MLB suspends Red Sox’s Jarren Duran for 2 games after he used anti-gay slur towards fan

Boston Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran has been suspended for two games without pay by Major League Baseball after he uttered an anti-gay slur at a fan during the team’s 10-2 loss Sunday to the Houston Astros. ESPN’s Jeff Passan tweeted “Boston Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran has been suspended for two games after he uttered …

Scottie Scheffler earns Comcast Business Tour $8M bonus for excellence on PGA Tour

Scottie Scheffler has earned an $8 million bonus for finishing No. 1 on the Comcast Business Tour Top 10 for the 2024 PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup regular season, marking the second No. 1 finish in three years for Scheffler. Scheffler won six tournaments during the 2024 PGA Tour campaign, including four signature events and his second …

Ellen Pompeo to appear in ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Season 21

Deadline reports that Ellen Pompeo is returning as Doctor Meredith Grey for seven episodes of the upcoming season 21 of Grey’s Anatomy. Pompeo will appear on at least seven of the upcoming season’s 18 episodes of Season 21, per Variety.  The next season will debut this fall, but a specific date has not yet been revealed. …

See Paul Mescal in trailer for Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II’

Paramount Pictures debuted the first poster as well as the trailer for  Gladiator II, slated for release on November 22 and starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington. Gladiator II is a sequel to the 2000 original film directed by Ridley Scott, which starred Russell Crowe as Maximus, a Roman general who is forced …

Trump campaign says its internal messages were hacked, suggest Iran is to blame

Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign says that its email messages were hacked, and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents. Politico was the first to report on the hack, with the outlet stating that it began receiving emails on July 22 from an anonymous account. The source — an …

Officer critically injured at protest in Ferguson, MO on 10th anniversary of Michael Brown killing

A police officer in Ferguson, Mo. was critically injured after clashing with demonstrators at the city’s police headquarters on the 10th anniversary since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. Several people were arrested at the protest and five are facing charges, CBS News affiliate KMOV reported, with Ferguson police chief Troy Doyle telling reporters at …

U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles stripped of bronze medal, awarded to Romania’s Ana Barbosu

The International Olympic Committee said on Sunday that U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles has been stripped of her bronze medal on floor exercise and must return the hardware, upholding findings that a coach’s appeal that got her on the podium shouldn’t have been allowed. On Saturday, CAS ruled that the appeal by U.S. coach Cecile Landi to …

U.S. women’s basketball capture eighth consecutive gold medal

The U.S. women’s basketball team won its straight eighth Olympic gold medal, defeating defeating France by 1 point to win 67-66 at Bercy Arena,  in a match that came down to the last shot. The Americans were up 67-64 with 3.9 seconds left after Kahleah Copper hit two free throws. Marine Johannes brought the ball …

See Vince Vaughn in trailer for new Apple TV+ series ‘Bad Monkey’

Apple TV+ will debut the new series Bad Monkey starring Vince Vaughn, a comedy-drama from Scrubs and Ted Lasso creator Bill Lawrence. Vaughn stars in and executive produces the adaptation of Carl Hiaasen’s bestselling novel.  The official synopsis reads: “Andrew Yancy (Vaughn) has been bounced from the Miami Police Department and is now a health …

See Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield in the trailer for ‘We Live in Time’

A24 is teasing the new film We Live in Time, starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh. The studio shared a trailer for the movie Wednesday featuring Pugh, 28, and Andrew Garfield, 40, writing on their social media: ‘Every minute counts. Watch the trailer for WE LIVE IN TIME, a decade-spanning romance from the director of …