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Live from New York! As “Saturday Night Live” gears up for its 50th anniversary special, several alumni shared wild tales about their time on the iconic sketch comedy show, including comedian Laraine Newman, 72, who revealed she got on one EGOT winner’s bad side.(snip) While starring on “SNL” between 1975 and 1980, Newman played Streisand, in which she mocked her ego and salary in a sketch. “[SNL writer] Marilyn Miller wrote this incredible song called ‘Me,’ and the lyrics are great: ‘Even if one of my films sucks, it still makes 4 million bucks for me,'” the comedian recalled. Newman...

Twelve people were wounded when a grenade exploded in a bar in France's southeastern city of Grenoble on Wednesday, officials said. "Someone came in and threw a grenade, apparently without saying a word, and ran away," prosecutor Francois Touret-de-Courcy told journalists at the scene, where emergency workers had cordoned off the area. Two people were in critical condition, he said, adding that "many clients" were present when the grenade exploded, shortly after 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) at the bar in the Olympic Village neighbourhood, built when the picturesque city hosted the 1968 Winter Olympics. Touret-de-Courcy said investigators had not yet...

"The President has met his burden of establishing jurisdiction to proceed with his asserted claims that the non-resident defendants acted with actual malice or reckless disregard for the truth by knowingly conspiring with the Florida resident defendant to defame the President. Therefore, the trial court correctly denied the non-resident defendants’ motion to dismiss the President’s claims over the asserted publication of defamatory 'FAKE NEWS.'"

New York CNN — Elon Musk-owned X has agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit from his close ally President Donald Trump over Trump’s deplatforming following the January 6, 2021, insurrection, according to multiple reports that cite people familiar with the matter. After the January 6 riot, social media companies such as X, then known as Twitter, and Meta suspended Trump from their platforms at the end of his first term. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of...

A school board meeting descended into chaos during an argument over an LGBTQ pride book that was made available to children in kindergarten. The book, titled 'The Rainbow Parade', illustrates a young child and her two moms attending a pride parade together, where they see men in bondage holding hands and a near naked person walking the streets alone. Outraged parents from Penfield Central School in New York attended a board meeting on Tuesday night in an effort to voice their concerns, but were shut down by officials who refused to listen.

President Joe Biden’s border policies were a boon for private religious charities associated with the Catholic Church, which collectively received billions in grant money while helping house and resettle migrants, while a federal watchdog warned about mismanaged funds and a potential for fraud. The funding for these humanitarian programs that came through the Departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency has come under renewed scrutiny by President Trump and his administration, who seek to reverse years of financial incentives for the crisis of border crossings under their predecessor. Catholic Charities...

Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld: If the Gazans oppose Trump’s plan because it’s their land, then they are not refugees. You can’t be a refugee in your own home. If it’s not their land and it’s an open air prison like they say, they should be happy to leave. Whether it’s theirs or not, if I give you something and you abuse that thing and use it to cause me harm, well don’t be surprised if I take that thing back. We gave them Gaza in 2005. All of it. Every last inch. They could have had their Palestinian state. They chose...

The remarkable life story of Coast to Coast AM creator Art Bell may soon be coming to the silver screen by way of a biopic starring Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti. The percolating film project, set to be directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett of the acclaimed creative collective Radio Silence, has reportedly already drawn interest from Amazon and Warner Bros. Credited with spearheading the movie are producers Sophie Cassidy and Jeff Katz, who is a longtime fan of the late paranormal radio legend.

The Green Party’s economy minister Habeck wants to become the leader of Germany … just right after the bottle is broken.

For an industry that fashions its participants as diligent truth-seekers dedicated to uprooting government corruption, America’s legacy media has once again shown itself to be its biggest defender. The latest case study of this phenomenon came on Tuesday during an executive order signing ceremony featuring X owner Elon Musk, who President Donald Trump tasked with leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The president’s newly signed directive lays out guidance for DOGE and the administration in “eliminating waste, bloat, and insularity” within the federal bureaucracy.When the time came to field questions from the press, the media wasted no time in...

The Nuclear Grifter mocks Gaige Grosskreuz [Paul "The Predator" Prediger] to a fare-thee-well.

Disney is U-turning on its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and restoring some of its classic films to their former glory on its streaming platform Disney+. In a note sent to employees on Tuesday, obtained by Axios, Chief Human Resources Officer Sonia Coleman detailed the company's policy changes that removed previous alerts about scenes involving racial or outdated stereotypes. Disclaimers had been put on older titles like Dumbo and Peter Pan, which warned viewers of 'negative depictions and/or mistreatment of peoples or cultures'. Now, a new, updated advisory will read: 'This program is presented as originally created and may...

NASA said Tuesday they have revised their strategy in order to expedite the homecoming of two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS), the space agency said on Feb. 11.Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been aboard the space station for eight months, are now slated to return to Earth in mid-March—two weeks earlier than the previously anticipated late March or April timeframe, according to NASA.The change in plans involves SpaceX altering its capsule assignments for upcoming missions.“Human spaceflight is full of unexpected challenges,” Steve Stich, NASA’s commercial crew program manager, said in a statement released by...

Should Democrats worry about this new poll result from Cygnal? You'd better believe it, especially given the survey's juxtaposition with Donald Trump's first fortnight of executive actions. It turns out that real leadership and action appeal to more than just Maxine Dexter's reproductive senses. In a survey taken after Trump ordered an end to affirmative action, 42% of black men rated Trump favorably, an all-time high for this series. In fact, during most of Trump's first term, he'd have been fortunate to get to 42% favorable overall. Trump's support in the full electorate is also accelerating, Cygnal found:Black Men Love...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Ohio lawmakers are preparing to introduce the "Contraception Begins at Erection Act," which would make it illegal for men to have sex without trying to create a child. Two Ohio representatives, Anita Somani and Tristan Rader, posted a video to Bluesky detailing their plan regarding the bill, which was first introduced in Mississippi by Senator Bradford Blackmon. "Fair is fair, right?" Somani said in the video. "If this legislature is so dedicated to regulating women's bodies and their access to contraceptives and abortion care then let's start policing men in the same way. After all, it does...

Isn't this sumpthin" Holy smokes. HOLY SMOKES Robert Kennedy Jr., vile, disgusting family attacks and all, has cleared his cloture vote with room to spare and is on the clock for the confirmation vote as head of Health and Human Services. BREAKING: RFK Jr. has passed the Senate cloture vote, clearing a major hurdle toward confirmation!One step closer to officially becoming Secretary of HHS! pic.twitter.com/RFInDbAQsM— American Values 🗽 (@AVPac_US) February 12, 2025Astonishingly enough, even you-know-who came along for a ride on the 'Vote for Bobby Train.'Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski will vote YES to confirm RFK Jr. 🔥That’s 52 YES votes....

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday evening said the Trump Administration could not appeal an administrative stay entered by corrupt Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson. Another Biden holdover in the Executive Branch caught up in President Trump’s firing spree filed a lawsuit to get his job back – and a corrupt Obama judge sided with him earlier this week.

ransomnote: I was able to confirm this communication is real; here's a link to the French government website. I doubt the globalists have ever been this desperate before in their lives.https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files/ukraine/news/article/weimar-statement-france-germany-poland-italy-spain-united-kingdom-ukraine-hrvpFebruary 12, 2025

After America-hating Congresswoman Ilhan Omar hosted workshops advising illegal immigrants on how to avoid being deported, Rep. Brandon Gill said what a lot of America-loving Americans were thinking. “America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia,” Gill, a first-term Texas Republican, wrote on X. Omar, a Minnesota leftist and member of the House’s America Last “Squad,” fired back, calling Gill “stupid” for thinking “a member of Congress can be deported.” “I had to crawl my way into Congress, and I think these idiots who buy their seats have no idea what a privilege it is...

Mexico is making further overtures to avert President Donald J. Trump’s imposition of tariffs on exports to America. In their latest move, at President Claudia Sheibaum’s urging, the Mexican Senate approved on Tuesday the entry of a U.S. Special Forces group into the country, ostensibly to train Mexico’s marines as part of the “Strengthening the Capacity of the Special Operations Forces of the Navy” program.