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conceded defeat in the race for Los Angeles mayor on Friday, painting a bleak picture of the city’s future under either of his opponents and vowing to continue to “expose this corrupt machine.

“You have no idea how bad things are about to get for this city. The city is a mess, and you’re about to reward the arsonists who torched the place with four more years of destruction… My goal hasn’t changed. I’ve been laser-focused on stopping these co**ie animals, and I will stop them.”

Aaron Sorkin spent three days trying to get Jesse Eisenberg to come back as Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Reckoning," but the actor turned him down.
“I felt like it belonged to him, and he was certainly battle-tested,” Sorkin told Vanity Fair of originally wanting Eisenberg to reprise his Oscar-nominated role. “He simply did not want to be conflated with Mark Zuckerberg anymore, that he has his problems with the guy. He doesn’t like kids coming up to him in airports with business cards that say ‘I’m CEO, bitch’ for him to sign

A fight is brewing in Washington over who should be watching America's oceans — and how much it's worth.

A group of congressional Democrats has pledged to push back against the Trump administration's decision to wind down the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a roughly $370 million network of more than 900 deep-sea instruments. The lawmakers say they'll press for answers, demand hearings, and look for ways to restore funding before the equipment goes dark.

The network, built about a decade ago and run through the National Science Foundation, feeds scientists round-the-clock data on ocean currents, marine heat waves, fish habitats, and the kind of coastal flooding that hits East Coast communities. Instruments sit in waters off Oregon, Washington, Alaska, North Carolina, and a stretch of the North Atlantic between Greenland and Iceland.

Supporters of the cuts argue the system is expensive to maintain and that federal spending needs to be trimmed wherever possible. Opponents counter that pulling the instruments leaves a major blind spot — one they say could cost far more later when storms, floods, and fishing disruptions hit without early warning.

Now the lawmakers pledging to fight say the decision shouldn't be finalized without a full public debate. The administration says the review is part of a broader effort to rein in costs.

The bigger question hanging over it all: when the instruments go quiet, who fills the gap — and what happens if no one does?

Jimmy Kimmel attacks CBS for firing "60 Minutes" journalist Scott Pelley and says "clowns now run that show and the [network's] news division."

"The Trump suck-ups at CBS fired a great and deeply respected journalist, Scott Pelley, from his job at ’60 Minutes' because he stood up for truth and integrity at a show that’s been the gold standard for broadcast journalism for 57 years.”

Christopher Nolan's is officially rated R. The movie carries a reported budget of $250 million, making it perhaps the most expensive R-rated movie in history (topping the likes of “Joker: Folie à Deux” and “Deadpool & Wolverine”).

Olivia Rodrigo slams ICE and says it was enraging to discover Trump's White House was using her music to promote deportations.
"It was so deeply disturbing to see that propaganda, and the fact it was my song in there made me feel even more enraged. What they’re doing is so awful and barbaric and cruel. I am really sad to be in a country that thinks that’s okay.” (via Dazed)

Tom Holland once said "if I’m playing Spider-Man after I’m 30, I’ve done something wrong." He just turned 30 and suggests he said that to scare Sony into giving him a better deal.

"I could also have been trying to leverage Sony and scare them into thinking I wasn’t going to do ‘Spider-Man 4’ now that I had a new deal on the horizon. So I don’t know what it could have been. It could’ve been part of a strategy to create fear. I think the truth is that playing Spider-Man has been the joy of my life. I now kind of stand on the plinth of like, I’ll do it for as long as they’ll have me.” (via GQ)

Tony Awards 2026 host Pink got emotional about her and husband Carey Hart's daughter Willow Hart turning 15.

Kane Parsons' has crossed $100 million in just six days to become A24's biggest movie ever at the domestic box office (above “Marty Supreme” with $96 million).