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Image Credit: Ian Gavan The ballet world is mourning the loss of Michaela DePrince, who passed away at the age of 29. She developed a passion for dance from a young age, mastering everything from pirouettes to pliés. On Friday, September 13, her team announced her passing on Instagram: “With pain in our hearts, we share

Justin Timberlake has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in his drunk driving case from June. The SexyBack singer arrived at the Sag Harbor Village Justice Courthouse in Long Island, N.Y., on Friday in the early afternoon. Timberlake, 43, and his lawyer Edward Burke Jr. were swarmed by photographers upon their arrival. Timberlake reached a plea

Two days after rambling incoherently about pets being eaten and babies being executed after they’re born, Donald Trump announced that he would not debate Kamala Harris for a second time, claiming, absurdly, that he was the victor of Tuesday night’s proceedings. In a post on Truth Social, the GOP nominee told his followers: “When a

Image Credit: Getty Images for MTV From losing her bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics to receiving a special piece of jewelry from Flavor Flav, gymnast Jordan Chiles had a memorable moment at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards. She helped present the first award of the evening to Taylor Swift and Post Malone

The Toronto International Film Festival says screenings of a controversial documentary depicting Russian soldiers in Ukraine will go ahead as planned, despite Ontario’s public broadcaster pulling its support amid outcry from the Ukrainian community. A statement from the festival Wednesday defended the film, Russians at War, a day after a large protest was held outside its

By breakfast time, Swift’s Instagram post, featuring a shot from her TIME Person of the Year shoot of her cuddling up to the one and only Benjamin Button (the cat, not Brad Pitt in prosthetics), had racked up more than 8.7 million likes and counting. Conservatives had also had time to have their say, including

Image Credit: Getty Images for MTV Taylor Swift has formally endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. In a lengthy new statement that the 34-year-old pop star shared to Instagram on Tuesday, September 10, she also blasted Republican candidate Donald Trump and his team for using AI-generated images of her earlier this summer. “Like many of you,

Liberal MPs, including Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, are criticizing the use of public funds for a controversial documentary depicting Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine that has been called “Russian propaganda.” The film, Russians at War, is having its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday. It was helmed by a Russian Canadian

Perhaps no organization has as much baroque infrastructure as the Catholic Church, all of its rules and rituals carried out in palaces. The highest and most elaborate rite of them all may be the selection of a new pope, in which the college of cardinals gathers in Rome to seclude themselves for deliberation and define

Image Credit: Billboard via Getty Images The Country Music Awards are coming up in November, and the association has faced backlash over its nominations list, which revealed that Beyoncé was snubbed despite releasing her acclaimed country-themed album, Cowboy Carter, this year. After reaching the number one spot on the charts with “Texas Hold ‘Em,” but

Singer Paula Abdul has cancelled her Straight Up! To Canada Tour dates. On Wednesday evening, Abdul, 62, announced the cancellation of her Canadian shows as well as two American concert dates. In a statement shared to social media, Abdul said she was forced to cancel the tour due to a recent injury that will require

The 2024 presidential election cycle is the first time in at least 60 years that a single candidate hasn’t been ahead 5 points or more in the polls for three-plus weeks, according to an analysis by Harry Enten, host of CNN’s Margins of Error. That margin has existed in every campaign since 1964, Enten explained,

Image Credit: Instagram: @paulharrellmoments YouTuber Paul Harrell announced his own death in a pre-recorded video from cancer. He was 58. In the posthumous video titled “I’m Dead,” posted on Tuesday, September 3, Harrell shared that his pancreatic cancer had “spread faster than I thought it would” and reached his bones. Harrell, who first revealed his

Linkin Park announced that a new singer and drummer have joined the band as they prepare to release their first new album in over seven years since the death of frontman Chester Bennington. Vocalist Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain performed onstage with returning bandmates Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Phoenix and Joe Hahn during a

There have been many reports over the years that billionaires have been quietly building survival bunkers around the world—sprawling and well-appointed hideaways where the ruling class plan to spend Armageddon. There they will remain in comfort while the rest of us go to war over resources, contend with the worsening elements, and die off. But

Image Credit: FilmMagic Orlando Bloom “cleaned the whole house” after his wife, Katy Perry , admitted that coming home to a clean house is her “love language,” which she humorously said could lead to her partner getting their “d**k sucked.” The 47-year-old actor joined in on the joke by commenting on Perry’s Instagram post, playfully

Spared from prosecution in Britain on Thursday, Harvey Weinstein now faces the prospect of a new indictment in New York, where prosecutors retrying the disgraced movie mogul’s rape case are taking steps to potentially charge him with up to three additional sex assaults. Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service, which authorized two charges of indecent assault against

Like all great romances, Lady Gaga and fiancé Michael Polansky’s began thanks to a mother who, as it turns out, actually did know best. As the singer-actor revealed in a cover story for Vogue‘s October issue published Thursday, Gaga’s mother, Cynthia Germanotta, who runs the Born This Way Foundation, met Polansky, the CEO of the

Image Credit: Disney Anna Delvey, real name Anna Sorokin, is ready to join the cast of the upcoming season of Dancing With the Stars, with all the proper authorization. The Inventing Anna subject—who was convicted of larceny after allegedly posing as a German heiress and scamming thousands of dollars from New York’s elites to fund

As the city gears up for the annual Toronto International Film Festival, locals and visitors alike are already buzzing about the stars they may encounter in town. It’s no secret that one of the most popular activities during the 10-day festival is star spotting. From A-list actors to musicians and film directors, TIFF brings all

The day after Labor Day traditionally marks the beginning of the general election season. Republicans have spent nearly a decade going full One America News—ceding party control to wingnuts like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Anna Paulina Luna; jettisoning anyone who doesn’t toe the Trumpy line, like Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and Jeff Flake; and electing

Image Credit: Newsday via Getty Images A former top aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was arrested Tuesday morning on federal criminal charges, accused of acting as an agent of China and the Chinese Communist Party and of pocketing millions of dollars, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said. Linda Sun, 41, and her husband, Christopher

The suspects in the foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna earlier this month sought to kill “tens of thousands” of fans before the CIA discovered intelligence that disrupted the planning and led to arrests, the agency’s deputy director said. The CIA notified Austrian authorities of the scheme, which allegedly included links to

In her first broadcast interview since joining the nation’s highest court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson talks Donald Trump’s presidential immunity case, an enforceable code of ethics for her and her colleagues, and how the last two years on the bench have gone as the first ever Black woman to serve as a United States Supreme

Image Credit: GC Images Gigi Hadid has taken the next step in her relationship with Bradley Cooper, as she was seen on a family vacation with the 49-year-old actor and his daughter, Lea De Seine Cooper. The trio was spotted on Thursday, August 29, arriving in Sardinia, Italy, along with The Hangover actor’s mother, Gloria