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Flanderization is the practice of taking a minor personality trait of a character and exaggerating it to the point they’re entirely one-note....
After the explosions at the end of last week’s episode of The Sympathizer , Captain (Hoa Xunde) is whisked away to a hospital. He’s out like a...
Olivia Munn is still on her journey back to health after being diagnosed with breast cancer last year. The actress, 43, revealed to Vogue in a...
VANCOUVER—Many people switched out alcohol for psychedelic edibles during the pandemic. But JJ Wilson, the eldest son of multibillionaire...
Roger Corman never made a great movie. None of his films won awards, and they rarely got good reviews, when they were reviewed at all. Corman made...
A high-ranking NYPD officer got an unfortunate taste of his own medicine on Saturday when he accidentally caught a face full of pepper spray while...
In a surprise shake-up to his cabinet, Vladimir Putin has sacked his defense minister Sergei Shoigu in favor of a civilian economist with no...
Grace Kahng is an Emmy, Peabody, and Amnesty International award-winning investigative journalist with expertise in human trafficking and hunting...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) offered a baffling comparison of Israel’s war on Gaza to the U.S. decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan during World...
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) tried to push back on Sunday against the idea that Donald Trump could be antisemitic—forgetting that the ex-president’s...
A slew of students walked out of Duke University’s commencement ceremony on Sunday to protest Israel’s war in Gaza just as the university’s...
Mystery over Harry’s royal residence request The controversy around Prince Harry’s visit to the U.K. earlier this week—and being apparently iced...
You might recognize Hollywood bigwig Chuck Pacheco as a member of Leonardo DiCaprio’s so-called Wolf Pack, or, as it is alternatively known, the...
Sarah Sherman’s been making a habit of dressing up in animal costumes on “Weekend Update” lately, and the recent news—that Robert F. Kennedy...
The last time Maya Rudolph hosted Saturday Night Live in March 2021, the show struck gold with one simple comedic premise: what if the seemingly...
Nikki Glaser has been having some dark thoughts recently. For one, she’s pissed that all of her friends are pregnant. Those “bundles of joy”...
A convicted felon who was locked up in a U.S. prison for money-laundering is pulling the strings behind a sweeping Kremlin influence operation with...
Under Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies—who has returned to the show for the first time since 2010, in order to helm its new Disney ...
There’s a certain irony to the Eurovision grand prize going to the country famous for staying neutral, given the many tiffs, clashes, and...
The Washington Post publisher and CEO Will Lewis finds himself caught in a legal endgame centered on a scandal that seems never to go away, the...
Former President Donald Trump put himself on shuffle and played the hits Saturday night at his rally in Wildwood, New Jersey. The MAGA shindig...
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Listen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Amazon , and Stitcher . Tucker Carlson clearly thinks highly of...
Climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by Swedish police in Malmö on Saturday for attending a pro-Palestinian protest outside the Eurovision...
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Classes may be over but student protests showed no signs of stopping this weekend as hundreds of graduates from California to Virginia continued to...
Russia was launching “constant shelling” against Kharkiv Saturday, according to a readout from the National Police. Ukrainian President...
The next pandemic could be starting up in American dairies, according to investigative journalist and fast food expert Eric Schlosser. The Fast...
Apparently Donald Trump is too picky to pick Nikki. The Republican presidential nominee was quick to correct a report in Axios on Saturday morning,...
Former staffers of Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) have hit back at her accusations that they sabotaged her office by hacking her phone and spying on her...
Federal prosecutors are pushing for a 40-year sentence for the man who was convicted of attacking former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband. In a...
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Dorit Kemsley and husband P.K. Kemsley have revealed they have separated after almost a decade of...
Ah, the scandalous 2010s: Anthony Weiner’s sexts, Fifty Shades of Grey , Arnold Schwarzenegger’s love child. It was in this fecund soil that...
Anna Maria Italiano from the Bronx traveled almost as far to become Anne Bancroft as Lucille LeSueur did to become Joan Crawford. When she was one...
It’s been a hectic week for Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, who was slated to make his first foray into politics later this year as...
The federal judge overseeing a pregnancy discrimination case against Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign approved a bid by the ex-president and his team...
Joe Biden is in the process of alienating his allies for the sake of adversaries he can neither win over, nor appease. This, as they say, is a...
The Kennedy Center Honors, with the sitting president of the United States in attendance, ends each year by celebrating lifetime achievements of...
England may have narrowly avoided a war with Spain in last week’s episode of Mary & George . But in Episode 6—the penultimate installment of...
A dozen blocks uptown from Donald Trump’s trial stands a black behemoth that New York University named after a hedge-fund billionaire the former...
This week: I, like most of America, have not stopped thinking about the story that doctors found a dead worm in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s brain....
Over two years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Putin’s aircraft still use U.S., Japanese, and European components. A forthcoming...
Hailey and Justin Bieber’s baby might not have left the womb yet, but it’s already learning the ropes of influencer marketing. True to form,...
As night descended across the Earth on Friday, a solar storm suffused the skies with a gorgeous display of aurora borealis, and well, it was jaw-...
Longtime KTLA entertainment reporter Sam Rubin, a larger-than-life figure in Los Angeles television, has died suddenly at the age of 64. Rubin’s...
It just got a little harder for Rudy Giuliani to pay his titanic legal bills and judgments: He was yanked off his radio show by fellow Trump pal...
MAGA cable network Newsmax exploded onto the national scene by parroting 2020 election denialism and going all-in on Trump propaganda. But at...
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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan pulled out a paper shredder at the podium of the General Assembly on Friday and shredded a...
Barron Trump will no longer be serving as a delegate for his father at the Republican National Convention, his mother’s office announced late...
The Brigid Alliance, an organization that helps women who are more than 15 weeks pregnant get access to abortion, is planning to spend $45 million...
At The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, we think the ongoing Trump Trial is about as gossipy and enthralling as any episode of The Real Housewives. With...
A sex discrimination lawsuit against Donald Trump’s campaign has triggered new accusations that Trump’s lawyers have intentionally covered up...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., responded to a Daily Beast story on Friday by comparing his decision to offer his kids...
On the witness stand Thursday, Stormy Daniels was cross-examined by the prosecution about trying to profit off her notoriety. “When Trump was...
A wise man previously coined the next three months as the summer of the MILF resurgence. What I—or, sorry, he—foolishly didn’t predict is that...
Days after announcing Barron Trump will be a Florida delegate at the RNC this year, Donald Trump revealed that the 18-year-old has a taste for...
Around 800 anti-capitalist protesters assembled at Tesla’s Gigafactory plant in Grueneheide, Germany on Friday to oppose its expansion, and the...
Oprah Winfrey had some new thoughts to share about weight loss this week, just a few months after she embraced Ozempic and stepped down from the...
In a turn that is oh-so-meta, a brand new hush money deal is now at the center of attention in Donald Trump’s ongoing hush money trial: $750,000...
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Lauren Sánchez might have stunned at the Met Gala this week in her dramatic Oscar de la Renta gown, but she’s far from the only fashion maven in...
After Monday’s Met Gala, red carpet watchers couldn’t stop talking about a pilling gray sweater clutched to Kim Kardashian’s bust. Were...
Bravo stalwart Andy Cohen has managed to “walk tall” following a lawsuit alleging his abuse and general toxicity toward various Real Housewives...
Steve Bannon’s contempt-of-Congress conviction was upheld Friday by a federal appeals court in the District of Columbia. The three-judge panel...
A huge burst of energy produced by a powerful solar storm could strike the Earth as early as Friday, experts say, potentially bringing the Northern...
The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribe became the fifth Sioux tribe this year to ban South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem from setting foot in their...
By now, it’s beyond obvious that John Mulaney’s Everybody’s in L.A. has no interest in replicating the usual late-night formula. The panel...
A Virginia school board voted early Friday to reinstate the Confederate military leader names of two public schools. The Shenandoah County School...
Seven people were killed and several others were injured when a city bus carrying 20 people spun out of control, struck a car, and then careened...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle landed in Nigeria Friday morning to begin a three-day visit to the West African nation. The Duke and Duchess of...
Apple on Thursday apologized for an advertisement for its new iPad Pro after the commercial was met with a firestorm of criticism on social media....
A pair of backcountry skiers died after they were hit by an avalanche Thursday in the mountains outside Salt Lake City in Utah, authorities said....
Stormy Daniels couldn’t resist taking another swipe at Donald Trump after her bombshell testimony in his hush-money trial after his defense team...
Donald Trump’s hush-money trial will close out its explosive third week of testimony Friday, with his former White House aide Madeleine Westerhout...
Nine years after The Jinx shocked the world with a hot-mic recording of real estate scion Robert Durst confessing to the three homicides he was...
There are many moments in Gasoline Rainbow, the teen road trip drama directed by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross, that defy classification into either...
There are fleeting pop culture references throughout the new season of Hacks that seem tailored specifically to make me scream “Ahh!” in delight....
Friends, I might have a problem. Give me your thoughts on this one: Is it just me, or is Chris Pine slowly ascending to a plane of hotness that...
Like nothing you’ve ever seen, Aggro Dr1ft strives to create not simply something new, but The New, delivering a barrage of sound and image that...
The latest season of Doctor Who —the BBC show’s debut on Disney , with its first-ever simultaneous worldwide release—comes with a lofty goal....
Listen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Amazon and Stitcher . Donald Trump’s promise to oil bosses at a...
Welcome to Trail Mix, your 2024 election sanity guide. See something interesting on the trail? Email me at jake.lahut@thedailybeast.com. To get...
Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s internet-breaking beef has stomped into some deep, dark territory, but you wouldn’t know it from all the GIFs. For...
A week some had hoped would be an occasion for reconciliation ended up blowing Britain’s royal feud wide open, again, in dramatic and very public...
Donald Trump’s allies in the press are doing their best to spin Stormy Daniels’ testimony about her alleged sexual tryst with the former president...
For those looking for salacious content, Stormy Daniels’ testimony at Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial did not disappoint. Daniels...
As he runs for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick’s claims to his “home state” have been a source of contention on the campaign trail:...
Donald Trump’s hush money trial will resume Thursday with more testimony from Stormy Daniels, the porn star whose claims of a sexual encounter...
It’s not easy being a mom—just ask Brooke Shields’s character, Lana, in Netflix’s newest rom-com, Mother of the Bride . One minute, your...
Ultra-MAGA South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has become quasi-infamous for admitting to having cold-bloodedly assassinated a puppy and a goat, but in...
Senior Israeli politicians have expressed anger and dismay at President Joe Biden’s warning that he would halt shipments of U.S. weapons to Israel...
Evolution is at the heart of the Planet of the Apes franchise, and yet for its fourth installment in its current reboot phase (and tenth chapter...
You, me, and anyone with even a tangential grasp on modern technology may have true-crime podcast fatigue. But for the people of Bodkin,...
Vivek Ramaswamy praised Ann Coulter Wednesday for telling him that she would not have voted for him on the grounds that he is “an Indian.”...
A Boeing 737 plane skidded off the runway during takeoff at an airport in Senegal, the country’s transport minister said Thursday, leaving...
Katherine Asplundh, the TikTok influencer who unintentionally went viral with her attempts to get an Instagram user to give her their handle, has...
TIJUANA, Mexico—You know you’ve screwed up when even Mexico’s notorious drug cartels think you’ve gone too far. That’s what happened to a...
Robert F. Kennedy on Wednesday followed up the news of a “worm” that was discovered dead inside his brain in 2010 by boasting that he could eat...
It often takes mere minutes for a director to demonstrate whether they know what they’re doing, and that’s unquestionably true with regards to...