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This year, the Golden Globes is off to a fresh start with new owners, a new network, a new host and new voters following an industry-wide backlash aimed at the group that ran the show for decades. A 2021 Los Angeles Times investigation detailing ethical lapses and a lack of diversity within the ranks of the scandal-scarred Hollywood Foreign Press Association led to the revamping of the small but influential not-for-profit organization. Last October, the Golden Globes announced the new list of voters for its 2024 ceremony, made up of 300 journalists from around the world, calling it the most di......

Even tracking Santa Claus on Christmas Eve can turn ugly for President Joe Biden these days. The commander-in-chief was ambushed during a feel-good holiday event with children when an Oregon parent participating remotely interjected “Let’s go Brandon,” a phrase that is code for an expletive aimed at the president. Biden affably agreed with the parent, possibly reflecting that he does not know what the phrase means. “I agree, let’s go Brandon,” Biden said. The moment quickly went viral as right-wing supporters of former President Donald Trump suggested Biden’s reaction shows he is too old to be......