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On Thursday, director Lee Daniels was interviewed by Bevy Smith on her Radio Andy show Bevelations. The conversation eventually turned to the #MeToo movement, with Daniels asking the question all famous men (and women!) have been asking recently: “Is it crazy enough or have we gone too far? I don’t know, I’m all…

While I am frustrated by the divisions in present-day American society, and the terrible erosion of democratic norms in Washington, I can’t let that affect my progress in my level 3 improv class. I believe that comedy transcends politics—especially my comedy, which is really improving, my teacher says.

Even if you don’t know a duchess from a duvet cover, you cannot have missed that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are getting married this weekend. And so we have helpfully provided answers to questions you might have—or perhaps didn’t know you had.

MTV has suspended production of Catfish, the world’s most depressing dating show, after host Nev Schulman—known for his woke elevator selfies and punching a woman in the face while he was a student at Sarah Lawrence—was accused of sexual misconduct.

In December, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand took what was perhaps the boldest move in the generally cautious politician’s decade-long career: She published a Facebook post calling for Al Franken, who had been accused of groping and forcibly kissing multiple women, to step down. Within hours, dozens of senators…

They say that lightning never hits the same place twice, but this is hardly true, neither in nature nor at Feinstein’s/54 Below, the cabaret venue in the basement of what was once Studio 54, where Real Housewives of New York’s Luann de Lesseps brought back her show #CountessAndFriends for another sold-out run.…

Lousiana Governor John Bel Edwards is expected to sign a 15-week abortion ban into law, the Associated Press reports.

While reporting on heavy rains that flooded parts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday afternoon, KDKA-TV reporters captured footage of your boyfriend making his way down a water-covered Route 51. Far be it from me to get involved in someone else’s messiness when I have plenty of my own to deal with, but didn’t…

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is fed the fuck up. She took to Twitter on Thursday to blast her colleagues for their inaction on a bill that would reform the way sexual harassment is handled on Capitol Hill. The Senate is dragging its feet, but the notoriously chaotic (and full of more bad people, by volume) House of…

Few shows balance humor, dramatic twists, false identities, and actual human feelings like Jane the Virgin. In fact, none of them do, and now it’s ending.

The Miss America Organization has hired three women for leadership positions in an effort to convince the public that it cares about its contestants.

What’s wrong with this photo of Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, and Sarah Silverman on this year’s cover of GQ’s comedy issue? Absolutely nothing: They’re gorgeous and stunning, powerful and collected, and they have multiple arms and legs.

The Backstreet Boys are back in town with another song that deals with matters of the heart.

After days of contradictory TMZ push alerts regarding her father Thomas’s health and status as a Royal Wedding guest, Meghan Markle has officially announced that the 73-year-old will not be attending Saturday’s festivities in order to “focus on his health.”

The estate-approved Whitney Houston documentary, Whitney, premiered on Wednesday at Cannes, and with it came a set of devastating revelations about the late singer’s life.

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On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that an autopsy determined the death of a man from St. Petersburg, Florida earlier this month was caused by an exploding vape pen.

On Wednesday, at the Cannes Film Festival, where John Travolta is promoting his new movie, Gotti, the actor did an interview in which he was asked, among other things, for his thoughts on the #MeToo movement and what he sees as its effect on Hollywood. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Travolta replied:

Hilary Duff’s neighbor sounds like kind of an asshole, but aren’t there, like, co-op boards and email chains for that type of shit? If you live in Soho?

Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.

In a White House roundtable bashing California’s sanctuary policies, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Acting Director Thomas Homan whined about ICE’s bad reputation among Democrats. Poor thing.

London—As somebody whose long-running fascinations include fairy tales, romance novels, and the stubborn persistence of monarchy, how could I possibly miss the opportunity to get as close as possible to that rarest of birds: a real, live American princess?

In 2014, a nation was gripped by Serial, a podcast that introduced Adnan Syed and the murder of his then-girlfriend Hae Min Lee to the world, kicking off a true crime boomlet from which we are still recovering. Four years later, we will get The Case Against Adnan Syed, a documentary series on HBO, directed by Amy…

House Speaker Paul Ryan is trying to pressure a contingent of House Republicans out of signing a “discharge petition” that would trigger a vote on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.