President Trump announced on Thursday that Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of June. “After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State …
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Both Phish and Vampire Weekend paid tribute to the St. Louis Blues’ Stanley Cup victory on Wednesday with respective live versions of Laura Branigan’s 1982 synth-pop anthem “Gloria,” which the hockey team used this season as their post-victory locker room song. Phish performed a fleshed-out version of the song, with …
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“I’m feeling pretty good,” Mick Jagger said in his first interview since heart surgery caused him to reschedule the Rolling Stones‘ upcoming North American summer tour. On Toronto radio station Q107, Jagger said it’s been business as usual since his operation. “Been rehearsing a lot lately in the last few …
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Teah Banks was born into an evangelical Christian sect called the Radio Church of God. Founded in the 1930s by an advertising sales representative turned minister, the insular group promoted an ultra-fundamentalist reading of the Old Testament, eschewing divorce, premarital sex and even wearing makeup. “It was a super closed …
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Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus play a pair of time traveling cowboys in the outrageous, cameo-filled new video for their “Old Town Road” remix. The Calmatic-directed clip opens with Lil Nas X and Cyrus running from the law with a fat bag of cash. After the duo make …
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Two people have tested positive for HIV after receiving “vampire facials,” a treatment that involves injecting blood platelets into a person’s skin, from VIP Spa, a clinic in New Mexico. The spa in Albequerque was actually shut down last year, following reports that a patient had received an “unspecified infection” …
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Last month, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center welcomed the newest inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with their annual induction ceremony, honoring Radiohead, Stevie Nicks, Janet Jackson, the Zombies, Def Leppard, Roxy Music and the Cure and featuring a slew of all-star performances. On Saturday, April 27th, HBO will …
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When biomedical engineer Robert Gorkin saw the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s 2013 call for submissions for a next-generation condom, he was hardly a contraceptive innovator. Rather, his work focused on 3D-printing organs and prosthetics. But when he reviewed the initiative’s goals — funding would be awarded to applicants who …
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On February 15, 2016, the National Review took unprecedented action. In an all-out plea to Republican voters to stop Donald Trump before it was too late, the magazine enlisted 22 of the right’s most prominent voices to band together and throw support elsewhere, to save the party. The “Conservatives Against …
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YouTube often plays host to the dark side of human behavior: over the past few years, the platform has scrambled to remove footage of mass shootings, violent children’s videos, and comments’ sections that attracted pedophiles. But if there’s one thing YouTube apparently really can’t stand, it’s videos of people smoking …
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