Most days, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav can’t catch a break in the media, which endlessly details his stumbles and failures as head of a content monolith. But it seems he may still have the power to try to bury unflattering coverage. Almost. Since taking the helm of the …
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The release of the Barbie trailer earlier this year has had the effect of getting an entire swath of Americans excited about seeing Ryan Gosling in Day-Glo knee pads. Among a slightly smaller swath of Americans, however, the anticipation around Barbie — which officially debuts in theaters on July 21 …
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Last month, a tweet about Facebook developing a Twitter rival led to Mark Zuckerbergaccepting a cage match challenge from fellow tech billionaireElon Musk. As Twitter experienced one of the longest outages of the Musk era, Zuckerberg-owned Meta teased Instagram Threads — an app aimed to strike at the Chief Twit’s …
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With every Fourth of July comes a few guarantees: Fireworks, cookouts, and the assurance that Joey Chestnut will hork down enough hot dogs in a 10-minute span to feed a small village. In what is practically a given at this point, Chestnut remained the Nathan’s Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest …
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YouTuber Grace Helbig has been diagnosed with breast cancer. In a seven-minute-long video shared to the nearly three million subscribers on her channel, Helbig expressed optimism about her medical team’s proposed treatment plans. In the video, she said she received her official diagnosis more than a month ago, but only …
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“OK the past few weeks have been MANICCC,” Masoom Minawala Mehta, a lifestyle and fashion influencer with 1.3 million Instagram, posted in her stories on Sunday. In addition to dealing with events in her personal life — a canceled trip to Spain, and a husband with a broken leg — …
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Thousands of Twitter users were stuck fruitlessly reloading their feeds Saturday as the app faced one of the strangest and most prolonged outages of the Elon Musk era. Beginning early Saturday morning EST, nearly 8,000 users reported to DownDetector — and likely many thousands more didn’t report — that were …
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Sue Johanson, the Canadian sex expert who hosted radio and TV advice shows in her home country and the U.S., died Thursday, a rep for Johanson confirmed to CBC. She was 93. Starting in 1984, Johanson started fielding questions about sexuality on a Toronto radio call-in program called Sunday Night …
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Still crying over your cans of Bud Light? Well, that’s too bad, because TikTok star and trans actress Dylan Mulvaney wants the right-wing media —and Bud Light — to know that no amount of backlash will stop her from fighting for her community. Best known for her viral TikTok series …
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Daniel Penny, the man accused of choking Jordan Neely to death on the New York City subway, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, The New York Times reports. Penny, a former Marine, appeared in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday, June 28, to enter his plea. A grand jury …
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