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Lady Gaga. NYPD Blue. Bruno Mars. The original Batman. And now a tabloid newspaper. On the Fox lot in Century City sits an iconic New York set, made to look like Lower Manhattan, that has seen many an ...

Rupert Grint has told the BBC he’s unlikely to ever "step out" of Ron Weasley's shadow, some 14 years after the release of the final Harry Potter film. "I'm fine with that. I think it's great," he ...

Lawyers for Rupert Murdoch and other defendants in Trump v. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. have accused President Donald Trump of raising what they called a “red herring” in his latest filing, as part of a ...

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board blasted President Donald Trump for ordering an investigation into whether meat packers are “criminally profiting” from rising prices—and using language that ...

Guernsey Finance's chief executive has resigned following an investigation into what the organisation described as "recent events" it was taking "extremely seriously". Rupert Pleasant, who has held ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Chances are if you heard about Hulu’s Rivals, it is likely because of the age gap romance between ...

Rupert Grint has reached out to Alastair Stout, who will play the new Ron Weasley in HBO’s TV adaptation of Harry Potter. The 37-year-old father of two appeared at north London’s Highgate Christmas ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...