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Dozens more possible jurors are screened in Weinstein retrial
By Canadian Press on April 17th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens more people are undergoing screening Thursday as potential jurors for Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape retrial. The panel started taking shape Wednesday, when five women and four men were picked for the redo of the landmark #MeToo-era trial. They were chosen after several stages of screening and questioning, a multistep ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Scores more possible jurors start screening in Weinstein retrial
By Canadian Press on April 17th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Scores more people were undergoing screening Thursday as potential jurors for Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape retrial. The panel started taking shape Wednesday, when five women and four men were picked for the redo of the landmark #MeToo-era trial. They were chosen after several stages of screening and questioning, a multistep ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Wiz Khalifa’s ‘Kush + Orange Juice’ changed his game. 15 years later, a sequel recaptures the spirit
By Canadian Press on April 17th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Who understood the cool kids better than Wiz Khalifa? In 2010, the easygoing Pittsburgh rapper released his breakout mixtape “Kush + Orange Juice,” crafting the ideal soundtrack for stylish stoners — breezy songs about girls and weed broadcast through his generously enunciated flow. For those paying attention, mass commercial appeal was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Filmmaker-music journalist Cameron Crowe has a memoir out this fall. It’s called ‘The Uncool’
By Canadian Press on April 17th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Cameron Crowe was planning to compile some of his old music interviews for a book when he realized he had a more intimate story to tell. Avid Reader Press announced Thursday that the Oscar-winning filmmaker and onetime Rolling Stone journalist will have a memoir out Oct. 28. It’s called “The Uncool.” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former bassist for pop rockers OneRepublic to take on veteran California GOP House member
By Canadian Press on April 17th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the fight for the U.S. House, Democrats are hoping pop rock star power will help oust a long-serving Republican east of Los Angeles as the party looks to regain control of the chamber and slow President Donald Trump’s agenda. Tim Myers, a Grammy-nominated former bassist for international hitmakers OneRepublic, announced ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Actor Michelle Trachtenberg died of complications from diabetes, says NYC medical examiner
By Canadian Press on April 16th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Michelle Trachtenberg died as a result of complications from diabetes, New York City’s medical examiner said Wednesday. The office said in a statement that it amended the cause and manner of death for the 39-year-old New York City native following a review of laboratory test results. Trachtenberg, who was known ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!9 jurors picked as Weinstein’s lawyers seek to move him from jail to hospital during #MeToo retrial
By Canadian Press on April 16th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Nine jurors were picked Wednesday on the second day of jury selection in Harvey Weinstein’s #MeToo rape retrial. At the same time, the disgraced movie mogul’s lawyers asked a judge to allow him to spend his nights at a New York City hospital instead of jail for the duration of the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs seeks two-month delay of May 5 trial
By Canadian Press on April 16th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys for hip-hop producer Sean “Diddy” Combs asked a federal judge in New York on Wednesday to delay his May 5 sex-trafficking trial by two months so they can better prepare a defense. The lawyers said in a letter to Judge Arun Subramanian that prosecutors have been slow to turn over ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs seeks two-month delay of May 5 sex- trafficking trial
By Canadian Press on April 16th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys for hip-hop producer Sean “Diddy” Combs asked a federal judge in New York on Wednesday to delay his May 5 sex-trafficking trial by two months so they can better prepare a defense. The lawyers said in a letter to Judge Arun Subramanian that prosecutors have been slow to turn over ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Davido’s ‘5ive’ welcomes the Afrobeats megastar into an era of change and growth
By Canadian Press on April 16th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Afrobeats may be the hot sound of the moment, but Davido remembers a very recent past when music from Africa wasn’t embraced globally, amid a perception the continent was one of only destitute poverty and primitive lands. “I remember when Africans used to lie that they were Jamaicans,” laughed the Atlanta-born ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Big Tech should pay more for data they train AI systems on, Nobel laureate says
By Canadian Press on April 16th, 2025
TORONTO — Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has thrown some support behind creative industries, which have been battling tech firms to be compensated for their work. The British Canadian computer scientist expressed worry Wednesday about how tech companies are training their models on artists’ works and then allowing users to pump out new material based ... Read More »
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