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Former Red Sox star arrested in child sex sting

A shocking video released by law enforcement in Florida shows the moment former Boston Red Sox pitcher Austin Dean Maddox was arrested during an undercover sting operation targeting alleged child predators. Maddox, 33, was one of 27 suspects the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office took into custody between April 24 and 28… Read More

Publishing industry gets big shakeup Monday

Penguin Random House, the nation’s leading trade publisher, is undergoing significant changes as two top editors, Alfred A. Knopf publisher Reagan Arthur and Pantheon/Schocken publisher Lisa Lucas, are leaving the company. The dismissals, which were announced by the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, come during… Read More

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s running mate raises eyebrows

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about his running mate at a campaign event in Dallas last month. Kennedy couldn’t say “exactly what her schedule is.” Kennedy added that his running mate — attorney-turned-philanthropist Nicole Shanahan — had spent “three or four days at the border.”  Meanwhile, two campaign… Read More

Scott Scheffler charges dropped?

Scottie Scheffler may avoid prosecution after his shocking arrest last Friday at the start of the PGA Championship in Kentucky. According to a report citing a source familiar with prosecutors’ thinking, the charges against the world’s top-ranked golfer are expected to be dropped by prosecutors. Scheffler was charged with felony… Read More

Hollywood A-lister slams ChatGPT as life imitates art

OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, announced on Monday that it plans to discontinue the use of one of its voice options, named “Sky,” after actor Scarlett Johansson claimed it sounded “eerily similar” to her own voice. Johansson, who famously voiced an AI assistant in the 2013… Read More

Dabney Coleman, character actor known for curmudgeons, dead at 92

Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in “9 to 5″ and the nasty TV director in “Tootsie,” has died. He was 92. Coleman died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, his daughter, Quincy Coleman, said in a statement to The… Read More

Man who attacked Steve Buscemi held on $50,000 bond

The man accused of assaulting actor Steve Buscemi on a Manhattan street has been held in jail on a $50,000 bond, according to prosecutors in New York. The incident occurred on May 8 when Buscemi, well-known for his roles in TV shows like “Boardwalk Empire” and movies such as “Fargo,”… Read More

Watch: John Fetterman unloads on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., compared the House’s bickering to the worst of The Jerry Springer Show on Thursday. Self-declared socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Fetterman a “bully” for his statements. Fetterman hit back at his fellow Democrat during a Sunday interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. Tapper said, “Ocasio-Cortez seems to be… Read More

Ed Dwight, 90, becomes the oldest person in space

Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday. Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963… Read More