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BBC Says 2 More Have Come Forward To Complain About Russell Brand’s Behavior

LONDON (AP) — The BBC said Tuesday two more people have come forward to complain about Russell Brand since the broadcaster launched a review into the actor and comedian’s behavior. The BBC was giving an update to its investigation after British media outlets in September published claims by four women that they were sexually assaulted by Brand between 2006 and 2013, at the height of his fame. Brand, 48, has denied the allegations. The comedian worked as a BBC radio presenter from 2006 to 2008. The broadcaster said it recorded a total of five complaints against Brand, including ...

‘The Hunger Games’ Starts Fresh, Without Katniss

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Everyone had resigned themselves to the fact that “The Hunger Games” ended in 2015. The four-film blockbuster franchise had made nearly $3 billion at the global box office and helped Jennifer Lawrence skyrocket to superstardom. But Suzanne Collins’ Katniss Everdeen saga was over. And, frankly, everyone, including Collins, director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson, was eager to take a break and do something else. For several years after “ Mockingjay — Part 2,” “Hunger Games”-related text conversations between Lawrence and ...

Chauvin Trying Again To Overturn Federal Conviction

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin is making another attempt to overturn his federal civil rights conviction in the 2020 murder of George Floyd, saying new evidence shows that he didn’t cause Floyd’s death. In a motion filed in federal court Monday, Chauvin said he never would have pleaded guilty to the charge in 2021 if he had known about the theories of a Kansas pathologist with whom he began corresponding in February. Chauvin is asking the judge who presided over his trial to throw out his conviction and order a new trial, or at least an ...

Traffic Restrictions Set As Parade Shifts To The South

From STAFF REPORTS WHEELING — The annual Main Street Bank Fantasy In Lights Parade is just around the corner, and this year, the parade will be turning some new corners on its route. With that new route comes some road closures and parking restrictions not normally associated with the event, which moved from downtown Wheeling to the Center Wheeling due to the extensive Downtown Streetscape work. The Wheeling Police Department announced Tuesday that this year’s parade will start at the intersection of 24th and Market streets and make a right turn, traveling north along Main ...

Seeking 15-Week Sweet Spot

The conventional wisdom after the Nov. 7 elections is that abortion is a killer for the GOP. Republicans had high hopes of winning the Virginia legislature but lost the Virginia House and did not gain the Virginia Senate. In Ohio, an abortion constitutional amendment passed. But a review of the Virginia data suggests a 15-week abortion compromise actually is a winning issue for the Republicans. In 2023, anticipating a hard Democrat attack against the GOP on the issue of abortion, Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia led the GOP to embrace a 15-week abortion law that would prohibit ...

Abortion Issue Vexes Republicans

Republicans don’t know how to “talk about abortion.” Donald Trump said that following a string of losses blamed on his party’s efforts to severely restrict it. Other Republican candidates have used the same words. The problem for Republicans is not how they talk abortion but what they did about it. Trump vowed that as president he would appoint justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to abortion. He did and they did. Reproductive rights are not some debate club topic like tax breaks for electric vehicles. They affect the core of ...