Judge Brian M. Cogan had what he called an “open rebellion” on his hands Wednesday morning when, after announcing the selection of a jury in the trial of Joaquin Archivaldo “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, one juror broke down crying, begging to be taken off the jury. The woman told Cogan …
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The original Halloween plot was pretty simple: a masked psycho offs a bunch of unwitting babysitters in a small town. “It was basically a good, old-fashioned haunted house movie,” director John Carpenter, who co-wrote the screenplay, once said. “There’s something awful in this dark house and these poor people are …
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In his most recent stand-up special, Saturday Night Live alumnus John Mulaney jokes at one point that, “Building a gazebo during the Civil War is like doing stand-up comedy now.” It’s a little hard to understand what he’s saying without hearing his inflection, but in essence he’s pointing out the …
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Stephen Colbertwas part of the full slate of comedians who excoriated President Donald Trump for his self-abasing statements at the Helsinkipress conference Monday opposite Russian President Vladimir Putin. During his speech, Trump reaffirmed his belief in Putin’s claim that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election, despite heaps of …
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“If I ain’t the greatest, then I’m headed for it,” Drake rapped on 2014’s “0 to 100.” Four years later, he’s lived up to his word. Though numerous tracks of his have broken chart records in the past, it’s the rapper’s double album Scorpion, which dropped in late June, that …
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