Two top military officials, including the secretary of the Navy and a SEAL admiral, have threatened to resign or be fired if President Donald Trump goes ahead with his stated intent to reverse the military’s decision to dismiss and discipline Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, who has been accused of …
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In-between piles of crab legs and an argument over who is the best on-screen Spider-Man, the guys of PrettyMuch reveal that they have big plans for 2020. The first step is their just-released four-track project, INTL:EP. On each song, the American-Canadian boy band partners with a different artist from another …
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A coming-of-age tale, a compelling directorial debut, and a slight corrective regarding both teen movies and the American Muslim experience, writer-director Minhal Baig’s Hala opens with the sound of du’a voiced over a shot of an empty room. Then it introduces its title character (played by Blockers’ standout Geraldine Viswanathan) …
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The list of nominees for the 2020 Grammys is out — and Latin artists remain stranded on their own remote island. Things seemed to look up in 2019 when “I Like It,” the Latin trap crossover hit by Cardi B, J Balvin and Bad Bunny, received the nomination for Record …
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Lizzo, Billie Eilish, and Lil Nas X scored the most nominations for the 62nd Grammy Awards, with all three notching nods for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best New Artist. Lizzo led the pack, with eight nominations, including “Truth Hurts” for Record and Song of the …
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Camila Cabello was thinking about performing her new album even before she recorded it. After playing stadiums in 2018 as an opening act on her friend Taylor Swift’s Reputation world tour, the 22-year-old entered the studio to record her upcoming second album, Romance, with a goal: to record bombastic songs …
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After former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s explosive testimony on Friday, another State Department official testified privately and told impeachment investigators he overheard a phone call between US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and President Donald Trump during which the president asked whether Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky had agreed to …
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Colombian rock-pop superstar Juanes performed several of his greatest hits at the Latin Grammys on Thursday. A longtime Latin Grammy darling, he was also honored as the Person of the Year at the ceremony. Juanes kicked off his chapter of the show with the song that started it all: 2000’s …
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The Simpsons have a new home this week now that Disney+ has finally come online. The streaming platform has nearly all 668 episodes of the Fox show, though the Michael Jackson episode (“Stark Raving Dad”) from Season Three is absent, and fans are complaining that some sight gags on the …
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Huey Lewis hasn’t performed live in nearly two years due to severe hearing loss caused by Ménière’s disease. But he did record an album’s worth of new songs before coming down with the condition that’s slated to finally come out sometime early in 2020. Thankfully, he’s still able to hear …
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