Month: May 2019

Imagine being Tilda Swinton’s child: When many teenagers’ moms wouldn’t stop posting mortifying comments on Facebook, yours was sleeping in a glass box at the Museum of Modern Art. But compared to her mother, Honor Swinton Byrne seems relatively normal, hardly the interplanetary eccentric the elder Swinton’s reputation might lead one to expect. Honor says…

Former Vice President Joe Biden doubled down on his condemnation of President Donald Trump’s politics during his official campaign kickoff on Saturday in Philadelphia, branding himself as a candidate who will foster unity. “Our politics traffic in division and our president is the divider-in-chief,” Biden told a cheering crowd. The 2020 hopeful, who hails from Scranton,…

A Missouri Republican who referenced “consensual rapes” during a debate over his state’s proposed eight-week abortion ban has now walked back the remark, reportedly claiming he misspoke.  While discussing the bill on the statehouse floor Friday, Rep. Barry Hovis, who serves the city of Jackson, cast doubt upon certain rape cases. Reflecting on his time…

A game that was featured on Apple devices and gaming platform Steam included a mission that asked players to gun down a journalist. The revelation was shared Saturday by New York Times journalist Jamal Jordan, who said in a tweet that his nephew showed him the game “Sniper 3D Assassin.” The game was free to…

The Interior Department has renewed two controversial mining leases for Ivanka Trump’s billionaire Chilean landlord despite significant fears the operation will destroy a pristine Minnesota wilderness area. The announcement Wednesday by the Bureau of Land Management is a “continuation of the Trump Administration’s assault on the Boundary Waters Wilderness,” said a statement by the nonprofit advocacy…

A Brazilian U.S. subsidiary is being paid over $60 million in aid aimed at helping American farmers weather President Donald Trump’s trade war, according to media reports. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is paying $40.1 million to buy pork from JBS USA — a subsidiary of Brazil-based JBS SA — using American taxpayer bailout funds intended…

Move over Jaime Lannister, there’s actually another love in Brienne of Tarth’s life. “Game of Thrones” star Gwendoline Christie admitted on Friday’s episode of “The Graham Norton Show” on BBC One to once having had a crush on a fox puppet called Basil Brush, the decadeslong staple on British children’s television pictured below: “Not what…

The stars of movie “The Sun Is Also A Star” got raw and real when reflecting on their immigrant families.  Charles Melton and Jake Choi play brothers Daniel and Charlie Bae in the film, which premieres in theaters on Friday. The movie centers around the budding romance between Daniel, who’s a college-bound Korean American son…

LOS ANGELES — It was an open secret at Brentwood School, a $44,000-a-year private academy in Los Angeles with a roster of famous alumni, that science teacher Aimee Palmitessa flirted with male students. She once posed with kids in her class wearing matching T-shirts that said “AP Chem 2014 has me … (Mg,Fe)₇Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂” — a reference…

Ricardo Duchesne is a professor at the University of New Brunswick, a publicly funded institution and Canada’s oldest English-language university. He teaches undergraduate sociology classes, holds tenure and has been quoted in The New York Times on immigration. He is also a white supremacist. Duchesne’s writings are filled with racist conspiracy theories, and he is…