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Jussie Smollett’s legal team filed an emergency motion on Monday requesting that the former Empire actor be released from Chicago’s Cook County Jail, according to TMZ. Smollett was sentenced to serve 5 months behind bars by Judge James Linn last week after being found guilty on five felony counts he was charged with in connection to staging a hate crime […]
Brent Renaud, an award-winning filmmaker and journalist, was shot and killed Sunday when his vehicle was riddled with bullets after passing a military checkpoint in Irpin, a Ukrainian city located on the outskirts of Kyiv that had seen intense gunfire in recent days, per AP News. Renaud, 50, was in the area working on a project focused on […]
Taraji P. Henson has made a public show of support for her former Empire co-star Jussie Smollett, who this week was sentenced in connection with staging a 2019 hate crime. Sunday, Henson shared an image showing the #FREEJUSSIE hashtag to Instagram, saying in the caption that the sentence (which included 150 days in jail) wasn’t aligned with the level […]
William Hurt, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in 1985’s Kiss of the Spider Woman, has died at the age of 71. His son Will shared the news of his passing om Sunday. “It is with great sadness that the Hurt family mourns the passing of William Hurt, beloved father and Oscar winning […]
Benjamin Bratt and his wife Talisa Soto are encouraging fans to get screenings after revealing that Soto has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The Miss Congeniality and Law & Order actor shared the news with Today, adding that his wife wanted him to remind fans “that it’s important to get your screenings yearly, that you have to self-advocate […]
After a Bronx judge found that NYPD officers’ claims that a man refused to take his hands out of his pockets during a search didn’t line up with evidence, New York Mayor Eric Adams is defending the officers in question. Adams claimed he doesn’t believe officers should be “demonized,” per the New York Post, following their search and […]
Singer Traci Braxton, the sister of Toni and Tamar, has died at the age of 50 following a private battle with cancer. The news of Braxton’s death was shared by TMZ, and family members have since shared memories and messages on social media, calling her a “bright light.” “It is with the utmost regret that we inform […]
Facebook and Instagram users in certain regions will be temporarily allowed to use “violent speech” against “Russian invaders,” Meta confirmed this week amid ongoing coverage of the Ukraine invasion. As first reported by Reuters, the company will also temporarily allow (under certain conditions) posts calling for Vladimir Putin or Alexander Lukashenko’s deaths, with internal communications cited in […]
A man in New York City was charged with murder Thursday after he shot and killed the friend of his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend, New York Daily News reports. The incident occurred Tuesday night when Tyrell Rodgers, 28, allegedly opened fire in the direction of her ex-boyfriend, striking him in the right arm. However, it was his friend, […]
YouTube star and musician Lil Bo Weep, born Winona Lisa Green, died last week at the age of 22. Her father Matthew Schofield shared an emotional statement on Facebook honoring his daughter. “This weekend we lost the fight for my daughter’s life against depression, trauma, PTSD and drug addiction that we have been fighting since we got her back […]
