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Jason Kelce has apparently had it with Taylor Swift’s fans. The retired NFL player accused the billionaire singer’s fanbase of election interference this week, saying that they’re responsible for forcing him into an “agonizing review” of the 2005 coming-of-age film Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. But just a few days after Kelce’s grumpy announcement, his

NOTE: The following article contains disturbing content. Please read at your own discretion. Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs have accused federal authorities of leaking the video of Combs’ physical assault against his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura, thereby depriving Combs of a fair jury trial. In the legal filing submitted Wednesday, Combs’ lawyers said agents from the

It sounds like arcane insider jargon best kept inside a campaign headquarters: Does this election come down to persuasion or mobilization? But the terminology is really just a fancy way of asking whether a campaign should prioritize swaying undecided voters or turning out its base. No matter the rhetoric, though, answering that question is fundamental

Kris Holden-Ried, clad in a dark pea coat and bright red scarf, stands in a patch of sunlight on the edge of Griffin’s Pond in the Halifax Public Gardens, with the early morning light casting a glow on him as he looks across the water. The Canadian-born actor isn’t taking in the sights of the lush trees

There’s an old Irish blessing that goes something like this: May you go on a free trip to Morocco and fall in love with a Hemsworth. Until it comes true for us all, we’ll have to live vicariously through Laura Dern in the new film Lonely Planet (Netflix, October 11). Dern plays novelist Katherine, who

In a new legal filing, country singer Garth Brooks has publicly named a former employee who last week sued the musician for rape in a civil lawsuit. Brooks, 62, on Tuesday told the U.S. District Court in Mississippi the woman’s allegations are part of an “ongoing attempted extortion” meant to defame him and inflict emotional

Among the bright lights of Times Square, Pamela Anderson, Taraji P. Henson, and Suni Lee were among those honored at the Glamour Women of the Year awards on Tuesday, a glitzy event attended by Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Demi Lovato, and more. While waiting for the program to begin at the Times Square Edition Hotel’s Paradise

Actor Jenna Fischer announced she was diagnosed with triple-positive breast cancer last December and has been living “cancer-free” after treatment. On Tuesday afternoon, Fischer wrote on Instagram that she underwent a lumpectomy to remove a tumour, as well as chemotherapy and radiation to treat her “aggressive” breast cancer. Triple-positive breast cancer is known as a

There are times when Washington still feels like what it used to be—a sleepy little Southern city. Generations of some of the most powerful people on earth have spent their days in DC griping that the city is a backwater. But Washington’s modest position in our constellation of great cities was always part of its

Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley is alleging in a new memoir that he was groomed and sexually abused by the band’s former manager Greig Nori, when he was a teenager and Nori was in his 30s. The claims, first reported in a feature by the Los Angeles Times, appear in Whibley’s book Walking Disaster: My Life

Less than a week after attempting to make people believe abortion rights aren’t absolutely on the line should he and Donald Trump win the election, JD Vance accidentally admitted he and his potential boss have plans to gut Planned Parenthood if voters are crazy enough to send them to the White House. Asked over the

By David Friend The Canadian Press Posted October 7, 2024 5:56 pm Updated October 7, 2024 6:50 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ticketmaster is enforcing new rules around how fans transfer Taylor Swift tickets amid a surge in reported scams. The ticket sales giant recently updated its website

When I spoke to right-wing Orthodox Jewish settlers working in Gaza to grow tomatoes in hothouses and swimming in the sea fully clothed, they swore to me that this land was theirs. When I spoke to Arabs who showed deeds to plots of land in the West Bank, now occupied by Israeli settlers, they swore

By The Associated Press The Associated Press Posted October 6, 2024 3:45 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Donald Glover has canceled the remaining dates of Childish Gambino’s North American and European tour. The musician, actor and “Atlanta” creator announced on Friday that he recently discovered an ailment that

One of the first questions former president Donald Trump would ask if a state needed disaster aid while he was in office was, “Are they my people?” according to Stephanie Grisham, who served as the White House press secretary under Trump from 2019 to 2020 and is now supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign. As

By Staff The Associated Press Posted October 5, 2024 12:38 pm Updated October 5, 2024 1:24 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Hollywood star Keanu Reeves made his professional auto racing debut on Saturday in an event in which The Matrix star spun out at famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Reeves

Amid a slowing art market, a sweep of gallery closures, and layoffs, Atlanta is proclaiming itself another destination on the map of contemporary art with the inaugural Atlanta Art Fair. Taking place through October 6 in Pullman Yards, the fair features 63 exhibitors: galleries, cultural partners, nonprofits, and institutions from throughout the South (25% of

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Eminem is going to be a grandpa. The 51-year-old rapper released a heartwarming music video for his song Temporary on Thursday, dedicated to his daughter, Hailie Jade Mathers. The video features a montage of old videos and footage of the dad-daughter pair, from her childhood to her

Melania Trump’s memoir, Melania, will be released next week, a newsworthy event given her status as both a former and possibly future first lady. That means media outlets will want to cover the book and, if they can, score an interview with the author. CNN, for example, reportedly reached out to Trump’s publisher two months

One of two doctors charged in connection with Friends actor Matthew Perry‘s overdose death pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute ketamine on Wednesday. Mark Chavez, 54, entered his guilty plea during an appearance in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. The San Diego-based physician told the judge he’d illegally distributed ketamine, a commonly used surgical anesthetic,

The Rings of Power wrapped up season two not only with storm clouds raging on nearly every horizon of Middle-earth, but with the deaths of several major characters—some of them towering figures from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings lore. J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, the showrunners of Amazon’s expensive, expansive series, spoke with

A Texas man who went viral after he bought a Taylor Swift-themed guitar at auction for US$4,000, only to destroy it with a hammer seconds later, says he pulled off the stunt for a laugh and claims there’s no ill will intended. Gary Estes, 67, garnered the ire of many Swifties over the weekend when

The thing about vice-presidential debates is that you typically only remember them when someone really screws up. There was Dan Quayle comparing himself to John F. Kennedy, which set Lloyd Bentsen up for an all-time zinger. More recently, there was Sarah Palin being, well, Sarah Palin. These blunders persist in the political memory because the

NOTE: The following article contains disturbing content. Please read at your own discretion. More than a hundred new sexual assault allegations have been made against Sean “Diddy” Combs, with a Texas lawyer revealing he’s representing 120 accusers who have shared dozens of new, shocking claims. Texas-based lawyer Tony Buzbee held a press conference Tuesday, saying “we will

Jessica Valenti writes and talks about abortion like someone who thinks about it for dozens of hours every week—because she does. For around two years—since the fall of Roe—Valenti has been writing about reproductive justice every day in her newsletter, aptly titled Abortion, Every Day. But, in her new book, Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies,

By Staff The Associated Press Posted September 30, 2024 12:42 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A New Mexico judge on Monday upheld an involuntary manslaughter conviction against a movie armorer in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust.”

Occasionally, rockets were fired from northern Gaza. This was a true exchange of fire. During one live report on Mornings with Maria, I held the mic in one hand and my ear with the other. Back in May I’d been standing too close to an Iron Dome battery when it launched an interceptor. That, along

As Sarah McLachlan, Tom Cochrane and members of Blue Rodeo were ushered into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on Saturday, each took a moment to recognize that writing great music usually comes with incredible struggle. “Writing is often a lonely, isolating business,” McLachlan told the audience at Toronto’s Massey Hall in her speech. “But

Convicted con artist Anna Delvey has been working hard to build her post-incarceration life, dipping into New York Fashion Week, podcasting, and a docuseries (among other hustles) as she awaits the outcome of her immigration case. But a recent effort to trade fabricated societal standing for actual celebrity might have been a step backwards for