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Assisted Dying Bill falls in the House of Lords – Humanists UK

Assisted Dying Bill falls in the House of Lords – Humanists UK

Published by Sam Flores

The Assisted Dying Bill has failed in the House of Lords due to a deliberate filibuster by a small number of peers opposed to the principle of assisted dying. Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision deplore the use of dirty tactics on a Bill of this importance and urge MPs to bring the Bill back in the next parliamentary session. Humanists UK’s Chief Executive Andrew Copson said: ‘The actions of a small group of unelected peers on this Bill have been deplorable. It’s a stain on our democracy and a slap in the face to hundreds of terminally ill people and their families, who were given hope when MPs voted in favour last year. ‘The elected chamber must bring back this Bill. Dying people want choice and compassion at the end of their lives. The status quo leaves people dying in pain with three awful options: fly to Switzerland, refuse food and treatment, or suffer. Those options are unacceptable.’ Graham Winyard, Board Member of My Death, My Decision, said: ‘I’m equal parts outraged and …

Summer House Reunion Not Have Ciara, Amanda, West Sit-Downs With Andy

Summer House Reunion Not Have Ciara, Amanda, West Sit-Downs With Andy

Published by Daniella Wilson

The highly anticipated Summer House season 10 reunion was filmed on Thursday, where Ciara Miller will come face to face with her former friend and ex-boyfriend, Amanda Batula and West Wilson, for the first time since they announced their romance. But while the show’s controversy has been compared to that of Vanderpump Rules‘ infamous Scandoval, Summer House will not be following in the show’s footsteps and altering its reunion format. Season 10 of the Lisa Vanderpump-led series went up in flames when Tom Sandoval had an affair with Rachel Leviss, his Vanderpump co-star and friend to his longtime girlfriend Ariana Madix. The scandal swiftly went viral, and at the reunion for the reality series, Bravo boss Andy Cohen sat down with all three parties involved separately to gather their side of the story. Miller, Batula and Wilson will not film scenes with Cohen separate from the main Summer House reunion, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The reunion will follow Bravo’s typical format of the whole cast being present and seated on two couches to hash …

Mentalist Oz Pearlman headlines White House Correspondents’ Dinner : NPR

Mentalist Oz Pearlman headlines White House Correspondents’ Dinner : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Mentalist Oz Pearlman, pictured in December, has gone viral for appearing to read the minds of news anchors, podcast hosts, professional athletes and Fortune 500 CEOs. His next venue is a room of politicians and political journalists in D.C. Arturo Holmes/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Arturo Holmes/Getty Images The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, a century-old night of mingling for politicians and political journalists, won’t feature a roast by a comedian this year. Instead, bucking decades of tradition, Saturday’s headliner is a mentalist: Oz Pearlman, whose mind-reading, PIN-guessing tricks have made him a favorite of social media, late-night shows, professional sports teams and corporate clientele. “As the world’s most celebrated mentalist, Oz Pearlman will offer a fascinating glimpse into what’s truly on the minds of Washington’s newsmakers,” association president Weijia Jiang, of CBS News, said in a February announcement teasing an “exciting, fresh, and interactive evening.” Pearlman, 43, has been a full-time entertainer for over two decades, but he’s been doing magic for much longer. He started doing card, rope and coin tricks as …

A Black Detective in the White House: The Residence

A Black Detective in the White House: The Residence

Published by Jenni Sidey

Courtesy of Eagle Eye Drama and Huge Designs (UK) [Spoiler alert: Netflix’s The Residence is, in one respect, a mystery about a murderer. Toward the end of this post, the murderer is revealed.] For Bob Grunst, the only twitcher I know “Unpredictable recurrence is not a sign of language’s ambiguity but is a fact: of language, as such, that there are words.”– Stanley Cavell, “Macbeth Appalled” “Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time the toxic reaction sets in after all.”– Victor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich “Would you show me this house? One doesn’t often get the chance.”– Dr. Jacquith to Miss Vale in Now, Voyager Much as Icarus owes his reputation to imitating a bird, so the ordinary language philosopher J. L. Austin could attribute his ascent to fame to a goldfinch. The goldfinch appears in Austin’s “most Wittgensteinian piece of writing in terms of method and literary format,” according to Austin’s biographer M. W. Rowe. …

Anthropic becomes impossible for White House to ignore

Anthropic becomes impossible for White House to ignore

Published by Sam Flores

Anthropic’s new Mythos model is keeping the company’s foot in the White House’s door despite the Trump administration blacklisting the firm’s products from military and government work earlier this year.  Mythos, Anthropic’s most advanced model to date, has drawn interest from various parts of the federal government, giving the artificial intelligence firm a chance to… Source link

‘Summer House’ Star Ciara Miller Cast in ‘Dancing With the Stars’

‘Summer House’ Star Ciara Miller Cast in ‘Dancing With the Stars’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Dancing With the Stars is returning for another season, and the ABC dancing competition’s first casting announcement is a headline-making one. Summer House star Ciara Miller and Maura Higgins (The Traitors, Love Island) are the first two celebrity cast members joining season 35. ABC announced the renewal and early castings on Wednesday during Hulu‘s Get Real House 2026 presentation, spotlighting the streamer and ABC’s unscripted slate. DWTS will return this fall on ABC and Disney+, streaming next-day on Hulu. The full cast of celebrities and pro dancers will be announced at a later date. Miller is a coup for DWTS and capitalizes on ABC’s long-running reality series enjoying a resurgence last season. After 20 years on the air, DWTS made a major comeback with season 34’s resurgent ratings and all-time high audience interaction that the show’s production team credited to boosts from TikTok and social media, as well as casting. The season also had its highest-performing finale in 10 years. Miller’s casting continues that trend, as the Bravo breakout who had already carved herself out …

A Style History of “Nerd Prom”: The White House Correspondents’ Dinner

A Style History of “Nerd Prom”: The White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Published by Sam Flores

Did you know that one of the most famous and widely circulated photos of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was taken at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? Back in 1999, months before their tragic deaths, JFK Jr. and CBK, as they’re known by the zillennials who consider them their style oracles, attended the yearly dinner. Carolyn wore a Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture frock from that very same year’s spring collection—its been endlessly mood-boarded and reshared as fashion inspiration. The dinner is not quite as much of a sartorial touchpoint as the Met Gala, which follows it by days, but it has, over the years, delivered its fair share of fashion catnip. As the fashion world anticipates the arrival of the first Monday in May, politicos in Washington, DC, are expecting Donald Trump and Melania to appear at the dinner for the first time since the former became president. This year’s Met Gala is being sponsored, in part, by Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos. We’re in for a tale of two …

House Democrat questions DOJ on possible Ghislaine Maxwell pardon

House Democrat questions DOJ on possible Ghislaine Maxwell pardon

Published by Sam Flores

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) sent a Wednesday letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) strongly opposing the possibility of a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime partner and accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  “I am writing to express my disgust at the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) reported willingness to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell,” Krishnamoorthi… Source link

White House Correspondents’ Dinner: 11 Memorable Moments in History

White House Correspondents’ Dinner: 11 Memorable Moments in History

Published by Sam Flores

1997: Jon Stewart Cajoles the Late Senator Kennedy Jon Stewart’s 1997 speech took place before he was the host of The Daily Show, but the young comic made an impression with jokes like this zinger about the late senator Edward Kennedy. “I love Senator Kennedy. I think that guy’s the coolest. Although I do think he has kind of an enormous head. Honestly, it doesn’t even look like a head. It looks more like a container for a head.” After one of his jokes received a particularly positive reaction from the audience, Stewart quipped, “One more like that, and maybe I’ll be able to go to the Vanity Fair party. Boy, that’s a tough ticket.” US President Bill Clinton clipping the bushes at the White House from Clinton’s video for the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2000.Photo by The White House via Getty Images. 2000: Bill Clinton’s Final Days It’s not uncommon for presidents and comics to use video clips as part of their WHCD routines. At his final correspondents’ dinner, former president Bill Clinton …