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Source: CBS News.

It’s been some 50 years since Patti LaBelle first sang her hit song “Lady Marmalade.” As she marks her 82nd birthday, LaBelle talks to correspondent Tracy Smith about her career and what’s next.

Tuner, Black Bear’s fourth release since launching a domestic distribution arm last summer, had a nice $102k opening at 4 theaters in NY and LA and is eyeing $122k for the four-day holiday weekend including. Memorial Day Monday. The distributor plans a moderate national expansion to about 375 screens (exact number still TBD) next week […]

Source: Deadline.

The Senate GOP primary runoff in Texas is suddenly shaping up to be a wipeout, according to prediction markets, as Republican voters prepare to choose Tuesday who will face Democrat James Talarico in November.

In what was once a toss-up Senate primary race, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn battled for an endorsement from President Donald Trump. Paxton won that fight, and the shift in markets quickly followed suit.

As of Sunday afternoon, Paxton led incumbent John Cornyn by nearly 90% on the online prediction market Kalshi. And on Polymarket, Paxton had a 96% chance of winning Tuesday’s election.

Just days earlier, on May 18, Kalshi had Paxton with a 63.7% chance of winning the nomination and Cornyn at 37.2%. 

Trump’s endorsement came on May 19. And by the next morning, the market had completely split. Paxton surged to 90.1%, with Cornyn at 10.3%. Texas Republican primary runoff polling also showed Paxton surging ahead of Cornyn in the days immediately following Trump’s endorsement.

The two will go head to head on Tuesday in a runoff that will decide who advances to face Talarico, a 36-year-old state lawmaker, in the general election in November.

The president called Paxton a “true MAGA Warrior” who has “ALWAYS delivered for Texas” in his endorsement posted on social media. Trump called Cornyn a “good man” but deemed him as “not supportive” when “times were tough” — though he didn’t outright mention the GOP incumbent’s vote on Jan. 6, 2021, not objecting to certifying the 2020 presidential election results. 

Senate Republicans have voiced frustrations over the president’s endorsement as they hoped to keep their current colleague, Cornyn, in his seat. Republicans worry that Paxton, who supported Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, carries too much baggage from his indictment on charges of felony securities fraud and impeachment, among other controversies.

“To call Paxton ethically challenged is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said Sunday on CNN. “This guy is an empty suit and will do us no service by being in the U.S. Congress. I hope that Texans realize how tough John Cornyn is.”

In spite of the uphill battle, Cornyn continued fighting Sunday to fend off Paxton, touting external endorsements and encouraging registered voters to turn out on Tuesday.

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“When we start to erase ourselves, it’s time to ask: ‘Why am I at war with myself? Is it something I can surgically fix, or is it something I need to intimately question myself about?’”

Source: Vogue

Don’t Speak, Blake Shelton … just enjoy seeing your wife, Gwen Stefani, and her No Doubt bandmates on the Sphere stage! The country music star made it out to Sin City on Saturday to support his better half … clapping, laughing and cheering her…

From TMZ.

Nearly five years on from the school ban, young women say they have waved goodbye to their dreams.

Source: BBC.

Nearly five years on from Afghanistan’s school ban, young women say they have waved goodbye to their dreams.

Source: BBC.

A rainy weather pattern will continue to plague the eastern half of that nation on Sunday.

Source: ABC News

From The Hill

The Ebola outbreak spreading throughout Central Africa is the first major outbreak since the Trump administration demolished its global health programs and largely withdrew from the world stage last year.  Experts say the absence is palpable. While the U.S. is sending resources and teams of experts overseas, public health and infectious disease experts say President…

Apple TV has, throughout the years, cemented itself as a platform of curiosities, offering televisual projects that resist easy genre categorization. David J. Rosen’s Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, starring Tatiana Maslany, is no exception, following a single mom fighting for custody when her life is upended by being a witness to a murder. Or so she […]

Source: Deadline.

A federal judge dismissed Michael Wolff’s lawsuit against First Lady Melania Trump, concluding that the journalist’s litigation was an “inappropriate level of tactical gamesmanship.” “While Plaintiff and the First Lady have a real dispute, they must litigate it according to the same procedures as everyone else,” U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil wrote in her […]

Source: Deadline.

The model is currently off-duty in St. Tropez—and found a spring 2001 Prada piece that was once worn on “Sex and the City.”

Source: Vogue