Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne play star-crossed lovers in a Victorian fantasy world in the new trailer for Carnival Row. The eight-episode series will premiere August 30th on Amazon Prime Video. In the universe of the show, Delevingne plays a human-sized faerie, Vignette Stonemoss, who’s part of an influx of mythological …
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week had a solid-if-unspectacular Twitter burn, projecting a modicum of normal social behavior. In a tweet Wednesday, Cruz appeared to “dunk” on his former Senate challenger-turned-2020 presidential primary candidate, Democrat Beto O’Rourke. In an interview with late-night television host Seth Meyers, the Democrat was asked …
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During Star Trek‘s panel at Comic-Con Saturday, the franchise unveiled its first full look at Picard, the Next Generation revivalfocused on Patrick Stewart’s beloved Enterprise captain Jean-Luc Picard. The series marks Stewart’s first time reprising the role since 2002’s big screen Star Trek: Nemesis. Picking up 20 years after the …
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The House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to condemn President Trump’s recent string of racist attacks against four progressive congresswomen of color. The final vote was 240 to 187. Every House Democrat voted in favor of the resolution. They were joined by only four of the 197 House Republicans. Former …
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J. Cole‘s Revenge of the Dreamers III compilation debuted at Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. The collaborative LP – which features J. Cole surrounded by guests like Vince Staples, DaBaby, J.I.D., Ty Dolla $ign, Saba and a bevy of artists signed to Cole’s Dreamville …
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At an ICE detention facility in Aurora, Colo., on Friday protesters removed an American flag and replaced it with a Mexican flag. In addition to the flag swap, which was cheered by those gathered, protesters vandalized a Blue Lives Matter flag, writing “Abolish ICE” on it with spray paint and …
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Hollywood Vampires stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live‘s outdoor stage to play two songs, David Bowie’s “Heroes” and their own “I Want My Now.” The rock band, led by Joe Perry, Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper, gave a raucous performance, evoking old school arena rock with grandiose guitar riffs and all-black …
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Most coverage of Donald Trump’s re-election campaign to date has focused on polls, specifically two: a Fox survey that showed Trump losing to Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders in a hypothetical one-on-one (but beating other Democrats) and Trump’s own internal polling that, to the glee of reporters, leaked, showing him …
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Samantha Bee examined the way YouTube‘s algorithm for recommending videos fuels potentially dangerous and illegal behavior from pedophilia to extremism. A recent New York Times investigation discovered that YouTube’s algorithm will guide viewers with pedophilic tastes towards videos featuring younger and younger women. While the easy fix would be to …
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Stephen Colbert dug into the Mueller report and the way Attorney General William Barr managed to spin many of the special counsel’s findings in President Donald Trump‘s favor on The Late Show Thursday. While the report laid out numerous instances where Trump seemed to obstruct justice, Barr said during a …
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