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This image released by Lionsgate shows Alan Ritchson in a scene from "Ordinary Angels." (Allen Fraser/Lionsgate via AP)

Alan Ritchson blames Trump’s reelection for axed ‘Reacher’ arc

"Reacher" star ALAN RITCHSON suggested a season of the Amazon Prime series built around one of Jack Reacher's most violent outings was shelved after President Trump's reelection. The plot arc would have dealt with a white-supremacist militia holding a Cabinet official's daughter hostage.

September 22, 2026
Ed Sheeran attends Z100's iHeartRadio Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden on Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Ed Sheeran delays start time of Philadelphia concert amid Macklemore fallout

Ed Sheeran will not take the stage at Lincoln Financial Field until nearly three hours after the originally advertised start time Saturday, the latest disruption to hit his Loop Tour after the British singer-songwriter's team removed rapper Macklemore from the bill over a "Free Palestine" speech earlier this month. As of this moment, there are no opening acts for Sheeran.

September 19, 2026
This Feb. 21, 2020 photo shows boneless chicken after it was poached in Amagansett, N.Y.  You can poach your boneless, skinless chicken breasts and they will be juicy, flavorful, plump and tender. (Elizabeth Karmel via AP)

Federal task force busts 13 in $250,000 Memphis chicken heist

A federal-local task force arrested 13 people after catching them unloading a stolen $250,000 shipment of chicken from a tractor-trailer behind a Memphis hotel, uncovering guns and drugs in the process. The Memphis Safe Task Force was serving an aggravated robbery warrant on Javunte Johnson, 33, when officers found him and 12 others pulling pallets of poultry off an 18-wheeler in the parking lot of an Economy Inn.

September 19, 2026
A woman walks by a Cornell University sign on the Ivy League school's campus in Ithaca, New York, on Jan. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) **FILE**

Lawsuit: Cornell fraternity brothers drugged, gang-raped student

LAWSUIT: A former Cornell University student has filed a sweeping civil lawsuit alleging that seven fraternity brothers drugged her with ketamine and sexually assaulted her over several hours at the Chi Phi house, then used a group chat to draw more men into the room.

September 19, 2026
Robert De Niro attends the "Taxi Driver" screening at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center during the Tribeca Festival on Friday, June 5, 2026, in New York. (Photo by CJ Rivera/Invision/AP)

Jamie Lee Curtis, Robert De Niro lead celebrities in Constitution oath video

A group of celebrities and legal figures released a video on Friday, Constitution Day, reciting an oath to "support and defend the Constitution," part of a new campaign from the American Constitution Society. The video features actors Jamie Lee Curtis, Robert De Niro, Noah Wyle and Martin Sheen.

September 19, 2026
Defendant Lindsay Clancy looks at the jury after Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial in Clancy's murder trial on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

Holdout juror in Clancy trial denies ever wavering on guilt

The lone juror whose refusal to join the other 11 jurors resulted in a deadlocked jury and mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder case has broken his silence, disputing claims from fellow jurors that he showed doubt about the prosecution's case during deliberations.

September 18, 2026
A woman carrying an umbrella leaves the N.C. Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, June 2, 2005. (AP Photo/Karen Tam)

N.C. Dem stays on ballot despite party’s disavowal over Nazi comparisons

A North Carolina Democrat running for a competitive state House seat, Shelly Headen, remains on the November ballot even after her own party publicly cut ties with her over a string of inflammatory social media posts, including one calling for an attack on U.S. soil. In one post, she wrote that the "MAGA cult may be more destructive and evil than the Nazis."

September 18, 2026
A general view of the exterior of Highmark Stadium is shown before an NFL football game between the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions in Orchard Park, N.Y., Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Bills fans pay steep price for beer, food at Highmark Stadium opener

Buffalo Bills fans got their first regular-season look at the team's new $2.1 billion Highmark Stadium on Thursday night, and they got a look at just how much a beer and a bucket of popcorn now costs. A 16-ounce Labatt beer paired with one of the stadium's new souvenir beer horns ran $30 apiece.

September 18, 2026
AI-generated "actress" Tilly Norwood (Photo courtesy of Particle6)

AI actress Tilly Norwood glitches mid-interview, speaks Chinese

Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated performer that Hollywood unions and A-list actors have spent the past year condemning, hit a very public snag: Mid-sentence during a live interview with Piers Morgan, she stopped speaking English and spoke Cantonese.

September 18, 2026