Новости за 14.06.2023

In a party-line vote, the powerful House Appropriations Committee offered its first defense appropriation budget on Tuesday that would ban Veterans Affairs from providing life-saving abortions, which they started offering to pregnant veterans and their dependents in emergency situations about a year ago under…

Remember that game sardines you probably played as a child, where you’d hide for as long as possible, hoping to be the last one found so you’d win? It sort of feels like that may be what’s happening with Kevin Costner’s ex-wife, Christine Baumgartner.

It’s hard for corporate overlords when employees demand humane, certainly-achievable working conditions. Some choose to respond with wildly out of touch ranting; others simply seek to replace people they purport to care about. Still others find themselves so in the throes of distress that they have no choice but to…

Next month, Kesha and Dr. Luke’s court case will finally go to trial, almost 1o years after she first brought sexual assault allegations against the music producer and he countersued for defamation in 2014. The past decade has wrought a whole ping pong game of appeals between the two parties, including one that ruled…

I miss driving. It’s strange that someone who spent the better part of a decade kvetching about Los Angeles traffic and shoddy roads and brake-happy assholes might feel this way, but I do. I look for every opportunity to hop in the driver’s seat, scoot my sunglasses up the bridge of my nose, and crack the windows.…

It’s been quite a week for former President Donald Trump: After pleading not guilty Tuesday to 37 federal felony charges related to his mishandling of classified documents and finding out he’s getting sued for more money by the woman who accused him of rape, he turned 77 on Wednesday. And for the big guy’s birthday,…

The Bechdel test, originated in Alison Bechdel’s 1985 comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For (she credits the idea to her friend Liz Wallace and the writings of Virginia Woolf), is a basic metric for determining the level of gender bias in a film. It asks three simple questions:

Southern Baptists, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, have been slowly kicking out churches with women pastors over the past year, the New York Times reported Tuesday night. Faith leaders overwhelmingly voted at their annual convention in New Orleans on Wednesday morning not to let a California…

For those who’re still tuning into HBO’s The Idol, Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye wants you to know that he’s not a despicable douchebag psychopath. That’s just his character, he insists in a new interview with GQ. See, guys! Contrary to popular belief, Tesfaye isn’t a bad actor. He’s just that good.

It’s been such a dizzying eight years of Donald Trump news cycles that many of us have become numb to all the historic, bombshell developments happening before our eyes. Much of this is by design, as the man is trying to be president again to avoid prison time, and he can only do that through gaslighting. So let’s…