Year: 2017

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Ariel Winter trashes tabloid for claiming she bankrolls her boyfriend

 ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) -- Ariel Winter is not giving her new boyfriend a free ride and she took to her Instagram account on Wednesday to shoot down the rumor. The Modern Family star was responding to a story in Star magazine claiming that she gives her boyfriend, Levi Meaden, an allowance. Winter, 19, opened by calling the tabloid “trash,” adding, "Seriously, how dare you make up stuff that you have no idea about?" "I have a […]

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Will Arnett says “The Gong Show” is “about having a good time”

ABC/Greg Gayne (NEW YORK) -- If you ask Will Arnett why he decided to executive produce a reboot of the campy '70s game show The Gong Show, and the Arrested Development star will smile.  "Anytime you say the name The Gong Show, you smile," he told Good Morning America After Hours host Lynda Lopez. "I had such good memories of the [original] show, and I thought, 'When you have something like that...it has so much good will built […]

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Ron Howard tapped as new “Han Solo” film director

Getty Images/J.B. Lacroix(LOS ANGELES) -- The Millennium Falcon has a new pilot: Ron Howard has stepped in to direct the upcoming untitled Han Solo film, Lucasfilm announced Thursday. The news comes two days after The LEGO Movie co-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller parted ways with the project over creative differences. In a statement, Lucasfilm noted, “we’re thrilled to announce that Ron Howard will step in to direct the untitled Han Solo film. We have a wonderful script, an incredible […]

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Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres and Dwayne Johnson make “Most Powerful People” list

OWN - 2017(LOS ANGELES) -- Industry trade The Hollywood Reporter has released its list of the 100 Most Powerful People in Hollywood, and while many of the names on the list are people working behind the scenes of TV and movies, some familiar names also are present. Of note, Oprah Winfrey, who was ranked at #22 on last year’s least, jumped all the way to the ninth slot this time, buoyed by her starring […]

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Two Cosby holdouts prevented guilty verdict, juror says

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- In an exclusive interview with ABC News, a juror in the Bill Cosby sexual assault case said that after dozens of hours of grueling deliberations in a tiny room, 10 of the 12 jurors agreed Cosby was guilty on two counts. On a third count, only one of the jurors believed he was guilty. The final votes on the first of the three counts was 10 to two to […]

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Teen killed by bullet when LA County deputies fired at pit bull: Sheriff’s office

blinow61/iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- As Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were shooting at a pit bull that was charging at them, a 17-year-old boy was apparently struck in the chest by one of the bullets and died, the sheriff's office said.The shooting happened at about 3:45 a.m. Thursday in Palmdale, California, after deputies responded to a report of loud music, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. As […]

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In new video from Philando Castile case, child begs mother to calm down after shooting

Facebook(NEW YORK) -- Newly released video in the Philando Castile case shows an emotional exchange between Castile's girlfriend and her then-4-year-old daughter moments after his shooting in July 2016.In the video, released by Ramsey County, Minnesota, police, Diamond Reynolds' daughter can be heard trying to calm her mother down moments after St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez, who is Latino, shot Castile, who was black, multiple times."Mom, please stop cussing […]

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Man who allegedly wanted to join ISIS arrested at JFK Airport

digicomphoto/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- A 30-year-old New York City man was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport Wednesday after the FBI alleged that he was planning to travel to Syria to join ISIS.Saddam Mohamed Raishani faces a charge of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State group, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Thursday ahead of Raishani's initial appearance in court.If convicted he faces up to 20 years in prison.“Having […]

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‘Pizzagate’ shooter sentenced to four years in prison, judge describes ‘breathtaking’ recklessness

IPGGutenbergUKLtd/iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Edgar Madison Welch, who fired shots in a Washington D.C. pizza restaurant in December, was sentenced to four years for federal and local crimes.Welch, 29, was arrested for firing an AR-15 inside the D.C. restaurant Comet Ping Pong, as he investigated an unfounded conspiracy theory dubbed "Pizzagate" that the restaurant was involved in a child sex-trafficking ring connected to Hillary Clinton.Welch "carried a loaded AR-15 assault rifle and […]

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