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LucasfilmRosario Dawson has been logging memorable movie and TV roles for decades, but she tells Emmy magazine that thanks to a Star Wars character named Ahsoka Tano — and the will of the Force — shes made her dreams of being an action star come true. Tano was first created by Dave Filoni for the Emmy-winning animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, voiced throughout the celebrated shows entire run by Ashley Eckstein. However, at some point, the Force, or the internet, took over: In a now-...

Anaheim Police(ANAHEIM HILLS, Calif.) -- A California Superior Court judge arrested last week has now been charged with killing his wife in front of their adult son at their home. Court filings reveal the judge had over 47 weapons and 26,000 rounds of ammunition in his home. Ferguson allegedly shot his wife, Sheryl Ferguson, through the chest in the living room of their Anaheim home in front of their adult son using a .40-caliber pistol he pulled from his ankle holster amid an argument, accordin...

Neda Sharghi via Twitter(WASHINGTON) -- Five American citizens considered to be unjustly detained have all been moved into house arrest in Iran after previously being imprisoned there, U.S. officials said Thursday. Four of the five were released from Irans notorious Evin prison on Thursday, according to a lawyer for one of the detainees. The fifth had been in prison but was already under house arrest as of Thursday. The White House and State Department confirmed Thursday in separate statements t...

Tribune News Service via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A total of 49,449 Americans died by suicide in 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. This is a 2.6% increase from 48,183 in 2021 and the highest number ever recorded, according to provisional numbers released in a new report from the federal health agency. The greatest increase was seen among adults aged 65 and older, which was up 8.1% from 2021, and the second highest increase was in those aged 45 to 64, with a 6...

Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked Purdue Pharmas plan to emerge from bankruptcy that shielded the founding Sackler families from liability in the nations opioid epidemic. The application for a stay, brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, was presented to Justice Sonia Sotomayor and referred by her to the wider court, which agreed to hear argument on whether the nations bankruptcy laws allow a court to ...

Paras Griffin/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Fearless Fund, a venture capitalist firm that invests in female entrepreneurs of color, is now the target of a lawsuit launched by a group founded by the man who led the fight to take down affirmative action in higher education. "When we set out to start we had one clear vision in mind, and that was to change the game for women of color," said Ayana Parsons, the co-partner of Fearless Fund, which was founded in 2019. "Our rationale was simpl...

ABC NewsSAG-AFTRA has reportedly cleared Penelope Cruz, Adam Driver, Patrick Dempsey and the rest of the cast to promote their upcoming Michael Mann biopic Ferrari when it premieres at the Venice Film Festival, according to The Wrap. But will they show up? The trade reports the filmmakers have been given a waiver from the union to promote the movie at the event later in August, as Ferrari was produced independently of the Hollywood studio system. However, it remains to be seen if the stars will ...

Valeria Ferraro/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(LAMPEDUSA, Italy) -- Forty-one people are presumed to have died in a shipwreck close to the Italian island of Lampedusa on Friday, survivors told the deputy general secretary of the Red Cross. Four migrants told the Red Cross that on Thursday they left Sfax, Tunisia and were shipwrecked the next day during poor weather conditions. The surviving migrants said they had to use life preservers made from inner tubes to stay alive. The survivors were re...

FILE -- chuchart duangdaw/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Dangerous wildfires are spreading rapidly across Maui due to very dry conditions stemming from a drought combined with powerful trade winds being squeezed across Hawaii. The Big Island of Hawaii has also been affected by wildfires, officials said. While there has been no confirmation of any fatalities, "some loss of life is expected," Gov. Josh Green said, and much of Lahaina has been "destroyed." A state of emergency has b...

NATAS/FoxWith the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes crippling Hollywood, the Television Academy and Fox jointly announced on Thursday, August 10, that the 75th Annual Emmy Awards have been bumped from September 18 to January 15, 2024. Notably, the organization didnt mention the strikes as the reason behind "the Martin Luther King Day telecast," but with the ongoing union actions, a telecast on its previous date would have meant a broadcast with no writers and no SAG-affiliated stars...