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The devastating fires in Los Angeles have forced several television shows and entertainment industry events to shut down. Jimmy Kimmel Live has canceled its taping for Wednesday night, Jan. 8, while CBS’ After Midnight, hosted by Taylor Tomlinson, is off for the rest of the week, per Variety. As it …

As someone who grew up in the U.S. in the 1990s, I am all too familiar with a culture in which anything you and your friends disapprove of is “retarded,” and anybody you might care to insult is a “retard.” And, like others my age who grew out of such …

When Euphoria and Dune star Zendaya stepped onto the red carpet at the 2025 Golden Globes, it only took moments for the photographers and journalists to notice an unexpected guest: a giant diamond ring on her left ring finger. While she declined to answer any questions that night, both People …

The U.S. soldier found dead in a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside theTrump International Hotelin Las Vegas left a note suggesting the incident was a “stunt” meant as a “wakeup call” to the country, investigators said. During a new briefing on Friday afternoon, police said that they had found a …

A longtime editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post resigned from her position Friday after the newspaper rejected a cartoon that depicted tech and entertainment giants — including Post owner Jeff Bezos — kneeling before President-elect Donald Trump. Ann Telnaes, who worked at the Post since 2008 and previously won a …

Net neutrality rules have been axed again, this time thanks to a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, The New York Times reports. These rules were first codified in 2015 and broadly aimed to regulate internet providers like utilities to create a more open, accessible …

There’s currently no magic routine that will make humans live forever. But for tech millionaire Bryan Johnson, the quest to live longer lies in a routine of pills, shots, blood draws, and experimental therapy regimes he says are rewinding his biological clock. And in Netflix’s new documentary Don’t Die: The …

Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, whose platforms are already flooded with AI-generated content, recently floated an idea to make the problem even worse: letting users create bot characters in their AI Studio that would then become functional “users” of these sites themselves, appearing to have their own accounts that engage …

Meghan Markle launched a new Instagram account, her first since 2020, on New Year’s Day. The account, @meghan, was confirmed to be an official account of the Duchess of Sussex by the Associated Press. Markle debuted the account with a black and white video of herself at a deserted beach. …

More details have emerged about the suspect in the New Year’s Day morning terror attack that killed 15 people in New Orleans. Authorities previously identified the man who drove a pickup truck into New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Texas native and an Army veteran …