Year: 2017

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“Bridge Over Troubled Water” all-star charity single for London fire victims is here

Artists for Grenfell(LONDON) -- To raise funds for the relief effort following the deadly fire last week that destroyed Grenfell Tower in West London, music super-producer Simon Cowell has gathered together more than 50 music artists to record an all-star charity version of Simon and Garfunkel's classic "Bridge Over Troubled Water." The single, recorded at a studio just half a mile from the building, is out now.  You can buy […]

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Entertainment

“Han Solo” film loses directors over “creative differences”

L-R: Woody Harrelson (top), former co-director Christopher Miller (bottom), Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alden Ehrenreich, Emilia Clarke, Chewbacca, former co-director Phil Lord, and Donald Glover/Lucasfilm - 2017(LOS ANGELES) -- Production on the young Han Solo Star Wars stand-alone film hit bump in the road on Tuesday as Star Wars studio Lucasfilm announced that the movie's co-directors are out. “[Co-directors] Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are talented filmmakers who have assembled an incredible cast and crew, but it’s become clear that […]

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Entertainment

Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis quits acting

Getty Images/Dimitrios Kambouris(LOS ANGELES) -- Daniel Day-Lewis, the only actor in history to have won the Best Actor Oscar three times, has decided that he's giving up his chosen profession. According to a statement from his rep, Day-Lewis, who scored Academy Awards for the movies My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood and Lincoln,  "will no longer be working as an actor." The statement adds, "He is immensely grateful to all of his collaborators and […]

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Mahershala Ali talks love and tolerance in “GQ”

ABC/Heidi Gutman(LOS ANGELES) -- Mahershala Ali is using his celebrity influence to spread the message of love and tolerance.In the July issue of GQ, the Oscar winner says his Moonlight shine has changed the way people look at him. “When suddenly you go from being followed in Barneys to being fawned over, it will mess with your head,” he tells GQ. Ali, who says he’s been profiled by Berkeley, CA […]

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Jurors in Bergdahl case will be quizzed about Trump

3drenderings/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Attorneys at a pre-trial hearing Wednesday for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl discussed a questionnaire that could be given to potential jurors to determine whether they have been influenced by President Donald Trump's past critical remarks about the former prisoner of war.During last year's presidential campaign, Trump referred to Bergdahl as a "dirty, rotten traitor" and a "bum," among other terms, on numerous occasions as he decried the […]

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Teen killed after leaving mosque was ‘loved by so many people,’ imam says

Furtseff/iStock/Thinkstock(STERLING, Va.) -- At a funeral in Sterling, Virginia, Wednesday afternoon, for a 17-year-old girl who police say was killed this past weekend after she left her mosque, Imam Mohamed Magid said the slain teenager was "so loved by so many people."Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, is in custody for the homicide of Nabra Hassanen of Reston, Virginia, after he allegedly "became so enraged" that he hit her with a baseball […]

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FBI investigating motive after officer stabbed at airport in Flint, Michigan

iStock/Thinkstock(FLINT, Mich.) -- The FBI is investigating the motive behind the stabbing of an airport police officer at Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan, Wednesday morning.The police officer is in stable condition and the suspect, whose identity was not released, is in custody and being questioned, airport and FBI officials said.The airport, which was evacuated and shut down, said all passengers were safe amid the investigation, headed by the FBI.The […]

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Otto Warmbier’s family objects to autopsy

Xinhua/Lu Rui via Getty Images(CINCINNATI) -- The family of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died just days after North Korea released him from prison in a coma, declined an autopsy, leaving his cause of death a medical mystery for now.The Hamilton County Coroner's Office in Ohio examined Warmbier's body after the 22-year-old University of Virginia student died on Monday."The family's objection to an autopsy was honored, and only […]

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Funeral expected Wednesday for Muslim teenager murdered in Virginia

iStock/Thinkstock(FAIRFAX, Va.) -- A funeral is set for Wednesday for a 17-year-old Muslim girl from Virginia who police say was murdered this past weekend.Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, is in custody for the murder of Nabra Hassanen of Reston, Virginia, after he allegedly "became so enraged" that he hit her with a baseball bat, the Fairfax County Police Department said Monday. Road rage was the alleged motive behind the murder, police […]

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