
Golden Globes Return After Controversy
The Golden Globes returned to all its glory this year, one year after going on mute with no red carpet, no stars, and no television broadcast. The 80th annual Golden Globes was an image rehabilitation […]
The Golden Globes returned to all its glory this year, one year after going on mute with no red carpet, no stars, and no television broadcast. The 80th annual Golden Globes was an image rehabilitation […]
The two stars of 1968’s “Romeo and Juliet” sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million over a nude scene in the film shot when they were teens. Olivia Hussey, then 15 and now 71, […]
Barbara Walters, the first female anchor of an American network nightly news show and one of TV’s most renowned interviewers, passed away on Friday at the age of 93, according to her longtime ABC News […]
Thirteen years after the first Avatar film, the sequel has arrived. The original science fiction film broke box office records and became the highest-grossing film of all time for a decade. But are Avatar and its […]
Is the New York Times crossword shaped like a swastika? Some people have taken to Twitter saying that the popular crossword puzzle published on Sunday resembles a Nazi swastika. Images of the crossword were shared on […]
Famous American soccer reporter Grant Wahl passed away unexpectedly on Friday after falling while covering a game at the Qatar World Cup, Reuters informed, citing his agent. U.S. Soccer expressed their “heartbreak” after hearing of […]
UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity has been enriched on Wednesday with two new additions – Saudi Khawlani coffee and the skills and knowledge associated with its cultivation, and Camel Heda’a […]
A group of prominent Western newspapers led by the New York Times has called on the Biden administration in a public letter issued Monday to drop charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Detained in the […]
The Twitter account of comedian Kathy Griffin was suspended Sunday after she switched her page’s name to “Elon Musk” and mocked the new CEO though it wasn’t immediately clear whether the suspension was a direct […]
Democrat John Fetterman is locked in a tight battle for Pennsylvania’s vacant Senate seat. Last night, television icon and legendary talk show host Oprah Winfrey jumped on the campaign, officially endorsing Fetterman at a virtual […]
The Supreme Court is set to weigh in on a case that centers on paintings by the late artist Andy Warhol. The question is as philosophical as it is legal: what is the line between […]
A school district in Pennsylvania temporarily banned the Girls Who Code book series for young readers, making it the latest book to vanish from schools in the U.S. The books are four of more than […]
Book banning accelerated across the nation in the school year from 2021 to 2022, mostly because of coordinated efforts made by organized groups that called on public schools to remove more than 1,600 titles. The […]
Netflix must remove some of its shows and movies deemed offensive from the streaming service because they’re violating Islamic and societal values and principles, several Gulf Arab countries have requested via Saudi Arabia’s media regulator. […]
The Manhattan district attorney’s office has seized dozens of ancient artifacts from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art that the investigators believe to be looted, executing three search warrants. The spokesperson for the District […]
Academics have said that the stabbing of novelist Salman Rushdie may have been orchestrated by Mossad. One academic in particular, Nader Hashemi, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver, said […]
Despite accusations that the school is targeting gay and transgender students and alleged death threats against school leaders, a private Christian school in Florida is sticking to its long-held policy that students do not partake […]
The disgraced opera star Plácido Domingo has found himself in yet another scandal after the prosecutors in Argentina have linked him to a criminal gang in Buenos Aires that serves as a front for sexual […]
According to reports, the firearms regulations in Georgia were a contributing factor in the organizers’ decision to cancel a music festival in Atlanta on Monday, The Hill informs. According to two people who spoke to […]
The Nobel Peace Prize medal that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov has put on auction sale to raise money for refugee children from Ukraine has shattered the old record for a Nobel and sold Monday night […]
According to Reuters, a photojournalist and a cameraman were injured while driving between Rubizhne and Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine on Friday, The Hill reported. According to Reuters, when their vehicle, which Russian-backed troops had given […]
The Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra which earlier this month has won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest has raised over $900,000 (£712,000; €838,000) for the war in Ukraine by selling their trophy to raise money. The […]
The head of U.S. Strategic Command warned Congress this week that Washington faces a heightened nuclear deterrence risk when it comes to Russia and China. The U.S. Strategic Command oversees the nuclear arsenal. Adm. Charles […]
Harvard University is setting aside $100 million for an endowment fund and additional measures in order to help close the educational, social, and economic gaps that are legacies of slavery and racism. Harvard University President […]
Some of the commonly banned books in the US will be made available for free by the New York Public Library (NYPL). NYPL announced the project it’ll conduct in partnership with the publishers Hachette Book […]
Anne Frank, dressed in a blue dress with a blue and yellow ribbon around her neck, and with a candle in her hand burning the Z symbol of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is the […]
Amid the growing criticism of how TASS is portraying the war in Ukraine, Reuters decided on Wednesday to remove Russia’s state-owned news agency from its B2B marketplace for customers. Reuters Connect, which operates independently of […]
One of the greatest Soviet-born ballet dancers, Mikhail Baryshnikov, has made a plea for the world to not punish Russian performers, artists, and athletes for Russia’s war in Ukraine. Baryshnikov is the leading male classical […]
Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova burst onto live state television news this week in Russia, denouncing Russia’s war in Ukraine and the propaganda around it. Her protest has now led to a quiet, but steady, stream of […]
A street artist in Naples, Italy, has used his art to protest against the decision of a university in Milan to cancel a course on Fyodor Dostoevsky, painting a giant mural of the Russian author. […]
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