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Katy Perry Has Won Another Weird Real-Estate Battle
A judge ruled that the founder of 1-800-Flowers must give her his Montecito mansion.
A High-Risk Legal Effort to Keep Trump Off the Ballot
Three state lawsuits could stop the former President from appearing on 2024 ballots—but they could also backfire.
Derek Kilmer announced Thursday he would not seek reelection to his House seat in Washington state.
The Simpsons (kind of) responds to claims that Homer will stop choking Bart
Earlier this week, the internet collectively noticed that Homer hasn’t choked Bart for a while on The Simpsons, with the revelation being prompted by a line in the most recent episode where Homer said that he doesn’t strangle Bart anymore because “times have changed.” It reads like a one-off joke in context, but then… Read more...
Ivanka Trump’s Shockingly Smooth Case of Selective Amnesia
On the witness stand, Donald Trump’s daughter couldn’t remember many details from her time at the Trump Organization, but the prosecution’s document trail proved to be telling.
“The Marvels” and the Paradox of the Superhero Franchise
How did a genre rooted in weirdness and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Jared Leto publicity stunt
It’s bad out there, dear reader. Every day, more horrors travel down the pike as humanity inches ever closer to climate death, the dissolution of civil rights, and computer algorithms designed to create art for some reason. Jared Leto gets this. Jared Leto understands this. Just as he understands you, dear reader. So,… Read more...
Joe Manchin won't seek reelection in 2024, dealing blow to Dems' Senate map