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James Corden mocked Jada Pinkett Smith in a skit for "The Late Late Show" days after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars. The skit began with Corden and other show members discussing how to cover the 94th Academy Awards . While most of the members wanted to focus on big moments - such as "CODA" winning best picture - some thought the focus should be on the joke about Pinkett Smith that led to Smith slapping Rock in the face. "Or we could talk about the thing that everyone is talking about," one guy said. "No, you saw what happened. We have to talk about something else," Corden said.  

 NEW YORK CITY, New York (WABC) -- Late night fans were in for a surprise when Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon pulled a fast April Fools' prank by switching shows for the night. Fallon went to Hollywood to host 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' and Kimmel flew to New York City for 'The Tonight Show.'

Netflix has placed Will Smith's new movie on hold after the last week's drama. The Hollywood Reporter  indicates that Fast and Loose will have to be shelved. Director David Leitch recently backed away from the project  and now there's even more turmoil. It seems as though the filmmaker is directing his attention towards the new Ryan Gosling picture, Fall Guy over at Universal Pictures. For Netflix, there was a full court press to find another director to replace Leitch, but now, they've decided to let things cool off  before putting Smith back out there again.  For the Fresh Prince star, he's still got Emancipation coming out on Apple+ at some point. The slave escape movie is in post-production and will need to be released in some form. His other work with Bad Boys  will also be paused for the moment. Audiences loved the latest entry in the series. It all seems a bit like window dressing in an industry where comebacks are about as common as the ...

  Denzel Washington says he immediately turned to God after the Chris Rock Oscars slap -- which is, in part, why he invoked the wicked one when chatting with Will Smith . The legendary actor explained what he meant Saturday when he told Smith, "At your highest moment, be careful, that's when the devil comes for you." It was during a leadership summit with author and pastor T.D. Jakes , in which DW had been invited to speak on his fait

  As every Hollywood publicist knows, controlling the narrative is the secret to success. When presumptive Best Actor winner Will Smith smacked Chris Rock across the face on the Oscars stage everyone lost that control, including Smith. “It was like someone poured concrete in that room,” producer Will Packer said on Good Morning America on Friday, in his own bid to claw back some of that power. “It sucked the life out of that room and it never came back.” Jessica Chastain and Ariana DeBose delivered smart speeches that did the Oscars proud. Best Supporting Actor winner Troy Kotsur saw his hometown of Mesa, Arizona fly banners to celebrate his historic victory. Smith also could have enjoyed the sweet peak of his three-decade career this week: One reason he won the Oscar is Hollywood understood that he might never deliver a strong performance in a movie as well-reviewed as “King Richard.” (Its 76 Metascore is his best ever. )

 Mike Lindell ranted and raved outside the Trump rally as dozens of local television affiliates have refused to air his commercials. Posted on Sat, Apr 2nd, 2022 by Jason Easley Mike Lindell Is Being Put Out Of Business As Dozens Of TV Affiliates Refuse To Air His Commercials Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Pinterest Reddit Print Mail Flipboard Advertising Mike Lindell ranted and raved outside the Trump rally as dozens of local television affiliates have refused to air his commercials. Video: Lindell was asked whether these stations that are refusing to air his commercials were local, regional, or national affiliates, and he answered, “These are smaller. I don’t even have the list. When I get the list. You’ll be the first one to get it. I just heard it on Friday. I said what? Believe me, when they cancel, they will never get to sell my produc...

  JAMAICA, Queens (PIX11) — Police released new images of the man accused of critically injuring a Queens pawn shop owner with a metal rod. Police did not give the name or age of the victim, who was taken to a nearby hospital after the incident. Officers received a call about an assault about 12:59 p.m. Monday; the address given, 178-22 Jamaica Avenue, houses the Global Pawn Shop. Originally, police said the victim was shot in the head, but later clarified he was struck with a metal rod. The attack appears to have happened during a robbery. The suspect was last seen wearing a green Adidas baseball hat, a black face mask, a dark blue jacket, a black backpack, dark green pants and black shoes. He was last seen on foot fleeing westbound on Jamaica Avenue. Surveillance footage caught him in front of 185-09 Jamaica Avenue; police did not say if that was before or after the attack.

  QUEENS (PIX11) — Police arrested a Brooklyn man for swinging a pickaxe while on a subway train in Queens, the NYPD said. At 4:09 p.m. Friday, a subway rider called 911 about a man swinging the pickaxe on a southbound A train at the Beach 67th Street subway station. Officers took the suspect, 27-year-old Obadiah Lashley, into custody without incident. He was charged with menacing and reckless endangerment. “It must’ve been a harrowing call for our 911 operator to hear & relay – a report by a straphanger of a man swinging an axe on an A-train,” the NYPD Transit Bureau posted on Twitter. “Thankfully with our enhanced deployment, District 23 officers were at the ready, intercepting the moving train & taking the man into custody.” No injuries were reported from the incident, police said.

  NEW YORK -- A man accused of killing a Queens nurse after meeting on a dating app has been extradited to New York to face charges. Danueal Drayton, 31, is being held in California on an unrelated crime. The Queens District Attorney has charged Drayton with murder and sexual assault. Investigators say 29-year-old Samantha Stewart was found strangled at her home in Jamaica in 2018 after a date with Drayton. If convicted, he could face up to 25 years to life in prison.

Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst are looking for three men who attacked a man and a 14-year-old in Corona back in February. The 33-year-old man and the teenager were in the vicinity of 108th Street and Martense Avenue just before 7 p.m. when they were set upon by the alleged assailants. One of them acted like he had a firearm and the trio physically assaulted the two victims before taking off with their property, including a bicycle frame, police said. EMS responded to the crime scene and transported the victims to Elmhurst Hospital Center where they were treated for minor injuries and released. The NYPD released surveillance images of the suspects. One was wearing a dark jacket over a gray and black hooded sweatshirt, the second suspect wore a black hooded sweatshirt and the third suspect wore a winter jacket over a dark hooded sweatshirt.  

  NEW YORK - A father and his son are being called heroes after stopping a woman from being robbed outside of their pizzeria in Queens.  They were stabbed, and are now recovering at the hospital.  CBS2's Kevin Rincon heard from Louie Suljovic, the owner of the pizza shop.  Suljovic told Rincon he was working inside on Saturday when his father heard a woman crying out for help. "He sees a woman being attacked. He hears screaming. He starts chasing him, yells my name. I follow suit because we're not gonna let this stand," he said. Speaking to CBS2 from Elmhurst Hospital, Suljovic says they got into an altercation with the men. "I would still do it tomorrow, even in the state I am in now," he said. "Enough is enough. People have to start taking the city back. We do. Because there's too many people out there - there's animals out there, and there's a lot good people that supersede that. We can take this back. We can make this cit...

NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. -- The victim of a deadly shooting in a parking garage of a New Hyde Park medical building has been identified. Nassau County police say 33-year-old Amelia LaGuerre, of Saint Albans, was shot at least five times while she took a break at work. Northwell co-workers tried to save her life. Police say the shooting appears to be targeted and that she was seen earlier in the day arguing with someone. Her mother, Emily LaGuerre Bennett, told CBS2 LaGuerre was a mother of a 6-year-old. "I know she was having issues with an ex-boyfriend ... I'm heartbroken," she said. Police say there were no orders of protection in the case. No arrests have been made. Northwell sent a letter to staff saying the heartbreaking loss was an apparent domestic incident.  

NEW YORK - Police are looking for a group of men accused in an unprovoked attack on a Hasidic man in Brooklyn . It happened near the intersection of Gerry Street and Harrison Avenue in Williamsburg  around 8 p.m. on Friday. As CBS2's Thalia Perez reports, surveillance video captured the group of six men approaching the 21-year-old Hasidic man, who police say was dressed in traditional attire. They say the men just pounced on the victim without saying a word. The video is blurry, but you can see the group kicking and punching the victim. Police on Saturday announced the arrest of a 16-year-old boy in connection to the attack. He is facing gang assault and assault as a hate crime charges. "It's horrible. I'm just horrified," Park Slope resident Stacy Falberg said. "I'm not surprised that it happened, but over here, it's dark at...

  The six other people injured in the crash were treated at the scene but did not require hospitalization. The NYPD last issued a traffic update on Twitter at 3:20 p.m., urging motorists to seek alternative routes. The crash took place just before 3 p.m. and critically injured one person who emergency responders rushed to Bellevue Hospital. The six other people injured in the crash were treated at the scene but did not require hospitalization. The NYPD last issued a traffic update on Twitter at 3:20 p.m., urging motorists to seek alternative routes.

The body of a missing hiker was found in a Los Angeles -area park with his dog by his side, ABC News reports.  Oscar Alejandro Hernandez, 29, was first reported missing on March 16 before his body was discovered in Griffith Park with his dog King still alive beside him on Thursday. Hernandez’s cousin told KNBC-TV that the dog never left the owner’s side, even after two weeks. A firefighter told the publication that the body’s location was a “good hike up from the park’s merry-go- round,” where Hernandez was last seen.  On Thursday, the Los Angeles Fire Department, the Los Angeles Police Department, park rangers and family members were on location at the site of Hernandez’s recovery, and his body has been taken to a remote field pending investigation. The fire department was called to the scene around 7 p.m.  

He's not smart, or articulate." Those were the words used by a top Amazon lawyer to describe former warehouse worker Chris Smalls. Smalls had led a walkout at the start of the pandemic in 2020 to protest working conditions at the Staten Island, N.Y., warehouse where he worked. He was fired the same day. The memo that contained those biting words was leaked just a few days later. But the words would stay with Smalls. They became the fuel that would drive him to lead one of the most dramatic and successful grassroots union drives in recent history. Business In a stunning victory, Amazon workers on Staten Island vote for a union "When I read that memo, that motivated me to start an organization," said Smalls, celebrating the historic victory of the Amazon Labor Union on Friday, making the warehouse Amazon's first unionized ...

Border Patrol agents are seeing significant increases in migrant traffic all along the southern border, with one Arizona sector seeing a massive 579% increase over the last fiscal year. Border Patrol in Yuma Sector has seen 154,116 migrant encounters so far this fiscal year, which started in October. That’s a 579% increase over the same period last year, according to information provided by a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) source.  

BEIJING, April 3 (Reuters) - China on Sunday reported a total of 13,287 new daily cases for April 2, the highest level since February 2020, with the majority in northeastern Jilin province and the financial hub of Shanghai which has virtually locked down the entire city. The country reported 1,506 confirmed coronavirus cases in the previous day, the national health authority said on Sunday, down from 2,129 a day earlier. But the number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, surged to 11,781 on Saturday compared with 7,869 a day earlier.  

The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on Friday the return of more than 400 acres of land to an indigenous tribe in Virginia. About 465 acres at Fones Cliffs on the eastern side of the Rappahannock River was returned to the Rappahannock Tribe, which regards the sacred site as its ancestral homeland, according to a press release from the DOI. The Rappahannock Tribe will own and maintain the land, but the site, within the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge, will be available to the public. The tribe plans to create trails and a replica 16th-century village at the site to educate visitors. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) also holds a permanent conservation easement on the land, which was donated to them by environmental organization Chesapeake Conservancy. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland , the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary, said she was “honored to join the Rappahannock Tribe in co-stewardship of ...

  North Carolina played the ultimate villain again, stunning archrival and No. 2 seed Duke, 81-77, in the Final Four on Saturday at Caesars Superdome before a crowd of 70,602. Caleb Love's dagger three-pointer with 28 seconds left, followed by a free throw, gave the No. 8 seeded Tar Heels a four-point lead and helped them pull off the upset. Trevor Keels' free throw with 10.4 seconds left made it 79-77 before Love (28 points) drained a pair of free throws to solidify the victory.  UNC (29-9) advanced to Monday's national championship (9:20 p.m. ET, TBS) to meet Kansas and ended Mike Krzyzewski's storied career and a chance at winning a sixth title. They had previously spoiled Coach K's final home game at Cameron Indoor Stadium on March 5.

  As towns of Bucha and Irpin were retaken from withdrawing Russian forces, horrific photos and videos began to flow in. Ruined houses, burned-down cars, and bodies of civilians scattered around the streets.

  VILNIUS, April 2 (Reuters) - Lithuania will no longer import Russian gas to meet its domestic needs, becoming the first country in Europe to have secured its independence from Russian supplies, the country's energy ministry said on Saturday. All natural gas for Lithuanian domestic consumption will be imported via the liquified natural gas (LNG) import terminal in the port of Klaipeda, the ministry said in a statement. "From this month on - no more Russian gas in Lithuania," Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda tweeted on Saturday, saying the country is breaking "energy ties with the aggressor

  An AFP news agency reporter in Bucha, near Kyiv, counted at least 20 bodies. At least one man had his hands tied. Ukrainian forces regained control of the town this week and photos show widespread devastation. BBC journalists in another part of Ukraine found the bodies of two civilians killed by Russian forces.

  As Ukrainian forces slowly moved to retake areas around Kyiv that were besieged and occupied by Russian troops, they uncovered shocking scenes. In Bucha, a town just outside the capital, numerous bodies lined the streets of the town — with Ukrainian civilians and Russian soldiers  among the dead. Journalists with the French news agency AFP counted at least 20 bodies in just one street. Reporters with the Associated Press said the bodies of at least six civilians were sprawled along a road and in a front yard. "Those people were just walking and they shot them without any reason," a Bucha resident told AP, saying the departing Russian troops were behind the indiscriminate killings. Bucha's Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk said that at least 280 other bodies had been buried in mass graves elsewhere in the town.