Angelina Jolie wants divorce finalized by end of 2018
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Angelina Jolie on Tuesday sought to move forward with her long and sometimes bitter divorce from Brad Pitt, which has yet to be finalized after almost two years. FILE PHOTO: Angelina Jolie arrives at the British Academy of Film and Television...
Trump faces political test in Ohio as five states cast votes
(Reuters) - President Donald Trump faces a test of his political influence on Tuesday in a special congressional election in Ohio that has become a referendum on his leadership and a last chance to gauge Democratic strength ahead of November’s midterm elections. The...
Star witness to take stand for second day in Manafort trial
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - Rick Gates, a former business associate to U.S. President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort, will continue to testify against his former boss and is expected to face a tough cross examination on Tuesday. Rick Gates (R), a...
Apple, YouTube, and others drop conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
(Reuters) - Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc’s YouTube, Facebook Inc and Spotify all took down podcasts and channels from U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, saying on Monday that the Infowars author had broken community standards. The sweeping moves are the broadest actions...
Screen legend Robert Redford is retiring from acting
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar winner Robert Redford will retire from acting following this autumn’s release of his upcoming film “The Old Man & The Gun,” the 81-year-old told Entertainment Weekly in a story published on Monday. Redford, best known for films such as...
U.S. sees sanctions having significant impact on Iran economy: U.S. officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will aggressively enforce economic sanctions that is it re-imposing on Iran this week and expects the measures to have a significant impact on the Iranian economy, senior U.S. administration officials said on Monday. A...
White House to detail implementation of new Iran sanctions Monday: Pompeo
ABOARD A U.S. GOVERNMENT AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - The United States intends to fully enforce sanctions due to be reimposed against Iran early this week on orders from U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. Washington’s so-called...
Facebook, Apple remove most of U.S. conspiracy theorist’s content
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Facebook Inc announced on Monday that it had removed four pages belonging to U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for “repeatedly posting content over the past several days” that breaks its community standards. FILE PHOTO: Alex Jones from...
Actress Charlotte Rae, star of ‘Facts of Life,’ dead at 92
(Reuters) - Charlotte Rae, the actress, singer and comedienne who won acclaim on Broadway and was best known for her starring role as a girls boarding school housemother on U.S. television’s “The Facts of Life” from 1979 to 1986, has died at the age of 92. Rae died at...
Trump would fight any U.S. special counsel subpoena in court: president’s lawyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If U.S. President Donald Trump is subpoenaed by a special counsel investigating contacts between the 2016 Trump election campaign and Russia, his lawyers will attempt to quash it in court, one of Trump’s lawyers said on Sunday. U.S. President...