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Watching the footage now, you can almost see the virus particles swirling in the air, an ominous cloud sprinkling the Supreme Court nomination ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, as Judge Amy Coney Barrett stands behind the podium and in her Jennifer Coolidge-on-helium voice tells Donald Trump that she’s “deeply honored by the confidence

Rock legend Eddie Van Halen of the band Van Halen has passed away from throat cancer. The Amsterdam-born guitarist who would go on to become an “all-American guitar hero” and the “grinning guitar god for a rock generation,” as The Los Angeles Times phrased it, was 65. Van Halen’s son Wolfgang posted a touching goodbye to

This is Wait, What?, a column that explains the seemingly incomprehensible. Since President Donald Trump announced that he and the First Lady tested positive for the coronavirus last Friday, several other GOP figures within his orbit have also disclosed that they’ve been infected: Chris Christie, Kayleigh McEnany, Thom Tillis, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, and, notably,

Into this raging mess of information and misinformation surrounding the White House and its COVID outbreak springs Claudia Conway, a kid with a phone that her parents presumably pay for. With it, and specifically with TikTok, she told the world on Friday that her mother, Kellyanne Conway, was “coughing all around the house”; hours later,

Rocker Eddie Van Halen, former guitar virtuoso of rock group Van Halen, died Tuesday morning at the age of 65 from throat cancer, according to his son, Wolfgang. Wolfgang Van Halen posted a brief message to his Twitter page. pic.twitter.com/kQqDV7pulR — Wolf Van Halen (@WolfVanHalen) October 6, 2020 Story continues below advertisement “I can’t believe

In August, a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald was toppled in Montreal by activists during a rally to defund the city’s police. According to CBC, the act was explained in leaflets that described Canada’s first Prime Minister as “a white supremacist who orchestrated the genocide of Indigenous peoples with the creation of the brutal residential schools system….” Macdonald’s

[embedded content] Daniel Craig  knows you’ve been waiting and waiting—and waiting—for No Time to Die, but you’ll just have to wait a little longer. On Friday, the 25th installment of the iconic spy franchise was delayed from its November 2020 theatrical release to April 2, 2021, following the path charted by several tentpoles in the

The 2020 presidential election has been anything but predictable. After months and months of primary debates, former Vice President Joe Biden emerged as the Democratic candidate, but not before the coronavirus pandemic dramatically altered almost every aspect of our daily lives. Primary elections in certain states were rescheduled. The conventions went virtual, and some are

Donald Trump is (allegedly) being released from Walter Reed medical center today, where he was getting the most attentive care and treatments available in the known universe after his positive COVID-19 test. This is important because of the tweet I’m about to show you. I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today

Since late Thursday night, the White House and its allies in the media have been working tirelessly to spin Donald Trump’s coronavirus infection and portray the news as beneficial to his reelection campaign. One of the main talking points used by the president’s defense squad has been the claim that Trump testing positive for COVID-19

Many designers feel escapism is the right tone for the moment: think of Tom Ford, that balletic airy Hermès show, or even Celine’s Elysian Fields of TikTok. But escapism can also feel like a copout. Fashion can do so much more than make you feel good, first of all. And there is also just so

Corus Entertainment, the parent company of Global News, is supporting a new initiative aimed at boosting diversity and addressing systemic racism in entertainment and media. HireBIPOC is an online roster of professionals in roles across the industry including on-air, production, behind the scenes, marketing and communications. The database was created by the advocacy group BIPOC

When Prince Harry was first dating Meghan Markle, Prince William was so concerned about how quickly things were moving between them that he asked his uncle, Charles Spencer, to intervene. According to a new excerpt from Battle of Brothers, the book by royal expert Robert Lacey, “From time to time Diana’s younger brother had played

PARIS — Kenzo Takada, the iconic French-Japanese fashion designer famed for his jungle-infused designs and free-spirited esthetic that channeled global travel, has died. He was 81. The family said in a statement to French media Sunday that Takada died from complications from COVID-19 in a hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris. A public relations officer for

North West seems to have provided a solution for how we can all survive the rest of 2020: “I would make everybody love each other,” she told CR Fashion Book, per Page Six. “And make the coronavirus go away and make everyone have more dogs.” This series asked several fashionable people how they would make

Despite being at least the third Republican senator to test positive for COVID-19 within the last 24 hours, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin still doesn’t think mask mandates are a good idea. On Saturday, hours after announcing he had contracted the coronavirus, the GOP lawmaker reportedly said that masks may help reduce the risk of infection

“Saturday Night Live” went political with a parody of this week’s presidential debate, Chris Rock’s jab at U.S. President Donald Trump and Megan Thee Stallion’s message supporting Black people during her performance. The NBC late-night sketch series on Saturday night jumped into the reenactment of the recent debate between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic

Since his arrival at Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis has been a matter of much scrutiny and debate. His doctors have taken a cue from the Trump administration, delivering confusing and misleading press conferences that contradict reports from within the White House. In an effort to reassure the public,

Musicians have been taking it in the neck ever since the coronavirus began to wreak havoc on the music industry. Income from CDs dropped further from their pre-pandemic levels. Income from vinyl is negligible except for a very lucky few. Streaming brings in a little money, it’s not enough for most to live on. Some

[embedded content] After its COVID sheltering from home and a summer hiatus, Saturday Night Live tried to tackle the impossible in Saturday’s season premiere. Blessings and fruit baskets to the writer’s room for the number of jokes they must have scrapped and rewritten with each of the past 48 hours’ ground-shifting news development. Our president

Entering the 2019-2020 NBA season, the Los Angeles Lakers consisted of two great players and a disheveled supporting cast. Their preseason over/under came in several games below the Utah Jazz and Philadelphia 76ers, while data-fueled projection systems gave them almost no chance to win it all. Yes, they finally traded for Anthony Davis, but in

The President of the United States announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19—and people have *theories* Well folks, it happened. President Donald Trump has COVID-19. On October 2, the POTUS made the announcement on Twitter, writing: “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We

As Donald Trump spends his second night at Walter Reed Military Medical Center, the White House is scrambling to contain the biggest crisis of Trump’s presidency, 31 days until the election. On Saturday, the West Wing plunged into damage-control mode after Trump’s physician, Dr. Sean Conley, told reporters that Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19 on

Jon Bon Jovi is back with his 15th studio album called 2020. The 58-year-old singer-songwriter recently joined hosts Jeff McArthur and Carolyn Mackenzie at The Morning Show to talk about new music. The frontman for rock band Bon Jovi says he’s toured in Canada several times but when it comes to the future of playing in front

Arnold JerockiGetty Images Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik became new parents to a baby girl at the end of September. “Our baby girl is here, healthy & beautiful,” Malik tweeted on September 23, alongside a photo of his daughter’s hand holding his. “To try put into words how i am feeling right now would be

Canadian actor Rick Moranis was the victim of an unprovoked attack on a New York City street Thursday morning. According to a report in the New York Daily News and ABC, the 67-year-old SCTV alum was walking on Central Park West near his home in the Upper West Side at approximately 7:30 a.m. when a stranger

John Fetterman was getting ready to introduce Joe Biden at a campaign event less than 24 hours after the ugly first presidential debate. That Fetterman—the tattooed, goateed progressive who was elected lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania two years ago—is enthusiastically backing the centrist Democratic nominee is plenty significant, ideologically. More important, strategically, is where the two

Pictures of the late Chadwick Boseman in one of his final roles have been released. Boseman stars alongside Viola Davis in Netflix’s adaptation of the 1982 play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, by Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson. The gorgeous pictures highlight what’s sure to be a moving film, made all the more poignant as we

With news that United States President Donald Trump and his wife have tested positive for COVID-19, the upcoming documentary Totally Under Control couldn’t be more apropos. Directed by Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney (Going Clear), along with Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger, the documentary was shot in secret over the last five months. Read more: