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A funeral for the three-year-old child allegedly killed by the champion of Season 20 of the Food Network reality series Worst Cooks in America was held this week. The biological parents of Victoria Rose Smith held what was described as an emotional funeral for the child. Food Network star Ariel Robinson, 29, and…

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that California Governor Gavin Newsom’s orders banning indoor church services may violate the Constitution’s protections on religion. The order effectively lifts the state ban on indoor religious gatherings. In a 6-3 decision, the Justices granted an appeal late Friday evening…

The cryptocurrency market is on a roll today, as Bitcoin edges back over the $40,000 mark and ethereum’s ether is at an all-time high. Bitcoin is now trading slightly over $40,000 per single coin, up more than 16% in the last seven days alone. The digital currency is recovering from a market dip in late December/early…

The troubled Netflix docuseries Cheer this week saw two more of its subjects arrested in separate criminal cases related to alleged sex misconduct involving minors. Already reeling from similar allegations against series star Jerry Harris, the show saw Robert Joseph Scianna Jr., a 25-year-old coach and choreographer…

Smartmatic, the election systems company, filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox Corp. on Thursday, claiming that Fox News “irreparably harmed” its reputation when some of its news personalities and guests targeted the company as responsible for rigging election results. Also named in the 285-page lawsuit (read it he…

UPDATED, 7:10 PM: Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios and Charter Communications have agreed to settle Allen’s $10 billion racial-discrimination  lawsuit against the telecommunications giant. The parties put out a brief joint statement tonight announcing the deal. "Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Networks has…

CBS’ recently opened investigation into alleged racist and sexist conduct by two of its top local TV executives is now in the spotlight of the WGA, and the guild wants a face-to-face ASAP. "The Writers Guild of America, East has reached out to CBS regarding the investigation of misconduct by executives at local CBS…

The Clooney Foundation for Justice, founded by George Clooney and his wife Amal, is speaking out about the upcoming libel trial of Russian dissident Aleksey Navalny. The opposition leader and vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin was sentenced this week to more than two years in prison after being convicted of…

EXCLUSIVE: A growing dust-up over classic outer space hero Buck Rogers isn’t a fight over rights, and it won’t be warming up to become one if Legendary Entertainment has anything to say about it. The Buck Rogers estate, overseen by the Nowlan Family Trust, on Tuesday fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Legendary…

Rapper Silentó, known for his viral song “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae),” was arrested Monday in Georgia and charged with murder. Silentó, born Richard Hawk, was arrested for the killing of his 34-year-old cousin Fredrick Rooks, the DeKalb County Police Department shared on Twitter. On January 21, police officials…

UPDATED, 6:50 PM: Marilyn Manson has responded to allegations of abuse from his ex-fiancée Evan Rachel Wood. “Obviously, my art and my life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality,” the singer-actor posted wrote on Instagram (see the post below). “My…

CBS stockholders can continue to pursue a lawsuit over the 2019 merger of Viacom and CBS, a Delaware judge has ruled. Shari Redstone, daughter of late media mogul Sumner Redstone, stands accused of pursuing an unfair merger that created ViacomCBS Inc. Reuters also reported the ruling has found it is reasonable to…