Beloved movie critic and arts reporter was known for bushy hair and mustache and affection for groan-inducing puns

Gene Shalit, a movie critic and arts reporter for the Today show over four decades who was known for his puffy hair, oversized handlebar mustache and affection for groan-inducing puns, has died. He was 100.

Shalit’s family announced the death Friday to NBC News, saying in a statement that he “passed away peacefully today after 100 years of an amazing life”.

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A federal judge on Wednesday tossed a watchdog group’s lawsuit seeking to block the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) scrapped $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon denied the request for a temporary restraining order by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The group, which bills itself as nonpartisan, argued in its…

A federal judge on Wednesday tossed a watchdog group’s lawsuit seeking to block the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) scrapped $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon denied the request for a temporary restraining order by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The group, which bills itself as nonpartisan, argued in its…

O presidente norte-americano, Donald Trump, saiu a meio de uma entrevista durante o programa Meet the Press, na NBC, após ter feito alegações falsas de que a eleição presidencial de 2020 foi fraudulenta.

Durante a entrevista, realizada na passada sexta-feira, 5, Trump afirmou que a eleição para governador da Califórnia foi fraudulenta, e fez falsas alegações sobre fraude nas eleições de 2020, segundo o jornal “The Guardian”.

Trump afirmou que passados quatro dias “ainda nem começaram a contar os votos”, algo, que segundo a jornalista, é comum no processo eleitoral da Califórnia. As sondagens preveem uma disputa cerrada entre o candidato democrata e o republicano neste estado norte-americano.

O presidente norte-americano afirmou ainda que todos são corruptos, incluindo a jornalista e a sua estação de televisão.

Quando se tentou defender e fazer outras questões ao presidente, Trump referiu que ou a jornalista era “estúpida ou corrupta. Cai direitinho na armadilha deles com essa palhaçada. Sabe que as eleições são fraudulentas. A sua emissora sabe disso”.

Trump aproveitou ainda para fazer alegações sobre as eleições presidenciais de 2020, e quando a jornalista tentou fazer novas perguntas o presidente deu a entrevista por terminada.

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Kristen Welker questioned Trump’s allegations that races for California governor and 2020 president were ‘rigged’

Donald Trump walked out of an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press after he repeatedly made false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and faced questions about compensation for those charged in the January 6 insurrection.

The US president’s abrupt exit came during a tense exchange between himself and NBC’s Kristen Welker during a Friday interview in Wisconsin that aired on Sunday.

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