Accountability for police violence is bigger — in Texas? A grand jury in Austin has indicted as many as 19 officers on charges of using excessive force against protesters who took to the streets in the Texas capital following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The indictments set up …
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“The first time I bought a house — a home —was, like, a week ago,” Saba says, tightening up for his laptop’s camera after gently rocking with laughter. He’s positioned in front of a blank white wall of his new Los Angeles abode. At one point, he darts off camera …
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President Biden has rejected former President Trump’s bid to keep the Jan. 6 committee from getting its hands on White House visitor logs. Trump had tried to claim executive privilege over the logs, including those from the day of the Capitol attack, but White House Counsel Dana Remus wrote that …
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In 2018, while reporting from the Flat Earth International Conference in Colorado, I met a man who’dtowed a rocket ship into a hotel conference room. He was Mike Hughes, an amateur rocket stuntman and vocal champion of Flat Earth theory. He hoped to launch himself into space to take a …
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UPDATE 2 (2/14/22): The Foo Fighters have added 10 additional shows to their 2022 tour itinerary. The run will largely take the band through Canada, save for two U.S. dates on either end of the leg: Sept. 18 at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and …
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The two suspects charged with gunning down rapper Young Dolph in a deadly daylight ambush at a Memphis bakery last November pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder Friday. Justin Johnson, 23, and Cornelius Smith, 32, entered their pleas through defense lawyers in Shelby County Criminal Court in Memphis, Tenn. After …
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Ian McDonald, a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter best known for his co-founding roles in both King Crimson and Foreigner, died Wednesday at the age of 75. A rep for McDonald confirmed the musician’s death, addingthat McDonald “passed away peacefully on February 9, 2022 in his home in New York City, surrounded …
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Sting is the latest artist to sell the share of their songwriting catalog for hundreds of millions of dollars, with the singer reaching a deal with Universal Music Group for both his solo hits and the ones he penned for the Police. According to the New York Times, while financial …
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The most divisive person on the internet isn’t Joe Rogan, or Hillary Clinton, or former President Trump, or Che Diaz from theSex and the CityrebootAnd Just Like That.It’s Meena, the elephant from the Singfranchise. Voiced by singer Tori Kelly, Meena is one of the many anthropomorphized animal contestants who enter …
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The first three episodes of Pam & Tommy are available now on Hulu, and so far viewers have seen Tommy Lee do quite a few things. They’ve seen him lick Pamela Anderson’s face seconds after meeting her at a club, follow her down to Cancun for a Baywatch promotional event, …
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