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With Thanksgiving approaching, the film “Pieces of April” is widely available on streaming platforms and makes for a timely, emotionally rich holiday watch. Why “Pieces of April” Is a Great Thanksgiving Movie Thanksgiving is a holiday steeped in tradition: Grandma’s cranberry sauce, mom’s decorations, marathon football—the rituals we expect and that popular culture celebrates. What we talk about less is the unspoken tradition many families carry: the drama, tension, and dysfunction (the political divide!) that so many of us anticipate. For many people, Thanksgiving week kicks off the most psychologically intense stretch of the year. Those in therapy or actively…

The New Yorker has been ripped for peddling a gushing sob story about an illegal migrant and convicted murderer who was recently booted from the United States by the Trump administration. Jamaican Orville Etoria, 62, was one of five illegal migrants shipped off to Africa in September as part of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program. His case was featured in a lengthy feature in the New Yorker this week, months after the Department of Homeland Security ripped a similar story on him in the New York Times as “disgraceful and disgusting.” A teaser for the New Yorker’s story on X…

A British woman who was detained by ICE while holding her newborn baby has been freed — in time for Thanksgiving. Katie Paul, 33, headed over to the States in September 2024, to be with her husband, Stephen, originally from San Diego, and the couple quickly tied the knot the following month. She was planning on returning to the UK while she got her green card sorted, but was told her pregnancy was high-risk, so she decided to sort it out from the US. Katie Paul and her husband Stephen have a six-month-old son. Jules Peters / SWNS On November…

Campbell Soup Company says that its products are made from real meat — not “3-D printed chicken,” as an exec allegedly said in a shocking recording dissing the company’s soup and customers, along with Indian employees. Campbell’s veep Martin Bally was caught describing the soup as “bioengineered meat” and saying, “I don’t wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3-D printer,” according to a suit a former employee filed last week in Michigan. Campbell’s said Tuesday the remarks were untrue. Campbell’s was forced to defend its ingredients after a leaked audio claimed that it uses “3D printed…

BANGKOK — A court in Thailand said Wednesday that it has issued an arrest warrant for a co-owner of the Miss Universe Organization in connection with a fraud case. Jakkaphong “Anne” Jakrajutatip was charged with fraud and then released on bail in 2023. She failed to appear as required in a Bangkok court on Tuesday. Since she did not notify the court about her absence, she was deemed to be a flight risk, according to a statement from the Bangkok South District Court. Jakkaphong “Anne” Jakrajutatip was charged with fraud and then released on bail in 2023. AP The court rescheduled the…

Imagine reading The Boxcar Children, Nancy Drew, or Encyclopedia Brown through a David Lynch lens and you’ll begin to get an idea of what it’s like to turn the pages of Hobotwn Mystery Stories. Set in a secluded Canadian town where a group of teenage sleuths kill time by trying not to be killed as they solve strange and quirky cases, writer Kris Bertin, artist Alexander Forbes, and colorist Jason Fischer-Kouhi bring the Hobotwn Mystery Stories graphic novel series back to comic shops today with The Secret of the Saucer, and as a special treat for Daily Dead readers, we have…

Robert Cosby Jr.’s wife, Alexiana Smokoff, has filed for divorce as her husband sits in jail following his latest legal run-in. Smokoff filed the paperwork on Monday after she and the 22-year-old son of “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Mary Cosby secretly wed in 2022. Smokoff’s petition requires that both parties do not “harass, intimidate or disturb the peace of the other party, by any means, including electronically,” according to People. Robert Cosby Jr.’s wife, Alexiana Smokoff, has filed for divorce as her husband sits in jail following his latest legal run-in. Bravo Smokoff filed the paperwork on…

Russia on Wednesday shot down President Trump’s claim that the Kremlin had already agreed to some concessions on ending the war in Ukraine — as Moscow pummeled innocent Ukrainians with fresh drone strikes overnight. Multiple Russian officials insisted it was too premature to speak about accepting any peace plan and that Moscow wouldn’t agree to anything that didn’t fully meet its demands. “There can be no talk of any concessions or surrender of our approaches to the key aspects of resolving the problems facing us, including in the context of the special operation [in Ukraine],” Sergei Ryabkov, a Russian deputy…

The fourth CFP rankings of 2025 have arrived, giving us the sharpest look yet at how the 12-team playoff race is taking shape. With Selection Sunday fast approaching, contenders are making their final statements, and the battle for postseason positioning is heating up.Check out everything you need to know about the 2025 College Football Playoff Bracket, including the current rankings, projected matchups and key dates below:2025 College Football Playoff BracketPlayoff Round 1No. 12 Tulane vs. No. 5 Texas TechNo. 9 Notre Dame vs. No. 8 OklahomaNo. 11 Miami vs. No. 6 OregonNo. 10 Alabama vs. No. 7 Ole MissQuarterfinalsNo. 4…

Lee Corso would trade in some presumed nice weather and relaxing days to be picking up oversized mascot heads every Saturday like he did for 38 years. “Lousy. I hate it,” the 90-year-old Corso told WESH in Florida of retirement. “I can’t watch ‘College GameDay.’ I can’t get used to it. I’m not working anymore. I used to fly all over. It sucks.” It’s not surprising that Corso is not taking to retirement since college football and “College GameDay” were such an integral part of his life before his August retirement. I asked the legend Lee Corso what this season…