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The tragedy that unfolded on a New Mexico movie set when Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun, killing a cinematographer, has led to calls for fundamental change in Hollywood

Here comes the… controversy. Australian Kmart — which has no relation to U.S. Kmart — yanked a child bride Halloween costume after more than 500 people signed an online petition claiming that it normalizes sex trafficking. “A child bride costume currently exists on Kmart shelves in children’s sizes. Tell Kmart this is beyond inappropriate and offensive and that they have...

Everyone loves Halloween — except when it falls on a weekday night. The after-school homework routine is tricky enough, even without a kid who just wants to put on a costume and eat candy; early bedtimes curtail what could be hours of trick-or-treating. Even older fans of the holiday are disappointed — it’s hard to have a fun time when...

Following an outcry from celebrities and a Change.org petition with half a million signatures, U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat is pushing for the release of A$AP Rocky, who has been behind bars in Sweden while police investigate a fight involving the rapper. Last week a Swedish court ordered Rocky to spend two weeks in pre-trial detention while police investigate the June...

Following an outcry from celebrities and a Change.org petition with half a million signatures, U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat is pushing for the release of A$AP Rocky, who has been behind bars in Sweden while police investigate a fight involving the rapper. Last week a Swedish court ordered Rocky to spend two weeks in pre-trial detention while police investigate the June...

A growing number of celebrities are calling for the release of ASAP Rocky, who was arrested last week on suspicion of assault while on tour in Stockholm. ASAP Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was in Sweden to headline Smash x Stadion, a two-day hip-hop festival that began on July 2 in the country’s capital.

The release of the original Netflix documentary “After Maria” has prompted a wave of emotions and backlash.

“Real Housewives of New Jersey” husband Joe Giudice was granted a temporary delay in his deportation order Thursday as his family made a direct appeal to President Donald Trump to intervene on his behalf. His immigration lawyers filed for a stay in federal court Thursday after the Board of Immigration Appeals denied his appeal of the deportation order this month....

Capping a yearlong project thought up by, of all people, the folks at the swipe-right dating app Tinder, the emoji gods (known as the Unicode Consortium) recently approved the additions in characters technically referred to as people “holding hands.” A new “gender-inclusive” couple emoji was also approved among 230 new characters.

Business owners in Boston’s North End appear to have won a battle to keep a Starbucks from coming to their neighborhood, but they say the fight to preserve the historic area is far from over as some consider a ban on chain stores altogether.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is siding with North End residents and businesses, telling Starbucks they should withdraw plans to open in the historic neighborhood.

A battle is brewing in Boston’s North End over a proposed coffee shop that some long-time locals say is not welcome.

The Eating Establishment has been serving up meals for decades in Hanover, Massachusetts, but their last one could come before Christmas.

With a new school year dawning, education officials are grappling with whether to remove the names, images and statues of Confederate figures from public schools — especially since some are now filled with students of color. The violence at a white nationalist rally over a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, is giving school officials a new reason to...

DeVos is scheduled to address the graduates at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach – a historically black college.

Over 5,000 people have signed the petition asking for Bethune-Cookman University to cancel plans for the Secretary of Education to deliver this spring’s commencement address.

After many years of divisiveness, the Boy Scouts of America have opened their ranks to gay and transgender boys. Yet a different membership dispute persists: a long-shot campaign to let girls join the BSA so they have a chance to earn the prestigious status of Eagle Scout. Just last week, after the BSA announced it would admit transgender boys, the...

Walmart has removed a mug from its website after numerous shoppers reported it as “appalling” and “offensive.”

Gold capital letters spelling the president-elect’s last name were removed from a high-rise condominium complex in Manhattan Wednesday after hundreds of people signed a petition to have the building drop the moniker.

Trump Place, a high-rise condominium complex near Lincoln Square, is about to get a name change.