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Where to watch the 2016 White House correspondents’ dinner on TV and online

President Obama speaks next comedian Keegan-Michael Key playing “Luther, Obama’s anger translator” at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in 2015. (YURI GRIPAS/AFP/Getty Images) The White House correspondents’ dinner is on Saturday night, and even though it’s the last one of the Obama administration, you can expect much the same routine: Red carpet, dinner and the much-anticipated comedy routines from the president and an actual comedian. (This year, it’s Comedy Central “Nightly Show” host Larry Wilmore.) As usual, it’s much more comfortable to be on your couch than packed between the masses in the Washington Hilton, so here are all the ways you can tune in: [The single best joke told by every president, from Obama to Washington] When does it start and when does it end?  This is C-SPAN’s big night, and the channel kicks off coverage at 6 p.m. with red carpet arrivals. The action dies down with dinner around 7:30 p.m. The schedule says President Obama and Wilmo

Google Doodle Honors Mathematician-Juggler Claude Shannon

Keystone/Getty Images Claude Shannon, a mathematician at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, with an electronic mouse which has a 'super' memory and can learn its way around a maze without a mistake after only one "training" run. He transformed digital computing and electronic communication Claude Shannon, nicknamed “the father of information theory” for his work on digital computing and electronic communication, was also ajuggling unicyclist who would have turned 100 on Saturday. To mark his birthday and his achievements, Saturday’s Google Doodle honored Shannon, depicting him juggling a set of ones and zeroes, the numbers he used to transform computing after learning they could be used to represent words, pictures, videos and more. While he was a research assistant at MIT, Shannon drew from Boolean algebra to pioneer digital computing, using the value of “1” for circuits turned on, and the value of “0” for circuits that were off. Before Shannon moved to MIT

Laremy Tunsil, gas masks, Instagram and NCAA fraud

d with the 13th pick  in the NFL Draft, the team that plays in the drug gateway of America selects Laremy Tunsil. The Ravens reportedly took  Tunsil off their board when the video of his smoking pot in a gas mask surfaced shortly before Thursday night's first round. This is the same franchise that called fiancé-slugging Ray Rice “a great guy.’’ This is also the same franchise that honors Ray Lewis, who was involved in a double murder. And everyone thinks Jim is the nutball Harbaugh? The 30-second video,  which showed Tunsil smoking from a mask equipped with a bong, was posted to his verified Twitter account before quickly being deleted. Tunsil had been considered a potential No. 1 pick. But after the video went viral, Tunsil was looking at 4-20.  A screenshot showing a portion of the video of Dolphins first-round pick Laremy Tunsil smoking a bong, which was posted shortly before the start of the 2016 NFL draft. Tunsil quickly deleted his account, saying he had been hac

Drake’s incomplete views from the Six

Drake—the so-called Six God, and today’s bottom-starting king of the rap game—has spent the better part of the last two years proving himself to be placeless. There he was, on  What A Time To Be Alive , a mixtape so infused with Atlanta rapper Future’s trademark codeine-cyborg purring and a particularly booming production style that Drake sounded more like a boisterous understudy; there he was on songs by West Coast rappers like Y.G. and The Game, sounding at home on the marauding basslines and taut snares that help define a certain kind of Los Angeles sound; there he is on a remix of “Ojuelegba,” a song by Nigerian rapper Wizkid, and there he is shrieking in gleeful patois on “Shutdown,” from grime icon Skepta, whose U.K. label Boy Better Know recently signed October’s Very Own. Heck, Drake even put out a straight-up bachata song, crooning in crisp Spanish alongside Romeo Santos, the king of the sweet Latino genre. Simultaneously, he’s been setting the expectations sky-high for hi

Beyoncé's Formation tour: 7 things to watch for

Formation, night 1.  (Photo: Frank Micelotta, Invision for Parkwood Entertainment) Hold up, they don't love us like she loves us. Beyoncé 's Formation World Tour kickoff in Miami on Wednesday night was a glowing celebration of love between sisters, between idols and their worshipers, and to a lesser extent, between partners. Because while many spectators likely entered  Marlins Park  with the saga of Bey, Jay and Becky on their minds, it couldn't have seemed farther from the performer's. Over the course of her marathon 30+ song set, she sang plenty of love songs -- she does make them better than nearly anyone else in pop. But while the dominant narrative of Beyonce's last arena tour, 2011's On The Run jaunt with Jay Z, was the couple's married bliss, the  Formation tour's ambitious first night was a thank you present to fans, executed with her new girl gang at her side. So now that the show's officially on the road, here's what to

Where does Blazers-Clippers Game 5 rank among biggest moments in recent Portland Trail Blazers history?

  Portland Trail Blazers Los Angeles Clippers 1 2 3 4 18 27 26 37 18 32 21 27 Total 108 98 Thu Apr 28   Status:   Final   Attendance:  19060 Stats With the Portland Trail Blazers winning a pivotal Game 5 vs. the Clippers in Los Angeles Wednesday night -- in what could signal much more than just the turning point in their best-of-seven playoffs series -- we want to know where you think this game ranks among the biggest Blazers games in recent history. With the Game 5 win, the Trail Blazers are in a commanding position to claim this series and advance to the second round of the NBA playoffs. Did anyone outside of the Blazers locker room think that was possible six months ago? One month ago? Last week? Thanks to the Game 5 win, the Blazers are on the verge of becoming just the 17th team to win a best-of-seven series after falling behind 0-2. You want long odds? Entering the 2016 playoffs, teams that fell behind 0-2 in a best-of-seven series had gone on

Google celebrates Sussex inventor with a ‘Doodle’

A Sussex scientist is the topic of the world-famous Google Doodle today (Thursday April 28). The Doodle appears at the top of Google’s search page and today marks the 162nd birthday of Hertha Marks Ayrton. A Google statement says: “Today we celebrate her legacy as engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, her impact still rippling through the scientific community.” However, there’s some confusion over where in Sussex she died. A YouTube video, Wikipedia and some other websites says she died from blood poisoning on August 26 1923 at New Cottage, North Lancing. But other websites, including other Wikipedia pages, say she died in Bexhill. Wherever in the county she did pass away, her work is recognised as pioneering. She was an engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor and was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.

Rihanna: Why She Doesn’t Believe Jay Z Cheated On Beyonce

Rihanna has spoken! It was only a matter time before Rihanna’s true feelings about ‘Lemonade’ were revealed, and she loves it! But she thinks Jay Z has always been completely loyal to Beyonce. Could she be right? Rihanna , 28, may be the last person on Earth who doesn’t think  Jay Z , 46, cheated on  Beyonce , 34. In fact, this whole incident is bringing back memories of her own tumultuous relationship with Chris Brown .  An insider tells  HollywoodLife.com  exclusively about it all! Rihanna, Jay Z, and Beyonce go back, like, waaaayy back. The three haven’t always been close friends since they rose to prominence, but it should come as no surprise that Rihanna feels loyalty for both Jay Z and Beyonce when it comes to the whole cheating scandal that has thrown the world into a frenzy over the last few days. “Rihanna loves Beyonce and respects her as a woman, friend and an artist. The same goes for Jay. He’s been nothing but loyal to Rihanna over the years and a true gentleman