House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn’t think that Ilhan Omar is an anti-Semite—she just isn’t convinced Omar understands that her recent comments about the politicians being expected to show “allegiance” to Israel are anti-Semitic.

Charlotte Russe is going out of business. The cheeky fast-fashion retailer, which filed for bankruptcy in February, couldn’t find a buyer in time to save the chain from closing and will now shutter all remaining stores, according to the Wall Street Journal. Charlotte Russe operated more than 500 stores at the time it…

In 2017, six seasons into The Mindy Project, Mindy Kaling (playing Dr. Mindy Lahiri) put away her white lab coat after successfully navigating the life of an awkward yet self-assured young professional in New York City. It appears she’s bringing that energy back in the Amazon Studios film Late Night, where she stars…

Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage, two women who live with R. Kelly, were interviewed by Gayle King in the second half of King’s unsettling sit-down with the pop star about the decades of sexual abuse allegations against him. The women, 21 and 23 respectively, are believed by their families to have been sequestered in…

For some reason, when the internet is already battle-scarred hellscape hotly contested every day by varying royal fandom factions, the monarchy has decided to get even deeper into social media: Queen Elizabeth II has made her first personal post on Instagram, at the royal family’s official account.

In the face of a House resolution vote called in response to Ilhan Omar’s criticisms of powerful political lobbies and the actions of the Israeli government, Senators Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders have spoken out to defend the Minnesota Democrat. They each released statements on Wednesday condemni…

Jessica Chastain, talking to Marie Claire on the phone while running errands, told a story about a producer who once flirted with her and got increasingly upset when Chastain didn’t flirt back. “When I look back, there are moments when I’m like, ugh,” she recalled. “For months, I tried to make it light, laugh it off.…

Artist Carolee Schneemann, whose groundbreaking works of feminist performance art in the 1970s would indelibly shape the art form’s future, has died at the age of 79. Her gallery, Galerie Lelong, confirmed her death to Artnet on Thursday.

Unabashed in its approach to documenting the sprawling lives of its subjects, The Real Housewives of New York is often credited as the foundational series in Bravo’s empire. Its 10 seasons have been endlessly meme-able with a catalog of drama that’s often crossed into mainstream news coverage. Enter Season 11. Having…

In 2017, two NYPD detectives admitted to having sex with a teen in their custody. The detectives were charged with rape and kidnapping, but on Wednesday, Brooklyn prosecutors dismissed those charges.

Gayle King recently had to sit in a chair and stay quiet while R. Kelly screamed at her. She did not punch him in the face or hit him with said chair, and for that, she deserves several trillion dollars. Instead, she would like somewhere between $15 and $18 million, which seems fair.

Jeopardy host Alex Trebek has stage four pancreatic cancer. He was diagnosed this week and calmly alerted viewers in a TV clip on Wednesday, assuring them (us) that though the prognosis is “not very encouraging,” he will fight it, to the best of his ability.

Take care of yourselves.

On this week’s Dirtcast, we celebrate the legacy of Luke Perry by doing an entire podcast about the show that cemented his place in the pop culture lexicon as a bad boy, a heart throb, and a stone cold fox: Beverly Hills 90210.

On Tuesday, at a town hall in Las Vegas as part of her three-state tour promoting her “Be Best” initiative, First Lady Melania Trump talked about the opioid crisis and then tried very hard to seem like she enjoys spending time with her husband. Fox News commentator Eric Bolling then used some of the question and…