Topic: Culture & Entertainment — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-02 09:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Podcast host Joe Rogan dismissed as “fake” a sensational sexual-harassment lawsuit against a JPMorgan Chase executive that lit up the internet this week, joking that the lurid claims read like the work of “the horniest guy ever.”
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[2026-05-02 09:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Anne Boleyn won the heart of King Henry VIII, gave birth to one of the country's most well-known monarchs, and lost her head in 1536 - but her appearance has continued to challenge art historians and online sleuths.
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[2026-05-02 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Ah, the fuzzy picture, the 4:3 aspect ratio, the gratuitous toplessness of pay-cable content – if anything recalls Homer Simpson’s 20th-centuryism of “the warm glow of TV’s warm glow,” it’s a ridiculous, punny, irony-drenched old episode of Tales from the Crypt. Ongoing legal-rights issues kept the beloved cult anthology series – which originally aired on HBO from 1989-1996 – in streaming dormancy until now, when Shudder at long last rolls out all seven seasons, one season per week, so you
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[2026-05-02 08:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States military has said that it will pull 5,000 troops out of Germany amid ongoing tensions with the key European ally concerning the US war against Iran, according to media reports.
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[2026-05-02 08:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The return of star-studded matches featuring top European clubs heralds a second straight summer of football enthusiasm for local fans
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[2026-05-02 08:45 UTC+10:00] [Football Festival] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The return of star-studded matches featuring top European clubs heralds a second straight summer of football enthusiasm for local fans
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[2026-05-02 08:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has clarified that only acting and writing for films done by humans will be considered eligible to win an Oscar.
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[2026-05-02 08:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Pierce Brosnan looks unrecognizable in the trailer for his newest movie, “Giant.”
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[2026-05-02 08:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A missing Oscar statuette belonging to “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” co-director Pavel Talankin was finally recovered after TSA agents at JFK Airport barred the newly minted Academy Award winner from carrying the trophy onboard — sparking a surreal travel nightmare with a Hollywood ending.
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[2026-05-02 08:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Philadelphia Flyers general manager Chuck Fletcher speaks with members of the media during training camp at the NHL hockey team’s practice facility on Sept. 22, 2022, in Voorhees, N.J. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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[2026-05-02 08:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Lando Norris qualified fastest for Saturday's sprint race. (Getty Images: Peter Fox)
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[2026-05-02 07:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The music industry is always in a state of flux, but what was happening in 1976 was akin to the dinosaurs looking up and seeing a meteor on the way.
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[2026-05-02 07:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Orlando Magic head coach Jamahl Mosley cheers on his team during the first half in Game 5 of a first-round NBA basketball playoffs series against the Detroit Pistons Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
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[2026-05-02 07:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: These days, Jon Cryer has somewhat of a winning relationship with his “Two and a Half Men” co-star Charlie Sheen.
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[2026-05-02 07:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Rebel Wilson gave evidence across three days. (AAP: Dan Himbrechts)
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[2026-05-02 07:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Japanese video game companies have been reluctant to put their titles in Epic Games' new store. © Reuters
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[2026-05-02 07:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Most of the time, tonal inconsistencies is a death knell for the first episode of a new series. But Glory a new boxing/revenge thriller on Netflix, has enough going for it to intrigue us, despite some of those aforementioned tonal problems.
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[2026-05-02 07:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A game store manager holds the graded AM129 Spiderman “The Punisher” first issue on Sept. 10, 2021, in South Dover, Del. (Marc Clery/Delaware State News via AP, File)
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[2026-05-02 07:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce made it into the rumor mill yet again this week — This time, with claims that the lovebirds purchased a 10 percent stake in 2026 Kentucky Derby race horse, The Puma.
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[2026-05-02 07:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Rebel Wilson was branded “abusive” and accused of leaking a nude photo of Charlotte MacInnes in her explosive defamation court battle with the “Deb” actress.
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[2026-05-02 07:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner unveiled a plan during an interview on Thursday to “shut this White House down” so that the Trump administration is not able to function.
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[2026-05-02 07:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Martin Short details his tragedy-plagued life in his upcoming Netflix documentary, “Marty, Life is Short.”
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[2026-05-02 07:05 UTC+10:00] [Colleges and Universities] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: The president of Bard College, who has run the unorthodox liberal-arts school for more than a half century, announced his retirement on Friday, after the release of documents that showed he had a closer relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than previously known.
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[2026-05-02 06:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Kristina Rosengren is a news reporter based out of Broken Hill covering stories across far west New South Wales for radio, TV and online. She previously worked as a senior journalist for National Radio News and a federal political correspondent for 2SM based at Parliament House in Canberra.
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[2026-05-02 06:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov has accused Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of betraying the interests of her own voters by following the EU line on Ukraine and Russia in an interview with Il Fatto Quotidiano published on Wednesday.
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[2026-05-02 06:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville and his co-host spoke on Thursday about the dangers of Democrats falling for the same far-left rhetoric that weighed them down in past elections.
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[2026-05-02 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The animated brain-switch comedy is having a moment: Swapped (now on Netflix), which finds two inexplicable cute-animal thingies walking the proverbial mile in each other’s skulls, follows the Pixar hit Hoppers, in which an activist college student has her mind vworped into a robot beaver. The former switcheroo is today’s topic of review, a movie by Tangled director and longtime Disney creative Nathan Greno, who office-swapped over to Netflix recently to spearhead Swapped, a big enough deal to draw recent
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[2026-05-02 06:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Dave Grohl, integrante de la banda Foo Fighters, se presenta durante el festival de música Corona Capital en la Ciudad de México, el 14 de noviembre de 2025. (Foto AP/Eduardo Verdugo, archivo)
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[2026-05-02 06:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Kim Kardashian’s Skims brand is being sued by a small New York designer over the shapewear label’s use of the “Fits Everybody” name.
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[2026-05-02 06:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Lark Voorhies was reportedly the only “Saved by the Bell” alum to reach out to Dustin Diamond before his tragic death in February 2021.
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[2026-05-02 06:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: At her studio in Iran’s capital, Amen Khademi prepared a fashion shoot for a jacket she designed with Persian-inspired motifs. But even as she applied lipstick to the model, she was distracted, worrying if her business would survive after four months without its main link to customers — the internet.
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[2026-05-02 06:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The coveted Oscars trophy has a long and rich history of going missing, for reasons ranging from burglary and ransom to simple misplacement - even pranks.
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[2026-05-02 06:00 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Movies] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Michael, Antoine Fuqua’s dazzling but slight film on the life of the divisive self-proclaimed King of Pop Michael Jackson, has dominated the worldwide box office over the past week or so. And, given how much money it has made, and how much more it is going to make, the inevitable sequel has been announced.
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[2026-05-02 05:58 UTC+10:00] [Pavel Talankin] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Documentário neste ano, o russo Pavel Talankin protagonizou involuntariamente um drama nesta semana, mas que acabou tendo um final feliz nesta sexta-feira (01/05), quando a companhia aérea alemã Lufthansa anunciou que localizou a estatueta do cineasta, que havia sido extraviada durante um voo entre Nova York e Frankfurt.
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[2026-05-02 05:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LOS ANGELES — Actors created with artificial intelligence will not be eligible for an Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Friday as it launched a crackdown on the use of AI.
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[2026-05-02 05:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: If you’re in the market for a high-octane action series with visceral performances, Man on Fire has arrived on Netflix to satiate your TV appetite.
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[2026-05-02 05:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Una estatuilla del Oscar aparece en el exterior del Teatro Dolby durante la 87ª edición de los Premios de la Academia en Los Ángeles, el 21 de febrero de 2015. (Foto Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, archivo)
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[2026-05-02 05:40 UTC+10:00] [Culture & Art] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Herbert M. Seneviratne Awards Ceremony will be held on May 2 at 3 p.m. at the Tower Hall Theatre under the patronage of the Minister of Culture.
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[2026-05-02 05:39 UTC+10:00] [General Features] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The passing of Deshabandu Sirisumana Godage on 28th April 2026 marks the end of an era in the history of book publishing in Sri Lanka. At the age of 90, he leaves behind not merely a business legacy, but a cultural institution that profoundly shaped the literary life of Sri Lanka.
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[2026-05-02 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Born in 1936 in the village of Palatuwa, Matara, Sirisumana Godage was the sixth child in a family of nine siblings. He received his primary education at Palatuwa Gunaratana Maha Vidyalaya. Due to the economic hardships faced by his family, he moved to Kalutara at the age of 15 and began his professional journey as a book binder.
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[2026-05-02 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Netflix is cultivating a streaming slate sure to flourish in May 2026, thanks to the fantastic films, specials, and live events that will move you with touching tales, captivate you with incredible true stories, and so much more. Whether you’re looking for something intense, sporty, or humorous, Netflix has got you covered.
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[2026-05-02 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Cartoon] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s most Trusted and Innovative media services provider
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[2026-05-02 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Musicals] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
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[2026-05-02 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Music] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Parissa Tosif, I Have This Memory of You
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[2026-05-02 05:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Mayor Zohran Mamdani took advantage of his taxpayer-funded housing to film a slick campaign video for a lefty candidate in a contentious New York congressional race — sparking backlash from critics who said it could run afoul of conflict of interest laws.
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[2026-05-02 05:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Users can make custom AI characters they can chat with on meltly's Days AI app. (Photo by Nikkei)
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[2026-05-02 05:12 UTC+10:00] [Oscars] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has also rewritten rules on international film eligibility
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[2026-05-02 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Spectacle is the language art employs to express emotions too large for our everyday vocabulary to convey. That’s the fundamental truth behind everything from musicals to science fiction, horror movies to fantasy epics, and it’s truer of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters than in just about any other show on the air this year.
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[2026-05-02 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: You have reached your maximum number of saved items.
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[2026-05-02 04:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Brooke Hogan shut down “mean and hateful” romance rumors between her and her HGTV co-star Scott McGillivray.
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