After legal disputes, multiple missed deadlines, and close brushes with electoral fraud, Kanye West finally got his name onto the presidential ballot in three more states. It was confirmed on Tuesday that the rapper officially qualified to appear on the ballot in Idaho and Minnesota as an independent candidate in the 2020 presidential election, according
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That’s true, though one would hope that the hero history has chosen for this moment might be, say, an epidemiologist, or someone who doesn’t respond to Americans’ cries for racial justice with tweets about shooting protesters. But according to the Republicans who spoke at the RNC, this fraught moment demands the expertise and compassion only
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Horror comes in many guises and forms, with many takes on the genre feeding off of our own personal fears and aversions. From the guts and gore of splatter cinema to eerie tellings of the paranormal, there’s plenty of ways to harvest the screams of fear-loving fans. There is, however, one guaranteed method of unnerving
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Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez backs Alex Morse despite alleged ‘smear campaign’ (Getty Images) Left-wing Democratic firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has given her backing to congressional hopeful Alex Morse, who faced an alleged homophobic smear campaign over his Grindr hook-ups. Morse, a progressive challenger hoping to unseat centre-left Democratic congressman Richard Neal, faced a scandal earlier this month (7
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Honoring the finest works of translated fiction from around the world, the Booker International Prize has announced its 2020 winner, The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison. BBC’s Razia Iqbal hosted the virtual celebration which included remarks from the judges and Booker Prize staff and readings from
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Two former news anchors have accused a network news director of fatphobia, homophobia and racism in a federal lawsuit. Ex-Telemundo Denver news anchor Miguel Bedoy claims that he was fired after being subjected to labour exploitation, homophobia and racism by his former boss Griselle Sierra. Bedoy filed a lawsuit Monday (August 24) against Sierra, a
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Director Christopher Nolan, known for bending reality and configuring complex storylines into labyrinthine mazes for the moviegoer to navigate, keeps true to form with his latest movie, Tenet. There’s an abundance of time “inversion” — I’ll attempt to explain that later — and riveting action scenes, gorgeous cinematography, typical dark, apocalyptic Nolanesque music, and the
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