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  • Greg Cote: Progress? Or heartache? What would Jackie Robinson think about race in America today?

    MIAMI — Jackie Robinson would be 102 years old today, had fate given him a longevity of life to approach the importance and magnitude of the one he led. Instead he died much too soon, at 53, of a heart attack in his home in 1972. Heart disease and diabetes had left him barely able to see by middle age. Tens of thousands of mourners, fans and admirers lined the streets of his funeral procession in Brooklyn. And the mind wonders: What would this American hero, the man who broke the color line in Major League Baseball and died nearly blind — what would he be thinking if he could see what was happ...

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  • A ‘Mass for the freedom of Haiti’ turned violent, chaotic, with police firing tear gas

    A Catholic Mass led by Haiti’s leading bishops to bring attention to the country’s surging violence amid a rash of killings and kidnappings that have ensnared bus drivers, school children and religious leaders, ended Thursday in tear gas, gunshots and chaos in Port-au-Prince. The bishops, still dressed in their vestments, were exiting the two-hour service at the Church of St. Peter in Petion-Ville when chaos erupted inside, with parishioners running, screaming “tear gas” and “We need help.” While some made members of the congregation made it out, others passed out in the pews, left to be reviv...

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  • LaMarcus Aldridge announces retirement from NBA after heart issue

    NEW YORK — LaMarcus Aldridge announced his stunning retirement from basketball on Thursday. The ex-Spurs big man, who played five games with the Nets after leaving San Antonio, said in a statement that he played Saturday night against the Lakers with an irregular heartbeat. “Though I’m better now, what I felt with my heart that night was still one of the scariest things I’ve ever experienced,” he said. “For 15 years, I’ve put basketball first, and now it is time to put my health and family first.” Aldridge barely got comfortable in Brooklyn. He negotiated a contract buyout with the Spurs on Ma...

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  • Sharon Osbourne to break silence about exit from ‘The Talk’ with Bill Maher on Friday

    Sharon Osbourne will get to talk “The Talk” when she breaks her silence about her unceremonious exit from the Emmy Award-winning CBS chatfest. The embattled British television personality, who was an original cast member of the daytime talk show, is scheduled to explain her side of the controversy on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” April 16. On Wednesday, the premium cable giant confirmed Osborune’s in-studio appearance – her first extended television interview following the events that caused “The Talk” to go on an extended hiatus amid her racially charged meltdown. According to Deadline, t...

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  • Gal Gadot channeled Princess Diana’s compassion for Wonder Woman portrayal

    Princess Diana and Diana Prince have more in common, as it turns out, than a flip-flopped name. The late British royal’s compassion helped Gal Gadot give life to Wonder Woman in recent superhero flicks, the actress revealed on Tuesday. “I remember watching the documentary about Princess Diana,” she told Vanity Fair for a pre-Oscars event the mag hosted. “And there was a part where they say that she was full of compassion and she always cared for the people. And that was like, Ding-ding-ding-ding. That should be the Wonder Woman that we have.” Sure, she can lasso bad guys, deflect bullets and g...

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  • Justin Theroux says this rumor about Jennifer Aniston split ‘is not true, for the most part’

    Justin Theroux isn’t leaving his divorce to the public’s imagination. The “Leftovers” star is weighing in on the rumors surrounding his 2018 divorce from Jennifer Aniston. They didn’t part ways, he told Esquire, because she wanted to live in Los Angeles and he in New York. “That’s a narrative that is not true, for the most part,” Theroux, 49, told the magazine for its latest cover story, published Wednesday. “Look, people create narratives that make themselves feel better or simplify things for them,” continued the “False Positive” star. “That whole, ‘This person likes rock ‘n’ roll, that pers...

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  • Wyatt Pike addresses unexpected ‘American Idol’ exit in Instagram post

    The former “American Idol” hopeful who unexpectedly left the show this week has broken his silence. Wyatt Pike shared an Instagram post Wednesday, two days after his exit was announced on the ABC singing competition series. “I had to leave the @AmericanIdol competition for personal reasons but am so thankful I get to play music for the rest of my life,” Pike wrote. “Fellow contestants - miss you all, good luck! Thank you to everyone for your support… do stick around for more musical things soon!” Neither Pike nor “American Idol” have specifically disclosed the 20-year-old’s reasons for leaving...

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  • Kyra Sedgwick remembers ruining Tom Cruise’s star-studded 1990s dinner party

    Mission: panic. Kyra Sedgwick took a guess at the likely reason she’s never been invited back to “Born on the Fourth of July” co-star Tom Cruise’s house. The “Call Your Mother” star shared an uncomfortable incident during her appearance Wednesday on “The Drew Barrymore Show.” “It was one of those nights that, you know, I often don’t get invited to,” Sedgwick, 55, said of the dinner she and husband Kevin Bacon — filming “A Few Good Men” at the time with Cruise — went to at the “Mission: Impossible” star’s house. The star-studded night included Cruise’s then-wife Nicole Kidman, fellow “A Few Goo...

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  • Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez break up for real this time

    Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are calling it quits — again. The celebrity couple announced Thursday that their reconciliation attempts have failed and they’re splitting up once and for all. “We have realized we are better as friends and look forward to remaining so. We will continue to work together and support each other on our shared businesses and projects,” they said in a statement to Today. “We wish the best for each other and one another’s children.” The former New York Yankee popped the question to the 51-year-old Bronx singer in March 2019 after two years of dating, but their Insta...

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  • ‘Dad Stop Embarrassing Me’ is a true family affair for Jamie Foxx and daughter Corinne

    Corinne Foxx spent her entire childhood getting embarrassed by her dad, just like you. He just happened to be famous. The 27-year-old daughter of actor Jamie Foxx had an unusual upbringing, but now she has a rare opportunity as well: to flame her dad on Netflix for eight episodes in her new show, “Dad Stop Embarrassing Me.” The sitcom stars Jamie Foxx as the aforementioned “Dad,” Brian Dixon, a cosmetics brand owner in Atlanta recalibrating his life after his teenage daughter moves in with him. Corinne is an executive producer. “For years, my dad and I have been sharing our funny stories of ou...

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