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UPDATED: There are no details yet about Tuesday’s surprise hearing for the January 6th Commission, which comes at a time when Congress is out of session and the panel had said it was going on a break until after the recess. Broadcasters ABC and CBS and NBC as well as Fox News, CNN and MSNBC have said they will break…

Four years after leaving WME under a cloud of allegations of sexually assaulting Terry Crews, one-time top agent Adam Venit has now been accused of an abundance of sex crimes and more by his wife. “Adam's brazen public assault on an imposing male former professional athlete pales in comparison to the abuse Adam has…

A hoarse and angry Rudy Giuliani decried the downgrading of charges to misdemeanors in the Staten Island slapping incident, saying he felt as if “a boulder hit me” at the supermarket. Video showing the suspect backslapping Giuliani is “a little deceptive,” the 78-year-old former Trump lawyer said. See the video…

Controversial former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was assaulted by a ShopRite worker Sunday while campaigning for his son’s gubernatorial bid in the city’s Staten Island borough. The 78-year-old Giuliani was slammed in the back by an unidentified ShopRite worker, according to the New York Post. The assault…

The family of software pioneer John McAfee has stepped up their demand for answers a year after his mysterious death in a Spanish jail cell . McAfee’s corpse still remains unclaimed in a Spanish morgue. He was awaiting extradition to the US on tax evasion charges when he was found dead in a Barcelona cell. He was 75…

Street protests over the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade took a violent turn on Friday into Saturday. Two arrests were made in serious incidents involving police and protesters in downtown Los Angeles, which saw confrontations and a freeway takeover at one point. On Friday, at around 8:20 p.m., LAPD…

Google will allow its employees in states where abortion is outlawed to relocate without explanation, a company memo released Friday stated "This is a profound change for the country that deeply effects so many of us, especially women," wrote Google Chief People officer Fiona Cicconi in an email. "Googlers can also…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Lundberg have seen this day coming. For a long time. Their 2108 Netflix documentary Reversing Roe examined how right-wing activists, politicians and jurists were steadily chipping away at abortion rights across the country, with the goal of eventually overturning Roe v. Wade…

"Today, as of right now, as of this minute, we can only talk about what Roe v Wade protected, past tense," Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday in remarks about  the Supreme Court's conservative majority's landmark decision to overturn abortion rights in the U.S. "This is a health care crisis.” "Millions of women…

Johnny Depp's multimillion-dollar defamation suit against Amber Heard is over, but not really over if the Aquaman actress can pay a pricey bond. In a short and sometimes tense hearing Friday morning in Judge Penney Azcarate's Fairfax, VA courtroom, a final judgment in the explicit and high-profile civil trial that…

UPDATED with latest: Hollywood’s unions are reacting Friday to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade. The Directors Guild of America "strongly condemned" the Supreme Court's ruling, calling it a "travesty." In a statement, DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter said that the ruling "is a giant step backwards…

Weeks after a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion threatened to roll back Roe v. Wade, a final decision Friday morning did just that, with a majority of justices casting votes to return authority over abortion rights to individual states. The ruling reverses 50 years of precedent from the landmark 1973 case that gave…