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Julian Assange has been arrested in London. The WikiLeaks co-founder was taken into custody at the Ecuadorian embassy in London Thursday, per BBC News. Assange had been at the embassy for the past seven years, utilizing asylum in an alleged effort to avoid extradition to Sweden in connection with a sexual assault case that’s since […]
New Zealand‘s parliament has voted overwhelmingly to amend gun laws following the Christchurch mass shootings. The move comes less than a month after the mosque attacks that left 50 people dead. The vote landed Wednesday at 119 to 1 in favor of an outright ban on military-style semi-automatic weapons, per a CNN report. As far as […]
Though politicians have an embarrassingly deep history of attempting and typically failing to co-opt music in the name of downright contradictory campaigns, the latest development in an instance of Dark Knight Rises bastardization by the Trump team is particularly juicy. The clip in question was put together as part of the 2020 re-election shitshow and included […]
Devin Nunes only embraces the First Amendment when it suits the President, and when it doesn’t, he’ll sue Twitter for allowing users on the platform to say bad things about him, and impersonate his fictional cow. In Nunes’ most recent legal tirade, the Republican Representative is suing his hometown newspaper for what he claims is […]
Michelle Wolf, the former Daily Show writer and comedian, hosted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last year, and saw her career take off as a result. Throughout her 20-minute set, Wolf torched the president and members of his cabinet, resulting in polarized reactions of both condemnation and praise. In light of Trump’s announcement that he will skipping the annual […]
New Mexico will become the 24th state to decriminalize marijuana. On Wednesday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill that would reduce the penalties for anyone found in possession of marijuana, starting July 1. People who are caught with less than half an ounce of weed will now receive a $50 fine, along with a citation. According to the Drug Policy Alliance, New Mexico […]
UPDATED 7:12 p.m. ET: The City of Chicago is planning on suing Jussie Smollett after the actor refused to pay for the investigation of the Jan. 29 hate crime he reported, TMZ reports. “Mr. Smollett has refused to reimburse the City of Chicago for the cost of police overtime spent investigating his false police report on January 29, […]
Saturday Night Live is back with another political cold open. The special counsel investigation is over, which means its time for SNL to bring Robert Mueller and Donald Trump together. Alec Baldwin, as President Donald Trump, returns to spin Robert De Niro’s Muller Report alongside Attorney General William Barr (Aidy Bryant). In the clip, […]
Twenty-two months, 37 indictments, and seven convictions later, Robert Mueller’s report on the Trump-Russia probe has finally been submitted. The Department of Justice confirmed the filing Friday afternoon, marking the end of the special counsel’s investigation into Russia’s interference with the 2016 presidential election, and their possible collusion with members of the Trump campaign. “I […]
A Canadian student has been accused of purposely disrupting a vigil for the victims of the New Zealand mosque attacks, as he attended the event wearing the pro-Trump “Make America Great Again” hat. A now-viral video shows the unidentified man being confronted by a crowd at Toronto’s York University, just days after the Christchurch terrorist attack that […]
