“Anything that I didn’t ask that you think I should’ve asked?” It’s a standard final interview question for investigative journalists—a gesture of due diligence that acknowledges that the scope of the story might be wider than the reporter imagines. But when it’s posed from behind the camera in HBO’s Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Que…
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Phoebe Robinson is a hot mess on Everything’s Trash, her new sitcom on Freeform. Her character on the show—who also happens to be a podcaster named Phoebe—hides stacks of unpaid bills, exposes her nipple on Instagram Live and seems to shatter glass wherever she goes.
In real life, Robinson is a lot more composed and a “little bit more boring” than her…
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In 2019 Morgan Enselme, a contestant who participated in the French Big Brother adaptation Secret Story France 5 in 2011, did what many other reality stars deemed unthinkable: she spoke out against the superpower production company that runs the popular show. Over a 30-minute YouTube video, Enselme gave a look into the otherwise mysterious workings of reality TV.
Enselm…
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, capping rapid downfall for the companies.
Entities tied to FTX.com, FTX US and trading firm Alameda Research Ltd. were part of the filings, according to a Twitter statement Friday. Chapter 11 bankruptcy lets a company continue operating while it works out a plan to repay creditors.
Bankman-Fried res…
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Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday sued Ron DeSantis, alleging that the Florida governor engaged in a political effort to hurt its business. It’s the latest escalation in a dispute that started more than a year ago.
Read more: Bob Iger Outsmarting Ron DeSantis Is a Master Class in Taking on Bullies
DeSantis’s criticism of Disney over its perceived lib…
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Consumers and businesses are increasingly starting to use digital tokens other than Bitcoin for purchases, according to BitPay Inc., one of the biggest crypto payments processors in the world.
Last year, Bitcoin’s use at merchants that use BitPay dropped to about 65% of processed payments, down from 92% in 2020, the company told Bloomberg. Ether purchases accounted for 15% of the to…
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed that the bloc should step into the gas market to limit the price in relation to a key Dutch benchmark, which she said is no longer representative of the true cost.
She added that such a cap would still require a broad reduction in energy usage in the bloc.
To the untrained ear, Hester Peirce’s comment sounded anodyne, but everyone in the audience knew what she was doing: selling out her boss. “It’s fairly clear,” the U.S. Securities and Exchange commissioner said from the Washington conference stage, “that we’ve been taking an enforcement-first approach in an area where we should be taking a regulatory-first ap…
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Online critics are making calls to boycott Hershey after a trans woman was included on the chocolate bar’s wrappers for its International Women’s Day campaign in Canada.
The backlash is the most recent attack by conservative social media users against brands who they say are “too woke,” or in this case, “erasing women.”
#BoycottHersheys was the t…
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“I met with three different Jewish therapists. I chose you.” Sam Fortner, an unusually introspective serial killer played by Domhnall Gleeson, says many chilling things to Steve Carell’s character, Alan Strauss, the therapist he has kidnapped, in the premiere of FX’s The Patient (which will stream exclusively on Hulu beginning Aug. 30). Yet that’s the utte…
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