In early 2010, Tom Petty was feeling good about the future. In the home studio of his cliffside Malibu property, surrounded by guitars, he puffed on the first vape I’d ever seen (“The tobacco lobbies don’t want them to exist!”) as he played me all of the yet-to-be-released Mojo, his …
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As the bloody war in Gaza rages on, so does a digital struggle for control of the geopolitical narrative surrounding it. Now, a number of prominent pro-Palestine creators and influencers are baffled by a clumsy campaign to get them to support Israel on social media. On Wednesday, Issa Tweimeh, a …
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Omar Ayuso, who shares the same name as his character, is a pillar of the teen telenovela Elite. He’s been around since the first season of Netflix’s Spanish hit, captivating viewers via his tender romance with heartthrob Ander, played by Arón Piper, and the jarring disapproval his character faces in …
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The West Bank city of Ramallah, a city of 60,000, feels like a ghost-town. The typical hustle and bustle here has descended into an eerie silence, broken only by the occasional garbage truck or the wailing ambulance sirens. Thuds from Israel’s Iron Dome rocket system puncture the silence at intervals …
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This week, Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty to charges of extortion and wire fraud, related to the 2005 disappearance of Alabama high schooler Natalee Holloway. With the plea, Van der Sloot, who is already serving 28 years in Peru for the death of another young woman, also confessed to …
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Kali Uchis released her third album, Red Moon in Venus, just seven short months ago, but she’s already gearing up to drop a new one. On Instagram on Monday, Oct. 9, the Colombian-American artist teased LP4, tentatively titled, Orquídeas (or “Orchids” in English). Still, the record itself won’t arrive until …
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Responding to an eruption of deadly violence between Hamas militants and Israeli Defense Forces that threatens to claim many more lives in the days ahead, Donald Trump and far-right allies are using the crisis to push a familiar anti-immigration narrative back home. According to MAGA world, Hamas won’t stop at …
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Amir Ben Natan, 37, is a stock trader from Herzliya who attended the psytrance Universo Paralello rave – titled Supernova Sukkot – near the Gaza Strip on the morning of October 7, 2023. He was separated from his friends as missiles and bullets rained down and hundreds of festivalgoers were …
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21 Savage has been an invaluable player in the Atlanta rap scene for nearly a decade — but his true homecoming is about to happen 4,000 miles away. On Nov. 30, the rapper will take the stage at the O2 Arena in London, the city where he was born and …
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In the weeks leading up to the start of his $250 million civil fraud trial in New York, Donald Trump and his attorneys privately discussed how they believed defeat in this trial was preordained. Their best chance — and it wasn’t much, according to two sources familiar with the matter …
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