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This Jeopardy! champion headed to the White House on Thursday after making quiz show history. Who is ... Amy Schneider? 

Results from a new study suggest pregnant people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 are almost twice as likely to develop breakthrough COVID than those who are not pregnant, The Washington Post reports.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was asked Thursday about the ongoing ethics controversy surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas, including the calls for him to recuse himself, or be impeached. 

NBA games are reportedly back on the air in China after an executive's Hong Kong tweet sparked an extended blackout. 

Embattled Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) would like to assure everyone that, despite the backlash toward his wild claims of Washington, D.C. orgies and cocaine use, he has every intention of sticking around. Oh, and he's a friend of former President Donald Trump's, lest we forget.

Was Will Smith actually asked to leave the Oscars after slapping Chris Rock?

Caitlyn Jenner is headed to work for Fox News. 

The network announced Thursday that Jenner, the former athlete and reality TV star, has been hired as a Fox News contributor. 

"Caitlyn's story is an inspiration to us all," Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott said. "She is a trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community and her illustrious career spans a variety of fields that will be a tremendous asset for our audience." 

Jenner ran for governor of California as a Republican last year in a bid to unseat Gov. Читать дальше...

The United States will officially allow citizens to select "X" as a gender marker on their passports beginning next month.  

The Rep. Madison Cawthorn saga continues.

If a talking to from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) wasn't enough, Sen. Thom Thillis, another North Carolina Republican, has decided to back one of Cawthorn's opponents in the upcoming GOP primary, "an extraordinary broadside against a fellow Republican from his home state," CNN reports.

"It comes down to focus on the district, producing results for the district, and in my opinion, Mr. Cawthorn hasn't demonstrated much in... Читать дальше...

There was an amusing delicacy to the way a Washington Post reporter phrased the paper's confirmation Wednesday of the authenticity of a large number of Hunter Biden's emails. "Thousands of emails purportedly from the laptop computer of Hunter Biden are authentic communications that can be verified through cryptographic signatures from technology companies," tweeted Matt Viser as he promoted a story analyzing the messages.

Filmmakers who worked with Bruce Willis were reportedly concerned about his health for years before his aphasia diagnosis was announced.

"Republican lawmakers are furious at fellow Republican Madison Cawthorn after he went on a podcast and said that his colleagues in Washington like to have drug-fueled sex parties," Jimmy Fallon said on Wednesday's Tonight Show. "Of course congressional Republicans are denying the whole thing," with varying levels of plausibility.

Since they emerged into the public consciousness last year, the joke about NFTs — unique or non-fungible tokens, mostly in the form of digital art — has been that buying one gets you nothing but an easily right-clickable jpg. Spending money on an NFT seems like paying to "adopt" a panda or name a star in the sky: more the feeling of ownership than anything real. But that is changing fast.

Nostalgia is in the air. Already 2022 is turning out to be the year of revivals of classic TV series — and particularly so for shows considered hallmarks of Black entertainment.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) sat down with Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) on Wednesday to grill him about his claims he was invited to orgies and witnessed anti-addiction crusaders "do a key bump of cocaine right in front of you" — and Cawthorn's responses were apparently not very credible.

Best friends since the sixth grade, Marcos San Miguel and Jordan Sloan discovered over the last 18 months just how strong their bond is.

In his first comedy show since getting slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars on Sunday, Chris Rock told a cheering crowd in Boston that he is "still kind of processing what happened."

A Connecticut judge found far-right conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones in contempt on Wednesday, after he failed to comply with orders to sit for a deposition as part of a lawsuit brought by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims.

The Department of Justice has expanded its criminal investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack to look at the financing and planning of a preceding rally attended by former President Donald Trump, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.

After slapping comedian Chris Rock on live television, Will Smith allegedly refused to leave the Oscars.

Conservative media company The Daily Wire announced Wednesday that it will spend at least $100 million over the next three years developing children's entertainment, Axios reports.

The Biden administration might end a Trump-era immigration rule that allows the U.S. to "quickly expel migrants and asylum-seekers" by late May, several individuals with knowledge of the plans told CBS News. 

Tech companies Apple and Meta gave sensitive customer data — including addresses, phone numbers, and IP addresses — to hackers posing as law enforcement officials, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.