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Ryan Murphy recreates 1981 L.A. as the land of sun and serial killers in ‘The Shards’
In the opening scene of “The Shards,” a teenage Bret Easton Ellis (Igby Rigney) cruises down Mulholland Drive in his black Mercedes-Benz, cigarette in hand, blasting the Cars’ “Moving in Stereo,” to catch a Saturday matinee of “The Shining.” Not only does the sequence evoke the eerie opening of Stanley Kubrick’s seminal 1980 horror masterpiece,…
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‘Missteps occurred’: Trump lawyers flip as looming charges spark DOJ upheaval
Federal prosecutors in Chicago face the threat of criminal contempt charges in a case stemming from President Donald Trump’s Chicago immigration crackdown, and the Justice Department is begging the judge to back off, according to court records and reports. U.S. District Judge April Perry, in Chicago, found in May that prosecutors vouched for the charges,…
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New Disney partnership with TikTok will bring more vertical videos to Disney+
Walt Disney Co. has announced a new partnership with TikTok that will lead to more creator-made vertical videos appearing on the Disney+ streaming app. Under the terms of the agreement, TikTok will give creators who choose to participate access to assets from hundreds of Disney movies and television shows for use in short-form videos that…
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‘It was bad’: Conservative calls out conflicting Trump messaging he warns could cost lives
President Donald Trump’s administration has begun to play a dangerous game that could very well put “a lot of lives seriously at risk,” conservative commentator Saagar Enjeti warned Wednesday. “We knew it was bad – didn’t know it was this bad,” Enjeti said in an episode of the “Breaking Points” podcast published on Tuesday. Enjeti…
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FBI opened probe into whether Trump was Russian agent after he fired James Comey, newly revealed memos show
WASHINGTON — The FBI opened an investigation into whether President Trump was “wittingly or unwittingly” acting as a Russian agent when he fired then-Director James Comey in 2017, according to bombshell documents released by the White House Wednesday. The probe, called Oxferd Comma, grew out of Crossfire Hurricane, the bureau’s probe into whether Trump’s 2016…
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Ryan Murphy’s Teen Serial Killer Thriller The Shards Gets Stuck in the Shallow End
Igby Rigney and Hayes Warner in The Shards —Ray Mickshaw—FX A fruitful collaboration between Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis sounds, at once, inevitable and impossible. Murphy is a maximalist in every sense—a superproducer pumping out show after operatic show, writing characters who say the quiet part of every story out loud—and one of TV’s…
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A Cellphone Is Not a Suitcase
Last year, an Atlanta activist, Samuel Tunick, caught a felony charge for something that Americans are free to do anytime: He wiped the data from his phone. The only problem was that he did it by providing a federal agent in an airport with a “duress password” that, rather than unlock the device so the…
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Energy company profits are soaring with the Iran war. Here’s what California officials want to do
Sky-high earnings for oil companies and California refiners in the second quarter are renewing calls from state legislators to crack down on industry profits. Marathon Petroleum, the second-largest refiner in the state, reported $5.1 billion in profit Tuesday, more than four times the same quarter last year, after fuel supplies tightened during the Iran war…
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Martha Stewart delivers harsh verdict on Meghan Markle’s ‘homemaking guru’ attempt
Martha Stewart got candid about Meghan Markle stepping into the “cooking space” after being an actress and a princess. “I had dinner with Meghan Markle the other night. We were both guests at a dinner party in California. And she had just gotten back from the palace,” the “Martha Stewart Show” alum told People, referring to the Duchess…
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The Winners and Losers From Michigan’s High-Stakes Senate Primary
Abdul El-Sayed greets voters outside a polling location in Dearborn, Michigan, on Aug. 4, 2026. —Emily Elconin—Bloomberg via Getty Images Abdul El-Sayed, a rabble-rousing populist and former public health official, just barely eked outa primary victory Tuesday in Michigan over a centrist rival who was the pick of Washington Democrats to keep a must-hold Senate…