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Bryan Singer making documentary about his own assault allegations
nydailynews.com > snyde...documentary about the sexual assault accusations against him.... ...More than five years after getting fired as director of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Bryan Singer is reportedly preparing a comeback that includes a self-financed... ...“I"ve worked with Brian Singer,” Jennifer Lawrence said in a roundtable for The Hollywood Reporter last year. “I"ve seen emotional men.... ...(DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images) Singer, who made his mark in Hollywood helming 1995′s “The Usual Suspects” and four movies in the “X-Men” franchise...

Florida judge blocks ban on gender-affirming care for minors
nydailynews.com > news > national...Rules drastically limiting the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors were adopted by the Florida Board of Medicine and Florida Board of Osteopathic... ...A federal judge in Florida on Tuesday temporarily blocked the enforcement of a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, allowing parents... ...of SB 254, which is “a very extreme version” of the ban, Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), told the... ...(GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images) Late last month, families of three trans kids in the Sunshine State asked a federal judge to block enforcement...

Cuba Gooding Jr settles sex abuse suit moments before start of NYC ...
nydailynews.com > new-york > manhattan...The “Boys n the Hood” actor was slated to go on trial at 10 a.m. in the suit accusing him of raping a woman he met at a Greenwich Village bar in... ...Gloria Allred, representing the woman who brought the suit anonymously, declined to comment.... ...Cuba Gooding, Jr. appears in State Supreme Court on January 22, 2020 in New York.... ...(Alec Tabak/for New York Daily News) Gooding, 55, denied the woman"s rape allegations, contending the encounter was consensual and that his accuser...

Novak Djokovic wins at French Open to reach 45th Grand Slam semi
nydailynews.com > sports > more-sports...PARIS -- Novak Djokovic, in his words, felt “quite sluggish, quite slow” for nearly two full sets against Karen Khachanov in the the French Open... ...He dropped the opening set, something he hadn't done at Roland Garros this year.... ...(Jean-Francois Badias/AP) No. 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka and unseeded Karolina Muchova both reached the women"s semifinals by winning earlier in the... ...Novak Djokovic plays a shot against Russia's Karen Khachanov during their quarterfinal match of the French Open in Paris on Tuesday....

NYC to pay US $1.6 million help clean Queens Superfund site
nydailynews.com > new-york > nyc-crime...The agreement, filed in Brooklyn Federal Court Monday, provides for the city to aid the federal Environmental Protection Agency"s efforts to clean... ...up the city property associated with the former Wolff-Alport Chemical Co. on Irving Ave., which shuttered in the early 1950s.... ...(Tanay Warerkar/New York Daily News) Chemists at the company -- which operated from 1920 until 1954 -- developed materials for the Atomic Energy ... ...The Environmental Protection Agency building is shown in Washington on Sept. 21, 2017....

German rock band Rammstein responds to allegations of drugging ...
nydailynews.com > snyde...“row zero,” the row immediately in front of the stage, for Rammstein"s May 23 concert in Vilnius, Lithuania, according to The Guardian.... ...On May 25, a 24-year-old fan from Northern Ireland wrote in social media posts that she had been contacted by an Instagram user offering access to... ...(Simone Cecchetti - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) The fan said that on the night of the Vilnius concert, she was taken to a changing room under... ...Amid the allegations -- which the band has denied -- the publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch cut ties with Lindemann after previously releasing collections...

Astrud Gilberto, singer of 'The Girl from Ipanema,' dead at 83
nydailynews.com > news > national...Gilberto, and saxophonist Stan Getz.... ...Musician Paul Ricci, a family friend, confirmed the news to the Associated Press. He did not reveal Gilberto"s cause of death.... ...Her debut album, “The Astrud Gilberto Album,” was released in 1965 and also nominated for a Grammy.... ...João Gilberto, known as the “Father of Bossa Nova,” was part of a group of Brazilian musicians and songwriters in the city, and Astrud Gilberto would...

Blue Jays' Alek Manoah's awful season gets worse
nydailynews.com > sports > baseball...Toronto Blue Jays ace Alek Manoah (1-7) has had a dreadful 2023 season with arguably the worst of it coming Monday night against the Houston Astros... ...at Rogers Centre in Toronto.... ...(Andrew Lahodynskyj/AP) “As of now, we're not sitting here making plans for anything” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said after the 11-4 loss to... ...That's been our focus the whole time, so we"ll continue to do that.” [ Bill Madden: With pitching woes throughout AL East, Yankees pitching remains...

War with U.S. would be 'unbearable disaster': China minister
nydailynews.com > news > world...Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. Chinese Defense Minister Gen.... ...It was Shangfu"s first major speech since being named China"s defense minister, BBC News reported.... ...-Canadian commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” the Indo-Pacific Command stated.... ...(Vincent Thian/AP) Shangfu spoke the same day the U.S. released video of a Chinese destroyer cutting so closely in front of a U.S. destroyer that...

Pete Davidson lashes out at PETA in voicemail: 'Suck my d--k"
nydailynews.com > snyde...“Thank you so much for making comments publicly that I didn't adopt a dog,” Davidson said to Daphna Nachminovitch, PETA"s Senior VP of Cruelty Investigations... ...After PETA called out Pete Davidson for buying a dog for his mother from a pet store instead of adopting one from a shelter, the “Saturday Night... ...In a statement about Davidson"s voicemail, PETA said, “If Pete had done his research, he would know that there's no such thing as a hypoallergenic... ...And then Davidson unleashed an explicit tirade on Nachminovitch, who had previously issued a statement to TMZ about his dog purchase....