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Christina Applegate Hospitalized in L.A.

Christina Applegate Hospitalized in L.A.

Christina Applegate Hospitalized Amid MS Battle Published April 16, 2026 6:30 PM PDT Christina Applegate is currently hospitalized in Los Angeles ... TMZ has learned. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... she was admitted

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Kim Kardashian Unbothered By Man Complaining About Her $128K Demand

Kim Kardashian Unbothered By Man Complaining About Her $128K Demand

Kim Kardashian Unfazed By Man Claiming Her $128k Demand Will Ruin Him Published April 16, 2026 6:19 PM PDT Kim Kardashian is unbothered by a man’s claim that he will be financially ruined if forced

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‘RHOM’ Star Lisa Hochstein Held in Jail 6 Hours Despite Immediate Release Order

‘RHOM’ Star Lisa Hochstein Held in Jail 6 Hours Despite Immediate Release Order

'RHOM' Star Lisa Hochstein Stuck in Jail Cell Without Food for 6 Hours!!! Published April 16, 2026 6:15 PM PDT Lisa Hochstein allegedly spent nearly 6 hours sitting alone in a jail cell with no

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D4vd Arrested For the Murder of Celeste Rivas

D4vd Arrested For the Murder of Celeste Rivas

D4vd Arrested For Murder of Celeste Rivas Published April 16, 2026 5:34 PM PDT | Updated April 16, 2026 8:38 PM PDT D4vd is in police custody after being arrested for the murder of 14-year-old

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Justin Fairfax Holds Up ‘Disarm Abusers’ Sign Years Before Murder-Suicide

Justin Fairfax Holds Up ‘Disarm Abusers’ Sign Years Before Murder-Suicide

Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax rallied around gun regulation -- and even proudly held up a "disarm abusers" sign -- years before he shot his wife, and then himself, in an apparent murder-suicide ... TMZ has

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Alan Ritchson Injury Photos Taken by Cops After Street Fight With Neighbor

Alan Ritchson Injury Photos Taken by Cops After Street Fight With Neighbor

Alan Ritchson Injury Photos From Street Bike Fight Published April 16, 2026 4:25 PM PDT Alan Ritchson looks like he didn't take much of a beating in his street fight with a neighbor ... he

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Mounted NYPD Cop Pursues Purse Snatcher Down NYC Street, Watch Wild Video

Mounted NYPD Cop Pursues Purse Snatcher Down NYC Street, Watch Wild Video

NYPD Hay, Not So Fast!!! Horse Chase Goes Buck Wild Published April 16, 2026 3:22 PM PDT Play video content NYPD Thieves are always stirrup-ing trouble -- but this one got a full-on hoof chase

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Nancy Guthrie Cold Case Gets Revival as FBI Analyzes Key DNA Evidence

Nancy Guthrie Cold Case Gets Revival as FBI Analyzes Key DNA Evidence

Nancy Guthrie FBI Zeros in on DNA to Crack Cold Case Published April 16, 2026 2:11 PM PDT The hunt for Nancy Guthrie in her cold case may have just hit a turning point ... because the

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Trump says Israel barred from bombing Lebanon: ‘Enough is enough’

Trump says Israel barred from bombing Lebanon: ‘Enough is enough’

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a roundtable focused on tax cuts in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., April 16, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci President Donald Trump said the ‌United States has barred Israel from further bombing in Lebanon, striking an unusually harsh tone ​with the longtime U.S. ally while stressing ‌that any U.S. deal with Iran is not linked to the Lebanon conflict."Israel will not ‌be bombing Lebanon any ⁠longer. They are PROHIBITED from ‌doing so by the U.S.A. Enough is enough!!!" Trump ‌said in a social media post.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office did not immediately respond to Trump’s remarks, ⁠but Netanyahu said in a statement earlier that Israeli forces remained stationed in southern Lebanon to defend against "the near threat.""There are things we plan to do regarding the remaining rocket threat and the drone threat, which I will not detail here," Netanyahu said.A U.S.-backed Israeli-Lebanese ceasefire took effect at 2100 GMT on Thursday, halting fighting that flared on March 2 when Hezbollah fired on northern Israel in support of Iran's fight with the U.S. and Israel, drawing an Israeli offensive that Lebanese authorities say has killed 2,000 people.U.S. NAVAL BLOCKADE ON ​IRAN REMAINS IN PLACEIn a series of social media posts after Iran announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels, Trump emphasized that any deal the United States reaches with Iran "is in no way subject to Lebanon" and said ‌the U.S. will handle the militant group ⁠Hezbollah in an appropriate ​manner."Again! This deal is not tied, in any way, to Lebanon, but we will, MAKE ​LEBANON GREAT AGAIN!" Trump wrote in a later post.Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi specified the Strait of Hormuz was open for the remainder of the 10-day truce between Israel and Lebanon.However, Trump later posted: "Iran has agreed to never close the Strait of Hormuz again. It will no longer be used as a weapon against the World!"The U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, which started on February 28, had effectively closed the strait, through which a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas usually transits.After 38 days of fighting, a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war came into effect on April 8. The United States then began enforcing a blockade on vessels entering and departing Iran on Monday."The naval blockade will remain in full force and ‌effect as it pertains to Iran, only, ‌until such time as our transaction with Iran ⁠is 100% complete," Trump wrote in an all capital letters.TRUMP SAYS HE REBUFFED NATO OFFER OF HELPTrump said he ⁠believed a deal to end the Iran ⁠war would come "soon" because most of the points are already negotiated, although the timing remains unclear. Trump reiterated that the U.S. will get nuclear material from Iran, adding: "No money will exchange hands in any way, shape, or form."Trump, who in 2018 pulled the U.S. out of a 2015 nuclear accord curtailing Iran's nuclear work, has said a primary reason for the war was to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.Iran says its enrichment of uranium - a ​process that produces fuel for power plants and nuclear warheads depending on its duration - is strictly for peaceful civilian use.The U.S. president said on Friday that he had rebuffed an offer from NATO to help and told them to stay away unless they want to load up ships with oil."They were useless when needed, a Paper Tiger!" Trump wrote on Truth Social before turning his attention to thanking Gulf allies Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.NATO allies said on Monday they would not get involved in Trump's plan to blockade Iranian ports, proposing to intervene only once fighting ends.The Israel-Lebanon ceasefire deal does not require Israel to withdraw from south Lebanon. ‌Israeli defense officials say troops are ​holding positions inside Lebanon as part of a "buffer zone" to prevent Hezbollah attacks on Israel. 

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Foreign investors flee Thailand as war, energy shock dash hopes

Foreign investors flee Thailand as war, energy shock dash hopes

Foreign investors are selling Thai assets as an energy shock from the US-Israeli war on Iran threatens to snuff out hopes for an economic revival under Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul ‌and exposes the policy paralysis that is gripping Bangkok. The conflict has sent global oil prices up to near $100 a barrel, ​sharpening the focus on Asia’s reliance on ‌energy supplies from the Gulf. Thailand is among the most exposed, with the Middle East supplying nearly half of ‌its oil and gas, according to Krungsri Research. With public debt on ‌the brink of eclipsing the government’s self-imposed 70% ceiling and an ‌economy that was already in deflation before the war, Bangkok’s challenge is far more acute than most of its neighbours. The setback came just as the stars seemed to be aligning for Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy, with investors rushing into Thailand again for the first time in years. Foreigners bought $1.7bn worth of Thai stocks in February, LSEG data showed. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s resounding victory in February ushered in hopes of political stability and long-awaited economic reforms in a country that had lurched through years of turmoil and uncertainty. But when the Iran war broke out at the end of February, foreign investors pulled back sharply, with an $823mn net selloff in equities in March, while bond outflows hit $705mn, the largest combined outflow since October 2024. A two-week ceasefire this month has spurred hopes of a resolution and led ​to a sharp rally in Thai stocks and the baht, but investors are cautious about the country’s vulnerability if oil prices remain elevated. “The risk remains (that) markets remain complacent about the long-term impact from energy shock and that higher fuel costs hit consumption and disrupt exports and tourism, two key drivers of the Thai ‌economy,” said Daniel Tan, a portfolio manager at Grasshopper Asset Management. Khoi Vu, an ​Asean equity strategist at JPMorgan, said his bank is still cautious on Thai equities, noting that while political stability had ​begun to brighten the outlook before the Middle East conflict, the energy shock is a near-term headwind. “As the energy shock has yet to fully materialise, we believe the market has yet to price in significant growth impact,” he said. With the fragile ceasefire in mind, analysts and investors warn Thailand faces another difficult year. Unlike many of its peers in the region, Thailand’s exposure runs deeper than just fuel costs as over half of annual power output comes from gas, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports are accounting for an increasing share of generation. Thailand’s conundrum is that its economy has struggled to gain traction, growing just 2.4% last year and lagging peers, while inflation dropped for 12 straight months, triggering a rate cut from the central bank in February before the war. “There’s a broad consensus among investors that Thailand is in a policy bind,” said Gary Tan, a Singapore-based portfolio manager at Allspring Global Investments. “The ‌central bank has limited room to hike without derailing the ‌recovery, but little urgency or space to ease, which leaves policy restrictive by default,” said Tan, who is underweight on Thailand. Every one baht rise in fuel prices cuts economic growth by 2 basis points, according to state planning agency estimates, underlining why Bangkok is reluctant to increase subsidies. “Higher oil prices could weigh on consumption, the current account and the baht, while also complicating the disinflation path and potentially limiting how much further rates can fall,” said Nattanont Arunyakananda, investment manager of Thai equities at Aberdeen Investments. The war has upended Thailand’s inflation picture, with average inflation projected to rise as much as 3.5% this year depending on how the conflict unfolds, a stark turnaround from a 0.54% contraction in the first quarter. Thailand has limited ammunition to address its economic problems, Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas said. The currency ​has emerged as the pressure valve, with the Thai baht sliding about 2.8% since the war broke out, though it has clawed back some of the losses since the ceasefire was announced last week.