An indictment against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried revealed an array of serious charges against the crypto boy-king for billions of dollars in high-profile financial crimes, but the very last count opens a new mystery.
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In the Democratic pair’s first joint interview, Pelosi said of the ex-president: “I think there is a need for an intervention there by his family or somebody.”
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The day we never thought we'd see has come: Ash Ketchum and Pikachu are retiring from Pokémon. We are heartbroken.
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Crammed with profanity, nudity, and all manner of demented degradation, "Babylon" is a work of grand and grotesque excess that strives to celebrate the wondrous power of the movies. All it does, however, is crassly steal the magic of its superior ancestor.
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In October, the former couple reportedly attended a Halloween party together, suggesting they were still on friendly terms. Some of his ex-wife’s recent tweets, however, suggest distaste for Musk’s antics.
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Cindy McCain could become the World Food Program’s next executive director.
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We’ve spent most of 2022 trying to predict what Greta Gerwig’s "Barbie" movie might be about. We’ve also spotted Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling rollerblading all over the streets of Los Angeles. But finally, our first real look has arrived.
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Trump's most vocal MAGA supporting pundits—including sources in his orbit—are calling his latest NFT grift "stupid."
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“They’re still just a bunch of horny weirdos doing whippets in the cop car,” says. “And I would absolutely do it forever.”
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Ben Collins has been among those at the forefront of reporting on Elon Musk’s moves to permanently suspend the Twitter accounts of media figures who have criticized him on the platform.
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The splashy new movie starring Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt steals from every great director and classic movie, adds a few f-bombs, and then collapses in on itself.
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The meeting was “filled with warmth and understanding,” the Palace said, and Lady Susan Hussey “pledged to deepen her awareness of the sensitivities involved.”
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"'The Recruit,' with all of its blandness and misguided choices, doesn’t give Centineo many opportunities to shine, as a sex symbol or simply a funny dude."
Read 's review of the new spy comedy-thriller-drama:
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“I dug deep to keep my faith and it was the love from so many of you that helped keep me going. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone for your help,” she wrote in her first statement since her release as part of a prisoner swap.
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An internet sleuth poured cold water on Elon Musk’s justification for banning a Twitter user who tracked his jet (a move he followed with a series of other bans, including of prominent journalists).
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"Establishment elites may not be popular, but they get shit done. And my unpopular hot take is that we need more of them to win elections, not to mention to grease the gears running our governmental machine," writes.
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Next up on the podcast, , who is the first openly non-binary player in the WNBA, tells what was going through her mind when she heard that Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia and taken into custody.
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The texts begin fairly casually but then “very quickly started turning into people spreading conspiracy theories, talking about challenging the vote, and then really engaging in some very active plotting to do so.”
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A journalist who went through Mark Meadows’ texts during the 2020 election is dishing the dirt on what he found.
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A South Carolina grand jury indicted Murdaugh on nine counts of willful attempt to evade or defeat a tax, alleging that he failed to report nearly $7 million of illegal income—and owes $486,819 in back taxes.
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OPINION | "...The centrist Democratic group Third Way is sounding the alarm, pointing out what should be obvious: that a third-party candidate in 2024 would help Donald Trump (or someone like him) and hurt President Biden."
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On June 3, 1978, police found the body of a teenage boy lying on the pavement of a street in Long Beach, California. Now, after 44 years, they’ve finally discovered his identity.
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The leak from the Soyuz MS-22 module, which lasted for over three hours as all the fluid sprayed out into the vacuum of space, was detected on Wednesday.
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International tourists have been left stranded in the historic site of Machu Picchu amid mass disruption in Peru following the arrest of its president.
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OPINION | Trump's “big announcement” that he is selling virtual trading cards of himself as a fantasy superhero turns pathetic when compared to Ron DeSantis’ sale seven months ago of actual trading cards of himself as a bona fide college baseball star.
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“The great thing about 'Reno 911!' is there was no real big idea in the first one, so it can really run forever,” Thomas Lennon admits, saying he never imagined he’d still be playing the flamboyant leader of the Reno Sheriff’s Department two decades later.
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Pro-Kremlin propagandists unanimously agree that Vladimir Putin’s war is here for the long haul, but bristle at the fact that no one seems to know the end goal of the so-called “special operation.”
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“He is alive—that’s all I can say,” the father told CNN.
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Aleksander Kurmoyarov, 28, and his girlfriend Mandie Miller, 33, were found at a residence in Mitchell, South Dakota with a trailer, police said. Inside the trailer, officers said, a coffin contained Miller’s daughter’s body.
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Hakeem Jeffries ascended to the top spot among Democrats without a challenge. That doesn’t mean every Democrat is exactly on board.
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The pieces, which have been on display in the Vatican Museums for centuries, are contentious items that were pilfered from the 2,500-year-old Parthenon Temple on the Acropolis.
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