Obama-era Saturday Night Live cast member Jason Sudeikis returned to reprise his impersonation of Joe Biden in a cold open sketch that skewered the allegations of inappropriate behavior against the former vice president. In the sketch, Biden’s aides inform him that he needs to cut down on the “touchy feely …
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Days before the 2018 midterm elections, President Trump promised that he was preparing to pass a big tax cut for the middle class. Republican lawmakers were “studying very deeply, round the clock” to work out the details of the package, he said, and a vote would be imminent. No one …
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When NASA announced earlier this month that it would be conducting its first all-female spacewalk in honor of Women’s History Month, featuring female astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain, people were like, “Awesome! Good job, NASA!” In fact, one might even say, if one were so inclined, that the move …
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For the sake of American democracy, and the public’s faith in our justice system, the full, final report produced by Special Counsel Robert Mueller must be made public. Immediately. Sunday’s slender, four-page memo to Congress by Attorney General William Barr was wildly inadequate. Claiming that the special counsel had not …
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When President Trump signed the FIRST STEP Act last December — the first major federal criminal justice reform legislation in the past eight years — he wanted credit. He chose to take it in the form of Matthew Charles. By inviting the newly released Tennessee man to February’s State of …
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On Monday, reports surfaced indicating what many MySpace users had long suspected: that MySpace had deleted a great deal of the content uploaded to the platform between 2003 and 2015. Over the weekend, the social networking platform put up a banner announcing that “as a result of a server migration …
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In late October 1996, Cardinal George Pell stood before a panel of reporters in Melbourne, Australia, and apologized. He apologized on behalf of the Australian Catholic Church, who, as it had recently surfaced, was complicit in covering up pervasive and unimaginable child abuse by priests. “I would like to make …
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UPDATE:Sephora has officially cut ties with Olivia Jade,Refinery29 confirms. “After careful review of recent developments, we have made the decision to end the Sephora Collection partnership with Olivia Jade, effective immediately,” a representative for the beauty product chain confirmed via e-mail. Her highlighter palette is no longer available for purchase …
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Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx tells Rolling Stone that he does not recall a story in the band’s 2001 memoir The Dirt where he realizes he may have participated in a sexual assault during a party. “I don’t actually recall that story in the book beyond reading it,” Sixx tellsRolling Stone. …
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Warning: This piece contains spoilers for Netflix’sAbducted in Plain Sightand HBO’sLeaving Neverland. **** There’s a moment toward the end of Abducted in Plain Sight, the Netflix documentary about the repeated abduction and rape of the then-12-year-old Jan Broberg, when Bob Broberg, Jan’s father, explains how his family managed to cope …
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