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Eminem confronted a home intruder in his living room after the suspect slipped past his sleeping security guards, according to a report Thursday. The 26-year-old Matthew David Hughes smashed a kitchen window with a paving stone and climbed into in the rapper’s home in a gated community in the Detroit-area around 4 a.m. earlier this …
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Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) is drafting legislation targeting Hollywood’s demonstrated willingness to self-censor in order to access the Chinese market. “The Stopping Censorship, Restoring Integrity, Protecting Talkies Act” (SCRIPT Act) would block contracts between the Pentagon and film studios that edit their movies for Chinese audiences. “For too long, Hollywood has been complicit in …
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New York mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday announced that he would appoint First Lady Chirlane McCray as co-chair of a task force on coronavirus racial inequality. De Blasio will form the “Task Force on Racial Inclusion and Equity” as part of the city’s plan to reopen businesses that have been closed during the pandemic. …
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) is proposing a bill to ban President Trump from signing coronavirus checks, calling the current practice “a waste of time and money” and the “exploitation of taxpayer money for promotional material.” Schumer’s legislation, titled the “No PR Act,” blocks the use of federal dollars to promote Trump or …
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History shows that national shocks—the Depression, World War II, the financial crisis—have a way of expanding the role of government in lasting ways. This one is looking like no exception. History shows that big national shocks have a way of changing the role of government in lasting ways—and any shock as big as the coronavirus …
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Democratic Florida gubernatorial nominee and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum concedes the race to Rep. Ron DeSantis in Tallahassee, Fla., November 6, 2018. New photos from the Miami Beach Police Department confirm the presence of crystal meth in the hotel room where former Democratic candidate for Florida governor Andrew Gillum was found after a suspected overdose incident …
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“General Hospital” star Maurice Benard details his battle with mental illness in his new memoir, recounting a manic episode so severe he believed Michael Jackson was singing about him. The 57-year-old — who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 22 years old — was prescribed lithium, a “wonder drug” he would take on and off, …
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Director Sofia Coppola has revealed some coveted advice her filmmaker father Francis Ford Coppola gave her as a teen that you wouldn’t usually hear from your parents: Study poetry. The Oscar winner told moderator Annette Insdorf during an online 92nd Street Y talk that her iconic director dad gave her an encyclopedia of “poetics” (that’s …
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On the heels of a crushing Super Bowl defeat, 49ers general manager John Lynch admitted his eyes wandered when the Greatest Of All Time hit the NFL free-agency market. “When you’re talking about one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time with Tom Brady, of course you’re going to have some internal discussion,” Lynch told …
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Kelly Dodd is apologizing profusely for what she calls her “ridiculous” and “stupid” comment that coronavirus is “God’s way of thinning the herd.” The “Real Housewives of Orange County” star claims she “felt bad” for her remarks after she received major backlash online. “I want to give a public apology,” she said on her Instagram …