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NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s defense urged jurors Tuesday to put an end to a #MeToo-era rape case that has gone to trial three times, arguing that the former Hollywood honcho should be acquitted.

Rapper Pitbull will be partnering with the AI company Digital DNA Labs for the creation of U.S. civics lessons taught by AI avatars representing the Founding Fathers.

Actress Sydney Sweeney’s “Euphoria” character, Cassie Howard, implied her political stance during Sunday’s episode of the popular HBO drama, replying, “I’m not retarded” after being told she sounds “like a Democrat.”

Fired late-night TV host Stephen Colbert held his own ‘Late Show’ funeral on Monday night and invited all four late-night hosts to his show.

While blockbusters like “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Elvis” have touched down at previous incarnations, studio films this year have been either scared away by the possibility of a rocky reception or by the high cost of flying in A-listers to the Cote d’Azur. The closest thing in Cannes’ slate is an anniversary celebration for “Fast & Furious.”

Chinese regime newspaper the Global Times approving touted the partnership between British actor Daniel Craig and the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) brand BYD this weekend, scolding Europeans questioning his promotion of a Chinese competitor for European EV brands as “contradictory” and retrograde.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has filed a lawsuit against streaming giant Netflix alleging that the service is not only programed to be “addictive” to users, but is also “spying” on its customers.

A poll shows incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass falling flat with voters, while former reality TV star Spencer Pratt has improved his position against runner-up council member Nithya Raman.

“Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson went after slain conservative icon Charlie Kirk while roasting fellow comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, saying, “Tony reminds me of Charlie Kirk, in that he’s definitely been on camera letting a guy unload in his throat.”

The Cascio family is renewing their allegations of sexual abuse against The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, in the wake of the recent biopic about the music star. But Jackson’s estate is ripping the claims as just another “desperate money grab.”

Reports of transgender actor Elliot Page — formerly Ellen — playing Achilles in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, “The Odyssey,” have sparked fierce backlash. “You could have paid me to tank this movie and I wouldn’t have thought of this,” actor Kevin Sorbo reacted.

During the most recent episode of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher targeted the left for pivoting from supporting gun control to supporting Luigi Mangione and other alleged assassins.

Israeli singer Noam Bettan and his entourage received a warm welcome in Vienna, Austria, during the opening event for this week’s Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday — a radical departure from the throngs of pro-Hamas protesters wearing keffiyehs and threatening Israeli contestants that had become the norm in the past two years.

Two Miami police officers have filed a lawsuit against Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, claiming the two actors falsely portrayed them in the Netflix crime drama “The Rip,” a movie allegedly inspired by their story.

OnlyFans models have been trashing actress Sydney Sweeney’s “Euphoria” character on HBO as fans have accused creator Sam Levinson of “degrading” her with explicit sex scenes.

In the op-ed — co-written with author Matt Stoller — the “Avengers” star Mark Ruffalo claimed that while trying to obtain thousands of signatories to sign their “block the merger” open letter opposing the deal, they discovered that people were afraid of workplace retaliation.

Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” shamed Republicans for backing President Donald Trump. “Do you have a humiliation kink?” host Desi Lydic asked.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that Democrats have “kind of made making money evil” though he does believe there should be an upper wealth limit. While discussing the Met Gala, Maher said that there

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” ABC News Contributor and former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile said that she pays a ton of taxes but people who are wealthy are able to hire accountants to find loopholes in

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher and ABC News Contributor and former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile acknowledged that “very often” people are not able to use the healthcare they have under Obamacare, and Maher

During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) lamented that opinions get treated as news and the fact that figures like Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones are still topics of discussion because

During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher contrasted advocacy for gun control on the left with the lionization of Luigi Mangione on the left by remarking, “It seems like five minutes ago when

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher acknowledged that the language of the Voting Rights Act does not require there to be congressional districts where the majority of the population is nonwhite, but “the letter of the

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that the recent ruling on the Voting Rights Act by the U.S. Supreme Court is an example of what he views as “always the problem with the Supreme Court,

ABC on Friday accused the FCC of a “chilling effect” to punish political content they disagree with as the agency seeks to end broadcast networks from promoting partisan candidates.

Friday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Sunny Hostin complained that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was standing by while the Trump administration rounded up Latinos.

Star Wars’ star Mark Hamill has not only lost his humanity, but he’s also been exposed as a bald-faced liar.

CBS News fact-checked two key moments in Wednesday night’s Los Angeles mayoral debate that backed up Republican Spencer Pratt’s claim that incumbent Democrat Mayor Karen Bass is indeed a liar.

Kathy Griffin attacked Erika Kirk and mocked her late husband, slain conservative icon Charlie Kirk, as a “straight-up Nazi” — continuing to spread the same rhetoric that likely galvanized his assassin eight months ago — despite once sharing a stage with him for a civil conversation.

The Walt Disney Company has made a statement after several of its staffers were arrested as part of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s ongoing child sexual exploitation material enforcement operations.

Disney’s “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill posted a grim fantasy of President Donald Trump being dead in a grave just days after posing with former President Barack Hussein Obama.

Spanish-born actor and ‘Dune” star Javier Bardem falsely claimed that President Donald Trump has been “prosecuted for abuse of women.”

Actress Melissa Barrera has claimed that Paramount lied about profits from “Scream 7” after she was fired from the franchise for accusing Israel of genocide during the war in Gaza.

Indigenous actress Q’orianka Kilcher, who played Pocahontas in the 2005 Terrence Malick epic “The New World,” has filed a lawsuit against director James Cameron and the Walt Disney Company alleging he stole her likeness for the character Neytiri in his “Avatar” series.

A major child porn arrest sweep on the docks of San Diego last month resulted in 28 arrests, including crew members on a Disney cruise ship.

On May the 4th, which is “May the Fourth Be With You Day,” a celebration embraced by Star Wars fans all over the world, those same Star Wars fans wanted nothing to do with Kathleen Kennedy’s lame-ass, feminized, queered-up, and just plain awful Star Wars sequels.