7 h. ago White House hits back after SNL premiere mocks Trump over wars, late

The long-running sketch show aired the premiere of season 51 on October 4, and wasted no time in skewering the president

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7 h. ago OpenAI promises more ‘granular control’ to copyright owners after Sora 2 generates videos of popular characters

Company behind the AI video app says it will work with rights holders to ‘block characters from Sora at their request’ OpenAI is promising to give copyright holders “more granular control” over character generation after its new app Sora 2 produced a flood of videos that depicted copyrighted characters.Sora 2, a video generator powered by artificial intelligence, was launched last week on an invite-only basis. The app allows users to generate short videos based on a text prompt. The Guardian’s review of the feed of AI-generated videos last week showed copyrighted characters from shows such as SpongeBob SquarePants, South Park, Pokémon and Rick and Morty. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago White House doesn’t see the funny side as it responds to SNL season premiere which ripped Trump over wars, late

The White House has responded to the first episode of Saturday Night Live season 51, which mocked Donald Trump and FCC chair Brendan Carr on their recent war with late night shows.

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17 h. ago Liberal podcaster points to Bad Bunny, South Park and Kimmel’s ratings as evidence ‘woke is good for business’

Molly Jong-Fast wrote that big, seemingly ‘woke’ decisions were calculated

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17 h. ago Liberal podcaster points to Bad Bunny, South Park and Kimmel’s rating as evidence ‘woke is good for business’

Molly Jong-Fast wrote that big, seemingly ‘woke’ decisions were calculated

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21 h. ago Bad Bunny pushes back on Kristi Noem threat that immigrants stay away from Super Bowl

Singer jokes on SNL that everyone was happy about his planned half-time show, ‘even Fox News’Bad Bunny responded to homeland security secretary Kristi Noem’s threats to send federal immigration enforcement agents to the Super Bowl next year, joking during Saturday Night Live that everyone was happy about his planned half-time performance, “even Fox News”.The 31-year-old Puerto Rican singer who has criticized the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policies hosted the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, using his opening monologue to address controversy around his 2026 Super Bowl performance. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Saturday Night Live recap: Bad Bunny trolls MAGA over halftime show as season premiere hits Trump’s late

SNL skewered Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump tonight, while host Bad Bunny delivered his monologue partly in Spanish

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24 h. ago How two blonde suburban moms gave Democrats an answer to the rightwing media ecosystem

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s podcast I’ve Had It has risen up the charts and created a community with ‘a brand of fuck-you politics’When Donald Trump scheduled a press conference after a weekend in which rumors about his health swirled, two women in red-state Oklahoma launched a livestream for their more than 1 million followers on YouTube to speculate about the condition of “Cankles McTacoTits”, shortened to Canks “for expediency and spite”.It was fitting for the profanity-laced, straight talking liberal podcast I’ve Had It that quipped, after interviewing Barack Obama, that the former president has “big dick energy”. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago How two blond suburban moms gave Democrats an answer to the rightwing media ecosystem

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s podcast I’ve Had It has risen up the charts and created a community with ‘a brand of fuck-you politics’When Donald Trump scheduled a press conference after a weekend in which rumors about his health swirled, two women in red-state Oklahoma launched a livestream for their more than 1 million followers on YouTube to speculate about the condition of “Cankles McTacoTits”, shortened to Canks “for expediency and spite”.It was fitting for the profanity-laced, straight talking liberal podcast I’ve Had It that quipped, after interviewing Barack Obama, that the former president has “big dick energy”. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Saturday Night Live: Bad Bunny trolls MAGA and Fox News over halftime show as season premiere hits Trump’s late

SNL skewered Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump tonight, while Bad Bunny delivered a monologue partly in Spanish

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31 h. ago Saturday Night Live: Cold open skewers Trump, Pete Hegseth and FCC late

SNL opened tonight by skewering Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump before Bad Bunny’s partly Spanish language monologue

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43 h. ago Tomi Lahren’s own comment section slams her hot take on Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl

Lahren and other MAGA conservatives have taken issue with Bad Bunny performing at the halftime show because he mostly sings in Spanish and has denounced ICE raids

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43 h. ago Saturday Night Live: Bad Bunny to kick off SNL 51st season amid Super Bowl controversy

SNL will return to television tonight at 11:30 p.m. ET

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55 h. ago Bad Bunny to kick off 'SNL' 51st season with a group of new cast members

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62 h. ago Man blindfolded and kidnapped from retail park before being stabbed was saved by dad

A sentencing hearing at Newport Crown Court heard how Connor Price was kidnapped from a retail park in Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales and stabbed multiple times by his captors

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3 d. ago TK Maxx warns shoppers to stop drinking from Harry Potter mugs 'immediately'

The retail giant is recalling the Potter and South Park mugs, with product codes 013167 and 596096

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4 d. ago Trump adviser says ICE agents will attend Super Bowl after Bad Bunny announced as half

Selection of Puerto Rican rapper has outraged prominent Trump supporters, who take issue with singer’s past criticism of president

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5 d. ago Is a new South Park episode out today? Season 27 release schedule and episode 6 release date

South Park’s 27th season has arrived - but when is the next episode? 📺🚨

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5 d. ago The south Manchester park where gorgeous autumn leaves are starting to appear

Enjoy a walk here on a crisp autumn morning

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5 d. ago ‘Bad Bunny dressed in drag’: Gavin Newsom trolls MAGA over uproar to Super Bowl halftime show with JD Vance throwback

The Puerto Rican singer and actor was announced as the halftime headliner, which has upset MAGA in part because the artist has previously dressed in drag

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