On Friday morning Donald Trump responded to the ongoing protests demanding the arrest of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who killed George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the three other officers involved by condemning the protesters and invoking the prospect of violent retaliation. “Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the
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Like Catherine the Great on her wedding night, viewers’ expectations of Hulu’s The Great will look quite different from historical truth. The off-kilter series from The Favourite‘s Tony McNamara stars Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult as real-life Russian rulers Catherine the Great and Peter III. However, this isn’t your grandmother’s historical drama—and it doesn’t purport
During a virtual guest appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show earlier this week, James Corden gave fans a brief update on his much-beloved Carpool Karaoke series and why it won’t return until the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ends. The 41-year-old host said that the show simply relies on “two people being in close proximity.” “I think it
Swinging as hard as an out of control drunk stumbling out of the bar after last call in “Rocky Road Blues,” crushing a dexterous harmony in “The Rat Race” or unfurling a dark melodicism in the country-style title track of their debut album All Of These Years, Steve Thomas & The Time Machine are a band
After Kensington Palace went into firefighting mode this week to deny a report that the Duchess of Cambridge is feeling “exhausted” and “trapped” in her royal role, it seems a refreshed Kate is ready to return to work. While aides are working on an autumn program for the Cambridges, Kate is preparing to resume her
Happy birthday to the man who built the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Tony Stark! One of the most complicated Avengers is a Gemini, which isn’t that surprising—it honestly makes a lot of sense. I, myself, have a complicated relationship with Tony Stark because I would get mad at a lot of the things he did, but
Kylie Jenner is no longer a billionaire, according to a new report from Forbes. Jenner was named the youngest-ever self-made billionaire by Forbes magazine in March 2019 with Kylie Cosmetics being worth at least US$900 million. 1:09 Kylie Jenner named youngest self-made billionaire by Forbes Kylie Jenner named youngest self-made billionaire by Forbes In November 2019,
I’ve been trying to read more. I just started reading The Alchemist. It’s a classic. Eminem’s memoir—did you know he wrote a memoir? And Setting the Table. It’s a great book about business and the customer service industry. Everytime I read that, I get sad and yearn for TomTom. I miss going in there and
The popular Japanese reality TV series Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020 (or Tokyo Terrace House) has been cancelled following the death of cast member Hana Kimura. Fuji TV, the Japanese television network, announced the cancellation of the beloved show on Tuesday in a statement on its official website. A translation of the statement reads: “We would like
President Donald Trump and his allies have long hyped the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine when it comes to treating COVID-19, despite a lack of evidence showing the drug’s effectiveness as a coronavirus treatment and studies showing it may cause a higher risk of death. But while hydroxychloroquine may be an unreliable solution to the coronavirus crisis,
A 29-year-old Black woman died while Toronto police were in her home. And people are understandably outraged—and asking questions Trigger warning: This article contains references to Black grief, death and police violence. In a week that has already been rife with death and police brutality, there’s yet another hashtag trending on Twitter. Overnight on May
YouTube personality Myka Stauffer updated her social media profiles this week to say that she is now the proud mother of four children — not five — after re-homing her adopted son who had autism. Myka Stauffer, 32, and her husband James appeared in a tearful video posted on her YouTube page on Tuesday, in
Rock music, in every incarnation, respects no national border. Though marquee Hall of Fane acts typically hail from England and the United States, there are a number of talented and legendary acts hailing from an assortment of other European countries. Tom Tikka’s Scandinavian upbringing exposed him to rock music at a relatively tender age and,
Beginning to end, vaccine development usually takes 10 to 15 years. There are various ways to shorten the time table. Phase three will go quicker, for example, if you vaccinate a lot of people. That’s why AstraZeneca plans to enroll about 30,000 U.S. volunteers in its phase three trials of AZD1222 starting this summer. Even
In 2011, my younger brother Lee was stopped and frisked on his way to buy ginger ale at the grocery store on 216th Street and White Plains Road. Walking into the market, his black du-rag on and headphones plugged in, two white police officers stopped Lee and asked to search him. “What’s the problem?” he
Exotically Caribbean-flavored and driven by a pulsating percussive force as bold as any lyric ever could be, the beat we encounter in “Dream of Me” is arguably one of the most relaxed singer/songwriter Whitebeard has ever worked with. In this all-new single and music video, Whitebeard experiments with grooves as a means of expression, but
Bill & Ted Face the Music may feature music from Mastodon, according to one of the members of the heavy metal band. During a guest appearance on the Rock n’ Roll Beer Guy podcast on Tuesday, May 26, guitarist Bill Kelliher revealed that he and his bandmates “wrote a killer f—ing song” for the upcoming
Earlier today, John Boyega tweeted what should have been the least controversial statement possible: He said he hates racists. I really fucking hate racists. — John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) May 27, 2020 Sure, maybe some people took issue with his use of a swear word, since some of his 1.6 million followers are likely on the
After two months of keeping it a secret, Andrea Bocelli has revealed that he, and his family, tested positive for coronavirus back in March. The Italian opera singing icon confirmed the diagnosis in a Facebook post on Tuesday, adding that along with his family, he was “fortunate enough to have a swift and full recovery” by
The Trump administration took one of its most significant anti-environment steps yet back in March, when the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation officially replaced Obama-era fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks. The move dismantled one of President Barack Obama’s strongest actions against climate change and replaced it with a new plan that’s
At first deceptively minimalistic and quickly as synthetically symphonic as its tracklist neighbors are, Heartour’s “Dear Future” is certainly one of the more melodically spellbinding songs on the new album, R U IN. Joined by colorful, drum-born eruptions of catharsis like “Refill the Fountain” and the crushingly heavy “The Persuadable One,” “Dear Future” is definitely among
HBO Max is here. And while the name is still a little confusing, and figuring out how to get it can be a little tricky, you can’t deny that it has a ton of great stuff in the library. It’s got everything normal HBO offers, plus all the Studio Ghibli movies and tons of classic
America’s Got Talent has introduced the world to Archie Williams, who spent nearly 37 years in a Louisiana prison for a crime he did not commit. Judge Simon Cowell asked Williams to tell the judges a bit about himself before he began his audition. “I was just incarcerated for 37 years for somebody else’s crime,” Williams
Larry Kramer, the playwright, author and Oscar-nominated screenwriter who was described in a 1992 Vanity Fair profile as “the grand old man and central figure in the decade-long history of AIDS advocacy in this country,” died Wednesday in Manhattan at the age of 84. The cause of death was pneumonia, his husband, David Webster, told
We talked to one of Canada’s leading contraception experts about Nexplanon and what this means for Canadian birth control options People around the world have been raving about their birth control implants for years—and by this fall Canadians no longer need to miss out. The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecolgosists of Canada tells FLARE that
It’s game time this summer on Global TV with a new competition/comedy show, Game On!, premiering on May 27. Keegan-Michael Key hosts the new sports comedy entertainment show, which is equal parts comedy and game show. The genre-busting series pits two teams of three — captained by tennis champion Venus Williams and Super Bowl champion Rob
Angelina Jolie and her ex-husband Brad Pitt’s kid Shiloh Jolie-Pitt turns 14 today, and Entertainment Tonight got rare intel from a source about Pitt’s relationship with Shiloh. He’s very proud of the teen…and they’re also close. (Pitt’s relationship with oldest son Maddox is much more strained, to the point that Maddox told street paparazzi that
Only a month after it was released for free, in its entirety, the Michael Moore-produced, Jeff Gibbs-directed climate change documentary, Planet of the Humans, has been taken down from YouTube — but not for the reason you might think. Though the one-hour, 40-minute spanning film amassed a great deal of backlash last month — with climate
After years of Twitter users and Democratic politicians begging the social media giant to take action against President Donald Trump’s often dangerous and untruthful tweets, Twitter is finally taking a small but significant first step. As part of Twitter’s initiative to label tweets that contain false or misleading claims, the social media network flagged two
Marie Antoinette is one of history’s most infamous royals for better or for worse. Held up as a symbol of an out of touch, gluttonous, and extravagant monarch, the last queen of France before the Revolution was often made the scapegoat for a lot of forces that were beyond her control. She may not have