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9:30 AM ET, June 30, 2017

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Venus Williams / TMZ.com:
... 78-Year-Old Man Dies  —  Venus Williams Blamed In Fatal Car Crash That Killed 78-Year-Old Man  —  1:40 PM PT — Venus is now breaking her silence ... calling the incident an “unfortunate accident” and insisting she explain what happened from her point of view.
Perez Hilton:
Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski Hits Back At Donald Trump After Shading Her For ‘Bleeding Badly From A Face-Lift’  —  Donald Trump is the world's pettiest mean girl!  —  The president is now fully back to his unfiltered Twitter ways, which is quickly becoming a burn book of insults directed at his nemeses.
Shane Harris / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Operative Sought Clinton Emails From Hackers, Implied a Connection to Flynn  —  Peter W. Smith portrayed the former general as having been an ally in an effort, independent of the Trump campaign, to find personal emails deleted by Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
Rolling Stone:
The Doors Issue Cease-and-Desist Letter to Jenners Over T-Shirts  —  “It's just spitting in the face and on top of art and message and soul and legacy,” Doors manager Jeff Jampol says of unauthorized shirts  —  The Doors have sent a cease-and-desist letter to Kendall and Kylie Jenner …
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Glamour:
Cara Delevingne on Sexuality, Confidence, and Finding Her Voice: “I've Never Felt So Strong”  —  Adwoa Aboah and Cara Delevingne are at The Bowery Hotel in New York City reminiscing about old times.  Though Aboah, 25, can't remember the first time she met Delevingne, 24 …
Daniel D'Addario / TIME.com:
GAME OF THRONES: HOW THEY MAKE THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR SHOW  —  The battle for Westeros may be won or lost on the back of a lime green mechanical bull.  —  That's what it looks like on a January Monday in Belfast, as Game of Thrones films its seventh season here.
Discussion: Variety and The Hollywood Gossip
BBC:
Ronaldo confirms he is father of twins after Portugal defeat  —  Hours after he captained Portugal to semi-final defeat in the Confederations Cup in Russia, Cristiano Ronaldo has announced the birth of twins.  —  For days Portuguese media have reported that the footballer's twins had been born to a surrogate mother in the US.
Discussion: Page Six, People.com and AOL
Kendall Fisher / E! Online:
Alyssa Milano Talks Reconciling With Shannen Doherty: What Happened 15 Years Ago Is “Irrelevant”  —  No feud here!  —  Alyssa Milano stopped by E!'s Daily Pop today and revealed that she and Shannen Doherty have reconnected.  The ladies starred on Charmed together alongside Holly Marie Combs …
Discussion: People.com
Katie Krause / Entertainment Tonight:
EXCLUSIVE: Leighton Meester and Adam Brody Admit They ‘Laugh’ That Blair Waldorf Married Seth Cohen!  —  Fellow fans of The O.C. and Gossip Girl, prepare your hearts before you watch the video above because Leighton Meester and Adam Brody are truly a teenage dream of a couple - and charitable do-gooders, too!
Rachel Paula Abrahamson / Us Weekly:
Indiana Woman Gives Birth to 16-Pound Baby Boy: ‘I Thought Maybe the Scale Was Broken’  —  Whitney Hallett was expecting a big baby.  But the mom from Seymour, Indiana, got the surprise of her life when she gave birth to a 16-pound boy named Waylon Cole via cesarean section on May 1.
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip
Lily Harrison / E! Online:
Tarek El Moussa Gives a Tour of His New Home and Says He Still Cares About Christina El Moussa “Deep Down”  —  This isn't your average bachelor pad...  Tarek El Moussa let E! News inside his gorgeous new home since his Split from Christina El Moussa and treated us to a walk-through …
Discussion: The Wrap, People.com and Page Six
Maudlyne Ihejirika / Chicago Sun Times:
Chance the Rapper gives DuSable Museum historic streaming album Grammy  —  A day before accepting the best new artist and humanitarian award at the 2017 BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, Artist/Producer Chance the Rapper was honored with a Trail Blazer Award from Chicago's DuSable Museum …
Discussion: XXL Mag and Associated Press
 
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Matt Wild / Milwaukee Record:
I saw Corey Feldman play the show of his life, knock his tooth out, and then look for his tooth
Discussion: The Wrap and Stereogum
New York Daily News:
‘Gotham’ star Donal Logue's 16-year-old daughter vanishes in Brooklyn
Discussion: Us Weekly, Cele|bitchy and Spy
Emily Kirkpatrick / People.com:
Kristen Stewart Is Bringing Back This Classic Millennial Boy Band Hairstyle
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Kendall Fisher / E! Online:
Inside Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's Family Vacation in the Bahamas, Two Months After Filing for Divorce
Discussion: PerezHilton and Cele|bitchy
Juliet Izon / Architectural Digest:
Kanye West and Steven Tyler Pay This Woman to Bite Them
Discussion: PerezHilton and Page Six
New York Daily News:
JAY-Z shoots new music video with Jesse Williams
Discussion: Bossip
TMZ.com:
Goal is To Resume Tour in Early 2018
 

 
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Pranshu Verma / Washington Post:
A look at an ISIS-affiliated media program called News Harvest, which is using AI-generated news anchors to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply

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Q&A with New Yorker journalist Rachel Aviv on her Lucy Letby article, the cost of trial transcripts in the UK, the police documentary about the case, and more

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