President Donald Trump has galaxy brained himself into a something of a quagmire with China. For the better part of the past year, he’s been imposing and subsequently escalating tariffs on goods imported from the nation in an effort to force them to renegotiate what he considers unfair trade practices. …
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Britney Spears appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom with both her parents Friday to speak to the judge overseeing the singer’s decade-long conservatorship. Judge Brenda Penny cleared out her courtroom prior to the hearing so that only Spears, her mother Lynne and her father Jamie – also Britney’s conservator – …
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Billy Joel always pauses for a few beats after playing the opening harmonica part of “Piano Man,” but near the end of his 70th birthday show at Madison Square Garden, he really stretched the moment out as a huge grin came across his face. And he certainly had a lot …
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The organizers of Woodstock 50 have filed legal paperwork against Dentsu Aegis, the financier that canceled the festival last week, with the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The paperwork — a petition for an injunction — asks for the Court to place a gag order on Dentsu …
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In the wake of announcing a co-headlining tour with Lil Wayne this summer, Blink-182 have released a new single, “Blame It On My Youth.” The song looks back on the band’s decades-long career, and celebrates their continued youthfulness and tendencies toward teenage rebellion: “I was bored to death, so I …
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Find the most intelligent three-year-old you know. It doesn’t have to be a genius-level prodigy, just the smartest toddler in the room. Now, explain quantum physics to him or her. And then, when you’re done with that, find an adult. It’s a nebulous term, we agree. But aim for someone …
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In a video interview uploaded to YouTube in February, Joe Budden, a former major-label rapper who is enjoying a popular second career as a podcast star, tried to recruit 2 Chainz to lead a strike in hip-hop. “You don’t think we need a union?” Budden asked. “You should be our …
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Following the release of new music on Friday, Shawn Mendes returned to Studio 8H as this week’s musical guest on the Adam Sandler-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live. The pop singer opened with an uplifting rendition of his latest single “If I Can’t Have You.” During the performance of the …
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It’s been two decades since L7‘s last album — long enough for the grunge-punk heroes to add plenty of new names to their already expansive shitlist. On Scatter the Rats, they rail against fakes, frauds, liars, doubters and, of course, rats. “Don’t need your Venn diagram,” vocalist-guitarist Suzi Gardner sings …
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It’s still early in the day, but Dr. Ruth, who has been giving advice on all matters sexual for the past 44 years — she’s had radio shows and TV talk shows, was a David Letterman and Johnny Carson favorite, has written 46 books, among them the bestselling Sex for …
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