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A Hungarian lawmaker issued a statement Tuesday announcing his resignation as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) after he was busted over the weekend trying to escape a “sex party” during lockdown in Belgium, per The Daily Beast. Jozsef Szajer revealed in a blog post on his personal site that he submitted his resignation Sunday after officers broke up […]
2020 has filled out a lot of deeply strange spaces on that proverbial bingo card, but few outside of Sacha Baron Cohen‘s immediate orbit could have expected a new Borat movie a full 14 years after the original. According to a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Cohen said that he revived the famous fictional Kazakhstani well before […]
A photo of a Texas doctor cradling a COVID-19 patient in his arms made the rounds on social media this weekend, as the U.S. reels from a surge in cases following Thanksgiving. The doctor in the image, Dr. Joseph Varon, chief of staff at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, has repeatedly spoken about the […]
The 2020s started off on an awful foot, with the seismic losses of Kobe Bryant and Pop Smoke. Many thought that things couldn’t feel more surreal than they did in February. Then COVID-19 happened. The NBA suspended its season on April 11, after Jazz center Rudy Gobert became infected with the novel coronavirus. Within the hour, […]
An unknown mass that will buzz past earth in the early hours of December 1 (tomorrow) has NASA scientists a tad confused. As a result, this mysterious object has been given the moniker “2020 SO” by those scientists. Also by “buzz” we mean come within between 31,000-32,000 miles of this planet. No need to freak. The […]
Four Parisian police officers have been charged in the beating of a Black music producer earlier this month, after video of the cops beating him in the doorway of his recording studio went viral. The inciting incident appeared to be Zecler standing outside the studio without a face covering, which is illegal under France’s coronavirus […]
Rita Ora posted an apology for celebrating her 30th birthday in defiance of the United Kingdom’s coronavirus lockdown. The pop singer shared a note to her Instagram Story that said she was “deeply sorry” and “embarrassed” over her actions. “I attended a small gathering with some friends to celebrate my 30th birthday. It was a […]
Moderna is asking regulators in the U.S. and Europe to fast-track emergency approval of its COVID-19 vaccine, after tests showed it to be 94 percent effective in protecting users against the deadly virus. The two-shot vaccine was tested on a massive sample of 30,000 people. Over the course of the the study, 196 people overall […]
President-elect Joe Biden announced Sunday that his administration will have an all-female senior White House communications team, the Washington Post reports. “I am proud to announce today the first senior White House communications team comprised entirely of women,” Biden said in his statement. “These qualified, experienced communicators bring diverse perspectives to their work and a shared commitment to building […]
Laverne Cox took to IGTV Saturday to detail a transphobic attack involving her and a male friend during a recent walk in Los Angeles’ Griffin Park. Cox said they were “aggressively” approached by a man who was asking them for the time. “The friend that I’m with looks at his watch and tells him the time, and […]
