Opening statements in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer accused of murdering George Floyd, begin today, March 29th, at 10 a.m. ET. Opening statements are expected to last several days, and the trial itself could last anywhere from two to four weeks, per CBS News. The …
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There’s a TikTok video of a young man with tousled dark hair wearing eyeliner and a sweatshirt, throwing a smoldering gaze to the camera as Ariana Grande’s “Positions” plays; the camera then cuts to the boy in a full-blown French maid costume — white cap, dainty gloves, apron, and all. …
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Rachel Maddow returned to MSNBC on Thursday to reveal that her partner, Susan Mikula, contracted Covid-19. The host went off the air two weeks ago to quarantine, just as the network was delivering the results of the presidential election. “If you know anything about me off of TV — if …
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Glenn Close will portray closeted gay lawyer Roy Cohn in an all-star digital performance of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America, benefiting the Foundation for AIDS Research’s (amFAR) Covid-19 relief fund. Other cast members for the livestream benefit include Laura Linney, Patti LuPone, S. Epatha Merkerson, Brian Tyree …
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A live capture of Heidi Schreck’s Tony-nominated play, What the Constitution Means to Me, will premiere October 16th on Amazon Prime Video. The recording was made during the final week of the show’s Broadway run at the Helen Hayes Theater in 2019. Oscar-nominated director Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in …
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When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in March, many adults returned to their parents’ houses to flee lonely city apartments or sheltering in place with prickly roommates. Gideon Grody-Patinkin, 34, was one of them — but instead of regressing in his childhood bedroom and sniping at Mom and Dad, he helped …
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What is more normal — and expected — each end of summer than students and teachers to return to school? So far, the coronavirus crisis has killed an estimated 180,000 so far within United States borders. And in some cases, public school teachers have been deemed “essential workers” and told …
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Whoopi Goldberg has teamed up with the climate action group Extinction Rebellion for an animated short film, released as part of World Environment Day. In the clip, Goldberg voices a grandmother reading a bedtime story to her grandchild, voiced by Livia Nelson. Goldberg’s tale describes climate change and the devastating …
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A pair of experts believe that the will of Carole Baskin’s missing husband — which left the Tiger King subject with an estimated $10 million estate — was likely forged. Don Lewis, the former husband of Big Cat Rescue founder Baskin, vanished in 1997; the Netflix series revived rumors pushed …
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Protests around the nation have erupted in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and many more unarmed black people at the hands of police. Thousands of protesters have been arrested, and the National Guard has been ordered to deploy in several major U.S. cities. …
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