 marks the 14th anniversary of the band — Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, and former member Zayn Malik — being placed together by Simon Cowell. Their rise
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Taylor Swift is the influencer to end all influencers, able to wield her massive popularity and power effectively enough to impact economies and legislation, moviemaking practices and album release strategies. She’s lent her voice in the past, to great effect, to voter registration efforts, but with the news that Vice President Kamala Harris is the
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Image Credit: AFP via Getty Images In one of the most historic moments in American history, President Joe Biden has decided to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race for reelection. Weeks after multiple celebrities, politicians and other public figures called on Biden to drop out of the race, several responded to the president’s announcement on
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The Republican National Convention speaker lineup was chock-full of leaders who have historically not been shy about their anti-abortion views—yet, the speeches this year were remarkably silent on the topic of reproductive care access altogether. In his 2020 RNC nomination acceptance speech, then-president Donald Trump touted common anti-abortion myths, saying that Democrats support, “the extreme
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Donald Trump grasps the power of an image better than most, as evidenced by his decades-long path through pop culture, and to the heights of TV stardom and political power. Trump’s campaign fundraised off his police mugshot last year, and this past week, his political operation seized upon the iconic photo of a bloodied Trump,
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This year, the small screen’s biggest hits brought us everything from agitated Chicago chefs in The Bear to historical Japanese power struggles in Shōgun. On Wednesday, Emmy-winning actors Tony Hale and Sheryl Lee Ralph announced the 2024 Emmy nominations. The academy’s chair, Cris Abrego, also joined in reading the nominations, offering kudos to the year’s
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Image Credit: Getty Images From being a ‘never Trump’ guy to now being his running mate in the upcoming election as Vice President. J.D. Vance is ready to support the former 45th president’s campaign of “Make America Great Again.” James David Vance was born in Middletown, Ohio on August 2, 1984. The 39-year-old joined the
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Global celebrities, business tycoons and politicians began arriving in India’s financial capital on Friday to attend the wedding of the youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, highlighting the billionaire’s staggering wealth and rising clout. Anant Ambani, 29, is marrying his longtime girlfriend, Radhika Merchant, in what many have dubbed the wedding of the
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