Katie Rich, the writer for Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” who sparked a backlash with a tweet targeting President Donald Trump’s 10-year-old son Barron, is no longer working on NBC’s veteran late-night sketch comedy show, Deadline reports. In an ill-conceived ...
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Watch this adorable ‘Dads Who Play Barbie’ campaign
According to Mashable, Mattel debuted its “Dads Who Play Barbie” campaign during Sunday’s AFC Championship game between the New England Patriots and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The clips show dads using Barbies to play the roles of patients and students to ...
Read More »Could Caroline Kennedy be the baggage-free Hillary Clinton? – New York Post
“Caroline had a successful ambassadorial run in Japan and feels really very confident about putting her hat in the ring for a New York congressional or Senate seat, with even possibly bigger political objectives down the road,” a source familiar ...
Read More »This Company Makes Cardboard Tanks, Planes and Houses For Cats, and Your Cat Needs Them Right Meow!
SUCK UK creates unique gifts, accessories, and items for the home, including super fun toys for our furry friends, Bored Panda reports. From planes to Cadillacs to scratch laptops to DJ decks to fire engines – they create them all ...
Read More »Trump executive order pulls out of TPP trade deal
The trade deal, a linchpin of ex-President Barack Obama’s Asia policy, was signed by 12 nations, the BBC reports. “Great thing for the American worker what we just did,” said Trump as he dumped the pact with a stroke of ...
Read More »Star Wars: Episode VIII now has a title: The Last Jedi
What was once Episode VIII is now The Last Jedi, E!Online reports. When cameras started rolling last year on the eighth film in the Skywalker family story, writer-director Rian Johnson used the tongue-in-cheek working title “Space Bear,” and numerous rumors (most of ...
Read More »Eurovision 2017: Ukraine releases promo video for the contest
A record high number of participant countries – 43 nations – will compete in Kyiv at the annual song contest Eurovision 2017 song contest on 9-13 May. Kyiv has previously hosted the competition in 2005, as well as the Junior ...
Read More »Suicide Squad director David Ayer says Joker should have been main villain, regrets not having ‘more grounded story’
So far, Warner Bros. and DC’s various superhero films have been met with a mixed reception, particularly last year’s Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad, both failing to impress critics, Independent reports. Fans of the comics – many of who were more positive ...
Read More »Teacher’s Inauguration Day Homework Is Winning the Hearts of Parents on Both Political Sides
She decided to draw up a poster that was later posted on Love What Matters on Facebook, and shared more than 57,000 times, IJR reports. It read: “Today is a very important day, today is inauguration day! This means that starting today, ...
Read More »Wanted: Couple who want to live on this wonderful uninhabitable island
Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service is looking for Maatsuyker Island caretakers. The 186 hectares island is located in the Southern Ocean about ten kilometers from Tasmania and is only accessible by helicopter. Wifi and TV are not present, but who ...
Read More »Italian hotel sent alert just before avalanche
Bruno Di Tommaso’s warning came in an email published by Italian media, as rescuers continued searching for 23 missing people at the Rigopiano hotel, the BBC reports. After the series of earthquakes, avalanche buried the remote hotel in Abruzzo, central ...
Read More »Ex.ua file-hosting site re-launched on fex.net domain
“We inform that Ex-files service was re-launched on the fex.net domain (File EXchange Network). It has been realized on the principally new technological platform. It would be more convenient for users,” Ex.ua said in a statement, according to Interfax-Ukraine. According ...
Read More »Watch 19 buildings demolished in 10 seconds in China
Nineteen buildings in Wuhan – from seven- to 12-story high – were cleared away to make room for a high-profile construction project including a 707-meter tall skyscraper, which would become the tallest in China and the second tallest in the ...
Read More »Study shows we may be showering too much
A study of the Yanomami pepole in the Amazon found that they had a far richer community of microbes in their skin, mouths and faeces, Metro reports. But some people are going further – and actually giving up showering altogether. ...
Read More »Couple makes stunning pictures of Iceland
Iceland is so beautiful, and no wonder that Adam and Martha, two Polish adventurers, fell in love with a breathtaking nature of this land. In 2014, they went for a few weeks to the island and eventually spent there six ...
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