Republicans are clapping each other on the back after passing one of the most destructive pieces of legislation to ever target the American poor and middle class. Donald Trump and the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” belly-flopped through Congress not because it makes sense economically, environmentally, or morally — but …

Connie Francis has been hospitalized due to ongoing pain. The 87-year-old shared a health update on Facebook, where she wrote that she completed “a series of tests and examinations in intensive care” and has since been moved to a private room. “I am back in hospital where I have been …

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke for eight hours and 44 minutes on the House floor on Thursday, in a marathon speech delaying the passage of = Donald Trump’s Medicaid-and-food-assistance slashing, tax-gift-for-the-wealthy abomination of a reconciliation bill. The speech breaks the record for longest ever delivered on the House floor, …

Michael Madsen, the prolific actor best known for playing tough guys in Quentin Tarantino films like Reservoir Dogs and the Kill Bill series, has died at the age of 67. Madsen’s reps confirmed the actor’s death to Variety, adding that he died Thursday morning from cardiac arrest in Malibu, California. …

Follow all of our Sean Combs trial coverage Sean “Diddy” Combs was found guilty of two prostitution-related counts in federal court on Wednesday, but not guilty of the far more severe racketeering and two sex-trafficking charges. His lead attorney, Marc Agnifilo, told Judge Arun Subramanian that “Combs has been given …

Follow all of our Sean Combs trial coverage When a jury of eight men and four women cleared Sean Combs of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges on Wednesday – the most severe charges leveled against him by federal prosecutors – reaction was decidedly mixed. Combs’ supporters cheered the news …

Flavor Flav has penned an op-ed urging lawmakers topass a total ban on firearms: “No civilian needs to possess semi-automatic weapons.” On the heels of Public Enemy’s latest single “March Madness” — “a powerful rebuke against crooked politicians and the ongoing crisis of gun violence,” the group said in a …

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The pseudonymous Andrew Frelon, who spoke to Rolling Stone on Wednesday as a spokesperson for the viral AI band The Velvet Sundown, and runs a Twitter account that purports to represent the band, was running an elaborate hoax aimed at the media, he now says in a Medium post. The …

We’re three years away from Sam Mendes‘ Beatles movie project, a massive undertaking in which he’ll direct four different films from each of the Fab Four’s perspective. As expected, it doesn’t come easy: Ringo Starr recently revealed he gave extensive notes to the director on his script, where he’s portrayed …