Month: April 2019

Amid growing public concern for Julian Assange’s cat in the face of the WikiLeaks’ founder’s arrest, the organization has provided video evidence that the feline is alive and well. “We can confirm that Assange’s cat is safe,” WikiLeaks tweeted Saturday. “Assange asked his lawyers to rescue him from embassy threats in mid-October. They will be…

Former CBS Chairman Les Moonves gave up a huge chunk of his company stock awards last year because of his ouster over sexual misconduct allegations. CBS’ proxy filings submitted Friday to the Securities and Exchange Commission show that because of his separation agreement, Moonves forfeited more than $34 million of the roughly $42.5 million in…

One day after the funeral of Nipsey Hussle, Fox News host Laura Ingraham laughed while discussing the deceased rapper on her prime time program, poking fun at a political song in which he is featured. “Yesterday in [Los Angeles] thousands lined the streets to say goodbye to rapper Nipsey Hussle,” she said Friday. “This dear…

BTS took “Saturday Night Live” by storm as the K-Pop band became the first in  history to appear on the program.  V, Jungkook, Jimin, Suga, Jin, RM, and J-Hope performed their new single “Boy With Luv” for the first time live, in black suits with pops of color, highlighted by their signature high-energy precision dance moves and…

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) offered harsh criticism to some of her Democratic colleagues on Saturday over their silence on the recent attacks aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) who, like Tlaib, is Muslim. “They put us in photos when they want to show our party is diverse,” Tlaib tweeted Saturday. “However, when we ask to…

The Yemeni American Merchants Association launched a boycott of the New York Post Saturday to protest the newspaper’s incendiary front page that invoked 9/11 to attack Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). More than 1,000 bodegas and delis owned by Yemeni-Americans in New York represent an important portion of the newspaper’s market. Bodega owners backed by thousands of…

“Saturday Night Live” recreated its own version of “The View” with killer clones of Whoopi Goldberg (Leslie Jones), Joy Behar (Kate McKinnon), Meghan McCain (Aidy Bryant) — and Emma Stone as returning panelist Jenny McCarthy to complain about vaccinations. “Trump, Trump, what a chump. Trump, Trump, what a dump,” intones “Behar” as the women discuss…

The ease and openness with which Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg talks about his religious beliefs appears to be causing consternation among some conservative Christians.  Evangelical Christians have long seen themselves as the standard-bearers for faith and family values in American politics. Buttigieg, a gay Christian, is directly challenging that, driving some evangelical leaders to try…

What happens to your body after nearly a year in space? Plenty. Most things return to normal once you’re back on Earth ― but not all of them. That’s the extremely topline summary of NASA’s “Twins Study,” the results of which were published Friday in the journal Science. The study tracked the physiological and cognitive…

This is the worst.  Logan Paul, who infamously vlogged a dead body in Japan’s “suicide forest” and filmed videos blatantly disrespecting foreign cultures, invited notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who’s long harassed mass shooting survivors and victims’ families, onto his podcast, “Impaulsive.”  Jones, who’s been banned by YouTube for spreading hate speech following the Parkland,…