For nearly 20 years, actress Missy Peregrym has played strong female characters on TV and the big screen. Now the actress’ latest role brings her to New York to play special agent Maggie Bell in the new CBS drama, “FBI.” “Taking this job scared me so much because I knew …

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Jacob Mitich had made it to Round Two of the “Madden NFL 19” tournament in Jacksonville, and had almost scored a touchdown when shots rang out. Vaulting over a table, he scrambled to exit the crowded room.  At first he ran outside to the waterfront where he …

These are partisan times in THESE UNITED STATES. We’ll be tracking some of the candidates and the issues throughout this election year, starting with a well-known dark horse our Erin Moriarty has been following: Cynthia Nixon’s face is instantly recognizable thanks to that hit TV show “Sex and the City,” …

Daria Morgendorffer finally has a reason to smile: Everyone’s favorite misanthropic teenager is coming back to the small screen. MTV announced a reboot of its cult classic, “Daria,” which will be part of the lineup for its new production unit, MTV Studios.  The reboot of “Daria” will be called “Daria …

GLENDALE, Calif. — A black actor who claims he was racially profiled and mistakenly arrested at gunpoint in a California parking garage is filing a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Darris Love, 38, alleges he was arrested June 6 by Glendale and Los Angeles police while officers …

Donald Glover’s new music video “This Is America” has amassed more than 64 million views and inspired innumerable think pieces since its debut last weekend. Released by the actor’s musical alter ego, Childish Gambino, the video depicts Glover dancing, rapping and shooting a guitar player point blank as chaos unfolds …

PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby’s wife called Thursday for a criminal investigation into the suburban Philadelphia prosecutor behind his sexual assault conviction, saying the case that could put the 80-year-old comedian in prison for the rest of his life was “mob justice, not real justice” and a “tragedy” that must be …

He was once called the most likely American in the 20th century to become president. But Robert F. Kennedy’s bid to follow in his older brother’s footsteps as commander in chief was cut short the same way John F. Kennedy’s White House term was: by a man with a gun. …

JERUSALEM — U.S. actress Natalie Portman, this year’s recipient of a prize dubbed the “Jewish Nobel,” has pulled out of the June awards ceremony in Israel because of extreme distress over recent events in the country, the Genesis Prize Foundation said. The foundation said it was informed by Portman’s representative …

NEW DELHI — Bollywood star Salman Khan was convicted Thursday of poaching rare deer in a wildlife preserve two decades ago and sentenced to five years in prison. The busy actor contends he did not shoot the two blackbuck deer in the western India preserve in 1998 and was acquitted …