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Daniel Mickelson, who had roles in 2019’s Mani, as well as The Killer Clown Meets The Candy Man, has died at the age of 23, his sister, Meredith Mickelson, confirmed on Instagram. Meredith posted a throwback photo of herself and Daniel, along with the sad news. “My heart is shattered and to write this feels so wrong and I don’t even know what to say,” she wrote. “Yesterday [July 4] I lost my brother, best friend and the other half of my heart.”

After serving more than two years in prison, Bill Cosby is out. The 83-year-old arrived at his Pennsylvanian home on June 30, just hours after the state’s highest court overturned his 2018 sexual assault conviction.

That’s So Raven actor Kyle Massey, 29, has been charged with one felony for allegedly sending explicit texts and videos to a 13-year-old girl, according to TMZ and Variety. Kyle was reportedly charged with one count of immoral communication with a minor on June 14 in King County, Washington. He Kyle failed to show up for his arraignment on June 28, Variety reported. HollywoodLife reached out to Kyle’s rep but has not heard back.

Chris Brown, the Grammy-winning musician who is becoming more known for his run-ins with the law than his music, was once again in the hot-seat on Tuesday. Chris, 32, was accused of hitting a woman during an argument on Friday (June 18), according to NBC News.

When Kim Jackson was growing up in a “one-stoplight town”, she never imagined that one day she would become the first queer state Senator in Georgia. But after her surprise win in a fairly conservative Georgia district in the 2020 elections, the reaction of one young woman from her former high school encapsulated for her why it was so important that she had run for office and succeeded.

Farrah Abraham is wading into the Chrissy Teigen cyberbullying scandal, and the reality TV personality doesn’t think the model should be banished for her mistakes. The 30-year-old former Teen Mom OG star told HollywoodLife that Chrissy shouldn’t be “canceled” for trolling her, Courtney Stodden and others on Twitter.

Meghan McCain and Whoopi Goldberg aren’t on the same page often, but things were escalated to another level on the June 17 episode of The View. The ladies were discussing a recent incident involving Joe Biden and a reporter, and things got heated. The co-hosts were talking over each other, with Meghan interrupting Whoopi as she tried to put in her two cents about the situation. It got so bad that Whoopi even cut the conversation short and cut to commercial as the fight escalated.

The year is 2055 and “democracy is dead” in America. That’s the dark vision of the future that Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are presenting as they make their film debut as a couple in Transmissions from the Future. Just over one minute long, the short flick is a desperate plea to voters to urge their senators to pass the For The People Act.

Christiane Amanpour is receiving treatment for ovarian cancer. The 63-year-old CNN anchor shared the stunning news with her viewers on June 14, after returning to work after a month-long absence from her London-based post.

Meghan McCain lashed out at CNN after the network allowed its legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin to return to the air months after he accidentally exposed himself to his former colleagues at The New Yorker.

Caitlyn Jenner‘s appeared on the June 10 episode of The View to discuss her political ambitions. During her segment on the show, the co-hosts questioned Caitlyn about her surprising run for the 2021 gubernatorial recall election against current Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom. But when pressed by Joy Behar about whether she thought former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election, Caitlyn completely deflected.

Laverne Cox is very clear about what she thinks needs to happen in the face of bills targeting transgender youth. The former Orange Is the New Black star spoke to HollywoodLife as states like Alabama and Florida rush to follow in Arkansas’ footsteps by banning minors from receiving gender-affirming medical treatment.

The ladies of The View had a little something to say about Donald Trump’s appearance at a rally in North Carolina on June 5. The former president appeared like he may have been wearing his trousers backwards, and the fabric was completely wrinkled. During the June 7 episode of The View, Whoopi Goldberg asked Joy Behar if she was as “disturbed” by the look as much of the public was over the weekend.

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While Joe Biden’s presidential victory was a major win for Democrats, we have seen a major push from Republican lawmakers to suppress voter rights across the country for future elections. Amanda Litman, the co-founder and executive director of the progressive political organization Run For Something, warns that we are in a “five-alarm fire for democracy” as the right “wages warfare.” “I won’t pretend that I am optimistic.

Powerful stars and political figures are making sure George Floyd‘s life and legacy are properly honored on the first anniversary of his horrific murder. President Joe Biden, Oprah Winfrey and more have paid tribute to the late father, whose life was taken at the hands of a crooked cop.

Ryan Fischer is speaking out for the first time since leaving the hospital following the shocking dognapping that nearly cost him his life. Ryan was left critically injured in February after an assailant shot him and stole boss Lady Gaga‘s two dogs. Now, Ryan is on the mend and back at home. He opened up about the ordeal in an emotional Instagram post, and why he’s not returning to work just yet.

After being charged with possession of child pornography, Josh Duggar still has his wife of 13 years in his corner. Anna Duggar is reportedly “standing by him,” according to a source who spoke to PEOPLE, and “she thinks Josh is innocent.” The couple, who married in 2008, have six minor children together, and a seventh child on the way. The source confirmed that Josh has been able to see the kids as he awaits his trial, but with Anna present, per court instructions.

Rick Santorum has been dropped by CNN. A spokesperson for the network released a statement on May 22, saying CNN has “parted ways” with the former US Senator, per Huffington Post. The decision for the network to terminate its contract with the former Pennsylvania senator comes roughly one month after he made racist comments about Native Americans that were widely condemned.

Brian Williams had some harsh criticism for Senator Ted Cruz on the May 21 episode of The 11th Hour on MSNBC. “By all accounts Ted Cruz did not like the nickname Cancún Cruz, though he tried joking about it acting like it didn’t matter,” Williams said, referencing when the senator left Texas to take his family to the tropical destination while his state was in a virtual blackout in February.

For Rep. Francesca Hong, it was a natural progression from running a restaurant — Morris Ramen in Madison, Wisconsin — to running for Wisconsin State Assembly. “Food is inherently political,” Hong told HollywoodLife in an EXCLUSIVE interview. ” I think politics is actually quite ubiquitous in most of our communities. Having experienced both paradigms and policy making, I’ve come to understand that it comes down to power dynamics and needing to make systemic changes.”

When Jennifer Carroll Foy was growing up as a young girl in Petersburg, Virginia, she had to sit with her aunt at her kitchen table trying to make the agonizing decision about whether the family was going to pay their mortgage or buy the medicine they needed for her sick grandmother.

Fans were sent into a frenzy when Prince William shared a picture of himself getting the coronavirus vaccine on May 20. The royal actually got his first dose of the shot two days earlier, and shared the image on his family’s Twitter account. In the pic, his shirt sleeve is rolled up as a medical professional inserts the vaccine into his arm. “To all those working on the vaccine rollout — thank you for everything you’ve done and continue to do,” he wrote.

A screaming match broke out on The View as Meghan McCain and Joy Behar discussed the Republican Party’s silence about the sex trafficking allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz. Meghan made it clear that she does not support the Florida congressman, and thinks that he should go to jail. But she didn’t condemn the party’s overall unwillingness to address the accusations.

He nearly died after overdosing during a 2015 stay at the Love Ranch in Las Vegas. Six years later, Lamar Odom, 41, is healthy and happy. And he’s crediting his continued sobriety to drug therapy. The NBA star told Good Morning America that he’s been taking small doses of the synthetic drug ketamine under medical supervision for the past two years.

Donald Trump Jr. shared a particularly egregious post to Instagram on May 17,  a side-by-side comparison of Assistant Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine (a “liberal girl”) and California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner (a “conservative girl”). The extremely grainy photo of Levine isn’t flattering and clearly taken while she’s mid-speech. Jenner is dolled up in a bustier with full hair and makeup for a photoshoot.

Nicki Minaj‘s dad, Robert Maraj, would have celebrated his birthday on May 16, and the rapper posted a tribute in his honor on Instagram. Along with a photo of her late father, Nicki wrote, “Happy birthday Daddy. Miss u so much. So much. So so much. Rest in Peace. Oh my God.” Nicki has been grieving her father’s death privately since he was killed in a hit-and-run accident on Feb. 13, 2021.

Running for city council in conservative Carlsbad, California, was an easy choice for Dr. Priya Bhat-Patel.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) pointed out the hypocrisy of the GOP allowing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) verbally attack her after a video from 2019 showed Greene attempting to get into her office and taunting her staff. If it were her harassing a Republican colleague, Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter, then she would have been expelled from Congress immediately.

It’s been a mere four months since Trump-backed extremists swarmed the Capitol and tried to hunt down and harm lawmakers in an attempt to overthrow a fairly-won presidential election. The same attack in which Capitol police officers, faced with hundreds of violent and enraged insurrectionists, feared for their lives — and some, lost them. Meghan McCain suggested on The View that it’s now time for the media to focus on something else. The backlash to her comment was immediate.

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene lashed out at Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outside the House chambers on May 12, according to a new report, aggressively challenging her colleague to a debate. Greene, 46, shouted “Hey Alexandria” twice at the congresswoman, only to get more aggressive when she didn’t respond, according to two Washington Post reporters who witnessed the exchange.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) was just ousted from a top leadership position in the House by her own party. Cheney isn’t letting it go. The three-term congresswoman, 54, is lashing out at her fellow lawmakers who are still bowing at former President Donald Trump‘s feet and warning them that they’ll doom our democracy. Here’s what else you need to know about Rep. Cheney:

She’s a pioneer in new vaccine technology and one of the people attempting to bring coronavirus to a halt. Now, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett will bring her talents to Harvard’s  T.H. Chan School of Public Health as an assistant professor in Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. Here’s what else you need to know about Dr. Corbett:

When it comes to insulting a president, you may want to do better than comparing them to a widely beloved Nobel Peace Prize winner. Donald Trump Jr. left people scratching their heads when he tweeted on May 7 that “[Joe] Biden isn’t the next FDR he’s the next Jimmy Carter.” Twitter users quickly told Trump Jr. that he had no idea what he was talking about.

Armie Hammer has been laying low in the Cayman Islands ever since a woman named Effie accused him in March 2021 of a violent rape that occurred in 2017. The actor has now been photographed for the first time since Effie’s Mar.

Josh Duggar will be allowed to see his six young children as he awaits his July trial for alleged possession of child pornography, an Arkansas court ruled on May 5. Judge Christy Comstock said that she “cannot in good conscience” let Josh, 33, to return home to his pregnant wife, Anna Duggar, and their minor children. However, he may have “unlimited contact” with the kids — if Anna is present.