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Demetri Martin just put out his first new stand-up hour in six years. But when he sits down for this interview with The Last Laugh podcast, he’s about to tape the second of what will be a trilogy of specials for Netflix. It’s quite a comeback moment for the (shockingly) 50-year-old comedian, who has remained mostly out of the spotlight in recent years as provocative and autobiographical stand-up comedy has overtaken the one-liner “joke machine” style... Читать дальше...

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(Warning: Spoilers for Civil War follow.)

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Is this a safe space for a confession?

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As we’re all well aware by now, Star Trek is at its best when it’s horny. After all, if you dump a group of people on a tin can floating through space, you can bet they’re going to knock space boots. With its return after a two-and-a-half year hiatus, it’s a message that Star Trek Discovery now appears to understand—and it only took until its final season.

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Whenever the MAGA faithful gather together, you can rest assured that Jordan Klepper is probably not too far behind. That was certainly the case this week in New York City, where Donald Trump’s biggest fans (but not his wife) gathered to show their support of the former president as jury selection continues in his criminal hush-money trial.

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It didn’t take long after the general outlines of seven jurors in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial were made public Tuesday for Fox News host Jesse Watters to suggest that, based on that information alone, Trump wouldn’t be acquitted.

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Cheryl Burke is no stranger to heartbreak, not least when she was “not invited” to take part in a tribute performance on the last season of Dancing with the Stars dedicated to the late Len Goodman, the competition series’ longtime head judge. It’s still unconfirmed why Burke, a 26-season DWTS veteran, was snubbed, but she thinks she might know the reason.

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Former White House adviser Stephen Miller took his usual Trump sycophancy to an odd place Tuesday, insisting on Fox News that the former president was a generation-defining fashion icon whose signature look set trends for years.

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Hours after the GOP-led House formally handed articles of impeachment against Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate, Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto told a top Senate Republican that the endeavor seems to be “political theater.”

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After the second day of his criminal trial in New York, Donald Trump headed Uptown to a Harlem bodega, where he bad-mouthed the judge in his case and tried to fear-monger about crime and “migrants,” even tenuously connecting the two.

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President Joe Biden indulged in some good old-fashioned Trump-bashing along the campaign trail on Tuesday, needling his rival about his media company’s plunging shares during a speech in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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Tom Sandoval has spent this season of Vanderpump Rules oscillating between acting like a sad sack and an admitted villain, but he’s held out hope it would all be worth it thanks to his one true love. That delusion came crashing down this week, as Rachel Leviss came out of the woodwork (via podcast) to burst Sandoval’s bubble, leading to a series of unfortunate events for our illustrious antagonist. Sandoval got knocked down continuously this week... Читать дальше...

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MAJD-AL-ZOUN, Lebanon—“If we went to an all-out war, it would be the end of both Lebanon and Israel,” said a Hezbollah fighter in the battlefields of South Lebanon ominously.

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In his historic New York criminal trial, former President Donald Trump faces the prospect of some very real punishments—including fines and even prison time.

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Former North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn was allegedly involved in a car crash with a Florida State Trooper on Monday, according to witness video and local news reports.

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Chaos erupted in the Georgian parliament on Monday when opposition leader Aleko Elisashvili took a running head start and slammed his fist into another lawmaker during a debate on a controversial new “foreign influence” bill.

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Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, the small European nation’s head of state, says he plans to abdicate the country’s throne—but won’t say when.

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Donald Trump sure looked lonely on Tuesday as he sat stone-faced and sleepy in a Manhattan courtroom for the second day of jury selection in his hush-money criminal trial. Gone were Trump’s usual milieu of MAGA-manic supporters, replaced by a dour Supreme Court judge and a single protester who showed up outside the courthouse to defend the former president.

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Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba said on Tuesday that if the former president is jailed for violating a limited gag order imposed on him in his hush-money criminal trial, he would “be like Nelson Mandela.”

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Former President Donald Trump was invited to headline a big-ticket fundraising gala for House Republicans’ campaign arm later this month in Dallas—but was ultimately forced to decline because of his ongoing criminal trial in New York.

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A 58-year-old circus elephant caused quite a stir in Montana on Tuesday afternoon, escaping from its handlers and briefly roaming the streets of Butte while binging traffic to a standstill in the city of 35,000.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, has repeatedly insisted she does not oppose vaccines—though she continues to sow doubt about at least some of them.

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As the first-ever criminal prosecution of a former president has finally gotten underway, the big question remains: “Will he or won’t he?” Will Donald Trump testify, that is.

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It’s the eye-roll inducing excuse every judge has heard: I simply can’t be fair. Except with Donald Trump, it might be true.