On Tuesday, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released a damning 300-page report detailing President Trump’s efforts to extort Ukraine into investigating his political opponents. The report was based on a mountain of evidence accumulated over the course of several hearings that featured an array of witnesses with knowledge of …
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According to his lawyer, Paul Pfingst, on Tuesday Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) will plead guilty to a conspiracy count as part of a plea bargain in his criminal campaign finance case, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. In 2018 the Republican lawmaker and his wife, Margaret, were charged with 60 criminal …
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Days after announcing their reunion, the Pussycat Dolls appeared onstage together for the first time in nearly a decade as the girl group performed on the finale of the U.K.’s The X Factor. The quintet – Nicole Scherzinger, Carmit Bachar, Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta and Kimberly Wyatt, all members of …
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Two K-pop singers were sentenced to prison after a South Korean court found them guilty on charges that they sexually assaulted women too drunk to give consent and then shared secretly filmed videos of those rapes with friends in a private online chat. Jung Joon-youngand Choi Jong-hoon, both 30 years …
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Racial justice and the outrage at its absence courses through the visual and emotional powerhouse that is Queen and Slim. There’s also the exhilaration that comes from watching talents new to movies seize their moment with a passion that pins you to your seat. Director Melina Matsoukas — and artist …
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Venerable songwriter Robbie Robertson has a new Christmas single out, available for digital download. It’s called “Happy Holidays” and features Robertson’s humorous take on wintertime festivities and cheer. “Please don’t leave Old Saint Nick/Too much milk and cookies/’Cause by the time he gets round to us/He won’t be able to …
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Louis Tomlinson has released “Don’t Let It Break Your Heart,” the fourth single from his upcoming debut solo album Walls. The former One Direction star’s new pop anthem, which he shared on Saturday, is an empowering look at leaving heartbreak behind for “something better.”“Don’t you let it kill you/ Even …
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In its first season, the title of FX’s Mr. Inbetween suggested several things. The first was the niche its main character, Ray Shoesmith (played by the show’s creator, Scott Ryan), has carved out for himself providing violent, often lethal, solutions to other people’s problems. The second was the show’s careful …
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Yo La Tengo have been performing their famous eight-night Hanukkah run for the better part of 18 years, but it has nothing to do with being Jewish.“We’re not all Jewish, for one thing,” frontman Ira Kaplan tells Rolling Stone. “Even those of us that are are not religious in any …
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Alicia Keys and her squad don roller skates and hit the rink in her new “Time Machine” video, which features a cameo from Tierra Whack. The track is slated for Keys’ as-yet-untitled seventh studio album. Directed by Art Johnson and Keys’ brother Cole Cook, the visual was filmed at Los …
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