Year: 2017

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Sticky-fingered “Pirates of the Caribbean” stars admit they’re pirates at heart

Disney - 2017(LOS ANGELES) -- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, had its Hollywood premiere Thursday night, and two of its stars -- Geoffrey Rush and Kaya Scodelario -- confessed to a little plundering of their own while making the movie.While walking the aqua carpet on Thursday, Oscar winner Rush, who has played Captain Hector Barbossa in […]

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Judge rules Prince’s six siblings are legal heirs to his estate

Theo Wargo/WireImage(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Over a year after Prince died, a Minnesota judge has ruled that the late musician's six siblings are the legal heirs to his estate. The ruling came Friday in Carver County, MI, where Prince lived and worked on his Paisley Park estate. Carver County District Judge Kevin Eide declared that Prince's sister, Tyka Nelson, and Prince's five half-siblings are his heirs: Omarr Baker, Alfred Jackson, Sharon Nelson, […]

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“Scandal” Double Recap: “Transfer of Power,” and “Tick, Tock”

ABC/Richard Cartwright(LOS ANGELES) -- Scandal's season finale was a two-part, two hour send-off. Here are the recaps of both episodes, "Transfer of Power" and "Tick, Tock" "Transfer of Power" On Thursday's Scandal episode "Transfer of Power," Maya removes her tracker and escapes the authorities trailing her. Back at the White House, Fitz tries to talk Mellie out of getting publicly inaugurated. Mellie, doubles up on security, but decides to goes […]

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“Bachelorette” Rachel Lindsay says she’s engaged

ABC/Paul Hebert(LOS ANGELES) -- Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay is off the market. The star of the upcoming season told reporters Thursday she's engaged, though she could not specify to whom. However, Lindsay, a Dallas-based lawyer, said that if she had a list of qualities she'd want in a husband, "He would check everything off -- check it twice!" "Every morning I wake up and pinch myself and I keep asking myself if this […]

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Chris Cornell’s family says prescription drug may have prompted apparent suicide

Buda Mendes/Getty Images(SEATTLE) -- Chris Cornell's wife doesn't believe her husband intentionally took his own life, and feels the prescription drug Ativan may have played a role in his death. A joint statement issued Friday by Vicky Cornell and family attorney Kirk Pasich -- the first lengthy family statement since rock singer Cornell, 52, was found dead in his Detroit hotel room Wednesday night -- notes that the Soundgarden frontman […]

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“Alien: Covenant” and “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul” among this week’s new releases

20th Century Fox - 2017(LOS ANGELES) -- Here's a look at the new movies opening nationwide Friday: * Alien: Covenant -- Ridley Scott's sequel to 2012's Prometheus, and the second chapter in the Alien prequel series, follows the crew of a colony ship to a remote planet, believed to be an uncharted paradise. However, it turns into a nightmare when they discover a deadly alien life-form. Starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Demian Bichir and Danny McBride. Rated R. * Diary of a Wimpy […]

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Anthony Weiner pleads guilty in sexting case and must register as sex offender; Huma Abedin files for divorce

Andrew Burton/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former New York congressman and estranged husband of top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, tearfully admitted Friday to a federal judge that he sent obscene material to a 15-year-old high school student in North Carolina, the same day Abedin filed for divorce from him.Weiner, who turned himself into the FBI, pleaded guilty in federal court this morning to a single count […]

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Superintendent: No link between bullying and 8-year-old Gabriel Taye’s suicide

Courtesy Cornelia Reynolds(CINCINNATI) -- The superintendent of a Cincinnati public school district is disputing claims that 8-year-old Gabriel Taye was bullied at school before he hanged himself at home.In a recent interview with ABC News affiliate WCPO-TV, Cincinnati Public Schools superintendent Mary Ronan rejected a family attorney’s claim that surveillance video captures Gabriel being bullied in a school bathroom.“That is a falsehood. When you look at the video, we see […]

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Police find body of missing Cornell University student Aalaap Narasipura

Cornell University Police(ITHACA, N.Y.) — Police say they have found the body of a 20-year-old Cornell University student who had been missing for more than two days.Authorities recovered a body from the area of Fall Creek, just upstream from Ithaca Falls, New York, on Friday morning and later confirmed the deceased's identity as 20-year-old Aalaap Narasipura, according to the Cornell University Police Department.The circumstances of Narasipura’s death remain under investigation, […]

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