Month: August 2020

Bill Maher called the Clintons “huge distractions” and wondered Friday if and how the Democrats should deploy them in the presidential campaign. “Now, Bill Clinton — people are saying that there are witnesses who saw him on Jeffrey Epstein’s sex island. Obviously it’s denied,” Maher said on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher. Guest Paul Begala shrugged it
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China’s third Friday back to the movies scored a slight increase on last week’s comparable day at $4.38M. It’s short of the $7.6M generated last Sunday which was boosted by Warner Bros’ reissue of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, but still a jump on last Friday, while midweeks were solid. Play today was led by DreamWorks/Amblin/Universal’s 1917
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On Friday a Federal Judge in Manhattan reversed a decision held since 1948 concerning the exhibition of motion pictures. The “Paramount Decrees” stemmed from a Supreme Court ruling that disallowed movie studios from owning their own theaters to. It also ended (or at least curtailed) the practice of “block booking,” in which a studio could
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Yesterday, the United States–based human rights advocacy nonprofit Human Rights Foundation published an open letter to Tyga, asking the rapper to cancel a scheduled performance in the Belarusian capital of Minsk over concerns that the concert was “an excuse to cancel the opposition’s final electoral rally” on the eve of a potentially historic presidential election.
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On Friday, California’s top health official was sent out by his boss to face the music. Dr. Mark Ghaly, director of the state’s Health and Human Services Department, admitted that multiple on the state’s part had caused a backlog of 250,000-300,000 records in its data reporting systems. That system is used primarily to parse and
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As we learn more and more about Covid-19, the virus which brought the world to a standstill, it’s becoming clear that aside from the often debilitating immediate symptoms and potentially life-threatening complications, there are a number of worrying long term side effects that are only just beginning to reveal themselves. In fact, health secretary Matt
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