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Nicole Richie was on the wrong end of the world’s worst high five during a recent interview.
Cat Greenleaf, the host of NBC’s “Talk Stoop,” went in to slap Richie’s hand but inadvertently smacked her in the face, sending her sunglasses tumbling to the ground.
“Oh my God,” said a mortified Greenleaf.
She later described herself as “notoriously clumsy.” Richie lightheartedly replied, “I can see that, out of my left eye only.”
Richie, who was on the show to promote her upcoming sitcom “Great News,” continued to make light of the incident throughout the interview.
When Greenleaf asked her for a fun fact about herself, Richie jokingly replied that she was “just abused, like two seconds ago.”
The reality TV star turned actress and fashion designer also revealed how she isn’t as adept at social media as people may think she is. And she described what it was like reading from a script for her new show, instead of just playing herself.
Check out the full interview here:
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A former Bush administration official and retired U.S. Army colonel blasted President Donald Trump’s White House for its seeming inability to manage just about everything.
“I see so much rank amateurism at work here,” Col. Lawrence Wilkerson told Chris Hayes on MSNBC’s “All In” on Tuesday.
The White House, Wilkerson said, “not only is low on people, it’s low on experience and talent.”
Wilkerson then referred to a report that said the White House was struggling to organize the traditional Easter Egg Roll.
“They can’t seem to even manage the grounds of the White House, let alone such significant issues as Russia and Syria and North Korea and on and on,” he said.
Wilkerson also predicted that White House press secretary Sean Spicer ― who he incorrectly called Scott Spicer ― wouldn’t lose his job anytime soon.
Spicer “is kept around because he makes Donald Trump look good,” Wilkerson said.
Wilkerson was the chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell during the Bush administration and helped prepare the now-infamous speech to the United Nations claiming Iraq was amassing weapons of mass destruction. The report, which turned out to be false, was used to justify the 2003 war.
“I will regret that to my grave,” Wilkerson said in 2011.
He has since become a critic of the Iraq War as well as former Vice President Dick Cheney. But on Tuesday, Wilkerson compared the Trump administration unfavorably to Cheney.
“At least Mr. Cheney was competent, experienced and an extremely good bureaucrat,” Wilkerson said. “This is amateurism and amateurism looks to the world just like what it is: amateurism.”
(h/t Raw Story)
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“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert regularly mocks the members of President Donald Trump’s administration during his monologues by giving them hilarious alter-egos.
Since he’s off the air this week, Colbert’s team compiled a video montage of his finest put-downs. Watch the clip above to see who he described as the “alien-Sasquatch love child” and the “step-mom who is trying to replace your mother.”
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – J. Geils, leader of The J. Geils Band whose hard-driving hits of the late 1970s and early 1980s included “Centerfold,” “Freeze Frame” and “Love Stinks,” died on Tuesday at his home in Groton, Massachusetts, police said. He was 71.
Groton police said Geils, whose full name was John Warren Geils Jr., appeared to have died of natural causes. After a “well-being check” at the musician’s house at around 4 p.m. EDT, Geils was discovered unresponsive and was declared dead at the scene, police said in a statement.
The J. Geils Band was launched as a blues trio in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the 1960s. It soon switched its focus to electric guitars and bass as it became a staple of the Boston music scene through the 1970s with Geils as its lead guitarist and Peter Wolf on vocals, the group said on its Facebook page.
Its biggest commercial successes were the hard rock ‘n’ roll anthems that came with the release of “Freeze Frame,” the band’s 12th album, in 1981.
The album, which followed the comical hit “Love Stinks,” also included the title track and “Centerfold,” which was No. 1 for six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 list, the group said.
The band’s success was relatively shortlived. After Wolf left the group in 1983, the remaining members produced another album, “You’re Gettin’ Even While I’m Gettin’ Old,” and one single, “Concealed Weapons,” before breaking up in 1985.
The band had several reunion tours since then. Geils finally quit the band in 2012 and later sued his bandmates, claiming they were conspiring to tour without him and unlawfully using the band’s trademarked name, according to Rolling Stone magazine.
Geils remained active outside his namesake band. He released two albums in the mid-1990s with his band Bluestime, Rolling Stone said. He returned to his jazz roots during the 2000s with three solo records, it said.
Geils was born in New York on Feb. 20, 1946, and grew up in the New Jersey suburbs.
Fans took to social media overnight to share their respects:
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PALATINE, Ill. ― Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) challenged President Donald Trump to state his administration’s “endgame” for military involvement in Syria following the U.S. military’s missile strike on a Syrian air field last week.
Speaking to a full house of constituents at a town hall in the Chicago suburb of Palatine on Tuesday night, Duckworth was asked what was accomplished with the first direct assault on the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and what the long-term strategy would be.
Duckworth said that she wants to know, too ― and that Trump needs to provide those answers quickly.
“The Trump administration needs to come forward and [state] its goal. Come forward and tell us the truth,” Duckworth responded.
Following the town hall, constituents like Lisa Goranson, 58, and Sue Walton, 80, were troubled by Trump’s sudden shift on involvement in Syria.
“It’s about the long term, not just the one time,” Walton said.
“It’s like something just happened that the president didn’t define — and there’s no plan,” Goranson added. “What happens to the country after this?”
Trump’s administration thus far lacks a clear policy on Syria, and its actions have been murky in both their intent and legality.
Though Trump was critical of plans to attack Syria during President Barack Obama’s administration, he said he changed his mind after more than 70 Syrian civilians were killed in last week’s poison gas attack. The Trump administration later said the U.S. airstrike was retaliation for the gas attack, which was allegedly carried out by the Assad regime.
Duckworth, however, was dubious about the administration’s rationale.
“Why is it we retaliated when they hit innocent people with chemical weapons but not with barrel bombs?” she said of the Assad regime’s systematic use of barrel bombs on rebel-held towns throughout Syria’s ongoing civil war.
The Trump administration has contradicted itself on what the U.S. policy is toward Syria: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday that there has been “no change,” but the Trump-appointed U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, indicated that Assad should be ousted.
At the town hall, Duckworth agreed, calling Assad a “butcher” who needs to be removed, but she said the difficult but necessary answers must come from Trump’s White House.
“They need to say what their endgame is. Is it regime change? How many years of engagement? How many troops?”
The answers should also be carefully considered, Duckworth warned.
“It is so easy to sound the drums of war. It is so much harder to keep peace,” said Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran who is among just four senators to have served in either Iraq or Afghanistan.
“If our troops go to war and could use a broken-down helicopter pilot who walks with a limp and a cane, I will go,” added Duckworth, who lost her right leg and part of her left leg and injured her arm when her helicopter was shot down in Iraq in 2004. “But I will also be the first person to question why we’re doing that. I’m going to stand on that Senate floor and ask that tough question.”
Though Duckworth could not predict what the Trump administration would do regarding Syria, constituents at the town hall appeared pleased with her promise to push for accountability from the president and from her fellow members of Congress.
Other responses, including her call to reopen the borders to Syrian refugees, received cheers at the lively but polite town hall. Attendees ranged in age from elderly voters to a shy grade-school girl who asked Duckworth if it was fun to be a senator. (Duckworth’s response, in short: It’s complicated.)
If any Republican opponents showed up, they remained inconspicuous. The audience was overwhelmingly progressive and included grassroots activists, city-dwelling citizens concerned about gun control and women still donning pink hats from January’s Women’s March (Duckworth was a speaker at the Washington march).
Tuesday’s event lacked the fireworks of other recent town halls, where members of Congress ― particularly Republican lawmakers who pledged to repeal the Affordable Care Act or otherwise supported Trump policies ― have faced off against angry constituents.
Trump and his administration were frequent targets of criticism by Duckworth and attendees. Other concerns raised included environmental protection, immigration reform and calls for an independent investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election.
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