Новости за 05.10.2018

If you have a pig, it needs somewhere to stay and that place to stay is a baby’s crib.

A jury found a white Chicago police officer guilty of second degree murder and several counts of aggravated battery in the 2014 shooting death of black teen Laquan McDonald.

On Friday, Senator Susan Collins, in a 43-minute speech, announced she will vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. “He has been an exemplary public servant, judge, teacher, coach, husband, and father,” she said.

A Star Is Born dragged my heart all around for months and months before I could even experience it. On paper, it sounded like a disaster: a vanity project from Bradley Cooper (who in addition to starring would be making his writer/director debut) featuring Lady Gaga (whose prior acting was mostly wooden, Golden Globe…

In the past week, we’ve been inundated with information about Dr. Christine Ford’s allegations about Judge Brett Kavanaugh. And while we have seen (and been prevented from seeing) a great deal of new material, as well as their highly personal testimony, it appears that few minds were changed. Democrats found Ford’s…

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In keeping with her history of just really great and diplomatic fashion decisions, Melania is running around Africa wearing an actual goddamn pith helmet—a big, fat metonym for colonialism—square on top of her head.

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, one of the key swing votes in Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, has broken with her party and says she will vote against confirming Kavanaugh.

Portland, ME — On Thursday night, as Maine Republican Susan Collins weighed her vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, around 60 protestors stood in a plaza across the street from her Portland office. They held signs reading “I believe her.” Tourists cut around the outskirts of the crowd. As one…

Fifteen years ago, at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, Madonna, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera opened the show with “Like A Virgin” and very well stole it. Madonna kissed both pop stars on their mouths, though apparently some people only remember the Spears-Madge smooch. I know this because the cameras…

Due to the upswing in royal family media coverage (thanks, Meghan!) suddenly peripheral members of the crew are now characters in the news. This is truest of all for Princess Eugenie, who apparently has a Pinterest that we can investigate to get a deeper acquaintance with this latest addition to our feeds.

In a move I’d sooner expect from Tammy Metzler, an extremely savvy cheerleader in Michigan reportedly gave out pot brownies at her high school to earn some homecoming votes.

If it seemed like A Star Is Born was christened a classic before it was even released, that’s because yes, the movie has been impossible to escape. There’s been months of marketing, memes, and a wealth of press (a lot of it from this website), throughout which Bradley Cooper somehow graduated from hottest man alive to …

It’s not technically a Clear the Rack sale, but it might as well be. Nordstrom Rack just added a ton of new sale styles to their clearance section for Columbus Day weekend, with basically all of your favorite brands represented. Nearly 20,000 items are available right now, but that’s sure to shrink as the good stuff…

First Lady Melania Trump is currently on her four-country tour of Africa, and Friday, at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya, one baby elephant was not pleased about being used as a prop for a photo op.

The Big Bang Theory is a CBS sitcom about a group of geeky adults that has run for 12 staggeringly long years. In that time period, it has attracted critical ire, many Emmys, and earned its stars million-dollar salaries. But now this show is dying and I, a pop culture critic with a heart made of onyx who has never…

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Dr. Denis Mukwege, who has spent many years treating and advocating for rape victims in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman who faced horrible sexual violence after being abducted by ISIS.

Nicki Minaj is selling beef-adjacent merchandise, including a queasy pink backpack toting the words “Nicki Stopped My Bag,” debuted via her Instagram.

On Friday morning, the Senate voted, predictably, to proceed with the final vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation, which will likely take place on Saturday. The 51-49 vote was split mostly along party lines, though two senators who have been undecided on the Kavanaugh hearings, Republican Sen. Lisa…

Friends and actors Amy Schumer and Emily Ratajkowski were arrested along with hundreds of other women in Washington, DC on Thursday during a protest over Brett Kavanaugh, who sure looks like he will be confirmed to the Supreme Court this weekend.

Here’s a not at all extremely intense or insane ad put out by an organization called Catholic Vote in support of Brett Kavanaugh.

Amazon’s been using its Gold Box deals lately to promote small and medium-sized businesses that sell on the site, and today, it’s Rohb’s turn.

On Thursday, Supreme Court hopeful Brett Kavanaugh published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal which, no matter how many times I read it dramatically out loud to myself, I can only imagine being spoken in the stunted, loud-mouth voice hockey of the nominee.

Christmas came early and it is very good at maintaining eye contact!

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In an appearance on Hot Ones—“the show with hot questions and even hotter wings”—on Thursday, Chrissy Teigen beamed warmth and patience at some of her hornier fans.