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EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Jen Kober is set to release her first full-length special, Uber Famous, with Comedy Dynamics on June 2. The special, filmed in Kober’s hometown of Lake Charles, Louisiana, finds her at her most honest and joyful — sharing stories about family, identity, unexpected fame, and the beautifully messy road to self-acceptance. Jen Kober: Uber Famous is directed by Jeff DeRouen and produced by Super Nice Guys. Exec producers include Justin Silvera, Barbara Meyer, Jack Vaughn and Jay Siegan. Kober is a rotating headlining comedian for Cirque du Soleil’s Las Vegas show Mad Apple and a recipient of NPR’s Best Comedic Performance award on Snap…

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a swing at the Trump administration over a reported push for President Trump to be on a $250 bill.  The Washington Post reported Thursday that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which is charged with printing U.S. currency, had been pushed by Trump administration officials to create a…

Ravyn Lenae has announced a new album, Blue Island, her first since 2024’s Bird’s Eye and its billion-streams-and-counting breakout track “Love Me Not.” The LP is Lenae’s third full-length and arrives August 7 via Atlantic. Check out its new wave-y new single “Handle” below, along with an Andre Muir-directed music video that includes choreography by Akira Uchida.“‘Blue Island’ is a point of arrival, and feeling set in my ways and in who I am, and feeling free ofany of those preconceived notions about Blackness or what I had to be in the past,” Lenae said in a statement about the…

May 28, 2026, 03:53 AM ETThe UEFA Champions League final takes place Saturday in Budapest, Hungary, at noon ET (5 p.m. BST) in a blockbuster matchup of European giants.Fresh off their first Premier League title in over two decades, Arsenal are eager add a first Champions League trophy in club history to their cabinet. But as the competition’s defending champions, Paris Saint-Germain and their fearsome attack represent a formidable opponent for this winner-take-all showdown.ESPN writers Gab Marcotti, James Olley, Julien Laurens and Sam Tighe have you covered with the biggest storylines, keys to victory for each team and more –…

Is there anything better on a hot summer’s day than a nice cold slice of watermelon? It’s my birthday month, and I love the abundance of fresh summer fruits in June — like Mother Nature is offering up a birthday bounty just for me.  All the melons are at peak freshness this month. Watermelon, cantaloupe and honeydew, all of which people either love or hate. I think they get a bad rap — all melons are aces in my book.  What’s better on a hot summer day than a fresh watermelon slice? Nothing we can think of! (Prathyush Thomas/Wikimedia Commons)…

With a five-year EPS forecast of 69.11%, Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ:STX) is among the 12 Best Future Stocks to Buy Right Now. On May 12, Evercore ISI raised its price target on Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ:STX) to $1,000 from $750 while maintaining an Outperform rating on the shares. The firm cited efficient supply management, technological advancements, and a robust demand backdrop as key drivers supporting Seagate’s long-term outlook, adding that the company’s growth trajectory appears increasingly compelling as storage demand continues to expand in cloud and enterprise markets. Earlier, on May 6, Mizuho also raised its price target on…

EXCLUSIVE: The Sidemen continue to find innovative release strategies for their original shows. The British YouTube collective’s Sidemen Productions is working up cooking competition series Sidemen Presents: SideMenu, a four-part culinary competition series that will get an unusual staggered launch on both Prime Video and YouTube. Episode one will premiere on the MoreSidemen YouTube channel on Thursday, June 18, with Prime Video exclusively premiering episode two on Friday, June 19, with ep one made available at the same time. Episode three will launch on the Amazon streamer a week later (June 26) followed by the finale on Friday, July 3.…

About this storyThe tracker is maintained by The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit, nonpartisan good-governance organization. Researchers at the Partnership for Public Service follow presidential and congressional actions on approximately 800 top executive branch positions, a portion of more than 1,300 positions that require Senate confirmation.What positions are included and not included?The tracker includes all full-time, civilian positions in the executive branch that require Senate confirmation except for judges, marshals and U.S. attorneys. Military appointments and part-time positions requiring Senate confirmation are not included.There are officials who were confirmed during previous administrations for fixed periods…

Music executive Larry Jackson is suing to identify the anonymous person or people behind what he describes as a “coordinated, malicious, and ongoing campaign” targeting him, his independent label Gamma, and the label’s artists. He says the “reputational warfare” started after an article cast him as one of the masterminds of Kanye West’s “risky comeback.” In the 12-page complaint, filed in New York and obtained by Rolling Stone, Jackson says that shortly after Bloomberg published its story on April 23, an unidentified figure launched the websites “larryjacksonexposed.com” and “gammaexposed.com.” The sites published “false, misleading, and defamatory statements” about Jackson and…

Russia has denounced Berlin’s militarization campaign as a ploy to distract the public from internal problems Germany is drawing up a law that would force former soldiers to attend regular military exercises, as Berlin pushes ahead with its militarization campaign, Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday. Moscow has denounced the EU’s military buildup as aimed against Russia, and a ploy to distract the public from deepening domestic crises.According to the draft Reserve Strengthening Act seen by the German outlet, all men and women who have performed less than one year of voluntary military service and are under 45 will be required…