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UPDATED, May 31: The standoff between Naomi Osaka and the French Open over her refusal to participate in post-match press conferences came to a boil today. The tennis superstar announced that she has withdrawn from the tournament. The move comes a day after Osaka won her opening match and was fined $15K and threatened…

HGTV Home Town and Home Town Takeover stars Ben and Erin Napier are building something else – their family. The popular couple have welcomed a second daughter, Mae Napier, on May 28. The couple are also parents to 3-year-old daughter Helen. “While we are excited to have another daughter to love, we are more excited…

CNN analyst Chris Cuomo placed the news organization in a bad spot, according to the network’s Lead Washington Anchor, Jake Tapper. Cuomo was slammed for advising his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on how to respond to sexual harassment allegations. By doing so, he called into question whether the network, in…

The Indianapolis 500 is back to normal after a year that saw it join other traditional sporting events in moving out of their regular slots. Run last year without a live audience at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway (aka, “The Brickyard), the race was bumped to August for 2020. This year, it returns to its…

Finally, the truth may be out there. The director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense are expected to present an unclassified report to Congress on UFOs in June, with speculation that the eagerly anticipated report could arrive as early as this Tuesday, June 1. The report from the Director of…

UPDATED, May 29: The canceled commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma Black Wall Street Massacre boiled down to money demands by the living survivors, according to NBC News. A prior agreement between the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and the three living survivors of the event was upended at the last…

Central Perk loves everything about the Friends reunion. The Chinese Central Committee apparently does not. Appearances by Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and the K-pop group BTS were dropped Thursday from different versions of the streaming show on three Chinese video platforms. Because the clips taken out varied in length…

Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said Thursday that two media merger deals in as many weeks are "resounding affirmation of the value of content, IP and brands," but that the company wants to keep its head down and "not get distracted by this concept of scale." "Obviously we will talk to everyone, we listen to everything,"…

Los Angeles Angels pitching coach Mickey Callaway allegedly sexually harassed at least five female members of the sports media during his time with the Cleveland Indians, New York Mets, and Angels, a Major League Baseball investigation has concluded. As a result, the Angels fired Callaway as their pitching coach…

Rachel Campos-Duffy has been tapped to co-host Fox & Friends Weekend, the announcement coming days after Fox News Channel confirmed that it was parting ways with Jedediah Bila. Campos-Duffy will debut June 12 alongside co-hosts Pete Hegseth and Will Cain. The network also said Monday that Lawrence Jones would take on…

The European Broadcasting Union, organizers of the Eurovision song competition, said Sunday it’s looking into allegations that a member of event winners Maneskin was seen doing drugs on video. “We are aware of the speculation surrounding the video clip of the Italian winners of the Eurovision Song Contest in the Green…

Jedediah Bila, the weekend anchor co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend at Fox News, is leaving those duties. “We have mutually and amicably parted ways with Jedediah Bila and wish her all the best,” Fox News said in a statement released Friday. “The new co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend will be named soon.” Bila, age…