Less than 24 hours after being sworn into office, Donald Trump picked up where he left off in his rampage against trans people. One of the first executive orders he signed this week prohibits federal regulation of transgender identities. Now, more than ever, actionable communities are essential for the protection …
Read More »What Really Happened With the L.A. Fire Department Budgets?
A white picket fence stands with untouched roses. Six feet away, a home is gone. The decimation caused by the Palisades and Eaton fires is catastrophic and abnormal, and Los Angeles is grieving loss unlike ever before. As several wildfires erupted across the city on Jan. 7, with fierce Santa …
Read More »Nine Inch Nails Reveal 'Peel It Back' Tour Dates
Nine Inch Nails have finally unveiled the dates for their 2025 tour. Peel It Back will run from June through September. NIN’s tour announcement previously got off to a rocky start when venues prematurely posted Facebook events for some of the dates. Fans began to share screenshots and noted on-sale …
Read More »'Yellowjackets' Season Three: Secrets From the Wilderness Resurface in Bloody Trailer
This Valentine’s Day, there’s more trauma in the air than love for the Yellowjackets team. The series will return for its third season with a two-episode premiere on Feb. 14. The series picks up in the past as summer arrives after a particularly grueling winter in the wilderness. But even …
Read More »Judi Dench Doesn't Mind Using Her Poor Eyesight as an Excuse to Ditch Events
Dame Judi Dench opened up about the difficulties her deteriorating eyesight has caused — as well as a few cheeky positives — during a recent interview on the Fearless podcast. The 90-year-old actress has been battling advanced macular degeneration (AMD), a condition that does not cause blindness, though it does …
Read More »'The Sun' Apologizes to Prince Harry for 'Serious Intrusion' as NGN Tabloid Lawsuit Settles
News Group Newspapers, the British newspaper publisher that owns the tabloid The Sun, has issued an apology to Prince Harry as part of a settlement of the lawsuit the Duke of Sussex filed in 2019. The publisher and owners of the Sun admitted to using unlawful activities to intrude into …
Read More »Trump Demands Bishop Apologize for Asking for Mercy for the Marginalized
Donald Trump may have spent his first days in office granting indulgences to the violent rioters who sacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but God forbid he be asked to show mercy to the marginalized groups he plans to scapegoat as president. Late Tuesday night, the president demanded an …
Read More »'Presence': Steven Soderbergh Turns the Haunted-House Movie Inside Out
You know the Tolstoy quote about all happy families being the same, but “every unhappy family is unhappy in their own way?” The quartet at the center of Steven Soderbergh‘s ghost story Presence has refined their own particular brand of dysfunction to perfection. The mom, Rebecca (Lucy Liu), is a …
Read More »Blame the Supreme Court for Elon Musk's Power in Trump's Administration
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has an office in the White House and played a prominent role in Donald Trump’s inauguration. He has a formal position reshaping government in the new administration and has already derailed a bipartisan spending deal in Congress. Global leaders are taking Musk’s meddling in …
Read More »Ghost Guns Aren't Going Away
This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletters. Toward the end of 2024, federal law enforcement officials were celebrating a banner year in their fight against homemade, untraceable “ghost guns.” In cities across the country, the number of ghost …
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