Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched an Instagram account on Monday and marked the occasion by posting a photo declaring that the State Department has “swagger.” In fact, the department, which is tasked with working on international affairs, apparently is now the “Department of Swagger,” according to the (clearly joking) photo posted by Pompeo, which switched out the official … Read more
Jay Leno and Warren Beatty were among the famous faces who turned out to mourn the senator. U.S. Sen. John McCain passed away on Aug. 25 following a battle with glioblastoma, a cancerous brain tumor. He was 81. McCain served as a naval pilot and was taken as a prisoner of war in Vietnam in … Read more
The casting of a sex offender led to even more haphazard editing in a movie overstuffed with bad trims. Everything you need to know about writer-director Shane Black’s new spin on the alien huntsman known as The Predator is contained in Sterling K. Brown’s sunglasses. At one point in the film, Brown, who plays a government agent named Will Traeger, enters … Read more
Cynthia Nixon has enjoyed plenty of support from her friends while campaigning to become the next governor of New York! On Thursday, New Yorkers will head to the polls to cast their vote in the state’s primary elections, as Nixon challenges incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has served two terms, for the Democratic nomination. Nixon, 52 — … Read more
After 22 years, the death of rapper Tupac Amuru Shakur still remains shrouded in mystery. Several films and documentaries have attempted to shed light on the controversial artist’s last moments, with none of them giving fans a definitive breakdown of how the West Coast king lost his life. Here’s what we do know: Shakur and … Read more
There is officially a generation of almost-adults who weren’t alive when the two towers fell on Sep. 11, 2001. But those of us who remember that day recall exactly where we were when we heard the news. On the 17th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, people on Twitter are sharing powerful stories about where … Read more
The latest line from Marco Marco named ‘Collection Seven’ made history for presenting an entirely transgender roster of models at the designer underwear brand’s runway show at New York Fashion Week. In an interview when asked about the casting, designer Marco Morante said: “Although I have always had trans and nonbinary people in my shows, … Read more
Donald Trump Jr. said on Tuesday that his father, President Donald Trump, trusts a “smaller group” of people within his administration as tensions have flared in the wake of the anonymous op-ed written in the New York Times that claimed there are staffers who have worked to contain the president. Speaking with ABC News on Good Morning America, Trump Jr. suggested that the “senior … Read more
Tallahassee Police are investigating an incident in which four Black Florida A&M University students had a gun pulled on them by a white man at an apartment complex for off-campus student housing. The man, identified as Don Crandall, told the students they weren’t allowed to get into the apartment complex, nor ride the elevator with him, … Read more
The internet is constantly evolving, as are the people who create the content it hosts. “Deepfakes“—a term that comes from a combination of “deep learning” and “fake”—or the process of superimposing the likeness of one person onto a video of another, has hit the newest stage of its evolution. Research at Carnegie Mellon is advancing this technology … Read more