Star Wars fans were treated to the surprise release of the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+ at 9 p.m. Pacific Thursday. “The time for @ObiWanKenobi has arrived…early,” read a tweet from the official Star Wars account announcing the news. According to Variety, the release comes after fans attending the Star Wars Celebration …
Read More »Husband of Slain Uvalde Teacher Dies of Heart Attack After Dropping Off Flowers at Her Memorial
The family of Irma Garcia — one of the two teachers who sacrificed their lives to save their students at the Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde, Texas — is now also mourning the loss of another family member. Garcia’s husband, Joe, died Thursday of a heart attack, minutes after dropping …
Read More »Mark Meadows Burned Docs After Meeting With Republican Working to Overturn Election, Ex-Aide Tells Jan. 6 Panel
In the weeks after the 2020 election, then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows met with Rep. Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican who was trying to get the election results overturned. Afterwards, Meadows burned documents in his office, his former aide Cassidy Hutchinson told the Jan. 6 committee, Politico reported …
Read More »'Enough is Enough': Students Demand Action on Gun Violence Epidemic
In the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, which left 19 children and two adults dead, thousands of students from across the country walked out of their classrooms at 12:00 pm EST today to protest gun violence in schools. Organized by Students Demand Action, …
Read More »Depeche Mode Keyboardist Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher Dead at 60
Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, the co-founder and keyboardist of beloved synth-pop and New Wave stalwarts Depeche Mode, died at the age of 60. Fletcher’s bandmates announced his death Thursday on social media; Rolling Stone has confirmed that the cause of death was natural causes. “We are shocked and filled with overwhelming …
Read More »Alan White, Drummer for Yes and John Lennon, Dead at 72
Yes drummer Alan White, who joined the progressive rock band in 1972 and stayed with them for the next 50 years, has died at 72 after a brief illness. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee is most famous for his work in Yes, but also performed with John …
Read More »Tate McRae Bares Her Soul a Little Unevenly on 'I Used to Think I Could Fly'
Before Tate McRae was trying to take the pop world by storm, she was a former finalist on So You Think You Can Dance? who had a vlog series where she flaunted her singer-songwriter skills. In 2019, one of the videos she recorded — a piano ballad called “One Day” …
Read More »Larry Gatlin Pulls Out of Texas NRA Country Concert, Calls for Background Checks
A country music concert slated for this weekend’s NRA Convention in Houston just lost another performer. Larry Gatlin, a member of the country trio the Gatlin Brothers, has dropped out of the lineup. The 74-year-old vocalist and songwriter behind Gatlin Brothers hits like “All the Gold in California” and “Houston …
Read More »Un-Canceled? Jussie Smollett Returns with 'B-Boy Blues' on BET+ After Scandal
Three years is enough time for a comeback… right? (Take note, Ezra Miller.) On Thursday, BET+ announced that it had picked upB-Boy Blues, an LGBTQ film directed and written by Jussie Smollett. It’s his first project since being found guilty of making false reports of a hate crime. The film …
Read More »Ted Cruz Can't Answer a Basic Question About America's Mass Shootings
Ted Cruz stormed away from a reporter who asked him about gun control in the wake of the massacre that killed 21 people, including 19 small children, in Uvalde, Texas. “Is this the moment to reform gun laws,” Mark Stone of Sky News asked the senator from Texas in Uvalde …
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