It goes without saying that a person who is or was a famous millionaire is unlikely to elicit sympathy, but sometimes such individuals can break our hearts, despite our prejudices against them. On the strength of his stellar new Hollywood drama, Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach understands this irony better than most. The movie, which debuted […]
And so this is Christmas, and for those of us who’ve spent decades hunting down every scratchy demo, rehearsal, studio outtake, telecast, or concert the Beatles and solo Beatles ever laid down, it’s a special one. The season heralds the release of Anthology 4, a new album and documentary of Beatles rarities and oddities. Nobody […]
Fifty years ago this month, Britain’s ITV network aired the series finale of one of the best-loved television programs of the 1970s. A considerable hit on both sides of the Atlantic, Upstairs, Downstairs had already won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series, along with numerous British Academy Film Awards and Royal Television Society […]
An Executive Director of Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City was charged in December with wire fraud and money laundering. The illegal activities stemmed from the organization’s fundraising efforts during the aftermath of George Floyd’s death while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May 2020. Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson was charged with “20 counts of […]
Conservative advocacy groups became embroiled in a civil war after one bashed President Donald Trump and Heritage Action’s pressure campaign to push Indiana to adopt a new congressional map. Heritage Action helped boost Trump’s pressure campaign against Indiana, posting a statement on X shortly before the state Senate’s vote, which saw the bill voted down, […]
President Donald Trump granted a “full pardon” to former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters, though it may not be able to save her from prison. Peters was convicted in 2024 on state charges for her role in trying to overturn the 2020 election, and her appeal is still working through the Colorado courts. As […]
President Donald Trump downplayed his involvement in an effort to push a new congressional map for Indiana after the bill failed. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had been pressuring Indiana’s state legislature for months to redraw the state’s congressional districts to strip Democrats of two seats. These efforts ultimately were for nought after […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order limiting states’ regulation of artificial intelligence after months of wrangling. Republican senators led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tried to include a provision in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would prevent states from regulating AI, but the effort failed after last-minute hesitation from Sen. Marsha Blackburn […]
Lawyers for Tyler Robinson, the accused killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, took issue with the angles a news camera was showing of him as the suspected gunman made his first in-person court appearance Thursday in a Utah court. Robinson wore civilian clothes in the courtroom, after Judge Tony Graf had previously allowed him to […]
Newly unsealed documents accuse the judge presiding over the Wisconsin fake electors case against President Donald Trump’s former associates of not drafting a key ruling himself, and instead outsourcing it to the writing skills of a retired colleague. The court filings, unsealed Tuesday, allege that Frank D. Remington, a recently retired Dane County Circuit Court […]
