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Emily Strohm / People.com:
Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom: Why Getting Back Together is Not on the Table
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Kate Stanhope / Hollywood Reporter:
FYI Cancels ‘Kocktails With Khloe’
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TMZ.com:
Kesha — Final Word from Judge — You're NOT Dr. Luke's Slave  —  Final Word from Judge  —  YOU'RE NOT DR. LUKE'S SLAVE … Kesha just lost her war against Sony ... a New York state judge has rejected her claim that she has become a Sony slave and Dr. Luke is the master.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Kesha's “Hate Crime” Claims Against Dr. Luke Thrown Out By Judge  —  “Every rape is not a gender-motivated hate crime,” writes a New York judge.  —  New York Supreme Court Justice Shirley Kornreich has just given Dr. Luke (Lukasz Gottwald) and Sony Music a huge legal victory by dismissing …
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TMZ.com:
Merle Haggard Dead ... on 79th Birthday  —  DEAD  —  On 79th Birthday … Country music legend Merle Haggard has died after battling double pneumonia ... according to his manager.  —  Haggard was diagnosed with pneumonia last year and spent 11 days at the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage early this year.
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Merle Haggard, Country Music's Outlaw Hero, Dies at 79
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Joey Nolfi / People.com:
Jake Gyllenhaal on Heath Ledger's Death: 'It Affected Me in Ways I Can't Put Into Words'  —  Heath Ledger's death in 2008 sent shockwaves through many inside the Hollywood community, including Jake Gyllenhaal.  The actor starred opposite Ledger in the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain …
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Christian Holub / People.com:
Jake Gyllenhaal Admits He Had a Crush on Jennifer Aniston ‘For Years’  —  Jake Gyllenhaal has starred with some of Hollywood's biggest actresses throughout his career - everyone from Anne Hathaway to Rene Russo to Rachel McAdams to Natalie Portman to Reese Witherspoon.
Chuck Fieldman / Chicago Tribune:
Oak Brook teen catches rare shark on vacation  —  An 18-year-old Oak Brook resident caught an albino or leucistic swell shark in the Sea of Cortez near Cabo San Lucas.  —  As a senior on the Hinsdale Central bass fishing team, Scott McLaughlin is looking forward to the spring and his final season of competition.
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Esther Lee / Us Weekly:
Kris Jenner, Kardashian Family Think Rob Kardashian Is ‘Making a Mistake’ With His Engagement to Blac Chyna
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Jodi Guglielmi / People.com:
How Drew Barrymore and Will Kopelman Are Planning for Their Kids' Future Amid Divorce  —  Drew Barrymore created the family of her dreams with husband Will Kopelman - but their marriage fell apart.  Subscribe now for the real story behind their decision to divorce, only in PEOPLE.
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Julie Jordan / People.com:
Inside Drew Barrymore's Divorce: 'This Wasn't an Overnight Decision' Says Source
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Stephanie Webber / Us Weekly:
Cameron Diaz Talks About Supporting Friends After Drew Barrymore's Split: ‘We Rely on Each Other’
Rebecca Ford / Hollywood Reporter:
Warner Bros. Pushes ‘Jungle Book’ to 2018, ‘Wonder Woman’ Gets New Date  —  A Warner Bros. event film is set for 2017, while two DC films are slated for 2018 and 2019.  —  Warner Bros. has shifted the release dates for its upcoming films Wonder Woman and Jungle Book, plus it has dated three more currently untitled films.
Discussion: Birth.Movies.Death
Melinda Newman / Billboard:
Disney's ‘The Little Mermaid’ Comes To The Hollywood Bowl Starring Sara Bareilles And Rebel Wilson: Exclusive  —  EMAIL ME  —  Ariel will make her Hollywood Bowl debut June 4 when Sara Bareilles and Rebel Wilson headline a cast performing the songs from Disney's The Little Mermaid as the film plays backed by a 71-piece live orchestra.
Nancy Dillon / New York Daily News:
LAPD investigating Charlie Sheen amid ex-fiancée's allegations he threatened to have her killed for $20G  —  Los Angeles cops have launched a felony investigation of actor Charlie Sheen, an LAPD source confirmed to the Daily News.  —  The probe centers on abuse allegations …
Discussion: The Wrap
Jarry Lee / BuzzFeed:
Lena Dunham Will Publish Books Under Her Own Random House Imprint  —  Actress, writer, producer, and director Lena Dunham will have her own book publishing imprint — called Lenny — at Random House. … Via Random House  —  Lenny will publish new voices in fiction and nonfiction selected …
Discussion: EW.com
Jason Newman / Rolling Stone:
Read Kanye West's Emphatic Tribute to Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg  —  “Anything I ever did wrong, blame Tip and Phife 'cause y'all raised me,” rapper says at MC's memorial service … I might say something wrong as always, but I thought it'd be more wrong not to say nothing.
Discussion: PerezHilton and Us Weekly
 
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LAPD investigators now believe father who confessed to killing his son killed his wife first
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How China is using AI news anchors to spread its propaganda on social media; Microsoft: some AI anchors were created using ByteDance's video editing app CapCut

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Court discovery docs from the UK's News Group phone hacking cases give more detail about evidence destruction and indicate the company gathered political intel

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