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CINCINNATI — Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and information anchor whose namesake TV present featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional households prepared to reveal all on weekday afternoons together with brawls, obscenities and blurred photographs of nudity, died Thursday at 79. At its peak, “The J...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol sang “American Pie” throughout state dinner festivities Wednesday on the White House, incomes rave critiques from President Biden and a cheerful crowd. Mr. Yoon mentioned the Don McLean ‘70s hit was his favourite, prompting Mr. Biden to answer: “Well, we wanted to hear ...

A pair of "shocking" leather-based hotpants worn by Freddie Mercury, have offered at public sale for £18,000.The Queen star wore the black leather-based shorts throughout a number of exhibits, together with Birmingham and Toronto gigs in 1980 - the peak of the band's fame. Image: Pic: Omega Auctions Image: Pic: Omega Auctions Mercury died aged 45 in 1991 from AIDS-related problems.The 28in (71cm) waist shorts get a point out within the band's authorised biography, Queen: As It Began.In a chapter about Queen breaking America, it says: "Freddie determined to attempt to shock the viewers together with his stage outfit for the encore: the shortest, tightest pair of b...

Tucker Carlson has spoken publicly for the primary time since leaving Fox News, calling TV debates "stupid" and hitting out at "liars" who he mentioned have been attempting to silence "honest people".Posting a two-minute video on his official Twitter feed titled "Good evening", the 53-year-old host didn't immediately point out the rationale for his abrupt exit from Fox News, simply days in the past. His departure got here lower than every week after father or mother firm Fox Corp agreed to pay $787.5m (£631m) to Dominion Voting Systems to avert a defamation trial.In his video monologue, Carlson mentioned he was addressing "things you notice when you take a little time off", together with "how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are".He mentioned: "Th...

NEW YORK — Carmen Berkley, a strategist with a Seattle-based basis advocating fairness and racial justice, remembers assembly Harry Belafonte a decade in the past when she was a youth activist. She’d gone to Florida to attend a sit-in protest that different younger Black activists had staged on the Capitol...

Most of Yosemite National Park shall be closed from Friday till no less than May 3, the California park has introduced. Temperatures are anticipated to rise this weekend to virtually 60 levels, 15 levels hotter than regular, which is able to soften snow and lift water ranges within the Merced River. ...

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, having introduced boycotts to Bud Light, is now doing the identical for Maybelline. A clip of Mulvaney making use of Maybelline make-up and the beauty model’s cheers gained new social-media prominence this week, and the hashtag #BoycottMaybelline trended on Twitter on...

CNN’s determination to half methods with longtime anchor Don Lemon didn’t precisely shock media-watchers, but it surely did blindside Al Sharpton. The civil-rights activist and MSNBC host known as for CNN to offer solutions on the choice introduced Monday to launch Mr. Lemon after 17 years with the communi...

Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg has mentioned he regrets enhancing weapons out of his basic Eighties film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.The 1982 theatrical minimize features a scene the place cops chase younger youngsters whereas holding firearms. Spielberg edited the weapons out of the twentieth anniversary launch of the movie and changed them with walkie talkies. "That was a mistake," Spielberg instructed a grasp class on the Time 100 Summit in New York City."I by no means ought to have performed that. "E.T. is a product of its era. No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through."'E.T. was a movie that I used to be delicate to the truth that the federal brokers had been approaching...

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Hawks are nonetheless alive within the playoffs and that may pressure followers planning to attend Janet Jackson’s live performance within the metropolis this week to attend a day to see the music star. The Hawks rallied to beat the Boston Celtics 119-117 in Game 5 of their playoff ma...