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A boyband concert came to an abrupt halt after a giant monitor fell on to the stage, resulting in multiple injuries. According to the Associated Press, the incident took place Thursday night in Hong Kong during a performance by the popular Cantopop group Mirror. The horrifying moment was captured on a now-viral video, which showed a suspended […]
A member of the Federal Communications Commission is renewing calls for a TikTok ban. FCC commissioner Brendan Carr is urging Apple and Google’s parent company to removed the popular platform from its app stores. Carr outlined his position in a June 24 letter addressed to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, citing concerns over a recent BuzzFeed News report that examined leaked audio […]
A short segment of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore was censored in China. Variety reports that Warner Bros. cut out six seconds of the 142-minute film because it refers to a gay relationship between Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) and Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) that had happened in the past. Warner Bros. cut out the […]
A Boeing 737 operated by China Eastern Airlines has crashed in the Guangxi province, regional authorities said Monday. 132 people have been confirmed to have been on board. Per a report from the Associated Press, the flight in question was en route from Kunming (in the western province of Yunnan) to the port city of […]
China’s national health authorities have reported the first two COVID-19 deaths in the country since January 2021, NBC News shares. The deaths were reported Saturday, in the northeastern Jilin province, amid an omicron-related surge in COVID cases. Now, China’s COVID death toll sits at 4,638. Jilin has issued a travel ban as China reported 2,157 total new COVID cases […]
Friends episodes that reference anything diverging from heterosexuality have been censored in China, CNN reports. Multiple episodes featuring characters who are LGBTQIA+ have been removed from Chinese streaming platforms. Any mention of Ross’s (David Schwimmer) ex-wife, Carol (Anita Barone) who marries Ross, has his child, and then comes out as a lesbian in the TV show were removed. According […]
A Chinese immigrant who was brutally attacked in April in New York City has died of the injuries he sustained, according to ABC News. Yao Pan Ma, 61, died on Dec. 31—eight months after he was attacked while collecting cans in Harlem, police share. The case is now beeing deemed a homicide after 49-year-old Jarrod Powell […]
KAWS is hitting the mountains for the eighth installment of the KAWS:HOLIDAY tour. Beginning this week, a giant Companion sculpture will be on display atop the Changbai Mountain in Jilin Province, China. The piece features the signature character sitting down with a miniature version of itself situated on its lap. Two years in the making, the Changbai installation is […]
Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter, who legally changed his name to Enes Kanter Freedom, stopped by Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show after becoming a U.S. citizen on Monday. During his chat with Carlson, Mr. Freedom called on people in the U.S. to stop criticizing the country. “So, I feel like they should just, please, they should keep their mouth shut and […]
Chinese state media figures have published photos and videos of Peng Shuai, a 35-year-old tennis star who seemingly went missing after accusing a political leader of sexual assault. As pointed out by ESPN, state TV employee Shen Shiwei shared a series of pictures purportedly showing Peng hanging out in a room surrounded by stuffed animals. The photos were allegedly posted […]
