A resentencing hearing for the Menendez brothers that had been scheduled for the end of January has been postposed to March 20 and 21 due to the Los Angeles wildfires, L.A. County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced Friday.
The new date was “due to the impact of recent wildfires on the parties’ extensive preparations for the hearings,” Hochman’蝉 office said in a statement.
Erik and Lyle Menendez, who have each served more than 30 years of a life sentence for the 1989 murder of their parents, should be resentenced or receive clemency, family members have petitioned the district attorney, citing alleged abuse by their parents.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence will likely see Donald Trump sworn in as the 47th president in person Monday in the U.S. Capitol, where Trump’蝉 supporters scoured the halls four years ago chanting for Pence to be hanged for refusing to give in to Trump’蝉 demand that he help overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Pence is planning on attending the inauguration, The New York Times reported Friday, citing two individuals with knowledge of his schedule, one of whom told the paper that the former vice president was invited by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. That committee is comprised of three Democrats and three Republicans.
Since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, Pence and Trump’蝉 relationship has been frosty. Pence, who mounted a short-lived campaign for president last year, repeatedly emphasized that he had no authority to do Trump’蝉 bidding.
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Vaccine skeptic and nominee to be Donald Trump’蝉 secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., asked the Food and Drug Administration to pull authorization for all COVID-19 vaccines in May 2021, according to The New York Times.
Not only did RFK’蝉 organization, Children’蝉 Health Defense, want the vaccines pulled from the shelves, but they also wanted all future COVID-19 vaccines to be denied approval.
Kennedy previously said he would not have pulled the COVID vaccines if he were in charge during the pandemic.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hit back amid reports that he blamed former COO Sheryl Sandberg for the company’蝉 “culture” issues during a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.
Zuckerberg, who seemed to cement his MAGA turn with a rollback of Meta’蝉 content regulation policy, is reported to have thrown Sandberg under the bus over the company’蝉 “inclusivity initiative,” reported the New York Post.
In an effort to counter the reports, Zuckerberg took some time to lay praise on Sandberg in a Friday post on Threads.
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While prestige activewear is now a firmly established, trend-cycle-proof apparel category with exponential growth thanks to brands like Alo, Vuori, and Girlfriend Collective, it was undoubtedly Lululemon that put prestige activewear on the map. Lululemon’蝉 O.G. Wunder Under leggings (and the now-discontinued Astro Pant) were the pioneer (and arguably, the prototype) that not only paved the way for luxe activewear’蝉 enduring commercial success but also singlehandedly convinced fitness enthusiasts that splurging on a pair of $100 leggings designed to sweat in was a worthy sartorial investment.
In fact, while the Canadian brand debuted in 1998, in the mid to late 2000s, Lululemon’蝉 bestselling leggings and tights featuring the brand’蝉 signature modern omega symbol became a bona fide status symbol and one of the most ubiquitous logos in the game to date. Today, the brand has grown its cult following into a bona fide empire and expanded its activewear offerings to include a slew of new fabric lines and styles, but year after year, Lululemon’蝉 Align Pant and Wunder Train (which falls under the Wunder Under umbrella) remain among Lululemon’蝉 two bestselling legging styles.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle divorce rumors have surfaced in Vanity Fair just over seven years after she featured in a fawning cover story in the magazine.
The storied publication has turned on her in savage style, running a comprehensive takedown of the couple, including the claim that a member of Meghan’蝉 team spoke to publishers regarding her writing a book about divorce if she were to split from Harry.
The article, by Anna Peele, has been published to mark the fifth anniversary of Meghan and Harry leaving the British royal family.
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MAGAers are angry after Donald Trump announced his inauguration is to be moved inside, causing many to be left out of the ceremony.
Although the president-elect announced that some attendees can go to the Capital One Arena for a viewing party, many were prepared to brave the cold.
Freezing cold temperatures and strong winds are expected to hit D.C. on Monday. The last time an inauguration was moved inside was for Ronald Reagan in 1985 under similar forecasts.
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The first time I used a clarifying shampoo was during my senior year of high school after I had attempted to go cherry red without being mentally and emotionally prepared for such a stark change—I had been faithful to my natural dirty blonde hair jazzed up with a few not-so-natural golden highlights to frame my face. After removing the towel from my damp Ariel-hued locks, I burst into tears before darting to my computer to look for quick fixes that promised to fade the vibrant red to, at least, maybe a tomato red until I could get some professional help.
Ultimately, I ended up going with straight-up dish soap, a DIY remedy that I discovered on a pre-Reddit-era message board, which worked fairly well but left my mane dry, damaged, and broken—and I hadn’t even used bleach! It finally dawned on me that taming the red was going to be a process, so I invested in a well-reviewed clarifying shampoo and committed to using it three times a week to preserve the health of my hair while gradually dulling the cherry-ness without resorting to bleach.
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Rapper Nelly of “Hot In Herre” fame will be among the performers leading the celebration of Donald Trump’蝉 inauguration Monday night.
CBS reporter Taurean Small was one of several reporters to break the news Friday that Nelly will be joining Jason Aldean to perform at Trump’蝉 Liberty Ball after he is sworn in as president for the second time on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
So far, at least, Nelly is the only rapper set to make an appearance, and will join a longer-than-usual list of well-known musicians performing in support of Trump—many of them country music stars. In addition to Aldean, the previously apolitical singer Carrie Underwood will perform at the Liberty Ball as well. Rascal Flatts is set to play at separate inaugural ball in D.C.
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Six months after his girlfriend’蝉 death, 94-year-old Clint Eastwood is “doing good,” according to his son. Eastwood’蝉 girlfriend, Christina Sandera, 61, died of a heart attack in July. The two had been dating for 10 years. At the time, Eastwood said: “Christina was a lovely, caring woman, and I will miss her very much.” His son, Scott, told PEOPLE that the legendary director and actor was a “survivor, a trooper.” Sandera died just two days after her 61st birthday in a Monterey County, California, hospital. She was a board member of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, which paid tribute to her at the time of her death on Instagram. “Despite being connected to high-profile celebrity life, Christina often eschewed the spotlight. She was far more comfortable in her jeans, pigtails, and baseball hat, shoveling and tending to her beloved horses and animals.” Scott said of his father that it was in their blood to “just do.” He said his father “was born coming out of the Great Depression, and then he was young during World War II. He saw a lot of struggle… There is no room for complaining.”
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If you’re looking for effective anti-aging skincare formulas that don’t cost the sum of a monthly mortgage payment, take a cue from reality TV star Bethenny Frankel. Frankel, who has amassed quite the following on TikTok over the years, uses the platform to showcase her favorite products, including both luxury and drugstore formulas.
One of her favorite brands for skincare and cosmetics is No7—specifically, its Future Renew collection. Each formula in the line is affordably priced under $50 but, according to Frankel, looks, feels, and performs like higher-end counterparts.
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President-elect Donald Trump was roasted across social media on Friday shortly after announcing that his Jan. 20 inauguration will be moved indoors due to “very cold weather.”
ABC reported that the day of his inauguration is expected to be the coldest day for the event in 40 years.
In a Truth Social post, Trump shared a photo of a weather forecast and said that his “various dignitaries and guests,” will be “brought into the Capitol.”
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Christian Juttner, a child star who appeared in multiple films and TV shows in the 1970s, died at 60, his family announced.
Juttner appeared in the films Return From Witch Mountain, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, and The Swarm, all released within a five-month period in 1978.
Juttner died from natural causes on Nov. 29, 2024, at his home in Yucca Valley, California, his daughter told The Hollywood Reporter.
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Tennis Hall of Famer Pam Shriver had many of her trophies stolen after evacuating from the L.A. wildfires. Shriver and her family were staying at the Marina Del Rey DoubleTree to escape the Palisades fire when their car, a Dodge Durango Hellcat, was stolen. Many of the awards were in the vehicle until they could “safely move back home.” According to ESPN, the car held five U.S. Open trophies, five French Open plates and one Australian Open trophy. “My son & I are at a police station reporting our car was stolen from the hotel parking lot we evacuated to when fires started,” Shriver posted to X on Thursday. “It’蝉 really sad on so many levels that, when people are at their lowest and in their most difficult times, people are doing things like this,” Shriver said to ESPN. “Now, my family’蝉 a victim of a crime, too.” Her Brentwood home survived the devastating fires, which ravaged the area.
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Actress Roseanne Barr is celebrating Donald Trump’蝉 inauguration with a cringeworthy music video.
The controversial comedian appeared decked out in cornrows and chains with Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald in the video for their new song, “Daddy’蝉 Home.”
Along with a parade of cars bearing Trump flags, the lyrics alluded to the president-elect’蝉 November victory.
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Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, who is worth $160 billion, has revealed some details about his three-hour dinner with President-elect Donald Trump.
Gates told The Wall Street Journal that the “wide-ranging” conversation, which included Elon Musk, focused heavily on public health issues. The Gates Foundation specializes in global health, among other philanthropic causes.
According to the tech tycoon, Trump was “excited” about fast-tracking a cure for HIV, in a similar way to how COVID-19 vaccines were fast-tracked during the pandemic.
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It can be so undignified, being a fan.
You’re locked into an obligation that you have no control of, and likely are unsure why you were drawn to it in the first place. You find yourself defending poor career choices, championing projects you know aren’t up to snuff just to be supporting, and, at its most embarrassing, being wildly histrionic and hyperbolic when the person you’re a fan of actually does something truly, irrefutably good.
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Actor Justin Baldoni said he is leaning on family and friends on the heels of filing a $400 million lawsuit against his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively.
Paparazzi caught Baldoni walking through Los Angeles International Airport with his family on Friday morning when he shared that he was “grateful to be with the family,” reported TMZ.
When asked how he is “getting through” his public spat with Lively, who accused him of sexual harassment in a lawsuit she filed last year, he shook his head in disappointment.
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A Texas man was booted right off of a Spirit Airlines flight due to an “obscene item” of clothing. The flyer, John Garcia Jr., was removed from the plane going from Los Angeles to San Antonio for wearing a hoodie that read: “Fvck Hate World Tour.” The video of his removal went viral as airplane staff can be seen going back and forth with the man over his sweatshirt. “It caught me like totally by surprise,” the 43-year-old said to San Antonio Express-News. “Like, ‘Man, are you serious?’” He was allegedly asked to remove his hoodie, and Garcia refused at first but eventually obliged after they told him to either remove it or get off the plane. Spirit representatives addressed the incident later, saying: “We want all our guests to feel welcome and have a great experience while traveling with us... We are aware of the video, and our team is investigating.”
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TikTok CEO Shou Chew appealed to Donald Trump’蝉 ego in a video statement on the Supreme Court’蝉 decision to uphold the TikTok ban.
“I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to work with us to find a solution that keeps TikTok available in the United States,” he said. “This is a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship.”
Trump said that he had “a warm spot” for the app during a December meeting with Chew, who was sure to mention Trump’蝉 popularity on the app in his statement.
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This week on The Daily Beast Podcast, Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee are preparing for Donald Trump’蝉 inauguration, or the “christening of the kleptocracy” as they’ve coined it. With the cold weather on everyone’蝉 mind, Coles was wondering what Jeff Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sánchez will be wearing inauguration—“and will she outdress Melania?” In other fashion critiques, Coles also addressed Trump’蝉 pick for defense secretary Pete Hegseth’蝉 overly-polished Senate confirmation look, describing it as “an American boy doll,” complete with flag socks. “He looked like a Christmas ornament,” Bee chimed in.
The Daily Beast’蝉 senior political correspondent, Juliegrace Brufke, joined this week’蝉 podcast having attended Hegseth’蝉 hearing, and noted that Republican leadership was “energized” by his performance.
Executive editor Hugh Dougherty noted Hegseth’蝉 fiery pushback to Democratic lawmakers: “He spoke the language of MAGA. He spoke about being saved by God. He didn’t express shame or regret.” He described this strategy as “smash-mouth politics... Don’t concede, don’t give ground, and stay aggressive.”
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Michelle and Barack Obama have hit back at wild rumors over their relationship with an intimate photo of them holding hands.
The former president posted the picture with a gushing message on Instagram to celebrate his wife’蝉 61st birthday on Friday.
The couple are holding hands across the table in what looks like a vault with racks of wine.
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President Joe Biden announced that he considers the Equal Rights Amendment “the law of the land” on Friday, a shock move that is unlikely to have any actual effect.
The ERA, a constitutional amendment that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, was first introduced in the 1970s. It took until 2020 for enough state legislatures to ratify the amendment, missing the deadline by decades.
The amendment would need to be certified and published by the national archivist, Colleen Shogan, to come into effect. Biden said on Friday that he would not order Shogan to certify the ERA.
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Though the hosts of The View could agreed that former first lady Michelle Obama has no “obligation” to attend Donald Trump’蝉 second inauguration on Monday, their theories about why she made her decision to skip it prompted a heated debate that left most of the hosts feeling “aggravated.”
The former first lady announced via a short statement from a spokesperson on Tuesday that she would not be at President Barack Obama’蝉 side for Trump’蝉 second swearing in. She did not offer a reason for her absence, however, prompting widespread speculation that spanned from her personal disgust with Trump to overheated divorce rumors.
Sunny Hostin immediately asserted Friday morning that Obama is “so right,” assuming the first lady made her decision in protest. Hostin said she was happy Obama seemed to be abandoning her famous saying, “When they go low, we go high.”
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CNN will have to fork over at least $5 million to a U.S. Navy veteran after it lost a defamation trial in Florida on Friday.
A Panama City, Florida, jury ruled that CNN had defamed security contractor Zachary Young when it aired a 2021 report that said he was part of a “black market” that price-gouged those attempting to flee Afghanistan after the U.S. military withdrew from the country.
CNN’蝉 lawyers—and many of its employees—argued it viewed the term as “unregulated” markets, not criminal ones, according to The Washington Post.
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CNN anchor Jim Acosta gave viewers a mysterious goodbye amid reports that his show is being relegated to a midnight slot.
“It’蝉 always an honor and a privilege to be with you, hour after hour, week after week,” Acosta said on CNN Newsroom Friday morning.
Acosta frequently sparred with Donald Trump during his first term. Now the network is looking to “throw a bone to Trump” ahead of his second term, media analyst Oliver Darcy reported in his newsletter Status.
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Insurance company State Farm has announced it will offer insurance renewals to Los Angeles residents that it had planned to drop.
The Daily Mail reported that the company said thousands of residents would now be able to renew policies in L.A. County. However, this does not apply to those whose policies had already lapsed when the fires started on Jan. 7.
The move comes after iconic actor who plays “Jake from State Farm” was attacked online after the insurance agency canceled policies just before the California wildfires.
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Timothée Chalamet dropped several hints about the “smelliest actor” 丑别’蝉 ever worked with in a new interview.
During a sit-down with his A Complete Unknown costar Edward Norton on BBC Radio 1 Thursday, the actors were given questions to answer from kids. One 5-year-old asked Chalamet to identify the “smelliest” actor 丑别’蝉 ever worked with. Chalamet said he wouldn’t “name” the person, he did give several hints that seemed to indicate one actor in particular.
He originally looked to Norton to answer the question, but Norton suggested Chalamet was at least one of the smelliest 丑别’蝉 worked with: “Let’蝉 just say Timothée went full method on Bob Dylan.” Chalamet didn’t deny his own on-set smelliness as he ultimately decided to answer the question honestly.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene hinted at a more dangerous reason behind the inauguration being moved indoors. After news broke of the change, the representative tweeted her conspiracy theory for the cause: A possible security threat. “I have personally attended countless rallies where President Trump spoke in extreme weather conditions from cold to rain to heat,“ Greene wrote on X. ”Is there a security threat other than extreme cold temperatures? Not only for him but for the people?” Minutes later, Greene posted Donald Trump’蝉 statement on the inauguration, which he clarified was due to freezing cold temperatures. “The weather forecast for Washington, D.C., with the windchill factor, could take temperatures into severe record lows,” Trump wrote to Truth Social. “There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way.” The swearing in ceremony will be moved into the Capitol Rotunda, whilst the parade will take place in the Capitol One Arena. Monday’蝉 weather forecast is shaping out to be the coldest inauguration in 40 years.
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— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) January 17, 2025
Is there a security threat other than extreme cold temperatures?
Not only for him but for the people? https://t.co/YQ2pfn6IYh
I had a friend many years ago who, after waking up drunk in an unfamiliar place, said that he was suffering from what he called “vuja day”—déjà vu turned inside out, or a feeling he had never experienced before. As with many drunks, he thought he was being funnier than he was. Because the sense he was having is one with which we are all familiar. In fact, there is a real French term for it, an opposite of déjà vu. It is jamais vu.
Washington is an odd place this week before the inauguration of Donald Trump as president. It is gliding toward the big day as though everything about it and Trump are familiar, almost comfortable. But the reality is that for many reasons the city and much of the country is actually suffering from a severe and potentially dangerous case of jamais vu.
That is, we’re heading into territory that is very much unlike anything we have ever seen before.
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Severance was a 2022 phenomenon, intriguing and baffling in equal measure and ending on a pitch-perfect cliffhanger that suggested its head-spinning tale was just getting started. Three years later, the show finally returned on Jan. 17 to answer some of its myriad questions—although anyone hoping for neat-and-tidy resolutions will want to temper those expectations.
To an even greater degree than during its maiden run, the Apple TV+ hit’蝉 second season delivers an avalanche of mysteries designed to keep audiences guessing, theorizing, and scratching their heads.
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Quarterback Aaron Rodgers has a message for the Senate ahead of the confirmation of his pal, Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“You better come ready senators, come ready and try and see if you can pull one over on my boy, Bobby, because Bobby’蝉 f---ing smart, dude,” Rodgers said on The Pat McAfee Show.
RFK Jr. was reportedly considering Rodgers as his running mate for his failed presidential campaign. The pair share the same anti-vaccination views, which have landed Kennedy in hot water ahead of his nomination to the top health job.
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Tulsi Gabbard’蝉 spiritual “guru” called gay people “perverts” and spewed homophobic slurs when she was involved in his tiny group, an audio recording obtained by the Daily Beast reveals.
Gabbard is President-elect Donald Trump’蝉 pick to be director of national intelligence after a dramatic political switch from left-wing Democratic presidential candidate to MAGA firebrand.
The tape shows how Chris Butler—the leader of the Science of Identity Foundation in which Gabbard was brought up—called homosexuality “abnormal” and “unhealthy and unnatural.” He compared it to having “sex with a fire hydrant” in a recording made a few years before Gabbard first ran for state office–which she did on an anti-gay platform.
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A bar inside Britain’蝉 Parliament is being closed after allegations of a drink being spiked, The Guardian reported. Strangers’ Bar, which offers subsidized drinks to members of Parliament, staff and visitors inside the Palace of Westminster, had already become notorious for drunken behavior. On Jan. 7, a parliamentary researcher reported to the staff that her drink had been tampered with, Politico reported earlier this week. On Wednesday, Metropolitan Police told Politico they were investigating the incident but hadn’t made any arrests. Starting next Monday, the bar will close for a safety review. “The safety of everyone on the estate remains a key priority of both houses,” a spokesperson for the House of Commons told The Guardian. The drinking culture at Westminster has come under fire in recent years, with one watchdog group calling it a “frequent factor” in cases of workplace harassment and abuse. Some members of Parliament even reportedly leave their drinks unattended at the bar while they go vote, then return to them after. A spokesperson for Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Politico that particular habit was “clearly… not sensible” and described the spiked drink as “incredibly concerning.”
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President-elect Donald Trump’蝉 inauguration will be moved indoors on Monday.
The change is due to “dangerously cold temperatures,” and the event will now be held inside the Capitol Rotunda.
“It is my obligation to protect the People of our Country but, before we even begin, we have to think of the Inauguration itself,” Trump posted to Truth Social.
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Vivek Ramaswamy looks set to miss out on the Senate seat vacated by JD Vance, even after Donald Trump reportedly urged the DOGE co-star to go for it, NBC News reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The biotech entrepreneur, who was raised in Cincinnati, found himself in the mix for the seat even after he took himself out of consideration in November to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency with Elon Musk, according to The Washington Post. JD Vance is of course vacating his seat to become Vice President of the U.S.
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In the wake of the tragic passing of David Lynch—a beloved director, painter, musician, and weatherman—it’蝉 worth looking back to his final major project, Twin Peaks: The Return.
There was a lot to love about that surreal, ambitious final chapter of Twin Peaks, but the most affecting part is its constant meditation on aging and death. The actors in The Return were old at the time of filming; several of them (like Harry Dean Stanton and Miguel Ferrer) died not long after production.
Whereas other revival series try to gloss over the ravages of time, David Lynch leaned into it with The Return, an approach that paid off most clearly with the Log Lady’蝉 final scene. The actress who played the Log Lady, Catherine E. Coulson, was dying of complications from cancer at the time of filming. Four days before she passed, she filmed a phone call scene with Deputy Hawk (Michael Horse).
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Donald Trump has sidelined the Supreme Court to take full power of TikTok’蝉 future stateside.
He bragged to CNN—shortly after the nation’蝉 high court ruled in favor of upholding a ban—that TikTok’蝉 future in the U.S. was now solely his to make and take credit for.
“It ultimately goes up to me,” Trump said, “so you’re going to see what I’m going to do.”
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Federal employees are editing out any mention of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in government documents to avoid being axed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’蝉 budget purge.
They fear the new Department of Government Efficiency will target any woke language or policy speak as it launches the Trump administration’蝉 avowed federal jobs cull.
Five sources from different government agencies told CNN that workers are changing the wording in performance reviews and job descriptions in an attempt to go under the radar.
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Former President Barack Obama urged then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to be the one to talk President Joe Biden into dropping out of the 2024 presidential race.
After Biden’蝉 disastrous debate performance on June 27, most Democrats agreed the president didn’t stand much chance of beating Donald Trump in the November election, according to a new report in The New York Times.
But they disagreed about how to convince him to step aside, with some favoring a private push while others preferred to apply public pressure. Even many who publicly supported him were working privately to get him out of the race, according to the Times.
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Cold pressed into bite-sized pieces, Whole Food Clusters are served in a convenient, scoopable format. It’蝉 available in puppy or adult recipes and has three protein options: cage- free chicken, ranch-raised beef, and cage-free turkey.
Simply add warm water to this dehydrated pet food, wait three minutes, and serve. It’蝉 a space saver: each box makes four times its weight in food making a four-pound box 16 pounds of food.
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The renowned British actress Joan Plowright, who was married to the stage legend Laurence Olivier for 28 years, died on Thursday aged 95. She passed in her native England, her daughter said, at a retirement home for actors in the country’蝉 south. A cause of death was not released, but she was surrounded by loved ones. Plowright was a winner of a Tony Award, two Golden Globes, and earned nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. Her only Oscar nomination came for 1991’蝉 Enchanted April, for which she won the Golden Globe for best supporting actress. At the same ceremony, she won another Globe for her role in HBO’蝉 1992 biopic Stalin. Along with her husband, who died in 1989, she did much to revitalize the United Kingdom’蝉 theatrical scene post-World War II. Plowright shared three children with Olivier: Richard, born in 1961, Tamsin, born in 1963, and Julie-Kate, born in 1966. She worked until she physically could not anymore, retiring in 2014 after being deemed legally blind. That career-ending condition came a decade after he was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II. “She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theater, film, and TV over seven decades until blindness made her retire,” her family said. “We are so proud of all Joan did and who she was as a loving and deeply inclusive human being.” It was announced Friday that theaters across London will dim their lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday to honor Plowright.
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The House Intelligence Committee is being given a makeover, with Republicans who are seen as more MAGA friendly replacing some other GOP members.
The committee was seen as one of the last bastions of old-school Republicanism in Congress before Trump ordered a reshuffle. The president-elect “personally got involved” in getting rid of Intelligence chair Mike Turner, a GOP lawmaker told the Daily Beast. Turner told his colleagues that Trump ordered House Speaker Mike Johnson to remove him in an act of personal revenge, sources told the Beast. The New York Times characterized the move as Johnson “bowing to Trump.”
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Toxic fumes released by Tesla vehicles and other electric cars which have burned in the devastating Los Angeles wildfires are hindering cleanup efforts in the area. Jacqui Irwin, a state assembly member representing the Pacific Palisades, told Bloomberg that many of the cars in the evacuation zone have lithium batteries which require special removal. When burned, they release harmful gases and toxic chemicals which can cause severe health issues such as lung and eye damage and skin burns. “We’ve heard from firefighters that those lithium batteries burned fires near homes—like those with power walls—for much longer.” Fire victims will have to wait longer to return to their properties, the publication reported. Lithium battery fires can take up to 40 times longer to extinguish than standard car fires, The Conversation reported. The ferocious wind-fueled wildfires which erupted in Los Angeles have claimed the lives of at least 27 people, forced thousands of resident to flee, and have caused tens of billions of dollars in damage so far. The cause of the fires remain unknown.
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If anyone was expecting moderate Republicans in Congress to temper Donald Trump’蝉 more extreme plans on immigration and tariffs, the president-elect doesn’t plan to give them the chance, Trump told lawmakers this week.
During a two-hour meeting with Senate Republicans, Trump said he plans to immediately enact his MAGA vision instead of waiting for Congress to act, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. He has already prepared about 100 executive orders, and he has no qualms testing the legal limits of presidential authority, he said.
For months, Trump’蝉 aides have been looking at obscure laws passed about 50 years ago that he can invoke to unilaterally carry out his plans and bypass congressional funding limits. Instead of feeling preemptively constrained by constitutional checks and balances, he plans to do what he wants and take his chances with the courts, the Journal reported.
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Apple has temporarily pulled the plug on a recently launched artificial intelligence (AI) feature that churned out inaccurate summaries of news headlines from the BBC, Sky News, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other media organizations. The iPhone maker’蝉 service falsely created the headline that Luigi Mangione—the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson—had shot himself. It also incorrectly told users that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been arrested and that Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal had come out as gay. It even claimed Donald Trump had endorsed Kamala Harris’ 2024 Democratic running mate Tim Walz for president, according to the Post. A spokesperson for Apple told news outlets the company is “working on improvements and will make them available in a future software update.” The company came under intense scrutiny for the heavily marketed feature which butchered some news headlines, with Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler slamming it as “wildly irresponsible” in a rant on social media platform Bluesky this week.
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President-elect Donald Trump has cried foul over the FBI shuttering its diversity, equity and inclusion wing just before his return to the White House.
Trump and his MAGA allies have long railed against DEI, which they see as a fast track for under-qualified people to attain jobs that would have otherwise gone to better-suited candidates without regard to ethnicity or gender. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), even accused the FBI of having “prioritized” DEI over “protecting the American people.”
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CNN broadcast a supercut of some of the withering comments that Donald Trump’蝉 appointees have previously made about him.
The president-elect took to Truth Social this week to detail his White House blacklist, saying he doesn’t want any officials in his new administration who’ve worked for someone “suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” citing some of his most prominent critics as examples of those with the imagined condition.
Despite his passionate rebuttal of these characters, some of his current close political allies have been highly critical of him in the past. Just a few of these moments were compiled and broadcast on CNN’蝉 News Night with Abby Phillip Thursday.
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It always feels sort of mean to criticize art that comes from a genuinely good place and has an inarguably empathetic message, but I was certainly tested by Wish You Were Here, yet another maudlin terminal-illness romance that works really, really hard to have something new to say about its paint-by-numbers plot. It doesn’t.
In the film, releasing Jan. 17, Charlotte (a surly Isabelle Fuhrman) works at a Mexican restaurant with her more outgoing friend and roommate Helen (Gabby Kono-Abdy), both of them stuck in the boring late-twenties portion of their lives. After a wild night out, Charlotte stumbles into Adam (Aladdin‘蝉 Mena Massoud), a local artist whose creativity and spontaneity charm Charlotte into going home with him and spending the night.
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Bob Ritchie, a.k.a. Kid Rock, sent a stern message to former first lady Michelle Obama for her decision to skip his pal Donald Trump’蝉 inauguration on Jan. 20.
On the Fox News show Jesse Watters Primetime, the MAGA music star, who will be performing at the president-elect’蝉 inauguration, appeared stunned that the former first lady has opted out of attending. A source close to Obama told People, that she is “not one to plaster on a pleasant face and pretend for protocol’蝉 sake.”
Obama campaigned against Trump during his presidential campaigns in 2016, 2020 and 2024.
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Dozens of commercial airplanes were forced to change course to avoid falling debris after a SpaceX rocket exploded over the Gulf of Mexico, Reuters reported.
The massive Starship rocket broke up in space just minutes after launching from Texas on Thursday, sending flaming debris streaking across the sky, according to video footage.
Elon Musk’蝉 private rocket company confirmed SpaceX mission control had lost contact with the unmanned rocket, which had been newly upgraded and was carrying a test satellite payload, eight minutes after liftoff.
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(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)
Severance shares more with Selling Sunset than meets the eye.
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Jimmy Kimmel sarcastically offered President-elect Donald Trump some credit for his announcement appointing a number of MAGA celebrities as his “special ambassadors” to Hollywood.
“While everybody has been worried that he won’t do anything to help us, turns out we’re wrong,” Kimmel said.
Kimmel showed Trump’蝉 Thursday Truth Social post, which read, “It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California.”
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Just as it appeared Donald Trump’蝉 controversial nominees were all but confirmed, it seems one of the president-elect’蝉 most high-profile picks might be on the chopping block.
That’蝉 according to Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz, who chairs the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and is, among other titles, the Democratic Party’蝉 chief deputy whip. Schatz told co-host Andy Levy on the latest episode of The New Abnormal that RFK Jr., Trump’蝉 choice for health secretary, “is in serious peril” of losing his nomination battle.
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China’蝉 vice president will attend President-elect Donald Trump’蝉 inauguration on Jan. 20, the nation’蝉 Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday morning local time. The Chinese government confirmed that Vice President Han Zheng, a high-ranking Chinese politician who was tapped for the role in August 2023, according to the South China Morning Post, will travel to attend the ceremony in Washington, D.C. “China follows the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation in viewing and growing its relationship with the United States,” the ministry said in a statement. China said they planned to work with the US to “enhance dialogue and communication, properly manage differences, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, jointly pursue a stable, healthy and sustainable China-U.S. relationship and find the right way for the two countries to get along with each other in the new era.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the invitation was extended earlier by Trump’蝉 team. The unprecedented move comes after Trump repeatedly promised to levy tariffs on Chinese imports. He has also nominated multiple China critics to top-level Cabinet positions, including Sen. Marco Rubio for secretary of state. China’蝉 plans to send a high-level envoy to the presidential inauguration was first reported by the Financial Times last week. The Trump transition team did not immediately return a request for comment from the Daily Beast.
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CNN is considering a new time slot for one of its highest-rating stars—who also happens to be a longtime antagonist of President-elect Donald Trump.
CNN chief Mark Thompson called Jim Acosta on Wednesday to propose that his show, CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, be moved from its 10 a.m. ET time slot to midnight, according to the newsletter Status News.
“The move would effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news,” media reporter Oliver Darcy pointed out.
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Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede said on Fox News that his country’蝉 residents “don’t want to be Americans,” despite what any possible public relations stunts by right-wingers like Donald Trump Jr. might suggest.
“We will always be a part of NATO. We will always be a strong partner for the U.S. We are close neighbors. We have been cooperating in the last 80 years, and I think the future has a lot to offer to cooperate with,” Egede told anchor Bret Baier.
“But we want to also be clear,” he stated. “We don’t want to be Americans. We don’t want to be a part of the U.S., but we want a strong cooperation together with the U.S.”
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Donald Trump’蝉 team is reportedly not breaking a sweat over Michelle Obama’蝉 absence from his inauguration on Monday. A source close to President-elect Donald Trump’蝉 MAGA orbit told Page Six that those involved in planning his inaugural festivities are “having a good laugh” about Michelle’蝉 snub and “didn’t expect her to come anyway.” Meanwhile, a Democratic source told the outlet that “Donald Trump and Melania didn’t go to Joe Biden’蝉 inauguration and nobody cared. No one said anything.” Barack and Michelle Obama’蝉 office announced that the former first lady would be missing Trump’蝉 swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20, but that the former president would still attend. Michelle also didn’t attend former President Jimmy Carter’蝉 funeral service last week as she was on an “extended vacation” in Hawaii. Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as George W. and Laura Bush, are expected to attend Trump’蝉 second inauguration on Monday.
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President Joe Biden is reportedly not planning to enforce TikTok’蝉 ban on Jan. 19, and is opting to leave the fate of the app in President-elect Donald Trump’蝉 hands. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a U.S. official told the Associated Press that the Biden administration will be leaving the implementation of a law pertaining to TikTok’蝉 China-based ownership and its subsequent ban to Trump. Last year, Biden signed a law into Congress that required TikTok’蝉 Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest the app by Jan. 19, alleging that it posed a national security threat. While the ban is slated to ensue a day before Trump’蝉 inauguration, the president-elect’蝉 incoming national security adviser, Mike Walz, told Fox News that Trump’蝉 ready to intervene to keep the app afloat. A Biden administration official also told NBC News Wednesday that “Americans shouldn’t expect to see TikTok suddenly banned on Sunday.” In light of TikTok’蝉 ambiguous fate, a slew of users have flocked to Chinese social networking app Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, instead.
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There’蝉 a bit of a mystery surrounding who may have offered the financial backing for Rudy Giuliani to settle with a pair of 2020 election workers from Georgia that he repeatedly defamed.
Under the agreement, Donald Trump’蝉 former personal attorney gets to keep his New York and Florida apartments, as well as other valuables, in exchange for a payment to Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss. The amount of the payment, and its source, is undisclosed.
Giuliani was ordered in December 2023 to pay the pair $148 million, but in the following months he was regularly uncooperative when it came to turning over his assets, having recently been held in contempt not only in New York but in a Washington, D.C., courtroom as well. His reported net worth is about $10 million.
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John F. Kennedy’蝉 grandson Jack Schlossberg is well-loved by Democrats for his quirky social media posts, but this time he may have gone too far.
Schlossberg got ripped apart by supporters and haters alike after he posted an Instagram video mocking his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’蝉 speech disorder.
“Hey everybody, I’m trying to figure out the right present to get Donald Trump for the inauguration,” he said with a shaky voice in the short clip, tagging Kennedy.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams is flying to Mar-a-Lago for a “sit-down” with Donald Trump just days before the president-elect’蝉 inauguration, his office confirmed on Thursday night. “Mayor Adams has made quite clear his willingness to work with President-elect Trump and his incoming administration on behalf of New Yorkers,” the mayor’蝉 office said in a statement confirming the meeting, adding that Adams “looks forward to having a productive conversation with the incoming president on how we can move our city and country forward.” The statement did not elaborate on exactly what Adams planned to discuss with the president-elect. News of Adams’ meeting was first reported by The New York Times, who noted it originally did not show up on the mayor’蝉 public schedule. Adams was indicted in September on federal corruption charges, and is facing possible prison time for allegedly accepting “travel-related bribes” and illegal campaign finances from straw donors. Adams has repeatedly insisted he has “done nothing wrong.” Trump has previously said he would consider pardoning the New York City mayor, who he said was “treated pretty unfairly” at a December press conference. Adams previously met with Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican and Trump ally, on Tuesday night, the Politico’蝉 New York Playbook reported.
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Ten years after she seemingly hung it up for good, Cameron Diaz returns to the big screen—or, at least, Netflix—飞颈迟丑 Back in Action, an action comedy that pairs her with her Annie co-star Jamie Foxx. She should have stayed retired.
A drearily formulaic comeback vehicle that’蝉 been sitting on a shelf for nearly two years and boasts not a single original, amusing, or exciting moment, director Seth Gordon’蝉 feature is a hodgepodge of the hoariest of clichés, none of which have been fresh since the 1980s and most of which have to do with underlining the fact that—no matter their entry into middle age—its stars remain as sexy, funny, and desirable as ever. Diaz and Foxx still got it, the film constantly screams. The evidence on display, however, suggests otherwise.
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In moments of unimaginable loss, one truth becomes clear: healing is never something we do alone. This sentiment feels especially poignant for Los Angeles right now. As the city grapples with the ongoing devastation of wildfires, it remains uplifted by an unshakable sense of community. While the flames have brought shock and grief to Angelenos, they’ve also sparked a powerful wave of support.
Neighbors are helping each other, people from around the country are donating to causes supporting the city, first responders, and those who have lost their homes, and brands are stepping up to assist the community in meaningful ways—especially in the beauty space.
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Kevin O’Leary, the Canadian Shark Tank investor who has been palling around with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in recent weeks, complained at length on Fox News about former first lady Michelle Obama’蝉 decision to skip the president-elect’蝉 inauguration.
On the Fox News midday show Outnumbered, O’Leary reacted to Obama’蝉 decision, which, a source close to her told People, came because she is “not one to plaster on a pleasant face and pretend for protocol’蝉 sake.”
“This tradition has gone on for over a hundred years. This is what presidents do—and their wives—on inauguration day,” O’Leary claimed, adding later that it was “wrong” for Trump to choose not to attend President Joe Biden’蝉 swearing-in four years ago.
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An attorney for Wendy Williams poured cold water on fan theories claiming that the former talk show host isn’t cognitively impaired and suffering from dementia. Fans reacting to Williams’ viral Breakfast Club podcast interview Thursday began calling for her release from conservatorship, a la the #FreeBritney movement, over concerns that Williams appeared to be “present” and “coherent” like when she used to draw viewers into her eponymous talk show, The Wendy Williams Show. However, attorney Roberta Kaplan cautioned in an interview with TMZ that fans shouldn’t be fooled by Williams’ clarity. She has good days and bad days due to her battling an a neurological disease that will require her to have around-the-clock care for the rest of her life. It was revealed that Williams was diagnosed with frontal lobe dementia just before the documentary, Where Is Wendy Williams?, which also detailed Williams’ struggles with alcohol abuse. Williams compared the facility where she is staying in New York City to a “prison.” Her niece, Alex, stated that she is fighting to have Williams taken under the care of her family.
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Mel Gibson is just as surprised as you are.
The controversial Hollywood star apparently found out about his new diplomatic posting at the same time as the rest of the world when President-elect Donald Trump announced he would be appointing actors Sylvester Stallone, Jon Voight, and Gibson as his “special ambassadors” to Hollywood.
In true Trump fashion, he said the new roles were part of his effort to the American film industry “bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.”
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A pilot on a Southwest Airlines flight was walked off the flight by police officers and arrested for allegedly showing up for the flight intoxicated.
David Paul Allsop, 52, was arrested by airport police in Savannah just before he was supposed to pilot a Southwest flight from Savannah/Hilton Head Airport in Georgia to Chicago-Midway on Wednesday morning.
A spokesperson for the Transportation Safety Administration told the Daily Beast that one of their agents at the airport was the one who noticed Allsop appeared intoxicated and alerted police.
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Stephen King revealed that he would sit out voting for the 2025 Oscars as Los Angeles continues to burn from three major fires.
“Not voting in the Oscars this year,” the 77-year-old announced on the social media platform Bluesky.
“In my honest opinion, they should cancel them,” he added. “No glitz with Los Angeles on fire.”
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Shortly after a heated exchange between Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) during a House committee meeting earlier this week, the Texas Democrat said she received a creepy phone call from a Republican staffer that seemingly doubled down on Mace’蝉 threats of “violence.”
“That was a pretty heated exchange between y’all and Mace. My money’蝉 on Mace,” the staffer said on the call, according to Crockett’蝉 office.
She did not name who the staffer was—but the Texas Democrat said she isn’t taking the call lightly.
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Donald Trump is slated to have one of the coldest Inauguration Days in 40 years, according to CNN. The outlet reports that when Trump is sworn in at noon on Monday, the temperature is expected to be in the low 20s (around 20 degrees below normal) with winds reaching 10 to 20 mph. Although rain and snow are expected to pour the day prior, Inauguration Day is looking clear, though wind gusts up to 30 mph will make for freezing conditions. CNN reports that noon temperatures were as low as 7 degrees for Ronald Reagan’蝉 second inauguration in 1985, while at Barack Obama’蝉 first inauguration in 2009, they hit 28 degrees. The anticipated temperatures for Trump’蝉 second inauguration would make it the coldest Inauguration Day since Reagan’蝉. The expected cold is a result of Arctic air that’蝉 slated to spill south from Canada late this week and drop temperatures to below normal across a multitude of states.
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Mark Zuckerberg reportedly blamed one of his former executives, Sheryl Sandberg, for Meta’蝉 recent “culture” issues during a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump—despite the fact that she has not been with the company for more than two years.
The Facebook founder is accused of playing the blame game at a November meeting at Mar-a-Lago, where The New York Times reports he also made assurances to not stand in Donald Trump’蝉 way after he returns to office next week.
The newspaper reported that high-level discussions occurred between Zuckerberg and top Trump advisers—including Stephen Miller—and that crackdowns on immigration and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts were all topics of discussion.
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Donald Trump’蝉 pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency struggled to answer straightforward questions about science.
At his confirmation hearing on Thursday, former Rep. Lee Zeldin faced scrutiny of his limited environmental experience. For one senator, Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, this took the form of a science pop quiz—asking, in his words, “really basic no-tricks questions about climate change.”
Whitehouse started off with a softball: “First, as a matter of law, is carbon dioxide a pollutant?”
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Hollywood star Jessica Alba posted to Instagram Thursday to let her more than 20 million followers know that she and her husband, Cash Warren, will “embark on a new chapter.” That sugar-coated language means they are getting a divorce, ending their 16-year marriage. Alba emphasized that their three underage children are the couple’蝉 highest priority as the divorce unfolds. A source with knowledge of the family told the New York Post that the famous duo are not getting divorced for petty or dramatic reasons, and that they have simply grown apart over time. Alba has usually spoken highly of her marriage with Warren, though recently, he has not accompanied her to public events, causing speculation about the couple’蝉 future. However, their dedication to their children was apparent when they joined forces for their son Hayes' 7th birthday on Jan. 3 despite not being photographed together for months. That speculation was fueled further however when she was seen without her wedding ring at a pre-Golden Globes party days later.
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British soap actor Paul Danan died less than a year after being hospitalized for respiratory failure, his management company revealed Thursday. He was 46.
At the time, Danan said a prolific vaping habit—developed after years of smoking cigarettes—pushed him “over the edge.”
Danan’蝉 management company Independent Creative Management broke the news in a Thursday statement posted to Instagram that was flooded with well wishes from fans.
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A Trump adviser said the president-elect’蝉 pick for the FBI will take Democrats on an interesting trip if they question his controversial far-right conspiracy theories.
Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, jumped to defend FBI chief nominee Kash Patel in a tweet calling out The New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush.
Thrush said that Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi appeared to distance herself from Patel during her confirmation hearing on Wednesday after she was grilled about his wild conspiracy theories. Bondi would become Patel’蝉 boss if they are both confirmed.
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Tennis star Danielle Collins thanked a crowd of hecklers at the Australian Open for helping fund her next vacation—shortly after motioning that they should kiss her behind. The crowd didn’t take lightly to Collins winning over their home player Destanee Aiava in Thursday’蝉 match, prompting her to blow kisses to them as they booed her and motioning that they should kiss her a--. Later in a post-match interview, Collins referred to her friend and former tennis player CoCo Vandeweghe while thanking her haters for paying for their “five-star vacation.” “CoCo and I love a good five-star vacation,” Collins said. “So part of that check is going to go towards that. So thanks for coming out here and supporting us tonight.” The tennis star continued to express her gratitude for her hecklers in a post-match press conference, adding: “One of the greatest things about being a professional athlete is the people that don’t like you and the people that hate you, they actually pay your bills. It’蝉 kind of a cool concept.” She continued, “Every person that’蝉 bought a ticket to come out here and heckle me, it’蝉 all going towards the Danielle Collins Fund. Bring it on. I love it.”
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Donald Trump has fired a defiant riposte to Joe Biden’蝉 parting warning that a tech titan oligarchy is threatening America’蝉 democracy.
The president-elect has invited the world’蝉 wealthiest billionaires to join his family and former U.S. presidents in prime positions on the dais for Monday’蝉 inauguration ceremony.
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Shou Zi Chew will take pride of place outside the Capitol in a clear show of money power behind the new administration.
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Kyle MacLachlan penned a touching tribute to his “dear friend” and frequent collaborator David Lynch, the cerebral director who launched the Hollywood star’蝉 career and continued working with him for years. Lynch’蝉 family announced his death on Thursday at 78, about five months after the director announced he could only work remotely in the future due to emphysema. MacLachlan, 65, credited Lynch with giving him his big break when he cast him as Paul Atreides in his 1984 adaptation of Dune. “He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.” Lynch and MacLachlan continued to work together for years, with the actor playing the lead in Lynch’蝉 iconic television show Twin Peaks, its 2017 sequel Twin Peaks: The Return, as well as his films Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. “Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met,” MacLachlan said.
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Comedian Damon Wayans appears as a sort of ghost from Saturday Night Live’蝉 past in the new Peacock docuseries SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night to explain why he “went rogue” and “wanted [Lorne Michaels] to fire me” after his brief stint during the show’蝉 notoriously troubled 1985-1986 season of the show.
Wayans says in the doc, which began streaming on Thursday, that he was tired of his ideas being “shot down” as he chafed against racially insensitive sketches from the show’蝉 writers. The comedian was trying to follow cast mate Eddie Murphy’蝉 advice as a former Black cast member on the show.
“Eddie’蝉 advice to me was, ‘Write your own sketches. Otherwise, they’re gonna give you some Black people s--t to do and you ain’t gonna like it,’” Wayans recalls. But getting his own ideas on the air proved difficult.
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The chief executive of a Greenland hotel where Donald Trump Jr. hosted a lunch in for MAGA supporters has claimed that the attendees did not actually know who Don Jr. was and were just looking for a free lunch.
“[Trump Jr.] had just met them in the street and invited them for lunch, or his staff did. But I don’t think they knew who they were inviting,” J?rgen Bay-Kastrup, the chief executive of Hotel Hans Egede in Nuuk, Greenland, told the Guardian in an interview published Thursday.
“That of course was a little bit strange to us because we saw guests that we have never seen in our hotel before — and will probably never see again because it’蝉 out of their economical means,” he continued, with the Guardian noting that he described many of the attendees as “homeless.”
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Speaker Mike Johnson appointed a relatively unknown MAGA loyalist on Thursday to lead the House Intelligence Committee after he stunned colleagues by ousting the previous chairman—who blamed his firing on Donald Trump.
Rep. Rick Crawford of Arkansas is now set to take over the powerful committee, which oversees the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA and the FBI.
Crawford—a former Army veteran and rodeo announcer—is a conservative hardliner compared to his predecessor, Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio. Crawford voted against certifying the 2020 election results; Turner voted in favor of validating Joe Biden’蝉 election victory over Trump.
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Crowds of MAGA followers, politicos, journalists and tech bros will be descending on Washington, D.C. over the next few days for president-elect Donald Trump’蝉 second inauguration. But one name is notably absent from the guest lists: Michelle Obama.
The former first lady has said she won’t be in attendance—sans excuse—having also bailed on Jimmy Carter’蝉 funeral last week, because of a “scheduling conflict.”
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Pete Davidson says he felt like a failure at Saturday Night Live at the end of his first season as one of the youngest cast members in the show’蝉 50 year history.
Davidson, who was just 20 when he joined the show in 2014, revealed that he requested a meeting with executive producer Lorne Michaels to directly ask to be let go.
“After my first year, I actually called for a meeting with Lorne. I was like, ‘Please fire me,’” Davidson says in the new Peacock docuseries SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night. “‘I don’t belong here. Everybody here is so talented, and they don’t want to be my friend.’ I was a child! I was like, ‘Nobody wants to be my friend!’”
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David Lynch, the peerless director behind such masterpieces as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Drive, was one of cinema’蝉 all-time greats, a unique visionary whose dark and surreal films were the stuff of both unsettling dreams and sumptuous nightmares.
His passing Thursday at the age of 78 (following his announcement earlier this year that he was suffering from emphysema) is a titanic loss to the medium, and in an exclusive new interview with The Daily Beast’蝉 Obsessed, acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh pays tribute to the late auteur as a true one-of-a-kind – as well as a pretty great furniture maker.
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David Lynch made many tremendous works of art over his staggering career. His 2001 film Mulholland Drive is often cited as one of the greatest films of the 21st century. His television series, 1990’蝉 Twin Peaks and 2017’蝉 Twin Peaks: The Return has received similarly titanic praise. He’蝉 directed music videos for artists including Moby, Interpol, and Nine Inch Nails and commercials for companies as wide-ranging as Calvin Klein, Honda, and PlayStation. That’蝉 not to mention various short films, web series, and even music albums.
Lynch died Jan. 16, and in his vast body of work, there’蝉 one piece I’ve never stopped thinking about: Inland Empire, his final feature film from 2006.
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Bob Uecker, the Hall of Fame baseball player who later became the voice of the Milwaukee Brewers, has died at the age of 90. Uecker’蝉 death Thursday was announced by the team, which called it “one of the most difficult days in Milwaukee Brewers history.” Uecker’蝉 family said he had “faced a private battle with small cell lung cancer” since early 2023. Throughout the 1960s, Uecker played baseball for Milwaukee, the Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals. “Mr. Baseball,” as he was affectionately called, became a sports broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers in 1971. He was initiated into the Hall of Fame in 2003. Uecker was also a comedian, making frequent “colorful” appearances on Johnny Carson’蝉 show. Uecker described being a sports broadcaster as like being part of “people’蝉 families,” which he said was deeply rewarding. Even in the last year of his life, he was deeply involved with the Brewers. After the team won the National League Central title in 2024, players showered “Ueck” with Champagne in the locker room. The team’蝉 official statement reflected this affection, saying they had “no words for how much he was loved. We are left with a giant void in our hearts.”
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MAGA-loving media organizations are gearing up to celebrate Donald Trump’蝉 return to Washington with a spectacular party weekend ahead of his swearing-in on Monday.
Newsmax and The Daily Caller have both sent out invites for pre-inauguration parties ahead of Monday’蝉 Inauguration Day, according to copies of the invites obtained by the Daily Beast. Newsmax, the conservative cable network founded by longtime Trump ally (and golfing buddy) Christopher Ruddy, is hosting an “Inaugural Eve Celebration” on Sunday, where it expects at least 1,500 politicians and media figures to attend, a spokesperson said.
Its party will be held at the Mellon Auditorium, which housed much of the 2020 Republican National Convention.
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Ben Stiller revealed that his real-life father-in-law isn’t much different from the one Robert De Niro played alongside him in Meet The Parents.
On Thursday’蝉 episode of The View, Stiller told the hosts meeting his wife, actress and Zoolander co-star Christine Taylor’蝉 dad was the “exact same experience” as the movie.
“When we were making Meet the Parents, I had just met Christine and I was gonna ask her to marry me,” he explained, but wanted to ask her father for permission first.
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Many White House officials believe that Joe Biden missed an opportunity by not making a friend of Elon Musk, according to a report.
While Biden in his Wednesday farewell address warned of the emergence of oligarchs in the United States, some of his aides told CNN that his decisions may contributed to the creation of one.
Musk, who has emerged as one of Donald Trump’蝉 most powerful allies, was previously a Democrat and did not back the now-president-elect until his near-miss assassination attempt in July.
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(They just sweep us away. It’蝉 relaxing for them,“ added Bee, whose show Full Frontal navigated the response to similarly unfiltered commentary.)
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A United Airlines flight was forced to turn back around after hitting a coyote during takeoff.
None of the 167 passengers or six crew members were injured, but the Boeing plane had to quickly turn back around to Chicago O’Hare Airport to check the landing gear.
“We arranged for another plane to take our customers to their destination later that afternoon,” the airline said.
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A MAGA state senator in Georgia was shoved to the ground and arrested Thursday for trying to defy a ban and forcefully enter the House chambers.
Colton Moore was thrown down as he tried to push his way past police and officials to make it inside the chamber for Gov. Brian Kemp’蝉 state of the state speech.
Moore, 31, was banned indefinitely from the chambers last year after he referred to the late House speaker David Ralston as “one of the most corrupt Georgians we’ve seen in our lives” during a day of remembrance for the longtime Republican politician, whose loved ones were in attendance.
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Brad Pitt has issued a cautionary statement in response to the viral story about a French woman who divorced her husband and handed over her life savings to a scammer posing as the actor by using crude AI images. “It’蝉 awful that scammers take advantage of the strong bond between fans and celebrities,” a spokesperson for Pitt said in a statement to Variety. “This is an important reminder not to respond to unsolicited online messages, especially from actors who are not present on social networks.” The 53-year-old woman came forward this week to reveal that she had been duped out of more than $850,000 after a man she believed to be Pitt initiated a virtual relationship with her and claimed to need an enormous amount of money for a kidney transplant. “At first I said to myself that it was fake, that it’蝉 ridiculous,” the woman, identified only as Anne said in a TV interview. “But I’m not used to social media and I didn’t really understand what was happening to me.”
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Bill Maher is just fine with not the be in the “fraternity” of late-night hosts who lean left, he said in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Noting that he “knows and loves” Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon but others (like the more openly political Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers) he doesn’t “know at all,” the host of HBO’蝉 Real Time told the magazine that when he was launching his previous talk show Politically Incorrect on ABC, he was told, “You can’t do a show where you have political opinions because the audience will turn off to that.”
“Johnny Carson always played it down the middle. You didn’t even know who he voted for. Same with Letterman and Leno. That was the template. Now, it’蝉 completely the opposite. The politics come first on those shows.” Maher said the hosts “echo what [their liberal audiences] already want to believe and do believe.”
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President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has appointed a few of his favorite celebrity hangers-on as his “special ambassadors” to Hollywood.
Trump shared on Truth Social that it was his “honor” to appoint Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone to be his envoys to California’蝉 “great but very troubled place.”
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David Lynch, the groundbreaking director of TV and movies from Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet to Wild at Heart, has died at 78.
“It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch,” his family said in a statement. “We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’蝉 a big hole in the world now that 丑别’蝉 no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ It’蝉 a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.”
Deadline reported that Lynch was forced to relocate from his Los Angeles home due to the wildfires and that things then “took a turn for the worse.” In August, he revealed that he was suffering from emphysema after a lifetime of smoking and that he couldn’t leave his home for fear that he would get COVID.
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After years of “democracy dies in the darkness,” The Washington Post now wants to play host to “riveting storytelling for all of America.”
The new mission statement was previewed to some staffers by Post chief strategy officer Suzi Watford in meetings this week, according to The New York Times.
The slogan is meant to be an internal rallying cry for the Post‘蝉 journalists as the paper seeks to reach 200 million paying users, according to the Times, and will not replace the public “democracy” slogan used publicly, including on the paper’蝉 homepage.
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South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott appeared to prematurely congratulate Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on her nomination to fill Marco Rubio’蝉 vacated Senate seat before Gov. Ron DeSantis officially announced it. In a quickly-deleted tweet, Scott hailed Moody as a “proven conservative fighter” for President-elect Donald Trump and a “national leader on border security,” reported Politico. Shortly after the tweet disappeared, DeSantis made his own announcement for Moody. “Talk is cheap. We need people that have demonstrated fidelity to these principles with their actions,” said DeSantis of Moody, who has been attorney general in the Sunshine State since 2019. DeSantis said Moody “has been somebody that has acted time and time again to support the values that we all share.” He added, “Whether that’蝉 illegal immigration, [the] opioid and fentanyl crisis, human trafficking. She has stood strong time and time again, most recently in this past year, filing lawsuits and joining lawsuits to take on the weaponization of law enforcement that targeted then-candidate Donald Trump.” Moody will run in a special election in November of 2026 to complete the remainder of Rubio’蝉 term.
]]>Uh NRSC chair Tim Scott just welcomed Ashley Moody to the Senate and then quickly deleted it #FLSEN pic.twitter.com/8Bk7FXQoGW
— Ally Mutnick (@allymutnick) January 16, 2025
Justin Baldoni filed a new lawsuit Thursday against Blake Lively, alleging that she used her industry “power”—including her friendship with Taylor Swift—to seize control of their film It Ends With Us and “destroy” him.
The 179-page suit includes text messages that name Swift as the “megacelebrity friend” who attended a meeting wherein Baldoni, Lively, and husband Ryan Reynolds discussed Lively’蝉 rewrites of the film’蝉 pivotal rooftop scene. It was during that meeting that Reynolds and Swift “began praising Lively’蝉 script.”
Lively admits in the presented text messages that Baldoni’蝉 hesitance about her version “of course, didn’t feel great for me.” Baldoni said that instead of accepting his stance on the issue, she enlisted Swift to “pressure” him.
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