[embedded content] When Kanye West surprised Jimmy Kimmel’s audience in Brooklyn with a visit on Thursday night, the comedian asked the one question everyone wants answered. “So your new album, Jesus Is King is the name of the album. When is this album coming out? Is it coming out tomorrow?” “It’s gonna be dropping 12
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The Halloween parties are finally starting this weekend, and Demi Lovato is among the first celebrities to unveil her Halloween costume…well, one of them this year, anyway. The singer dressed as Marie Antoinette, and she went all out with the wig, makeup, mini dress, and shoes. “Halloween round 1… I told y’all I don’t play
After being nominated to participate in the #GoodThingChallenge by Russian-German music producer Zedd, Jared Leto played along with a hefty donation to families in need. The 30 Seconds to Mars frontman was kind enough to support a struggling family in need after a freak accident threatened the lives of two children. On Wednesday, Leto, 47, caught wind
There are a lot of Halloween and other sorts of costumes that shouldn’t exist. There’s the racist cultural appropriations and there’s the weird sexualization of Gilead residents, but “child bride” isn’t one that I’d seen before Kmart announced they were pulling that outfit from their shelves in Australia. A woman going by Shannon B started
Babymetal has topped Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart with its third and latest album, the critically acclaimed Metal Galaxy (2019), which dropped on Oct. 11. Perhaps most significantly, Babymetal is now the first Asian act ever to top the rock chart. In its 13 years of existence, no other Asian artist or band has reached the
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s recent speech at Georgetown University defending Facebook’s free speech policies, including the decision to allow false and misleading political ads, has garnered a lot of criticism. The CEO’s 40-minute address, which invoked Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, and the history of the First Amendment to defend Zuckerberg’s belief in “giving
As we gleefully continue our foray into Q4, the new music we’re getting is, accordingly, big and important. Selena Gomez this week makes her fan-demanded return with not one but two knockout singles; Kesha’s back with a Big Freedia lift in advance of her impending album; and, next week, we’re getting a Dua Lipa comeback
An Instagram video published by Vin Diesel on Wednesday revealed that American musician Cardi B will be involved in the upcoming Fast & Furious film in some shape or form. During the last day of shooting in the U.K., Diesel, 52, captured himself taking a break on set beside the Bodak Yellow rapper. “It’s day 86 here on
Making a film in Hollywood can be a harrowing experience, between the development hell, battle for financing, and clashes of ego. But director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon—the Martin Scorsese protégé responsible for 2015’s indie darling Me and Earl and the Dying Girl—experienced something far worse in his journey to get his latest film, The Current War, to
Lizzo took to Twitter on Wednesday to set the record straight about plagiarism claims that were brought forward last week from Los Angeles songwriters Justin and Jeremiah Raisen. Justin Raisen posted a lengthy statement to Instagram last week, claiming that Lizzo took elements of a song they wrote called Healthy and used them in Truth
Chip SomodevillaGetty Images Eric Reads The News is a daily humor column which skewers politics, pop culture, celebrity, shade, and schadenfreude. . Hello? Is this Jennifer Love Hewitt on 9-1-1? I just saw a photo of Representative Maxine Waters deconstructing Mark Zuckerberg at a molecular level using only an imperious gaze and, like Peter Parker
Snoop Dogg has partnered up with an Israel-based marijuana business called Seedo. The company promotes home-grown marijuana and enlisted the American musician as their new brand ambassador earlier this week, according to the Canadian Press. Snoop Dogg, 48, is an avid marijuana advocate and extremely outspoken regarding his use of the subtance. The Who Am
House lawmakers emphasized Wednesday something that already seemed abundantly clear: Mark Zuckerberg is not popular in Washington D.C. As the Facebook CEO faces numerous governmental investigations and questions over whether his company should be broken up, Zuckerberg made his way to Capitol Hill Wednesday to testify before the House Financial Services Committee. And while the
Googling your favorite celebrities can come with some unintended consequences according to McAfee, the American global computer security software company. They have released the top ten celebrities who have been used to dupe people out of their personal information online, and the number one most dangerous celebrity when it comes to this is Rory Gilmore
For more than 42 years, Star Wars has inspired and enticed generations of sci-fi fans with its unique and creative settings, weapons, spaceships and creatures. One of Lucasfilm‘s most notable contributions is the number of personable droids featured in films, games and TV series across the Star Wars universe, including the much-beloved C-3PO and R2-D2 and the
Gwyneth Paltrow is CEO of Goop, the ever-expanding lifestyle and wellness juggernaut that she founded, and she’s also a working actress. The means that while she’s dispensing wellness advice, she’s also putting herself up on screen—a living, breathing example of how well that advice is working. “I mean there’s nothing like high def TV to
In the most damning passage of Taylor’s testimony, he discusses a conversation with National Security Council staffer Tim Morrison, who told Taylor that Trump’s position was that he was not asking for any quid pro quo, but “did insist that President Zelenskyy go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of Biden and
By Staff The Associated Press Posted October 22, 2019 3:32 pm Updated October 22, 2019 3:33 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ TUALATIN, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say Henry Thomas, the actor who starred as a child in E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, has been arrested for
(Photo: The Canadian Press/Paul Chiasson) It was called “the most uncertain federal election in decades,” but at the end of the night, the outcome was what many pundits had predicted: a Liberal minority government. The Liberals won 157 out of 338 seats—27 fewer seats than in 2015, and 13 seats less than the 170 needed to form a majority
The best-selling country duo of all time, Brooks & Dunn, joined the Country Music Hall of Fame alongside comedian and singer Ray Stevens and record executive Jerry Bradley on Sunday evening, in a star-filled ceremony full of tributes to their lasting legacies. Reba McEntire, Luke Bryan, Trisha Yearwood, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart and Travis Tritt
The Trump administration’s claim that President Donald Trump‘s pressure campaign on Ukraine to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden and the 2016 election did not amount to a quid pro quo has been unraveling for a while now. First there were the explosive text messages that mentioned “withhold[ing] security for help with a political campaign,” then
Stephane Cardinale – CorbisGetty Images The streets of Gotham are gaining some new faces. Months after Robert Pattinson was announced as the new Bruce Wayne at the center of The Batman, other key roles have been filled. Last week, Zoe Kravitz and Paul Dano were confirmed as Catwoman and The Riddler, respectively. Below, everything we
To coincide with the release of the film’s final trailer on Monday, advance tickets for Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker went on sale to the public on Monday night. Whether it was the chilling impact of the action-packed trailer, pure coincidence, or some other force that inspired people to buy their
Discovery has announced it’s launching Food Network Kitchen, a subscription service app that will offer subscribers live, interactive cooking classes, as well as on-demand cooking classes, home food delivery, and thousands of recipes and videos. A purchase of Food Network Kitchen will also burnish the newly launched initiative Turn Up: Fight Hunger, a campaign in
A new trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has dropped, and you know what that means! We get to analyze it and cry over the conclusion to the latest trilogy. The trend of a Star Wars trailer drop during Monday Night Football continues as we got the latest trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of
Disney and Lucasfilm have released the final trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which promises to bring the long-running episodic saga to a close in spectacular fashion. The trailer features some of the greatest hits from the Star Wars universe, including a massive space battle involving a fleet of Star Destroyers and a
Last week, Donald Trump announced that the United States would host next year’s G-7 summit of world leaders at Doral—a Miami golf resort that his company, the Trump Organization, just happens to own. After a critical backlash in which even some Republicans expressed reservations with the president’s decision to use American diplomacy to line his
If Donald Trump were a normal human being, which of course he is not, he would have announced the next G7 will no longer be held at his own hotel and moved on to more pressing issues, like the grease fire he started in Syria, the Democratic impeachment inquiry, and the general business of running
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West renewed their vows for their fifth wedding anniversary. On Sunday’s episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, the reality star wanted to surprise West with an intimate ceremony following the birth of their son Psalm West. 0:50 Kim Kardashian, Kanye West welcome fourth child via surrogate Kim Kardashian, Kanye West
(Photo: iStock) From wage disparity—women get paid 87 cents to every dollar a man makes—to pervasive gender-based violence, from barriers of access for newcomer women to the staggering numbers of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, achieving gender equity and justice is a national and necessary issue to consider ahead of election day. We’ve compiled some of