One cut from Taylor Swift left reality TV icon Kim Kardashian bleeding followers on social media.
According to the New York Post’s Page Six, Kardashian has lost 100,000 Instagram followers since Swift released the album “The Tortured Poets Department” on Friday. The album contains a song that has been widely accepted being aimed at Kardashian.
Kardashian appeared on Jimmy Kimmel’s show Monday night, but made no comments about the song, nor did Kimmel ask her about it, according to Us.

Swift has not made any public comment about the song.
The song in question is titled  “thanK you aIMee”, which, as a few million Swifites have pointed out, uses the capital letters to spell “KIM.”

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EOnline dubbed the song an “allegorical retelling of Taylor and Kim’s history in the form of Taylor versus a high school bully.”
“Everyone knows that my mother is a saintly woman / But she used to say she wished that you were dead,” the song goes, according to genius.com.

“And so I changed your name, and any real defining clues And one day, your kid comes home sin …

An elderly West Virginia man who was the suspect in a cold case double murder died in police custody on Monday just hours before the bodies of his alleged victims were found.
The two dead had been missing since the year 2000, when they were living with Larry Webb — who died while awaiting trial in a Fayette County, West Virginia, Monday morning, WVVA reported.
Webb was indicted for the murder of 10-year-old Natasha “Alex” Carter last October in Raleigh County, but he remained free until earlier this month, according to WVNS-TV.

The child and her mother, Susan Carter, were last seen in August 2000 when they moved in with Webb at his home near the community of Beckley, the outlet reported.
Cold case investigators found DNA evidence last year that was compelling enough that Webb — who was then in his eighties — was charged wit …

Two young siblings died and more than a dozen other people were injured when a suspected drunken driver crashed into a children’s birthday party on Saturday.
According to The Detroit News, an 8‑year-old girl and her 5‑year-old brother were killed when a vehicle was driven into the Swan Creek Boat Club in Berlin Township, Michigan.
The outlet identified the siblings as Alanah and Zayn Phillips.

Their mother, Mariah, and older brother, Jayden, were injured in the crash and remained in critical condition on Monday.
According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the tragedy happened about 3 p.m. when a 66-year-old woman drove her vehicle into the boat club, stopping 25 feet inside the building, the News reported.

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The Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday morning that the suspect, Marshella Chidester of Newport, Michigan, had been hit with eight criminal charges, including two counts of second-degree homicide.
“The scene was described by first responders as extremely chaotic, with high levels …

Former LSU basketball star Angel Reese called for protecting women’s athletics in a social media post on Monday.
The “Bayou Barbie” who helped lead the Tigers to an Elite Eight appearance in this year’s NCAA tournament did not explain why she posted about this issue on X.
But her short statement came days after the Biden administration revised Title IX sex discrimination regulations in a blow to women.

“[P]rotect young women in sports!!!” said Reese, who was drafted by the WNBA’s Chicago Sky last week.

protect young women in sports!!!
— Angel Reese (@Reese10Angel) April 22, 2024

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Her post had received more than 83,000 likes and 11,000 reposts by Tuesday morning.

While Reese offered no specifics, many concluded the 21-year-old forward was criticizing the White House’s swe …

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Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin got angry and knocked the mobile phone out of the hands of an anti-Israel protester who was taunting him over the shooting of two people on the set of a film two years ago.
The woman was attempting to force Baldwin to utter the phrase “Free Palestine,” but she also slammed him over the deadly shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021.
“Alec, can you please say ‘Free Palestine’ one time? Why did you kill that lady?” she asked Baldwin while he was at the counter of a coffee shop in New York City, according to the U.K. Daily Mail. (The report did not specify when the confrontation occurred, but the video was po …

The trial of Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly — charged with killing an illegal immigrant on his property in 2023 — has ended in a mistrial.
The jury had deliberated on Friday without reaching a verdict and spent Monday deliberating again, according to KSAZ-TV in Phoenix.
“Based upon the jury’s inability to reach a verdict on any count, this case is in mistrial,” Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink said.

🚨#BREAKING: An Arizona Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink has declared a mistrial in the case of the 75-year-old George Alan Kelly, an Arizona rancher who was charged with second-degree murder for fatally shooting an illegal alien on his property in 2023. pic.twitter.com/289yoYzph7
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) April 23, 2024

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The mistrial came after 15 hours of deliberations and a monthlong trial.
“They won’t wear me down,” Kelly told reporters afterward, according to the Arizona Republic.

Prosecutors …

ESPN NBA commentator Kendrick Perkins has had some outlandish takes in his career, but this one may take the cake.
In an appearance on ESPN’s “NBA Countdown” on Sunday to discuss the Boston Celtics’ 114–94 win over the Miami Heat in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series, Perkins declared that the series is already over, and that the Heat have no chance to win.
In fact, he was so confident that the Heat are done for that he even said that the Heat would lose the series even if they didn’t miss a single sho …

Stormy Daniels‘ ex-lawyer isn’t a fan of the Stormy Daniels business-fraud case.
In a jailhouse interview published Monday, Michael Avenatti laid into the case currently being tried now in New York against former President Donald Trump, calling it “absolute overkill” and election interference.

“I certainly see [Mr. Trump] as a victim of the system,” he told Fox News Digital.

“That’s something that I never thought I would say,” said the man who spent years as a go-to anti-Trump talking head on cable-news shows. “If Michael Avenatti is coming to his defense, and I was one of his staunchest opponents for a very significant period of time, that should tell people something.”
Avenatti, who was sentenced to four years in prison for stealing from Ms. Daniels when he was her lawyer, called the four separate criminal cases against Mr. Trump “absolute overkill” against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

“You’ve got a group of individuals in the United States who have decided that they know better …

Elon Musk’s X banned a post that claimed noncitizens are registering and voting in U.S. elections on a wide scale, saying it was “hate speech” and violated the platform’s terms because it attacked a “protected group.”
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC said it received the warning after it used its advertising account to highlight the noncitizen voting issue.

The offending message from ALIPAC read, “Non-citizens & illegal migrants are registering & voting in our elections on a wide scale!” That was pasted over an image of a truth-meter rating of “TRUE.”

After asking for an explanation from X, the PAC received a perplexing response with a new explanation th …

A recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that opting for vegan meat products, such as faux sausages and burgers, does not provide a clear advantage for heart health and may even be associated with higher blood pressure in some cases.
Researchers embarked on the experiment to analyze the health impacts of plant-based meat alternatives compared to traditional meat consumption. 

“At present, producing these plant based meat alternatives often involves a substantial amount of processing,” study co-author Dr. Sumanto Haldar, a lecturer in nutrition science at Bournemouth University, told the Daily Mail. “The end products can be high in salt, saturated fat and additives in order to m …

HELENA, Mont. — A federal jury on Monday said BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people who were exposed to asbestos decades ago when tainted mining material was shipped through a Montana town where thousands have been sickened.
The jury awarded $4 million each in compensatory damages to the estates of the two plaintiffs, who died in 2020. Jurors said asbestos that spilled in the rail yard in the town of Libby, Montana was a substantial factor in the plaintiffs’ illnesses and death.

The jury did not find that BNSF acted intentionally or with indifference so there will be no punitive damages awarded. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. acquired BNSF in …

LAS VEGAS — A $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area has started construction, officials said Monday, amid predictions that millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028.
“People have been dreaming of high-speed rail in America for decades,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement released to coincide with a ceremony at the future site of a terminal to be built just south of the Las Vegas Strip.

Buttigieg predicted the project will bring “thousands of union jobs, new connections to better economic opportunity, less congestion on the roads, and less pollution in the air.”

Brightline West, whose sister company already operates a fast train between …

NEW YORK — “Civil War,” Alex Garland’s ominous American dystopia, remained the top film in theaters in its second week of release, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The A24 election-year gamble, the indie studio’s biggest budgeted film yet, took in $11.1 million in ticket sales at 3,929 theaters over the weekend. The $50 million film, set in a near-future U.S. in which Texas and California have joined in rebellion against a fascist president, has grossed $44.9 million in two weeks.

Its provocative premise – and A24’s marketing, which included images of U.S. cities ravaged by …

President Biden celebrated Earth Day on Monday by announcing $7 billion in federal grants to help low-income households afford solar panels, as he tries to lock down the support of young, climate-focused progressives who supported him in the last election.
The solar power grants will serve more than 900,000 households in low- and middle-income communities and will be awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Mr. Biden said the grants will reduce emissions by the equivalent of 30 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and could save households across the country $350 million annually. 

“Energy costs are among the biggest causes for families to budget, particularly among poor and middle-income families,” Mr. Biden said. “In …

The Democrats’ secret weapon … flatulence.
The man who led Bill Clinton into the White House said party members should keep Joe Biden in it by trolling former President Donald Trump with “fart sounds.”

Democratic strategist James Carville doubled down on claims made by anti-Trump activists that the former president is deliberately passing wind at his current trial by saying that they should disrupt his rallies that way.

“When you go to Trump rallies … go to your cell phone and get farting sounds,” Mr. Carville said. “I tried it today, even as stupid as I am. You can get a million farting sounds.”
The self-styled “Ragin’ C …

President Joe Biden stopped by a Sheetz location on Wednesday to purchase snacks while on a campaign swing through Pennsylvania on the same day that his Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against the company and two of its subsidiaries.
Apparently, no one informed the president that his administration considered Sheetz guilty of racial discrimination against applicants. Or someone did tell Biden that, and he just didn’t care.
It might not matter, given the questionable nature of the claim against the company.

“According to the lawsuit, Sheetz has maintained a longstanding practice of screening all job applic …

The Writers Guild of America strike that crippled Hollywood for months last summer might have ended up being a Pyrrhic victory for those who wanted it most.
After supposedly winning big against the big, bad studios back with an agreement in September, writers have been feeling a sharp contraction in the industry ever since.
As entertainment news site Deadline reported last week, many have remained out of work since walking the picket lines last summer, with the boom of streaming shows finally reaching the bust stage.

“I sort [of] remember somewhere in 2019, I remember looking around and saying, ‘This is a gold rush. We’re in a boom town. And I’m not sure how long this thing is sustainable,’” veteran writer Neil Gaiman told the outlet.
“Right now, the boom is over, the gold rush has finished,” the “Good Omens” creator said.

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An alleged sexual predator in suburban Seattle was killed by police last week after he engaged officers with a firearm during what he thought was going to be a meetup with two small children, police said.
Video of the deadly officer-involved shooting was released by the Seattle Police Department over the weekend, and it showed how quickly some situations with armed criminals can escalate.
According to KOMO-TV, the incident occurred Wednesday shortly before 3:15 p.m. when a 67-year-old man showed up at the DoubleTree Suites hotel in the community of Tukwila — just miles south of downtown Seattle.

The man thought he had been conversing online with two little girls ages 7 and 11, but he had actually been communicating with officers from the Washington State Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
A police body camera captured the harrowing moment for the officers who confronted the suspect in the hotel hallway.
…

As the Biden administration accelerates their strategy of promoting abortion as their go-to issue ahead of the November elections, a new poll confirmed the results of numerous previous polls, showing that a supermajority of American voters oppose abortion after the third month of pregnancy — a view that is not in line with the Democratic Party’s public position of unrestricted abortion.
On Wednesday, Rasmussen Reports released the results of a poll revealing that 66 percent of American voters are opposed to late-term abortions beyond 12 weeks. These latest numbers are largely similar to polling results from the last 20 years, which show anywhere from 55 to 71 percent of Americans opposing second trimester abortions and 70 to …