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Following Thursday night’s presidential debate, in which Joe Biden and Donald Trump faced off for the first time since 2020, Jon Stewart broadcasted live from the Daily Show desk. And the late-night host didn’t mince words regarding the bleak picture painted by both candidates’ performances. Upon seeing 78-year-old Trump and 81-year-old Biden walk onstage, Stewart
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“Many Americans don’t recognize Biden’s custodianship of our democracy, which is a bad sign for his campaign,” Justin Gest, a professor of policy and government at George Mason University, told the Post, in perhaps the understatement of a lifetime. It’s not clear how the Biden campaign plans to change these people’s minds, but for the
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View gallery Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Foo Another layer has been brought to light in the Taylor Swift–Dave Grohl “controversy.” Prior to Dave’s comment about playing “live” during the Foo Fighters’ recent show, the band’s guitarist Pat Smear was revealed to have attended the first night of the popstar’s three-night run at Wembley Stadium on Friday,
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Here’s how to immediately determine the winner of Thursday night’s presidential debate: search “Joe Biden” and “drugs.” If social media mentions are spiking, the current president has out-maneuvered the former president, and the Republican slime machine has revved into top speed, just as it did back in March by suggesting the 81-year-old Democrat must have
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Rapper Travis Scott was arrested in Miami, Fla., and charged with trespassing and disorderly intoxication early Thursday. According to Miami-Dade County jail records, Scott (born Jacques Bermon Webster) was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center around 4:30 a.m. local time. Scott, 33, submitted bond of US$650 (about C$890). According to a police affidavit
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Donald Sutherland, the gravelly-voiced Canadian actor who graced both TV and movie screens, passed away Thursday in Miami from a long illness. He was 88. Known for his easily identifiable baritone, Sutherland starred in a multitude of recognizable and memorable films, including 1980’s Ordinary People, 1991’s JFK, 1998’s Without Limits and the Hunger Games franchise.
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In exactly three weeks, Donald Trump will be sentenced by Judge Juan Merchan, at which point he’ll learn if he will receive prison time. Days later, the Republican National Convention will kick off in Milwaukee, where the RNC will nominate him for president. Is his possible incarceration of any concern to the Republican committee? Not
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View gallery Image Credit: Simone Joyner/Getty Images Kendrick Lamar finally performed his Drake diss tracks live during his “The Pop Out: Ken and Friends” concert at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 19. During the performance of “euphoria,” Kendrick, 37, revealed some new lyrics, referencing a ring that Tupac Shakur owned that Drake,
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Singer Firerose has accused her estranged husband Billy Ray Cyrus of “extreme verbal, emotional and psychological abuse.” Cyrus, who filed to divorce Firerose (real name Johanna Rose Hodges) on May 22, separately accused her of attempting to “isolate” him from at least one of his daughters. Firerose, 36, filed her counter-complaint against Cyrus, 62, on June
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View gallery Image Credit: Disney Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist are officially divorced. Two months after announcing their split on Good Morning America, the Golden Bachelor season 1 alums finalized their divorce in Indiana on Thursday, June 13. According to court documents obtained by Entertainment Tonight, Gerry, 72, and Theresa, 70, “lived together as husband
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