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Matt Lauer’s creepy resurfaced interview with Anne Hathaway is turning stomachs online

LauerHathaway As Matt Lauer’s fall from grace continues, footage resurfaced of comments he made to Anne Hathaway in 2012 — and it’s extremely brow raising. The actress dropped by “The TODAY Show” to promote her Oscar-winning role in “Les Miserables” when the news anchor lead her down a sketchy path. Watch the video RELATED: This […]

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Former President Obama took shots at Fox News during a speech in India

Barack Obama Former President Barack Obama took shots at Fox News during a speech in India, joking that he wouldn’t have “voted for [himself]” if he watched the conservative-leaning news network. On Friday, Obama gave a speech in New Delhi, India, to the Hindustan Leadership Summit, during which he laid into the news network, saying

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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

In DC, Barak says moving the embassy won’t be ‘a consequential event’

By Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak insisted on Friday night that either moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem or recognizing the holy city as Israel’s capital would not be that big of a deal. “I don’t think that this is a consequential event,” he said at the Brookings

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Middle East, USA

Key Senator to Vote ‘Yes’ on Tax Bill in Exchange for DACA Commitment

U.S. Senator Jeff Flake now says he will vote for the Republicans’ massive $1.5 trillion tax bill. And in return for his “yes” vote, he says he has obtained a commitment to pass legislation that would safeguard almost 800,000 undocumented young people who were brought to the U.S. as children. In a statement released Friday,

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USA

Trump Has Urged Seven Officials to End the Russia Probe

President Donald Trump has pushed at least seven officials to put an end to investigations at various levels of government into whether his campaign helped Russia meddle in the 2016 presidential election. On Thursday The New York Times revealed that over the summer Trump urged members of the Senate—including those leading the Senate Intelligence Committee’s

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International, USA

White House blames San Francisco ‘sanctuary’ policy for Kate Steinle’s slaying

The Trump administration on Friday took aim at San Francisco’s so-called sanctuary city policies, saying they were to blame for the slaying of Kate Steinle, a young woman who was fatally shot by a man in the United States illegally. “Had San Francisco enforced our nation’s immigration laws, the Steinle family would be celebrating this

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What was Garrison Keillor’s last show like? A little weird

Garrison Keillor’s performance Tuesday in New Jersey was extra memorable for at least one audience member — and not only because it might end up being the humorist’s last public appearance for a while. Keillor was in the midst of his “Prairie Home Love & Comedy Tour” earlier this week when he was dropped by

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

First baby from a uterus transplant in the U.S. born in Dallas

The first birth as a result of a womb transplant in the United States has occurred in Texas, a milestone for the U.S. but one achieved several years ago in Sweden. A woman who had been born without a uterus gave birth to the baby at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. Hospital spokesman Craig

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Mitch Margo, who rode ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ to the top of the charts, dies at 70

LOS ANGELES — Mitch Margo was just 14 when he and some Brooklyn pals recorded “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” a doo-wop version of a Zulu folk song that had been recorded dozens of times over the decades. But for the New York boy group, the song proved to be a powerful elixir as it climbed

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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA