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The U.S. intelligence community has “indicated that they did not have access to” a document outlining Hamas‘ plan to attack Israel, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said. According to a New York Times report last week, Israeli officials had circulated a 40-page document detailing Hamas’ planned assault …

When Amy Carlson’s mummified body was found in April 2021, it looked like a blue skeleton. It was also in a sleeping bag wrapped in Christmas lights. Her followers in the Love Has Won cult were apparently still waiting for the Galactics, a group of dead luminaries led by Robin …

T odd Haynes is, in this writer’s opinion, one of our greatest living filmmakers. Ever since his 1987 film, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a moving examination of the singer’s battle with anorexia using Barbie dolls and created while he was at Bard College, his unique voice has enraptured audiences. …

When Mick Jagger needed a guitarist back in 1988 who could effortlessly play parts originated by Keith Richards, Brian Jones, and Mick Taylor, he called up Joe Satriani. Five years later, when Deep Purple needed to airlift in a guitarist at the last second after Ritchie Blackmore quit the band, …

U2 paid tribute to the late Shane MacGowan with a rendition of the Pogues’ “A Rainy Night in Soho” Friday at the band’s latest gig at Las Vegas’ Sphere. “Sing with us, for Shane MacGowan,” Bono told the audience as the band delivered the somber, acoustic take on one of …

Raise a farewell toast for Shane MacGowan, one of rock’s most fiendishly brilliant growlers, snarlers, songwriters, storytellers, and blackguards. Shane was the resident Celt-punk genius of The Pogues, one of the great Irish bards of his or any other era, which is why the world is mourning his death on …

L il Yachty and Tierra Whack are two of the more inventive artists in hip-hop today — two wildly original talents who have charted their own paths without following anyone else’s trends. If you’re going to compare them to anyone, though, it might as well be each other. Both started …

J ohn Woo couldn’t miss. The godfather of gun fu, who helmed a number of balletic, bullet-riddled Chinese actions hits — A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled among them — before taking his talents to the States, was coming off four consecutive Hollywood smashes. First came the Jean-Claude …

According to a statement from the U.S. Supreme Court, retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor passed away “of complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness.” O’Connor, whose husband suffered from Alzheimer’s, first announced her diagnosis in 2018 in a letter explaining that as her condition progressed, she …

Last night, rapper 21 Savage completed his first European headlining tour with a show at London’s O2 arena. The concert was the rapper’s veritable homecoming to his birthplace of London, where he lived until moving to Atlanta with his family at age seven. In October, 21 gained his permanent American …