Новости за 02.08.2021

Reese Witherspoon has sold her media company, Hello Sunshine, for $900 million in order to, as she puts it in a statement, “tell even more entertaining, impactful and illuminating stories about women’s lives globally.”

My favorite website on the internet, Just Jared Jr.—gossip for teens! gossip for teens!—has come through with absolutely breaking news: The famous and somewhat notorious D’Amelio Sisters are getting a new TV show. Who could have seen this coming? Certainly not me... certainly. Yep, I totally did not see this coming.

Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time, will be making one final appearance at the Tokyo Olympics after withdrawing over mental health concerns during the team finals last week. USA Gymnastics confirmed Biles’s appearance in a tweet on Monday stating, “We are so excited to confirm that you will see two U.S.…

Last month, Vera Lynn Watson’s 17-year-old Chevy Trailblazer broke down. “My motor went to crap and started spitting oil,” she says. Watson, a 27-year-old from Illinois who works in fast-food management, and her fiancé, a stay-at-home-dad of their two toddlers, didn’t have the money to fix it. Her hourly wage didn’t…

Alex Rodriguez is doing his best to remain at the top of the breakup leaderboard—but perhaps he is trying a little too hard? After his much-discussed birthday trip to St. Tropez, A-Rod posted a picture of himself to his Instastory, obviously feeling cute. It was a very average photo, but the caption was something very…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are—by officials’ own admission—facing significant “communications challenges” with regards to convincing the public to get vaccinated.

Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez’s bombshell lawsuit against the paper—accusing leadership of gender discrimination for barring her from reporting on sexual misconduct as an assault survivor—alleged many cruel ironies.

One of the very present horrors in listening to the first and second seasons of “Slow Burn”—the Slate podcast that revisits political scandals—is realizing that all of the villains we have now are the same ones we had three decades ago. In other words: We’ll probably be stuck with many of the politicians we hate for…

In what I suppose can only be described as an inadvertent self-cancellation Matt Damon freely admitted in an interview that he only recently—as in “some months ago”—stopped using the f-word.

Sometimes I remember that the “19" in covid-19 stands for 2019, as in the year that the first covid cases were reported. Then I remember that it’s 2021, close to two full years after the generally agreed-upon “start” of the coronavirus pandemic, and I think “cool” and “great,” even “nothing better than that.”