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Nia Long ‘Quietly Fighting’ Lionsgate Over ‘Michael’ Pay, Report

Nia Long ‘Quietly Fighting’ Lionsgate Over ‘Michael’ Pay, Report

Nia Long I Got Ripped Off ... Shorted Salary for 'Michael' Published May 1, 2026 2:37 PM PDT Nia Long is "quietly fighting" Lionsgate over a pay discrepancy for her role in "Michael" ... at

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Trump says 'not satisfied' with new Iranian proposal

Trump says 'not satisfied' with new Iranian proposal

US President Donald Trump said yesterday that he was 'not satisfied' with a new Iranian negotiating proposal, with peace talks between the two sides frozen despite a weeks-long ceasefire. Iran delivered the text of the proposal to mediator Pakistan on Thursday evening, the IRNA news agency reported, without offering details as to its contents.'At this moment I'm not satisfied with what they're offering,' Trump told reporters, laying blame for the stalled talks with Iran due to 'tremendous discord' within its leadership. 'Do we want to go and just blast the hell out of them and finish them forever -- or do we want to try and make a deal? I mean, those are the options,' he said when asked about next steps, adding he would 'prefer not' to take the first option 'on a human basis'.The war, launched by the United States and Israel with a wave of surprise strikes on February 28, has been on hold since April 8, but only one failed round of direct talks has taken place between Iranian and US representatives. In the meantime, Iran has maintained its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off vast amounts of oil, gas and fertiliser from the world economy, while the US has imposed a counterblockade on Iranian ports. Despite the failure to negotiate an end to the war, the ceasefire has held. On Friday, Iranian judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said 'the Islamic Republic has never shied away from negotiations'.But he added in a video shared by the judiciary's Mizan Online website, 'we certainly do not accept imposition' -- though Tehran did not want a return to war.The White House has declined to comment on the details of the new Iranian proposal. But the news site Axios reported that US envoy Steve Witkoff earlier this week had submitted amendments to a previous proposal seeking to reinject the issue of Tehran's nuclear programme into the negotiations. Citing a source familiar with the matter, Axios said they included a demand that Iran not try to move enriched uranium out of sites bombed during a brief war last year, or resume any activity there while talks continue.Optimism after news of the Iranian proposal sent oil prices falling by nearly five percent for US benchmark West Texas Intermediate. However, prices are still roughly 50% above their prewar levels as traders confront the prolonged closure of Hormuz. 

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US court ruling clears Republican path to redraw House districts

US court ruling clears Republican path to redraw House districts

The US Supreme Court’s decision last week weakening a landmark voting rights law opens the door for Republican lawmakers to dismantle Democratic-held ‌US House districts with majority Black or Latino populations across the South, potentially giving Republicans an electoral advantage ​for years to come. The ruling escalates a ‌national battle over congressional maps that has raged since last year, when President Donald Trump launched an ‌unprecedented mid-decade redistricting campaign to protect his Republicans’ narrow House majority ‌in this November’s midterm elections. Typically, states only draw maps ‌at the start of each decade to account for the US Census count. The decision severely weakens legal constraints that have historically forced state legislators to ensure voters of colour are not marginalised when drawing maps. It is likely to result in a fresh round of tit-for-tat redistricting that extends into the 2028 election. It remains to be seen whether statehouses will use the court’s ruling to try to install new electoral maps before November. Lawmakers have little time to do so. Most states are well into their 2026 election calendar, with filing deadlines for candidates already past and primary votes looming. In Georgia and Alabama, for instance, two states where Republican legislators might be expected to take advantage of the ruling by eliminating ​majority-Black districts, voters have begun casting early ballots ahead of their May 19 primary elections. Even in Louisiana, whose congressional map was struck down in the Supreme Court case, lawmakers face hurdles in passing new district lines. Candidates have been raising money and campaigning for months. The state has ‌mailed absentee ballots and early voting begins on Saturday for the May ​16 primary. In court filings, Louisiana’s top election official had asked the court to rule no later than ​early January to ensure enough time to administer the election. “It is very late in the cycle to make changes to maps,” said Danielle Lang, vice president for voting rights at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center. “It would be enormously disruptive and chaotic.” House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, told reporters it wasn’t clear whether lawmakers would try to draw a new map immediately. “We have, as you know, a primary coming up in about two weeks,” he said. “So we’ll see if the state legislature deems it appropriate to go in and draw new maps.” Even if states hold their fire until after the November election, Republicans appear poised to target as many as a dozen Democratic-held districts with a majority of Black or Latino voters ahead of the 2028 presidential election. Democrats could even respond by taking apart majority-minority ‌districts in states they control, with the ‌aim of spreading Black and Latino voters, who traditionally vote Democratic, across more districts. The result would be to dilute the voting power of racial minorities across the country by denying them the opportunity to elect candidates of their choice, advocates said. Janai Nelson, president of the Legal Defense Fund, who argued the case before the Supreme Court on behalf of Black voters in Louisiana, said it was too soon to tell whether states would try to redistrict immediately, but she noted that state lawmakers have “wide latitude” to change elections even in unprecedented ways. Either way, she said, the decision would upend decades of protections for voters of colour. “This is a day of infamy for the court,” she told reporters. “It is a day of devastation for our democracy.” The ​ruling adds fuel to a national redistricting war, which started last summer when Trump convinced Texas Republicans to draw a new map taking aim at five Democratic incumbents. Other states, both Republican- and Democratic-led, have followed suit. As it happens, Wednesday’s ruling arrived as Florida Republicans were debating a new partisan map, drawn by Governor Ron DeSantis, intended to flip four Democratic seats in November. The legislature approved the plan shortly thereafter. States are already permitted to draw maps for partisan advantage, a practice known as gerrymandering, thanks to a 2019 Supreme Court decision. “The court has just added more chaos to a system that’s already chaotic,” said Kareem Crayton, a redistricting expert at the Brennan Center for Justice. With Trump’s mid-cycle push and the Supreme Court’s latest ruling, the ‌legal and institutional guardrails that ​once constrained redistricting may be giving way to a free-for-all, turning voters into “pawns in a set of political games instead of being the decision-makers themselves,” Lang said.    

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Kara Swisher Says Humans Connecting, Not Technology, Extends Your Life

Kara Swisher Says Humans Connecting, Not Technology, Extends Your Life

Kara Swisher Chatbots Make You Lonelier, Not Less!!! Go Outside, Meet People Published May 1, 2026 1:37 PM PDT Play video content Kara Swisher has a dire warning about A.I. ... despite the technological miracles

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How Celeste Rivas’ ID Was Found in Remote Area

How Celeste Rivas’ ID Was Found in Remote Area

D4vd Murder Case How Celeste's ID Was Recovered From Remote Area Published May 1, 2026 12:19 PM PDT Prosecutors say D4vd disposed of Celeste Rivas' personal items in a remote area of Santa Barbara County

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Elderly Driver Arrested for Hitting Cyclists With SUV, Smiles in Mug Shot

Elderly Driver Arrested for Hitting Cyclists With SUV, Smiles in Mug Shot

Elderly Driver Cheesin' in Mug Shot ... After Hitting Cyclists With Car Published May 1, 2026 11:43 AM PDT An elderly driver in Georgia pulled a smug mug shot last week ... after allegedly hitting

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Arsenal seek to ramp up heat on City in title race, Spurs…

Arsenal seek to ramp up heat on City in title race, Spurs…

Arsenal have a chance to crank up the pressure on Manchester City this weekend as they seek to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League.The Gunners can go six points clear of

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Verstappen evaluates F1 future amid technical shifts

Verstappen evaluates F1 future amid technical shifts

Max Verstappen said he was taking his time in deciding his Formula One future and called recent rule changes merely a ‘tickle’ rather than what was really required.Red Bull’s four-times world champion is no fan

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Sinner and Kostyuk enter Madrid Open final; Nishikori to…

Sinner and Kostyuk enter Madrid Open final; Nishikori to…

World number one Jannik Sinner downed Arthur Fils 6-2, 6-4 on Friday to reach the Madrid Open final.The Italian won his 22nd straight match to book a place in Sunday’s final, where he will aim

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Trump says he’s not satisfied with Iran’s latest proposal for talks

Trump says he’s not satisfied with Iran’s latest proposal for talks

US President Donald Trump said on Friday he was not satisfied ‌with the latest Iranian proposal for talks on the Iran war, while Iran's foreign minister said Tehran was ready for diplomacy if the United