Mazel tovs are in order for Nicolas Cage and Riko Shibata, who were quietly married in a small ceremony at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas on February 16. “It’s true,” Cage confirmed to People, “and we are very happy,” he added. The date was picked as it was the birthday of Cage’s late father, educator and author August Coppola, older brother […]
WASHINGTON — Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat, sided with Republicans and seven other senators from her party to vote down a minimum wage increase amendment to President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill. It was the way she did it that drew condemnation on social media and some comparisons to the late John […]
How could anyone forget Lil Nas X’s very clear warning: “Can’t nobody tell me nothing” from “Old Town Road”? Well, Tekashi 6ix9ine tried it. The 24-year-old rapper, a known snitch who famously looks like a toddler’s attempt at a coloring page, shared a homophobic, since-deleted social-media post earlier this week and got deservedly ethered for it by […]
Lance Waldroup, who appeared in several seasons of Discovery’s reality series “Moonshiners,” has died at the age of 30, the network and his family confirmed this week. A cause of death has not been released, but family members said he died Feb. 25 at his home in Robbinsville, North Carolina. Waldroup and his father starred […]
The 33-years-later sequel “Coming 2 America” starts poorly but gets funnier and more likable as it goes, and it’s stolen by a newcomer to this particular nostalgia tour: Wesley Snipes, fopping it up as the military dictator of Nextdoria. For those who don’t know their mythical African geography, Nextdoria is the neighboring country to the […]
OK, not really, but Jimmy Kimmel Live! fans got a faux look at the seedy underbelly of black-market Covid vaccine slinging Thursday night as Sacha Baron Cohen did a virtual interview with the host of ABC’s late-night show. With Kimmel playing smirking straight man, the Borat Subsequent Moviefilm star kept taking phone calls during their chat — and it […]
The VanEck Vectors Social Sentiment ETF BUZZ -3.61% started trading Thursday in a bid to play off the retail-investing boom and the buzz investors are creating on Reddit, Twitter and other social-media platforms around their favorite stocks. “This represented to us a new era of investing,” said Ed Lopez, head of ETF product at asset manager Van Eck Securities […]
Former Vice President Mike Pence is adding his voice to the chorus of Republicans opposed to Democrats’ voting reform legislation just passed by the House of Representatives, breaking his media silence to decry a bill that he warned would “increase opportunities for election fraud.” Pence made his feelings known in an op-ed published Wednesday by the Daily Signal, […]
SENATE MINORITY LEADER Mitch McConnell has compiled a short list of successors in his home state of Kentucky, preparing for the possibility that he does not serve out his full term, Kentucky Republicans tell The Intercept. The list is topped by his protégé, state Attorney General Daniel Cameron, and also includes former United Nations Ambassador Kelly Craft, […]
New Space Jam: A New Legacy story details reveal the movie will follow LeBron James saving his son from virtual reality. For years, details about a Space Jam sequel have been kept under wraps, but they are now finally being revealed. Announced in 2014, Space Jam: A New Legacy is the long-awaited, highly-anticipated followup to the 1996 hit Space Jam starring NBA great […]