Posted on August 16, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
Sabrina Carpenter’s latest energetic single, “Espresso” is a front-runner for song of the summer. The infectious song, which hit No. 1 on Spotify’s global charts on Tuesday, came out on April 12 and has become massively popular within two weeks. “Espresso” and the Dave Meyers-directed music video for the song were released the day before Carpenter performed it at Coachella, to fanfare. The video has gained over 14 million views on YouTube and “Espresso” peaked at No.
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Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Martina Birk
This post discusses, in detail, major plot points of the Amazon Prime Video series Them: Covenant.
It isn’t often anymore, now that we have so much TV on so many platforms, that an upcoming show achieves the visibility to draw controversy before anyone has seen it. But, for better or worse, Amazon’s anthology series Them broke through the static. When a trailer for the first season, subtitled Covenant, dropped in March, many viewers took to social media to express frustration with what looked to be yet another pop-culture product that dramatized Black pain.
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Posted on August 15, 2024
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October 30, 2014 5:09 AM EDT
The words “till death do us part” don’t really apply in this case. Quite the opposite, actually.
Chinese authorities have arrested 11 people in the eastern province of Shandong for digging up bodies of dead women to be sold as “ghost brides,” the South China Morning Post reports. The custom of ghost marriage, still practiced in many parts of rural China, involves burying a woman next to an unmarried man who has recently died so he may have a companion in the afterlife.
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Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
The Rams, however, haven't lifted the Lombardi trophy since 2000 might bring the championship back to Los Angeles. As the team readies themselves to chase its second Super Bowl ring on Sunday, INSIDER rounded up the most notable celebrities who will be cheering for the Rams from Atlanta or in the comfort of their homes. Bryan Cranston was disappointed when they moved to St. Louis ADVERTISEMENT
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Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Martina Birk
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Hiers brought down the empire of his sister Paula Deen when an employee at a restaurant that the siblings co-own sued them for creating a hostile work environment. In a deposition, Hiers admitted to watching porn at work, using the N word, stealing money from the cash register and drinking on the job. Also, he used too much butter.
Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
Whether you enjoyed movies with dry wit or slapstick comedy, you'll love revisiting these classics from the 90s and 2000s with us. Comedy is very subjective as what could elicit laughter from one person could elicit a frown from another. However, we have narrowed the long list of comedy movies ever released to just seven we consider the greatest ever. From "Jenifa" to "Aki Na Ukwa," check them out and also share yours in the comment section.
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Posted on August 15, 2024
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Soft-spoken and a devout Christian, Judge Sharon Keller presides as chief justice of Texas’ highest criminal court. She’s also known as “Sharon Killer” by her opponents, who are going to see her in court next week on charges of judicial misconduct. They charge that Keller refused a condemned man a last-minute appeal in 2007. Now she faces a trial in a San Antonio courtroom that could lead to her removal and will certainly focus wide attention on Texas’ enthusiasm for the death penalty.
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Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
November 15, 2016 3:18 PM EST
Long live the peachbutt!
Apple ruffled many a feather earlier this month when it looked like its peach emoji would no longer resemble a posterior, which many people use it to represent.
Those who were dismayed at the decision will be happy to know that Apple appears to have reversed course, instead offering a peach that arguably looks even more like a butt. Read more: What it’s like inside the world’s first emoji convention
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Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
TIME
September 13, 1943 12:00 AM GMT-4
It was the night after the Fourth of July. The little town of Duck Hill lay quiet in the hot dark of the North Mississippi hills. Suddenly rifle fire crashed out. Bullets hit the watertower and the post office, ripped into homes. As lights flashed on, the volleys grew ragged and firing ceased. There was only frightening quiet. Last week the Memphis Commercial Appeal cracked the quiet, printed the story of the attack and of the sentencing of six Negro soldiers at nearby Camp McCain.
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Posted on August 15, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
Chicago motorists were heading north last week to see one of the most fantastic pieces of architecture in the U.S.—the continent’s first Bahá’i Temple of Worship (see cut), on Lake Michigan’s shores in suburban Wilmette, Ill. The exterior ornamentation of the domed, 180-ft. Temple, a mélange of ancient styles sparkling with tons of white quartz crystals, was newly completed after eleven years’ labor. Nine-sided, it stands in a nine-acre park, is supported by nine concrete piers sunk 90 feet below the water level of nearby Lake Michigan.
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