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- Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday laid blame on Republican President Donald Trump for the way the coronavirus pandemic and racial strife have spread across the United States. “The problem we have right now is we’re in Donald Trump’s America,” Biden said on MSNBC in his first public reaction to this week’s Republican convention, where speakers have alleged a Biden administration would produce chaos and disorder. “He just keeps pouring fuel on the fire. He’s encouraging this. He’s not diminishing it at all. This is his America now,” Biden said, as the campaign heats up ahead of the Nov. 3 election. “If you want to end where we are now, we’ve got to end his tenure as president.” His comments come as Trump prepares to unleash a blistering attack on Biden, who served two terms as vice president under Trump’s Democratic predecessor, Obama Barack. “We have spent the last four years reversing the damage Joe Biden inflicted,” Trump is expected to say Thursday night, accor

Former Glee star Amber Riley is set to perform a tribute to her late co-star Naya Rivera, who passed away last month at the age of 33. The actress,  who played Mercedes Jones on the hit musical comedy-drama series, took to Instagram and shared a photo and information promoting Thursday's performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!   'Catch RILEY tribute performance to Naya Rivera on Jimmy Kimmel Live! August 27th,' the image read. Scroll down to video  Emotional tribute: Amber Riley announced she will perform a tribute to her late Glee co-star Naya Rivera on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday, August 27 Riley's post also asked fans and followers to 'stay tuned' for a 'special announcement' that will be revealed on the late-night talk show, but didn't give any details as to what that might be.      Rivera, who played Santana Lopez for all six seasons of Glee, tragically drowned while swimming with her four-year-old son Josey at Lake Piru, which is near Santa Clarit

- A U.S. appeals court on Thursday paved the way for the fifth federal execution this year by tossing out a ruling that said the Justice Department’s new lethal injection protocol violated drug safety laws. In a brief order, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the lower court judge had made “insufficient findings and conclusions” in blocking the execution of Keith Nelson, which is due to take place on Friday. “The ruling basically allows the government to pick and choose when it will follow the law,” said Dale Baich, one of Nelson’s lawyers. A Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman said the execution is “currently proceeding as scheduled.” Since resuming federal executions after a 17-year hiatus in July, the Department of Justice has been injecting condemned inmates with lethal doses of pentobarbital, a highly regulated barbiturate. The department executed three murderers in July and a fourth on Wednesday. Only the Supreme Court, which al

Pretty Little Liars alum Lucy Hale was seen wearing two different outfits while out and about in Los Angeles on Thursday. First, the Memphis-born 31-year-old wore head-to-toe black for her daily hike in Studio City. Lucy (born Karen Lucille) wore a baseball cap, tank top, bicycle shorts, fanny pack, and sneakers while juggling her phone and water bottle.  Quick change! Pretty Little Liars alum Lucy Hale was seen wearing two different outfits while out and about in Los Angeles on Thursday Hale grabbed a bag containing a change of clothing from her black Mercedes G-wagon. The A Nice Girl Like You actress later emerged from Lemonade wearing an Anine Bing white T-shirt and acid-wash pleated jeans shorts.  Lucy accessorized her second ensemble with black studded slides and a $2,095 Balmain 'B-Buzz 23' bag. That's when Hale finally protected herself and others from the coronavirus by wearing a patterned cloth mask, which California Governor Gavin Newsom made mandatory for all pub

- President Donald Trump prepared to attack Democratic rival Joe Biden in front of a large crowd on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday, as the United States struggles to address the coronavirus pandemic and a wave of anti-racism protests. The following includes excerpts of the speech Trump will make on Thursday night, as well as remarks from other speakers as delivered. “Today’s Democratic Party doesn’t want to improve life for middle America. They prefer that all of us in flyover country keep quiet. And let them decide how we should live our lives. They want to tell you when you can go to work. When your kids can go to school. They want to tax your job out of existence, and then send you a government check for unemployment. They want to tell you what kind of car you can drive, what sources of information are credible, and even how many hamburgers you can eat.” “I’m immensely proud of the work the Republican Senate has done, acting as a firewall against Nancy Pelosi’s ag

She was jilted by Nick 'The Honey Badger' Cummins on The Bachelor in 2018, only to be ghosted by Timm Hanly after their stint on Bachelor in Paradise season three. So Brittany Hockley knows better than most just how rocky the road to finding love can be for those who choose the reality TV route. On Friday, the 32-year-old radiographer told KIIS 106.5 that contestants must be in a good place in terms of their mental health before applying.   Speaking from experience: The Bachelor's Brittany Hockley has revealed the one test contestants must pass before being allowed on the Channel 10 show 'I say yes to a lot of crazy s**t and it's always ended well for me, but I think it's always ended okay for me because I was in a place where I was happy, content and confident in myself,' she said. 'This is the advice I give to people asking if they should apply... only if A) you've got a thick skin, because you need a thick skin… B) you have to absolutely be happy

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump prepared to attack Democratic rival Joe Biden in front of a large crowd on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday, as the United States struggles to address the coronavirus pandemic and a wave of anti-racism protests. Trailing in national opinion polls less than 10 weeks before the Nov. 3 election, Trump will accept his party’s nomination on the Republican National Convention’s final night with a speech asserting that a Biden victory would only worsen the crises besieging the country. “At no time before have voters faced a clearer choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies, or two agendas,” Trump was expected to say, according to excerpts provided to Reuters ahead of the evening. “We have spent the last four years reversing the damage Joe Biden inflicted over the last 47 years,” he would say, referring to Biden’s career as a U.S. senator and vice president. Though an incumbent seeking a second four-year term, Trump remains a s

- China’s ByteDance told engineers of its popular short-video app TikTok this week to make contingencies should it need to shut down its U.S. operations, even as it works toward divesting them, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. ByteDance has been ordered by President Donald Trump to divest TikTok in the United States, amid security concerns over the personal data it handles. Microsoft Corp and Oracle Corp are among U.S. companies vying to acquire the assets of TikTok, which claims about 100 million monthly active users in the U.S. ByteDance is expected to pick a bidder to enter into exclusive talks as early as Friday, according to the sources. Trump issued an executive order on Aug. 6 that would ban transactions with TikTok and its Chinese parent in 45 days. While TikTok has filed a lawsuit challenging the order, it is preparing for the possibility that it will have to shut down if it has not reached a deal with an acquirer by mid-September, the sources said. It hopes

An Australian model has apologised and said she's 'not very intelligent' after being criticised for sharing a 'body positive' video of herself squeezing non-existent 'belly fat' around her belly button.  Belle Lucia, 25, has built a legion of 1.3million followers on Instagram from sharing her professional photoshoots and glamorous selfies, all of which feature her impossibly trim body. But the brunette bombshell, who has been living in London since giving birth to her son 10 months ago, sparked controversy on Thursday while wearing a lacy set of lingerie from fashion brand PrettyLittleThing. 'Same same different pose,' she captioned a video of herself in the bra and underwear, which saw her clutch at skin from her belly when she was in an un-posed position.  Scroll down for video  An Australian model has been criticised for sharing a 'body positive' video of her body 'posed' and 'un-posed' and squeezing 'non-existent'

RIO DE JANEIRO - A family held hostage by drug traffickers. A violent police shootout on a busy street. A mother killed while shielding her three-year-old daughter from gunfire. Even for residents accustomed to violence, the last 24 hours have been grim in Rio de Janeiro, as a series of shootouts broke out across the city among warring criminal gangs and police. It started late Wednesday, when heavily armed members of one of Brazil’s largest criminal organizations, Comando Vermelho or Red Command, were driving though the wealthy neighborhood of Lagoa and their car broke down, according to local media. They exited the car armed and were spotted by passing police officers. Over 40 shots were exchanged, resulting in two arrests and multiple injuries. But the gang, which was trying to wrest control of the Sao Carlos neighborhood in central Rio from an enemy organization, was undeterred. By evening, an intense shootout ensued there with images of the fighting aired widely by local broadcas

- The 17-year-old accused of killing two people during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has hired a law firm whose clients have included President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and former Trump adviser Carter Page. John Pierce told Reuters on Thursday that he and colleagues at Pierce Bainbridge would obtain justice for Kyle Rittenhouse, of Illinois, arrested and charged with shooting three people on Tuesday night, two of whom died. A civil litigator, Pierce tweeted on Thursday that he would soon be joined by “a SEAL Team” of former assistant U.S. attorneys who are now criminal defense attorneys. Pierce will appear with Rittenhouse at an extradition hearing in Lake County Circuit Court in Illinois on Friday. Kenosha has been rocked by protests following the shooting by a white police officer that left a Black man, Jacob Blake, paralyzed. The Pierce Bainbridge firm bills itself as a “state-of-the-art litigation law firm dedicated to the lost art of combat by trial,” ac