Tag Archives: Controversial

A prominent actor and comedian isn’t holding back when it comes to his opinion about the “Free Palestine” movement. Jerry Seinfeld was at Duke University this week to introduce a former Israeli hostage, Omer Shem Tov, during a campus event in Durham. During his remarks, he discussed the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and made a controversial comparison between groups, …

Ben Proud, 30, is a 50m freestyle World and European champion, and an Olympic silver medallist. He also became the first man to be crowned European and Commonwealth champion in the same year. Now, however, despite his successes, the swimmer, who first gained recognition on the international swimming stage at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, has announced he will be …

San Francisco is calling out the City of Brotherly Love. During the Giants’ 11-6 win over the Diamondbacks Tuesday, one male fan wearing a white hat won a scramble for a foul ball and had no hesitation, giving it to a young girl. “No Karens at our ballpark,” the Giants TV affiliate X account, @NBCSGiants, said in a social media …

Rachel Reilly entered the Big Brother house for season 27 as a target roughly the size of OTEV. Yet somehow, even while playing a super-aggressive game with maximum cajoling, she never saw the nomination block. And that is in a season in which up to four different contestants were nominated each week. None of it mattered. That’s because Rachel was …

Upward of 40 percent of students said topics like abortion, transgender rights, the Israel-Palestine conflict and the 2024 election are difficult to talk about. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | AaronAmat/iStock/Getty Images College students—particularly those who identify as conservative—are less likely to tolerate controversial speech than they were last year, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s …

Chandler Crews knew she didn’t want to live her entire adult life less than four feet tall.  The 31-year-old from Maryland was born with achondroplasia, a genetic condition that most commonly results in short stature and is characterized by short limbs, a normal-sized trunk, an enlarged head, and a prominent forehead. It stems from a mutation in the FGFR3 gene, …

“I could’ve warned you!!!! LOL. Great s–t,” Nick Cannon wrote after Druski asked if he was “cancelled,” while Jamie Foxx, Joel Madden, and other stars also weighed in. Druski created quite a stir online after he transformed into a white man and went undercover at a NASCAR race for a shocking skit — and many celebrities are loving it. In …

Vera Farmiga plays Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring: Last Rites, out this weekend. Warren and her husband, Ed, were ghostbusters whose real-life cases inspired The Conjuring franchise. Giles Keyte/Warner Bros. Entertainment hide caption toggle caption Giles Keyte/Warner Bros. Entertainment When The Conjuring came out in 2013, “nobody could have imagined it would have the incredible life that it’s had,” said …

Many of us have a few things to say about the Nintendo Switch 2‘s controversial game key cards, which don’t actually contain game data, and instead trigger a download from the Nintendo eShop when they are popped into the device. However, developer Rob Bantin, who is an audio architect on Ubisoft’s game engine Snowdrop, has revealed why the studio opted …

The opening week of the 2025 college football season has come and gone, with some teams rising and others falling. Some of these risers include Florida State, Auburn and LSU, while teams such as Alabama, Kansas State and North Carolina did not quite look as good as they were projected to be to open the season. CBS Sports HQ‘s Danny …