Australia to deport commentator Hopkins for quarantine boast
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A man wears a mask as he walks in Sydney, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. Sydney s two-week lockdown has been extended for another week due to the vulnerability of an Australia population largely unvaccinated against COVID-19, officials said. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins will be deported from Australia after she boasted on social media that she planned to breach the country’s quarantine rules, an official said on Monday.
Hopkins traveled to Australia to appear in a reality television program and was in a 14-day mandatory hotel quarantine in Sydney before filming was to start.
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1.) Inflation jumped nearly 1% again last month, with the hot economy seeing the largest one-month increase since the early days of the Great Recession.
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2.) After nearly three years of litigation, a federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a $95 million defamation lawsuit against “Borat” actor Sacha Baron Cohen stemming from a televised prank he pulled on Roy Moore.
Sacha Baron Cohen sues Mass. dispensary for billboard using his image Mr. Baron Cohen never has used cannabis in his life. He never would participate in an advertising campaign for cannabis, for any amount of money. Sacha Baron Cohen poses for a photo during a screening of the Oscars on Monday April 26, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, Pool)
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A Somerset dispensary used Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat” likeness on a billboard along a busy highway, and the actor is not happy about it.
Baron Cohen is so unhappy, in fact, that he’s suing the dispensary, Solar Therapeutics, for willful copyright infringement, false advertising, and violating state law prohibiting misappropriation of rights of publicity. He is seeking compensation and damages to the tune of $9 million.