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Boebert ridiculed for fumbling sign of the cross during House Oversight Committee hearing
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., must not be an "Austin Powers" fan, or else she would have likely committed "spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch" to memory, as both a quote from the film and a handy way to remember how to properly perform the sign of the cross. During Thursday's House...
"It's not about good apples and bad apples": Netflix doc "Power" traces the history of US policing
Yance Ford understands how easy it is for the public to become numbed to images of violence that police commit against citizens. The ubiquity of cell phone cameras means that not a week passes without someone uploading images showing an officer employing excessive force against an unarmed person – especially right now, with protests against Israel’s war in Gaza taking place on college campuses throughout the nation.
After a bit of cat and mouse, Arizona officials track down Giuliani to serve him in election case
As of Wednesday, Arizona officials were having a hard time locating Rudy Giuliani to serve him notice of his indictment for his alleged interference efforts in the 2020 election, and the cat and mouse — on Giuliani's end — seems to have been intentional. In a since deleted...
Korean cuisine embraces mayo, but is it true love?
H Marts abound across New York City and the surrounding suburbs, featuring Korean products like tteokbokki (rice cakes), chunjang (black bean paste), kimchi (spicy pickled cabbage), and colorful bottles containing that thick, creamy sauce called mayonnaise. Unlike rice cakes, black bean paste, and kimchi, mayo was born not in Korea...
"If the Beatles did it, it was good enough for me": Joan Osborne on the lesson learned about albums
Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter Joan Osborne joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about “monolithic cultural moments,” the Beatles as makeout music, their mutual admiration for previous show guest Sophie B. Hawkins and much more on “Everything Fab Four,” a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon.
Diddy shown physically assaulting former girlfriend in damning surveillance video
"He's cooked," is the consensus on social media, after surveillance video footage of Sean “Diddy” Combs physically assaulting ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, began circulating at the start of the weekend. In the clip — captured during a stay at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles on March...
“They rolled me in margarita salt”: Anthony Scaramucci on surviving the Trump White House
Anthony Scaramucci — or “The Mooch” to his friends, as well as to late-night comics — is many things. A successful investor, a famously short-lived White House communications director for Donald Trump, a Harvard Law graduate, a target of “Saturday Night Live” mockery and more. Now we can add one more item to the list: A life coach, who says he can help you remain resilient in the face of challenges.
Samuel Alito's snide denial of his Jan. 6 flag is just as ugly as flying it in the first place
Add one more incident to the "shocking but not surprising" pile that grows mountainously high in an era of rising fascism: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew a flag at his house signaling support for the Capitol insurrection in the days after January 6, 2021. The inverted American flag was...
I worked with Michael Cohen and covered Donald Trump. Guess which man I trust
To listen to the pundits inside and outside of the courtroom, the Manhattan felony case against former President Trump rests on the testimony and cross-examination of former Trump fixer Michael Cohen. I disagree. Cohen, once Trump’s personal attorney, closest employee and greatest ally, left Trump’s inner circle after being convicted...
“All of my friends are dead”: The overdose crisis is taking a toll on harm reduction workers
Stephen Murray’s work in harm reduction doesn’t end when he leaves the office at 5 p.m. As the Harm Reduction Program Manager at Boston Medical Center who runs the SafeSpot Overdose Hotline, he is on call 24/7. Sometimes, his phone rings at 4 a.m. to assist with an overdose.
Providing lifesaving care is my job as an emergency medicine doctor. That includes abortion care
A forthcoming Supreme Court decision this June on access to lifesaving care threatens the very basis of why I became an emergency medicine doctor: anyone, anywhere, anytime. When a patient is rushed into my emergency department, I do not stop to ask them for their credit card. I don’t require them to put down a deposit before stopping their bleeding, treating their pain, or getting them treatment for a heart attack. I don’t stop to make sure our hospital accepts their insurance or to ask if they have insurance at all. I simply do what I have spent many years training to do: provide the best possible, and often lifesaving, care to people who are in crisis.
Sorry, Harrison Butker, the Benedictine College nuns reject your "narrow definition" of Catholicism
The religious sisterhood order that co-founded Benedictine College, the small academic institution in Atchinson, Kansas, has disavowed the 2024 commencement speech by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, which has been widely panned as misogynistic and homophobic. The Sisters of Mt. Scholastica issued a statement declaring their shared sentiment that...
Celebrities push for Kevin Spacey's return to Hollywood on the heels of fresh allegations
A spate of A-list public figures recently have advocated for Kevin Spacey's return to the movie industry. Liam Neeson, Sharon Stone, F. Murray Abraham and Stephen Fry all stated their support for the former "House of Cards" actor, who has faced a series of sexual assault allegations made by numerous men. In 2017, during the height of the #MeToo movement, actor and Broadway performer Anthony Rapp told Buzzfeed that Spacey had assaulted him during a party at his New York City apartment in 1986 when Rapp was only 14 years old. Spacey at the time took to X/Twitter to issue the "sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior," asserting that he had no recollection of the incident. He also used the post as an opportunity to officially and publicly come out as gay, a move that was harshly condemned by many people inside and outside the LGBTQ+ community.
"Out of control": Legal experts say Justice Alito's "Stop the Steal" symbol is a huge red flag
Legal experts are lamenting the lack of an enforceable judicial ethics code, with some calling for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's recusal, following a New York Times report that a symbol of the “Stop the Steal” movement to reject the 2020 election was flown outside Alito’s home in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
"I’m very naked": "Bridgerton" star Nicola Coughlan rejects body shamers through her sex scenes
Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington has ditched the wallflower moniker and traded it in to blossom into the diamond of the season for the latest season of Netflix's period drama "Bridgerton.” The Irish star has some choice words for the body shamers who have relentlessly criticized her body: "F**k you."
Right-wing conspiracy theorist who assaulted Nancy Pelosi’s husband sentenced to 30 years in prison
David DePape, the man convicted of breaking into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home and brutally attacking her husband with a hammer, was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison, the Associated Press reported. DePape, 44, was found guilty last November. He was given credit for the 18 months he's...
“That’s beneath even you”: Bedlam erupts after Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks Black lawmaker
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s antics in Congress may possibly have hit a new and racist low, the events that transpired at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Thursday resembling a trainwreck that one can’t stop watching. At 8 p.m, the members of the Republican-led committee congregated for what...
Why King Charles' portrait is so grotesque. Hint: It's not just the color
The explanation is at first glance quite straightforward — it’s that no other color affects us like it. You don’t want to upset anybody? Get yourself some tasteful neutrals. You want to cause a ruckus? Trot out the red. Red is death. It’s violence. It’s sex. It’s beauty. It’s power. (Just ask Taylor.) So when King Charles III unveiled his first official portrait since his coronation earlier this week at Buckingham Palace, of course there were gasps heard round the world. But it’s not just the overabundance of a divisive primary color that makes the image so unnerving.
Trump allies are planning a "purge" of the Justice Department, hoping to eliminate checks on power
A group of former president Donald Trump’s allies is formulating proposals to curb the Justice Department’s independence and turn the FBI into a political tool of the MAGA movement, Reuters reported. This group, operating under the auspices of the right-wing Heritage Foundation's “Project 2025,” presents an extreme example...
"Bridgerton" examines the perks and perils of its wallflower's power
Pity the poor Featheringtons, the garish “Bridgerton” family struggling to socially match their graceful, connected and wealthy namesake neighbors across the street. Season 3 finds their matriarch Portia (Polly Walker) secretly fretting over money problems having to do with inheritance law, placing her at the mercy of her ne’er-do-well male cousin.
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