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Marco Bello/ReuterDonald Trump took some time off from attacking the daughter of the judge in his upcoming criminal trial in New York to share on social media a video that includes an image of President Joe Biden with his hands and feet tied.According to the Truth Social post, the video was recorded Thursday amid Trump’s visit to Long Island to attend the wake for a New York Police Department officer. The image of Biden appears on the tailgate door of a truck on the highway.Trump made no comment alongside the post, except for sharing when the video was allegedly recorded. However, Biden’s campaign soon called out the post.Read more at The Daily Beast.

MaxIn the first episode of Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, Carmichael is trying to rationalize the concept of his intimate, revealing show. He’s only comfortable opening up when a camera is present, he says, and there’s a lot he has to get off his chest. But not everyone is on board with his desire to document his life—especially not his good friend “Anonymous,” who is so against the project that he refuses to have his face or voice captured for the show.“I’m not exposing myself to this shit,” the man only known as Anonymous tells the camera, when he stops by Carmichael’s apartment during the episode. He’s wearing all black, with a ski mask and goggles; his voice is pitched down to further mask his identity. He goes on to tell his friend that the idea of filming vulnerable moments of his life is self-centered and artificial, not “truth.”“It’s exhibitionist,” says Anonymous, adding, “There’s public and private, and there’s masturbatorily public.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesStrong winds forced a United Airlines flight from Tel-Aviv, which was intended for Newark Airport, to instead land at New York Stewart International Airport in Orange County on Friday, officials confirmed.The flight tracking site, FlightAware shows that the plane approached Newark airport before circling back North and landing at New York International.“We responded to NY International Airport with 10 EMS units to evaluate passengers on a United flight that had hit turbulence,” New Windsor EMS Chief Michael Bigg told The Daily Beast, adding that “7 passengers were taken to a local hospital and others were evaluated for other medical concerns.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Vatican MediaPope Francis skipped out on a Good Friday procession in Rome on Friday night in an apparent last-minute decision that has fueled speculation surrounding the 87-year-old’s physical condition.A press release from the Vatican said Pope Francis stayed home during the Way of the Cross procession at the Colosseum “to preserve his health,” in the lead up to the final Holy Week events. The procession is meant to re-enact Jesus of Nazareth’s carrying of the cross before his crucifixion with the Pope presiding over the event. Instead, Pope Francis followed the event remotely from the Casa Santa Marta, where he lives.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Courtesy of the Lake County Illinois Sheriff's Office via FacebookA former MTV reality star’s year on the run ended on Thursday when he was arrested by police in Florida, according to authorities. Connor Smith, who was a contestant on the dating show Are You The One? in 2015, fled from police in Illinois last year, after allegedly making plans to meet up with the minor for sex. Smith had been messaging for weeks with an undercover detective pretending to be a 15-year-old girl, allegedly sending explicit photos and videos, according to officers with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesDonald Trump and several of his co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case on Friday formally appealed a judge’s recent decision to allow Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue prosecuting the case.In the 51-page appeal, the defendants argue that Willis should be disqualified from the racketeering case because of her affair with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade. It asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to overturn Judge Scot McAfee’s March 15 decision allowing Willis and her office to remain on the racketeering case if Wade stepped aside.“DA Willis has covered herself and her office in scandal and disrepute, as she has squandered her credibility and repeatedly and flagrantly violated the heightened ethical standards demanded of her position,” the appeal says. “The trial court’s decision not to disqualify DA Willis under these circumstances is a structural error, a violation of Defendants’ due process rights, and seriously denigrates the public’s confidence in the integrity of the criminal justice system.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesIt is a revival, not a reclamation, and Beyoncé is here to cleanse us of our sins. The Bible says in Matthew 18:20, “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” And hidden in the midst of Beyoncé’s new album Cowboy Carter, released on Friday, there is a spirit; that of God, but also of Beyoncé, who has appointed herself as music’s lord and savior.There is no genre she cannot save, and no genre she cannot touch, because they all belong to her. She is their be-all and end-all. Music’s alpha and omega. And a few days before Resurrection Sunday, when practitioners all over the world, but especially in the deep bayous and marshes of the American South, will convene to celebrate the second coming of Christ, Beyoncé, too, has just cause for celebration. Because she has just rewritten the music game in her image.In the days leading up to Cowboy Carter’s release, the Houston native described her eighth studio effort as a Beyoncé album, not a country album, and she did not tell a lie. The sprawling, 27-track LP begins through the viewpoint of Lady Liberty on “Ameriican Requiem,” because in Beyoncé’s country, she, too, is the first thing you see when you enter America on Ellis Island. There in her braided glory, cigar in her hand, pageant sash around her waist, is how she welcomes you to her United States.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Kevin Wurm/ReutersTennessee’s majority-white legislature removed, in one fell swoop, all 10 board members at the state’s only publicly funded historically Black university on Thursday, a move Democrats slammed.Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who is white, signed legislation approved by the GOP-controlled House on Thursday vacating Tennessee State University’s board and appointed eight new members, mostly from the business sector, to replace them.“I’m pleased to appoint these highly qualified individuals who will work alongside administrators and students to further secure TSU’s place as a leading institution,” Lee said. The nominees now await confirmation by the legislature.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Evelyn Hockstein/ReutersLook out, Beyoncé.The newly installed co-chair of the Republican National Committee debuted a new single at midnight on Friday, with help from the same production team behind songs by failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and the J6 Prison Choir.Lara Trump, who is married to Donald Trump’s son Eric, said the roundly mocked tune, “Anything is Possible,” centers on “themes of faith, resilience and taking risks,” according to a pre-release announcement. In a Thursday night post on X, formerly Twitter, Trump called the tune “A little something I had fun with over the winter (and a few more too that I’ll save for a future date, special for my YUGE fans in the liberal media).”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Reuters/Amanda Andrade-RhoadesRep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), considered by many to be on Donald Trump’s short list of potential vice president candidates, used to harshly criticized the former president online, railing against him for his trade policies and birtherism comments about Barack Obama.The posts resurfaced Friday in a report by CNN’s KFile, which also uncovered decade-old interviews in which Donalds, then a failed Tea Party candidate for Congress, regularly spoke against Trump and defended Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT).That included a Facebook post by Donalds in May of 2011 in which he insinuated that he was relieved Trump wasn’t going to make a push for the White House in 2012. Read more at The Daily Beast.