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Published by OK Magazine mega Donald Trump has made it clear that he wants to run for president again in 2024, but his family is less than pleased about his decision, which is causing a feud between the brood. “They are a family divided,” a source told Radar, adding that Donald’s wife is adamant about him staying away from the White House, as she believes it will “make all of the family’s legal problems go away.” Meanwhile, Donald Jr. and Eric want their dad to be the leader of the U.S. again. mega As OK! previously reported, Donald’s Mar-a-Lago home was raided earlier this week, as the FBI believes there are classified documents that are being store there. “It’s obvious all of this craziness is happening because some people are scared Donald is going to run again in 2024,” the source stated. “Melania and Ivanka do not get alongabout much, but both are begging him to announce he will not be running. They believe all of this will disappear if he ends all of the speculation.” The insider said that the investigation isn’t “just affecting Donald, it affects the entire family,” the source said. “Melania and Ivanka are sick of the endless investigations and attention. They want to go back to their fabulous lives. They just want this all to end.” mega After the feds broke into his home, Donald spoke out about the incident via social media. “After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” he said. “It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections. Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries.” “Sadly, America has now become one of those countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. They even broke into my safe!” he continued. “What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee? Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States.” View the full article

Published by AFP Taget of an Iranian plot: former US national security adviser John Bolton Washington (AFP) – The US Justice Department said Wednesday it had uncovered an Iranian plot to kill former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton, and announced charges against a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Justice Department said 45-year-old Shahram Poursafi had offered to pay an individual in the United States $300,000 to kill Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations. The Justice Department said that plan was likely set in retaliation for the US killing of top Guard commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq in January 2020. The allegation came as Iran weighs a proposed agreement in Vienna talks to revive the 2015 agreement that aims to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. For months Tehran has held up the deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), demanding that the United States remove its official designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a sponsor of terrorism. “This is not the first time we have uncovered Iranian plots to exact revenge against individuals on US soil and we will work tirelessly to expose and disrupt every one of these efforts,” said US Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen. FBI informant According to the charges, Poursafi tried to arrange Bolton’s murder beginning in October 2021, when he contacted online an unidentified person in the United States, first saying he wanted to commission photographs of Bolton. That person passed the Iranian onto another contact, who Poursafi then asked to kill Bolton. He offered $250,000, which was then negotiated up to $300,000. “Poursafi added that he had an additional ‘job,’ for which he would pay $1 million,” the Justice Department said. But that second person, court documents say, was an informant for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The informant stalled, waiting for an initial payment, but only in late April did Poursafi send money, paying a total of $100 in cryptocurrency. Poursafi was charged with the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire, which brings up to 10 years in prison, and with providing and attempting to provide material support to a transnational murder plot, which carries a 15-year sentence. Foreign policy ‘hawk’ Bolton, one of the leading “hawks” of the US foreign policy establishment and a strong critic of Iran, was national security advisor in the White House of president Donald Trump from April 2018 to September 2019. In the administration of president George Bush, he was ambassador to the United Nations from 2005-2006. He was strongly opposed to the 2015 JCPOA putting limits on Iran’s nuclear program, and supported the Trump administration’s unilateral pullout from the pact in May 2018. The court documents indicated Bolton was aware of the plot and cooperated with investigators, allowing photographs of himself outside his Washington office to be sent to Poursafi. The also reveal that Poursafi was receiving intelligence on Bolton’s movements from other sources inside the United States. In encrypted messages with the informant, Poursafi disclosed that the plot related to Tehran’s desire for revenge for the US killing of Soleimani. Soleimani was head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and personally maintained its network of allies and proxies across the Gulf region. He was targeted by a US drone strike just after he landed at Baghdad’s airport on January 7, 2020. Since that strike Tehran has vowed to extract revenge, a security was ramped up for US official, including for Mike Pompeo, who was secretary of state at the time of the assassination of Soleimani, and before that director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In a statement Bolton blasted Iran’s government as “liars, terrorists and enemies of the United States,” and urged President Joe Biden to not restore the nuclear agreement. The European Union, which is brokering the talks, said Monday a final deal had been submitted to the United States and Iran. In March, the Washington Examiner reported that the department was investigating an Iranian plot against Bolton and that the case was delayed be the nuclear negotiations. The department denied timing the case according to the talks. “Should Iran attack any of our citizens, to include those who continue to serve the United States or those who formerly served, Iran will face severe consequences,” said current White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. View the full article

Published by Radar Online Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency / MEGA Armie Hammer‘s alleged voice memos and messages are being exposed by his alleged victims following allegations of sexual abuse, Radar has learned. Hammer’s exes, Courtney Vucekovich, and Julia Morrison, sat down for one-on-one interviews detailing the actor’s alleged cannibalistic and sexual kinks. Vinnie Levine / MEGA Morrison said she had yet to fully “digest” the gravity of one message in particular. “I have a fantasy about having someone prove their love and devotion and tying them up in a public place at night and making their body free use and seeing if they will f— strangers for me,” it read. Another shocking voice memo from Hammer was even more unsettling. “My bet was going to involve showing up at your place and completely tying you up and incapacitating you and being able to do whatever I wanted to every single hole in your body until I was done with you,” he allegedly stated. Looking back on the past, Vucekovich described her relationship with the Social Network star as “perfect,” sharing how smitten she was with Hammer before their dynamic took a dark turn. Vucekovich said he would push her boundaries, a little bit at a time. [This post contains video, click to play] “You are mine! You hear me? I own you now. I’ll own you forever,” more of his alleged messages read. “I decide when you eat, when you sleep. when you —-,” another read. Vucekovich claimed at one point, he said I am “100 percent a cannibal.” She also alleged to have received a note that said, “I am going to bite the f— out of you.” Later in the trailer, Hammer’s aunt Casey Hammer, made an explosive appearance. “I’m about to reveal the dark, twisted secrets of the Hammer family,” she teased. Hammer’s alleged behavior first sent shockwaves in January 2021 after multiple women came forward to accuse him. GIOVANNI/ MEGA “I’m not responding to these bulls—t claims, but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for four months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic,” he told TMZ at the time. Hammer later checked into a rehabilitation facility in May 2021 for alleged drug, alcohol, and sex issues before leaving that December. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. star and wife Elizabeth Chambers announced their split in July 2020. House of Hammer premieres on Discovery+ on September 2. View the full article

Published by Radar Online mega Dr. Oz has failed to excite voters in Pennsylvania as he runs for governor and has been forced to pump his campaign with over $13 million from his own fortune. According to Federal Election Commission data, Oz loaned his campaign 70% of the $19 million raised. Political analysts call the numbers a sign of big trouble for Oz. mega Oz hopes to replace retiring Republican Senator Pat Toomey. His opponent is Democrat John Fetterman. However, Oz’s campaign finance records revealed he’s failed to bring in many small, one-time donations and has had to rely on his own funds. “In all of the metrics that I look at with how healthy you are based on your fundraising, he’s not doing great,” Republican political strategist Sam Chen told Go Erie. Letterman has raised over $26 million with 1 million individual donations. The average amount raised per donor came to $30. The current polls also show Letterman beating Oz by a large margin. Oz doesn’t have much time to improve his chances with the election scheduled for November 8. As RadarOnline.com first reported, sources tell us high-ranking Republican officials are furious with Oz and accused him of running a lazy campaign. Oz has been vacationing in Florida and Ireland instead of holding rallies in Pennsylvania. “To the G.O.P. establishment — a club that Dr. Mehmet Oz is eager to join — the aspiring senator from Pennsylvania is running a lazy man’s campaign,” one insider dished to the website Puck. mega We’re told former President Donald Trump — prior to the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago — had been watching Oz’s campaign with disgust. “Donald Trump thinks Oz is running a terrible campaign, which doesn’t make sense, because like Trump, he graduated from the school of television,” a source told RadarOnline.com. Oz doesn’t have a television career to fall back on after ending his long-running daytime show in December. Oz’s decision to run for Senate caused Fox stations to pull his program in certain markets due to laws. His daughter Daphne took over his timeslot with a cooking show The Good Dish but that was canceled months later due to poor ratings and a lack of celebrity guests. mega Back in March, before he won the primary, a source close to Oz told RadarOnline.com, “Like any good doctor, he is already looking for alternatives to keep his career alive if he doesn’t win. Fortunately for him, his appearances on Fox News and Newsmax have impressed the bosses. There is no doubt that he is a very gifted communicator on TV. Which is why there has already been talk about him becoming a primetime opinion host.” View the full article

Published by Radar Online MEGA People in Brazil, seemingly confused, have started to kill monkeys thinking they are spreading the monkeypox virus, Radar has learned. But it’s just in a name. The reason the monkeypox virus is so named is because it was first identified in a group of monkeys in Denmark. That namesake association is now costing monkeys lives. In Sao Jose do Rio Preto, a Brazilian city in the state of Sao Paulo, police are investigating the poisoning of at least 10 monkeys, seven of whom died. There have been three confirmed cases of monkeypox in Sao Jose do Rito Preto. Elsewhere in the South American country, there have been reports of people throwing stones at monkeys. “What people need to know very clearly is the transmission we are seeing is happening between humans,” said WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris during an Aug. 9 press conference in Geneva, according to the Daily Mail. “The concern should be about where it’s transmitting in the human population and what humans can do to protect themselves from getting it and transmitting it. They should certainly not be attacking any animals.” “The monkeypox virus is in a number of different animals,” she added. “It’s much more commonly in various rodents.” Brazilians previously attacked monkeys during an outbreak of yellow fever. Locally, Lt. Fábio Leme of the Brazilian Environmental Police is similarly trying to educate the public about the fact that capuchin monkeys are not the transmitters of monkeypox. The Environmental Police rescued eight monkeys. The animals were taken to a local zoo, but five died. So far, the substance being used to poising the animals has not been identified, according to the Latin Post. According to the latest CDC data, Brazil has recorded 2,131 confirmed cases of monkeypox. That total places it at sixth on the worldwide list, behind the United States, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom and France. View the full article

Published by Reuters By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he refused to answer questions during an appearance before New York state’s attorney general in a civil investigation into his family’s business practices, citing his constitutional right against self-incrimination. Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and daughter Ivanka Trump had fought unsuccessfully to avoid appearing for testimony in state Attorney General Letitia James’s probe into whether the Trump Organization inflated real estate values to obtain favorable loans and understated asset values to get tax breaks. “I declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution,” Trump said in a statement issued roughly an hour after he arrived in a motorcade to the attorney general’s office in lower Manhattan for the deposition behind closed doors. The Constitution’s Fifth Amendment protects against self-incrimination. Trump’s decision not to answer questions still could carry consequences. Should the investigation lead to a trial, jurors could take his silence into account. Politically, it also could give adversaries ammunition about whether Trump has something to hide as he mulls another run for the presidency in 2024. James has said her investigation has uncovered significant evidence that the Trump Organization, which manages hotels, golf courses and other real estate, gave banks and tax authorities misleading financial information to obtain benefits. Trump did not leave the attorney general’s office until about six hours after he arrived, suggesting he faced questions for much of the day. Trump, a Republican, in his statement again denied wrongdoing and sought to portray the investigation by James, a Democrat, as part of a years-long vendetta against him by her and others including the news media. “I once asked, ‘If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?'” Trump said in his statement. “Now I know the answer to that question.” Trump added, “When your family, your company, and all the people in your orbit have become the targets of an unfounded, politically motivated Witch Hunt supported by lawyers, prosecutors, and the Fake News Media, you have no choice.” In the statement, Trump also made disparaging comments about James and violent crime in New York state. Trump attempted to link the state attorney general’s investigation to Monday’s FBI search of his Florida home Mar-a-Lago, which represented an escalation a federal probe into whether he illegally removed records from the White House as he left office in January 2021. A spokeswoman for James declined to comment on the deposition. A lawyer for Trump did not respond to requests for comment. Trump agreed in June to testify in the three-year investigation, but only after court decisions rejecting his argument that he should not have to do so because the probe was politically motivated. His lawyers also argued that Trump’s words could be unfairly used against him in a related criminal probe led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in which James also is involved. Two top prosecutors in that case resigned in March, with one saying Bragg was skeptical of bringing charges against Trump. A Bragg spokeswoman on Wednesday said that criminal probe continues. Trump raised his fist as he left Trump Tower on Wednesday morning, wearing a blue suit with a flag pin on his lapel, before heading to the attorney general’s office. New York City police officers and Secret Service personnel stood guard as the motorcade transporting him arrived. ‘THE MOB TAKES THE FIFTH’ Trump has in the past disparaged people for exercising their Fifth Amendment rights. “The mob takes the Fifth,” Trump said during a 2016 campaign rally. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” In that instance, he was discussing people who had exercised their Fifth Amendment rights in a probe relating to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server for official correspondence during her time as secretary of state. Clinton was Trump’s opponent in the presidential election that year. Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump also testified in recent weeks in James’ probe, according to a person familiar with the matter. Reuters could not determine whether they also refused to answer questions. Their brother Eric Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 500 times when he testified in October 2020. Monday’s FBI search related to the National Archives and Records Administration, which safeguards presidential records that belong to the public, and whether classified documents were kept at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, according to a person familiar with the matter. Trump has faced a slew of legal troubles since leaving office. He also continues to claim falsely that the 2020 election that he lost to Democrat Joe Biden was stolen through widespread voting fraud. (Reporting by Karen Freifeld in New York; Additional reporting by Jon Stempel and Randi Love in New York and Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Will Dunham and Noeleen Walder) View the full article

Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — The New York Film Festival will celebrate its 60th anniversary this fall with movies featuring big-name stars and ties to the Big Apple. “Tar” starring Cate Blanchett and the Paul Schrader-directed “Master Gardner” help headline the 2022 festival’s 32-movie main slate, which was unveiled Tuesday by the Film at Lincoln Center organization. Organizers had already announced several of this year’s selections, including “Armageddon Time,” a Queens-set drama depicting a pursuit the American dream that’s directed by New York native James Gray. Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkins star in the … Read More View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Rosie O’Donnell “feels bad” for making fun of Anne Heche. The ‘Volcano’ star is currently in a “critical condition” in a coma in hospital after being involved in a fiery car crash last Friday (05.08.22) and the 60-year-old comic admitted the incident has made her reflect on a past incident when she mocked the actress. Speaking in a TikTok video, Rosie said: “I can’t stop thinking about this Anne Heche accident and how horrifying the whole thing is and feeling bad that I made fun of her when she was talking to Barbara Walters about having a relationship with space aliens.” The ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ star branded the crash a “tragic tale” and seemingly suggested Anne was driving under the influence. She said: “If we have an honest discussion about drunk driving, we find out just how prevalent it is and that’s terrifying, isn’t it? “I think it’s a miracle that she didn’t kill anyone … and I hope she survives. But wow, what a tragic tale. That car was on fire for a long time, they say.” Rosie then urged fans to seek help for alcoholism if they needed to. She said: “Try it before it’s too late. Try it before you’re at your lowest.” Rosie was referring to a 2001 interview in which Anne said she had created a second personality and a “fantasy world” as a form of escapism after being molested by her father, Donald Heche. Anne said at the time: “I had a fantasy world that I escaped to. I called my other personality Celestia. “I believed I was from that world. I believed I was from another planet. I think I was insane.” A year later, the ‘League of their Own’ star branded the interview a “train wreck” and joked about Anne’s past relationship with Ellen DeGeneres. She said: “What the hell kind of train wreck was that? “She couldn’t just say, ‘I was a lesbian for two years, it didn’t work out for me?’” View the full article

Published by Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — The reason Lauren Weisberger’s satirical memoir “The Devil Wears Prada” became famous was not just because of the juicy schadenfreude-y movie with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. It’s because Weisberger was self-aware enough to see that the thirst for power included herself. On the one hand, she took out her knives and dissected the terrifying tastemaker Miranda, a stand-in for Anna Wintour, a bourgeois feminist survivor with veiled vulnerability. On the other, she knew that the very act of writing the memoir meant that her alter-ego Andy was no different from Miranda, even though sh… Read More View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Kevin Bacon wants to help end conversion therapy. The 64-year-old actor was horrified when he began researching the practice – in which emotional or physical therapy is used to try to stop or suppress someone from being gay, or from living as a different gender – for his new movie ‘They/Them’ and is keen to raise awareness of the horrors is can cause. As a result, a new campaign has been launched through his charity, SixDegrees.org to raise funds to support Born Perfect – a scheme from the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which works within the legal system to keep LGBTQ+ people safe – and to end conversion therapy altogether as at present, more than half of the US’ LGBTQ+ population lives in a state which has not outlawed the practice. Kevin hopes to raise at least $50,000 with the initiative and to “spread awareness of these practices and shine a light on Born Perfect, which is looking to dismantle any legitimacy they have.” To date, more than $20,000 has already been raised through a raffle for a premiere experience with the ‘Footloose’ star. Kevin reflected on how he first came across the “dumb” practice. He told People magazine: “I remember thinking this is not only dumb it’s hurtful. To put anyone — especially a young person — through such a shameful, painful process when there is no chance of it working is terrible. Why? Where’s the threat? Why is anyone else’s sexual orientation your problem?” The veteran actor thinks the “timing is really good” for his new horror film, which is set in a conversion therapy camp, and he was inspired by the rest of the ‘They/Them’ cast. He said: “While I was really in the head space of the character, there was also a part of me that was feeling very moved by the fact that here was this group of our future, of young people who identify in all different kinds of ways, who have come together and are going to be represented in this film in hopefully a way that they haven’t often been in the past. “People need to be left alone to be who they are. To love who they want to love and marry who they want to marry. That is the backbone of a strong and peaceful society.” The film’s executive producer Scott Turner Schofield – the first trans man to be nominated for an Emmy award – praised Kevin for taking a stand. He said: “It’s really meaningful that he would choose to help raise awareness about the abuse that LGBTQ+ youth face in so-called ‘conversion therapy’ because the reason why it’s still happening at such a large scale is because there is so much silence about it.” View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Ethan Coen is set to direct a lesbian road trip comedy. The film will star Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanatha, both 27, with the plot centring around a party girl and her “buttoned-down” friend. It comes after it was confirmed Ethan, 64, would be going solo without his long-time directing partner Joel, 67, who last year directed ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ without his younger sibling. Ethan wrote the road movie script for the as yet untitled road trip film, which has reportedly been inspired by American director Russ Meyer, alongside Joel’s wife Tricia Cooke in the early 2000s. A synopsis says: “The story centred on a party girl who takes a trip from Philadelphia to Miami with her buttoned-down friend. Cruising bars ensues as does the potpourri of a severed head in a hatbox, a bitter ex-girlfriend, a mystery briefcase and an evil senator.” Production is set to begin this autumn after being initially announced for summer. Qualley recently starred in Claire Denis’ Cannes feature ‘Stars at Noon’, while Viswanathan is due to start promoting ‘The Beanie Bubble’. Joel said last year about working without his brother Ethan on ‘Macbeth’: “I spent 40 years looking over at Ethan after each shot or looking at him if there was a problem. And, so, I missed him because that wasn’t there.” Long-time Coen Brothers composer Carter Burwell, 67, has claimed the brothers may never again make another film together. He said: “They also have a ton of scripts they’ve written together that are sitting on various shelves. I hope maybe they get back to those. “I’ve read some of those, and they are great. We are all at an age where we just don’t know… we could all retire. It’s a wonderfully unpredictable business.” View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Kylie Minogue has hailed Olivia Newton John as “an inspiration” since childhood. The 54-year-old singer and actress has paid tribute to the late ‘Grease’ legend – whose family moved to Australia when she was six years old – following her tragic death on Monday (08.08.22) aged 73 after a long battle with cancer. Alongside a black and white professional photo of them together at an event, Kylie wrote: “Since I was ten years old, I have loved and looked up to Olivia Newton John. And, I always will… “She was, and always will be, an inspiration to me in so many, many ways. My deepest condolences to her family and loved ones. x ONJ4EVER” Kylie’s sister Dannii responded with a broken heart emoji in the comments. Other stars have continued to remember the big screen star after her passing, including Sir Rod Steward, who even credited Olivia with inspiring his own style. He tweeted: “My great friend Olivia Newton John has passed away. She was the perfect Lady, gorgeous, with great poise and with a certain Aussie sophistication. “Her spandex trousers in Grease were my inspiration for my ‘Da ya think I’m Sexy‘ era. RIP Olivia (sic)” And Stockard Channing – who appeared alongside Olivia in ‘Grease’ as Betty Rizzo – joined her fellow stars in paying tribute to their late cast mate. In a statement to PEOPLE magazine, she said: “I don’t know if I’ve known a lovelier human being. “Olivia was the essence of summer – her sunniness, her warmth and her grace are what always come to mind when I think of her. I will miss her enormously.” Meanwhile, John Travolta – who played Danny Zuko to her Sandy Olsen in ‘Grease’ – also paid his respescts. He wrote on Instagram: “My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better. “Your impact was incredible. I love you so much. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!” View the full article

Published by OK Magazine mega Jane Lynch will be leaving the Broadway production of Funny Girl in mid-August as opposed to early September. The actress, who had been playing Mrs. Brice, a.k.a. Fanny’s mother, last show will be on August 14, as she is going on a planned vacation. She was originally going to leave from August 15 and return on August 23, but the producers agreed to let her depart ahead of her getaway. The production originally noted that the Glee alum‘s last performance would have been on September 4. Tovah Feldshuh will take over on September 6 — the same day that Lea Michele, who also appeared on Glee alongside Lynch, will replace Beanie Feldstein as the leading lady. “As I embark upon my last week in Funny Girl, my heart is filled with gratitude for this wildly talented company led by Beanie Feldstein and our wonderful audiences for keeping theater alive!” Lynch said in a statement. “I offer a special thanks to my current scene partner Julie Benko and will be back to see my friend Lea Michele light up the lights.” Unfortunately, Lynch and Michele won’t be able to have a Glee reunion in the Big Apple, but the former wishes her nothing but the best. “We have been in touch about it,” Lynch said. “You know, it was just a really strong idea to have [Tovah] Feldshuh and Lea premiere together. That’s the only reason [we won’t appear together].” The Only Murders in the Building star added, “I adore her. She’s just going to take this show and make it her own. I’m so glad she’s getting the opportunity in real life to do the show and not just on Glee.“ LEA MICHELE, BEANIE FELDSTEIN & MORE STARS CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF CODE (RED) TO FIGHT COVID-19 WITH A NIGHT OUT ON BROADWAY mega Feldstein revealed via social media that she was walking away from the role. “Playing Fanny Brice on Broadway has been a lifelong dream of mine, and doing so for the last few months has been a great joy and true honor,” she said in mid-July. “I will never forget this experience and from the bottom of my heart.” “I want to thank every single person who came to the August Wilson for the love and support you have shown me and our amazing cast and crew,” Feldstein added. “The people I have had the great joy of bringing Funny Girl to life with every night, both on and off the stage, are all remarkably talented and exceptional humans and I hope you continue to join them on Henry Street after I depart.” People reported the news about Lynch’s departure. View the full article

Published by OK Magazine mega Demi Lovato has a new man in her life! The “Skyscraper” vocalist, who recently changed her pronouns back to she/her, has reportedly found love with a mystery musician. mega “It’s a really happy and healthy relationship,” a source close to Lovato explained of the private romance. “He’s a super great guy.” Insiders have yet to reveal the man’s identity. DEMI LOVATO RETURNS HOME FROM UTAH REHAB FACILITY AFTER REJECTING THEIR PAST ‘CALIFORNIA SOBER’ LIFESTYLE This will mark the Camp Rock actress’ first relationship since her September 2020 engagement to Max Ehrich, whom she began dating in March of that year. Despite a whirlwind romance, the pair ended their partnership a mere month after getting engaged. Though Lovato appears to now be in a solid relationship, the Grammy Award nominee recently threw shade at her former romance with Wilmer Valderrama, who is twelve years her senior, in her new song “29.” The exes, who spent six years together, began dating when the actor was 29 and she was 17. mega “Finally 29 / Funny, just like you were you at the time,” Lovato croons in the tune. “Thought it was a teenage dream / Just a fantasy / But was it yours or was it mine?” “Just five years of bleeders, student and a teacher / Far from innocent / What the f**k’s consent? / Numbers told you not to / But that didn’t stop you,” she sings. DEMI LOVATO GETS A ‘STANDING OVATION’ FROM AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENTITY IN NEW SERIES: WATCH As Lovato continues to navigate her love life, she recently revealed she is using she/her pronouns once again after coming out as non binary in May 2021. “I’ve actually adopted the pronouns of she/her again,” the former Disney star revealed on a recent episode of the “Spout Podcast.” “So for me, I’m such a fluid person that I don’t really… I don’t find that I am… I felt like, especially last year, my energy was balanced and my masculine and feminine energy, so that when I was faced with the choice of walking into a bathroom and it said, women and men, I didn’t feel like there was a bathroom for me because I didn’t feel necessarily like a woman. I didn’t feel like a man,” Lovato explained. “I just felt like a human. And that’s what they/them is, is about for me, it’s just about, like, feeling human at your core,” she noted. People was the first to report Lovato’s new relationship. View the full article

Published by Radar Online MEGA; Chris Kleponis – Pool via CNP / MEGA Ivanka Trump looked carefree during a low-key date night with husband Jared Kushner on Monday, smiling and laughing just hours after her father Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago club and personal home were raided by the FBI. Radar has learned the former First Daughter, 40, and her spouse of nearly 13 years hit up Bleu Duck Kitchen in Minnesota, which boasts of its seasonal American dishes served in an upscale space. MEGA The casually dressed couple appeared to be in good spirits as they enjoyed a private table and wine, reportedly “keeping to themselves” amid the outing. A beaming Ivanka and Jared, 41, were later seen taking an afternoon stroll in downtown Rochester, embracing while they engaged in conversation. Their blissful outing came not long before the FBI descended upon her father’s personal home and Mar-a-Lago property. RadarOnline.com has discovered the Department of Justice and FBI investigation is not regarding the investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, nor is it about the Jan. 6 insurrection probe. It was instead focused on seizing classified documents the former president was supposed to turn over to the National Archives. MEGA Eric Trump said during an interview with Fox News that he was the one who alerted their dad about the FBI’s search of the Florida property, revealing officials had broken “into a safe.” He claimed the underlying motive is politically charged. “They do it for one reason, because they don’t want Donald Trump to run and win again in 2024 and, Sean [Hannity], that’s what this is about today,” he said. Trump himself also denounced the raid in a statement. MEGA On Monday night, Trump said Mar-a-Lago was “under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.” “After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” he continued, calling it “prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024.” Last evening, #45 also posted a campaign-style ad to Truth Social hinting at his plans to run again, calling America “a nation in decline” and promising “the best is yet to come.” View the full article

Published by Radar Online Mega Fox News host Tucker Carlson is “deeply concerned” a number of text messages between him and Alex Jones may soon leak to the public, Radar has learned. The shocking development comes just hours after nearly two years’ worth of messages from Jones’ phone were obtained by the January 6 House Select Committee investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol building. Mega According to a report, Carlson is worried because he and the 48-year-old conspiracy theorist purportedly exchange text messages on a daily basis. Two people close to both Carlson and Jones also revealed the 53-year-old Fox News host is worried the text messages might leak because the content within the messages is reportedly “highly embarrassing.” Besides exchanging text messages every day, Carlson and Jones are also reportedly good friends – with Carlson not only regularly appearing on The Alex Jones Show but also supplying puff pieces and blurbs for Jones’ conspiracy-ridden writings. “Maybe Alex Jones is onto something,” Carlson recently wrote in a blurb for Jones’ upcoming book, The Great Reset: And the War for the World. “Read this book and decide for yourself who’s crazy.” Mega Carlson has also praised Jones’ “unhinged rhetoric” and once said that Jones “was more talented than [Carlson] was.” As RadarOnline.com previously reported, the Jan. 6 committee obtained two years’ worth of Jones’ text messages on Monday after his lawyer, Federico Andino Reynal, accidentally sent the messages to Mark Bankston. At the time, Bankston represented two parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting who sued Jones for defamation after Jones repeatedly claimed the shooting was a “hoax.” Bankston revealed on Monday that he was “cooperating with the committee” in connection to the cache of messages and emails, and a source also confirmed on Monday that the messages were successfully in possession of the Jan. 6 House committee. Mega Although Bankston has not revealed exactly when the messages were sent, who Jones was in correspondence with and what material the messages contained, he previously claimed the texts included “intimate messages” between Jones and Roger Stone, as well as between Jones and a prominent politician. Jones also testified before the Jan. 6 committee earlier this year, but the committee is hoping information found on the newly obtained phone may provide more evidence in connection to Jones’ alleged “central role” in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Jane Seymour says Olivia Newton-John “was beyond a fighter”. The former Bond girl called the ‘Grease’ star – who died on Monday (08.08.22) more than 30 years after being first diagnosed with breast cancer, aged 73 – a “thriver” and remarked she “broke all the rules of science”. The 71-year-old actress told Entertainment Tonight: “She broke all the rules of science. I mean, she just kept going and going and going. She was beyond a fighter. She always said she’s a thriver. That was her word, ‘Not a survivor, a thriver.’ And I think she taught me and everyone I know so much about living with and passing with cancer. We’re all gonna go one day, but [are you] gonna go, ‘Ugh I’m so terrified, I’m angry, I’m gonna isolate. I’m not gonna let anyone know, I’m gonna be all alone and go through it’ — or do you do what she did and just be brave and say, ‘Hey, I’m going through something a lot of people go through.'” Jane revealed that Olivia took comfort in her “final years” from having good friends by her side. She said: “Even in her final years when I would go and see her, all she wanted to know was what I was doing, you know, ‘Are you happy? What’s going on in your life? How are your kids? How’s this, how’s that? ‘She appreciated close friends and she just lived a full and sort of spiritual life, really.” The ‘Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman’ star also shared that the ‘Xanadu’ star took comfort from being “alive” from the natural world near her Malibu home. Jane said: “I was looking at her going, ‘I don’t think I’m ever going to see you again’ She just sat out there and she said, ‘Look at those birds, look at the hummingbirds, look at the dogs, look at the horses. So beautiful.’ She was just kind of blissing out on the fact that she was alive in nature and that she wanted to see what was good in the world.” Jane – who is mother to Katie Flynn, Sean Flynn, Kristopher Keach and John Stacey Keach – shared how she bonded with Olivia giving advice about juggling parenthood with showbiz, who went on to have daughter Chloe, now 36, with her ex Matt Lattanzi. She said: “I managed to have my first baby, Katie, and I’ve never forgotten — we were on the beach in Malibu and [Newton-John] wanted me to bring the baby and she looked at me, and she held Katie in her arms, and and she said, ‘How do you do this?’ “I said, ‘What do you mean?’ She said, ‘How do you have a career and work as hard as you do and have a baby? How do you do that?’ And I said, ‘You could do it.’ And she said, ‘Can I?’ And I said, ‘Yeah.'” View the full article

Published by OK Magazine mega Just hours after Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago estate was raided by the FBI, his former press secretary Stephanie Girsham spoke out to confirm the 76-year-old “did not handle classified documents properly” throughout his time as the POTUS. Grisham worked for Trump from July 2019 to April 2021. “I sat in an airplane with him, watched him go through documents, throw some away, rip some up and put some in his pocket,” she recalled. “Because I remember specifically thinking: ‘Why do those go in his pocket?'” Her claims are similar to those made by White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, who claims in her upcoming book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, that the father-of-five used to flush documents down the toilet. mega In January, Trump had to give over 15 boxes of paperwork to the National Archives, as the docs were transported from the White House to the Florida residence, which is illegal. However, he denied any wrongdoing. DONALD TRUMP TRIED TO INTIMIDATE JARED KUSHNER BY TELLING HIM TOM BRADY WAS ALSO INTERESTED IN IVANKA “The papers were given easily and without conflict and on a very friendly basis, which is different from the accounts being drawn up by the Fake News Media,” he stated. “In fact, it was viewed as routine and ‘no big deal.’ In actuality, I have been told I was under no obligation to give this material based on various legal rulings that have been made over the years.” mega While Grisham insisted she doesn’t know any secret info regarding the raid — which occurred while The Apprentice host was is New York — she believes something “big” is brewing. “I think it could be about military operations. This is me speculating, I want to be clear,” she stated. But I could see the former President thinking they were cool, or fun. We were not a White House that followed the rules. And I can tell you that handling classified information was not something that was really impressed upon us on a daily basis, or weekly, or monthly.” Grisham spoke about the scandal during a CNN interview. View the full article

Published by Radar Online Mega Donald Trumpis preparing to take action against the government after the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided his famed Mar-a-Logo home in Florida, Radar has learned. Trump’s legal team is ready to file a temporary restraining order in an attempt to block prosecutors from viewing the materials snatched from the former president’s home during the historic raid on Monday evening, reports Knewz. But #45 is allegedly willing to negotiate. Mega According to the site, Trump’s list of demands is simple. Several people connected to the investigation confirmed that he wants an independent review of the evidence conducted to ensure prosecutors won’t have immediate access to the seized materials. Sources revealed that prosecutors and Trump are likely to agree to an independent official, known as a “special master” and appointed by the court, to review the materials. The ex-president’s legal eagles have reportedly informed the justice department of their desire for an independent arbiter. One insider said a “purely bi-partisan special master—if that even exists” is vital considering Trump’s involvement in at least four criminal investigations. Mega “There are so many legal minefields surrounding Trump, prosecutors inside the Department of Justice would be like kids in a candy shop if this evidence is not protected,” a source warned. “The appointment of a special master is the only action that can be taken to preserve the credibility of the investigation and any other investigations.” Trump and his organization are being investigated by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. He’s also caught up in the New York Attorney General Letitia James‘ civil investigation. The former president is also under a microscope for his alleged involvement in the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, and his attempt to overturn the election results. Mega As RadarOnline.com exclusively reported, Trump’s lawyer mediated with the FBI, Secret Service,and the Department of Justice, striking a deal that gagged him from disclosing the raid as it was underway to keep his overzealous supporters at bay. It wasn’t until most of the agents left his home that Trump took to social media to reveal the news. The Secret Service facilitated access to Trump’s estate. This outlet published the first photo of a Secret Service agent brandishing a machine gun while guarding the perimeter of the property before sunset. Once inside Mar-a-Lago, agents cracked open a safe and “ransacked” a closet and Trump’s private quarters, Eric Trump told FOX News. As the news of the raid broke, the former president’s angry supporters flocked outside in protest and demanded the FBI be defunded. View the full article

Published by Reuters By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese designer Issey Miyake, famed for his pleated style of clothing that never wrinkles and who produced the signature black turtleneck of friend and Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs, has died, media said on Tuesday. He was 84. Miyake, whose name became a byword for Japan’s economic and fashion prowess in the 1980s, died on Aug. 5 of liver cancer, Kyodo news agency said. No further details were immediately available. Known for his practicality, Miyake is said to have wanted to become either a dancer or an athlete before reading his sister’s fashion magazines inspired him to change direction – with those original interests believed to be behind the freedom of movement his clothing permits. Miyake was born in Hiroshima and was seven years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city while he was in a classroom. He was reluctant to speak of the event in later life. In 2009, writing in the New York Times as part of a campaign to get then-U.S. President Barack Obama to visit the city, he said he did not want to be labelled as “the designer who survived” the bomb. “When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience,” he wrote, adding that within three years, his mother died of radiation exposure. “I have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to put them behind me, preferring to think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy. I gravitated toward the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.” After studying graphic design at a Tokyo art university, he learnt clothing design in Paris, where he worked with famed fashion designers Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy, before heading to New York. In 1970 he returned to Tokyo and founded the Miyake Design Studio. In the late 1980s, he developed a new way of pleating by wrapping fabrics between layers of paper and putting them into a heat press, with the garments holding their pleated shape. Tested for their freedom of movement on dancers, this led to the development of his signature “Pleats, Please” line. Eventually he developed more than a dozen fashion lines ranging from his main Issey Miyake for men and women to bags, watches and fragrances before essentially retiring in 1997 to devote himself to research. In 2016, when asked what he thought were the challenges facing future designers, he indicated to the UK’s Guardian newspaper that people were likely to be consuming less. “We may have to go through a thinning process. This is important,” he was quoted as saying. “In Paris, we call the people who make clothing couturiers – they develop new clothing items – but actually the work of designing is to make something that works in real life.” (Reporting by Kantaro Komiya and Elaine Lies; Editing by Andrew Heavens, Chris Cushing and Susan Fenton) View the full article

Published by Radar Online MEGA A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusations against 14-year-old Emmett Till led to his kidnapping and lynching nearly seven decades ago, Radar can confirm. The development in the case came amid revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and a newly revealed memoir written by the woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham. MEGA The arrest warrant, dated August 29, 1955, was discovered inside a box in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse, leading Till’s relatives to call for action. A Leflore County grand jury has since determined there was insufficient evidence to indict Donham on charges of kidnapping and manslaughter, District Attorney Dewayne Richardson announced via a news release Tuesday. “The murder of Emmett Till remains an unforgettable tragedy in this country and the thoughts and prayers of this nation continue to be with the family of Emmett Till,” Richardson added. The story of what happened to Till has haunted many after he was abducted, tortured, and killed in Mississippi in 1955. The Black teen was accused of offending a white woman, Bryant, in her family’s grocery store by whistling at her, leading her then-husband and brother-in-law to commit one of the most barbaric lynchings in U.S. history. MEGA Till’s cousin, Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr., was disappointed by the news, telling CBS that he did see it coming. “The prosecutor tried his best, and we appreciate his efforts, but he alone cannot undo hundreds of years of anti-Black systems that guaranteed those who killed Emmett Till would go unpunished, to this day,” Parker said in the statement. As we previously reported, Donham is spending her final days in hospice care within her small apartment community in Kentucky. She reportedly suffers from cancer and is legally blind, having been seen with oxygen tubes looped over her ears. In an excerpt from her memoir I Am More Than A Wolf Whistle, Donham had said she was unaware of the gruesome fate that awaited Till. MEGA “I did not wish Emmett any harm and could not stop harm from coming to him, since I didn’t know what was planned for him,” one part read. She further claimed in a later excerpt, “I have always prayed that God would bless Emmett’s family. I am truly sorry for the pain his family was caused.” View the full article

Published by Reuters (Reuters) -The U.S. drug regulator on Tuesday authorized Bavarian Nordic’s Jynneos vaccine for emergency use through intradermal injection for adults at high risk of monkeypox infection to increase supply to combat the outbreak. The authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will increase the total number of doses available for use by up to five-fold. The regulator’s authorization comes after the United States as well as the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency to bolster the response against the outbreak. “In recent weeks the monkeypox virus has continued to spread at a rate that has made it clear our current vaccine supply will not meet the current demand,” said FDA Commissioner Robert Califf. (https://bit.ly/3p7C9Ao) So far, 80 countries where the virus is not endemic have reported 26,500 cases of monkeypox, according to a Reuters tally. Jynneos was approved in 2019 for prevention of smallpox and monkeypox disease in adults 18 years of age and older determined to be at high risk for smallpox or monkeypox infection and is administered beneath the skin or subcutaneously as two doses. The FDA authorization on Tuesday allows for a fraction of the Jynneos dose to be administered between the layers of the skin, or intradermally, in those aged 18 years and older determined to be at high risk of monkeypox infection. Two doses of the vaccine given four weeks apart will still be needed, the agency said. It also allows individuals younger than 18 years to receive the vaccine by subcutaneous injection if they are determined to be at high risk of monkeypox infection. The administration of the vaccine requires a different type of needle than the current shot administration and is similar to the tuberculin skin tests (or PPD) or intradermal allergy tests. The Biden administration said it was launching efforts to train health care workers and providers on how to administer the Jynneos vaccine intradermally, after making the decision to allow the FDA Commissioner to grant emergency use authorizations for monkeypox vaccines. So far, the administration has made more than 1.1 million doses of the vaccine available to order and has shipped more than 620,000 doses, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement. Britain will run out of monkeypox vaccines in about two to three weeks as the country has little more than 8,300 doses of vaccine left, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. (Reporting by Ankur Banerjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Aditya Soni) View the full article

Published by AFP Vials of the JYNNEOS Monkeypox vaccine are prepared at a pop-up vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, California, on August 9, 2022 Washington (AFP) – US health authorities on Tuesday authorized a new procedure for injecting the monkeypox vaccine that should make it possible to inoculate more people with the same amount of the drug, at a time when doses are running short in the country. The Food and Drug Administration also authorized giving the vaccine to people under the age of 18 who are considered to be at high risk of infection. For those over 18, health workers will now be able to administer the vaccine differently, via an intradermal injection — that is, between the upper layers of the skin — and not with a deeper, subcutaneous injection. The new method will “increase the total number of doses available for use by up to five-fold,” the FDA said in a statement. Two injections, four weeks apart, will still be necessary. The FDA said it was drawing on data from a 2015 clinical trial that showed a similar immune response in people given a subcutaneous injection compared to those given a fifth of the dose via an intradermal shot. At present, some 620,000 doses of the vaccine — manufactured by Bavarian Nordic, and marketed under the name Jynneos in the United States — have been distributed across the country. Another 440,000 additional doses are still to be distributed, which could allow up to 2.2 million injections under the new strategy. The government has also ordered an additional five million doses, which will start arriving from September and run through 2023, affording the potential to administer 25 million doses. The decisions came after the FDA issued an emergency use authorization for the vaccine, a move that itself followed the declaration of a public health emergency last week. For the authorization in minors, the FDA said it had reviewed safety data for the vaccine, as well as data for another vaccine given in children against smallpox. “We feel very comfortable with the safety of the approach,” said Peter Marks of the FDA at a press conference, noting a recent increase in the number of children who have potentially been exposed to infected people. The United States has registered nearly 9,000 cases of monkeypox, a fifth of them in New York state. The vast majority of cases involve men who have had sex with men. View the full article

Published by Reuters By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) -Police in New Mexico on Tuesday arrested a man they called their prime suspect in the fatal shootings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque since November, a series of ambush killings that have shaken the Islamic community in the state’s largest city. Police credited tips from the public in helping investigators locate a car that detectives believed was used in at least one of the killings and ultimately track down the suspect, identified as Muhammad Syed, 51, an Albuquerque resident. Syed was formally charged with two of the homicides: those of Aftab Hussein, 41, and Muhammed Afzaal Hussain, 27, killed on July 26 and Aug. 1, respectively, but he is considered a suspect in all four murders, Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina said at a news conference. The latest victim, Nayeem Hussain, 25, a truck driver who became a U.S. citizen on July 8, was killed on Friday, hours after attending the burial of the two men slain in July and August, both of them of Pakistani descent. The first known victim, Mohammad Ahmadi, 62, a native of Afghanistan, was killed on Nov. 7, 2021, while smoking a cigarette outside a grocery store and cafe that he ran with his brother in the southeastern part of the city. Police said the two killings with which Syed was initially charged were tied together based on bullet shell casings found at the two murder scenes, and the investigation branched out from there. According to police, detectives were preparing to search Syed’s home in southeastern Albuquerque on Monday when he drove from the residence in the car that investigators had identified to the public a day earlier as a “vehicle of interest.” In addition to recovering multiple firearms from the suspect’s home, detectives “discovered evidence that shows the offender knew the victims to some extent, and an interpersonal conflict may have led to the shootings,” police said in a statement. Albuquerque and state authorities have been working to provide extra police presence at mosques during times of prayer as the investigation proceeded in the city, home to as many as 5,000 Muslims out of a total population of 565,000. The ambush-style shootings of the men, all of Pakistani or Afghan descent, have terrified Albuquerque’s Muslim community. Families went into hiding in their homes, and some Pakistani students at the University of New Mexico left town out of fear. Imtiaz Hussain, whose brother worked as a city planning director and was killed on Aug. 1, said news of the arrest reassured many in the Muslim community. “My kids asked me, ‘Can we sit on our balcony now?’ and I said, ‘Yes,’ and they said, ‘Can we go out and play now?’ and I said, ‘Yes,'” he said. The three most recent victims all attended the Islamic Center of New Mexico, Albuquerque’s largest mosque. They were all shot near Central Avenue in southeastern Albuquerque. Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller thanked local, state and federal law enforcement for their work on the case. “We hope their swift action brings an increased sense of safety for so many who are experiencing fear from the recent shootings,” he said in a statement. The manner in which the victims were killed suggested to relatives that the murders were hate crimes. “There is some extreme hatred in the mind of the shooter,” said Hussain. (Reporting by Andrew Hay in Taos, New Mexico and Rami Ayyub in Washington; Editing by Jonathan Oatis, Cynthia Osterman and Daniel Wallis) View the full article

Published by The Spun By Matt Audilet Solomon Bates, a minor league pitcher in the San Francisco Giants’ system, came out as gay with a message on Instagram earlier this week. This message came as part of an announcement that he’s no longer with his team, the Richmond Flying Squirrels. “Being gay in this sport you don’t know what comes at you! I thank the giants for giving me the opportunity to be myself and go out there and play the game that I love the most. I’m still in shock on what just happened. But I’m not giving up on what I want to do. I’m still going to open up doors for gay athletes like me. Still will s… Read More View the full article