Not too many campaign websites first ask visitors if they are unsure about the candidate in question. But if you click the “I’m not sure yet” button on the ElizabethWarren.com launch page, you can enter your email before answering the question “What’s holding you back?” one of three ways. Two …
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The 1975 frontman Matt Healy kissed a male fan onstage during a show in Dubai on Wednesday in protest of the country’s strident anti-LGBTQ laws. The Coca-Cola Arena show was the band’s first-ever concert in the United Arab Emirates. During the song “Loving Someone,” Healy stepped off the stage and …
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Chris Stapleton joins Sheryl Crow on the slow-burning “Tell Me When It’s Over,” the latest release off her upcoming album Threads. “You wanna build your walls, I wanna knock them down,” Crow sings to open the brooding track, which arrives via a lyric video that also flashes images of the …
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Amid an ongoing heat wave, new data show the Greenland ice sheet is in the middle of its biggest melt season in recorded history. It’s the latest worrying signal climate change is accelerating far beyond the worst fears of even climate scientists. The record-setting heat wave that sweltered northern Europe …
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August was once a virtual graveyard for major releases. That’s not the case for this 2019 end-of-summer month, people. Nope. No sirree. This August is packed to bursting with noteworthy selections. Indie bloodbaths? Horror-anthology scarefests? Several character pieces bedecked with festival plaudits? Yes, yes, and yes. Also: we’re getting new …
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Grammy-winning songwriter John Prine has announced that he is postponing eight dates on his 2019 summer tour as he undergoes surgery to insert a stent. According to a message on Prine’s Instagram, the singer’s doctors have advised him “that he has an elevated risk for stroke.” The stent surgery, planned …
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For the first time since Ryan Adams was accused of sexual misconduct, the singer broke his silence in a series of Instagram posts late Friday night. “I have a lot to say. I am going to. Soon.Because the truth matters. It’s what matters most,” Adams wrote in one post.“I know …
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The pessimist’s view of this year’s Emmy nominations would start out with the idea that Game of Thrones‘ weakest season just shattered the record for most nods in a single year (32, lapping NYPD Blue‘s 26 in 1994), including writing and directing for the widely-panned series finale. It might then …
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A 17-year-old Instagram celebrity was brutally murdered allegedly by an obsessed male friend who then posted images of the slaying on Instagram, gaming website Discord, and 4chan, prompting an outpouring of shock and horror on social media. The victim, Bianca Devins, is a 17-year-old so-called “egirl” who lived in Utica, …
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On Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the panel discussion turned to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s recent reversal of his support for the Hyde amendment, a law that bans federal funding for abortion. California freshman congresswoman Katie Porter went right after Biden, saying he’s playing politics with a serious …
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