Christine Hallquist became the first openly transgender person to secure a major party’s nomination for governor after winning the Vermont Democratic primary Tuesday, The New York Times reports. Hallquist bested three other candidates and will face Republican incumbent Phil Scott in the general election, November 6th. Per CNN, Hallquist ran …
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Nicki Minaj stars in a desert epic for her “Ganja Burn” video. The rapper released her long-anticipated album Queen on Friday. The clip begins with a title card setting the tone of the video. “Once upon a time, in a world unknown … there lived a queen, the Generous Queen,” …
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On Monday, Facebook booted alt-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, pulling four of his pages from the social networking website for “glorifying violence” and “using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims, and immigrants.” The Jones ban coincides with similar efforts from YouTube, Spotify and iTunes, and follows Facebook’s …
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“Our future,” scientist James Lovelock has written, “is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.” I thought about Lovelock the other day as I drove across Idaho, watching plumes from a forest …
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Less than a year after a series of wildfires in California destroyed more than 1.3 million acres, the Golden State has gone up in flames again, and is burning faster and bigger than ever before. That’s devastating news for residents, many of whom were forced to evacuate their homes for …
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Former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio appears in the fourth episode of Sacha Baron Cohen‘s Showtime series Who Is America? Posing as aScandinavian “Unboxing” video show, Cohen – who portrays the Finnish YouTube host OMGWhizzBoyOMG – got Arpaio talking, albeit indirectly, about various sex acts involving President Donald Trump. OMGWhizzBoyOMG began …
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Beyoncé features on the cover of Vogue‘s famed “September issue,” with the singer given unprecedented editorial control over both her image and words for the feature. In the issue, Beyoncé provided an in-her-own-words take on subjects ranging from Coachella and her pregnancy with twins to her roots and the OTR …
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ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA —The dollar figures and luxurious trappings of Paul Manafort’s life had become a blur by the end of Day 2 of his trial for alleged bank fraud and tax evasion. In just one year, Manafort spent $444,160 at high-end men’s store Alan Couture on, among other items, a …
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Drake will return to television – as a producer – with a new HBO series titled Euphoria. Both the rapper, who got his start in show business on the Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, and his manager Future the Prince will serve as executive producer on Euphoria, an …
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The upcoming Star Wars: Episode IX will feature unused footage of Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa to give the character a “truly satisfying conclusion” following the actress’ December 2016 death. With production on the J.J. Abrams-directed Episode IX set to begin August 1st, Star Wars producers revealed that, contrary …
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