Новости за 26.03.2021

Today Hemal Jhaveri, a USA Today employee with almost eight years at the paper, published a blog on Medium saying she’d recently been fired from her position as the “race and inclusion” editor of For the Win, the publication’s sports vertical, over an offending tweet. In other words: Facing manufactured pressure from…

On Friday’s episode of Tamron Hall, Jessica Simpson discussed an inadvertent perk to having her sexuality discussed publicly, as disrespectful as she found it: a “long line” of curious gentleman suitors. In a 2010 interview, Mayer described Simpson, whom he dated on and off for about a year, as “sexual napalm.”…

Imagine for a moment that it is Saturday morning and you are mildly hungover. Not so badly that you’re in physical distress, but enough to justify forgetting any errands you had planned and spending the day on the couch watching television. What are you watching? For me, the answer is always going to be a history…

You know the story by now: A massive container ship has been stuck in the Suez Canal since Tuesday, successfully blocking one of the busiest shipping routes on the planet. Ships have been forced to travel around the Cape of Good Hope like it’s the 1700s, global trade has been disrupted, there may be a toilet paper…

Chrissy Teigen quit Twitter on Wednesday, abandoning the platform that has served as her tether to her adoring public for the past decade. Teigen announced her departure via a small thread, which clarified her decision thus: “My desire to be liked and fear of pissing people off has made me somebody you didn’t sign up…

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Joel McHale may have inadvertently admitted that he’s never watched The Drew Barrymore Show, or seen chatter about it online, or perhaps even had no idea who Drew Barrymore was prior to appearing on her show this week. Or maybe he’s just polite?

It can’t get any more on the nose than this: As Georgia Governor Brian Kemp was signing a sweeping anti-democratic bill meant to disenfranchise the state’s Black voters into law, one Black lawmaker was arrested for simply knocking on his door.

It must be a slow news week in Monaco, as Prince Albert II took a minute to entertain a question about the superior royal family during a BBC interview. During the segment, Albert, who is the son of Grace Kelly, was asked what he thought about Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview, seemingly the only topic worth…

For a virtuoso performer whose sublime efforts in entertaining the masses are telegraphed in even the smallest nuance—the articulated micro-movements of her prance across the stage, the twitches and strain of her face muscles changing with each passing second, her wail that tapers into a snarl—Tina Turner frequently…

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On Thursday, a plan to expand Medicaid eligibility in Missouri was blocked from reaching the House floor after the Republican-controlled House Budget Committee voted down a bill that would have created a $1.6 billion spending plan for the program. Missouri Republicans claim that the state cannot afford the expansion,…

In order to resolve lawsuits from the hundreds of women who claim that the school failed to respond sufficiently to accusations that gynecologist George Tyndall sexually abused patients at its student health center, the University of Southern California has agreed to pay out an $852 million settlement to the 710 women…

On Thursday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed a Republican-sponsored bill overhauling the state’s election laws and adding a number of new voting restrictions. The 96-page bill, which was passed 34-20 in the Republican-controlled Georgia senate, allows for an unlimited number of challenges to voter registration and…

Close those eyes and imagine with me for a second: You’re 10 and your name is Khloe Kardashian. You’re sneaking around your parent’s room during a game of hide-and-seek with a friend when you hear Kris Jenner and Caitlyn Jenner come traipsing in. You shush your friend, and then both parents start to have sex on the…

The Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents is being sued by 11 of its former students who say the school ignored Title IX protections while downplaying and covering up their sexual assaults, an occurrence that is all-too-common on American college campuses.

On Thursday afternoon, President Biden faced the press for the first formal press conference with the White House press corps since taking office two months ago, covering everything from the covid-19 vaccination roll out to the Senate filibuster. But immigration dominated the presser and Biden’s answers yielded…

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