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A long (about damn) time ago in a galaxy far, far away... 

The latest episode of the Star Wars show The Mandalorian shocked fans with some unexpected celebrity guests, as Lizzo had a surprise role alongside Jack Black.

The episode takes Grogu, a.k.a. Baby Yoda, and the Mandalorian to a new planet called Plazir-15, where Lizzo plays The Duchess. She's married to Captain Bombardier, played by Black. This is one of only a handful of acting roles the "Truth Hurts" singer has had in her... Читать дальше...

First lady Jill Biden's office backtracked Tuesday on her assertion that both the winning and losing teams from the NCAA women's basketball championship should be hosted at the White House. 

April's "pink moon" will make its annual reappearance on Wednesday night, but it won't be pink like the name suggests. Rather, the moniker is simply in reference to the herb "moss pink," which blooms in spring, NASA explains. Other names for the phenomenon include "Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes, the Fish Moon, as this was when the shad swam upstream to spawn."

A group of international law enforcement agencies, led by the FBI, has seized and shut down one of the largest cybercrime marketplaces on the Internet, it was reported Wednesday. 

Some iconic Little Mermaid songs are getting a rewrite for the live-action version. 

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $8.9 billion to tens of thousands of people who alleged the company's talcum powder caused cancer, The New York Times reports. Lawyers for some of the plaintiffs called the proposed settlement a "significant victory" in a case that has been ongoing for over a decade. 

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Is this the end of Yellowstone as we know it?

For the past two months, rumors have circulated that TV's biggest drama series may be ending due to a dispute with its star, Kevin Costner. While the details remain murky, the behind-the-scenes tension escalated over the weekend after the cast, Costner included, bizarrely skipped out on an event they were expected to attend, frustrating fans and leaving them more uncertain about the series' future than ever. 

Standoff

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A group of centrists met last week to discuss the group No Labels' $70 million plan to put a candidate on the ballot in all 50 states in the 2024 presidential election. The group calls its project an "insurance policy" in case the Democratic and Republican parties both nominate "unacceptable" candidates next year, in a race that could result in a rematch between the current frontrunners, President Biden and former President Donald Trump, now far out front in GOP primary polls. No Labels co-chair... Читать дальше...

Artificially intelligent chatbots and image generators broke through into the popular imagination with the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT-3.5. The recently released GPT-4 is even better at mimicking humanity and answering its questions.

The news regarding interest rates has largely seemed bleak lately, amid continued Fed rate hikes and raising rates on mortgages and loans. But there is an upside to this rate environment: higher savings rates. And already, these higher rates are coming to fruition, with rates on savings accounts significantly higher than they were just a year ago.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg released the 34-count indictment against former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, each count accusing him of falsifying business records "with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime." Bragg told reporters and alleged in a separate "statement of facts" that Trump's illegally disguised 2016 hush money payments were part of a larger scheme that violated undisclosed state and federal election laws.

Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, a union organizer and former high school teacher, won Chicago's hard-fought mayoral election on Tuesday, narrowly defeating former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas. Johnson's support from the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and other organized labor proved pivotal in the heated five-week runoff race, which started with Johnson as the underdog. Both candidates beat Mayor Lori Lightfoot in the first round of voting, making her the first Chicago mayor in 40 years to lose her re-election bid. Читать дальше...

Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, The Associated Press and NBC News project, defeating Daniel Kelly.