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By Staff The Associated Press Posted July 12, 2020 2:45 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ LOS ANGELES — The search to find Glee TV show star Naya Rivera in a Southern California lake ended Saturday without any results, authorities said. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office

Donald Trump grabbed headlines Saturday for merely wearing a mask during a visit to a military hospital, the first time the president has donned the precaution that health officials have recommended for months. Trump flew by helicopter to visit Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he met with wounded service members and medical professionals

Every four years, a new crop of people declare their intentions to run for president of the United States. Many are serious about ascending to that high office while others are just plain loopy. My favourite perennial candidate is Vermine Supreme of Rockport, Mass., who has run as an independent, a Republican, a Democrat, and

Lester Cohen/AMA2011Getty Images When Katy Perry called into the U.K.’s Capital FM on Friday, host Sian Welby told Perry about the fan theory that she and Taylor Swift might be cousins. Apparently, one fan did some research on the family history website My Heritage and came up with this connection. “Well, we fight like cousins,”

The Crown on Netflix has been extended for a sixth and final season. It was previously announced that the series would end after the fifth season but creator Peter Morgan has changed his mind. “As we started to discuss the storylines for Series 5, it soon became clear that in order to do justice to the

“It’s a small risk after all,” devoted Walt Disney World attendees may have reassured themselves as they entered a reopened Magic Kingdom on Saturday. Orlando’s theme parks closed back in mid-March, but SeaWorld Orlando, Universal Orlando, and now the very “let’s bring grandma, too”-friendly Walt Disney World are back in business. (Disney’s Hollywood Studios and

[embedded content] It’s no secret that we here at TMS love Taika Waititi. I mean, the man is hilarious, talented, and deeply geeky: what’s not to love? Recently, Waititi made an appearance on the YouTube series Pizza Film School, which is hosted by fellow MCU alums Joe and Anthony Russo. The trio discussed favorite pizza

Amitabh Bachchan, one of India’s best known movie stars, has tested positive for COVID-19 together with his actor son Abhishek Bachchan, they said late on Saturday. Both were admitted to the same private hospital. “I have tested COVID positive … shifted to hospital … hospital informing authorities … family and staff undergone tests, results awaited,”

The NBA restart is slowly falling into place. Over the course of this week, all 22 teams left in contention made their way to Orlando and slipped into The Bubble. That means that, along with snapshots of prepared meals and gaming equipment, the fit pics are back, with 100% more facemasks, and grail-level watch pairings.

In a move that was both widely expected and staggeringly corrupt, almost without American precedent, President Donald Trump granted commutation to longtime friend, adviser, and convicted felon Roger Stone on Friday, cutting short the more than three year prison sentence that a federal judge handed him in February. The move comes as a reward—something Trump

Warning: This article may be triggering for some readers. Please read at your own discretion. Simple Plan’s David Desrosiers has announced that he is leaving the Canadian band following sexual misconduct allegations from women on social media. The former bassist for Simple Plan, who has been with the band for 20 years except for a brief

It might seem like we hear more than enough about pandemics from living through the novel coronavirus in reality. Related News But, a group of scholars argue in a recent paper, fans of horror and pandemic movies and the “morbidly curious” show better psychological resilience in relation to the real pandemic. “Exposure to frightening fictions

Astin: I remember there being this importance, and no one wanting to mess up, or let down the story. But also it was really a fun energy on set. I think everyone really knew their why. They knew why they were there, what their part was, both technically and lyrically. And of course, spiritually. But

Netflix has a habit—pun very much intended—of taking seemingly ridiculous conceits (hello, Too Hot to Handle) and turning them into surprise hits. Take Warrior Nun, for instance—which, yes, is a real show, currently trending as one of the top 10 most-watched series on Netflix in the U.S. The story follows an young orphan named Ava,

Seven months after his tragic passing, the highly anticipated third studio album from late American rapper Juice WRLD dropped worldwide on Friday, July 10. In addition to 15 brand-new songs from the All Girls Are the Same hit-maker — whose real name is Jarad Anthony Higgins — the record, called Legends Never Die, features an abundance of

Displaying a truly mind-boggling refusal to read the cultural room, HBO Max and director Matt Reeves announced a new police show set in Gotham City. The series—which doesn’t have a title, though it’s been nicknamed Gotham Central after the comics series—will be written and produced by Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter, and will be set

Sports Illustrated’s celebrated Swimsuit Issue boasts a breakthrough this year, including 23-year-old Brazilian model Valentina Sampaio in its pages. Sampaio is the first transgender women to be featured in the annual celebration of sand, surf, and the feminine form. In a letter posted to Sports Illustrated, Sampaio writes how honored she is to be in

Only two days after it was announced by his daughter Vada via Twitter, Kid Cudi released his latest single, The Adventures of Moon Man & Slim Shady, on Friday, July 10. As suggested in the title, the four-minute, 25-second track features fellow American rapper Slim Shady, who is best known as Eminem. It marks the

The lyrics: “You only want me for my body.” Imagine saying that to somebody! I would literally never say that to anybody. That’s what is so beautiful about it. “How Simple” by Hop Along This song was on our playlist on tour, so I could sing every word of it. This whole record is amazing.

Five people have been arrested in connection with the February home-invasion death of rapper Pop Smoke in Los Angeles. Three men and two juveniles were arrested on Thursday, police confirmed. The 20-year-old New York rapper, whose legal name is Bashar Barakah Jackson, was killed Feb. 19 at a home in the Hollywood Hills. A 911

This may be a classic case of cow and barn door. Or toothpaste and tube. The scheduled publication of Mary Trump’s hotly anticipated Trump family tell-all is just days away—but much of the detail, salacious and incisive and fascinating in the way of all unhappy families, is already out there. Readers have been devouring excerpts

After being greenlit by ABC, the much-beloved coming of age comedy/drama series The Wonder Years is set to receive the reboot treatment next year — but this time, the series will follow the lives of a middle-class Black family in Alabama. After landing a pilot-production commitment, a newly, updated version of the show, helmed by

A new Batwoman is debuting in Gotham, come 2021. Javicia Leslie has been cast as the lead superhero of the CW series for season 2, becoming the first Black woman ever to play the character on TV. “I am extremely proud to be the first Black actress to play the iconic role of Batwoman on

As Emmy nominations approach, Vanity Fair’s HWD team is once again diving deep into some of the shows that struck us most, and asking actors and creators how the season’s greatest scenes and characters came together. You can read more of these close looks here. OTIS MILBURN, SEX EDUCATION “Cool” is not a word that

Consider the following: Bill Nye is so fed up with people rejecting face masks that he came out of retirement for a new “Science Guy” video about the benefits of doing so during the coronavirus pandemic. The famous pop-culture scientist revived his on-screen shtick for a two-minute PSA on TikTok, in order to stress the

We all know that Facebook is terrible. On a personal level, it recommends that you “friend” your exes and that girl who bullied you in middle school. It turned your aunt into a conspiracy theorist who won’t stop posting YouTube videos about chemtrails. On a macro level, Facebook has proliferated hate groups, livestreamed massacres, and

Actress and singer Naya Rivera, best known for her role on the television series Glee, is missing after possibly drowning in a California lake, police said late Wednesday. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office identified Rivera, 33, as the person reported missing in Lake Piru, which lies roughly an hour northwest of Los Angeles. After hours

Give Kelly Loeffler credit for this: The two defining stories of the past few months have been the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, and she’s managed to carve out some villainous terrain for herself in both. In January and February, the Republican junior senator from Georgia made millions of dollars worth of

His aspirations—whether they be in music, TV, politics—are all integrated into who he already is. There is no big plan. He sits on the board of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art and drops in on classes at Morehouse not out of ambition but because, to him, it’s the right thing to do. His guiding passions