‘New Jack City’ star Allen Payne featured in new touring stage version
Rita Barros/Getty ImagesAllen Payne is reprising his role as Gee Money in a new touring stage version of the 1991 hit film New Jack City. The musical will also star Treach from Naughty By Nature, Big Daddy Kane and Flex Alexander from the TV sitcom One…
Paddington Bear bids farewell to his tea time pal Queen Elizabeth
Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty ImagesOne of Queen Elizabeth II’s unlikely tea time companions bid her farewell in a post that has gone viral.
The lovable, stuffed Paddington Bear — arguably as English an icon as the queen — tweeted a photo of hi…
William and Kate take on prince, princess of Wales titles from King Charles
Chris Jackson/Getty Images(LONDON) — Prince William and Kate will take on the titles of the prince and princess of Wales following the death Thursday of William’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
William’s father, King Charles III, announced their ne…
“I think I like Twitter again!”: Justin Long jokes that reaction to ‘Barbarian’ has him rethinking social media
20th Century Films/New RegencyOne of the best-reviewed movies of the year, the horror film Barbarian, hits theaters Friday.
The movie stars Georgina Campbell as a young woman who shows up to the home she’s rented, only to find out a mysterious man, pl…
Swing-state Democrats keep their distance from President Biden
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(NEW ALBANY, Ohio) — After voting for the bipartisan computer chip manufacturing bill earlier this year, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, was one of several lawmakers with President Joe Biden on Friday in Licking County, to mark the g…
Judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, calling it a ‘political manifesto’
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — A federal judge in Florida has dismissed former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against his 2016 presidential challenger Hillary Clinton that accused her of “acting in concert” with top FBI leadership to inve…
Operations London Bridge, Unicorn, Spring Tide go into effect following Queen Elizabeth II’s death
Sylvain Sonnet/Getty Images(LONDON) — Queen Elizabeth II’s death on Thursday came as a shock to the public.
Planning for what would happen in the days, weeks and months after her death, however, has been years in the making, and started around the ti…
UK rail, postal workers cancel strikes after Queen’s death
Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) — British rail and postal workers on Thursday canceled scheduled strikes after Queen Elizabeth II died earlier that day.
The moves pause worker protests that in recent months have involved hundreds of thousa…
Lawmakers in South Carolina at odds over proposed abortion bans
fstop123/Getty Images(COLUMBIA, S.C.) — The South Carolina State Senate rejected a bill that would ban nearly all abortions just days after House lawmakers approved the ban.
The Senate went on to pass a separate bill that has an exception for fetuses…
Amid book bans, Virginia parents push for more ‘authority’ over what kids can read in school libraries
Diyosa Carter/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — As cultural debates over access to books rage on in school districts across the country, a Republican lawmaker in Virginia is hoping to make it easier for parents to control what their children read in public sch…