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While many of us are celebrating the presumptive Biden presidency, his running mate Kamala Harris is making all kinds of history on her own. Not only is Harris the first woman to be elected to one of the two highest offices in the land, but she’s also the first Black and South Asian woman to

Stephen Colbert appeared to hit his limit last night on The Late Show. Following a Thursday evening White House speech by Donald Trump — in which he said the 2020 presidential election was rigged and there were fraudulent votes counted for his opponent Joe Biden — Colbert called Trump a “fascist” and was overwhelmed by

By now you’ve likely heard that after pulling ahead in Georgia and, most crucially, Pennsylvania, Joe Biden will very likely be the next president of the United States. As you’ve probably also heard, Donald Trump is taking it as well as everyone had expected, ranting and raving about all kinds of made-up fraud, demanding counts

Black Friday isn’t technically for another two weeks, but early Black Friday sales are already here. As far as certain big box retailers like Walmart are concerned, calendars are fungible. Time is a suggestion. Holidays—and we mean that very broadly in the case of Black Friday—are meant to be celebrated weeks, maybe months early. Sometimes

Al Roker has revealed he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer and will be undergoing surgery to have his prostate removed. The Today weather forecaster, 66, explained on Friday’s show that he wanted to share his story to raise awareness of the disease. He was diagnosed on September 29. Roker highlighted that one in seven African-American

The entire premise of Donald Trump’s life is that he has never once been defeated. His project, and that of those around him, then, has been to maintain that illusion. This hasn’t always succeeded. He’s lost plenty of things—money, court cases. But never before has he faced the kind of public humiliation he seems poised

Johnny Depp is resigning from the Fantastic Beasts movie franchise after being requested to do so by Warner Bros. Depp will no longer be portraying the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in the films, as he confirmed himself on his Instagram account. “I wish to let you know that I have been asked to resign by

Thierry MonasseGetty Images Environmental activist Greta Thunberg would, of course, be an icon whether or not she also happened to be extremely good at Twitter. But it is a gift to us all that she is! And there is arguably not another on this planet who could wait 11 months after being publicly mocked by

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff hadn’t yet gotten dressed when a doorman in her prewar Park Avenue apartment complex buzzed up to let her know someone was waiting for her downstairs. It was early Monday morning, the day before the presidential election, and she had a sneaking idea of who it would be. It wasn’t the first

At least we know for sure that one racist relic will be leaving the US thanks to last Tuesday’s election. The people of Rhode Island voted to officially remove the extension “and Plantations” from the state’s official name. Since Rhode Island declared statehood in 1790, the state was technically called “The State of Rhode Island

Twenty years ago, as the country white-knuckled its way through a Florida recount to decide the fate of the race between Al Gore and George Bush, a group of expensively dressed middle-aged white men swarmed a government building in Miami-Dade county: “50-year-old white lawyers with cell phones and Hermès ties,” as the Wall Street Journal

How could these snowflakes be capable of such cruelty, you wonder. In reality, McEnany wasn’t exactly a pariah on campus. Talking to some of her classmates, one gets a picture of a right-wing version of Elle Woods, a would-be TV star bouncing into class in full makeup while everyone else was in sweats. “Whenever she

Last April, Malcolm Angell, a 41-year-old New Zealander who moved to Montreal to work in the city’s famed visual effects industry, was taken to hospital after attempting suicide. He was back at work two days later at Montreal-based visual effects studio Mill Film, according to his brother, Ivan. A month later — shortly after learning

We hate to break it to you but we don’t know who won. Late into election night, it was unclear whether Donald Trump will be re-elected, or if Joe Biden will uproot him and become the next president of the United States. Trump and Biden both have paths to victory, but a handful of key

Tarisai Ngangura: Madison Cawthorn has just won his North Carolina congressional race. The 25-year-old Republican defeated Democrat Moe Davis, a 62-year-old retired Air Force colonel and former prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay, to win chief of staff Mark Meadows’s old seat. After his victory was announced, Cawthorn hopped on Twitter to write, “Cry more, lib.” Notably,

Ira L. Black – CorbisGetty Images Sure, technically we always knew that the presidential election results would take a while to trickle in, but that didn’t stop us from hoping that just maybe we’d find out who won on election night. But as a surprise to no one but our delusional selves, we didn’t, and

I am Leslie Knope always, but I am specifically Leslie Knope when she got recalled from City Council today. When the votes come in and Leslie is recalled, the next time we see her, she’s … well, a mess. Ben warns the Parks and Recreation department that she is not herself, and she comes in

While the results of the presidential election were still coming in on Wednesday night, New Jersey decisively voted to legalize marijuana. The result was widely expected but provided a few causes for celebration on an uncertain evening. “We did it, New Jersey,” the state’s governor Phil Murphy tweeted. “Public Question #1 to legalize adult-use marijuana

8. John Hickenlooper flipped a Republican Senate seat in Colorado… Yes, the man once drank fracking fluid. But, hey, it’s … something? 9. … and Doug Jones lost the Democratic Senate seat in Alabama … Democrat Doug Jones won in deep-red Alabama a few years back in a narrow margin after several women came out

Trumpworld isn’t happy with Fox News, which leaped ahead of its network competitors in calling Arizona for Joe Biden. Arizona is a potentially crucial state for either Biden or Donald Trump reaching 270 electoral college votes, and no other networks have called the state for either candidate. “WAY too soon to be calling Arizona…way too

Getty Images This Election Day was always going to be a significant one. Not only are voters deciding if they want another four years of President Donald Trump—or to vote in former Vice President Joe Biden and the nation’s first female vice president in Kamala Harris—they’re also deciding how they’re going to make their voices

Following his hosting gig on Saturday Night Live, John Mulaney went on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Monday to ask the talk show host some hard-hitting questions and discuss his continued disbelief over Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson‘s relationship and recent marriage. Seth Meyers, who like Mulaney was also a writer on SNL, was

A British court ruled Monday against Johnny Depp in his libel case against the owner of the Sun tabloid newspaper, which labelled him a “wife beater.” Justice Andrew Nicol said that the defendants had proved that what they published was “substantially true” during a high-profile trial in London over the summer that included lurid —

If there’s anything that sums up the nightmare-level stress and ping-ponging emotions of 2016’s election night, it’s the New York Times’ needle. Even now, just thinking about that semi-circular chart with its prediction needle swinging wildly from red to blue every time some new precinct data was made available makes my chest contract and my

Nikki McKibbin, a singer from Texas best-known for her third place finish in the first season of American Idol, has died. She was 42. McKibbin’s husband, Craig Sadler, confirmed her death in a Facebook post, saying that she had died after suffering a brain aneurysm on Wednesday and was taken off life support early Sunday.

Given the uniquely unstable circumstances surrounding the next 36 or so hours in America, the media will play a vital role in shaping perceptions about the integrity of the presidential election. Executives from broadcast and cable networks have made it clear that caution and certainty will be the top priority, as questions loom regarding just