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Disney’s new live-action “Cinderella” movie is not some re-imagined reboot in which the title character is an ardent feminist and there’s a musical number about gender equality in the workplace.
The script is not filled with irony-laden dialogue in which the characters are practically winking at the camera as they ... |
Remember how the Republican National Committee threatened NBC and CNN to call off their planned Hillary Clinton projects lest they not get any of the Republican primary debates in 2016? Well, if the RNC is serious about taking a stand, the party may end up limiting its debates to other networks, but mainly Fox News. Th... |
The script for the proposed mini-series on the life of the possible presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton hasn’t even been written but we may already have a plot twist.
While NBC has come under heavy fire, especially from Republican critics, for agreeing to broadcast the series, the project may wind up bein... |
Presidential advisers feud. There was Colin Powell vs. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Valerie Jarrett vs. Rahm Emanuel. Jarrett vs. Bill Daley. Presidents change their advisers. Bill Clinton dumped his chief of staff and press secretary in the midst of a bumpy first two years. Barack Obama, whose supporters dubbed hi... |
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Mr. Trump made clear Mr. Bannon’s subordinate role, calling him “a guy who works for me.”
Amid the clashing egos, news media leaks and insinuations of disloyalty, the president was once again faced with having to defuse a personnel crisis that was, in part,... |
(CNN) It's easy to forget, after a whirlwind 82 days in the White House, that chief strategist Steve Bannon only formally joined Donald Trump's presidential campaign fewer than three months before Election Day.
For Trump, however, the timeline is crystal clear. He is keenly aware of when Bannon joined the team and,... |
When Stephen K. Bannon reported for work Wednesday, he did not act like a man who had just been publicly humiliated by his boss.
The White House chief strategist cycled in and out of the Oval Office for meetings with President Trump and took a seat in the front row of the East Room for the afternoon visit of NATO’s... |
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsThousands gather in DC to protest Trump immigration policies Conservative talk-show host Hugh Hewitt announces end of his MSNBC show Trump to appoint White House lawyer as next DEA chief: report MORE said Wednesday he admires White House chief strategis... |
Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt is stepping down from his role as executive chairman of the company, according to a press release published Thursday.
Schmidt was Google’s CEO for a decade, stepping away in 2011, and has been chairman of Google, now Alphabet, since 2001. He helped oversee Google’s transition into Alphabet a... |
Eric Schmidt will be stepping down as the executive chairman of Alphabet's board of directors and transitioning to technical advisor, the company announced. He will continue to serve on the company's board.
Schmidt first joined Google as CEO in 2001, back when the company only had several hundred employees, and bec... |
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The Dow Jones industrial average traded above 25,000 points for the first time, blasting through another 1,000-point milestone.
The Dow's latest breakthrough came in early trading Thursday and just five weeks after closing above 24... |
The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped past 25000 for the first time Thursday, possibly notching the fastest 1,000-point gain in its history, should it close above that mark.
The blue-chip index, which heavily weights industrial giants like Boeing Co. and Caterpillar Inc., was recently up 97 points, or 0.4%, at 25... |
Illustris is significant not just because it looks cool, but also because it is the first model to accurately predict the gas and metal content we see in the universe, as well as the variety of different types of galaxies we observe through our telescopes. It is so accurate, in fact, that a mock observation of galaxies... |
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An international team of researchers has created the most complete visual simulation of how the Universe evolved.
The computer model shows how the first galaxies formed around clumps of a m... |
A quick-thinking bus driver has been praised after he manoeuvred his double-decker alongside a burning building to allow a man to escape a serious house fire.
The naked victim was able to leap from a second floor window onto the bus’ roof after Andy Waterman, the 48-year-old driver, pulled up alongside.
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A naked man jumped on to the roof of a double-decker bus from a top-floor flat which had caught fire.
The man, who is thought to have been in the shower, leapt 10ft (3m) from a second-store... |
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In the weird world of Internet stardom, a Turkish chef known for his distinctive method of salting his steaks briefly became a ridiculous meme. His name is Salt Bae, or, as GQ put it, “America’s newest celebrity chef.” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) apparently ne... |
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I don’t know who this weirdo # Saltbae is, but the guy he is so proud to host is not the President of # Venezuela. He is actually the overweight dictator of a nation where 30% of the people eat only once a day & infants are suffering from malnutrition. https://twitter.com/nusr_ett/stat... |
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Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) gutter-sniped viral “weirdo” Salt Bae, aka Nusret Gökçe, after the Instagram-famous chef posted a video of himself serving steak to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro—continuing the senator’s recent bloodlust for shaming celebrity bottom-feeders in public forums.
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Salt Bae is a nickname given to Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe, who was widely discussed on social media following the circulation of a viral video in which he flamboyantly sprinkles salt on a carved steak.
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On January 7th, 2017, Gökçe uploaded a video of himself carving a steak and sprinkling salt o... |
Christie Blasts N.J. Caller: 'I Love Getting Calls From Communists In Montclair'
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It was a "Did I really hear that?" moment, even by the standards of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who always seems ready to pick a fight.
There were plenty of choice... |
TRENTON -- Gov. Chris Christie's Monday audition to succeed iconic sports-talk radio host Mike Francesa was no picnic as one of the callers immediately zeroed in his now-infamous trip to the beach.
About an hour into his four-hour run on New York City station WFAN-660 AM, a caller identified as "Mike from Montclair... |
Ben Strauss is the co-author of Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA, winner of the 2017 PEN/ESPN award for literary sports writing.
A desperately unpopular governor with historically low approval ratings auditioned for a new job Monday, but he couldn’t leave his old one behind.
New Je... |
Texas authorities said Tuesday they removed 11 children from a crowded home where a registered sex offender lives after they found eight confined in a small, dark bedroom with restraints tying some to their beds.
A rusty chair and some toys sit outside a Dayton, Texas, house Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, where 11 childre... |
The home in Dayton, Texas. where 11 children were taken into Child Protective Services custody last month is seen in a Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 photo. (Credit: Johnny Hanson,AP Photo/Houston Chronicle)
(CBS/AP) DAYTON, Texas - Authorities in Texas said Tuesday they removed 11 children from a crowded home where a regi... |
CRIMINOLOGISTS increasingly rely on “geographic profiling”, an examination of the sites of dastardly deeds that narrows down the possible identities of serial criminals. A mathematical refinement of this idea has implications for pre-empting both terrorist activity and the progression of infectious disease. To demonstr... |
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A study that tests the method of geographical profiling on Banksy has appeared, after a delay caused by an intervention from the artist's lawyers.
Scientists at Queen Mary University of London found that the distrib... |
Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked ... as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia
He is perhaps the most famous, or infamous, artist alive. To some a genius, to others a vandal. Always controversial, he inspires admiration and provokes outrage in equal measure.
Since Banksy made his name with his trad... |
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this represents good and America becoming whole again. We will no longer outsource to other countries. We build factories here in America and create jobs. We will provide jobs for all who are free from prisons as we abolish the 13th amendment. Message sent with love pic.twitter.com/a1... |
West had come under fire as of late for his support of Donald Trump on 'SNL' and on social media, where he also published a tweet suggesting "we abolish the 13th amendment" of the U.S. Constitution, which brought an end to slavery when it was ratified in 1865.
Kanye West's Twitter and Instagram accounts no longer e... |
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As of Saturday, Kanye West appears to no longer be on Instagram and Twitter. West’s accounts both vanished following a period of intense controversy surrounding his support of Donald Trump, and some tweets he wrote on how we should change or do away with the 13th amendmen... |
Wendy Riss Gatsiounis was a struggling playwright working a temp job in New York City in 1991 when she got what she hoped would be her big break. Her play “A Darker Purpose” had been given a staged reading at the Public Theater, and she had scheduled a meeting with Dustin Hoffman and “Tootsie” screenwriter Murray Schis... |
The threatening calls came in the middle of the night at her apartment, and during the day at her office at The New York Times.
“I’m going to fucking kill you,” the male caller warned in his rants.
It was 1978, and Janet Maslin had just reviewed James Toback’s directorial debut, Fingers. She believed Toback was... |
“ The insight and expertise the Google team has brought to the table has been unmatched. Our work with them has been a game-changer for the MSSNG project. Together, we hold the capability of accelerating breakthroughs in understanding the causes and subtypes of autism in ways that can advance diagnosis and treatment as... |
Changing the future of autism with open science: “What we know about autism is not enough; MSSNG is the search for the answers"
Today, Autism Speaks launches “MSSNG,” an awareness campaign to support the development of the world’s largest database of sequenced genomic information on people with autism spectrum diso... |
Washington (CNN) WikiLeaks Monday morning posted an additional 2,000 emails that appear to be from the account of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta.
This is the second hack in four days from WikiLeaks, which claims it has a trove of more than 50,000 emails from Podesta.
The emails appear to be m... |
Hillary Clinton’s campaign purportedly compiled a massive “hits” file on Democratic primary opponent Bernie Sanders, calling into question his “progressive bona fides” on issues ranging from labor to guns to Wall Street, according to a new trove of emails posted by WikiLeaks.
The 71-page, nearly 50,000-word documen... |
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have seen the details. They have seen photos of the injuries that Adrian Peterson's 4-year-old son suffered at the hands of the star running back. They have a history of punishing players who have run into trouble with the law.
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On the off-chance you’re alive in 150 years, you could be in for a very bad day, when the asteroid Bennu collides with Earth, unleashing a blast 80,000 times more powerful than that of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. OK, the odds are pretty good you won’t be around in 150 years, and th... |
NASA's new asteroid-sampling mission will do a lot of interesting things, but helping prepare humanity for Earth's imminent destruction is not among them.
There is indeed a chance that the 1,650-foot-wide (500 meters) asteroid Bennu — the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch next mon... |
It was a powerful statement, if notably hyperbolic. (Voldemort was a literal mass-murderer; Trump is not. Voldemort was a powerful dark wizard; Trump is just a Muggle.) But a forthcoming study from the journal P S: Political Science and Politics makes a better case for how lessons learned from fiction can influence peo... |
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Can Harry Potter defeat Donald Trump?
Harry may not be a full-on patronus against the Republican presidential nominee’s appeal, but reading Potter stories does appear to be a shield charm against Trump’s message.
A new study to be published in a special 2016 election issue of PS: Political Science and Politics ... |
The grief-stricken mom of a 13-year-old girl who died suddenly during a game of tug-of-war at her Alabama school said Saturday that her daughter was full of life and “never met a stranger.”
Sixth-grader Maddison Wentworth was playing Thursday with other students when she collapsed during an end-of-the-year Field Da... |
PELL CITY, Ala. (WIAT) – A 13 year old girl collapsed and died after a game of tug of war during field day activities at Williams Intermediate School, Pell City Police say. She has been identified as Maddison Wentworth.
School coaches were at the tug-of-war game and immediately reacted after the girl collapsed. The... |
The mother of the Pell City girl who collapsed and died during Field Day Thursday is calling her daughter a bright star who loved to sing.
Leslie Wentworth's daughter, Maddison, collapsed during a tug-of-war competition at Williams Intermediate School around lunch Thursday.
The 13-year-old was later pronounced ... |
Opening statements in what could be the largest defamation case in U.S. history are set to begin Monday in a South Dakota courtroom.
In suing ABC News for its coverage of a widely used processed-meat product that the news organization and others have branded “pink slime,” Beef Products Inc. claims it was a victim o... |
On Monday, two huge trials will be commencing. One is the Bill Cosby case, which will undoubtedly attract throngs of reporters to Norristown, Pennsylvania, eager to find out the fate of one of the most famous individuals in the world. Is there enough evidence to convict Cosby and send him to jail for up to 30 years for... |
Kristen Wiig will make her first appearance as host of Saturday Night Live on May 11, and Ben Affleck will close out the late-night show’s 38th season the following week. Wiig memorably signed off the NBC late-night series at the end of last season, wrapping a seven-year stint on the show. Her feature film career is on... |
Kristen Wiig is coming home again to host the May 11 episode of Saturday Night Live. Over six seasons, Wiig cemented herself as one of the funniest SNL cast members of all time. She has killer impressions, her Drew Barrymore is spot on and her Kim Cattrall is scary good, created oodles of memorable characters, oh Targe... |
Kristen Wiig will return to Saturday Night Live next month to make her hosting debut on the show. The former cast member and Bridesmaids star, who left after last season, will lead the show May 11th with musical guest Vampire Weekend, whose new album Modern Vampires of the City is due May 14th. It'll be the band's thir... |
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You may not recognize Paul Marcarelli's name, but you know his face. It looms into your vision every time you're on a cellphone call and you say, "Can you hear me now? Heh, I'm like that guy in the commercial."
But Marcarelli, who stopped doing ads for Verizon in 2011, has a new gig, working as a pitchman for rival... |
Passengers wait to enter a railway station after trains were delayed due to bad weather in southern China in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, February 1, 2016. Reuters/China Daily
Lunar New Year travel in China is never for the faint of heart. A spell of bad weather has made the long trip home particularly arduous fo... |
China's annual Spring Festival travel rush never really gets truly started until tens of thousands of travelers are stranded together inside a single railway station for hours on end.
Such was the case last night, when rare snow in parts of eastern and central Chinese caused the delay of some trains, sending travel... |
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Heavy snow has disrupted public transport in southern China, stranding tens of thousands of people outside a rail station, police say.
The crowd outside Guangzhou station swelled to nearly 100,000 at its pea... |
This story has been updated to reflect a response from KFC.
KFC is facing a $20 million lawsuit filed by an incensed customer who says she didn’t get enough chicken in her $20 “Fill-Up.”
Anna Wurtzburger, a 64-year-old retiree of Hudson Valley, N.Y., filed a lawsuit late last month claiming that KFC’s advertisi... |
A Hudson Valley woman is finger lickin’ mad at Kentucky Fried Chicken, claiming its understuffed buckets are for the birds.
Anna Wurtzburger, of Hopewell Junction, says she bought a $20 bucket of chicken from KFC over the summer and was disappointed to find it looked much different than what’s in the chain’s ads.
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Songwriter Don McLean – perhaps best known for his classic 1971 song “American Pie” – was arrested for misdemeanor domestic violence Monday morning in his home in Camden, Maine, PEOPLE confirms.
A spokesman for the Knox County Jail confirms to PEOPLE McLean spent several hours there this morning and was released af... |
The 1970s music legend was taken into custody without incident after officers responded to a 911 call at his residence in Camden, Maine, police said. |
Singer-songwriter Don McLean was arrested early Monday and charged with misdemeanor domestic violence assault.
McLean, best known for his song “American Pie,” was arrested after police responded to a 911 call at his Camden home shortly before 2 a.m., said Camden Police Chief Randy Gagne. McLean was arrested without... |
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THE DÁIL IS to sit late tonight to pass emergency legislation in order to reclassify certain drugs, including ecstasy and magic mushrooms, as illegal following a court ruling this morning which has temporarily made them legal.
A ruling in the Court of Appeal on the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 this m... |
Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has confirmed the Government is to rush through emergency legislation to ban the possession of certain drugs.
Speaking to reporters at Leinster House on Tuesday, he confirmed the drugs included ecstasy, CAT, “magic mushrooms” and substances commonly known as head shop drugs.
“My... |
The Minister for Health says dozens of people found guilty of drugs offences could now have their convictions overturned - and warned the supply, sale, import and export of ecstasy and other drugs remains illegal.
Leo Varadkar is to bring an emergency bill before the Dáil tonight to restore the ban on drugs like ec... |
WARSAW — President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday that he would sign into law a bill making it illegal to accuse “the Polish nation” of complicity in the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities, a measure that has roiled relations with Israel and the United States, and spurred claims that the nationalist government is trying... |
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The Streisand effect is one of the curious byproducts of the Internet age. Named for the singer — who tried to suppress a photograph of her Malibu mansion, only to have the picture seen far more widely as a result — it occurs when an attempt to hide, remove or censor something from public view backfires b... |
Polish President Andrzej Duda ratified a law making it illegal to blame his country for any part in the German Nazis’ systematic murder of millions of Jews during World War II, bowing to pressure from his ruling allies and amid rallies by far-right protesters.
Despite mounting international criticism, ruling Law & ... |
A national data privacy group is seeing red over a new CVS policy that requires workers who use company health insurance to report their weight, and body fat and glucose levels to the insurer — or pay a $600-a-year penalty.
“This is an incredibly coercive and invasive thing to ask employees to do,” said Patient Pri... |
Looks like ObamaCare may be rearing its head. In the wake of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, CVS is telling its employees they need to reveal their height, weight, body fat percent and other personal information for health insurance purposes.
The Rhode Island-based company, which employs around 200,0... |
A new policy at CVS requires all employees who use the company’s health care to report their weight, glucose levels, and body fat to their insurer, or pay a penalty of $600 dollars — a hefty sum for many of the low-wage staff in the chain pharmacy’s stores.
The rule mimics other efforts provide incentives for healt... |
FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2017, file photo, a motorist on Highway 101 watches flames from the Thomas fire leap above the roadway north of Ventura, Calif. The largest wildfire recorded in California is officially... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2017, file photo, a motorist on Highway 101 watches flames fro... |
A plume of smoke from a wildfire rises behind Philmont Scout Ranch, Friday, June 1, 2018, near Cimarron, N.M. A wildfire raced across a swath of tinder-dry forest in northeastern New Mexico on Friday,... (Associated Press)
A plume of smoke from a wildfire rises behind Philmont Scout Ranch, Friday, June 1, 2018, nea... |
Authorities’ tentative conclusion is that Jeffrey Alan Lash was a rich eccentric so caught up in his make-believe world of spying that his fiancee believed it, too
Inside his own head, Jeffrey Alan Lash was a secret government operative under constant surveillance by the CIA, the FBI or both.
He spent lavishly ... |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The body of a mystery man was decomposing in his car in the ritzy Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Southern California for nearly two weeks before he was found by authorities, an attorney said.
Inside his home, detectives discovered more than 1,200 guns, scopes, 6.5 tons of ammunition, bows and ... |
Note to movie pussies: The Revenant is not for you. Life put the screws to Hugh Glass, the real-life tracker and fur trapper played to the hilt and beyond by Leonardo DiCaprio. And director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, a groundbreaker from Amores Perros to Birdman, damn near tortures his cast and his audience in telling the ... |
Everything screams primal in “The Revenant”—the lethal force of a wild animal, the savagery of man against man, the sustaining power of revenge, and the beauty of vast, snowbound lands seemingly untouched since the Creation. Leonardo DiCaprio is Hugh Glass, an explorer and guide who is left for dead by his hunting team... |
The Revenant, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning Birdman, plays like a cross between Terrence Malick and Sam Peckinpah. As unlikely as such a conflation might seem, the result works - sometimes to stunning effect. In a year when no fewer than five films have dealt with themes of man vs. nature... |
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When all is lost, you fight. Watch the new trailer for The Revenant Movie, in theaters this December.
Inspired by true events, THE REVENANT is an immersive and visceral cinematic experience capturing one man’s epic adventure of survival and the extraordinary power of the human spir... |
Erin Macke left two 12-year-olds and a 6- and 7-year-old alone in the apartments while she took a vacation to Germany. (Source: Johnston Police/KCCI/CNN)
JOHNSTON, IA (KCCI/CNN) - It's like a real-life version of the movie "Home Alone," except in this case, the children were purposely left behind.
Thankfully, p... |
A Johnston woman faces multiple charges after police said she left her four children home alone while taking a trip to Europe.
Erin Lee Macke, 30, is charged with four counts of child endangerment – substantial risk, and one count of transfer of pistol or revolver to a person under 21.
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Erin Lee Macke, 30, was charged with four counts of child endangerment and one count of making a firea... |
The Los Angeles County District Attorney on Tuesday declined to file sexual assault charges against actors Kevin Spacey, Anthony Anderson, and Steven Seagal.
The office had received investigations on each of the actors from various local police agencies. In the case of Spacey and Seagal, the charges were not filed ... |
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For the second year in a row, the Academy did not nominate any black actors to any of the 20 slots in the four acting categories.
If last year’s minority-free acting nominations led to the protest hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, this year’s all-white lineup is sure to trigger a fresh expression of outrage, #OscarsStillSoWh... |
While many Oscar hopefuls were celebrating on Thursday morning as this year's nominations were announced, other likely contenders were surprisingly left out.
Notable omissions included helmers Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg, who failed to land best directing nominations despite their films scoring nominations in... |
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON is an American anthem to the explosive power of art. This potent, pulsing ... More
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON is an American anthem to the explosive power of art. This potent, pulsing story of the rise and fall of N.W.A is a raging tonic for troubled times - and F. Gary Gray's ode to the strength... |
'Straight Outta Compton' Shut Out of Oscars Except for 2 White People
'Straight Outta Compton' Shut Out of Oscars: Except for 2 White People
In a stunning move, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences turned thumbs down to "Straight Outta Compton" -- the only nom it got were the screenwriters -- a whit... |
Oscar Snubs: Straight Outta Compton, Johnny Depp Left Off 2016 Nominees List
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CLOSE Academy President, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, and Gil Robertson, President of African American Film Critics Association react to this years Oscar nominations which included no black actors in any category. USA TODAY
Samuel L. Jackson is a former Union soldier turned bounty hunter in 'The Hateful Eight.' (Photo: Wei... |
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Are you offended as an American that Beyoncé pulled her race-baiting stunt at the Superbowl?
Do you agree that it was a slap in the face to law enforcement?
Do you agree that the Black Panthers was/is a hate group which should not ... |
Beyoncé’s show-stealing, politically charged Super Bowl contribution has widely received rave reviews and praise for using such a platform to draw attention to an important cause. However, a group of people have taken such offence to it that they’ve organised an “Anti-Beyoncé Protest Rally”.
The planned protest was... |
If you're still struggling with your feelings about Beyoncé, just take a minute and listen to Jessica Williams.
Beyoncé's Super Bowl halftime show and "Formation" music video (which dropped the day before the game) were incredible blends of music, choreography and technical skill. But some critics had issues with t... |
"This is football, not Hollywood, and I thought it was really outrageous that she used it as a platform to attack police officers who are the people who protect her and protect us, and keep us alive," he said. |
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