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Salman Khan was sentenced to five years in April 2018 and bailed within two days. Eight years on the appeal has still not been heard, and in February 2026 the judge assigned
By the oldest rules of placement the ninth house is a weak position. By the oldest rules of meaning it is the House of God, where the Sun was said to rejoice above all others. Here is what the ninth
Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, stars of Netflix's Skywalkers documentary, scaled the Empire State Building's spire on July 1, got engaged, and were arrested. Charges remain unconfirmed. The stunt raises questions about
When courts ordered Alex Jones to pay $1.5 billion to Sandy Hook families, he fought every ruling and assumed he would never pay. The Onion acquired his platform, handed the mic to
Malcolm Todd's single 'Earrings' jumped 70 percent in a single day and lost 500,000 streams after Spotify determined Kalshi bettors had allegedly gamed the chart. The platform demanded both prediction exchanges remove
President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video to Truth Social using the likenesses of Julia Roberts, Robert De Niro, Whoopi Goldberg, and three other celebrities without consent to mock political dissent as
Moritz Borman, the German-born independent producer who made five films with Oliver Stone, died July 2 at 71. A bridge-builder between European financing and Hollywood ambition, he was working on a new
Gossip blogger Tasha K agreed to pay Cardi B $60,000 after more than two dozen social media posts violated their non-disparagement agreement. The contempt settlement reveals what a $4 million defamation verdict
Jodie Foster called F1 'made by AI' at the Aspen Ideas Festival, not as an insult but as a diagnosis of modern filmmaking. The remark names a tension Hollywood has struggled to
Love Island USA Season 8 drew 1.31 billion minutes in its premiere week on Peacock, a 69 percent year-over-year increase and the biggest debut in the show's history, according to Nielsen data.
Ashley Tisdale's viral mom-group essay is becoming a Netflix dark comedy, with Ali Wong and Search Party writer Sabrina Jalees aboard as executive producers. Whether Netflix came calling before or after the
A fourth federal jury on July 1 declined to restore punitive damages in T.I. and Tiny Harris's case against MGA Entertainment, leaving their total recovery at $17.9 million after three years and
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