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Fugees’ Pras Charged With Campaign Finance Violations in Billion Dollar Embezzlement Scheme
Fugees’ Pras Charged With Campaign Finance Violations in Billion Dollar Embezzlement Scheme

Former Fugees rapper Pras (born Prakazrel Michel) has been charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States government through foreign campaign contributions and three counts related to the alleged cover-up, the Department of Justice announced today. Pras’ alleged financier Jho … Read More

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Dave Chappelle to Receive Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
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Dave Chappelle to Receive Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

The Kennedy Center announced Tuesday that comedian Dave Chappelle will receive the 2019 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which will be given to him…
Maggie Serota / May 7, 2019
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Stranger Things Lawsuit Dropped on Eve of Trial

Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer have escaped a lawsuit claiming that the brothers stole the idea for their popular Netflix series. The trial…
Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter / May 6, 2019
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'Succession' Season 2 Teaser Trailer: Watch
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Watch a Trailer for Season Two of Succession

HBO has released a trailer for season two of Jesse Armstrong’s brutally dark comedy Succession, which premieres in August. The clip promises an…
Maggie Serota / May 1, 2019
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Donald Trump Defends Robert E. Lee, Charlottesville neo-Nazis
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Trump Defends His Charlottesville Remarks by Praising Traitorous Loser Robert E. Lee

President Trump held a doozy of a press spray Friday morning when he was leaving the White House en route to Indianapolis to give a…
Maggie Serota / April 26, 2019
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Twitter Execs Says They Can't Ban Nazis Because They Might End Up Banning Too Many Republicans
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Twitter Won’t Autoban Neo-Nazis Because Too Many GOP Politicians Would Get Banned: Report

Twitter execs are hesitant to use its algorithmic content filters to automatically ban white nationalists and neo-Nazis from the platform because too many Republican politicians…
Maggie Serota / April 25, 2019
Culture
R. Kelly Loses Lawsuit After Failing to Show Up to Court
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R. Kelly Loses Underage Sex Assault Lawsuit After Failing to Show Up to Court

R. Kelly lost a civil suit alleging underage sex abuse by default this week when he failed to show up to his court date, the Chicago Tribune…
Maggie Serota / April 24, 2019
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Robert Durst The Jinx Confession HBO Andrew Jarecki
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Robert Durst’s Infamous “Confession” on The Jinx Was Edited Out of Order

Notorious real estate heir Robert Durst will be tried for the murder of his longtime friend and booster Susan Berman in September of this year.
Winston Cook-Wilson / April 24, 2019
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Donald Trump Met With Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to Complain About His Follower Count: Report

Donald Trump hosted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and several other Twitter executives in the Oval Office on Tuesday. After the meeting, the president tweeted a riveting summary, "Lots of…
Tosten Burks / April 23, 2019
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Mayor Pete Discusses Radiohead, Dave Matthews Band, and Spoon Fandom
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Mayor Pete Reconsiders His College Essay About Radiohead, DMB, and 9/11: “We All Evolve”

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg gave us another illuminating peak into his musical tastes in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times. At one…
Maggie Serota / April 23, 2019
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Admits to Mueller That She Lied About FBI Agents Who Hated James Comey
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Professional Liar Admits She Lied

One of the many embarrassing revelations contained in the Mueller report concerns White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who admitted to the Special Counsel that she…
Maggie Serota / April 18, 2019
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Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle in Montana in support of Matt Rosendale
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Don Jr.’s Idiocy May Have Saved Him From Getting Arrested in Russia Probe

Back in July, long before today's release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the world learned that…
Andy Cush / April 18, 2019
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Here’s Who a Bunch of Musicians Donated to in the 2020 Democratic Primary

Presidential candidates have filed fundraising reports for the first three months of the 2020 campaign! This information has presumably inspired heated debate about each candidate's momentum and viability…
Tosten Burks, Will Gottsegen, Israel Daramola / April 17, 2019
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Pete Butigieg on Why "What it's like" by Everlast Sums Up His Approach to Politics
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg Said Everlast’s “What It’s Like” Sums Up His Approach to Politics

Noted Dave Matthews Band scholar Pete Buttigieg invoked another '90s artist at a town hall held in Des Moines, Iowa last night. About 25 minutes into the…
Maggie Serota / April 17, 2019
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Bernie Sanders Most Significant Moments of Fox News Town Hall
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Bernie Sanders Beat Fox News on Its Own Turf

On Thursday night, 2020 hopeful Bernie Sanders became the first Democratic candidate to accept an invitation into enemy territory by holding a town hall event broadcast by Fox News. Sanders opened himself…
Maggie Serota / April 16, 2019
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Trump After Julian Assange's Arrest: "Wikileaks Isn't My Thing"
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Trump Conveniently Forgets What Wikileaks Is After Julian Assange’s Arrest

One of Wikileaks's biggest fans turned his back on the organization this morning following the arrest of Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. During a…
Maggie Serota / April 11, 2019
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