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A self-described "natural" baby product company is recalling 10,500 of its stainless steel bottles and cups for toddlers that pose a risk of lead poisoning,... Read more »

A judge in New Mexico and several of her pets were shot dead in what police believe was a murder-suicide carried out by the woman's husband.... Read more »

A woman who stopped at McDonald's to use the bathroom while on the way to the hospital to give birth ended up having her baby at the fast-food restaurant with... Read more »

The tech industry has enjoyed seemingly unstoppable growth over the last five years, but in 2022 it finally hit an immovable object: a slowing worldwide... Read more »

Name Image Likeness or "NIL" deals let elite student athletes profit from their talent before they finish high school. But the potential reward comes at a risk.... Read more »

Democrats appear poised to elect Reps. Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, and Pete Aguilar to replace House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team on Nov. 30.... Read more »

Holiday travel with Covid, RSV and flu means it's time to bring mask mandates back... Read more »

The spread of Roberto's Taco Shop restaurants and its "Berto's" variations across the Southwest started with one Mexican immigrant family's unique business model.... Read more »

An 11-month-old baby and a 3-year-old died of stab wounds after their mother was taken into custody for observation on Saturday night in New York City, police... Read more »

2022 Christmas shopping and reading challenges should include audiobooks. They do count as reading, on Goodreads and elsewhere.... Read more »

Heavy rain and strong winds stretched from Texas to Florida this weekend, threatening post-Thanksgiving travel plans, according to the National Weather Service.... Read more »

Former President Donald Trump distanced himself Friday from a pre-Thanksgiving dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West,... Read more »

The Biden administration on Saturday eased some oil sanctions on Venezuela in an effort to support newly restarted negotiations between President Nicolás Maduro... Read more »

The heads of government of the Visegrád Four (Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Poland) have agreed on the fundamental issues of the war in Ukraine, on the need to preserve the territorial integrity of Ukraine, to end the war as soon as possible, and about the need to ensure... Read more »

The Corvinus project, designed to kick-start shale gas extraction in Hungary, aims to ensure that the natural gas field in Békés county, at a depth of 3,700-4,500 metres, can be exploited as soon as possible, reported the economy portal Világgazdaság. Former Minister of Innovation and Technology László Palkovics said encouragingly... Read more »

Parliament will only put the issue of the Swedish and Finnish NATO-membership on the agenda next year. According to observers, Hungary is exerting pressure on the EU. The issue of the NATO membership of Sweden and Finland will be on the Hungarian parliament’s agenda at the first session next year,... Read more »

Members of Hungary’s government have made optimistic statements about the negotiations with the European Commission on EU funds. “All barriers between the European Union and Hungary that have obstructed an agreement so far have been averted,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a joint press conference after the V4 summit... Read more »

Kevin Johnson is facing execution for killing a cop when he was 19. A special prosecutor says his sentence should be vacated. The post A Special Prosecutor Found Kevin Johnson’s Case Was Tainted by Racism. Missouri Is About to Kill Him Anyway. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Even in a police state, climate justice and human rights advocates found ways to come together and make their voices heard, but some worry about what comes next. The post Egypt’s Climate Summit Was a “Rehearsal” for COP28 in Dubai appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The FBI paid a convicted sex offender $90,000 to set up his friend and his friend’s mentally ill buddy in a terrorism sting. The post A Criminal Ratted Out His Friend to the FBI. Now He’s Trying to Make Amends. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

A new documentary challenges Israel’s narrative about 1948 and the forced displacement of Palestinians. The post “Tantura” Exposes the Lie at the Heart of Israel’s Founding Myth appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Tom Bonier of TargetSmart on how Republican polls were able to skew media predictions. The post The Data Guy Who Got the Midterms Right appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

His handling of the ex-president will show whether Smith really is an aggressive prosecutor — or just aggressive against the powerless. The post I Experienced Jack Smith’s Zeal Firsthand. Will Trump Get the Same Treatment? appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Elon Musk, functioning elections, “Andor,” and death — Americans can genuinely give thanks for all these things and more this holiday. The post 10 Things for Americans to Be Grateful for at Thanksgiving 2022 appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Elon Musk’s Twitter permitted a Russian Embassy account to post a cartoon that echoed Nazi propaganda in its depiction of Ukraine’s Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The post Twitter Allows Russian Officials to Share Antisemitic Cartoon of Zelenskyy appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The number of young voters in Georgia more than doubled since 2014, counter to the narrative provided by David Shor. The post Georgia Voting Numbers Do Indeed Show Youth Surge appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Twitter has censored the website of nonprofit transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets for more than two years. The post Elon Musk’s “Free Speech” Twitter Is Still Censoring DDoSecrets appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Reps. Ilhan Omar and Joaquin Castro are leading the call to renew international oversight of atrocities committed in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The post House Members Push for U.N. Oversight of Yemen Atrocities appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Former Zero Unit members are facing a reversal of fortune that is humiliating, infuriating, and utterly intractable. The post The Evacuation of the CIA’s Afghan Proxies Has Opened One of the War’s Blackest Boxes appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The midterm strategy to fund Republican extremists in the primaries worked. Some fear it will strengthen the far right in the long term. The post The Dangers of Democrats Boosting MAGA Republicans appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

At Fivemile Tank, a watering hole in the bleak desert of West Texas, two men pulled up in a truck. One aimed a gun into the brush. The post Was the Killing of a Migrant by a Former ICE Warden a Hate Crime or a Terrible Accident? appeared first on... Read more »

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Poland's health minister said on Sunday that the country is systematically heading towards spending 7 percent of its GDP on healthcare.... Read more »

Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has said in a joint message with the Ukrainian president that Poland has been standing arm in arm with its Ukrainian friends and partners.... Read more »

A new wave of refugees can be expected in Poland due to energy problems in Ukraine and the escalation of military operations in that country, the interior minister has said.... Read more »

If elections had been held on Sunday, Poland's ruling United Right coalition could count on 35.7-precent backing with the main opposition grouping, Civic Coalition (KO), taking 28.4 percent of the vote, a new poll has revealed.... Read more »

Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has said Poland will offer USD 20 million to Ukraine to help the country export its grain to Africa.... Read more »

The victory, a significant improvement on the tepid performance against Mexico earlier in the week, leaves Poland on the verge of qualifying for the knock-out stages.... Read more »

In this episode of The Debrief, we take a look at a virtual exhibition at the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw which gives users the opportunity to dive into the world of Jewish cooking.... Read more »

Poland's Piotr Zyla finished third in the men's ski-jumping event in Ruka, Finland, on Saturday, claiming his 20th career individual World Cup podium.... Read more »

Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has said that if Ukraine does not win the war started by Russia, all of Europe will lose.... Read more »

The Pentagon has set up a repair facility to help Ukrainians replace barrels of their Western-made howitzers which suffer from wear and tear due to extensive use, the New York Times has reported.... Read more »

Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has said that Poland's natural gas price is one of the lowest in Europe.... Read more »

Air-defence systems such as the US-made Patriot are needed both in Poland and in Ukraine, Nato secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday in an interview for US news channel CNN.... Read more »

The Baltic Pipe gas pipeline will be temporarily shut down on Monday due to a technical reason, according to the Danish gas network operator.... Read more »

Gas tariffs will remain at this year's level in 2023 for households, but the overall price of gas will be higher as VAT cuts will no longer be in force, the climate minister has said.... Read more »

It is estimated that at least 30 per cent of Haitian women between the ages of 15 and 30 years old have been the victims of sexual abuse or violence. The Spotlight Initiative, a global Initiative of the United Nations supported by the European Union to eliminate all forms of... Read more »

Inspector Muna Meah is a Commander in the Liberia National Police Force, and the county coordinator for the Women and Children’s Social Protection Centre in Sanniquille, north-central Liberia. For the past seven years, she has investigated cases of violence against women and children and supported survivors to access the help... Read more »

The UN Secretary-General on Saturday strongly condemned an attack on an airfield in southeastern Central African Republic (CAR) which left one peacekeeper from Morocco dead, while his unit was attempting to secure the perimeter.Read the full story, “Central African Republic: UN chief strongly condemns airfield attack which left one peacekeeper... Read more »

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 25 (IPS) - Five years ago, the global #MeToo movement brought new urgency and visibility to the extent of violence against women and girls. Millions of survivors came forward to share their experience. They forced the world to recognise a reality that shames every one of us.... Read more »

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, Nov 25 (IPS) - It's mostly people in their twenties sitting on a terrace in the shade of a beautiful grove of trees: black clothes, piercings, tattoos and some purple streaks in their hair.Read the full story, “LGBTI in Iraq: Defending Identity in the Face of Harassment, Stigma... Read more »

MADRID, Nov 25 (IPS) - Please take a quick look at this short report before rushing to shop on a Black Friday, Christmas sales and all those long chains of big discounts and wholesales, most of them are fake, as often denounced by consumers organisations that report that the business... Read more »

MBERENGWA, Nov 25 (IPS) - In 2007 as inflation walloped the Zimbabwean currency, rendering it valueless, then 54-year-old Langton Musaigwa of Mataruse village west of Zimbabwe in Mberengwa district switched to cattle as his currency.Read the full story, “Cattle Turn Into New Currency Amid Inflation in Zimbabwe”, on globalissues.org →... Read more »

KATHMANDU, Nov 25 (IPS) - Human rights defenders are alarmed at what appears to be a new process permitting countries to keep confidential their responses to UN experts about allegations of human rights abuses.Read the full story, “Countries Hiding Responses Sent to UN Experts Over Allegations of Human Rights Abuses”,... Read more »

DOHA, Qatar, Nov 25 (IPS) - The sun is shining, and the temperature sits at an idyllic 28 degrees Celsius. The Uber driver taking me to work is from Pakistan and devastated about the recent loss to England in the T20 Cricket World Cup final in Australia.Read the full story,... Read more »

The Polish filmmaker Dorota Kobiela, who made her name a few years ago with the hand-painted animated feature Loving Vincent, is working on a new film – and a whole team of Lithuanian artists are contributing to it.... Read more »

 Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) in Kaunas is offering online classes on the Lithuanian language and culture.... Read more »

Vilnius celebrated the beginning of this year's Christmas season with a ceremony of lighting the city’s main tree. Shaped as a giant birthday cake, the decoration foreshadows the 700th anniversary that Vilnius is celebrating in 2023.... Read more »

Kaunas hosted the closing events of the European Capital of Culture this weekend, culminating the year-long programme with The Contract, a musical performance on water at the Žalgiris Arena, during which the city symbolically made peace with itself.... Read more »

The fourth volume of Kristina Sabaliauskaitė’s historical saga Silva Rerum is published in Poland. The author, who presented the book to the Polish audience, says that relations between the two countries have become much closer her first book was translated into Polish. ... Read more »

In the opening salvos of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Kyiv issued a worldwide plea for volunteers. Among those to answer the call were dozens of Lithuanians. But how many of them, and who, have reached the frontlines?... Read more »

Ahead of other Lithuanian cities, Kaunas inaugurated its main Christmas tree on Friday night.... Read more »

Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry says it has found no legal grounds to add Svitlana Loboda, a Ukrainian singer popular in Russia, to the list of unwanted persons.... Read more »

Lithuania’s strict drug laws were brought into spotlight this week after they hit a well-known and respected businesswoman.... Read more »

Two Russian citizens have been convicted of cashing out cryptocurrency in Vilnius, stolen from another Russian citizen, Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office said on Friday.... Read more »

It would be a mistake to return to normal relations with Russia after the war in Ukraine, Lithuanian president Gitanas Nausėda said during an international conference in Lithuania’s Kaunas on Friday.... Read more »

The Lithuanian Interior Ministry said on Friday that it is terminating its cooperation agreement with the Interior Ministry of Belarus. ... Read more »

An international operation has struck a final blow to a drug trafficking and smuggling gang known as Džerkiniai, Deputy Police Commissioner General Arūnas Paulauskas said on Friday.... Read more »

The opposition Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) continues to top the country’s political party rankings, according to a Baltijos Tyrimai poll commissioned by LRT on Friday. ... Read more »

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The Great Danes (3-5) fought back from a 17-point deficit early in the second half to tie it at 52 with 7:54 remaining, but scored just four points (all from Sarju Patel) the rest of the way and allowed a 15-0 run from the Owls (5-1).... Read more »

Three third-quarter touchdowns break open game.... Read more »

The holiday marketplace will run every weekend through Friday, Dec. 23.... Read more »

Pirates are coached by a former MAAC foe.... Read more »

The 20-minute video, billed as a virtual, nostalgic experience, will be available for viewing until early January.... Read more »

“Montgomery County started as Tryon County in 1772. We’ve got a lot of history that goes through the (Mohawk) Valley,” said Farquhar, a 49-year-old lifelong resident of the county.  ... Read more »

Updates on the Group E clash at Al Bayt StadiumAny comments? Feel free to email ScottSpain make one change to their starting XI following the 7-0 rout of Costa Rica. Dani Carvajal replaces Cesar Azpilicueta in defence.Germany respond to the earth’s-orbit-compromising loss to Japan by making two changes to their... Read more »

‘It’s very troubling,’ says Arkansas governor who condemned Trump’s meeting with anti-semite Nick FuentesThe Republican governor of Arkansas on Sunday joined a chorus of criticism of Donald Trump for having dinner with American white supremacist and anti-semite Nick Fuentes, accusing the former US president of effectively “empowering” such extremists.“It’s very... Read more »

The 2018 finalists came back from an early deficit to blow away the Canadians in the second gameTweet! from Uruguayan referee …WAIT!!!Quick check of the mailbag before we launch into what could well be a frenetic start … Continue reading...... Read more »

On Tuesday, Gregg Berhalter’s side win or go home. The problem is that US sports culture is built around endless second chancesThe flavor of this World Cup is very different: I’m tempted to call it “The beautiful distraction.” It’s Argentina focusing only on doing this for Lionel Messi and then... Read more »

Belgium head coach said team played with fear against MoroccoMartínez believes players are feeling the weight of expectationRoberto Martínez denied Belgium had been distracted by Kevin De Bruyne’s claim they are too old to win the World Cup but conceded his team played with fear in their surprise defeat by... Read more »

Beijing students shout ‘freedom will prevail’, as Urumqi fire prompts levels of disobedience unprecedented in Xi eraPeople opposed to China’s stringent Covid restrictions have protested in cities across the country in the biggest wave of civil disobedience on the mainland since Xi Jinping assumed power a decade ago.Protests triggered by... Read more »

RFU describes England’s campaign as ‘really disappointing’Head coach to learn his fate within the next two weeksEddie Jones is poised to learn his fate as the England head coach in the next fortnight with the Rugby Football Union conducting a review into the “really disappointing” autumn campaign, admitting that results... Read more »

Chemicals giant wants to produce zero-carbon electricity to power planned hydrogen systems at Grangemouth refineryIneos, the chemicals company owned by the billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, has held exploratory talks with Rolls-Royce on nuclear technology that could eventually be chosen to provide zero-carbon energy to the Grangemouth refinery in Scotland.A deal... Read more »

Questions also raised about the funding of law enforcement agencies in places that refuse to enforce so-called red flag lawsGun control returned as a leading topic over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with Joe Biden and other prominent Democrats issuing fresh calls for a ban on assault weapons for the general... Read more »

The government is being urged to explain their official data on the number of people with the diseaseThe Home Office is being urged to explain why official health data has shown only one case of diphtheria near Manston processing centre in recent months, despite there being 50 instances of the... Read more »

USA show Iran flag without emblem of Islamic republicTeams meet on Tuesday in their final Group B matchIt has long threatened to be one of the World Cup’s biggest flashpoints: the “Great Satan” against the “Axis of Evil”. But on Sunday the USA’s match with Iran became even more highly... Read more »

This year’s tournament has been dominated by off-field matters. We look at the issues around the labor used to build the tournament’s infrastructureThe deaths of migrant workers in Qatar in the build-up to this year’s World Cup have drawn criticism across the world. While the tournament’s organizers put the official... Read more »

People continue to struggle with no water, heating and electricity two weeks after city was recapturedRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesHundreds of Ukrainians streamed out of Kherson city on Sunday to flee Russian shelling, two weeks after its recapture from Russian occupying forces prompted jubilant celebrations.The liberation of Kherson marked... Read more »

Rights activist Farideh Moradkhani releases video describing government as ‘murderous and child-killing’ after her arrestA niece of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has called on foreign governments to cut all links with Tehran’s “murderous and child-killing” regime in a video posted online two days after she was arrested.The video... Read more »

Spain is battling a concerning shortage of nurses and experts in the field have pointed out what is needed to solve the crisis. Spain is amid a nursing crisis and needs nearly 100,000 more employees in the field to match the European average, according to an alarming new report.  According... Read more »

Perched atop steeping mountains and 2,460 feet above sea level, Ronda is tricky to get to but worth the effort for a trip you will never forget, writes Anthony Piovesan. Ronda is indeed one of those places that stands alone.  It’s one of the oldest cities in Spain and a... Read more »

SPAIN’S Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares gave an update on Friday about the ongoing negotiations on the future of Gibraltar post-Brexit.  Talks ‘are in a very advanced phase’ and can be ‘defined as very positive’, he said in comments reported by Spanish daily ABC.  ‘We trust that the negotiations will... Read more »

Cruise ships docking into Alicante this month and in December is expected to pump €2 million into the local economy. November has already seen eight cruise ships dock into Alicante, and that number will rise next month. There are two massive cruise ships set to arrive into the port city... Read more »

AS OWNERS of the Apple Watch will know, the manufacturer goes to great lengths to inform users that the device cannot be used to detect heart attacks, despite counting on a heart rate monitor and an electrocardiogram app. But that’s exactly what one doctor managed to use it for, when... Read more »

THREE more sex offenders in Spain have had their prison sentences reduced under the country’s controversial new ‘only yes means yes’ sexual assault law.  A court in Valladolid, in Spain’s Castilla y León region, announced on Thursday that a young man who had raped a girl aged under 18 at... Read more »

Almost 9% of adolescents in one Spanish region express daily desires to die, according to an alarming new study. Almost 9% of Catalans express a desire to die every day, according to a shocking new study.  The Department of Health and Education surveyed 267,000 students between the ages of nine... Read more »

CONGRESS has approved a new windfall tax on excess profits made by energy firms but only after the government agreed to changes demanded by small regional parties. Finance Minister, Maria Jesus Montero, said on Friday that €400 million less would be collected by the tax after the amendments. The minority... Read more »

The number of Russians managing to enter Spain has tripled on last year in spite of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and sanctions placed on the country by the EU. A total of 108,862 Schengen tourist visas were issued to Russians by Spain so far this year, far outstripping the number... Read more »

SPAIN’S Equality Minister Irene Montero was left in tears on Wednesday after once again being attacked in the Congress of Deputies by opposition politicians. This time the verbal aggressor was Carla Toscano of the far-right Vox party, who said that ‘the only [academic] merit’ that the Unidas Podemos politician had... Read more »

The Davis Cup in Malaga descended into chaos on Wednesday as two protesters stormed the court and attempted to tie themselves to the net.  Borna Coric of Croatia had just beaten Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut in the first match of the evening when the pair of protesters burst into sight... Read more »

THE EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) announced on Wednesday that two Spaniards will be among the next group of astronauts who could be sent on missions to the Moon or Mars, and who will also likely travel to and work on the International Space Station.  Pablo Álvarez, 34 and from León,... Read more »

GLOBAL streaming giant Netflix on Tuesday unveiled its expanded studios in Madrid, which are now the biggest that the company counts on in the entire European Union.  The studios are located in the Ciudad de la Tele (Television City) in the municipality of Tres Cantos, which is located to the... Read more »

SPAIN’S leftist Unidas Podemos party has slammed King Felipe VI for travelling to Qatar for the group stages of the World Cup, calling the decision to go ‘lamentable’ given that the monarch has not first made ‘any criticism of the Qatari dictatorship’. The comments were made by Gerardo Pisarello, who... Read more »

The Wall Street Journal reports: In April, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked the international community to recognize his nation by its traditional name, spelled “Türkiye” and pronounced Tour-key-yeh. His government promoted the shift as an effort to instill national pride—and silence associations with the Thanksgiving bird and pejorative uses... Read more »

“Listen, Sean, we need to win. I mean, that’s just the fact. Our kids’ future depends on it. So, you know, we really all have a responsibility to message what Republican policies bring to this country. “And I don’t know a party that can continue to lose like we have... Read more »

The Hill reports: Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) on Sunday said the House Oversight Committee will investigate about “40 or 50 different things” when Republicans take control of the House of Representatives next year. Comer, who will likely chair the panel when Republicans assume the majority, told NBC’s “Meet the Press”... Read more »

“The Republicans, had they won the Senate, they would be bringing me before the committee that Rand Paul likely would be chairing. “That’s not going to happen because the Senate is not in the Republican control. But the Republican House has said that they’re going to – and that’s fine... Read more »

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump took to Truth Social to rage against Jack Smith, the special counsel assigned by Attorney General Merrick Garland to oversee criminal probes into the former president. In posts that took full advantage of caps lock, Trump called Smith “compromised” and accused him of having a “soft... Read more »

The Arizona Republic reports: In the contract Turning Point USA executed for AmericaFest, the four-day convention scheduled for Dec. 17 in Phoenix, the nonprofit dedicated to free market and capitalistic principles asked for the city’s help in keeping competing organizations away. Turning Point USA asked the Phoenix Convention Center not... Read more »

NBC News reports: Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s departure from leadership could easily have led to a power vacuum in which a host of ambitious lawmakers — old and young — publicly battled it out for the chance to lead House Democrats. Instead, a new generation — Reps. Hakeem Jeffries, 52, of... Read more »

The Associated Press reports: State-level law enforcement units created after the 2020 presidential election to investigate voter fraud are looking into scattered complaints more than two weeks after the midterms but have provided no indication of systemic problems. That’s just what election experts had expected and led critics to suggest... Read more »

The New York Times reports: Protests spread to cities and college campuses around China on Saturday night, reflecting rising public anger at the country’s draconian Covid controls, with some in a crowd in Shanghai directing their fury at the Communist Party and its top leader, Xi Jinping. The wider demonstrations... Read more »

From the editorial board of the New York Post: “Why wouldn’t I agree to meet?” Donald Trump said of his dinner with Kanye West. Perhaps because Ye has been spewing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and said he was going to go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE”? But no. Ye said some... Read more »

The Huffington Post reports: The Republican Party posted a quote on Twitter Friday about freedom, of all things, that was falsely attributed to George Washington. It was quickly shot down by a CNN reporter. The GOP tweeted on Friday: “Let freedom be free.” It added a quote allegedly from Washington... Read more »

Vice News reports: Continuing Ye’s habit of bringing far-right trolls into his orbit, he has also seemingly brought on board Fuentes and indicated the white nationalist is helping with the campaign. A right-wing blog friendly with those in Ye’s orbit reported Fuentes was in line to be the campaign’s communication... Read more »

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: So I help a seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black, Ye (Kanye West), who has been decimated in his business and virtually everything else, and who has always been good to me, by allowing his request for a meeting... Read more »

Deadline Hollywood reports: The tempestuous tandem of country music icons George Jones and Tammy Wynette are brought to life by Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain in the John Hillcoat-directed limited series George & Tammy. Produced by Chastain’s Freckle Films, 101 Studios, and Andrew Lazar’s Mad Chance and MTV Entertainment Studios,... Read more »