Bill Cosby is seeking an appeal to overturn his sexual assault conviction and three-to-10-year prison sentence, Associated Press via USA Today reports. Cosby’s lawyers have asked a Pennsylvania court to overturn the ruling, claiming multiple trial errors. The disgraced actor’s lawyers defense motion argues that the trial evidence never proved …
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It was December 2016, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had just left Standing Rock — the Native American-led protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline — when she got a call from a newly formed organization called Justice Democrats. They wanted to know if she’d be willing to run for Congress in New …
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The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court battlehas turned into one of the most contentious nominations in our nation’s history. President Trump’s nominee has been accused of past sexual assaults and of being dishonest before the Senate. Despite testimony by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on …
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Mumford & Sons have announced an arena world tour in support of their upcoming fourth studio LP, Delta, which will be released on November 16th. The 60-date tour kicks off on the same day they drop their album at 3 Arena in Dublin, Ireland. The largest tour for the band …
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Bradley Cooper spoke about playing surreptitious sets at Glastonbury and Stage Coach while filming A Star Is Born during an interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Wednesday. Cooper learned to play guitar for the role, though noted that in the live sequences of A Star Is Born, the …
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Lil Wayne enlisted the Roots on Tuesday’s Tonight Show for a smooth live version of “Dedicate,” a track from his recently issued – and long-delayed – 12th LP, Tha Carter V. The fanny pack-wearing rapper adopted his signature nasal flow on the track, unleashing a flurry of triplet rhymes over …
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One of the key characteristics that distinguished Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men from its prestige-drama peers was that it was serialized, but focused first and foremost on making each episode its own beautiful, handcrafted work of art. Instead of a novel for television, it was a short-story collection set in the …
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One of the singular greatest voices in country music, whose soulful tunes have crossed genres for the better part of six decades, has teamed with an all-star cast for an upcoming collection updating some of his best-known hits and favorites. Ronnie Milsap: The Duets, due January 18th, boasts an eclectic …
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Instagram’s algorithms are designed to constantly learn more about their users’ interests based on the accounts they follow, the hashtags they use and click on, and the posts they ‘like,’ so that every refresh of the app generates similar fresh content that will keep them scrolling. Simply double-tapping on a …
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This November 18th marks the 40th anniversary of what is now known as the Jonestown Massacre, when more than 900 Americans — members of a San Francisco-based religious group called the Peoples Temple — died after drinking a cyanide-laced drink at the urging of their leader, the Reverend Jim Jones, …
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