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BEIRUT, Lebanon — A deal to evacuate insurgents from the Old City of Homs in central Syria hit a snag on Thursday when rebels in Aleppo Province refused to allow all of a humanitarian convoy to enter two villages they had blockaded, as called for under a pact between the government and the rebels, opposition activists ... |
BEIRUT (AP) — A rebel-claimed bombing Thursday in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo leveled a hotel near the ancient Citadel that government troops used as a military base, along with several other buildings, activists and militants said.
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PHILADELPHIA — Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been ousted as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee on the eve of the party's convention. It's an a... |
(CNN) The Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday without its outgoing Democratic National Committee chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, following a chaotic scene at a morning meeting where she was loudly jeered by Bernie Sanders supporters.
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Miley Cyrus‘ controversial twerking display with Robin Thicke at the VMAs left her on-again, off-again fiancé Liam Hemsworth humiliated, and it could spell doom for the four-year relationship.
“The VMAs is the straw that will break him,” a source predicted to Life & Style. “He wants out of the relationship.”
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"Me and Robin [Thicke,] the whole time said, 'You know we're about to make history right now.'"
In an exclusive clip provided to MTV News by a crew filming a previously announced documentary, Miley Cyrus has addressed, for the first time, reaction to her performance at last Sunday's Video Music Awards.
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Public health experts have warned that controversial experiments on mutant viruses could put human lives in danger by unleashing an accidental pandemic.
Several groups of scientists around the world are creating and altering viruses to understand how natural strains might evolve into more lethal forms that spread e... |
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Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer accidentally started swinging the ax last week, as bureaucratic snafus resulted in dozens of employees losing their jobs, sources told The Post’s James Covert.
“They put people on firing lists who they didn’t mean to — people who were lower on the perfor... |
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SAN FRANCISCO — One of Marissa Mayer’s signature policies as chief executive of Yahoo has been the quarterly performance review, in which every employee at the company is ranked on a scale of 1 to 5. The ratings have been used to fire hundreds of employees since Ms. Mayer joined the company in mid-2012.
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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2014, file photo, Yahoo president and CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Yahoo reports financial earnings on Tuesday, Feb.... (Associated Press)
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Illinois' largest high school district violated federal law by barring a transgender student from using the girls' locker room, authorities concluded Monday.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights spent nearly two years investigating Palatine-based Township High School District 211 and found "a ... |
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Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 is violating the anti-discriminatory Title IX law by denying a transgender student who identifies as female unrestricted access to a girls' locker room, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Ri... |
A northwest suburban school district has 30 days to allow a transgender high school student use of the girls’ locker room or face legal action by the U.S. Department of Education.
The Education Department on Monday released a copy of a letter to Township High School District 211 in Palatine from the department’s Of... |
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Human bones discovered in the basement of a New York home have been identified as those of a man who had been missing for nearly six decades, authorities said Wedn... |
Human remains discovered under the basement of a Long Island home have officially been identified as the homeowner who went missing 57 years ago.Police say George Carroll's adult son and his two grandchildren found his remains while excavating the basement of the home on Olive Street in Lake Grove in October.Carroll ha... |
Down in the basement of Michael Carroll’s childhood home in Lake Grove on Long Island, the psychic pointed to the cement floor.
"He went to the right spot and said, ‘The energy is here,’” Michael told the New York Post in November.
Michael was not sure he bought it. As he would explain later, he was a science g... |
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery forwarded at least eight sexually explicit emails to an employee in the state attorney general's office who later shared them with more than a dozen others, emails reviewed by The Morning Call show.
McCaffery is the first judicial figure whose name has surfaced in... |
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Everything was going well for Myron W. Chisem, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent since 2007.One of his daughters was off to college, the other was on her way there, and his son, the youngest of his three children, had decided he wanted to move in with dad.The 14-year-old was doing well in school,... |
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Updated at 2:50 p.m. ET: The 14-year-old son of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Myron W. Chisem was arrested Thursday morning after the agent was shot dead through the back of his head in the family room of his Carson, Calif., home.
Authorities from the c... |
A 6-year-old Eustis boy reportedly died of rabies Sunday at an Orlando hospital after being scratched by a sick bat that Lake County officials said had been living in his home.
Henry Roque confirmed his son Ryker Roque’s death to NBC News after previously telling the “Today” show that Ryker became infected when the... |
Boy undergoes experimental treatment for rabies after bat bite
A 6-year-old boy in Florida is undergoing a treatment, known as the Milwaukee protocol, after being diagnosed with rabies. The boy will be put into a medically-induced coma and given a cocktail of drugs to force his body to make its own antibodies. NBC’... |
Ryker Roque is undergoing experimental treatment after being diagnosed with rabies.
A 6-year-old Florida boy who was undergoing experimental treatment after being diagnosed with rabies has died.
Ryker Roque passed away in an Orlando hospital, his father said Monday.
Roque had been undergoing the treatment, ... |
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A 6-year-old Florida boy fighting rabies has died, his father said Sunday.
Ryker Roque was being kept under anesthesia in an Orlando hospital in a desperate bid to save him from the deadliest virus there is.
... |
A teenager who “zigzagged” through Russell Square in central London stabbing random strangers has admitted killing an American tourist and injuring five others.
Zakaria Bulhan, 19, killed Darlene Horton, 64, a retired special needs teacher, and injured other holidaymakers and theatregoers on the evening of 3 Au... |
Image copyright Met Police Image caption Zakaria Bulhan admitted the charges on the first day of his trial
A knife attacker has admitted killing a US tourist and wounding five others in a rampage in central London.
Nineteen-year-old Zakaria Bulhan carried out the attack in Russell Square on 3 August last year. ... |
The so-called "affluenza" teen wants another break.
The Texas teenager who killed four people in a 2013 drunken-driving wreck is asking the state's Supreme Court to throw out his current two-year jail sentence.
Ethan Couch was initially sentenced to 10-years probation after successfully arguing that his spoiled... |
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Lawyers for a Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving crash have turned to the Texas Supreme Court in an effort to secure his release from jail.
The motion filed Friday on behalf of 19-year-old Ethan Couch argues that a judge had no authority to sentence Couch to nearly two years i... |
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Amy Schumer dropped a lot of Benjamins with a $1,000 tip for the bartenders at "Hamilton" on Saturday night.
The “Trainwreck” star’s generous tip for a $77 bill left Broadway hit “Hamilton’s” bar staff speechless, Madeleine DeJohn, an aspiring actor and bartender at the theater, told the Daily News.
The $1,000 ... |
The Sea of Galilee boat is the most famous artifact that we can now associate with this newly discovered town. It dates back to either the first century B.C. or A.D. Although the boat was uncovered in 1986 the discovery of the town means we now know it was found on the ancient town's shoreline.
A town dating back m... |
(Helen Bond) A week or so ago we welcomed Dr Ken Dark from the University of Reading to Edinburgh. Ken is an archaeologist with a great deal of experience in all things to do with the Roman Empire, and we were particularly interested to hear of his experiences in mapping the area around Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee.... |
Only a few minutes ago, the entire music industry stood on a stage in a collective display of how rich and out of touch they are. They think you are willing to pay up to double the price of other streaming music services to pay for their streaming music service, because they are crazy.
Imagine this: canceling your ... |
Tidal, the high-definition music streaming service acquired by rapper and music mogul Jay-Z, is gearing up for its official relaunch under new ownership later today, and it will be doing so by reportedly making a move to snag new releases by some of the biggest musicians of the moment including Kanye West, Madonna and ... |
Musicians including Beyoncé and Madonna show support for rapper as he overhauls service designed to make more money for artists
He has sold 100m records, founded a business empire worth upwards of $520m (£350m) and married Beyoncé. Now, Jay Z, backed by a roll call of A-list friends, is fronting the relaunch of a m... |
Jay Z doesn’t give many interviews. In conversation, he often pauses mid-sentence, considers, rewinds, slices and reshapes his answer, choosing a more appropriate word or analogy that draws a finer point before revealing it to the interviewer. What’s commonly assumed is a mistrust of the press may just be that unlike h... |
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Some of the biggest names in entertainment have re-launched the music subscription service Tidal, which they are billing as the first artist-owned platform for musi... |
No Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It's the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irreverent student and his soft-spoken MIT professor, of a husband and father who spent years struggling to make ends meet only ... |
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In 2013, in an excerpt adapted from Molly Knight Raskin's book, Slate told the story of Danny Lewin, who in trying to stop the hijacking for Flight 11 became the first victim of 9/11. This year, we once again remember the man whose legacy lingered long after his death.
This essay is ... |
Despite the fact that the markets were no longer betting on Akamai, company executives chose Las Vegas for their 2001 sales kickoff. To mark the official launch of EdgeSuite, they flew several dozen employees and advisors out to Sin City for a few days at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino.
As VP of sales, John Sconye... |
(CNN) -- Even by MIT standards, says Tom Leighton, Danny Lewin was special.
"He was really exceptionally smart. MIT has a lot of really smart people, and Danny stood out even among that rarified environment," says Leighton, who was then one of Lewin's professors at the Massachusetts school's computer science labora... |
Fairborn mayor Dan Kirkpatrick has confirmed a major reason for Wright State withdrawing from the debate was security concerns around Wright State being an open campus. HASAN ABDUL-KARIM/STAFF
Fairborn mayor Dan Kirkpatrick has confirmed a major reason for Wright State withdrawing from the debate was security conce... |
Cleveland (CNN) Wright State University is pulling out of its presidential debate scheduled for September 26, and the debate will move to Hofstra University, sources confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.
Wright State University President David Hopkins told the Dayton Daily News, which first reported the story , that the uni... |
Unbridled Kentuckians Decide It's Time For A Kick-Ass New Slogan
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Kentucky is known for horse racing, bourbon and college basketball. And if a couple of creative advertising professionals have any say in the matter, the Bluegrass State will be world renowned... |
Does Kentucky need a kick-ass makeover?
A print ad for Kentucky's new "kick ass" campaign. (Photo: Kentucky for Kentucky)
What comes to mind when you think about Kentucky? (Assuming you do think about Kentucky, that is.)
I'm betting fried chicken, bourbon and horse racing.
But some grassroots marketers ... |
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, one of the four authors of the GOP memo released Friday, told CBS News' "Face the Nation" that he believes a surveillance warrant for former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page would not have ever been authorized without the existence of the controversial "Steele dossier."
Gowdy's ... |
The release of the contentious memo by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee on Friday underscored the partisan firestorm swirling around the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
President Trump Donald John TrumpBaldwin returns to 'SNL' as Trump and admits presidency is just 'a four- ... |
Getty Images Former Japanese astronaut Mamoru Mori on the prototype model of Honda’s ‘Uni-Cub.’
Honda Motor Co. unveiled its latest electric vehicle Tuesday, but it is unlike any of the cars and motorcycles the company is best known for. Rather, the UNI-CUB single-seat, unicycle-like vehicle looks something like a ... |
The people mover has gotten an upgrade: On Tuesday, Honda announced its new Uni-Cub, a personal mobility device that lets you glide around the office or the aquarium perched comfortably on what looks like a trash compactor on wheels.
Like the Segway, the Uni-Cub allows the rider to control it simply by shifting her... |
Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke joined forces for a controversial performance, while 'N Sync reunited -- if briefly.
The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards aired Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on MTV from Brooklyn's Barclays Center, with Justin Timberlake taking home the night's top prize of Video of the Year for "Mirrors."
"Thi... |
Taylor Swift's "shut the fuck up"—memorialized here in GIF form—was directed at her ex-boyfriend, One Direction's Harry Styles, who was at that moment on stage. But it's a pretty good review of the entire VMA experience:
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The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, which aired live on Sunday night from Brooklyn's Barclays Center for the first time ever, had one thing on its mind: performance, performance, performance. 'NSync reunited. Lady Gaga re-emerged. And Katy Perry delivered a knockout punch. In fact, there were more performances than awards... |
Katy Perry may have been wearing an embesllished leopard dress from Emanuel Ungaro’s upcoming Fall 2013 collection, but all anyone could look at on the red carpet was the singer's bedazzled, multi-colored grill.
She even made a "Roar" face in honor of her latest single.
Let's take a closer look at that.
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"Rough, tough and ready to rumble" is right. Katy Perry delivered an uproar-worthy rendition of her hit single "Roar" underneath the Brooklyn Bridge in an epic closing performance to this year's Video Music Awards.
"I like to have the last word," Perry told MTV News' Christina Garibaldi earlier Sunday of having the... |
Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards didn't fulfill one big promise: Daft Punk's supposed VMA performance -- which would have followed a fumbled booking and cancellation on the "Colbert Report" -- never happened.
The French electro demi-gods were supposed to perform on Colbert's show earlier in August, but cancelled bec... |
'You inspired me!' Taylor Swift takes a dig at Harry Styles as she wins MTV VMA… then mouths 'shut the f*** up' as he gets on stage
She can't help but take digs at her ex Harry Styles at nearly every awards show.
And Taylor Swift continued the trend as she appeared to back-handedly thank the One Direction singe... |
And thus ends another MTV Video Music Awards. This year's show was no disappointment. We laughed, we cringed, we twerked and we GIFed our hearts out.
There were several notable performances including Bruno Mars, Katy Perry and Macklemore. But a rather raunchy performance from Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke almost mel... |
Among the cache of documents from Osama bin Laden’s bookshelf released to the public Tuesday is a curious letter, apparently written by the late al-Qaeda founder, enjoining the American people to undertake a “great revolution for freedom,” liberating the then-recently inaugurated President Barack Obama from the chokeho... |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden wrote a letter calling on the American people to help President Barack Obama fight “catastrophic” climate change and “save humanity”, in the latest evidence of his worries about environmental issues, newly released documents show
A previously unreleased video of slain former A... |
Two CEO advisers walked away from President Trump on Thursday.
Disney (DIS) CEO Bob Iger said he will step down from Trump's business advisory council, protesting the president's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate deal.
"Protecting our planet and driving economic growth are critical to our future, and ... |
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On gun control, after the Las Vegas massacre — in which one Disney employee was shot dead and another was shot in the lung — Mr. Iger said, “In this day and age, we get outraged when an athlete doesn’t stand for the national anthem — where’s the outrage here?”
Then there was the presidential question, which his inq... |
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This week, Ford let me test the first-ever haptic shifter knob on a Shelby GT500 . The elegantly simple device vibrates every time the car’s engine hits 3000 rpm, reminding... |
Manual transmissions are better. Period. End of story. Yes, yes, we know. Sequential and dual-clutch transmissions change gears faster than any mortal possibly can, which is why even Porsche — Porsche — requires paddles instead of a proper lever in its flagship model. But unless your name is Sebastian Vettel or Sebasti... |
The phrase "car modification" bring to mind
images of grease-stained burly persons clad in oil-spotted coveralls, toiling away at the aluminum and steel heart of some piece of American muscle. Those who coax more out of a vehicle are seen as artisans. Their canvas is an engine block. Their studio, a garage.Zac Nels... |
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Lindsay Lohan crashed the celebrity-packed DeLeon Tequila two-year anniversary party at the Chateau Marmont on Sunday and was asked to leave. A source said the sober-looking starlet talked her way into the bash, which featured a performance by the Kills, and hun... |
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Radar Executive Editor
Troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan allegedly grabbed the wrist of a woman who tried to take a picture of her about 2 a.m. Sunday in a Hollywood nightclub, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Then, someone in Lohan’s entourage reportedly grabbed the Nikon point-and-shoot camera fr... |
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Let's make a list of the things about this photograph that are depressing, shall we?
1) It's a picture of Lindsay Lohan and Marilyn Manson. Just, that.
2) It was taken at a party for DeLeon, a brand of tequila. (Lindsay, for those of you luc... |
Legendary legal eagle Alan Dershowitz says he was stunned that George Zimmerman's defense lawyer told a "knock-knock joke" during his opening statement to the jury in the Trayvon Martin case.
The Harvard law professor, who was unavailable for comment early Tuesday, told “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV that ... |
Story highlights Defense lawyer apologizes for telling joke during opening statements
Father of Trayvon Martin cries in courtroom; George Zimmerman shows no emotion
Did Zimmerman commit 2nd degree murder when he killed Martin? Or was it self-defense?
62% in a CNN poll say the charges against Zimmerman are "... |
Cardi B Gives Birth to Baby Girl!!!
Cardi B Gives Birth to Baby Girl Kulture Kiari Cephus
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Cardi B's a new mama after delivering a beautiful baby girl into the world.
Cardi had her daughter, Kulture Kiari Cephus, Tuesday night in an Atlanta hospital, named partly after hubby/daddy Offset's ... |
Cardi B is making mommy moves!
The 25-year-old rapper (whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar) and husband Offset of Migos welcomed their first child together, daughter Kulture Kiari Cephus, on Tuesday, July 10, Cardi B announced on Instagram Wednesday alongside a nude maternity photo.
The baby girl is the first ... |
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On April 12, 2015 former senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced her run for President of the United States. Find out where the democratic candidate stands on immigration, ISIS, the minimum wage and gay marriage. Video by Natalie |
will turn over her private email server and a backup thumb drive to the Justice Department, her spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
The news comes just hours after the Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General told Congress that her email server contained emails that have now been classified “top secret.”
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China summoned the U.S. ambassador on Sunday after warning Canada of "grave consequences" if a top executive of leading tech giant Huawei isn't released fr... |
In this courtroom sketch, Meng Wanzhou, right, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, sits beside a translator during a bail hearing at British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver, on Friday,... (Associated Press)
In this courtroom sketch, Meng Wanzhou, right, the chief financial officer of Huawei Tech... |
CINCINNATI (AP) — The 96-year-old Cincinnati surgeon credited with developing his namesake Heimlich maneuver recently used the emergency technique for the first time himself to save a woman choking on food at his senior living center.
Dr. Henry Heimlich told The Cincinnati Enquirer (http://cin.ci/1U0lAx2) in an int... |
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Monday might not have been the first time Dr. Henry Heimlich performed his namesake medical procedure on a live ch... |
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing county officials in Alabama who told a Christian woman to remove her headscarf for her driver's license photo.
Yvonne Allen of Tuskeegee says the clerk insisted that only Muslim women are allowed to cover their hair.
The ACLU's suit filed Tuesday in Montgomery federal... |
Yvonne Allen says she wears a headscarf because she believes her Christian faith requires it.
But the Tuskegee woman says she was ordered by Lee County officials to take the headscarf off when she went to get her drivers' license renewed in December, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Ameri... |
NOTE - August 30, 2016: This post originally ran in April 2016. Today the ACLU and ACLU of Alabama filed a federal lawsuit on Ms. Allen’s behalf, arguing that Lee County’s refusal to provide a religious accommodation to Ms. Allen violates her rights under the Alabama Constitution and the First Amendment to the U.S. Con... |
In 2015, for the first time in 10 years, the death rate in the United States went up. According to preliminary data from the National Center for Health Statistics, in 2015 there were 729.5 deaths per 100,000 people, compared to 723.5 in 2014. (This is the age-adjusted death rate, by the way, so it accounts for the incr... |
Story highlights Death rates haven't gone up since 2005, which was a bad flu season
More people are dying from Alzheimer's, suicide, homicide, firearm deaths, hypertension and drug overdoses
It's too soon to know whether it is a trend
(CNN) Americans died at a higher rate in 2015, news that comes as a surpr... |
U.S. births declined and the death rate rose last year in a sign of continuing pressure on the country’s population growth, newly released federal figures show.
Preliminary numbers out Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show there were 3.98 million births in the U.S. in 2015. That is down ... |
Researchers in the United States have found a link between HIV transmission and the popular classified advertisement website Craigslist, with research spanning a decade revealing a 16% increase in transmission of the infection after Craigslist entered a new area’s market.
The study was originally published in the j... |
Craigslist’s entry into a market results in a 15.9 percent increase in reported HIV cases, according to research from the University of Minnesota published in the December issue of MIS Quarterly. When mapped at the national level, more than 6,000 HIV cases annually and treatment costs estimated between $62 million and ... |
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: "Nobody can deny the seriousness of these plots"
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has blamed a foreign conspiracy for trying to destabilise Syria, as a mass uprising against his rule continues.
The "external conspiracy ... |
The Syrian president has made a defiant speech blaming foreign interference for the anti-government uprising in his country which began last March.
In a televised speech on Tuesday, he accused the Arab League of hypocrisy for lecturing Syria on democracy and reform. However, he said his country would not "close the... |
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Mayim Bialik arrives at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in January 2017. (Photo: Dan MacMedan, USA TODAY)
The Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik is responding to a Twitter storm s... |
I still make choices every day as a 41-year-old actress that I think of as self-protecting and wise. I have decided that my sexual self is best reserved for private situations with those I am most intimate with. I dress modestly. I don’t act flirtatiously with men as a policy.
I am entirely aware that these types o... |
Presenter apologises for gags about disgraced producer after angry criticism from Rose McGowan and Asia Argento
James Corden has been forced to apologise for making jokes about Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual assault at a black-tie charity event in Los Angeles after being condemned by two of the women who have ac... |
John Oliver Criticizes Academy for Keeping Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski After Expelling Harvey Weinstein
"Yes, finally, the group that counts among its current members Roman Polanski, Bill Cosby and Mel Gibson has found the one guy who treated women badly and kicked him out."
John Oliver says it's not enough for ... |
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Woody Allen has described Harvey Weinstein as a "sad, sick man", as the producer faces sexual assault claims.
His remarks came as he clarified comments to the BBC that the story was ... |
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