State Department aides balked at Mike Pompeo’s plan to address anti-LGBTQ group

according to TMZ.The actor was in Virginia for a new movie he was set to appear in, his father said. He believes his son died of an aneurysm, however the family is awaiting the autopsy results before announcing his official cause of death.“Let’s Stay Together” ran for four seasons on BET, starting in 2011.

Mo Farah and Victoria Derbyshire are among the stars preparing to face the British cold for the latest round of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!The coronavirus pandemic has forced a dramatic relocation for this series, swapping the usual  Australian jungle backdrop for Gwrych Castle in Wales.The first episode will air on ITV next Sunday, November 15.

A poll worker in Missouri tested positive for the coronavirus in late October, worked days later on Election Day, then died sometime afterward, St. Charles County officials said Thursday.  It was unclear if the virus was the worker's cause of death or exactly when the individual died.  St.

Simone Biles has no patience for homophobes.

A Missouri voter’s life was saved by others on Election Day after he collapsed while on line at a polling station. An off-duty Lake Saint Louis police officer, his wife who is a nurse, and an assistant vice principal helped the sickened voter.

A Black Lives Matter activist in Missouri breezed to an election night victory to become the state’s first black congresswoman. Cori Bush, who may become the fifth member of “The Squad,” garnered a whopping 84 percent of vote in the state’s 1st Congressional District.

Neon is plotting a narrative remake of the documentaryThe Painter and the Thief, with StudioCanal and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri banner Blueprint Pictures winning the rights for the remake. The Painter and the Thieffollows aCzech artist who, desperate for answers about the theft of her two paintings, seeks out and befriends the career criminal who stole them.

Massachusetts will go under a stay-at-home advisory and curfew for most businesses, in an effort to curb a spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.  Coronavirus cases in the state were up 278% and hospitalizations have increased by nearly 150% since Labor Day, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker announced during a Monday news conference. As of Monday, the state reported 155,660 COVID-19 cases, he said.

A replica hangman’s noose on display near voting booths at a Missouri polling center has been covered up following complaints it was “clear intimidation” toward Black voters. The noose is part of a historical display in place for years outside the election office in Stone County, and marks the last legal execution by hanging in the state, which occurred in the county in 1937, Stone County Clerk Cindy Elmore told the Kansas City Star.

Students for Life of America (SFLA) is seeking to obtain recognition from the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) after its student Supreme Court argued the anti-abortion advocacy group would create a hostile environment, and student senators described them as a harmful influence. On Tuesday, the group sent an appeal to UNI's president, asking him to overturn the student government's decisions to block formal recognition.

Missouri reported a record number of coronavirus cases over the weekend.  The Show-Me State on Saturday reported a record of some 2,357 new cases of COVID-19, the Associated Press reported. An estimated 1,768 new cases were reported on Sunday.  As of Tuesday morning, all 50 states plus the District of Columbia have reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, tallying more than 8,214,754 illnesses and at least 220,133 deaths.

North Carolina Republican Rep.Ted Budd introduced a bill Friday morning limiting the Section 230 immunity of Big Tech, after conservatives blasted social media giants for censoring a New York Post article about the Biden family’s alleged ties to Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.  The bill, which mirrors Missouri Republican Josh Hawley’s in the Senate, would allow Americans to file lawsuits against Big Tech companies who breach good faith user agreements by censoring political speech or suppressing

hate group the Family Research Council, was tapped to co-chair a newly formed committee created after the employee-led Diversity and Inclusion and Employee Engagement Advisory councils were combined into one, Huffington Post reports.In her time with FRC, Perry made a number of statements against transgender people and transgender equality.Last year, she railed against “transgender supremacy” in a news conference, and claimed without evidence that children with autism can mistakenly believe they

NEW YORK -- Sen. Josh Hawley is working on a book about one of the Missouri Republican's ongoing targets.Simon & Schuster announced Friday that Hawley's “The Tyranny of Big Tech” will be released June 21.

South Korea's CJ Entertainment, best known as the studio behind Bong Joon-ho's Oscar winner Parasite, has signed Deon Taylor (The Intruder, Black and Blue, Traffik) to direct the upcoming gothic thriller Grave Hill, the company’s English-language remake of the hit Vietnamese horror film The Housemaid.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are allowed to do things they couldn't have done before—like talk publicly about politics. There are still some people, however, who don't think that should be the case, apparently.

KMOV reports.“Never should have allowed gay marriage to start with,” the teacher posted on October 3. “Marriage is between man and woman, plain and simple.”The teacher later apologized, writing, “I made a post earlier that was apparently insensitive to many and hurtful.