Year: 2017

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“Empire” Recap: “Civil Hands Unclean”

©2017 Fox Broadcasting Co./Chuck Hodes(NEW YORK) -- Wednesday's episode of Empire begins with several scenes featuring two separate recording sessions -- one for Inferno and on for When Cookie Met Lucious. Guest star Snoop Dogg sits in on on the Inferno session.   Outside the studio, Cookie tells Lucious that she broke up with Angelo.  Back in the studio, Guisi, Thirsty, Lucious and Snoop chat about Inferno. Snoop gives Lucious advice, telling him that Jamal has to be a part of Inferno.   […]

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Stephen Colbert has “no regrets” about Trump insults, but says words were “cruder than they needed to be”

Jeffrey R. Staab/CBS(NEW YORK) -- Stephen Colbert used the top of his monologue on The Late Show Wednesday night to address online accusations of homophobia that grew out of his monologue Monday. On Monday, Colbert launched into rapid fire string of insults at Donald Trump, defending CBS newsman and Face the Nation host John Dickerson, after President Trump referred, during an interview with Dickerson, to the show as "Deface the Nation."  […]

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May the Fourth be with you!

Lucasfilm - 2017(NEW YORK) -- May 4th marks "May the Fourth Be With You," the official "holiday" dedicated to George Lucas' galaxy far, far away.  While the pun was first used back in 1979, with Britain's Conservative party congratulating Margaret Thatcher in print for taking the prime minister post that day, Star Wars fans co-opted it in 2011.  May 4, 2011 marked the first organized celebration of Star Wars Day, at the Toronto Underground Cinema […]

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Widower files suit against Mississippi funeral home for allegedly refusing to cremate gay man

RobertHoetink/iStock/Thinkstock(PICAYUNE, Miss.) -- After losing his husband and partner of more than 50 years, a grieving man is suing a Mississippi funeral home for allegedly refusing to cremate his husband after realizing the men were a couple.John “Jack” Zawadski and Robert “Bob” Huskey fell in love soon after they met in 1965. They lived together in California, Colorado and Wisconsin before they retired and settled in Picayune, Mississippi, in 1997.Shortly […]

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Driver in deadly crash with church bus in Texas drifted from lane at least 60 times, investigators say

matt_dela/iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The pickup driver involved in the Texas church bus accident that killed 13 people in March reportedly drove out of his lane at least 60 times before the crash, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.After reviewing a 14-minute video taken by a witness just before the crash, NTSB reports that the pickup driver crossed the solid white edge line 37 times while traveling […]

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TSA warns against vehicle-ramming attacks

pattonmania/iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The Transportation Security Administration released a report Thursday warning of the threat of vehicle ramming attacks by terrorists with the intention to inflict death, injury and property damage, specifically in highly populated areas.The report, which shares guidance to the trucking and bus industry on countermeasures to combat the danger, notes that "from 2014 through 2017, terrorists carried out 17 known vehicle ramming attacks worldwide, resulting in 173 fatalities […]

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Number of people serving life in US prisons is surging, new report says

DanHenson1/iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The number of people serving life sentences in American prisons has nearly quintupled since 1984, according to a new report issued by the Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C.-based research group focused on criminal justice issues.The study found that a record breaking 206,268 inmates were serving life with parole, life without parole or virtual life sentences in 2016 -- 1 out of 7 people in prison in the United […]

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Firefighters rescue riders stranded on roller coaster in Oklahoma City, no injuries

foto76/iStock/Thinkstock(OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) -- Thrillseekers found themselves stranded Thursday on a roller coaster at the Frontier City theme park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, though no riders were injured, the fire department said.After the Silver Bullet roller coaster stalled out at the top of a hill, firefighters and theme park workers helped passengers down, the Oklahoma City Fire Department said.The 19 riders are all safe on the ground, the fire department […]

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Orlando’s Pulse nightclub to become permanent memorial, owner says

Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- The site of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, is set to become a permanent, national memorial.Pulse owner Barbara Poma, serving as CEO and executive director of the onePULSE Foundation, which was established to create and maintain the new memorial as well as provide community grants and scholarships, announced plans for the memorial Thursday morning, nearly 11 months after the June 12, […]

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