Uncategorized
-
’47 Ronin’ director Carl Erik Rinsch sentenced to 30 months in prison for Netflix fraud case
Carl Erik Rinsch, the director of the 2013 Keanu Reeves action film “47 Ronin,” will serve more than two years in federal prison for defrauding Netflix of $11 million. U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff on Monday sentenced 48-year-old Rinsch to 30 months in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, announced.…
-
The Supreme Court just came one vote away from a constitutional catastrophe
There is no question in US law that is clearly or more firmly settled than the question of whether people born in the United States are citizens of this country. The Fourteenth Amendment states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United…
-
Stephen A. Smith Accuses Sean Hannity of ‘Leading the Witness’ in Mamdani Debate: ‘I Don’t Support Any of It!’
Stephen A. Smith and Sean Hannity got into a heated debate Monday over the current state of the Democratic Party, with Smith criticizing Hannity for “leading the witness” and the Fox News host accusing Smith of “ducking” his questions. Hannity confronted Smith on Monday about the growing influence of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani…
-
Australian man charged with murder over death of a teenage girl in Thailand’s Pattaya
BANGKOK — An Australian man was charged with murder and concealment of a body in connection with the death of a teenage girl in an eastern tourist city in Thailand, police said Tuesday. The 17-year-old girl was reported missing Friday. Police said she was last seen on security footage walking into a condominium with the suspect, Simon…
-
NPR Retracts Report That Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Is Retiring
NPR has retracted a story about Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after mistakenly reporting on Tuesday that he was retiring. The move comes after the original article by Nina Totenberg sparked panic among press covering the Supreme Court. The mistake was flagged in the live chat of SCOTUS Blog where they were discussing the court’s…
-
Elon Musk Is Crashing Out Badly
Over the weekend, Elon Musk publicly challenged anybody to “cite a single name of someone who died” as a result of him gutting USAID last year during the early weeks of the second Trump administration — a “death sentence for an estimated 4.5 million children around the world,” according to representative Ro Khanna (D-CA). Pulitzer…
-
Skaters from Russia and Belarus cleared to return as neutral athletes amid Ukraine war
Skaters from Russia and Belarus banned “exclusively in the interests of the safety of participants and the integrity of the competitions” can return to world championships and Grand Prix events next season. The International Skating Union said Tuesday that the ban triggered by Russia’s 2022 military invasion of Ukraine is over. But skaters and officials…
-
‘The Vampire Lestat’ Star Assad Zaman Teases a ‘Greater Plan’ for Armand: ‘His Mission Is Singular’
Is there a trickier character on TV right now than The Vampire Armand? From Arun to Amadeo, from “Rashid” to “Maitre,” from Lestat to Louis to the still mysterious transformation of Daniel Molloy, Armand’s true identity and motivations are always lurking somewhere beneath the surface, just out of sight. And actor Assad Zaman is ever…
-
The generation that’s most likely to judge you based on your first name
First impressions may start long before a handshake — one in five Americans say they judge others by their first name alone, according to new research. The survey of 2,000 Americans found that 18 percent of those polled said they’ll make assumptions about someone based entirely on a name they more than likely didn’t even…
-
Cody Simpson ‘can’t walk or talk’ after horrifying double injury: ‘I’ll be back stronger’
Cody Simpson said he “can’t walk or talk” after suffering a horrifying double injury. “The universe is serving it to me this year! An update on where I’ve been: I’ve been on and off vocal rest for close to 3 months trying to heal a damaged vocal cord,” he wrote on Instagram Monday. “We decided…