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Gayle King has landed a new deal to continue her tenure at “CBS Mornings,” TheWrap has learned. However, details, including length of the contract and her financial compensation, are yet to be announced.

King’s contract was set to run out in 2025, after signing her last deal in early 2022 to stay on as a co-host of “CBS Mornings.”

The award-winning journalist has been a core tenant of the morning show since its inception in 2012, holding down the fort for a rotating door of co-hosts. King currently hosts the show alongside Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson.

The New York Post first reported this news.

During her time at “CBS Mornings,” King has spearheaded coverage that drives ratings, including recent interviews with Jay-Z; Megan Thee Stallion; Cherelle Griner, the wife of WNBA star Brittney Griner; and Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker.

“CBS Mornings” announced a couple of shakeups to its programming...

Gayle King has signed a new deal with CBS News, extending her tenure at the network where she has co-hosted CBS Mornings, according to a source familiar with the matter.

King last renewed her contract about three years ago, as she announced on her SiriusXM show in January, 2022 that she was staying at CBS News, amid speculation that she was looking at other options.

King, who currently co-hosts with Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson, has been one of the news division’s star personalities, with recent interviews of Jay Z, Kenneth Walker, Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend; and Cherelle Griner. She also anchored the show’s coverage from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

King began co-hosting CBS This Morning in 2012. The show is still in overall third place in the ratings, but it has from time to time beaten rivals on specific days. The network says that it is the...

A day will come when Gayle King decides to step down from her prominent role at “CBS Mornings.” But that day is not today.

King and CBS News have struck a deal to extend her contract, according to people familiar with the matter. King, who has been at CBS News since taking a role at the show once called “CBS This Morning” in 2011, last renewed her deal with CBS in 2022. CBS News declined to make executives available for comment. King’s decision was previously reported by The New York Post.

CBS extends her contact when its morning show has taken on a new fighting edge. “CBS Mornings,” like other CBS News programs, runs third in the ratings behind ABC News’ “Good Morning America” and NBC News’ “Today,” but in recent months has narrowed the gap with the ABC program in a critical audience category — people between 25 and 54, the demographic most...

A federal judge in Kentucky ruled that two police officers accused of falsifying a warrant ahead of the deadly raid that killed Breonna Taylor were not responsible for her death, The Associated Press reports. And rather than the phony warrant, U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson said Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was responsible for her death because he fired upon the police officers first — even though he had no idea they were police officers.

The ruling was handed down earlier this week in the civil rights violation case against...

Brett Hankison, the former Louisville Metro Police Department officer charged in connection with the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, was found not guilty on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment Thursday.

Jurors deliberated for just three hours before acquitting Hankison, the lone police officer who faced charges stemming from Taylor’s March 2020 death, the New York Times reports; the charges were related to Hankison “wantonly and blindly” firing 10 bullets that threatened to endanger three people in a neighboring apartment, and not the killing of Taylor itself during the execution of a no-knock warrant.

The New York Times is coming off a stellar Oscar season that saw two of its films earn Academy Award nominations: the short documentary A Concerto Is a Conversation, and the feature doc Time.

Now it’s got a fresh slate of contenders for Emmy season. The media outlet’s documentary series for FX Network, The New York Times Presents, has yielded multiple contenders for nominations, including the episodes The Killing of Breonna Taylor and Framing Britney Spears.

The Spears episode created a sensation when it aired in February, triggering a public debate about how the tabloids and mainstream media in the ‘90s and aughts sexualized the pop star and made sport of her apparent mental health challenges.

“We thankfully exist in a post #MeToo universe and the extent to which that movement has effectuated change in our perception of how women are treated and received by our culture I...

A crowd estimated at 200 people gathered at the world-famous intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street Saturday night to mark the anniversary of Louisville, Ky. resident Breonna Taylor’s death in a police drug raid.

One demonstrator jumped on a police car, police formed a skirmish line and deployed tear gas, and reports of vandalism were the fruits of the demonstration, which called for justice in the Taylor death. Her family received a $12 million settlement from Louisville, but none of the police officers face criminal charges in the incident, which triggered nationwide protests.

Update: Los Angeles police released more information on Saturday’s confrontation with demonstrators in Hollywood.

“The group was dressed in all black clothing and was equipped with various weapons such as pepper spray, smoke grenades, metal batons, and brass knuckles. They were also equipped with helmets, bullet-resistant vests, gas masks, and makeshift shields. Suspects within the group...

Before March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor was an ordinary 26-year-old woman. She loved her family and friends, worked as an emergency room technician at a hospital and was otherwise going about her business navigating the joys and challenges of life in Louisville, Ky., where the Michigan native had lived for 12 years. She was the proud owner of a new car and was saving up to buy a house. After March 13, 2020, she became a cause, a symbol, a cover girl, a rallying cry. And a memory. At around 9 p.m. on March 12, Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, returned from a date-night dinner to the apartment she shared with her younger sister, who was out of town. Taylor had been...

Tyler Perry is continuing to use his platform to give back and help others. A source confirmed to E! News the 51-year-old star gave $100,000 to the legal defense fund of Kenneth Walker, the boyfriend of the late Breonna Taylor. Doing so through four separate contributions to a GoFundMe page set up on Walker's behalf, Perry helped the fund surpass its goal. Back in March, Taylor was killed in her Louisville, Ky. apartment by police officers who had obtained a "no-knock" search warrant in connection with a narcotics investigation. No *** were found in Taylor's apartment. The Courier Journal, citing attorneys representing Taylor's family, claimed the man police were looking for had...

Film and TV mogul Tyler Perry has donated $100K to the legal defense fund of Kenneth Walker, the boyfriend of Black medical worker Breonna Taylor who was died in her own home at the hands of Louisville Metro Police Department plainclothes officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove. Mattingly, who was shot in the leg by Walker during the botched raid, sued him for assault, battery and emotional distress back in October.

A GoFundMe page was launched on behalf of Walker to help raise funds for the legal battle against Mattingly. Perry’s generous donation were made in four separate transactions on Sunday afternoon to help the fund surpass its $100K goal.

“It’s outrageous for one of the men partially responsible for all that, to sue the man who endured it,” said the GoFundMe page. “The raid that killed Breonna Taylor was poorly conceived, nightmarishly executed, and hastily covered-up.

On the same day it was announced that the Louisville, Kentucky, police officers who killed Breonna Taylor won’t face criminal charges for her death, ESPN analyst Jalen Rose took a moment during the network’s live coverage of the NBA Eastern Conference championships to call for those officers to be arrested.

As ESPN was about to cut to commercial during a discussion of Miami Heat shooting guard Tyler Herro, Rose said, “He’s been putting in work for a young fella. But it would be a great day to arrest the cops that murdered Breonna Taylor!”

Watch the moment below:

Jalen Rose yells "Arrest the Cops that murdered Breonna Taylor" during ESPN Halftime Show pic.twitter.com/EajKGncGpv

— The NBA Hustle...

On Wednesday, September 23rd, over six months after three police officers killed Breonna Taylor while she was asleep in her apartment, a grand jury announced that just one ex-cop involved would face charges in a case that became a focal point of this year’s protests against police brutality and systemic injustice.

A Kentucky grand jury decided to levy just three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment at Brett Hankison, while declining to press charges against the other two officers, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove. The decision was a far cry...

A Kentucky grand jury has charged one former Louisville Metro Police Department officer, Brett Hankison, in the police killing of Breonna Taylor.

Hankison was charged three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment. No charges were announced for the other two officers involved in the March 13th shooting, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove.

Former Louisville Metro Police Department Detective Brett Hankison has been charged with three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment by the grand jury in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.

No other officer has been charged at this time.

— Yamiche Alcindor...

(Updated with Ben Crump tweet & Ky Ag remarks) A grand jury in Kentucky decided today to indict a Louisville cop with low level criminal charges in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor earlier this year.

Not directly addressing Taylor’s death nor demands for accountability, former Louisville Detective Brett Hankison has been indicted for wanton endangerment in the first degree for his role in the situation surrounding the March 13 fatality. The three charges against Hankinson are actually centered on shots fired at other apartments in the complex where Taylor lived.

The relatively weak felony charge that Hankinson faces has a maximum penalty of five years behind bars. The two other cops involved in the shooting were not indicted.

Represented by civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, Taylor’s family had advocated for manslaughter charges. Crump took to social media not long after the grand jury result was made public:

Jefferson County Grand Jury indicts former ofc.

In the 175 days since Louisville police killed Breonna Taylor, she has become a fulcrum for a movement. Her unjust death, alongside too many others, galvanized a wounded nation into leaving their homes, taking up protest signs, demanding justice and the kind of accountability from law enforcement that rarely comes. By design of those drawing attention to her case, her face has become ubiquitous at rallies, on magazine covers, on Instagram grids. She’s become, for better and for worse, a symbol of what happens when unchecked policing and racism collide. This deification can serve a purpose, but it also strips a person of their inherent humanity. Before Breonna Taylor was a hashtag, she was a human being.

With “The Killing of Breonna Taylor,” documentarian Yoruba Richen and the New York Times try to investigate and explain exactly how this happened to a 26 year-old Emt who spent her last minutes falling...

As protests against police brutality and racial injustice continue across the United States, many demonstrators and activists have begun rallying around the fact that, nearly three months after she was killed in her own home, the three police officers who shot Breonna Taylor have yet to face charges.

There have already been several arrests in the two other high-profile cases that have spurred this latest wave of Black Lives Matter protests: Derek Chauvin and the three other former Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd have been charged,...

A steady flood of pings and vibrations starts erupting on my phone, and soon I am looking at family photographs of Breonna Taylor. The first shows her sitting in the car, wearing a white dress, well-done hair, and evident confidence. “Wake Pray Slay” reads the back of her sweatshirt in another image. At Christmas time, she wears a sweater with a fiery hearth depicted on the chest, strewn with garland and tree lights along the sleeves as she stands among gifts at her feet. The lights are off, but as in most of the photographs,...

YouTube Red has released the full-length trailer for its second season of Fight Of The Living Dead -- dubbed Paradise Calls -- in which Jake Paul and a slew of fellow YouTube stars must survive a simulated zombie apocalypse.

The eight-episode series will premiere on Halloween on Paul’s massive YouTube channel, which counts 11.6 million subscribers and 2.7 billion lifetime views. (At the same time, the 20-year-old's meteoric rise has been plagued with some controversy that led to his firing by Disney, as well as a recent lawsuit for a prank gone awry). The series will also feature Juanpa Zurita, Hannah Stocking, Wengie, Anwar Jibawi, De’arra Taylor and Ken Walker, Karina Garcia, Eric Ochoa, Anthony Trujillo, and Miles Jai.

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“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” earned high marks from the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild, garnering three nominations for their annual awards honoring achievements in film, television, commercials, and theater. It’s not on the Oscar shortlist of seven , however.

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Eligible for Hair and Makeup Oscars are Guild nominees “Deadpool,” “Florence Foster Jenkins,” “Hail, Caesar!,” “Star Trek Beyond” and “Suicide Squad.” Not Oscar shortlisted, however, are Guild nominees “La La Land,” “Loving,” and “Nocturnal Animals,” which garnered two nominations apiece. Also ineligible for the Oscar are nominees “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Silence,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” and “Doctor Strange.”

On the television side, “Saturday Night Live” led with four nominations, followed by “Westworld,” “Game of Thrones,” and “Penny Dreadful” with three each. “Transparent,” “Stranger Things,” and “Empire” each received two.

The Guild will...

Loving hair stylist Kenneth Walker boasts an accomplished resume, working closely with Denzel Washington from Ricochet to American Gangster. But in speaking with Walker about Jeff Nichols' latest, depicting the beautiful and historic love story between Richard and Mildred Loving, it's clear that his connection to the project is as personal and profound as they come. Growing up in the era depicted in the film, Walker vividly recalls his first exposure to prejudice… as well…...