Florida Students Walk Out Over Transgender Investigation

Alix Earle took her best friends to a casino for her 23rd birthday!

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Charlie Hunnam revealed to Entertainment Tonight while promoting his new film “Rebel Moon” that he was heavily considered to play Anakin Skywalker in George Lucas’ “Star Wars” prequel trilogy. While child actor Jake Lloyd played Anakin in 1999’s “The Phantom Menace,” a time jump for 2002’s “Attack of the Clones” and 2005’s “Revenge of the Sith” required Lucas to cast an older actor as Anakin. Hayden Christiansen won the part, but Hunnam said he also met Lucas in person to discuss the role.

It’s official! Kody Brown is done with polygamy!

book series by Rick Riordan. It first arrived in 2005 as part of the young adult fantasy boom that included “Harry Potter,” “The Hunger Games,” “The Mortal Instruments” and “Twilight.” Created by Riordan and Jonathan Steinberg (“Black Sails”), the series follows the adventures of 12-year old Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell, “The Adam Project”), as he learns that the strange events that he’s been experiencing during his New York City childhood don’t mean he’s a troubled kid, as his teachers have said — it means that he is a “demigod” who is secretly the son of the Greek god, Poseidon (Toby Stephens). “I started reading the books in third grade.

Daily Signal.Monarch High School is allowed to appeal the decision within ten days. Officials with Broward County Public Schools said in a statement that its “investigation into the matter remains ongoing at this time.”The punishment handed down against Monarch is the first instance of a school being penalized for violating the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” primarily aimed at preventing transgender female athletes from competing on women’s sports teams.The law allows “biological females” to compete on “athletic teams or sports designated for males, men, or boys,” as well as in sports that are designated as “co-ed.”“Thanks to [Republican Governor Ron DeSantis], Florida passed legislation to protect girls’ sports, and we will not tolerate any school that violates this law,” Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr.

Director Denis Villeneuve has high hopes for Dune: Part Two, which is currently scheduled for release on March 1, 2024, after bouncing through several potential dates.

News Nation, host of the evening.DeSantis claimed Haley supports “gender mutilation of minors” and does not support government intervention to stop these treatments.Haley responded that she had actually criticized Florida’s original “Don’t Say Gay” law, which bans instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, for only going as high as third grade.She said it should be expanded to all grades. DeSantis pointed out that the expansion was a different piece of legislation, which was passed earlier this year. “We’re talking about sex change operations on minors,” countered DeSantis.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Rising Saudi Arabian star Yaqoub Alfarhan, who is known for playing the titular drug trafficker and serial killer in hit MBC TV series “Rashash,” plays a very different role in the drama “Norah” by pioneering Saudi director Tawfik Alzaidi, which is set in 1990s Saudi Arabia when conservatism was at its height and all forms of art and painting were banned for religion-related reasons. In “Norah,” which world premiered at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Alfarhan plays an artist named Nader who has given up painting and moved to a remote village to be a schoolteacher. There he intersects with this film’s titular character, played by Saudi newcomer Maria Bahrawi.

The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District Board, the group that now oversees a swathe of central Florida where Walt Disney World sits, slammed the Bob Iger-led media giant for almost three hours straight over what its experts called decades of self-dealing outlined in an audit. Members, not surprisingly, voted to approve the report. 

Martin Lewis has issued a message to anyone with a student loan, as over one million people overpaid on their loan repayments in the last tax year. It means students could be owed hundreds of pounds.

Hugh Grant was on curmudgeonly form during a press conference marking the release of Wonka, telling journalists that he hated playing an Oompa Loompa in the film.

Saltburn - which features Euphoria star Jacob Elordi - has left viewers so disturbed that they've had to leave the cinema early.

EXCLUSIVE: A contemporary scripted drama series inspired by the life of country music sensation Walker Hayes is headed to the small screen. The production arm of Untitled Entertainment has acquired Hayes’ life rights for the project, with Hayes set to executive produce alongside Untitled.

With two celebrities having already quit this year's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here, ITV bosses are said to fearing more contestants could be set to exit the jungle. Grace Dent became the first campmate to exit on Monday, 27 November, followed by Jamie Lynn Spears, who left on medical grounds on Wednesday, 29 November.Things are beginning to get tougher in the camp, with celebrities struggling to win stars at Bushtucker Trials and rain continuing to pour.

A dog walker who discovered Brianna Ghey's bloodied body in a park said 'she looks dead' in a frantic 999 call. Kathryn Vize had been out with her husband and their two dogs in Culcheth Linear Park near Warrington on Saturday, February 11.

A distressing 999 call made by a dog walker who found the body of transgender teenager Brianna Ghey has been played to a jury.

Welcome to Plathville couple Ethan Plath and his wife Olivia Plath have come to what looks to be the end of the line where their marriage is concerned. Things between them have been in decline for some time, but now they appear at the end of their rope.Olivia Plath was practically waiting by the door for her Welcome to Plathville spouse to return from his trip to Georgia. She had plenty of time to think things through while he was away, so now she wants a serious conversation.Ethan Plath has also been doing a lot of thinking about their marriage as well.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert continues to bring in the numbers, helped last week by David Letterman’s first return to the show since he stepped down.

Prince Edward has become more of an important working member of the Royal Family over the years and now in the reign of his older brother King Charles he is a key part of the Firm thanks to his dedication and loyal service.

Ashley Dale's devastated mum said her 'life might as well have ended' when her daughter was shot dead at her home in Merseyside.