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Facebook’s Instagram app will reportedly launch a new service in the coming weeks that copies the wildly popular features of the controversial TikTok app. Instagram Reels — which, like TikTok, allows users to make 15-second video clips set to music — will make its global debut soon as TikTok faces growing scrutiny over its Chinese …

The announcement this week that golfing icon Tiger Woods would be the subject of a two-part HBO documentary series has provoked a backlash in the doc community due to a lack of above-the-line diversity on the project. The “Tiger” series is being co-helmed by Oscar-nominated “City Of Ghosts” and “A Private War” filmmaker Matthew Heineman and …

Twitter’s response to an unprecedented hack reportedly muzzled a National Weather Service office in Illinois — just as a tornado loomed over the area. The weather service’s Lincoln, Illinois, branch was among the verified users who were blocked from tweeting after hackers took over the profiles of several celebrities and politicians. That meant forecasters couldn’t …

Photos of Johnny Depp with a swollen black eye were shown during his libel trial Thursday, as a former security guard detailed a “recurring cycle” of abuse he said was inflicted by the star’s ex-wife, Amber Heard. The 57-year-old “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” star was shown with a puffy left eye, with a large red …

Nick Cannon will remain the host of Fox’s “The Masked Singer” after he came under fire for making anti-Semitic comments on his YouTube series, “Cannon’s Class.” “Nick has sincerely apologized, and quickly taken steps to educate himself and make amends,” Fox said in a statement Wednesday. “On that basis and given a belief that this …

Johnny Depp’s famous exes Winona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis are no longer being called to defend him in his explosive court case denying he is a “wife-beater,” Depp’s legal team announced Thursday. Actresses Ryder, 48, and Paradis — the 47-year-old mother of Depp’s two children — were both due to give evidence via videolink this …

Former attorney general Jeff Sessions on Tuesday lost a primary runoff for his former Alabama Senate seat, after President Trump endorsed his opponent and heaped scorn on Sessions in the months and weeks leading up to the contest. Following his appointment as attorney general in 2017, Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation to avoid …

Kanye West is dropping his 2020 presidential bid less than two weeks after it began, according to a New York Magazine report. “He’s out,” West’s adviser Steve Kramer told The Intelligencer. The 43-year-old rapper had hired Kramer, a “get-out-the-vote specialist,” to help get onto ballots by gathering signatures in Florida and South Carolina after he …

ViacomCBS has fired Nick Cannon after the TV host and producer made “hateful” anti-Semitic comments in a recent episode of his podcast. “While we support ongoing education and dialogue in the fight against bigotry, we are deeply troubled that Nick has failed to acknowledge or apologize for perpetuating anti-Semitism, and we are terminating our relationship …

Joe Biden on Tuesday outlined a $2 trillion four-year plan to create economic opportunities and strengthen infrastructure through investments in clean energy technologies. Speaking in his hometown of Wilmington, Del., the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee announced a plan that would increase the use of clean energy in the transportation, electricity and building sectors. His campaign …