Four-year-old Abigail Mor Edan is returning home. The dual American Israeli citizen is the first American hostage to be released since the four-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began on Friday. President Joe Biden celebrated the girl’s release, but said, “What she endured was unthinkable.” Edan is one of 17 …
Read More »Christie Blames Trump for Increasing Antisemitism and Islamophobia
Chris Christie laid the blame for rising antisemitism and Islamophobia directly at Donald Trump‘s feet. “When you show intolerance toward everyone, which is what [Trump] does, you give permission as a leader for others to have their intolerance come out,” Christie said during an interview with Dana Bash on CNN’s …
Read More »See Taylor Swift Debut 'Now That We Don't Talk' Live in São Paulo
Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour continued its South American leg Friday in São Paulo, Brazil, where the singer performed another pair of deep cuts in the Surprise Songs segment of the show. First, Swift went to her most recent release — 1989 (Taylor’s Version) — for the debut performance of …
Read More »50 Cent Unleashes the Monster That Is Ed Sheeran at London Show
If you were at a 50 Cent show, and he was teasing a special guest, and the guest was behind a rising box emblazoned with the harrowing message, “There is a monster in this box,” and you thought, “There’s no way that’s gonna be Ed Sheeran” — well, you’d be …
Read More »BTS' Jimin, Jung Kook, V, and RM Have Started 'Military Enlistment Process'
Jimin, Jung Kook, V, and RM are getting ready to fulfill their military duties, BTS‘ label Big Hit informed fans Tuesday. The four musicians are the last members of the group’s original seven to enlist. “We would like to inform our fans that RM, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook have …
Read More »Bjork and Rosalia's Duet 'Oral' Is a Surrealistic Dancehall-Inspired Pop Song
Sometime in the late Nineties, Björk wrote and recorded “Oral,” a song that she thought was too poppy for release on albums like Homogenic or Vespertine. Then she forgot about it. She recently rediscovered it in her archives and turned it into a duet with Rosalía, in which the two …
Read More »Ludacris Had to 'Step Back and Live Some Life' Before Returning to Music
It’s been eight years since Ludacris released his last solo album, and while he’s dropped some singles and features since then, the rapper appears ready to make a full return to music next year. In a new interview with BET, Luda said, “Some music projects will be coming out” in …
Read More »Bradley Cooper Explains Why He Wore a Prosthetic Nose to Play Leonard Bernstein in 'Maestro'
Bradley Cooper defended and explained the decision to wear a prosthetic nose while portraying Leonard Bernstein in his new film about the composer and conductor, Maestro. The critiques about the prosthetic nose quickly followed the release of the Maestro trailer in August, with some arguing the prosthetic actually detracted from …
Read More »Parts of Sarah Silverman-Led AI Copyright Case Against Meta Dismissed, But Not Core Argument
A federal judge has tossed several claims in a copyright infringement case brought by authors — including Sarah Silverman — against Meta over the way it trains its artificial intelligence language models. Silverman and her co-plaintiffs had accused the tech giant of improperly using their copyrighted books to train its …
Read More »Paramore Debut 'Thick Skull' Live in New Zealand
A new crowd pleaser has made it to the Paramore set list. The band live debuted their single “Thick Skull” at the Spark Arena in Auckland, New Zealand, on Sunday night. The audience waved their hands in the air as frontwoman Hayley Williams prompted, “Come on out with your hands …
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