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In a complaint filed Friday, actor Alec Baldwin accused numerous “Rust” crew members of carelessness after he was given a loaded revolver on the film set, which accidentally discharged, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the film’s armorer, was in…
Boston has agreed to pay $2.1 million in legal fees and other expenditures after the United States. The city was found against by the Supreme Court for refusing to allow a Christian flag to fly outside City Hall. The settlement…
Brittney Griner, a WNBA star, has been sent to a Russian hard labor camp to serve her 9-1/2-year jail term after being convicted on drug charges in Moscow. The basketball star would experience difficult conditions, and her family in the…
Mark Zuckerberg will follow Elon Musk’s lead and begin firing off many Meta staff as soon as tomorrow. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg informed executives that extensive layoffs would be disclosed, with recruiting and business teams among those affected. Employees will…
LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers says former teammate Kyrie Irving “caused some harm to a lot of people.” Irving was suspended for the first of several Brooklyn Nets games on Friday after commenting on an anti-Semitic documentary on…
During Paris Fashion Week, Ye, previously Kanye West, organized a “secret” catwalk event in which models donned T-shirts with the words “White Lives Matter.” Ye intended to sell the shirts before handing off crates at homeless encampments in Los Angeles,…
Elon Musk, the new CEO of Twitter, is planning to lay off half of the business’s workers by the end of this week in order to turn the company profitable. Musk is laying off 3,700 of the company’s 7,500 employees,…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stated Thursday that Paul Pelosi had been discharged from a San Francisco hospital after undergoing surgery to treat a skull fracture and injuries to his hand and arm. “Paul is grateful to the 911 operator, emergency…
Elon Musk has had a busy year, and his net worth has suffered. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Musk’s net worth has dropped by $9 billion since he purchased Twitter for $44 billion on Thursday, the highest leveraged buyout…
Bubba Wallace may be the darling of the liberal sports media. Still, he appears unpopular among NASCAR fans, as seen by the boos that greeted Wallace during driver introductions this weekend. Fans at Martinsville booed Wallace after he received a…
Takeoff, the third member of Migos, along with Quavo and Offset, has died. At around 2.30 a.m., the 28-year-old rapper, actual name Kirshnik Khari Ball, was fatally shot at a bowling alley in Houston where he and Quavo were playing…
The city of New York has agreed to pay $26 million to settle claims brought on behalf of two men who were exonerated last year for the killing of Malcolm X, agreeing to compensate for false convictions that led to…
A male assailant struck Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with a hammer at the couple’s home in San Francisco. Pelosi, 82, was hospitalized but is expected to recover well, according to the Democratic Speaker’s Office. The…
Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in Seattle against diesel-powered school buses, arguing they harm children. “Today, 95 percent of our school buses are fueled with diesel fuel, which contributes to very serious conditions that are about health and about the…
Joe Kennedy, a high school football coach in Washington state who was fired in 2015 for praying on the field after games, will be reinstated by March 15, 2023. The news follows Kennedy’s June Supreme Court triumph, which decided 6-3…
Meghan Markle has stated that she is hesitant to express her opinion or be specific about what she requires for fear of coming across as “demanding” and regarded as an “angry black woman.” On Tuesday’s episode of Spotify’s “Archetypes” podcast,…