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As the situation in the United States spirals in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the country plunges headlong towards a critical election, it’s apt timing for a documentary like Totally Under Control. It acts as both a primer on what’s happened with the Trump administration’s handling of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. as
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For months, Donald Trump has been one of the primary sources of misinformation regarding COVID-19, oftentimes ignoring the advice of even his own coronavirus task force. Now, according to the Daily Beast, members of said task force—namely Dr. Deborah Birx, Dr. Anthony Fauci—along with CDC Director Robert Redfield, are distancing themselves from the president’s viewpoints,
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Following the arrest of 13 far-right extremists for allegedly plotting to kidnap and potentially kill Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, the state’s attorney general alerted the country that such domestic terrorism attempts are “not just a Michigan problem.” On Tuesday, less than a week after Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel’s warning, the FBI revealed that some
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Jeffrey Epstein and Leon Black, the billionaire cofounder and CEO of the investment company Apollo Global Management, had a business relationship for decades, but the nature of it has remained mostly hazy. Epstein advised Black on various business and philanthropy matters and served on the board of his family foundation, and U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney
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Addressing hundreds of supporters from a White House balcony on Saturday, President Donald Trump’s first public event since being hospitalized for the coronavirus was shorter in duration and smaller in size than expected. The event, dubbed a “peaceful protest for law and order,” and for which an administration official said some 2,000 invitations had gone
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Following the theme of last week’s cold open on the presidential debate, Saturday Night Live spoofed the vice-presidential debate between Republican vice-president Mike Pence and Democratic challenger Kamala Harris. Featuring Maya Rudolph as Harris, Beck Bennett as Pence, Kate McKinnon as debate moderator Susan Page and guest Jim Carrey reprising his role as Joe Biden,
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Twitter announced a series of measures targeting election-related misinformation and falsehoods on Friday, product and enforcement changes—some of which are temporary—that the platform will be rolling out in the coming weeks. The social media giant said that users, including political candidates, are prohibited from claiming an election win “before it’s authoritatively called,” a determination that
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Demi Lovato admitted she ‘should not have been watching’ ‘Cruel Intentions’ when she was younger, but did, and ‘really liked’ the make out scene between Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar, in a new interview. Demi Lovato, 28, is giving credit to the 1999 movie Cruel Intentions when it comes to realizing she was queer.
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When the FBI announced in October 2016 that it was reviewing new emails related to its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server as secretary of state, it gave Donald Trump a priceless gift. Not because, as it turned out, Clinton had deliberately mishandled classified information or was about to be charged with
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Rocker Eddie Van Halen, former guitar virtuoso of rock group Van Halen, died Tuesday morning at the age of 65 from throat cancer, according to his son, Wolfgang. Wolfgang Van Halen posted a brief message to his Twitter page. pic.twitter.com/kQqDV7pulR — Wolf Van Halen (@WolfVanHalen) October 6, 2020 Story continues below advertisement “I can’t believe
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Into this raging mess of information and misinformation surrounding the White House and its COVID outbreak springs Claudia Conway, a kid with a phone that her parents presumably pay for. With it, and specifically with TikTok, she told the world on Friday that her mother, Kellyanne Conway, was “coughing all around the house”; hours later,
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Corus Entertainment, the parent company of Global News, is supporting a new initiative aimed at boosting diversity and addressing systemic racism in entertainment and media. HireBIPOC is an online roster of professionals in roles across the industry including on-air, production, behind the scenes, marketing and communications. The database was created by the advocacy group BIPOC
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