Pilar Melendez

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Pilar Melendez

In a recent episode of his highly influential podcast, Joe Rogan declared what he sees as the latest triumph in the cultural battle over language: the return of the “R-word.”  “Every time I see people that disagree with any that’s happening, any gigantic world events, it’s one of these retarded shows where they’re screaming,” he said April 10 on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” before he interrupted himself to go on a quick rant about the word.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Pilar Melendez

In a recent episode of his highly influential podcast, Joe Rogan declared what he sees as the latest triumph in the cultural battle over language: the return of the “R-word.”“Every time I see people that disagree with any that’s happening, any gigantic world events, it’s one of these retarded shows where they’re screaming,” he said April 10 on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” before he interrupted himself to go on a quick rant about the word.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Katherine Koretski |Pilar Melendez

Former “Project Runway” production assistant Miriam Haley stormed out of a New York criminal courtroom on Friday, moments after breaking down in tears and cursing on the stand during her fourth day at Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial. Haley, 48, was about 30 minutes into her testimony when Weinstein’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, began grilling her on what she was wearing the night she alleges Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her at his SoHo home in July 2006.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Katherine Koretski |Pilar Melendez

4 hours agoView this email in your browser May 2, 2025 Have you had a nice week? I hope so. Sean Collins, here! Harvey Weinstein in back in court, and Constance Grady wrote about what his retrial means for our culture recently, and I wanted to hear more about that, so I chatted with her. Here's what she had to …

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Pilar Melendez |Chloe Melas |Adam Reiss |Corky Siemaszko

Harvey Weinstein had a big smile on his face Tuesday when he showed up in a New York City court for the retrial of his landmark sexual assault case that defined the #MeToo movement, but the foreman of the jury that convicted him in 2020 said the disgraced Hollywood producer may not be grinning when this trial is over. Bernard Cody, speaking exclusively to NBC News, said that he's interested to see how the retrial plays out but that he stands by the verdict reached at the first trial.