UPDATE (10/6):Shuan Lucas, the Wolfe City Police Officer who shot Jonathan Price, has been charged with murder, the Texas Rangers said in a statement. “At approximately 8:24 p.m. on Oct. 3rd, 2020, Wolfe City Police Officer Shaun Lucas responded to a disturbance call at the 100 block of Santa Fe …
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The cast of Dazed and Confused — including Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Parker Posey and Jason London — will reunite for a virtual table read of director Richard Linklater’s cult 1993 film to raise money for Texas’ mail-in voting efforts. Both the Voto Latino Foundation and March For Science will …
Read More »YouTube Will Let You Make TikToks Soon
We’re in a real life Attack of the Clones. YouTube announced on Monday that it will enter the increasingly competitive short-form video ecosystem by launching Shorts, a feature for quick 15-second clips that seems intent on going up against TikTok, which has dominated the space for several years. YouTube is …
Read More »Trevor Noah on the Dangers of Trump's Coronavirus Cover-Up
On The Daily Show Wednesday, Trevor Noah parsed the unnerving differences between Donald Trump in private and public following the revelation that he deliberately downplayed the severity of Covid-19. Wednesday, news broke that Trump had told journalist Bob Woodward back in March that he not only knew how deadly and …
Read More »Michael Cohen: 'Trump Was a Mobster, Plain and Simple'
The president’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, says in a new book that Trump acted like a mob boss and used mafia-type tactics to battle foes and advance his personal agenda. According to the New York Times, which received an advanced copy of the book, Disloyal, a Memoir, …
Read More »'Avengers' Stars Pay Tribute to 'True Original' Chadwick Boseman
Chadwick Boseman’s Avengers castmates paid tribute to the Black Panther actor on social media following his death Friday at the age of 43. “I’m absolutely devastated,” Captain America star Chris Evans wrote. “This is beyond heartbreaking. Chadwick was special. A true original. He was a deeply committed and constantly curious …
Read More »Jerry Falwell Jr. Says His Wife Had an Affair With the Miami Pool Boy They Befriended
UPDATE: A day after he denied reports that he had resigned from Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr. has, in fact, resigned as the school’s president. “It’s a relief,” he told local reporter Richard Chumney. “The quote that keeps going through my mind this morning is Martin Luther Ling Jr.: ‘Free …
Read More »Kamala Harris, Gen X's Moment, and the Fall of House Boomer
As a candidate in the Democratic primaries, Kamala Harris stood astride the fault lines of the Democratic Party. The Californian presented herself as an establishment politician (reaching the Senate after serving as San Francisco’s DA and California’s attorney general) whose platform was responsive to the idealism of the party’s grassroots. …
Read More »Sheryl Crow Aims to Shatter the Glass Ceiling in 'Woman in the White House' Video
Ahead of Joe Biden’s announcement for his female running mate in the 2020 election, Sheryl Crow has released a timely video for her rerecorded version of “Woman in the White House.“ Directed by Peter Harding, the clip features footage from the women’s suffrage movement interspersed with scenes from the current …
Read More »'Raised by Wolves': See First Trailer for Ridley Scott's New HBO Max Series
Alien and The Martian director Ridley Scott returns to outer space and makes his U.S. television directorial debut with Raised by Wolves, a new sci-fi series premiering on HBO Max in September. “Raised by Wolves centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet,” HBO …
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