CNN on Friday published another batch of texts exchanged between Mark Meadows and Sean Hannity between Election Day and President Biden’s inauguration. Trump’s former chief of staff and the Fox News hosts exchanged over 80 texts in that timeframe. The full lot of them reveals that Hannity once believed the …
Read More »Florida Corrections Officers Charged With Murder After Allegedly Beating Inmate to Death
Four Florida corrections officers were charged with murder after allegedly beating an inmate so badly that he died this past February. The officers — Jeremy Godbolt, Christopher Rolon, Kirk Walton, and Ronald Connor — were each hit with multiple charges, including second-degree murder, aggravated battery on an elderly or disabled …
Read More »Neal Adams, Legendary Comic Book Artist Who Revitalized 'Batman,' Dead at 80
Neal Adams, the legendary comic book artist known for revitalizing the Batman franchise as well as creating some of the Dark Knight’s greatest foes, has died at the age of 80. Adams’ wife Marilyn confirmed her husband’s death Thursday in New York following complications from sepsis, the Hollywood Reporter reported. …
Read More »'American Idol' Winner Laine Hardy Arrested: Allegedly Secretly Recorded Ex-Girlfriend
American Idol season 17 winner Laine Hardy was arrested Friday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on charges of illegally intercepting communications, a representative of Louisiana State University confirmed to Rolling Stone. Hardy was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on grounds of “interception and disclosure of wire, electronic, or oral …
Read More »Do Business Leaders Have an Obligation to Talk About Global Conflicts and Atrocities? Here's Why My Answer Is 'Yes'
Images and videos of the horrific war in Ukraine have circulated the globe, leading to discussions in classrooms, television studios, internet spaces and boardrooms — to name a few places. Some businesses have taken a stand. Airbnb, Netflix and Accenture are just three companies that recently severed ties with Russia. …
Read More »Luke Combs Will Play Back-to-Back Shows for Fall 'Middle of Somewhere' Tour
Luke Combs has plotted out a busy touring schedule in 2022, making up for the lost time with various festival appearances at Stagecoach and New Orleans Jazzfest before he embarks on a summer stadium tour. When that trek is over, the “Tomorrow Me” singer will regroup and head out on …
Read More »Van Morrison Escalates War Against Northern Ireland Health Minister
Van Morrison‘s latest single appears to be the latest move in the singer’s multi-year feud with Robin Swann, the Northern Ireland Minister of Health who, last fall, filed a defamation lawsuit against the 76-year-old singer. Over a breezy R&B groove, Morrison spends nearly eight minutes on “Dangerous” extolling his truth-telling …
Read More »Burna Boy Dodges Bras, Makes History at Epic Madison Square Garden Show
Burna Boy earned his metaphorical flowers — and his very literal bras — as he ripped through a majestic two-hour set at New York’s Madison Square Garden, the first Nigerian headliner to do so at the famed venue. The first fire-engine red bra was thrust onstage at the beloved Afro-fusionist …
Read More »How the White House Correspondents Dinner Broke the Democratic Party
When I was a political reporter in Washington, I used to loathe the White House Correspondents Dinner. I hated how it portrayed Beltway journalism as a game. How it reduced the project of government accountability to performative antagonism practiced daily by reporters in White House press briefings — a performance …
Read More »Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert Almost Came to Blows Over White Nationalist Event: Report
The House Freedom Caucus — the far-right group of conspiracy theorists with members like Reps. Jim Jordan, Paul Gosar, and Madison Cawthorn — have long been warring with the rest of the Republican Party, which they feel isn’t sufficiently dedicated to former President Trump and his vision for a MAGA-fied …
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