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Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. * In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani took a chance when he publicly backed a group of congressional candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America, even issuing endorsements against Democratic incumbents running for re-election, but as the dust settles on this week’s primaries, … Read more
Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, two prominent tech journalists and hosts of the New York Times podcast “Hard Fork,” have signed with UTA for representation in all areas, signaling the duo’s independent ambitions as they form their own company. The signing comes less than a week after Roose said he would leave his role as … Read more
For a long time, I thought of the writer-director Rod Lurie as an interesting and ambitious creator of topical drama — hot-button political films like “Deterrence” (1999) and “The Contender” (2000), the trenchant Valerie Plame muckraker “Nothing but the Truth” (2008), the misfired remake of “Straw Dogs” (2011). But Lurie, it’s fair to say, now … Read more
Doja Cat fans assumed they’d stumbled upon a trove of new music when a slew of supposedly unreleased songs from the artist hit their X timelines earlier this week. Various accounts posted the “leaked songs” and claimed they were scrapped from Vie, the rapper’s fifth studio album, released last year, and its predecessor, Scarlet. At … Read more
Rockstar Games has finally revealed the price for “Grand Theft Auto VI” — and the fact the game will be a “single-player experience” at launch — just ahead of pre-orders opening for the eagerly anticipated game. The standard edition of “GTA 6” will be priced at $79.99 while the “ultimate” version will run players $99.99, … Read more
Every aspect of Donald Trump’s Reflecting Pool renovation project has become embarrassing. On cue, the president has responded to the ongoing fiasco in predictable fashion, concocting strange tales that free him of any responsibility for his failure. The trouble is, the more he hedges on the details, the more it seems that he’s just clumsily … Read more
Lykke Li was sitting in her car and listening to the news when an apocalyptic feeling struck her. Maybe it was the suspiciously bright Los Angeles sun, but Li had the sudden feeling that she was in a spaceship watching the world unravel from afar. “AI, war, capitalism, climate change. This is what it means … Read more
For the first time ever, YouTube‘s “Dead Meat” team is adding a ticketed live-stream event to their annual horror awards show. Created by James Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca, the husband-and-wife duo behind the popular YouTuber channel “Dead Meat,” the pre-taped 5th Annual Dead Meat Horror Awards will debut on YouTube on July 18 and simultaneously … Read more
On Wednesday, June 24, President Donald Trump will headline the kickoff event for the White House’s Great American State Fair, celebrating 250 years of American freedom. The rally, which will set the stage for Trump’s “Freedom 250” programming, also coincides with the four-year anniversary of the Supreme Court handing down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson … Read more
Mononymously-named and bodybuilding-sculpted, Kyle — the tanned and chiseled face of Kyle University (tagline: “Teaching boys how to be men”) — looks and sounds like many of those populating the so-called manosphere. At least, he does on the first glance of his social media videos (and perhaps even the second or third). Assuredly describing himself … Read more