After decades of creating subversive art and music, Yoko Ono will receive a lifetime achievement award. MacDowell, an organization that offers artists residencies, will honor the artist with its Edward MacDowell Medal at an event in Peterborough, New Hampshire, this summer. Ono, 91, is not expected to attend the ceremony, …
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Tesla’s stock crashed this week following the announcement that the electric vehicle company would be laying off 10 percent of its staff. If things weren’t already looking grim for Elon Musk’s flagship company, it was just ordered to recall nearly 4,000 of its recently released Cybertrucks over an accelerator pedal …
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A devastating photo of a woman grievously holding the body of her late five-year-old niece in the Gaza Strip won the World Press Photo of the Year award. Reuters, which originally published the picture, reported the news from Amsterdam, where the awards ceremony took place on Thursday. Photographer Mohammed Salem, …
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The legal team for Bryan Kohberger, the suspect accused of the murder of four University of Idaho students, has doubled down on their claim that the 28-year-old was out driving alone at the time of the murders — and now say they have an expert who can prove it. Kohberger …
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The NBA has banned Jontay Porter for life after a league investigation found the player had violated several league rules on gambling. In an official statement, the NBA said Porter — most recently contracted to the Toronto Raptors — had passed “confidential information” to sports bettors, limited his own participation …
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Caitlin Clark, the star shooting guard from the University of Iowa who has helped usher in aboom in NCAA women’s basketball and passed Pete Maravich as the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer, was selected as the top pick in the in the WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever on Monday. Clark …
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Jerrod Carmichael expressed some regrets over his recent criticism of Dave Chappelle — not his actual disappointment with the comedian for leaning heavily on jokes about trans people, but that he aired those grievances to the press. On The Breakfast Club Tuesday, Carmichael sported a bit of a grin as …
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After nearly a year of allegedly ducking service of a lawsuit claiming child sexual abuse in his organization, Scientology leader David Miscavige sent his lawyer to a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday to seek disqualification of the judge on the matter using a peremptory challenge — a special right that doesn’t …
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Malcolm LaVergne, a longtime lawyer for O.J. Simpson and the executor of his estate, clarified his stance on Sunday about whether the Goldman family would receive money from the late former football player’s estate. On Friday, LaVergne had said that the family of Ron Goldman — Simpson was acquitted of …
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The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the container ship that collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last month, causing it to collapse and killing six members of a roadwork crew. As The Washington Post reports, numerous federal agents were seen boarding the cargo ship Dali …
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