President Donald Trump provided late-night hosts with more fodder than usual Wednesday, when news broke that some Americans’ COVID-19 relief checks would be delayed because the president was insisting his name be printed on each of them. On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert‘s cold open was a faux infomercial for …
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Louise Vincent of Greensboro, North Carolina, says methadone, a medication that curbs opioid cravings, lets her lead a normal life. “Methadone works best for me. It allows me to go to grad school,” she says. Vincent directs the North Carolina chapter of the Urban Survivors Unions, an organization of former …
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I was 35 minutes into my conversation with Patrick Wyman when he scared the shit out of me. I’d called Wyman —a European historian focused on the end of the Roman Empire and the world it left behind — to discuss his piece in Mother Jones on how societies hold …
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The Foo Fighters reportedly faced something entirely new while making their upcoming 10th album: ghosts. Dave Grohl recently told Mojo that the house in Encino, California — a Forties construction — where they recorded had a sinister past. “When we walked into the house in Encino, I knew the vibes …
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White supremacists are using an encrypted messaging app called Telegram to devise schemes with the intent of weaponizing the coronavirus to target law enforcement agents and “nonwhite” people, according to a report by Yahoo News. According to a law enforcement weekly intelligence brief, federal investigators appear to be monitoring neo-Nazis’ …
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Gal Gadot has brought a group of celebrities together for an all-star cover of John Lennon‘s “Imagine.” Speaking on her Instagram, the Wonder Woman star shared that she has been bored after six days of self-quarantine. “These past few days got me feeling a bit philosophical,” she said. “You know …
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Genesis P-Orridge, founding member of the pioneering industrial music group Throbbing Gristle and experimental unit Psychic TV, has died at the age of 70, P-Orridge’s manager Ryan Martin confirmed to Rolling Stone. P-Orridge, who identified as “s/he” and “he/r,” died early Saturday after battling leukemia for over two years, he/r …
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) announced on Monday that he is quarantining himself after being informed that he came into contact with an attendee of the Conservative Political Action Conference who tested positive for COVID-19. Gaetz, a Trump loyalist known for orchestrating outlandish stunts to get media attention, mocked coronavirus last …
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Days after ending her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, Elizabeth Warren made a cameo on Saturday Night Live alongside Kate McKinnon, who portrayed the Massachusetts senator on the show. Warren’s cameo came at the end of a lengthy Fox News spoof about the coronavirus, where host Laura Ingraham (also …
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Fears about a coronavirus outbreak have been bubbling around the States for the past month or so, but during the past few days, the concern seems to have grown into an outright panic. The stock market is in free fall, people are stockpiling medical masks, and President Trump has appointed …
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