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…
Laura Ingraham Laughs, Jokes While Covering Nipsey Hussle’s Funeral
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…
K-Pop Sensation BTS Debuts ‘Boy With Luv’ In Historic ‘Saturday Night Live’ Performance
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…
Rashida Tlaib Slams Democrats For Silence On Trump’s Islamophobic Attacks On Ilhan Omar
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…
Yemeni Bodegas Launch Boycott Of New York Post For ‘Fueling Threats’ With 9/11 Front Page
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…
‘Trump, Trump, What A Chump,’ Chants Kate McKinnon’s Joy Behar On ‘SNL’s’ Mock ‘View’
“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…
Conservatives Are Trying To Claim Pete Buttigieg Isn’t Actually A Christian
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…
NASA ‘Twins Study’ Concludes With Encouraging Signs For Human Space Travel
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…
Logan Paul And Alex Jones Did A Podcast Together, So You Know How That Went
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,…
Trump Wanted To Name Ivanka Head Of World Bank Because She’s ‘Good With Numbers’
President Donald Trump considered naming his daughter Ivanka as head of the World Bank, he told The Atlantic in an interview published Friday. “She would’ve been great at that because she’s very good with numbers,” he said. The head of the World Bank has far less work doing number calculations than understanding economic development and how…