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Reaching for an example of her unflinching preparedness to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it needs to be done, Kristi Noem landed on...
Ellen DeGeneres on Wednesday night spoke publicly about the “devastating” experience she went through amid allegations of a toxic work environment...
Welcome to Trail Mix, your 2024 election sanity guide. See something interesting on the trail? Email me at jake.lahut@thedailybeast.com. To get...
An adult sex comedy that’s also the most amusingly unerotic film of the year, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, which...
A premature baby girl who was saved from the womb after her mother was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza has now died as well. Sabreen Jouda...
Every once in a while—in spite of the inferno of lunacy, cruelty, and soul-crushing stress flaming all around—the world resembles one that I...
David Pecker, much like Arnold Schwarzenegger, will be back. On Friday, the former National Enquirer boss will take the stand for the fourth time...
CNN anchor Poppy Harlow announced in a memo to colleagues on Friday morning that she is departing the network after 16 years. Harlow will exit CNN...
Former New York Giants offensive lineman Korey Cunningham has been found dead in his New Jersey home. He was 28. Local outlet RLS Media said police...
As the first week of testimony in Donald Trump’s criminal trial wrapped up Friday, former tabloid king David Pecker was on the defensive. Trump...
Donald Trump used his break between court sessions to wish wife Melania a very happy birthday with a message focused mostly on himself. “I want...
Donald Trump is set to hold a “major donor retreat” next week in Florida, and it could signal the unofficial start of the presidential...
Listen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Amazon and Stitcher . Republican operatives have been forced to...
“We’re halfway there,” I said to myself at the two-and-a-half-hour mark of Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, a four-part early Christmas...
About the authors: James Roosevelt, Jr. is a grandson of President Franklin Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Henry Scott Wallace’s...
President Joe Biden told Howard Stern on Friday that he would “be happy to” debate his Republican rival Donald Trump, marking the first time...
King Charles is to return to “public-facing duties” from next week, Buckingham Palace said Friday, in an encouraging sign that his cancer...
Where’s Jeff Gillooly when you need him? Reacting to Friday’s news that President Joe Biden said he’s “happy” to debate Donald Trump, Fox...
Aaron Sorkin is bringing the Jan. 6 Capitol Riots to the big screen with a new film. In the newest episode of podcast The Town, Sorkin opened up (...
An economics professor at Emory University whose needlessly violent arrest was captured by a news crew on Thursday at the school’s pro-Palestine...
A Massachusetts man was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in the drowning death of his father, who died during an attempted exorcism...
When Manhattan District Attorney prosecutors called their second witness in Donald Trump’s criminal case on Friday, they wanted the jury to note...
Harvey Weinstein, whose New York rape conviction was just overturned, may have been the biggest #MeToo villain. But there are plenty of other bold-...
Baby Reindeer is Netflix’s latest and most unlikely hit series, taking the world by storm in the weeks since its early-April release. The...
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R. Kelly’s bid to shorten his lengthy prison terms came up short on Friday, as the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago decided that his...
The only thing worse than a meme that completely floods your social media timeline is not understanding what in god’s name the meme means. As a...
For decades, the ritzy leisure and dining group Cipriani has attracted tabloid fixtures to its banquet halls, from Donald Trump to Taylor Swift,...
There’s still life in the old dog yet. At the age of 93 Rupert Murdoch is about to marry for the fifth time. And there’s no doubt what the best,...
Maya Rudolph didn’t mean to make waves this week when she sat down with Dax Shepard for an episode of Armchair Expert, but alas, sometimes you...
Donald Trump knows how to play to the audience, whether it’s the deluded millions of his MAGA base or the jurors in the first criminal trial of a...
Plans for alumni reunions at Columbia University are colliding with controversy, with some alumni planning to boycott over the continued protests...
Fans of comedian Jerry Seinfeld are going to have to stick to reruns, because the veteran comedian said his most recent comedy special will likely...
To the women of the world, I—and many people on TikTok—have a question for you: Would you rather be left in the woods with a man you don’t know,...
Harvey Weinstein is coming back to court. The disgraced Hollywood producer is set to return to Manhattan Supreme Court next week, less than a week...
According to its own self-mythology, the entertainment industry is something far grander, more poetic and noble, than just a titanic money-maker....
Apparently, it’s not encouraged to shout, “Alright boys, pucker up!” at a movie theater screen during a packed showing of one of the most...
As much fun as Mary & George can be, what with all of Julianne Moore’s plotting and perversion as the devious Mary Villiers, it surprises when it...
Donald Trump’s presidency has served as a wake-up call that our Constitution and our laws were not designed to handle an authoritarian like him....
Fox News contributor and Washington Times opinion editor Charlie Hurt was back on The Five Friday with another weird take: Showers “are terrible,”...
A woman in Utah who was dubbed a “Karen” after video of her losing it over a young woman wearing a miniskirt went viral has been charged with...
Earlier this month, a post popped up on the r/seinfeld subreddit with the headline, “Lost Seinfeld script for 'The Bet' aka 'The Gun' finally...
For the duration of his criminal trial, Donald J. Trump has moved back into the penthouse of Trump Tower at the corner of 5th Avenue and 56th...
The overturn of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction on Thursday thrust the #MeToo movement back into the spotlight, sparking national conversation...
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The first season of Palm Royale –the Apple TV series set in Palm Beach, 1969—has been nothing if not idiosyncratic, a synthesis of meditations...
The court decision overturning Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape conviction came as a shock to victims, activists—and the man who was the foreman...
Bill Barr, Donald Trump’s former attorney general who once said that voting for the indicted ex-president would be “playing Russian roulette with...
The retired cop who became the face of D.C. Metropolitan Police brutalized at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 has launched a private security business...
Pastel pink and soft vignette filters, images featuring thin girls with long eyelashes, and good grades and skincare products: These are all...
“Bro, I already saw Tyler at Flog Gnaw,” said a guy dressed in a flowery button-down to his friend, also in a flowery button-down. Tyler, the...
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem appears to have confirmed that she killed a family puppy that infuriated her by being “untrainable,” and she claims...
It’s the question everyone in British society and in the corridors of power is thinking, but nobody will publicly ask, let alone answer: Just how...
When he launched his campaign for U.S. Senate in Nevada last year, Jeff Gunter presented himself as a gritty frontiersman and a diehard MAGA...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling for MSNBC to ban Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt from its airwaves over...
A passerby interrupted a local television interview Tuesday with San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan to start a fight with one of Mahan’s security...
Following news that Emilio Garcia, a former cameraman for rap star Megan Thee Stallion, is suing the rapper for withholding wages and creating a...
Video taken by a witness and confirmed by local reporters captured the moment Noëlle McAfee, the chair of Emory University’s philosophy...
As the Supreme Court weighs whether Donald Trump is shielded from prosecution for acts committed while president, Senate Minority Leader Mitch...
New York’s highest court has overturned fallen Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes conviction. In a 4-3 decision, the appeals court...
Quelle catastrophe! The Moulin Rouge suffered a bit of a faux pas early Thursday when the blades fell off the iconic red windmill that stands atop...
Donald Trump is tearing into his former attorney general for endorsing him in the upcoming presidential election, using the opportunity to dredge...
A Russian court has sentenced two teenagers to hard time for graffiti and anti-war social media posts. Lyubov Lizunova, 16, was sentenced to 3.5...
Last Wednesday, dozens of students skipped class to gather outside a Payson, Utah, middle school for hours and chant, “We the people, not the...
The extraordinary claim by Rebel Wilson that she was invited to a drug-fueled orgy by a minor royal at an LA party was greeted with wry amusement...
Everyone remembers their first brush with death. Whether you’re 5 or fortunate enough to be 75, coming face-to-face with your own mortality for...
The Grey’s Anatomy fandom has never lacked for controversial characters. In fact, Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital seems to hire specifically for...
Depending on your personal interpretation, you may subscribe to the notion of ghosts as unquiet spirits, haunting the realm of the living until...
Actress Amanda Seales, who starred on all five seasons of the hit, Issa Rae-helmed HBO comedy Insecure, put her former boss on blast during a...
The first stages of the trial of the People of New York State vs. Donald J. Trump have been illuminating in a variety of ways. They have made it...
The white horse which charged through London streaked crimson by blood is in a serious condition but still alive, British military officials said...
This might be a stressful day for Donald Trump. The former president will return to a New York City courtroom Thursday for the resumption of his...
If you were a rioter at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, you may have felt the whole world was with you—or the part of the world that...
KHARKIV, Ukraine—After months of infighting on Capitol Hill, President Joe Biden has finally been able to sign off on a huge new $61 billion...
Once upon a time Fox News gleefully mocked its cable-news rivals for their breathless promotion of disgraced former Stormy Daniels attorney Michael...
Making a deal with a porn star who said she slept with Donald Trump was a step too far even for tabloid king David Pecker, he testified on...
The news that Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape conviction was overturned left his victims and #MeToo advocates reeling in disgust. But the...
A Maryland high school athletic director was arrested Thursday after police said he used artificial intelligence to generate a fake audio clip of a...
A professor at Columbia University said he was the victim of targeted harassment from campus security officers after the school beefed-up safety...
First it canceled a valedictorian’s speech. Then it removed all non-university-affiliated speakers from the lineup. Now, in the latest axe to fall...
Donald Trump on Wednesday described a deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville as a “peanut” compared with the current wave of...
A group of pro-Palestine protesters chased a New York Police Department chief into an NYU campus building on Monday night as the demonstrators...
Demonstrators at Emory University protesting in support of Palestinians and against a planned “Cop City” training center were subject to...
How many little women is Count Alexander Rostov (Ewan McGregor) going to befriend in A Gentleman in Moscow ? Alex’s habit of acquainting himself...
That Donald Trump has a tendency toward pettiness is hardly surprising to those who have been paying attention to the former president’s antics...
Let us be clear: it is mesmerizing, a delicious treat, a little surreal, and utterly thrilling to watch Jessica Lange act on stage in Paula...
Former president Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that his ongoing hush money trial constitutes “election interference,” by preventing him...
Mainstream animation from the U.S. and Japan may be far apart in sensibility, style, and intended audience, but cartoons from both countries do...
For years, Harvey Weinstein’s New York City sex crimes conviction signified a landmark legal victory for the #MeToo movement. But the victory...
“I know what I believe,” says Rebecca Smallbone (Kirrilee Berger), a teenager defending her ability to write and sing pop songs, about halfway...
More than 80 women have accused producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. On Thursday, dozens of them expressed their shock and outrage when...
A federal judge in New York upheld a defamation verdict against Donald Trump, keeping him on the hook for the $83 million he owes E. Jean Carroll,...
Harvey Weinstein’s accusers responded with shock and defiance to news that the disgraced producer’s New York rape conviction was overturned...
After an astonishing oral argument session before the Supreme Court, it seems highly likely that there is at least some support for the former...
Harvey Weinstein has been “dying to tell his story” for years—and he wants to do it on the witness stand. Hours after the New York Court of...
If Meghan Markle’s lifestyle brand American Riveria Orchard and its strawberry jam are all part of a grand plan to troll the royal family, chances...
Tabloid boss David Pecker took the stand at Donald Trump’s hush-money trial for the third day on Thursday, testifying about his scheme to bury a...
G/O Media rid itself of another property on Thursday, telling staffers in a company-wide memo that it has sold the satirical outlet The Onion ....
An attorney for Donald Trump on Thursday tried to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that his client could have murdered his political rivals with...
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