The Screen Actors Guild on Monday called on the film academy to stop trying to prevent stars from appearing on award shows before the Oscars.
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Poland mayor stabbed onstage at charity event, fights for life
An attacker stabbed the mayor of Gdansk in the heart and the abdomen at a charity event.
PG&E CEO Geisha Williams resigns as California utility company faces uncertain future
The CEO of Pacific Gas and Electric resigned Sunday and employees could learn this week if the utility will declare insolvency while facing billions of dollars in liability over its role in recent California wildfires.
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2 shot outside mall in Salt Lake City suburb
Two people were wounded in a shooting just outside a popular Utah mall Sunday where hundreds of scared shoppers hunkered down until police arrived to evacuate the building.
Lacrosse announcer faces discipline for remark about Native American player
National Lacrosse League said it will discipline Philadelphia Wings’ Shawny Hill for saying, “Let’s snip the ponytail” about Lyle Thompson.
Shirley Boone, wife of Pat Boone and philanthropist, dies
Milt Suchin, Pat Boone’s manager, says in a statement that Shirley Boone passed away on Friday surrounded by her four daughters, who sang to her.
France prepares for revived anti-government protests around Paris
Paris brought in armored vehicles and the central French city of Bourges shuttered shops to gird for possible violence between police and yellow vest protesters Saturday, as the movement seeks new arenas and new momentum for its weekly demonstrations.
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Aretha Franklin biopic starring Jennifer Hudson lands director Liesel Tommy
The director was nominated for a Tony Award for directing the 2016 Broadway production of “Eclipsed” starring Lupita Nyong’o.
China releases spacecraft pictures from moon’s far side
China on Friday broadcast pictures taken by its rover and lander on the moon’s far side, in what its space program hailed as another triumph for the groundbreaking mission to the less-understood sector of the lunar surface.
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Tearful Andy Murray says Australian Open could be his last tournament
A tearful Andy Murray says the Australian Open could be his last tournament because of a hip injury that has hampered him for almost two years.