Comedian Nate Bargatze has defended his Emmy Awards stunt, in which he threatened to reduce a $100,000 charitable donation for every second a winner’s acceptance speech ran over time. Speaking on his Nateland podcast, the host of the ceremony said the idea to deduct $1,000 for every second beyond 45 seconds “came from a real place of heart” and was meant to make the show “fun,” according to CNN. He added that he thought some stars might use the gimmick to purposely go long and pledge even more to the Boys & Girls Club of America, while others might cut their speeches short to boost his own promised contributions. “In my head, I pictured it as they could then go long, but then be a hero. So it was like a win-win,” Bargatze said. The host added that he was never “not gonna not” give money to the kids’ charity, even if the $100,000 was reduced to zero. Ultimately, CBS, which broadcast the Emmys, provided an additional $100,000 on top of Bargatze’s increased donation of $250,000 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
A federal judge appointed by President Joe Biden in 2021 has been randomly assigned to preside over the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey. U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff will oversee the case, pushed by President Donald Trump as he seeks to pressure longtime political foes. Comey faces charges of lying to Congress about whether he authorized leaks of classified material during his September 2020 testimony on the Russia election interference probe. Comey has said he is innocent and has “great confidence in the federal judicial system.” The indictment came shortly after Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to go after his political enemies. Bondi issued a statement on Thursday saying, “No one is above the law.” Nachmanoff serves in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, where Comey was charged. In 2019, he handled the arraignment of Rudy Giuliani’s associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, granting their release on a hefty bond. More recently, he allowed the CIA to dismiss a doctor who had pushed for mandatory COVID vaccines, Politico reported. The former FBI chief’s arraignment is set for Oct. 9.
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Home Improvement star Tim Allen has revealed how Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, has changed his own life. Erika revealed she had forgiven the man who took her husband’s life while speaking at the funeral for the slain right-wing activist. “I forgive him because it was what Christ did,” Kirk said. “The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the Gospel is love and always love. Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.” Allen, 72, the voice of Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story franchise, posted on X that her lesson in forgiveness had “deeply affected me.” The actor’s father, Gerald M. Dick, died when his car collided with a drunk driver in 1964, when Allen was 11. Allen, who adapted his middle name Alan for his professional surname, revealed his dad “broke his neck and died in my mom’s lap right there,” during a 2006 episode of Inside the Actors Studio. Allen posted on X, “I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my Dad. I will say those words now as I type: “I forgive the man who killed my father.”
Jillian Lauren, the bestselling author and wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, has avoided jail following a bizarre incident in April, which saw her embroiled in a shootout with police after they trespassed on her property in California while pursuing a hit-and-run suspect. Footage of the incident saw Lauren, 52, standing in her backyard and racking her gun at officers, before opening fire after ignoring their demands to stand down, resulting in a gun battle which saw her shot in the arm and initially charged with attempted murder. Lauren was ultimately charged with firing a gun with gross negligence and was spared a jail sentence on the condition she enter into a two-year mental health program. Under the terms of the agreement, she must refrain from drugs and alcohol and is banned from owning firearms. “We think this was the right resolution,” Lauren’s lawyer told Rolling Stone following the verdict, and said they were “very pleased” with the opportunity to have the case dismissed.
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A Georgia inmate built two bombs in prison and mailed them to an Anchorage federal courthouse and the Department of Justice in D.C. Federal prosecutors say David Dwayne Cassady, 57, was held in a Georgia state prison when he made the bombs, per the Associated Press. Both explosive devices were functional, a plea agreement states. However, neither exploded. The inmate, who identifies as a transgender woman and goes by the name “Lena Noel Summerlin,” was sentenced to 80 years in federal custody. The inmate said the reason for mailing them was “in retaliation for prison conditions.” Prosecutors did not say how the bombs were built, but the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) told WBS-TV that “Cassady was able to manipulate primarily items he was authorized to possess into makeshift explosive devices.” Cassady has been held in multiple Georgia prisons since the early 1990s for crimes including kidnapping and aggravated sodomy, according to records from the GDC. Since the federal system has no parole system, Cassady will spend the rest of their natural life incarcerated.
Merriam-Webster added more than 5,000 terms to its “Collegiate” dictionary on Thursday. Many modern phrases were added, marking the first new edition of the educator and student-oriented dictionary since 2003. A few of the new phrases include “beast mode,” “dad bod,” and “rizz.” Merriam-Webster defines “beast mode” as “an extremely aggressive or energetic style or manner that someone adopts temporarily to overpower an opponent in a fight or competition.” Used in a sentence, it sounds like, “He needed to go beast mode to crush the hot dog eating contest,” according to the Associated Press. “Dad bod” is defined as “a physique regarded as typical of an average father, especially one that is slightly overweight and not extremely muscular.” While, “rizz” is a person’s “romantic appeal or charm.” For example, one could say, “‘You come here often?’ Joe’s rizz was way, WAY off.” Some other terms added include “dumbphone,” “farm-to-table,” “love language,” “petrichor,” “side eye,” and “hard pass.” The twelfth edition is set for a Nov. 18 release date.
Former child star Danica McKellar, best known for playing Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years, gave up her Hollywood career to study mathematics and is now a published author on the subject. The 50-year-old told Christine Taylor and David Lascher on the Hey Dude… The 90s Called! podcast that she decided to enroll in UCLA to study math after The Wonder Years ended in 1993. McKellar played Winnie Cooper, the love interest of Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage), at the age of 13. “I needed to figure out who else I was besides Winnie Cooper.” She admitted that constantly being recognized for her role felt limiting, prompting her to ask, “Who am I now? Where do I get my validation?” Excelling in her studies, McKellar later reentered the acting sphere while also launching a math advice website, which inspired her to become an author. She has since written numerous math books for children and adults, starting with Math Doesn’t Suck. This November, her twelfth book, I Love You 100: A Counting Book Full of Love, will be released, marking her continued passion for making math accessible and inspiring to new generations.
A plane skidded off the runway Wednesday in Virginia after losing control during a rainstorm. The CommuteAir flight was attempting to land at the Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport in Virginia on Wednesday at about 9 p.m. when the Embraer ERJ145 aircraft skidded off the runway and was stopped by a concrete safety bed. The 50 passengers and three crew members on board were not harmed in the frightening ordeal. It was not yet clear why the plane overshot the runway, according to CommuteAir spokesman, Jason Kadah, per the New York Times. CommuteAir is a regional airline and partner of United Airlines that offers more than 200 flights daily across its 59 aircraft. The concrete safety bed was credited with preventing any injuries and more damage. “It performed as it should have,” airport spokeswoman, Alexa Briehl, told the Times. Known more formally as an Engineered Materials Arresting System, it is there to stop airplanes that are moving up to 80 miles per hour. The Virginia airport’s concrete bed was upgraded last year, and Wednesday was its first use.
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Sara Jane Moore has died, just two days after the 50th anniversary of her failed attempt to assassinate President Gerald Ford. She was 95. On Sept. 22, 1975, Moore approached Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, firing two shots in his direction. The first shot narrowly missed the president, while the second ricocheted after a bystander, local Marine Oliver W. Sipple, grabbed Moore’s arm as she fired. Ford left the scene unharmed. Moore’s attempt came just 17 days after Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a member of the Manson family, had also tried and failed to shoot Ford in San Francisco. The two unsuccessful attempts served as partial inspiration for Stephen Sondheim’s 1990 musical Assassins, which features the women as characters. Born in Charleston, West Virginia, in 1930 as Sara Jane Kahn, Moore was an accountant with ties to California’s activist circles and a desire to stage a “violent revolution” when she shot at the president. She was also an FBI informant, recruited because she worked for People in Need, an organization created by newspaper magnate Randolph A. Hearst to appease the radical Symbionese Liberation Army after they kidnapped his daughter, Patty Hearst. Moore was sentenced to life in prison for the assassination attempt, serving 32 years at the Federal Correction Institution in Dublin, California. She was paroled in 2007 and was living at a nursing home in Franklin, Tennessee, when she died. Moore married five times and had four children: Sydney, Christopher, Janet, and Frederic. Her death was announced in The Nashville Banner by her friend, journalist Demetria Kalodimos. Moore had expressed regret for the shooting during her life and wrote an apology letter to Ford, who never responded.
Actor Rick Moranis, who starred in the 1987 comedy film Spaceballs, will come out of his 28-year hiatus to reprise his role as Lord Dark Helmet from the original Mel Brooks comedy. Amazon MGM Studios confirmed that production is underway for Spaceballs 2, which is slated for release in 2027. Other returning actors confirmed to appear in the sequel are Brooks along with Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, and George Wyner, who are all reprising their original roles as Yogurt, Lone Starr, Princess Vespa, and Colonel Sandurz, respectively. Actors Josh Gad, Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman (Bill’s 32-year-old son) and Anthony Carrigan are among the new faces joining the original cast. The studio took to Instagram to share a sneak peek into a table read of the sequel. The 72-year-old Canadian actor and comedian was prominent in the ’80s for his roles in Ghostbusters, Little Shop of Horrors, and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. However, he began an acting hiatus in 1997 after his wife, Ann Belsky, died from cancer. “I took a break, which turned into a longer break,” Moranis told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015. While Spaceballs 2 will be his first on-camera gig since 1997, Moranis clarified in the same interview that he had not retired, but rather had become more selective about his roles.