Jake Tapper on Friday criticized conservatives like Sean Hannity after the Fox News host, who has long attacked President Joe Biden as “Sleepy Joe,” said the president was too energetic during his State of the Union address. On The Lead,
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Trump Ordered to Pay Hundreds of Thousands More for Failed Lawsuit
Donald Trump is on the hook for legal fees after yet another loss in court, with a British judge ruling he must pony up $382,000 for his failed lawsuit over the so-called Steele dossier from 2016. Trump had sued a
Guy Ritchie’s ‘The Gentlemen’ Fails in Just About Every Way
Guy Ritchie’s been on something of a hot streak of late, courtesy of the thrilling Wrath of Man, frisky Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, and muscular The Covenant—all of which followed his last genuine misstep, 2019’s The Gentlemen. A star-studded
Tomi Lahren Says GOP’s ‘Failed’ Impeachment Probe Is Flatlining With Voters
Pack it in, folks: Tomi Lahren has declared the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden officially dead in the water. In a Sunday appearance on Fox News’ Media Buzz, Lahren told host Howard Kurtz that the GOP would do
Adam Sandler’s ‘Spaceman’ Is Shockingly, Confusingly Sad
From Gravity and Interstellar to The Martian, Ad Astra, and High Life, the sad-astronaut sci-fi movie has lately become a subgenre unto itself, and Johan Renck’s Spaceman now joins its weepy ranks. A tediously maudlin saga about a Czech cosmonaut
‘The Traitors’ Finally Dethrones Its Queen in a Shocking Twist
(Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Traitors Season 2, Episode 10.) Alas, poor Peter Weber. We knew him, we watched him steadfastly hunt down the Traitors in Alan Cumming’s castle, and now, he is gone. We all knew that
Messenger Execs Sue Failed Startup for Reneging on Big Payouts Promised to Them
A month after Jimmy Finkelstein’s quixotic media startup The Messenger crashed and burned, suddenly leaving hundreds jobless, three business-side executives are suing the media mogul’s “centrist” news site for welching on the hefty severance packages promised to them. In a
Republicans’ Hunter Biden Witch Hunt Is an Epic Fail
The months of fruitless effort by the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee and House Judiciary Committee to unearth evidence supporting an impeachment of President Joe Biden culminated on Wednesday in their long sought-after deposition of the president’s only surviving son, Hunter
‘Couple to Throuple’ Wildly Failed the Polyamory Community. We’re Not Shocked.
Going into the finale of Peacock’s newest dating show, Couple to Throuple, I was “gagged and gooped and gagged,” as Ash, one half of one of the participating couples, says in Episode 4. Ash means this as a positive thing.
Idaho Forced to Call Off Inmate’s Execution After Failed Drug Injection
Idaho called off the Wednesday morning execution of five-time murderer Thomas Eugene Creech—who has spent more than four decades on death row—after a medical team was unable to establish an IV line to inject him with a fatal drug. The