Month: July 2020

Kanye West Dropped at Least $30k to Get on Illinois Ballot for President – TMZ
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Kanye West Dropped at Least $30k to Get on Illinois Ballot for President – TMZ

Exclusive Details Kanye West's last-ditch effort to make the presidential ballot in his home state worked ... but it cost him a nice chunk of change. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... Kanye's campaign team hired a third-party vendor called Let The Voters Decide to collect the 2,500 signatures to make the ballot in Illinois. Thing is ... Kanye did it with only a little more than a day to spare ... before the 5 PM Monday deadline. We're told the group got to work right away, deploying 45 people who hit the streets in various parts of the state and racked up enough signatures ... all in 24 hours. Our sources say they were paid handsomely for their efforts...
Adult Swim and Crunchyroll Team Up for All-New Anime, Fena: Pirate Princess – ComicBook.com
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Adult Swim and Crunchyroll Team Up for All-New Anime, Fena: Pirate Princess – ComicBook.com

Adult Swim and Crunchyroll are teaming up with Production I.G. for an all-new original anime series, Fena: Pirate Princess! Production I.G. teased during Anime Expo Lite earlier this month that they were going to announce a new anime in the works during the Comic-Con at Home weekend, and now we have finally found out what this mysterious project was! Announced during the special Toonami edition of Adult Swim Con, Adult Swim has confirmed they are joining the Crunchyroll Originals line up (that currently includes hits like The God of High School) with Fena: Pirate Princess, airing on the Toonami block and streaming with Crunchyroll next year. Produced as a joint effort between Adult Swim and Crunchyroll, Kazuto Nakazawa (B: The Beginning, Kill Bill) will be directing the new anime series ...
Naya Riveras ex-husband, Ryan Dorsey, shares his grief and says they were together a day before she vanished – CNN
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Naya Riveras ex-husband, Ryan Dorsey, shares his grief and says they were together a day before she vanished – CNN

"This is so unfair...there's not enough words to express the hole left in everyone's hearts. I can't believe this is life now. I don't know if I'll ever believe it. You were just here," Dorsey wrote on Instagram. In his post, Dorsey says the three of them had been together a day before she went missing. "I'm thankful for our times and our journey that brought us together and gave us the sweetest and kindest smart little boy we could ever hope for," the actor wrote on Instagram. "Life is all about good times and bad times but with Josey it makes the bad a little less so because a part of you will always be with us. He'll never forget where he came from. We miss you. We will always love you." Rivera's body was found earlier in July in Lake Piru, after she rented a boat with her son to ...
San Diego County Sets Testing Record, Reporting 603 New Virus Cases, 9 Deaths – Times of San Diego
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San Diego County Sets Testing Record, Reporting 603 New Virus Cases, 9 Deaths – Times of San Diego

Share This Article: San Diego County healthcare workers conduct COVID-19 testing at SDCCU Stadium. Photo by Chris StoneThe San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency reported 603 new cases of coronavirus and nine more deaths Saturday while setting a testing record. Support Times of San Diego's growthwith a small monthly contribution Out of a record 16,429 tests reported to the county in the past day, just 3.8% were positive, and the 14-day rolling average of positive tests fell to 5.8%. The previous highest number of tests was 10,544 on June 18. The latest victims of the pandemic disease were five men and four women ranging in age from 60 to 93 years. All but one of the deceased had underlying medical conditions. The county reported just one new communi...
LA County reports 3,600 new coronavirus cases and 53 deaths – Los Angeles Times
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LA County reports 3,600 new coronavirus cases and 53 deaths – Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles County health officials on Saturday reported 3,628 new COVID-19 cases and 53 related deaths, high numbers that in part reflect reporting delays in the state’s electronic laboratory system. The total number of cases in the county now stands at 172,325, with a cumulative 4,351 deaths, officials said in a statement. There have been 446,148 confirmed cases in California, and 8,406 people have died statewide. The majority of new positive cases in L.A. County are occurring in people under the age of 50, officials said. Also Saturday, officials reported 2,016 confirmed COVID-19 patients in county hospitals, with 30% of those in intensive care. But they said those figures were incomplete because the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had changed reporting requirements, resu...
Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green dies at 73 – CNN
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Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green dies at 73 – CNN

"It is with great sadness that the family of Peter Green announce his death this weekend, peacefully in his sleep," said Swan Turton solicitors in a statement. The firm added that a further statement will be given in the coming days. The English singer-songwriter and guitarist, from Bethnal Green in East London, formed Fleetwood Mac with drummer Mick Fleetwood in 1967. In 1965, Green filled in for Eric Clapton in the band John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers -- in which Fleetwood played the drums. Two years later, Green and Fleetwood left the band to form Fleetwood Mac, later convincing Bluesbreakers bassist John McVie to join them. Green wrote some of the band's most notable hits, including "Albatross," "Black Woman Magic," and "Man of the World." He left the band in 1970, after it ...
Kanye West Posts Donda Album Cover – Billboard
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Kanye West Posts Donda Album Cover – Billboard

Donda didn't arrive as planned this week, but Kanye West has at least delivered the album cover. "DONDA ALBM CVR," he captioned the Twitter update giving a look at the colorful Donda art on Saturday night (July 25). Last week, West announced the new project would be released on Friday (July 24), and even posted a picture of a track list and the promise of an accompanying movie -- but none of it has made an appearance yet. Other tweets on Saturday included a public apology to his wife, Kim Kardashian, "for going public with something that was a private matter" over the past week, and a pledge to "beat Biden" in the 2020 presidential race. "To Kim I want to say I know I hurt you. Please forgive me. Thank you for always being there for me," he wrote. But back to the music:...
Geraldo Rivera and Arthel Neville reflect on the life of Regis Philbin – Fox News
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Geraldo Rivera and Arthel Neville reflect on the life of Regis Philbin – Fox News

Fox News's Geraldo Rivera phoned in to "America's News HQ" to react to the death of the late television host Regis Philbin. "We had wonderful laughs together. Regis made everybody laugh. You know, his career so enduring, so legendary," said Rivera, who at one time shared an agent with Philbin. "I remember when, when the millionaire show, 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' started and they asked Regis the host it, Arthel. He quoted the line from 'Godfather III' -- 'Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.' He was always cracking jokes." REGIS PHILBIN, ICONIC TELEVISION HOST, DEAD AT 88 Co-anchor Arthel Neville also reminisced about her experiences with Philbin, noting she had worked with the talk show icon on a few occasions, filling in for Kathy Lee Gifford on "Live with Regi...
Kanye West Visits Hospital Over Anxiety, Invites Paparazzi Inside Ranch House – TMZ
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Kanye West Visits Hospital Over Anxiety, Invites Paparazzi Inside Ranch House – TMZ

Exclusive Details 7:33 PM PT -- After the ambulance left, Kanye invited 4 paparazzi inside his home.  We're told they were there for 2 hours -- waiting -- and Kanye finally came out for a few minutes.  WE're told he wanted the photogs to let him "control the narrative."  That was pretty much it, and they left. A source connected to Kanye and with direct knowledge tells TMZ, he went to the hospital for anxiety, but there were lots of people inside, he got uncomfortable and left. His people then arranged for an ambulance to come to the ranch. EMTs checked his vitals -- heart rate and blood pressure -- and determined he was not in danger. Kanye West showed up at a hos...