House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has announced his picks to lead and serve on the House Ethics Committee. Three of the five, including incoming Chair Michael Guest (R-Miss.), voted against the certification of the 2020 election results. McCarthy previously announced a proposed set of rules for the Office of Congressional Ethics, …
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Mike Judge and Greg Daniels’ classic animated sitcom King of the Hill is set to return with new episodes airing on Hulu. A premiere date for the reboot hasn’t been announced, but the show did receive a straight-to-series order. Judge and Daniels will oversee the show as executive producers, while …
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The Memphis Police Department announced on Monday it has suspended seven officers total thus far in connection with the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols. According to a department spokesman, via The New York Times, Preston Hemphill — the only officer named on Monday — was placed on administrative leave at …
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Cindy Williams, who played the optimistic Shirley opposite Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the beloved sitcom Laverne & Shirley, has died. She was 75. Williams died on Wednesday in Los Angeles following a brief illness, her children, Zak and Emily Hudson, confirmed in a statement released Monday to the Associated Press …
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The Brooklyn band Geese debuted in the fall of 2021 with a great album called Projector. These guys were barely out of high school, and yet they seemed to have prodigiously bit off huge hunks of the indie guitar canon. Their bracing zone-outs could bring to mind vintage wizards like …
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Bob and I started spending more time in Detroit, his hometown. We had our big family wedding there, where Bob Seger and Hank Williams Jr. sang for us. Our life in Detroit was full of music. I took for granted all those nights with Hank, ZZ Top, Uncle Kracker, Eminem, …
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George Santos weaseled his way into Congress by flat-out lying about nearly every major aspect of his backstory. Some Republicans, including those in his home district, have called for him to resign, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthyhas stood by Santos, even assuring reporters that he’ll sit on committees like everyone …
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After years in development, there were many who doubted the necessity of an adaptation for the modern PlayStation classic The Last of Us. Already considered one of the most cinematic games ever produced, what more could it possibly bring to the table as a television show, or worse, what would …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Last of Us, “Long, Long Time.” The latest chapter of the story is bookended with sequences featuring the series’ only two ongoing characters at the moment. With Tess gone — though she appears in flashbacks later in this episode — …
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The footage released of Tyre Nichols’ fatal traffic stop on Jan. 7 — where Memphis police officers doused him with pepper spray and beat him while he cried out for his mother, leading to his death on Jan. 10 — showed the 29-year-old skateboarder and father had little recourse in …
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