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on 34 counts related to business fraud in New York City. Trump was arraigned on April 4 following an investigation into his alleged role in the payments of hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal in 2016. Trump, the first sitting or former president to face criminal charges, pled not guilty on all 34 counts.The , who had not been seen since March 30, joined her husband for Easter brunch on April 9 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida , which acquired photos and video from the event.

Mum-of-two Lyn Graham celebrated in style after winning The Courier and The Centre, Livingston’s Mother’s Day makeover competition.

Despite being the place where we clean our clothes, washing machines get pretty grotty and grimy.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has sacked one of his shadow cabinet secretaries as part of a frontbench reshuffle.

With better weather slowly but surely creeping in, people might want to give their gardens a bit of a spruce.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Warning: This story contains spoilers from “Connor’s Wedding,” the third episode of “Succession” Season 4, now streaming on HBO Max. If you watched Sunday night’s dramatic third episode of this season’s “Succession,” you bore witness to the death of billionaire CEO Logan Roy, portrayed by two-time lead actor nominee and presumed 2023 Emmy contender Brian Cox. As a result, the burning question on awards pundits’ minds has turned toward a new type of uncertainty — where will Cox seek to campaign for his legendary portrayal as the head of media and entertainment conglomerate Waystar RoyCo? Cox’s acclaimed performance has received multiple accolades for the HBO drama, including those two Emmy nominations for the second and third seasons for lead actor (drama). He was nominated alongside his co-star Jeremy Strong, who plays his eldest son Kendall, and who won for the show’s second season.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Lara Cohen, after exiting Elon Musk’s Twitter last fall, is joining Linktree as VP of partners and business development. At Linktree, Cohen will oversee business development, strategic partnerships with tech platforms and the company’s community of creators across entertainment, music and other verticals. She reports to Linktree president Mike Olson. Cohen previously was Twitter’s global VP of partners and marketing, in charge of the group that worked to support celebrities and influencers on the platform. While at Twitter, she led activations including the iconic Ellen DeGeneres selfie at the 2014 Oscars and the #TweetItInto existence campaign. Cohen announced her departure from Twitter on Nov. 7, 2022, a little over a week after Elon Musk closed his $44 billion deal to acquire the social network.

Tristan Thompson has found a new team closer to Khloé Kardashian. The 32-year-old basketball pro officially signed with the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday, with the team announcing the news on social media.

As the world reacts to Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn‘s breakup after six years of dating, eagle-eyed fans question if the songstress hinted at the split in her Eras Tour setlist.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for “Succession” Season 4, Episode 3, “Connor’s Wedding.“Fans are still reeling over Sunday night’s emotionally shocking episode of “Succession.” It was a moment many fans expected to come at some point in the season — but not as soon as it did.Logan Roy is dead.The episode, written by creator Jesse Armstrong and directed by Mark Mylod, started off centered around Connor Roy’s (Alan Ruck) wedding with girlfriend Willa (Justine Lupe), but quickly took a turn when Logan Roy (Brian Cox) suddenly collapsed on board his private jet — leaving the Roy siblings grieving over their father’s unexpected death at a wedding.In a highly emotional scene, Tom Wambsgans (Matthew MacFadyen) called Shiv (Sarah Snook), Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin) from the plane to let them speak to their dad in case he could still hear them, with all of the children grieving and processing in their own ways.Mylod revealed in the behind-the-scenes look after the episode that the stunning sequence was filmed in one almost 30-minute continuous take.But as the kids deal with the death of their patriarch, the Waystar RoyCo team jumps into crisis mode, figuring out what kind of statement to release that will keep the markets happy and not negatively impact their impending deals.The show notably did not have a dramatic death scene. Viewers don’t get to see the media mogul die on-screen — just doctors doing chest compressions on a body that was most likely already dead and the aftermath of grief.It turns out, Cox, 76, wasn’t even there for the death.

Lucasfilm Animation is still churning out animated series set in the “Star Wars.” Even though landmark shows like “Stars Wars: The Clone Wars” and “Star Wars: Rebels” have ended, they’ve expanded the mythology and introducing fans to brand new characters that have made the jump to live-action. Their current efforts include anthology projects “Star Wars: Visions” and “Tales of The Jedi” covering various eras of the franchise alongside the episodic show “The Bad Batch.” The latter is in it’s second season that debuted earlier this year taking place after the events of “The Clone Wars” and there is a bit of an update of the streaming show’s future.

When most “Star Wars” fans think of Lucasfilm‘s slate of new Disney+ series, big names come to mind: “The Mandalorian,” Tony Gilroy‘s “Andor,” the upcoming “Ahsoka.” But critics love another series that’s more under the radar: “Star Wars: Visions.” The animated anthology series allows anime studios from around the world to reimagine “Star Wars” lore as they see fit in a variety of shorts.

An investigation is underway after the body of a man was discovered by a member of the public in woodland on a hillside in Lancashire.

Manchester City meet Bayern Munich on Tuesday as the Champions League quarter-finals get underway after Easter.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter It’s-a blockbuster! “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” an animated adventure based on the classic video game, crushed the competition with its jaw-dropping $204.6 million domestic and $377 million global debut over the long Easter weekend. Those results far exceeded expectations and even surpassed the starts of recent installments in Universal’s biggest franchises, like “Jurassic World Dominion” ($145 million domestically) and “Fast and Furious 9” ($70 million). So, expect a sequel to be announced faster than you can say “Let’s-a go!” “The box office just kept growing and growing,” marvels Jim Orr, Universal’s president of domestic distribution. “It’s a tremendous worldwide debut, and the movie has a clear runway.”

Oscars slap, contrary to reports.At last year’s ceremony, Smith stormed the stage and hit Rock after the comedian made a joke about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith.Following a number of apologies, directed towards Rock and the organisers, Smith resigned from the Academy. He was later banned from attending all Academy events for 10 years.It was recently reported that Smith has “tried unsuccessfully” to make amends with Rock since the incident, with People claiming that Smith has “felt terrible for so long” about the incident.

Jordan Moreau “Star Wars” is getting fully animated once again. The new trailer for Season 2 of “Star Wars: Visions,” the animated anthology series, has released out of London’s Star Wars Celebration convention. Season 2 of “Star Wars: Visions” will release on May 4, which is known as Star Wars Day among the fans (“May the Fourth be with you”). The nine animation studios that worked on Season 2 are El Guiri, Cartoon Saloon, Punkrobot, Aardman, Studio Mir, Studio La Cachette, 88 Pictures, D’Art Shtaijo with Lucasfilm and Triggerfish. The contributors’ previous credits are impressive this season. Cartoon Saloon is a five-time Oscar-nominated animation studio, most recently for “Wolfwalkers” on Apple TV+; Aardman is known for the stop-motion, claymation characters from “Wallace and Gromit”; Studio Mir has worked on hit shows like “The Legend of Korra” and “Harley Quinn”; just to highlight a few of the teams’ projects.

Costco's custom cakes have often been popular with shoppers when it comes to celebrations, but a recent mishap has gone viral online after one shopper placed an order that was taken a little too literally.

MUNA have shared news that new music will be on the way “very soon.”In June 2022, the band released their self-titled third studio album, on Phoebe Bridgers label, Saddest Factory Records.Taking to Instagram, MUNA shared several new photographs and a caption that read: “The greatest band in the world MUNA will be dropping a new song very soon. “They will be taking no further questions at this time.

Manchester's Urban Playground is letting kids play a free round of golf over the Easter holidays.

Pep Guardiola is expecting Bayern Munich to come to the Etihad and show the big club that they are.

While King Charles has taken pains to ensure he is seen as a very modern monarch ahead of his Coronation next month, it seems there are some occasions when tradition must still take precedence over 2023 sensibilities. 

On his team! Khloé Kardashian subtly threw her support behind ex Tristan Thompson following his move to the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Ryan Reynolds has reportedly bought a home in a small village not far from Wrexham in Wales, where he owns the city’s soccer club.

A stunning period property just a short walk from the beach is up for sale in an area where house prices have soared by almost 300 per cent in the past year. The six-bed double fronted property has gone on the market in the popular area of Eshe Road, Crosby.

Ruben Dias is looking forward to seeing Joao Cancelo again even if his friend and teammate will be trying to knock Manchester City out of the Champions League.

Parents have slammed high-street giant Primark after it launched matching £6 Spring dresses for mums and daughters. The retailer launched the collection of 'gorgeous' floral Spring dresses, which start at £6, last week.

Newcastle defender Sven Botman sent countryman Tyrell Malacia a post-match message after Manchester United beat Everton 2-0 on Saturday.

Actress Hilary Swank has announced the arrival of her twins in a touching Instagram post. Swank,48, says although “it wasn’t easy” her two little bundles of joy have arrived safe and sound, who she has welcomed with her husband, Philip Schneider.

This Morning star Vanessa Feltz was left heartbroken after discovering her fiancé, Ben Ofoedu had been unfaithful towards her. And the newly single star, 61, has revealed to OK! she has taken on the advice she would tell anyone else to follow, which is taking it "day by day". She continued: "Otherwise, it’s very easy to catastrophise and think, ‘Everything has changed.

Swedish pop group ABBA have paid tribute to the “musical brilliance” of their long-standing guitarist, Lasse Wellander, following his death at the age of 70.The musician, who played on the band’s biggest albums and toured with them between 1975 and 1980, died early on Good Friday following a cancer diagnosis, a statement from his family said. Raised in the small village of Skrekarhyttan in Sweden, Lasse had his first recording session with Abba in October 1974 and continued to play on their respective solo albums following their split.

Two grassroots activists groups for Scots and Gaelic have called for Humza Yousaf to appoint a Minister for Scottish Languages.

A four-year-old girl was left needing 40 stitches and plastic surgery after an American Bulldog mauled her face in a horrific attack.

Brian Cox is speaking out about that shocking twist from last night’s episode of Succession.

Tristan Thompson has found a new team closer to Khloe Kardashian. The 32-year-old basketball pro officially signed with the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday, with the team announcing the news on social media.Tristan previously played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Boston Celtics, Sacramento Kings, Indiana Pacers, and most recently the Chicago Bulls.Tristan is not the first of Khloe's exes to play for the Lakers.