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E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against Donald Trump resumed on Thursday, and this time it was the president himself who was in the hot seat. The former president took the witness stand in Manhattan civil court for a brief testimony largely devoid of the theatrics seen in his previous court outbursts.  Trump’s questioning was short. His attorney, Alina Habba, asked him if he stood by his deposition for the case, in which he denied Caroll’s allegations against him multiple times. He responded “100 percent yes.”…

Day two of E. Jean Carroll’s second defamation trial against Donald Trump featured not only testimony from the famed author, but several extremely tense exchanges between the former president’s lawyer, Alina Habba, and Judge Robert Kaplan.  The trial, which will determine what additional damages Trump owes Carroll after already having been found liable for sexual abuse and defamation last year, began on Tuesday alongside a barrage of attacks against Carroll by the former president. Shortly after arriving in court…

The defamation trial will begin in January after an appeals court rejected Trump's presidential immunity defense and a motion to stay that ruling E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against Donald Trump will go ahead in January after an appeals court rejected the former president’s motion to stay a previous ruling denying his attempt to use presidential immunity as a defense. Trump’s legal team filed the motion last week, seeking a 90-day stay to consider other appellate court options, or…

Jean Knight, a soul singer whose hits included the feisty “Mr. Big Stuff” and the funky “Do Me,” has died. She was 80.Knight died on Nov. 22 of natural causes in Tampa, Fla., family publicist Mona Giamanco confirmed Monday to The Times. “New Orleans and the music world mourns the loss of one of its most treasured musical daughters,” the family said in a statement. The announcement continued: “Knight’s legacy is not just a musical one; it is a testament to the enduring love between an artist, her hometown, and the fans…

Jean Knight, whose irrepressibly funky and disdainful song Mr Big Stuff was a major hit in 1971, has died aged 80. Her publicist confirmed she died from natural causes, with her friend Bernie Cyrus, executive director of the Louisiana Music Commission, also confirming the news to Rolling Stone.Knight was born Jean Caliste in New Orleans in 1943, and cut her first demo recording in 1965, a cover of Jackie Wilson’s Stop Doggin’ Me Around. She recorded a series of singles but her popularity initially didn’t reach further…

Jean Knight, whose 1971 smash hit “Mr. Big Stuff” spent five weeks at Number One on the R&B charts and Number Two on the Pop charts, has died at the age of 80, her longtime friend Bernie Cyrus confirmed to Rolling Stone. “She was the first person we appointed on the board when we took took it over and we had a long relationship with her and she was just fabulous,” Bernie Cyrus, who served as the executive director of the Louisiana Music Commission for two decades, says. “She was always willing to get involved…

Warning: The following article contains spoilers for Oppenheimer. There’s a lot to unpack in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The film considers at least three different timelines depicted across three dense hours of theoretical physics lessons, political machinations, interrogations, and at least two crucial romances in the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb. The latter holds a mystery never solved by the filmmaker or its source material — the biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J.…

“You not only didn’t scream out, but you started laughing?” E. Jean Carroll was asked this question by Joe Tacopina, the lawyer representing Donald Trump, in her sexual assault trial against the former president. Unfortunately, Carroll isn’t alone. Taylor Swift endured similar questions in her 2017 sexual assault lawsuit against a radio host. “The first thing they say to you in court is: Why didn’t you scream? Why didn’t you react quicker? Why didn’t you stand farther away from him?” Swift said in a 2020 documentary.…

Posted in: Comics | Tagged: cyclops, Jean Grey, krakoa, scott summers, x-menIn recent issues of the X-Men Jean Grey and Scott Summers found themselves at odds, all down to the alien parasitic species, The Brood. In recent issues of the X-Men, married but mingling Jean Grey and Scott Summers – Cyclops – found themselves at odds, and it all comes down to the alien parasitic species, The Brood.  As Bishop brought out Scott's genocidal tendencies in a meeting of the Quiet Council of Krakoa that both were invited to attend.…

I cannot believe that Morning Spoilers is how I find out that Dylan O’Brien is coming back to the big screen, but here I am, a fool for this silly actor who I think is neat (He’s going to be in Caddo Lake, FYI). Also, I want to point out that Silo, legitimately one of the best sci fi shows airing right now, has been renewed for a second season! Citadel, an expensive and charmless spy-fi thriller, also gets renewed. Good for Priyanka Chopra-Jonas. She deserves better, but... fine. Also, Marvel gets cute in the community…