“South Park ”tackles Labubu craze, has President Trump impregnate Satan

"South Park "tackles Labubu craze, has President Trump impregnate Satan

Comedy Central/South Park Studios In its 27th season,South Parkcontinues to take shots atDonald Trump— and this week, it tied the president's fictional relationship with Satan to the recent Labubu craze. The September 3 episode, "Wok is Dead," begins with two South Park Elementary students showing each other their new Labubu dolls. Seeing this, Cartman runs to alert his friends: "Guys! Girls with Labubus! It's about to happen again!" And by "it" he means a knock-down, drag-out brawl. While the girls' conversation starts off fine, with each one cooing over how the Labubus are "seriously SO cute," things quickly sour when one girl suggests that the other's "really rare" Labubu might be (gasp!) a knock-off. With that, the fists and the profanity start flying. The girls are sent to the office, where the counselor — Jesus Christ — makes the girls leave their dolls in his office until the end of the school day. Later, at a school administration meeting, Jesus and colleagues watch a Labubu unboxing video made by one of the students, which ends with her sacrificing a chicken in a Satanic ritual after learning her box contained a rare Labubu. The teachers are unfazed, but Jesus is horrified and determines to rid South Park of the cursed plushies. Meanwhile, the President returns from his international tariff summit with Satan in tow. On the tarmac, he takes questions from the press pool, including a Fox News reporter who wants to know if he's "f---ing Satan." Trump denies it, and the Prince of Darkness claims he and the President are "just sorta hanging out." Fox News refuses to drop the story, and continues reporting on Trump and Satan's relationship. Comedy Central/South Park Studios It all culminates at a birthday party for Red, who is thrilled when her boyfriend, Butters, brings her the exact Labubu she wanted as a gift. Immediately, she and the rest of the girls at the party run upstairs to perform a demonic Labubu ritual — which ends up summoning both Satan and President Trump himself. As black clouds and swarms of locusts descend upon the town of South Park, Jesus arrives at Red's house and orders Satan to leave. The Prince of Darkness announces that while he is desperate for a way out of his relationship with the President, he is inextricably "bound" to Trump for a very shocking reason: "I want to leave him, but I can't, because... I'm pregnant!" Comedy Central/South Park Studios Sign up forEntertainment Weekly's free daily newsletterto get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more. The episode ends with Fox News anchors celebrating on air, and Jesus announcing that he's banning Labubus, cell phones, and TikTok from school. After South Park's season 27 premiere, which depicted President Trump and his tiny penis in bed with Satan,White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers lashed outat the show, saying it "hasn't been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention." South Parkis now streaming on Paramount+. Read the original article onEntertainment Weekly

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“South Park ”tackles Labubu craze, has President Trump impregnate Satan

"South Park "tackles Labubu craze, has President Trump impregnate Satan Comedy Central/South Park Studios In its 27th season,South...

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Charlie Sheen Opens Up About Sexual Encounters with Men for the First Time in New Memoir and Documentary: 'So What?'

Charlie Sheen Opens Up About Sexual Encounters with Men for the First Time in New Memoir and Documentary: 'So What?'

Charlie Sheen is opening up about his past, including sexual experiences with men He says he's not trying to hide anything and accepts full responsibility for all of his controversial behavior: "I'm not a victim" His memoirTheBook of Sheencomes out Sept. 9, and his Netflix documentaryaka Charlie Sheenpremieres Sept 10. Charlie Sheenis fully opening up about his past in two upcoming new projects — his memoirThe Book of Sheen(Sept. 9) and the Netflix documentaryaka Charlie Sheen(Sept. 10) — and in both, he gets candid about past sexual experiences with men. "I flipped the menu over," he says in the Netflix doc and the book, of trying something new after years of having sex with women. He says he's no longer hiding from his past, but owning it. "I'm not going to run from my past, or let it own me," he tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story. In the documentary when the interviewer asks Sheen how it feels to be talking publicly for the first time about having sex with men, he says, "Liberating. It's f---ing liberating... [to] just talk about stuff. It's like a train didn't come through the side of the restaurant. A f---ing piano didn't fall out of the sky. No one ran into the room and shot me." Dave Kotinsky/WireImage Sheen, who also spoke about the subject today onGood Morning America, says his sexual experiences with men began when he was using crack. "That's what started it," he says. "That's where it was born, or sparked. And in whatever chunks of time that I was off the pipe, trying to navigate that, trying to come to terms with it — 'Where did that come from?... Why did that happen? — and then just finally being like, 'So what?' So what? Some of it was weird. A lot of it was f---ing fun, and life goes on." During his drug-fueled exploits, Sheen contracted HIV, which he tried to keep private. However, some of his overnight guests would see his medication, take photos of it and then threaten to expose Sheen if he didn't pay them. He paid them in the beginning, but then came out with his HIV status in 2015 on theTodayshow. "I do know for a fact that I never passed it on," he says of the virus. Sheen says with the book and the documentary he just wanted to tell his full truth and own his stories, and he didn't want to censor anything. Gallery Books "The stories I can remember anyway," he jokes. While he says he spent the past eight years making amends to people he'd hurt while he was spiraling with his drug and alcohol addiction, he doesn't want to play the victim in the book or the doc. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "It takes two to tango," he says. However, he does have regrets about going on a 20-city speaking tour after his infamous20/20interview, where he claimed to have "tiger blood" running through him. Cliff Watts "That tour didn't have to happen," he says. "I'm not a victim, but somebody should have tapped out for me and said, 'This is a bad idea.' I've combed through all the mental health manuals, and I've never found 'exploitation' as a good treatment protocol." These days, Sheen lives a much quieter lifestyle out of the spotlight, and he says he's been single for years, after going through two very tumultuous divorces, with his exes Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller. Sami Sheen/instagram "My romantic life is as uneventful as it possibly could be, and it's been that way for a long time," he says. "It wasn't even by choice, but the girls [daughters Sami and Lola] moved in [their mom is Richards], and then when they moved out, the boys [twins Bob and Max, 16, whom he shares with Mueller] moved in, and there wasn't enough room in the car. Plus, I spent so much time and energy chasing that for so long. I had to get to a place where I could be alone, but not lonely." He adds, "But I am open to love again. Probably not marriage, though!" Read the original article onPeople

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Charlie Sheen Opens Up About Sexual Encounters with Men for the First Time in New Memoir and Documentary: 'So What?'

Charlie Sheen Opens Up About Sexual Encounters with Men for the First Time in New Memoir and Documentary: 'So What?' Charlie Sheen i...

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Portuguese victims of streetcar crash mourned by colleagues, friends and local residents

Portuguese victims of streetcar crash mourned by colleagues, friends and local residents

LISBON (AP) — Ana Lopes worked at a Catholic charity inPortugal's capital, often commuting up and down a hill on one of Lisbon's famed yellow-and-white streetcars. The 50-something woman helped dozens of people navigate the adoption of children, a trying process that can take a decade. Her benevolent work came to a an abrupt end Wednesday when herstreetcar careened off its tracks and crashedinto a building. "It's a huge tragedy. It's very difficult to understand what's happening to us," Gonçalo de Oliveira, 44, said through tears on Friday. Lopes had shepherded him and his partner through an adoption that had been a lifelong dream, and he often met up with her at family reunions and events. "There was no apparent risk, yet, all of a sudden, it just happened. We lost 16 lives, Portuguese, foreigners, it doesn't matter. Lives." De Oliveira was among around 100 people who gathered at Lisbon's Church of Saint Roch on Friday tomourn the victims. In addition to Lopes, three other Portuguese nationals who worked at the Santa Casa da Misericordia charity died. Co-worker Jose Freire had known one of the victims for over three decades. "It's very difficult, very sad," he said outside on the church steps. He recalled that many of his colleagues regularly took theElevador da Gloriastreetcar, and said that he wanted Portuguese officials to figure out what happened quickly and fix it so that it never happens again. Multiple agencies are investigating what Prime Minister Luis Montenegro has described as "one of the biggest tragedies of our recent past." Officials have not yet said what caused the accident. The distinctive streetcar, which is classified as a national monument, was packed with locals and international tourists on Wednesday evening when it came off its rails. Retiree Maria das Neves, who used to work at Santa Casa da Misericordia, is also grieving the loss of her former colleagues. "There is a fraternity among those who work in this house. We are like a family," she said as she descended the church's steps. "I felt love and friendship toward them and I will always feel close to them."

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September 05, 2025

Portuguese victims of streetcar crash mourned by colleagues, friends and local residents

Portuguese victims of streetcar crash mourned by colleagues, friends and local residents LISBON (AP) — Ana Lopes worked at a Catholic charit...

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Landslide in Sudan's Darfur claims about 200 children as rescue efforts continue, aid group says

Landslide in Sudan's Darfur claims about 200 children as rescue efforts continue, aid group says

CAIRO (AP) — The deadly mountainlandslidein Sudan's western region of Darfur over the weekend killed as many as 200 children, a prominent aid group said Friday, with rescue operations in the area still underway. More than 1,000 people, many of them buried in mud, are believed to have lost their lives in the Aug. 31 landslide. Save the Children said 150 people, including 40 children, survived and were receiving medical treatment. "This is a tragedy (within) a tragedy that is the current conflict in Sudan. This is one of the worst natural disasters that has happened in Sudan," Save the Children's operations director for Sudan, Francesco Lanino, told The Associated Press on Friday. Sudan is was already experiencing one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world caused by thecivil war that erupted in April 2023in the capital Khartoum. The conflict spread across the country after simmering tensions escalated between the Sudanese army and its rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. More than 40,000 people have been killed and as many as 12 million displaced. Sudanese authoritiesrecovered on Thursdaythe bodies of 375 people who died in theAug. 31 landslidethat followed days of heavy rains in the village of Tarasin in the Marrah Mountains. The landslide killed as many as 1,000 people, Mohamed Abdel-Rahman al-Nair, a spokesperson for the Sudan Liberation Movement Army, has said. The United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs hada similar death toll estimatebut said it's hard to confirm the magnitude of the tragedy because the area is hard to reach. "Think about a village with all its existing schools and health facilities totally under the mud, and half of the mountain collapsed all over the village which is fully covered so there is nothing left of the existing structure," Lanino said. Lanino said his team arrived at Tarasin and its surrounding areas on Friday after heading out Thursday morning using donkeys due to the rough terrain and destroyed roads in areas of Darfur affected by heavy rains. He added that the village is outside of any cellular phone network or any other way to communicate with the outside world. Lanino said the team was shocked to see that almost half of the mountain had collapsed on the village at its bottom. He said the landslide involved at least two waves with the first starting Sunday afternoon, according to survivors who spoke with the group. A few hours later came the second wave, which hit nearby villages and victimized villagers who had been helping people hit by the initial wave. Lanino estimated that thousands are missing as the number of people still trapped under the mud is unclear. Survivors counted by Save the Children are now receiving medical and protection support from the aid group. Residents and local authorities still fear another landslide because there is still heavy rain. "People living by Tarasin they're saying it's still raining, that 'we can somehow hear the sound of the mountains cracking' and they are really worried that more landslides might come," said Lanino. This prompted people to move to nearby villages around 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the main center of the tragedy, but they still lack food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter and the ability to move to further safer locations that are away from the bottom of the mountains. Save the Children and other aid groups are delivering aid to affected people and helping facilitate their relocation to safer areas by camel and donkey.

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Landslide in Sudan's Darfur claims about 200 children as rescue efforts continue, aid group says

Landslide in Sudan's Darfur claims about 200 children as rescue efforts continue, aid group says CAIRO (AP) — The deadly mountainlandsli...

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Hoda Kotb Is Making Return to ‘Today’: Why & When She Is Coming Back

Hoda Kotb Is Making Return to 'Today': Why & When She Is Coming Back

Hoda Kotbis returning toTodayfor another post-exit appearance. "We have some good news to share. Hoda will be joining us next week, and she's gonna share a really heartwarming story,"Savannah Guthrieannounced on the Friday, September 5, episode of the NBC morning show. Craig Melvinwent on to share details about Kotb's special project. "She's gonna introduce us to a remarkable phys ed teacher from right here in New York, going the extra mile for his elementary school," he told viewers. "In fact, Hoda is actually going to bring him with her, along with some of his students, for quite the unforgettable gym class just out on the Plaza." Guthrie went on to poke fun at how Kotb has made a handful of appearances onTodayin the months since her January 10 exit from the show. "Should we all just make the joke we always make? Longest vacation ever," she quipped. "It's coming to an end. We'll see Hoda next week. Looking forward [to it]." Kotb has appeared onTodayin video messages and packages, as well promoted her personal projects on the show. Her upcomingTodayappearance will mark the first time she has returned for an assignment. Back in January, Kotb toldPage Sixthat she would continue to contribute toTodaydespite stepping down as a host. "I think it'll be kind of a Snoop-ish role," she said, referring toSnoop Dogg's memorable role as correspondent for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The outlet also reported that Kotb would continue to serve as an Olympics correspondent for the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. Nathan Congleton/NBC "I want to be a supporting character on a team that is already in place so that I'll come in and just have a role there. And then I'm going to do my 'Making Space' podcast, which I enjoy and love so much," Kotb shared at the time. "And for theTodayshow, I think we talked about doing something every four to six weeks, just a little something." Kotb made herfirst post-exitTodayreturnin March, appearing in a video message to announce her upcoming book,Jump and Find Joy, which hits bookstores on Tuesday, September 23. "Everybody in their life, at one point, stands on the edge of something and says, 'Should I jump? Should I try? Should I go for it?'" she said on the show's March 10 episode. "And I felt that way about theTodayshow, and I was terrified to even think about jumping." Kotb continued, "Here's my thing. You get one life. That's all. That's it. It's ready for the taking. It only takes a jump." In May, KotbreturnedtoToday's Studio 1A for the first time since her departure to celebrate the launch of her wellness company, Joy 101. "You hit a button, and automatically curated for you is a special program," shesaidof the brand's app. "If you want prayer, it's on the app. If you want meditation, it's on the app. If you want help going to sleep, it's all on there. And so, we're also gonna have courses. We're gonna do all kinds of cool things. We're gonna have retreats. It's the stuff that we love." Today, Weekdays, 7 a.m. ET, NBC Read the latest entertainment news onTV Insider.

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Hoda Kotb Is Making Return to ‘Today’: Why & When She Is Coming Back

Hoda Kotb Is Making Return to 'Today': Why & When She Is Coming Back Hoda Kotbis returning toTodayfor another post-exit appearan...

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