In her new graphic memoir That Can Be Arranged, cartoonist Huda Fahmy recounts how she met and married her husband. The subtitle is A Muslim Love Story — and Fahmy says it’s exactly that. “Muslims are not a monolith … This is not The Muslim love story, it’s A Muslim love story,” she says. Fahmy’s Muslim American; her mother is Syrian and her father is Egyptian. […]
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Iyanna ‘Yaya’ Mayweather, daughter of boxing icon Floyd Mayweather Jr, is in police custody in Houston after stabbing a woman in an argument over rapper NBA YoungBoy, according to reports in the US. Iyanna Mayweather, 19, was arrested for felony aggravated assault and taken to Harris County Jail in Houston in the early hours of Saturday morning, US news outlet TMZ reports. She is reported to […]
Some might attribute Russborough House’s history to bad luck, and maybe that’s how it started. But the real problem was one of exposure. After a gang of IRA supporters led by the former British socialite Rose Dugdale violently forced their way into the home and absconded with some of its finest works of art in 1974, it was as if a spotlight had been directed at […]
Viewers of the Today Show delivered an outpouring of support for Hoda Kotb Friday, after the popular host broke down during a powerful segment. During the show’s first hour, Kotb interviewed New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees — who announced that he is donating $5 million to aid in the Coronavirus relief effort in Louisiana, which has been particularly hard hit. At the end of the […]
Washington, DC. Tuesday, March 17th 2020 I got an email from energy company Pepco today saying that they have “suspended service disconnections” and are “waiving new late payment fees through at least May 1…” When I called American Airlines yesterday in order to cancel my upcoming flights, they told me that I can call and re-book travel to any destination for that same amount before the end of […]
For those that have been following our coverage of Tesla over the past two weeks, you likely already know that Elon Musk has essentially “sold a naked put option” on the coronavirus – in other words, by publicly stating that the panic over the virus was “dumb” and then doubling down on that statement, Musk made a very public bet that the the pandemic will just […]
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“I am a Zionist. You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist,” current Democratic Presidential candidate, Joe Biden, said in April 2007, soon before he was chosen to be Barack Obama’s running mate in the 2008 elections. Biden is, of course, correct, because Zionism is a political movement that is rooted in 20th century nationalism and fascism. Its use of religious dogmas is […]
Authored by Richard Breslow via Bloomberg, Over the course of the last few hours, we have been moving back and forth between being aghast at the market carnage, and all it might imply, and feeling agonizingly anxious about missing out on the rebound sure to be coming. Those are big emotional swings even by this market’s standards. There’s nothing wrong with trying to follow the momentum […]
Russian FM Sergey Lavrov has not professed his love for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, regardless of what Turkish media reported, the foreign ministry has stressed, and yes, we have the actual footage of the conversation. The talks in Moscow between President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart focused on the very hot topic of Syria’s Idlib, but some claimed things got steamy in another, unexpected […]
CNN’s Chris Cuomo issued a stinging, personal attack on the president for his “love of the death penalty,” tying it to a broader pattern of Donald Trump advocating for a certain kind of aggressive, state-sponsored violence by law enforcement and the military: “Boy, he sure loves his authoritarian muscle.” In his Friday night “Closing Argument” segment, Cuomo pivoted from the false claims and political insults Trump let […]
Not long after the 2008 Democratic Convention, Barack Obama had a chilly phone conversation with his running mate, Joe Biden. Obama was annoyed that Biden seemed to be saying something stupid on the campaign trail practically every week. This time it was Biden aimlessly speculating that Obama would be “tested” overseas after becoming president, which highlighted the nominee’s inexperience. That testing didn’t happen, but something else […]
There’s been a question to grapple with in recent years, as certain TV shows spike a rare, rabid mass popularity: Is the series that everyone is obsessed with actually good, or is it just on Netflix? Love Is Blind, the deranged reality TV dating series that launched at the end of February and has since inspired a flurry of binges, memes, group texts, and social media […]
Prior to the South Carolina primary, Russian state media were touting Senator Bernie Sanders as the most likely Democratic nominee, and it won’t be surprising if they do the same after Super Tuesday. There are many reasons they like to promote Sanders, none of them a credit to him. And they really don’t like Joe Biden. As Russian state media often make perfectly clear, Donald J. […]
The theme of this year’s CPAC was “America vs. Socialism,” as Trumpworld gears up to run against Bernie Sanders, even if they’re not quite ready to say that out loud. The last three days have been a blur of nasty looks, off-the-record threats, and panels like Socialism: Wrecker of Nations and Destroyer of Societies, Socialism Destroys the Economy, Socialism Destroys Humanity, and Socialism and the Great […]
This post contains spoilers for Netflix’s Love Is Blind finale. At long last, Love Is Blind fans finally know how Giannina Milady Gibelli and Damian Powers’ wedding turned out. The answer? Not great. Although Giannina poured her heart out in her vows, Damian was unable to say “yes.” As she realized what happened, Giannina told The Daily Beast, “Truthfully, I blacked out for a little bit.” […]
While the glory days of the New German Cinema of the 1970s are long gone, Christian Petzold remains the one contemporary German director who has made an impact on the film-going public and become an art house favorite. The best-known figure of the so-called “Berlin School” (a loose aggregation of directors, many of whom studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin during the […]
MSNBC contributor and editor at The Root Dr. Jason Johnson blasted Senator Bernie Sanders by calling out “racist, liberal whites” that support him, adding that the candidate seeking the Democratic nomination to take on President Donald Trump cares “nothing for intersectionality.” Johnson made the remarks directed at Sanders supporters and his staffers on The Karen Hunter Show on Sirius XM. “I do find it fascinating that […]
A former Department of Justice official who managed the executive clemency program during much of the ’90s says that President Donald Trump — in commuting the sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, and pardoning others including former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik and former San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo — circumvented the DOJ and did not follow regular procedure. And in the process, […]
On Feb. 15, news broke that former Love Island host Caroline Flack had killed herself. The TV presenter had been a regular fixture of U.K. tabloids, and was expected to appear at trial in March after pleading not guilty last year to assaulting her boyfriend with a lamp. Although we will likely never know the exact reasons Flack killed herself, actor and comedian Russell Brand fumed […]
Tourists came from near and far to see her. Women visited to pay their respects and beseech her to fulfill their hopes and dreams, while prominent families gave offerings to her on behalf of their female relatives. And at least one man, so the story goes, was so overcome with lust that his worshiping took an indecent turn, the shame of which caused him to throw […]
Authored by Bilal Hafeez via MacroHive.com, It’s easy to paint gloomy pictures of the world whether looking at market valuations, climate change or health scares. However, not all is lost, there are some things to appreciate. So I thought given it is Valentine’s Day, I’d find seven charts to love: (1) Odds of US Recession This Year Are Low When the US yield curve inverted last […]
Authored by Jonathan Turley, On this Valentine’s Day, the Democratic establishment is sending out its equivalent of “forget me nots” saying “Love is never having to say you’re Socialist.” Alarm over the surge of Bernie Sanders has turned widespread alarm in Democratic and media circles (sometimes hard to differentiate on some channels) into full-blown panic. With now a double digit lead over Biden in national polls, there is […]
Within the first hour of Netflix’s new reality dating show, Love Is Blind, a man and a woman who basically just met sit down to discuss how getting married, as essentially total strangers, might impact their futures. Seated on couches in separate rooms, they face one another but cannot see each other; a glowing, blue pane of frosted glass separates them, as it has since they […]