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One of the four U.S. Olympic swimmers caught in a gas station vandalism incident in Rio de Janeiro has reached an agreement that will enable him to return home from Brazil. ESPN reports that Jimmy Feigen agreed to pay $10,800 in…
“A truce has been reached in the vicious corporate battle that pitted [Sumner] Redstone, who controls Viacom and CBS, and his daughter, Shari Redstone, against his longtime confidants and directors at Viacom, according to two people briefed on the agreement,” reports Emily…
“Sérgio Riera, the lawyer who succeeded in getting American swimmers Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger permission from a judge to leave Brazil on Wednesday night, told the [Washington] Post’s Dom Phillips that his clients had not lied to police about an…
A senior producer at CNN who was formerly at Fox News and who worked on CNN’s “Early Start” for more than three years has died. Variety reports that Matt Null died Monday while on vacation in Barcelona. No cause of…
Naked life-size statues of Donald Trump began appearing today in cities across the U.S., including New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco and Cleveland, the AP reports. “They are the brainchild of an activist collective called INDECLINE, which has spoken…
On the heels of news that Univision had won an auction for Gawker Media with a bid of $135 million, we now know what the company plans to do with it. Univision will be shutting down the site, The New…
Police in Rio de Janeiro say a story told by Ryan Lochte and other U.S. swimmers that the group was robbed at gunpoint was a lie to cover up an act of vandalism at a gas station. CNN reports that…
Drama took center stage as the broadcast networks made their programming presentations at the recent Television Critics Association summer press tour, but they didn’t completely overlook comedy. In today’s report by TVWeek Open Mic writer Hillary Atkin, she looks at…
In an unusual clip posted today by CNN, rock singer Alice Cooper, who had a hit in 1972 with “Elected,” talks politics — even while he admits that he hates the subject. Here it is …
After some old tweets surfaced that stirred up a backlash, “The Voice” coach Blake Shelton has provided an apology. As we reported Wednesday, the tweets from 2010 and 2011, which were being called racist, homophobic and sexist, had the NBC…