Despite his best efforts, Michael Cohen reported to prison on Monday. The former personal attorney and “fixer” for President Trump will serve three years for a host of crimes, most notably violations of federal campaign finance law stemming from pre-election hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, both …
Read More »Read Maria Butina's Influence Plot in Her Own Words
[UPDATE: A federal judge has sentenced Butina to a term of 18 months.] As Maria Butina awaits sentencing on conspiracy charges, the feds have released a redacted version of the document where she laid out her plot to influence the Republican Party, seeking to make it more friendly toward Russia. …
Read More »Lizzo Is Her Own Hero on the Legend-Making 'Cuz I Love You'
“Be eternal.” That’s the advice Lizzo got from one of her first high-profile fans, Prince. And she lives up to the Purple One’s words on her legend-making Cuz I Love You, the breakthrough album where she finally claims her baby-I’m-a-star crown as a mega-pop queen. Melissa Jefferson can do it …
Read More »RS Daily News: Remembering Nipsey Hussle
In Monday’s daily news show, host Charles Holmes has a special report on the shocking and tragic murder of rapper Nipsey Hussle, whose real name is Ermias Asghedom. The Los Angeles rapper earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album earlier this year. He was shot and killed in L.A. …
Read More »Teenagers Are Teaching Their Parents to Stream, and Radio Is Nervous
Like leaving voicemails and watching baseball, listening to the radio is popular with older people. 70 percent of parents agree with the statement, “FM radio is for people your age,” according to the analytics company Edison Research. Just 34 percent of teens feel the same way. But radio-averse teens aren’t …
Read More »How Lawmakers Are Reacting to the Final Mueller Report
After a day of speculation and writer’s block jokes by journalists, resistance-grifters and news junkies, the world learned about 5 p.m. ET Friday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had indeed delivered his final report to Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General William Barr. Barr, in turn, sent a letter …
Read More »David Fricke at SXSW 2019: 10 Great Musical Discoveries
Can a music festival have a mid-life crisis? In its 33rd year, over two weeks in Austin, Texas, SXSW made its biggest headlines in the opening interactive phase, hosting a widely reported forum of prospective Democratic candidates for president. The SXSW film festival featured major premieres and director Q&As, like …
Read More »'SNL' Weekend Update Wants to See a Hillary vs. Trump Rematch
Comparing the not-gonna-happen rematch of President Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton in upcoming 2020 presidential election to the movie Rocky, Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost first expressed his disappointment that Clinton, this week, announced that she would not run. “First of all, I think she would be …
Read More »Howard Stern Launches 'Saturday Soundtrack' Live Music Series on SiriusXM
Over the past few decades, everyone from AC/DC and Metallica to Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Weezer, Stone Temple Pilots, Elvis Costello and Blondie have played live on The Howard Stern Show. Those performances have largely sat in the vault since they originally aired, but he’s breaking them all out with …
Read More »Johnny Depp Files $50 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against Amber Heard
Johnny Depp has filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, claiming the actress made “hoax” allegations of domestic abuse against Depp. The lawsuit stems from a December 2018 op-ed that Heard penned for the Washington Post where she described her own experience as the victim of …
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