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Donald Trump delivers a speech during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016.John Moore/Getty Images Donald Trump says he was just being “sarcastic” when he asked Russia to conduct cyberespionage against his political opponent on Wednesday. “Of course, I was being sarcastic,” Trump told Fox…
.entry-header Dr. Dre performs onstage at the Coachella festival April 23, 2016, in Indio, Calif. Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella Dr. Dre was handcuffed outside his Malibu, Calif., home Monday after a white driver called police and said he was brandishing a gun. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office, Dre told the cops that…
Visitors flock to the New York Botanical Garden all summer long for a whiff of its fragrant blooms. On Friday, they were drawn to an altogether less inviting odour. Known as the “corpse flower”, it emits a pungent odour of rotting meat, luring pollinators that feed on dead animals. The six-foot plant – it…
The full extent and true nature of the “blatant hate” that has beset post-Brexit Britain is today detailed for the first time after The Independent was given exclusive access to a database of more than 500 racist incidents compiled in the weeks since the EU referendum. The hatred that has divided British society in…
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Comic book fans have argued for decades over who has the sharpest mind in Marvel’s 9,000-plus-character universe. There are about eight unaided contenders in the primary fictional canon and they’re all male and most are white. Genius scientist Reed Richards, also known as Mister Fantastic, is widely regarded to be the brainiest among them. But…
The morning after Fox News chief Roger Ailes resigned, the cable network’s former director of booking placed a call to the New York law firm hired by 21st Century Fox to investigate sexual-harassment allegations against Ailes. Laurie Luhn told the lawyers at Paul, Weiss that she had been harassed by Ailes for more than…
The biggest problem with The Killing Joke movie’s portrayal of Batgirl goes beyond a poor approach to a female character. Its biggest problem is that what it adds to Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s original 1988 comic is so pointless, that its shoddy treatment of Barbara Gordon becomes all the more insulting. In the wake…
The Killing Joke is a 30-year-old Batman graphic novel that goes to ugly places, especially in what it does Batgirl. And when folks expressed anger at Barbara Gordon’s portrayal in a new, controversial scene in the upcoming film adaptation during a DC panel, things got ugly in real life. Batman: The Killing Joke is most…
cxenseparse_start A sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.(Photo: Ben Margot, AP) Amazon and Facebook continued to rise up the world’s most valuable companies list on Friday, passing Exxon Mobil in market cap in morning trading. At the beginning of trading the retail giant and social networking behemoth quickly jumped ahead of Exxon, which was…