New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case. “We conclude that the trial court erroneously …
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Performing in the U.S. for international artists just got a lot more complicated. On April 1, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services instituted a 250% visa fee increase for global musicians hoping to tour in the U.S. Artists, advocacy groups and immigration lawyers are concerned it could have devastating …
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Céline Dion is making the rounds of NHL locker rooms and this time the Quebec chanteuse visited the Boston Bruins. The legendary singer strolled in Thursday night to a round of applause and was introduced by head coach Jim Montgomery, who happens to be from Montreal. As she was about …
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Fans at Olivia Rodrigo‘s Guts World Tour concert stop on Tuesday in St. Louis., Mo., were given free condoms and morning-after pills as part of an initiative supporting women’s reproductive rights in the state, where abortion has been banned. To hand out the contraceptives, Rodrigo — who has long advocated …
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A jury convicted a movie weapons supervisor of involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin during a rehearsal on the set of the Western movie “Rust.” The verdict against movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed assigned new blame in the October 2021 shooting death …
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Two men were convicted of murder Tuesday in the death of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay, a brazen 2002 shooting in the rap legend’s studio. An anonymous Brooklyn federal jury found Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington guilty of killing the pioneering DJ over what prosecutors characterized as revenge for …
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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Actor Alec Baldwin will be arraigned on Thursday in New Mexico after he was charged again with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the film Rust, officials said on Tuesday. A spokesperson for New …
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A South Carolina judge on Monday denied Alex Murdaugh‘s bid for a new trial after his defence team accused a clerk of court of tampering with a jury. Judge Jean Toal said she wasn’t sure if Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill was telling the truth that she never spoke to …
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A Seattle man was arrested twice, once on Saturday and again on Monday, after loitering outside Taylor Swift’s New York City home, according to law enforcement sources who spoke to multiple U.S. outlets. David Crowe, 33, was charged with two counts each of harassment and stalking on Monday night after …
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A grand jury indicted Alec Baldwin on Friday on an involuntary manslaughter charge in a 2021 fatal shooting during a rehearsal on a movie set in New Mexico, reviving a dormant case against the A-list actor. Special prosecutors brought the case before a grand jury in Santa Fe this week, …
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There are times when life imitates art to a degree that it’s almost impossible to explain it away as coincidence. It’s not difficult to understand why, when Denise Huskins went missing in 2015, the world was quick to draw parallels between her case and the movie Gone Girl, which had …
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Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider said U.S. President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden ought to be “publicly hung” over accusations of “treason.” The since-deleted comment came early Thursday morning from Schneider’s account on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The 63-year-old actor, best known for playing …
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