Jerry Seinfeld Hopes for “Productive” Conversation After Dave Chappelle’s Divisive ‘SNL’ Monologue
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Jerry Seinfeld Hopes for “Productive” Conversation After Dave Chappelle’s Divisive ‘SNL’ Monologue

Jerry Seinfeld dipped his toe into the Dave Chappelle controversy, but avoided fulling diving into the comedian’s divisive Saturday Night Live monologue. After Chappelle delivered an SNL opener condemned by the Anti-Defamation League for normalizing antisemitism, Seinfeld offered a vague rebuke to The Hollywood Reporter, telling the outlet Chappelle’s monologue “calls for…

The Neighbourhood fire drummer Brandon Fried after groping allegations
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The Neighbourhood fire drummer Brandon Fried after groping allegations

Rock band The Neighbourhood have booted their drummer Brandon Fried after he was slapped with a groping allegation. Maria Zardoya, who is the front-woman of indie band The Marías, accused the drummer, 32, of unsolicited lewd behavior, saying it was “one of the most uncomfortable things” that had ever happened…

Trump 2024 presidential announcement gets panned on Twitter
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Trump 2024 presidential announcement gets panned on Twitter

Former President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated launch of his 2024 White House campaign set off strong reactions Tuesday, with conservatives and liberals alike expressing dismay. “Donald Trump failed America,” read a message posted from President Biden’s personal account during the 76-year-old Trump’s Mar-a-Lago address. The 79-year-old president’s tweet included a video…

Majority believe Trump should not run again: poll
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Majority believe Trump should not run again: poll

​A majority of Americans ​believe Donald Trump should not run for president again, a new poll reveals, just hours ahead of Trump’s expected announcement of a third presidential campaign. ​ The Morning Consult/Politico poll, taken after last week’s highly anticipated midterm elections in which Republicans underperformed, shows that 65% of voters…

Vigil held for UVA students Davin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry
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Vigil held for UVA students Davin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry

Thousands of University of Virginia students and community members flooded the college’s South Lawn Monday night for an emotional vigil honoring three students killed in a shooting one night earlier. Mourners lit candles and left flowers in remembrance of Davin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry, three UVA football…

Sen. Ed Markey tells Elon Musk to stop ‘Wild West’ Twitter
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Sen. Ed Markey tells Elon Musk to stop ‘Wild West’ Twitter

WASHINGTON – Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is asking Elon Musk to stop Twitter from becoming the “Wild West of social media” after the billionaire changed his newly acquired social media site’s verification process to allow anyone with $8 to obtain the sought-after blue check mark. “Your Twitter takeover, rapid and…

Biden, Xi shake hands as they meet amid superpower tensions
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Biden, Xi shake hands as they meet amid superpower tensions

NUSA DUA, Indonesia — President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping opened their first in-person meeting Monday since the US president took office nearly two years ago, amid increasing economic and security tensions between the two superpowers as they compete for global influence. Xi and Biden greeted each other…

University of Virginia gunman ID’d as Christopher Darnell Jones, considered armed
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University of Virginia gunman ID’d as Christopher Darnell Jones, considered armed

Students and staff at the University of Virginia were sheltering in place Sunday night as a gunman remained on the loose following a shooting at the college’s Charlottesville campus. University police said the suspect, identified as Christopher Darnell Jones, should be considered “armed and dangerous” and advised community members to…

SUV plows through LA street carnival leaving six hospitalized
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SUV plows through LA street carnival leaving six hospitalized

At least six people were hospitalized after an SUV apparently trying to flee cops plowed into a crowded street carnival in Los Angeles on Saturday night. A white Porsche Cayenne sped into a crowd of hundreds near Trinity Street and Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard in the city’s historic South Central…

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul blasted for dancing maskless around masked school kids
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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul blasted for dancing maskless around masked school kids

Conservative critics of newly re-elected Governor Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., tore into her on Twitter after a recent video showed her happily dancing unmasked surrounded by dozens of masked kids in a Puerto Rican school. Only days after her victory over Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., in the New York governor’s race, Hochul…