• Halsey says she was hit by police pellets and ‘gassed’ during LA protests

    Halsey says she was hit by police pellets and ‘gassed’ during LA protests

    Halsey says she was hit by pellets and “gassed” for hours as she stood with Yungblud on the frontlines of George Floyd protests in Los Angeles. “I dont know how to articulate the horrors of today. [National Guard] + officers firing rounds into kneeling crowds,” the 25-year-old “Nightmare” singer tweeted Sunday in a series of …
  • CEO of pharmaceutical giant Merck: George Floyd ‘could be me’

    CEO of pharmaceutical giant Merck: George Floyd ‘could be me’

    The CEO of pharmaceutical giant Merck on Monday said he watched the videotape of George Floyd being killed by a white officer with the knowledge that it “could be me.” “What the African American community sees in that videotape is that this African American man, who could be me or any other African American man, …
  • Meghan Markle and Prince Harry hire Tyler Perry’s security team after drone scare

    Meghan Markle and Prince Harry hire Tyler Perry’s security team after drone scare

    After living in Tyler Perry’s luxe Los Angeles home for over a month, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have hired the director’s private security team to look after them and the property following an upswing in drone activity around the mansion. StyleCaster reports the Sussexes began expressing concern for the well-being of son Archie — …
  • Worldwide soccer scandal satirized in Amazon’s ‘El Presidente’

    Worldwide soccer scandal satirized in Amazon’s ‘El Presidente’

    The new Amazon series “El Presidente,” premiering Friday, lays bare the 2015 FIFA soccer scandal that exposed the international organization’s wide-ranging corruption, resulting in the ouster of its president, Sepp Blatter, and the arrests of top-tier members — including US officials. The gripping eight-episode series, created by Oscar-winning screenwriter Armando Bo (“Birdman”), tells a tale …
  • FDA asks drugmakers to recall several diabetes drugs over contaminants

    FDA asks drugmakers to recall several diabetes drugs over contaminants

    US health regulators are telling five drugmakers to recall their versions of a widely used diabetes medication after laboratory tests found elevated levels of a contaminant linked to cancer. The Food and Drug Administration said late Thursday that several batches of the drug metformin tested positive for unsafe levels of N-Nitrosodimethylamine, a possible cancer-causing chemical …
  • 1Oak founder’s #ZoomFest invites everyone behind the velvet rope — finally

    1Oak founder’s #ZoomFest invites everyone behind the velvet rope — finally

    If you’ve ever wanted a glimpse of what star-studded club culture is like, you probably won’t get it at #ZoomFest. In fact, you may not ever get it again, according to Ronnie Madra, co-founder of the illustrious 1Oak nightclub in New York City, where celebs such as Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Rihanna, the Kardashians, Leonardo DiCaprio, …
  • Halsey says she’s studying to take the bar exam

    Halsey says she’s studying to take the bar exam

    They say there are no second acts in American lives, but … Halsey is apparently studying constitutional law while quarantined. The “You Should Be Sad” singer, 25, included a close-up of a book of constitutional law studies by Erwin Chemerinsky in a recent Instagram update. “Law is fun but hard,” she wrote in the caption …
  • AstraZeneca may expose coronavirus vaccine participants to pathogen

    AstraZeneca may expose coronavirus vaccine participants to pathogen

    The chief executive of AstraZeneca, which is developing a leading coronavirus vaccine with Oxford University, said it is too early to deliberately expose trial participants to the pathogen, but it may become an option if ongoing tests hit a snag. The British drugmaker last week started phase 2 and 3 trials of the vaccine, looking …
  • How a serial cougher scandalized the UK version of ‘Millionaire’

    How a serial cougher scandalized the UK version of ‘Millionaire’

    Here’s one Charles and Diana scandal you’ve probably never heard about. The three-part series “Quiz,” premiering Sunday (10 p.m. on AMC), chronicles the real-life cheating incident that nearly destroyed Britain’s version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” in 2001 — when Major Charles Ingram (Matthew Macfadyen, “Succession”) and his wife, Diana (Sian Clifford, “Fleabag”), …
  • Larry Kramer, who hated critics, is why I became one

    Larry Kramer, who hated critics, is why I became one

    “Larry Kramer was a nice guy” . . . is not a sentence you’ll be reading much today. The forefather of AIDS activism, who died Wednesday at age 84, was, by most accounts, an obnoxious firebrand whose unrestrained volatility helped save millions of lives. He owned that, and was proud of it. That’s all true. But to …