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The Daily Beast - 57 min 59 sec agoAllison Bailey//Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) packed her own bullhorn for a Wednesday trip to George Washington University, where protesters continue to occupy a "liberation camp" they erected in support of Gazans nearly a week ago. But she didn't pack her running shoes otherwise she might have been able to get away from the heckling students repeatedly shouting "Beetlejuice" at her. The jeers, of course, were in reference to the time that...
The Daily Beast - 1 hour 12 min agoBrian Snyder/Reuters Donald Trump , a day after being warned about potential jail time if he continues to violate the gag order in his criminal trial in New York, lashed out at the judge presiding over that case as "crooked." "There is no crime. I have a crooked judge. He's a totally conflicted judge," Trump told his supporters at a Wisconsin rally Wednesday his weekly day off from the trial, where prosecutors allege the former president broke state laws governing business records...
The Daily Beast - 2 hours 59 min agoCharly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images A horn player sidelined by the New York Philharmonic over a vile sexual assault allegation is suing the venerable symphony orchestra for his job back, insisting the encounter with a fellow musician who says she was drugged and raped "was consensual" and that "no drugs were involved." Details of the alleged attack first publicly surfaced in a New York magazine article published last month . " A Hidden Sexual-Assault Scandal at the New York...
The Daily Beast - 3 hours 27 min agoTayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate Nicole Shanahan weighed in on the pair's stance on abortion rights in a new podcast, declaring that Kennedy believes "every abortion is a tragedy" while insisting that most women considering an abortion would not go through with it if they were provided the necessary resources. Shanahan was interviewed by former ESPN anchor Sage Steele for thea May 1 episode of her weekly podcast, the Sage Steele Show. During...
The Daily Beast - 3 hours 34 min agoPhoto Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images It's been a good week for Donald Trump . Despite spending his days straining to stay awake in the courtroom for his own criminal trial , his poll numbers continue to go up. According to a new Emerson College/The Hill poll , President Joe Biden is currently trailing Trump in seven swing states, outside of the margin of error. This week, Time magazine published a stunning interview of Trump in his own words saying he would create...
The Daily Beast - 3 hours 49 min agoGAB Archive/Redferns via Getty Images Duane Eddy, a guitarist whose distinctive "sultan of twang" sound flavored the 50s and 60s record charts and served as inspiration to the generation of musicians who followed him, died on Tuesday in Franklin, Tennessee. He was 86. Eddy's death was confirmed by his family. His wife, Deed Abbate, told the Associated Press that he died of cancer at a Franklin hospital. "Duane inspired a generation of guitarists the world over with his unmistakable...
The Daily Beast - 4 hours 47 min agoJohn Rudoff/AFP via Getty Images A number of protesters occupying a library at Portland State University rejected a deal to stand down on Wednesday morning, after they found the university president's offer of legal amnesty questionable, and said she failed entirely to address their demand that the school divest from Boeing. University president Ann Cudd said that she was given verbal assurances from negotiators working for the protesters inside Millar Library that they would accept her offer...
The Daily Beast - 5 hours 46 min agoCharley Gallay Embattled kids TV creator Dan Schneider , who fell from grace at Nickelodeon in 2018 amidst reports that numerous members his staff has complained of his abusive behavior, has now filed a lawsuit against the creators of the explosive docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV , which included many allegations of Schneider's misbehavior when it dropped in March. "Recently the docuseries Quiet on Set highlighted mistakes I made and poor judgment I exhibited during my...
The Daily Beast - 6 hours 54 min agoStefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images An attempted attack on a Wisconsin middle school was thwarted by law enforcement before anyone besides the wannabe active shooter was harmed, authorities said Wednesday. The alleged gunman was "neutralized" outside Mount Horeb Middle School and "did not breach entryway" into the building, district officials said. "An initial search of the middle school has not yielded additional suspects," the district said. "As importantly, we have...
The Daily Beast - 7 hours 21 min agoPhoto by Rebecca Noble/Getty Images Arizona Republicans voted to overturn the state's 1864-era abortion ban Wednesday in a shocking about-face that could have ripple effects into November. Two Republicans, Sens. Shawnna Bolick and T.J. Shope, voted with Democrats in the Senate to repeal the ban, which bans all abortions except to save the woman's life, in a contentious session in which one Republican called the state of his party "disgusting." The reversal comes after last month's...
The Daily Beast - 7 hours 43 min agoQian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Jessica Seinfeld, cookbook author and wife to comedian Jerry Seinfeld , is funding a pro-Israel counterprotest at UCLA where violence broke out Tuesday night after a mob attacked demonstrators inside a pro-Palestine encampment. A GoFundMe for the effort, which Seinfeld promoted in an Instagram story this week after contributing at least $5,000 , has since made the majority of its donations anonymous. The fundraising page has raised more than $93,000 as of Wednesday and...
The Daily Beast - 8 hours 20 min agoThe Daily Beast/Marin County Sheriff A 26-year-old parking attendant accused of abducting 16-year-old Mint Butterfield appeared Wednesday morning in court, where he was ordered not to have any contact with the teen. During the brief hearing, Christopher "Kio" Dizefalo, clad in a yellow prison jumpsuit over a long-sleeved pink T-shirt and orange jail sandals, told Marin County Superior Court Judge Kelly Simmons that he understood her instructions. Dizefalo, whose face is tattooed with an...
The Daily Beast - 9 hours 4 min agoSteven Hirsch/AFP via Getty Images Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was wheeled into Manhattan criminal court on Wednesday for the first time since an appeals court's shock decision to overturn his 2020 rape conviction. There, he faced rows of reporters and a surprising face: one of the women he was found guilty of abusing at the 2020 trial. "Jessica Mann, one of the sexual assault victims in this case, is not backing down and is committed to knowing that justice is served again,"...
The Daily Beast - 9 hours 23 min agoGreg Doherty/Getty Images for Maddox Gallery The husband of a Formula One heiress has a secret pet peeve: tipping low wage workers. Luxury real estate agent Sam Palmer is married to Petra Ecclestone, who is set to inherit the billions amassed by her father, Bernie Ecclestone, the former chief executive of the F1 group who has an estimated net worth of $2.4 billion, according to Forbes . Palmer took to Instagram on Tuesday, from the couch of his $30.5 million Los Angeles mansion to speak his insanely...
The Daily Beast - 9 hours 37 min agoPhoto Illustration by The Daily Beast/Courtesy of Audrey Thomas The disbarred defense attorney who represented convicted con artist Anna Delvey in the fake German heiress' infamous fraud case is suing Spirit Airlines over a confrontation with a gate agent that she says left her so distraught, she had to be committed to a mental institution . Former lawyer Audrey A. Thomas, a controversial figure who has long made headlines for her courtroom histrionics , claims it all started when the unnamed...
The Daily Beast - 11 hours 21 min agoPhoto Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photo by Mark Peterson / Getty What do you call a lawyer who obeys Donald Trump 's advice? Felon. Okay; I'm just kidding. Some of the crimes are misdemeanors , and a few people have been indicted but not yet convicted. Read more at The Daily Beast.
The Daily Beast - 11 hours 40 min agoPhoto Illustration by The Daily Beast / X This is a movie well, sort of. The viral clip of actor Robert De Niro screaming at unseen people that "This is not a movie!" on a Manhattan set for Netflix's limited series Zero Day , The Daily Beast has confirmed, is just him performing a scene from the upcoming project. But the clip took on a life of its own this week, after pro-Israel activists shared it as proof the actor had "had enough" of pro-Palestine protestors. In the clip,...
The Daily Beast - 12 hours 58 sec agoAnna Moneymaker/Getty Images After over a month of trying to win GOP support, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says she is coming for House Speaker Mike Johnson as soon as next week. During a press conference outside of the Capitol on Wednesday morning, the MAGA Republican lawmaker announced that she "absolutely" plans to call for a vote on her motion to vacate Johnson from the speakership next week. "I can't wait to see Democrats go out and support a Republican speaker and have...
The Daily Beast - 13 hours 23 min agoMoscow News Agency/Handout via Reuters A far-right Russian philosopher who's called for Russia to expand its borders and rise up against the West says his interview with Tucker Carlson shows Americans are ready to accept his fascist ideas. Alexander Dugin , dubbed "Putin's brain" for supposedly influencing the Russian leader's geopolitical crusades, took to Telegram in the wake of his interview with the former Fox News host to note that he'd made it into the "American...
The Daily Beast - 14 hours 17 min agoCurtis Means/Reuters We regret to inform you that Donald Trump is just asking questions about the true motives behind the pro-Palestinian protests currently taking place on campuses across the country. "Do you think that the Radical Left Lunatics that are causing all of the CHAOS at our Colleges and Universities are doing so in order to take the FOCUS away from our Southern Border, where millions of people, many from prisons and mental institutions, are pouring into our Country?" the former...
The Daily Beast - 15 hours 2 min agoWKBW TV/YouTube Democratic state Sen. Timothy Kennedy on Tuesday won the special election for the New York congressional seat vacated by a retiring Democrat, further narrowing the GOP 's slender majority in the House . Kennedy comfortably defeated his Republican opponent Gary Dickson in the race for the Buffalo-area district seat by a margin of more than 36 percentage points, according to the Associated Press . When Kennedy is officially sworn in to succeed the retiring Brian Higgins, the GOP...
The Daily Beast - 16 hours 52 min agoDavid Swanson/Reuters Police officers were called to quell violent scenes that broke out on the UCLA campus late Tuesday as opposing groups of protesters brawled inside the pro-Palestine encampment. The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed early Wednesday that its officers were helping to "restore order and maintain public safety." It said it was acting at the request of UCLA "due to multiple acts of violence within the large encampment on their campus." The trouble started shortly...
The Daily Beast - 18 hours 18 min agovia YouTube / Associated Press The first Chinese scientist to publish a genomic sequence of the COVID-19 virus without permission of government health authorities says he has been allowed to return to his lab following a sit-in protest he started after he claimed to have been locked out of the facility over the weekend. Virologist Zhang Yongzhen on Wednesday wrote online that the medical center where his lab is located had "tentatively agreed" to permit him and the rest of his team to return...
The Daily Beast - 19 hours 21 sec agoPhoto Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty Now that Judge Juan Merchan has ruled that the World's #1 Dad, Donald Trump , is permitted to skip a day of his criminal trial to attend his youngest son Barron's high school graduation, I thought it might be a nice idea for a professional writer to prepare some remarks for the former president to deliver to the graduates. Just a few words of life advice from an old man who has seen and done it all. And, because I'm a generous...
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