Brunei Says It Won’t Impose Death Penalty On Gays After Backlash – Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah on Sunday extended a moratorium on the death penalty to incoming legislation prohibiting gay sex, seeking to temper a global backlash led by celebrities such as George Clooney and Elton John. [f24]
Exclusive: Images Show North Korea Missile Launch As Pyongyang Tests Trump – A new satellite image obtained by CNN shows the smoke trail of a Friday rocket launch by North Korea that is likely a short-range missile, according to the group that analyzed the picture. [cnn]
Trump Spent His Morning Retweeting Alt-Right Extremists And Shared A Video from InfoWars – Facebook banned far-right figures like Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos, provoking a presidential backlash on Twitter. [esquire]
Trump Threatens China With More Tariffs Ahead Of Final Trade Talks – President Trump, emboldened by a strong American economy and wary of criticism that an evolving trade deal with China would not adequately benefit the United States, threatened on Sunday to impose more punishing tariffs on Chinese goods in an attempt to force additional concessions in a final agreement. [nyt]
Country House, A 65-1 Long Shot, Wins Kentucky Derby After Historic Disqualification – In a stunning and historic Kentucky Derby upset, the horse that crossed the finish line first was not the one that was declared the winner. [npr]
Trump Says Kentucky Derby Ruling Was ‘Not A Good One’ – President Trump had an opinion about the outcome of the Kentucky Derby and shared it — as he does with so many other opinions — on Twitter on Sunday. [nyt]
Biden Gives Trump A Nickname: ‘Clown’ – Joe Biden on Saturday referred to President Donald Trump as a “clown” after a supporter asked the former vice president whether he would return Trump’s insults. [politico]
Proof Of Why Starting Your Savings As Early As Possible Is So Important – Everybody tells you that starting your retirement savings as early as possible is crucial. Weigh up the numbers, and the penny really drops. [here]
Why Meghan Markle Could Have A Caesarean? Or Will She Be Induced? – Meghan Markle fears she may need a Caesarean section, insiders have revealed, despite her intention to do everything in her power to have a “normal, natural birth”. [express]
Ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman – Says he was ‘really stupid’ to ever think his marriage to teenager Mandy Smith when he was 52 would work. [dm]
Michael Cohen To Serve Time With ‘The Situation’ And Fyre Fest’s Billy McFarland – Donald Trump’s former fixer will have some celebrity neighbors at the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, New York. [huff]
Here’s What Happens On Scientology’s Cruise Ship, The Freewinds. It Sounds Pretty Intense – When you hear the phrase “Scientology cruise ship,” it may conjure images of Tom Cruise playing shuffleboard on the deck while church members sunbathe and sip strawberry daiquiris. [cnn]
Adam Sandler Returns To SNL, Sings ‘I Was Fired’ With Chris Rock – “I was fired, I was fired, NBC said that I was done,” he concluded. “Then I made over $4 billion at the box office so I guess you could say I won.” [beast]
Three Superb SA Doccies Everyone Should Watch – Sometimes you want to watch TV that serves as an escape to another universe, but a well-made documentary can be just as riveting. [here]
‘Yesterday’: A Musical Fairy Tale That Asks What If The Beatles Didn’t Exist? – Danny Boyle’s new musical rom-com, ‘Yesterday,’ imagines an alternate reality in which there were no Beatles and a young busker must introduce the world to their music. [beast]
Miss America, Miss Teen USA And Miss USA Are All Black Women For The First Time – Despite a long history of segregation and racism, America’s top pageants have broken racial barriers in recent decades. Vanessa Williams became the first black woman to win the Miss America title in 1984. Carole Gist won Miss USA in 1990. Janel Bishop won Miss Teen USA in 1991. [nyt]
Moment A Drunk Wayne Rooney Triggers An Airport Alarm – By stumbling through a secure door he thought was a lift, just moments before he was arrested while ‘slurring’ his words and thrown in a cell., [dm]
Box Office: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Passes ‘Titanic’ Globally With $2.2B – The Marvel title now sits as the second-highest-grossing film of all time, only behind James Cameron’s ‘Avatar.’ [hrep]
Is Game Of Thrones Really Setting Up The Battle Of The Mad Queens? – Or is there something more complicated in store? [vanfair]
Hot, Heavy, And Heard: Audio Porn, Once an R-Rated Reddit Phenomenon, Goes Mainstream – Fake choking, ambient moans—audio porn is going from a hobby to a money-maker. Three performers describe their lives sighing and moaning for a living. [beast]
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