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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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LOS ANGELES — An ugly legal battle between one of world’s most popular artists and a group of nuns over a real estate deed turned tragic when one of the sisters involved died in court Friday. CBS Los Angeles reports that Sister Catherine Rose was one of the nuns fighting Katy …
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No one is safe from mockery in Stephen Colbert’s new series “Our Cartoon President.” The animated show takes a satirical look at what’s going on both inside and outside the volatile Trump White House. Colbert promptly took the opportunity to zing Omarosa Manigault-Newman — the latest Trump insider to make …
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TULSA, Okla. — A paper cup allegedly used by Elvis Presley six decades ago in Oklahoma is up for auction, and bids have already surpassed $1,700. It’s being sold by North Carolina resident Wade Jones, a collector of all things Elvis. He tells the Tulsa World that the crumpled blue-and-white Dixie cup …
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