The Academy Awards have added some last-minute star power as Lady Gaga will perform her Top Gun: Maverick power ballad “Hold My Hand” at Sunday’s ceremony, Variety reports. Oscars producers stated earlier this week that Gaga would not be able to appear at the award show — the lone Best …
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellendismissed the possibility of a federal bailout for Silicon Valley Bank after it collapsed last week. “We’re not going to do that again,” she said, referring to the bailouts during the 2008 financial crisis. “But we are concerned about depositors, and we’re focused on trying to meet …
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Hours before what’s expected to be a busy Oscars Night for Everything Everywhere All at Once, three of the film’s nominated stars — Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu — reunite in the first teaser for the upcoming Disney+ series American Born Chinese. The show revolves a teenager …
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During his state of the union this year, President Joe Biden created what appeared to be a moment of unity. Republicans and Democrats alike cheered when he said, “So folks, as we all apparently agree, Social Security and Medicare is off the books now, right?” But now, weeks after that …
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High school can be the best years of your life. It can also be alienating, awkward, lonely, brutal, soul-snuffing, the sort of experience that destroys egos and leaves you scarred. You don’t have to guess which version of young adulthood that P.J. and Josie, the knuckle-bruised and extremely horny heroes …
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South African rapper Costa Titch died this weekend after collapsing onstage during his performance at Johannesburg’s Ultra Music Festival. The rapper born Constantinos Tsobanoglou was 28. According to Cape Town Etc, Titch was performing at the Nasrec Expo Centre when he fell over onstage. Someone rushed out to help the …
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Former Vice President Mike Pence gave some of his strongest public criticisms of his ex-boss on Saturday night, accusing the former president of putting his family in danger on Jan. 6 and saying that history will “hold Donald Trump accountable.” “President Trump was wrong,” Pence said during his speech at …
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By many measures, Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) is a Very Important Democrat. He’s the Democratic leader of the House’s antitrust subcommittee, one of the chamber’s prestigious perches. In 2021, he and a team of fellow House lawmakers led the first-ever second impeachment of a president. He enjoys regular invitations to …
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The Who’s Roger Daltrey has dismissed the idea of the band recording another album, citing the tepid commercial response to their 2019 LP Who. When asked by NME whether he and Pete Townshend plan on recording another album, Daltrey said, “What’s the point?” “What’s the point of records? We released …
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I t was one of those beautiful and unseasonably warm fall days in New York City, November 2019, when Pras Michel, founding member of the Fugees, documentary filmmaker, and man about town, was headed to a lunch date, a first date with a woman he hadn’t met before. Around noon, …
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