Sergei Ilnitsky/Reuters The founder of the private mercenary group Wagner has made the audacious claim that his band of killers—bulked up with murderers, rapists and other convicts sprung from prison—have done nothing in Ukraine that would deserve to be sanctioned. In a comment to the […]

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Caspar Benson/Getty A major public health warning was issued in Australia on Friday after a radioactive capsule apparently fell off a truck while in transit. The tiny radioactive gauge—which is smaller than a penny—was being transported from a mining site in the remote Pilbara region […]

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Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Russia is building up a network of fortifications and trenches along the front in Ukraine, in apparent anticipation of a new round of heavy fighting, according to satellite imagery analysis shared exclusively with The Daily Beast. The analysis from Brady […]

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Amazon Prime Video Comedian Nate Bargatze describes what he does for a living as “saying dumb stuff in front of large groups.” And he’s very good at it. On this bonus episode of The Last Laugh podcast, Bargatze talks about making the jump from Netflix […]

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Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images When former U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman wrote a tell-all book last year about the drama inside the powerful Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office, many people were irked that he waited two years to reveal how the Trump administration secretly pressured him […]

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Comedy Central Comedian Wanda Sykes opened her final episode as guest-host of The Daily Show Thursday night with the “big political news” that Facebook and Instagram are set to welcome Donald Trump back on their social media platforms after a two-year ban following the January […]

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Contributor#8523328 A former Kremlin aide is warning that as Moscow blindly pursues its bloody conquest in Ukraine, the situation at home is quietly heading towards a military coup. Abbas Gallyamov, Vladimir Putin’s former speechwriter, says the conditions are already there for a full revolt. “The […]

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Zorana Jevtic/Reuters Novak Djokovic has been reminded about the Australian Open’s ban on symbols supporting Russia after his dad was filmed posing alongside a group of spectators carrying Russian flags and wearing pro-war “Z” logos on Wednesday night. Victoria Police confirmed four men were evicted […]

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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. It appears no one wants to be left holding the bag on whatever possible fallout awaits […]

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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Simon & Schuster The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is warning that a tell-all book about its stalled investigation into former President Donald Trump could derail the office’s probe and leave the author of the book, a former top prosecutor […]

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Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/Getty Rian Johnson has cast me in Poker Face, just two minutes into our conversation. Not because I’m a particularly deft actor—I’m not—but because there aren’t enough Hollywood stars left to cast in his show. So, once he’s gone […]

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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty I was concerned when my father, 84, told me he was canceling his cable subscription. My mother had passed away recently, and it pained me to imagine him sitting in silence when I wasn’t there, without even […]

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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/Getty/Courtesy of Christina Chacon In early January, Christina Chacon was jolted from her sleep when her husband called to tell her that Tyre Nichols was in the hospital. It was then she found out that her silly, optimistic, and joyous […]

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Scouted/The Daily Beast/Retailers. Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission. Now that the season of love is officially upon us, I thought to myself, “What better way to celebrate the day’s looming festivities than ask […]

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Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Over the course of his four-decade career, Stephen Dorff has made just about every type of movie imaginable, from dramas (The Power of One, Somewhere) and comedies (Cecil B. Demented) to thrillers (Judgement Night) and Marvel blockbusters (Blade). Nonetheless, he’s […]

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Scouted/The Daily Beast/UrbanStems Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission. If your Valentine loves watching Netflix’s hit TV series Bridgerton, a bouquet from the UrbanStems official collaboration is the perfect gift. The UrbanStems X Bridgerton […]

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Getty It didn’t take long for Russian officials to start foaming at the mouth and ranting about global conspiracies after Germany agreed to deliver its Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine on Wednesday. After weeks of resistance, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that, along with […]

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Emily Michot/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Virginia Giuffre has reportedly signed a multi-million dollar deal to publish her memoir, as a one-year gag order that formed part of her settlement with Prince Andrew is about to expire. The New York Post reported that […]

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Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters ROME—In what has already started to ruffle feathers in the conservative reaches of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has made the most decisive comments on homosexuality in his 10-year pontificate. “Being homosexual is not a crime,” he told the Associated Press in an […]

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Hulu In the world of the series Extraordinary, out today on Hulu, having superpowers is the status quo. Women who never age, teenagers with Thor-like strength, and men who can make objects appear from their ass like a 3-D printer all live harmoniously in an […]

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