21+ min ago (558+ words) Queens Borough President Donovan Richardspredicted both planned casinos in the World's Borough will get licenses when bidders face a make-or-break vote on Monday. "I feel confident. I feel bullish. Bet on Queens," Richards said Sunday, a day before the New York Gaming Facility Location board is set to decide whether to issue up to three downstate casino licenses " with two bidders pitching locations in Queens. "Why go to Manhattan? You can stay in Queens! Queens becomes a global entertainment hub," Richards said. New York Mets owner Steve Cohen is leading a group that wants to build a gaming complex near Citi Field while Genting's Resorts World is bidding for a casino at Aqueduct race track. Bally's is also bidding for a casino complex at Ferry Point, President Trump's former golf course in The Bronx. The proposed $8 billion Cohen-Hard Rock Metropolitan…...

36+ min ago (229+ words) Wale is notorious for his social media habits. He's gotten into tons of arguments and made dozens of snarky comments Wale is notorious for his social media habits. He's gotten into tons of arguments and made dozens of snarky comments online to people. Sometimes, it can feel like he enjoys indulging the internet haters just as much as he loves rapping. Then, Folarin receives the catharsis that comes with blocking an annoying person from engaging with you. It seems pretty masochistic and unhealthy, but that's the nature of his "LoveHate Thing" with social media. Now, he's opening up about his trigger finger with the block button. Recently, Wale spoke on the Effective Immediately podcast to promote his latest album, everything is a lot. There, he opens up to hosts DJ Hed and Gina Views about the odd relationship he has…...

52+ min ago (468+ words) George Clooney will never forget that he lost a role in "Thelma & Louise" to Brad Pitt. "I got to the final test for a role in'Thelma & Louise." And, motherf'er, Brad got it," Clooney, 64, said about his "Ocean"s Eleven" co-star, 61, in a new interview with The Times UK. Pitt memorably portrayed J.D., the handsome young drifter whom Thelma (Geena Davis) falls for as she experiences marital issues with husband Darryl (Christopher McDonald) in the beloved 1991 film. The role helped launch Pitt"s career into superstardom, while Clooney got his big break a few years later when he was cast in "ER." But Clooney still had a hard time getting over that Pitt beat him to the punch. "I didn"t watch'Thelma & Louise'for years, because I was annoyed," he admitted to The Times UK. "The part launched his career in film. He…...

58+ min ago (448+ words) Surely, someone has made a hash of the plot. Yes, he was 88, but the Czech-born, British playwright, the true 20th century heir to Oscar Wilde, would never have arranged things so banally. "A severe blow to Logic" is how a character describes the death of a philosophy professor in Stoppard's 1972 play "Jumpers." But then, as this polymath wag continues, "The truth to us philosophers, Mr. Crouch, is always an interim judgment " Unlike mystery novels, life does not guarantee a denouement; and if it came, how would one know whether to believe it?" Few people were more agnostically alive than Stoppard, who loved the finer things in life and handsomely earned them with his inexhaustible wit. A man of consummate urbanity who lived like a country squire, he was a sportsman (cricket was his game) and a connoisseur of ideas, which he…...

1+ hour, 16+ min ago (939+ words) Baya Bouzar, an actress and singer known as Biyouna whose guttural voice, sharp tongue and fierce independence " onscreen and off " incarnated, for generations of Algerians, their struggles in a country torn by civil war and repression, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Algiers. She was 73. Her death from lung cancer was announced by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune of Algeria, who said she "left behind a legacy of sincerity and spontaneity in acting and successful cinematic works, earning her widespread appreciation." Official recognition came to her from the seat of Algeria's autocratic power, but there were also hundreds of fans at her funeral. Ms. Bouzar, with her instantly recognizable physiognomy " prominent nose, black eyes and jet-black hair " was a hero in the working-class Algiers neighborhoods from which she had sprung. Biyouna stayed. But from 1994 to 1996, she ceased singing and acting, under…...

1+ hour, 22+ min ago (455+ words) Gwen Stefani shut down rumors that she and her husband, Blake Shelton, have split with a PDA pic. The No Doubt singer, 56, posted a picture of the country crooner, 49, kissing her on the cheek on her Instagram Stories Friday. Stefani, clad in a red flannel shirt, smiled serenely at the camera in the selfie, wearing her blonde locks down. She didn't caption the pic and let the PDA do the talking. Speculation that the couple have split ramped up after they didn't attend the CMA Awards on Nov. 19, despite Shelton being nominated in the Musical Event of the Year category for his feature on the Post Malone song, "Pour Me a Drink." Stefani hasn't posted Shelton on her Instagram since June, when she wished him a happy birthday. As for Shelton, he wished Stefani a happy birthday publicly in October....

1+ hour, 22+ min ago (455+ words) Gwen Stefani shut down rumors that she and her husband, Blake Shelton, have split with a PDA pic. The No Doubt singer, 56, posted a picture of the country crooner, 49, kissing her on the cheek on her Instagram Stories Friday. Stefani, clad in a red flannel shirt, smiled serenely at the camera in the selfie, wearing her blonde locks down. She didn't caption the pic and let the PDA do the talking. Speculation that the couple have split ramped up after they didn't attend the CMA Awards on Nov. 19, despite Shelton being nominated in the Musical Event of the Year category for his feature on the Post Malone song, "Pour Me a Drink." Stefani hasn't posted Shelton on her Instagram since June, when she wished him a happy birthday. As for Shelton, he wished Stefani a happy birthday publicly in October....

1+ hour, 32+ min ago (418+ words) Cory Booker just said farewell to his long-running bachelor era. The New Jersey senator, 56, married Alexis Lewis, 38, in an intimate ceremony on Saturday in Washington, D.C. "Alexis is one of the greatest unearned blessings of my life," Booker wrote on Instagram following their engagement. The couple met in May 2024, set up by a friend who arranged a blind date while Lewis was visiting Washington, D.C. According to details of the ceremony shared with The New York Times, the reception was an interfaith celebration, as Booker is Christian and Lewis is Jewish, with both a rabbi and a pastor offering blessings to the couple. The couple was legally wed on Monday, Nov. 24, in Newark, New Jersey, where Booker was raised, later served as the city's 38th mayor, and where they now live. "After so many years on my own, I'm not entirely sure I…...

2+ hour, 2+ min ago (356+ words) Heidi Klum admitted she's unsure if she and her husband Tom Kaulitz's controversial "worm and parasite cleanse" actually worked. "It just felt good " just if there are any [worms or parasites], then I hope that they were leaving the body, because I hear so many people talk about this all the time," she added. Klum, 52, shared she was thankful that Kaulitz, 36, joined her for the cleanse, saying, "It's easier to do this with a partner in the morning because you have to drink this weird stuff." "It's all herbal, but nonetheless it's yucky and you have to do this routine of doing it every day in order to kill it in all of the eggs, apparently," she explained. "You have to do two rounds instead of two weeks. We did two rounds in order to hopefully kill eggs and things....

2+ hour, 2+ min ago (356+ words) Heidi Klum admitted she's unsure if she and her husband Tom Kaulitz's controversial "worm and parasite cleanse" actually worked. "It just felt good " just if there are any [worms or parasites], then I hope that they were leaving the body, because I hear so many people talk about this all the time," she added. Klum, 52, shared she was thankful that Kaulitz, 36, joined her for the cleanse, saying, "It's easier to do this with a partner in the morning because you have to drink this weird stuff." "It's all herbal, but nonetheless it's yucky and you have to do this routine of doing it every day in order to kill it in all of the eggs, apparently," she explained. "You have to do two rounds instead of two weeks. We did two rounds in order to hopefully kill eggs and things....