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Credit: Comedy Central Screenshot A so-called comedian was apparently off her meds when she launched an insane, hate-filled rant against Elon Musk and the Trump Administration last night. Former SNL host Leslie Jones was guest-hosting Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Wednesday night and felt the best way to entertain her audience was to go on a tirade that should open her up to a visit from law enforcement. Jones started off her R-rated rant by attacking Team Trump as a bunch of corrupt, racist, and evil individuals who “couldn’t run a Dunkin’ Donuts without burning it down.” Then, she…
Seven sports, 18 nationalities and a whole lot of cash—here’s everything you need to know about the monster earnings year from the sports world’s biggest stars. Over the past 12 months, the world’s 50 highest-paid athletes collected a combined $4.23 billion before taxes and agent fees, setting an earnings record for the fifth straight year. The total represents a 9% increase over 2024’s $3.88 billion and is more than double what the top 50 were making just eight years ago. But the records don’t stop there. This past year featured new individual marks in baseball, basketball, football and soccer, as…
A 23-year-old TikTok influencer was shot and killed while livestreaming by a man who reportedly showed up at her beauty salon pretending to bring her a gift in Jalisco, Mexico, on Tuesday. Valeria Márquez was fatally shot in the middle of a livestream while she was sitting in her beauty salon, Blossom The Beauty Lounge, in Jalisco, the state prosecutor’s office said, according to a report by El País. The Mexican social media influencer was fatally attacked when a man entered the salon — located in the Zapopan suburb of the city of Guadalajara — “and apparently fired a gun at her,” the…
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and to actively promote the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Mideast and eastern Europe that have been decimated by years of conflict and persecution. “The church needs you!” Leo told a Holy Year audience of eastern rite pilgrims. Eastern-rite Catholics accept the authority of the pope but have many of their own rituals and liturgy. They include the Coptic, Chaldean, Maronite and Eritrean Catholic churches, as well…
Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) on Wednesday proposed legislation that would ban congressional stock trading as he said that too many lawmakers are engaging in “suspicious stock trades.” “As public servants, we should hold ourselves to a higher standard and avoid the mere appearance of corruption. Unfortunately, too many members of Congress are engaging in suspicious stock trades based on non-public information to enrich themselves,” Alford said in a statement. “These gross violations of the public trust make clear: we must finally take action to ban members and their spouses from owning or selling individual stocks,” he continued. The Missouri conservative…
“From Qatar to QVAR, we cover it all!” says host Peter Schweizer on the most recent episode of The Drill Down. In a move that has been widely applauded, President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order giving drug-makers 30 days to voluntarily lower prescription drug prices in the U.S. The threat contained in the order is they will face new limits later over how much the government (through Medicare and Medicaid purchasing) will pay, with the federal health department under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. assigned to negotiate better pricing for prescription drugs, or else to develop a new rule that…
Speaker Mike Johnson is racing to resolve a suite of remaining issues with the GOP megabill just days before he hopes to put it up for a floor vote. Warring factions inside the House Republican Conference huddled with the speaker Thursday, jockeying primarily over what to do about SALT — the state-and-local-tax deduction. But other disagreements are also raging around major spending cuts for Medicaid, clean energy tax credits enacted under former President Joe Biden and a slew of other issues that are part of a complex funding puzzle. Inside the meeting, lawmakers discussed how to make more room for…
Ben Cohen disrupted a Senate hearing, shouting that the US Congress facilitates the delivery of bombs that kill Palestinian children The millionaire co-founder of the iconic Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream brand, Ben Cohen, was among seven individuals arrested on Wednesday after disrupting a US Senate hearing to protest Washington’s policy on Israel’s military actions in Gaza.Cohen was detained during testimony by US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As he was being led away by police, the entrepreneur was heard shouting “Congress kills poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs and pays for it by kicking kids off Medicaid in…
Russia’s Putin, Trump, Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman and UAE President bin Zayed: geopolitical stage. As US President Donald J. Trump continues his frankly monumental Middle East tour, he keeps an eye on the geopolitical hot ticket of the day – the peace negotiations unfolding in Istanbul between Russia and Ukraine, with the potential mediation of the US team led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Aboard Air Force One, Trump answered some answers by the press before they arrived in the UAE, the last stage of the trip. The Telegraph reported: “’I don’t believe anything’s going to happen, whether…
Love, Death + RobotsCredit: Netflix One of the very best Netflix shows returns today with ten new episodes, or rather ten new shorts each telling its very own, very peculiar story. Love, Death + Robots features some of the best, most unique animation of any TV series out there. The sci-fi series has given us everything from mutant super-soldiers to all-out war between a farmer and an army of rats. Space exploration, time travel, talking cats and inquisitive robots all make up the various stories of the first three season. This new season is comprised of ten episodes, all of…