Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Protests at Columbia University against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza have been allegedly “co-opted” by what New York City police officials described as professional outside agitators bent on sowing chaos and violence. Top police brass in New York said at a news conference Wednesday …
Read More »Harvey Weinstein’s NYC sex crimes retrial set for after Labor Day
Scott Heins/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to be retried “sometime after Labor Day,” a judge said Wednesday, as the disgraced film mogul appeared in a Manhattan courtroom for the first time since the New York Court of Appeals threw out his rape conviction. Court officers wheeled …
Read More »‘Belligerent’ man ordered to pay United Airlines $20K for flight diversion: DOJ
Getty Images – STOCK (NEW YORK) — A British man who wreaked havoc on a United Airlines flight, forcing the flight crew to divert their landing location, must pay over $20,000 to the airline, prosecutors announced. The charges stem from a March 1 flight that departed from London, when passenger …
Read More »14-year-old suspect dead after active shooter reported outside Wisconsin middle school: Sources
Getty Images – STOCK (MT. HOREB, Wis.) — A 14-year-old suspect is dead following a confrontation with police Wednesday after an active shooter was reported outside a Wisconsin middle school, sources told ABC News. The teen had approached Mount Horeb Middle School with what appeared to be a long gun, …
Read More »Arizona Senate passes repeal of 1864 abortion ban, sending it to governor’s desk
Getty Images – STOCK (PHOENIX) — The Arizona Senate on Wednesday voted to repeal a strict, Civil War-era abortion ban that was recently ruled enforceable by the state Supreme Court. Two Republican senators, T.J. Shope and Shawnna Bolick, joined the 14 Democrats in the minority and the bill passed 16-14, …
Read More »Producer says it was Ryan Gosling’s idea to use Taylor Swift song for ‘The Fall Guy’
Universal If you only know one thing about The Fall Guy, it’s probably that in one scene Ryan Gosling‘s character sits in a car and cries while listening to Taylor Swift‘s song “All Too Well.” It turns out the filmmakers were going to use a different song, until Gosling stepped in. …
Read More »Music notes: Olivia Rodrigo, Selena Gomez and more
Olivia Rodrigo might just be in lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-love. At the Tuesday, April 30, performance of her Guts World Tour in Dublin, Ireland, Olivia changed a lyric in her song “so american.” Many fans took this as a nod to her boyfriend, Louis Partridge, who was in the crowd. Olivia changed “I …
Read More »Air Force preps new military charges against convicted Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira
STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON)– Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who pleaded guilty to numerous federal crimes after leaking sensitive information online, will now face military criminal proceedings next month for alleged violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to an Air Force spokesperson. “Following close …
Read More »Fed holds interest rates steady at highest level since 2001
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve decided to hold its benchmark interest rate steady on Wednesday, postponing highly anticipated rate cuts as elevated inflation continues to burden U.S. households. The announcement arrives days after new government data showed that the economy is cooling off. The slowdown has coincided …
Read More »Noah Kahan celebrates four-year anniversary of the EP “that completely changed” his life
Mercury/Republic Noah Kahan released a vinyl version of his 2020 EP Cape Elizabeth for Record Store Day last year. This year, he’s marking the EP’s four-year anniversary with a post about the record that he says “woke me up.” “Cape Elizabeth isn’t just an EP to me,” he writes on …
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