Just when it looked like the seven-year war in Syria might be nearing its end, Turkey has invaded the northwestern province of Afrin. The target of the invasion is the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, the Kurdish militia that, with American military backing, recently defeated ISIS in Raqqa. President Trump …
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“You know that feeling of clicking to the top of a roller coaster?” Caitlyn Smith says as she sits in her dressing room a few hours before her live-television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “Yeah, we’ll it’s kind of been that feeling all day. Like ‘Here we …
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Troye Sivan made his Saturday Night Live debut on the Jessica Chastain-hosted episode, where the emerging Australian singer performed his two new singles “My, My, My!” and “The Good Side.” Both tracks – the dance-pop hit “My, My, My!” and the ballad “The Good Side” – are earmarked to appear …
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Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan’s cause of death will not be revealed until at least April, a London coroner’s office announced Friday. The coroner’s officer Stephen Earl provided more details about the circumstances of O’Riordan’s death on January 15th at the age of 46. “The London ambulance service was contacted and …
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The long-gestating Beastie Boys memoir is expected to be released this year. In an interview with Matt Wilkinson on Beats 1 (via Pitchfork), Mike D announced that the as-yet untitled tome will come out “in the fall of this year.” The group’s surviving members, Mike D and Ad-Rock, have been …
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UPDATE: David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin have been charged with multiple counts of felony torture, child abuse, abuse of dependent adults and false imprisonment, according to the Los Angeles Times. They face 94 years to life in prison if convicted. *** Authorities in California have arrested 57-year-old David …
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Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army analyst and whistleblower who spent seven years in prison after leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, filed paperwork to run for U.S. Senate in her “home state” of Maryland, according to the Federal Elections Commission. Manning would vie for the nomination and seat currently occupied …
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Throughout its five previous seasons, Nashville could be counted on to weave compelling, dramatic stories with the continuing thread of top-flight musical numbers. Those threads now appear to be wearing mighty thin as the series marches (well, limps) toward its last-ever episodes. How boring did things get this week? During …
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UPDATE: YouTube announced it is dropping Logan Paul from top advertising ranks, which guarantees content creators on the video-sharing platform reliable revenue from some of its premium advertisers. The online star’s other projects with YouTube, including a sequel to the 2016 YouTube Red movie The Thinning, are suspended indefinitely. After …
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The four members of the Michigan band Greta Van Fleet look, act and sound like they were grown in the lab of some classic-rock-loving mad scientist. How else to explain a group of kids who go around dropping references to Vanilla Fudge’s Carmine Appice and Free’s Paul Kossoff, who cover …
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