In early 2018, while survivors of the deadly Parkland school shooting in Florida were leading a renewed push for gun control across the country, a counter-movement was brewing in Illinois. Officials in rural Effingham County, a few hours downstate from Chicago, were looking to protest a spate of proposed firearm …
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Morrissey has always worn his influences on his black-on-the-outside sleeves. For as much as he crowed about the New York Dolls and the Cramps in his youth, his music both with and without the Smiths has reflected more erudite lyricists with an overall lighter musical touch. For California Son, the …
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The motto of Stan Twitter isn’t so much “ask and ye shall receive” as it is “yell and scream and you’ll force some animators to turn around a new character design in under six months.” That’s apparently what’s happening with the newSonic the Hedgehog movie, which released a trailer this …
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The look on Sen. Cory Booker’s face told us what the next five minutes were going to be like for William Barr. After just one question from the colleague and presidential primary rival sitting to his immediate left, it seemed the New Jersey Democrat had to muster every bit of …
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Stephen Colbert dug into Joe Biden‘s first few days on the campaign, highlighting the ways he’s already getting under President Donald Trump‘s skin and his new Obama-heavy ad on The Late Show Tuesday. After officially announcing last week, Biden jumped to a commanding lead in the Democratic primary polls. During …
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Jennifer Kaytin Robinson was sobbing in front of a row of rotisserie chickens. Standing dumbfounded in the aisle of a New York grocery store after her boyfriend dumped her, she heard Adele’s “Someone Like You” come over the sound system — and “I was trying to smile through it, but …
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Lizzo‘s major-label debut album, Cuz I Love You, re-introduces the world to a freshly evolved artist. While she launched her solo career years ago as a backpack rapper, the new album highlights the fact that Lizzo has since become a world-class belter, using the raw passion in her voice to …
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WASHINGTON — The redacted version of the Mueller report due to be released Thursday will offer the fullest (but still incomplete) view yet of how the special counsel’s office ran its investigation and what it uncovered. Attorney General William Barr’s March 24th letter purported to provide the “principal conclusions” of …
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Game of Thrones cast members strapped on headsets and belted their khakis on Sunday for a Jimmy Kimmel Live segment called “Game of Phones.” The mock-infomercial showed Maisie Williams, Lena Headey, Sophie Turner, Iwan Rheon and more answering questions from confused fans in a parody of a call center. “For …
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) may have studied robotics at MIT, but he is now responsible for one of the most asinine moments in congressional history. At a House committee hearing Tuesday on “The Need for Leadership to Combat Climate Change and Protect National Security,” the Kentucky Republican thought he could …
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