By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors started deliberating Wednesday in Harvey Weinstein 's rape retrial, weighing an unresolved piece of a case that epitomized the #MeToo movement. The jury is tasked with deciding whether the former movie mogul raped hairstylist and ...
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A licensed drug addiction counselor who delivered "Friends" star Matthew Perry the doses of ketamine that killed him is set to be sentenced on Wednesday. Prosecutors are asking for 2 1/2 years in prison for 56-year-old Erik ...
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer This summer at the movies, the Minions are filmmakers, the Mandalorian is working for the good guys, Matt Damon tries to find his way home (again), Anne Hathaway, Zendaya and Tom Holland are everywhere and no one remembers Peter Parker. Well, at least in the ...
By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Thanks to "Heated Rivalry," hockey hunks — and their love stories — are having a moment. Prime Video's "Off Campus" is the next show hoping to score with viewers. This series, which started streaming Wednesday and is based on a collection of romance ...
By TERRY TANG Associated Press Director Eugene Yi has always been interested in the term Asian American and Pacific Islander and which ethnicities it includes. "When we're talking about Asian Americans or Asian people in the U.S., oftentimes it's people who might look like you and me, and ...
CANNES, France (AP) — The cast of "The Fast and the Furious" rolled into the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday for a 25th anniversary celebration of the nitrous-boosting franchise. This year's Cannes is largely bereft of Hollywood films. But to help cover the blockbuster-sized hole in this ...
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The wide-ranging prosecution in the death of "Friends" star Matthew Perry is coming to a close. Five people have pleaded guilty for various roles in supplying the actor with ketamine, the drug that killed him at age 54 in 2023. ...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Two states could try a new way to reduce the influence of corporations and hard-to-track "dark money" groups that have been able to spend unlimited amounts on politics since the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens ...
By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday denied a CNN report that the CIA was carrying out deadly operations in Mexican territory, accusing the U.S.-based news organization of attempting to "hurt the government and the people of ...
By JULIA FRANKEL and SAM METZ Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Nickolay Mladenov, the top diplomat overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, said Wednesday the truce hinged on Hamas' disarmament, a sticking point that has stalled progress on other fronts, including rebuilding the ...
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Efforts to arrest a Philippine senator who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on a charge of murder as a crime against humanity led to a burst of gunfire Wednesday and a standoff in the Senate building. The tense ...
By AAMER MADHANI, WILL WEISSERT and JOSH BOAK Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for his hotly anticipated talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the Iran war, trade and U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. The meat of the summit doesn't ...
By THOMAS ADAMSON and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said Tuesday. The outbreak ...
By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Tens of thousands of Argentines flooded the streets of major cities nationwide on Tuesday to protest funding cuts by libertarian President Javier Milei to the public university system that represents a near-universal ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Tuesday test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile as part of efforts to modernize the country's nuclear forces, a launch hailed by President Vladimir Putin just days after his claim that the fighting in Ukraine is nearing an end. Putin said that the ...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil said Tuesday that the European Union has moved to block its animal product exports from September, just days after a mega deal between the South American trade bloc Mercosur and the EU on a trans-Atlantic market estimated at $22 trillion went into effect, at least ...
By JON GAMBRELL and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait said on Tuesday that Iran launched a failed attack earlier this month on an island where China is helping build a port in the Gulf Arab country. The accusation came just hours before U.S. ...
By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's government Tuesday launched an anti-organized crime program seen by some politicians as an attempt by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to beef up his public security credentials ahead of October's elections. The program ...
By MARLON GONZÁLEZ and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduran authorities on Tuesday arrested three people, including a powerful politician, accused of masterminding the 2024 assassination of an environmental leader, which became a symbol of government ...
By EMMA BURROWS European Security Correspondent GOTLAND, Sweden (AP) — The war game scenario was this: One of NATO 's newest members, Sweden, was under threat by an unnamed country that was building up troops along the military alliance's eastern border. And in an unusual twist, non-NATO ...