2023 Tony Award nominations: ‘Some Like It Hot’ leads with 13 nods

During a livestream on Tuesday, actors Lea Michele and Myles Frost announced the nominations for the 2023 Tony Awards, which recognize excellence in live Broadway theatre. Some Like It Hot (a musical adaptation of the comedy film starring Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) leads the nominations this year with 13, including Best Musical. The show follows two friends/musicians …

NHL Playoffs: NJ Devils defeat NY Rangers to advance to second round

The New Jersey Devils finalized their amazing comeback on Monday night, defeating the New York Rangers by a score of 4-0 in Game 7 and advancing to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Devils Michael McLeod put New Jersey ahead with a goal midway through the second, with Tomas Tatar extending New …

76ers defeat Celtics in Game 1; Nuggets take 2-0 series lead against Suns

* The Philadelphia 76ers defeated the Boston Celtics 119-115 in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal matchup on Monday night. James Harden tied his playoff career high with 45 points and scored the go-ahead 3-pointer with 8.7 seconds left, Tyrese Maxey added 26 points and Tobias Harris finished with 18 for the Sixers, who made 17 3-pointers …

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy vows support of Israel in speech to legislative body Knesset

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy delivered remarks before the Israeli Knesset, the national legislature of Israel. McCarthy led a bipartisan congressional delegation, consisting of 20 lawmakers, to the country to celebrate its 75th anniversary of independence. The trip is McCarthy’s first foreign trip as House speaker and marks the second time a sitting speaker traveled to Israel …

Judge denies Trump’s mistrial motion in E. Jean Carroll case

On Monday, a federal judge in New York denied former President Donald Trump’s bid for a mistrial in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit alleging that Trump raped her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina filed an 18-page motion hours ahead of his second day of cross-examining Carroll, which accused …

The Super Mario Bros. Movie becomes first film of 2023 to gross $1 billion

The Super Mario Bros. Movie has become the first film released in 2023 to gross over $1 billion at the worldwide box office. The film is now just the fifth movie (and first animated film) since before the COVID-19 pandemic to gross $1 billion worldwide. It is among the most successful animated films in history and only …

Jada Pinkett Smith’s ‘Red Table Talk’ officially canceled by Meta

Red Table Talk—the celebrity talk show co-hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, her daughter Willow Smith, and her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris—has been canceled after five seasons. The cancellation of the series (which launched in 2018 on Meta’s streaming service Facebook Watch) comes amid Facebook’s shift away from original programming to Virtual Reality experiences. The 51-year-old Pinkett Smith …

Manhunt continues for suspect in shooting that killed 5 family members in Texas

The search for a Texas man who allegedly shot his neighbors after they asked him to stop firing off rounds in his yard headed into a second day Sunday, and authorities saying the suspect ‘could be anywhere’ by now. The suspect, 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza, fled after the shooting on Friday night near the town of …

Panthers defeat Bruins, Kraken beat Avalanche to move to second round

* The Florida Panthers defeated the Boston Bruins, 4-3 in overtime of Game 7 of their first-round playoff series on Sunday night in Boston, completing their comeback from a 3-1 series deficit. The Panthers’ Brandon Montour tied it with 1 minute left in regulation, and Carter Verhaeghe scored the game-winner at 8:35 of overtime. The …

Shooting at house party leaves 1 dead, 5 injured in Massachusetts

Authorities confirmed that one person was fatally shot and five others were injured by gunfire at a house party in Lawrence, Massachusetts early Sunday morning. Lawrence lies about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Boston, and has a population of about 89,000, According to statement from Essex District Attorney Paul Tucker’s office, police responded to …