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3 days, 11 hours ago

Mel B's daughter Phoenix reveals why she's made a documentary exposing all the injustices of fame

Like any fully fledged ‘nepo baby’ – the term used for celebrity children who’ve been given a leg up on the career ladder by virtue of their famous parents – when Phoenix Brown decided to make a documentary about the phenomenon she was given her own show by Channel 4, a 45-minute documentary called Born In The Limelight: Nepo Babies. …

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Travis Head Celebration: Was Aussie's Gesture After Rishabh Pant's Wicket Vulgar? Pat Cummins Explains | WATCH

ABP News

Travis Head Celebration: Australia defeated India by 184 runs in the IND vs AUS Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Day 5 of the fourth BGT match and went 2-1 up in the five-match series. However, amongst all the cricketing drama, Travis Head’s celebration after Pant’s wicket on Day 5 took the center stage for various reasons. …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

PETER HITCHENS: Sara Sharif's death is a tragedy - but banning home-schooling won't solve anything

Daily Mail

The hideous murder of a defenceless child will certainly happen again. Last week, after the frightful trial of Sara Sharif's killers, there was a sudden chorus saying that home-schooling ought now to be more tightly restricted in this country. It seems odd to conclude that home-schooling, of all things, should be held to blame for what happened to Sara Sharif, …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Fact Check: This limping man is NOT a Gaza actor! The truth behind this viral video

India Today

The internet loves its slapstick comedy. The video shows a man with a bandaged leg getting out of a car with the help of two friends, and limping on the supposedly injured leg. A Facebook user captioned the video: “Actor in Gaza pretends to be a ‘victim’ but accidentally uses the wrong foot while limping with a supposed broken foot. …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Girls Gone Wild Documentary: My years of reporting should have prepared me more for this.

Slate

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Unfortunately, it’s a familiar story, even if you didn’t grow up seeing Girls Gone Wild ads at 3 a.m. on Viacom channels like MTV or Comedy Central. In Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story, you’ll hear audio from training …

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1 month ago

Amitabh Bachchan says he gets anxious when Jaya Bachchan calls him, pretends to understand when she speaks Bengali

Hindustan Times

Amitabh Bachchan often shares fun anecdotes and life advices with the contestants on his show, Kaun Banega Crorepati. This week on the show, Amitabh will be seen sharing how he pretends to understand when wife Jaya Bachchan speaks in Bengali. Amitabh Bachchan shares humorous anecdotes on KBC 16, revealing how he pretends to understand Bengali when speaking with wife Jaya. …

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1 month ago

Russia: Assad’s fall is huge blow for Putin, highlighting fragility of his own rule

CNN

CNN — The world now knows the colors of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s parachute: the Russian tricolor. The fall of the House of Assad deals a major blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aspirations as a Middle East power broker – and raises new questions about the fragility of his own regime. “Putin has thrown Assad under the bus to …

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1 month ago

Hemingway look-alikes visit Cuba and some of the late writer’s favorite places

Associated Press

HAVANA — Ernest Hemingway has returned to Cuba. “That is the reason for our visit: the kids and their families,” said Joe Maxey, from Tennessee, who is one of the bearded men honoring the author of “The Old Man and the Sea.” Charlie Boice, center, winner of the 2015 “Papa” Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West, …

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1 month ago

Pushpa 2 The Rule: Allu Arjun-Rashmika Mandana starrer is neither fire nor wildfire, Part One remains the better one

Hindustan Times

There’s a reason why the first part of any film franchise is like… first love. Pushpa 2: The Rule pretends it’s making efforts to bring something fresh to the table, yet it doesn’t quite succeed. To simply put it, this follow-up to Pushpa: The Rise is not the ‘fire nahi, wildfire hai’ it promises. The imagery of him killing goons …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Elon Musk's harassment of federal employees proves DOGE is weaker than he pretends

Salon

Shortly after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, he announced, with great fanfare, that billionaire Elon Musk and professional troll Vivek Ramaswamy were being put in charge of a "government efficiency" program. As CNN reports, "Several current federal employees told CNN they’re afraid their lives will be forever changed — including physically threatened — as Musk makes behind-the-scenes bureaucrats …

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1 month, 1 week ago

The Importance of Being Earnest: Ncuti Gatwa is fabulous fun in an Oscar Wilde retelling that wears history oh-so-lightly

The Independent

Oscar Wilde hardly hid the queer subtext in his frivolous drawing room comedy – designed to enjoyably scandalise Victorian audiences without quite saying the word “gay” – but director Max Webster’s bold, brash and beautifully-cast production blows away every trace of wink-wink nudge-nudge subtlety from this classic. When muffins are eaten at tea, Cecily and Gwendolen’s faces descend sapphically towards …

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Trump Raced To Pick Many Cabinet Posts. He Took More Time To Settle On A Treasury Secretary.

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump launched a blitz of picks for his Cabinet, but he took his time before settling on billionaire investor Scott Bessent as his treasury secretary nominee. Trump also looked at other candidates, including former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh, Marc Rowan, the chief executive of Apollo Global Management, and Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn. …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump raced to pick many Cabinet posts. He took more time to settle on a treasury secretary

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump launched a blitz of picks for his Cabinet, but he took his time before settling on billionaire investor Scott Bessent as his treasury secretary nominee. Trump also looked at other candidates, including former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh, Marc Rowan, the chief executive of Apollo Global Management, and Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn. Trump’s decision on …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

SoftBank CEO rues dumping Nvidia stake, pretends to cry as he hugs Jensen Huang

Hindustan Times

Jensen Huang and Masayoshi Son drew laughter from the audience of an AI summit as they joked about how SoftBank was once Nvidia's largest shareholder before dumping its stake. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, left, and Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group, during a fireside chat at the Nvidia AI Summit Japan. It begins by showing …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

'Definition of a fascist:' Ex-White House chief of staff John Kelly sounds alarm on Trump

Raw Story

Former Marine General John Kelly, who also served as Donald Trump’s longest-running chief of staff, blasted his old boss in interviews with the New York Times, spurred by the former president’s recent threats to use the military on the “enemy from within.” “I think this issue of using the military on — to go after — American citizens is one …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Yellowface’ Author R.F. Kuang Wants Change In The Publishing Industry

Huff Post

Rania Matar for HuffPost Rania Matar for HuffPost Culture Shifters Oct. 22, 2024 R.F. “It was 2021 and we were all chronically online all the time, because that was our only way of staying connected with one another,” Kuang says of the novel’s inception. “There’s this wonderful passage near the end, where somebody says pessimistically, ‘You’re nothing but a drop …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Hyundai Ioniq 5 N review: Fun, powerful and family-sized EV

The Independent

The Hyundai Ioniq 5 N is the result of a car company letting its engineers have fun. Hyundai Ioniq 5 N: From £65,000, Hyundai.com open image in gallery The Hyundai Ioniq 5 is practical, spacious and easy to drive Independent rating: 9/10 Pros: Huge performance, simulated gearbox is surprisingly good, spacious interior Huge performance, simulated gearbox is surprisingly good, spacious …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

PHOTOS: How 9 families cope when they can't afford 3 healthy meals a day for the kids

NPR

PHOTOS: How 9 families cope when they can't afford 3 healthy meals a day for the kids toggle caption Sope Adelaja for NPR A mother in Nigeria pretends to cook food in a pot of water to calm her hungry children. toggle caption Sope Adelaja for NPR LAGOS, NIGERIA "They're not growing properly because they're not eating well" When there's …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Endorsement: No on Proposition 36. California shouldn’t revive the disastrous war on drugs

LA Times

Members of an alleged multigenerational, family-run retail theft crew arrested June 20, 2024, are among hundreds of people held in California burglaries and robberies in recent months under existing state laws. Backers of Proposition 36 would have you believe that California’s criminal laws attract thieves and that public safety is not possible without long prison sentences for people holding illegal …

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4 months ago

Kamala Harris Put Trump On His Back Foot, And 6 Other Takeaways From Their First Debate

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Everyone who has observed former President Donald Trump in public life over the past decade seems to agree: He is his own worst enemy, and anyone hoping to get the better of him need only encourage his worst instincts. In a clear attempt to get Trump to go off-script before a national audience, Vice President Kamala Harris’s …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Woman Performs On A Romantic Song For Her Husband, Man’s Expression Viral

News 18

There is an old Bollywood song that has redefined romance since ages. It is Sridevi and Anil Kapoor’s Kate Nahi Katate Ye Din Ye Raat. One reel has become viral after a wife can be seen trying to romance her husband by dancing, but it is the reaction of the husband that has everyone’s attention. The reel features a woman …

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5 months ago

Your Weekend Watch Guide: Teachers who inspire us

Hindustan Times

Earlier this week Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz, a former school teacher, as her running mate and my social feeds are full of people sharing stories about memorable teachers. Friday evening Movie: Dead Poets Society The first of two Robin Williams entries on this week’s watchlist, Dead Poets Society is about an English teacher John Keating in an elite boarding …

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5 months ago

Vance and other Trump allies amplify a false claim about Harris’ racial identity

Associated Press

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, defended on Wednesday a false claim the former president made about Vice President Kamala Harris ' racial identity, suggesting wrongly that Harris had downplayed her Black heritage in trying to suggest she’s inauthentic. Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, a high-profile Trump surrogate who …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Kat Tang on her novel 'Five-Star Stranger'

NPR

Kat Tang on her novel 'Five-Star Stranger' In Kat Tang's new novel, a man-for-hire on a Rental App pretends to be a fiancé, a father, a mourner at a funeral. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Tang about "Five-Star Stranger." "Five-Star Stranger" is the debut novel from Kat Tang, a former lawyer who's written for The New Yorker, Pigeon Pages and …

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Mel B's daughter Phoenix reveals why she's made a documentary exposing all the injustices of fame

Travis Head Celebration: Was Aussie's Gesture After Rishabh Pant's Wicket Vulgar? Pat Cummins Explains | WATCH

PETER HITCHENS: Sara Sharif's death is a tragedy - but banning home-schooling won't solve anything

Fact Check: This limping man is NOT a Gaza actor! The truth behind this viral video

Girls Gone Wild Documentary: My years of reporting should have prepared me more for this.

Amitabh Bachchan says he gets anxious when Jaya Bachchan calls him, pretends to understand when she speaks Bengali

Russia: Assad’s fall is huge blow for Putin, highlighting fragility of his own rule

Hemingway look-alikes visit Cuba and some of the late writer’s favorite places

Pushpa 2 The Rule: Allu Arjun-Rashmika Mandana starrer is neither fire nor wildfire, Part One remains the better one

Elon Musk's harassment of federal employees proves DOGE is weaker than he pretends

The Importance of Being Earnest: Ncuti Gatwa is fabulous fun in an Oscar Wilde retelling that wears history oh-so-lightly

Trump Raced To Pick Many Cabinet Posts. He Took More Time To Settle On A Treasury Secretary.

Trump raced to pick many Cabinet posts. He took more time to settle on a treasury secretary

SoftBank CEO rues dumping Nvidia stake, pretends to cry as he hugs Jensen Huang

'Definition of a fascist:' Ex-White House chief of staff John Kelly sounds alarm on Trump

‘Yellowface’ Author R.F. Kuang Wants Change In The Publishing Industry

Hyundai Ioniq 5 N review: Fun, powerful and family-sized EV

PHOTOS: How 9 families cope when they can't afford 3 healthy meals a day for the kids

Endorsement: No on Proposition 36. California shouldn’t revive the disastrous war on drugs

Kamala Harris Put Trump On His Back Foot, And 6 Other Takeaways From Their First Debate

Woman Performs On A Romantic Song For Her Husband, Man’s Expression Viral

Your Weekend Watch Guide: Teachers who inspire us

Vance and other Trump allies amplify a false claim about Harris’ racial identity

Kat Tang on her novel 'Five-Star Stranger'