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The White House on Thursday condemned comedian Samantha Bee's remark that White House senior adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump is a "feckless c***," calling on TBS, which airs her show, to publicly repudiate her. The comment --  for which Bee later apologized Thursday  -- comes in the wake of a national debate about incendiary language in the political arena. Earlier this week,  Roseanne Barr's hit television show was abruptly canceled  after she made a racist reference on Twitter to former Obama administration adviser Valerie Jarrett. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Bee's language was "vile and vicious." "The collective silence by the left and its media allies is appalling. Her disgusting comments and show are not fit for broadcast, and executives at Time Warner and TBS must demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of this administration will not be condoned on its network," Sanders said....

A man who was captured masturbating in public on Monday told Florida police officers he was Captain Kirk from “Star Trek.” Officers from the Clearwater Police Department were called to a bus stop on Monday morning following a report of a “lewd and lascivious act,”  WFLA  reported. Officers stated they discovered a man sitting on a bench and touching himself under his pants. The officers noted in a police report that it was “obvious he was masturbating.” GUARD ACCUSED OF TEEN INMATE’S RAPE AT FLORIDA JUVENILE JAIL When asked what he was doing, the man told officers, “I’m scratching myself.” As officers were arresting the man for disorderly conduct, they asked for his name. The arrest report stated the man told him his name was “James Tiberius Kirk,” the same name as the “Star Trek” protagonist Captain Kirk, famously portrayed by actors William Shatner and Chris Pine. SEA TURTLE NESTS IN FLORIDA HURT BY ALBERTO  Officers determined the man’s real name was ...

Pusha-T has doubled down on  Drake  with a ferocious and very personal new diss track called “The Story of Adidon” — which comes after  Drake  fired back at him on Friday night with  one called “Duppy Freestyle”  that was a response to the track “Infared” on Pusha-T’s latest album “Daytona” which was released on Friday morning and was produced by  Kanye West . Along the way there were lyrical jabs about the controversy reinvigorating Pusha’s career and a $100,000 invoice from Drake for “promotional assistance and career reviving,” as well as a  parallel Twitter war between West’s wife Kim Kardashian and his partner in the Donda’s House charity, Rhymefest,  in which neither Drake, Pusha or West were directly involved. Got all that? “The Story of Adidon” ups the ante, with a cover photo of Drake in blackface makeup and a hard lyrical jab about the biracial rapper being “always afraid he wasn’t black enough.” Pusha responded to cri...

Google   (GOOGL, -1.49%)  is celebrating a little-known but hugely influential scientist with the  Google Doodle  today. The Danish scientist  S.P.L. (Soren Peder Lauritz) Sorensen  is the man who invented the pH scale (remember those pink and blue strips from your high school chemistry class?) S.P. L. Sorensen developed the method of measuring acidity and alkalinity in 1909 while studying the effect of ion concentration on proteins. Today the method is hugely important for  daily necessities  like clean water and medicine. Credit: Google Sorensen was born in Havrebjerg, Denmark 1868. He studied at the University of Copenhagen with the intention of studying medicine, but went on to have a career as a scientist. Sorensen was the head of the prestigious Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen for 37 years, where he worked alongside his second wife, Margrethe Høyrup Sørensen. He worked in the lab until the year before his death at...

  Valerie Jarrett says ABC made the right call in canceling 'Roseanne' after racist comment ABC  has pulled the plug on the revival “ Roseanne .” The move comes after series star and creator  Roseanne Barr made a comment on Twitter Tuesday morning referring to former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett as looking like the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.” Jarrett, an African-American, was born in Iran to American parents. “ Roseanne ’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,”  ABC  Entertainment president Channing Dungey said in a statement. Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger voiced his support for the cancellation,  tweeting , “There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing.” Barr deleted her tweet about Jarrett not long after posting it. She followed it up with an apology that read, “I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and t...

President Trump marks Memorial Day with a speech at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images At Arlington National Cemetery today, President Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and paid his respects to those who gave their lives for the country. "Our fallen heroes have not only written our history, they have shaped our destiny," Trump said, speaking at the cemetery's Memorial Ampitheater. "They inspired their communities and uplifted their country and provided the best example of courage, virtue and valor the world will ever know. They fought and bled and died so that America would forever remain safe and strong and free." CNN   YouTube "They came from every generation — from towering cities and windswept prairies, from privilege and from poverty," he said. "They were generals and privates, captains and corporals of every race, color and of every creed. But they were all brother...