TV viewers welcome baseball back, at least for now

NEW YORK -- Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. is accused of raping a woman twice in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013, according to a lawsuit that escalates the severity of the growing number of claims against him.

three lists of Essential Reads on Feminism.The lists are compiled by age, with one intended for children, one for teens and one for adults. The adult list contains more than 100 nonfiction titles, from former slave Anna K.

Luchita Hurtado passed away on Thursday night at her Santa Monica, California home at age 99 from natural causes. The artist’s gallery, Hauser & Wirth confirmed Hurtado’s death on Friday, according to The New York Times.

according to the Wall Street Journal.As the Journal reported on Friday, McKenzie is not explicitly named in the lawsuit but is the “principal stakeholder in several businesses that have business relationships with the NRA” that received over $100 million from the NRA.The suit also said that “principal stakeholder” paid for NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre’s trips to the Bahamas, that LaPierre used the stakeholder’s 108-foot yacht, which is “equipped with four staterooms, a 16-foot jet boat, and two jet

Julie Chen kept Big Brother fans on their toes when she invoked the Golden Rule while wrapping up the Thursday, August 13, episode.“From outside the Big Brother house, I’m Julie Chen-Moonves and remember the golden rule,” the longtime host, 50, said at the end of the first live eviction of season 22. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLike many people, John Sebastian, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee for his years as a founding member and vocalist for The Lovin’ Spoonful, was getting ready to write off 2020 as a wash.After abruptly canceling a planned solo tour in March due to the pandemic, “I was looking down the barrel of no work — ever,” Sebastian says on the phone from his home in upstate New York.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorA federal judge dismissed Genius Media Group’s lawsuit against Google and LyricFind alleging the companies ripped off song lyrics from Genius — ruling that Genius doesn’t have standing to sue them, since it doesn’t own the rights to the original lyrics.The Genius lawsuit, filed last December, had sought at least $50 million in damages from Google and LyricFind. In a ruling Monday, Judge Margo K.

Angels & Airwaves frontman Tom DeLonge is set to share his thoughts on UFOs at an online film and TV panel as part of Metaverse, a virtual New York Comic Con.He will be joined by UFO hunter and former Pentagon special agent Luis Elizondo, who currently works for DeLonge’s To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.Metaverse will take place this week from August 13-16.

The New York Times. “Dissolving the corrupt, dangerous, and extremist NRA organization will end an illegal scheme led by the NRA leadership to enrich themselves and push an agenda that leads to the deaths of nearly 40,000 Americans each year,” Lindsay told Metro Weekly in a statement.

NEW YORK -- A new book by former President George W. Bush will highlight an issue which now sets him apart from many of his fellow Republicans — immigration.

Takeoff, a member of the hip-hop trio Migos, has been sued for sexual assault in the state of Calif., according to court docs obtained by multiple outlets. The civil complaint, obtained by BuzzFeed News and The New York Times, among others, alleges that the rapper -- born Kirshnik Khari Ball -- raped a woman, only identified as Jane Doe in the papers, in Los Angeles on June 23.

Round Hill Music's publishing arm is suing TuneCore for "willful and unauthorized use" of 219 of their sound recordings. They are also suing Believe Digital Holdings, accusing them of distributing the unlicensed songs.

Yoenis Cespedes has been found after not showing up to the ballpark for a scheduled baseball game on Sunday (August 2).

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerCousin Bruce Morrow, the New York radio DJ whose long career reaches from the Beatles at Shea Stadium through satellite radio, is leaving SiriusXM after one last show on Saturday night.The 84-year-old Morrow will depart the SiriusXM ’60s on 6 channel, but vows he is not retiring. He referred fans to his Facebook page for updates on his next move.Cousin Brucie (real name Bruce Meyerowitz) has been a giant of New York radio since the 1950s.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerIn a much-loved Saturday Night Live skit, Garrett Morris’s take on veteran infielder Chico Escuela once noted that “Baseball been berry, berry good to me.”Fox Sports is saying much the same today, as the return of Major League Baseball has proved to be a ratings bonanza.

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