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If you stand back and consider some of the new comedies coming from the broadcast networks, you can look on the bright side and think, well, someone’s at least trying to push the envelope. The half-hour sitcom, which will preview on Sunday night, Sept. 11, on Fox before its Sept. 25 time slot premiere, is rather ordinary on paper. While the other characters are filmed in live action, Zorn is animated. Alan, whose birth name is Alangulon, has good reason to want to keep his distance from Zorn,... Читать дальше...

Attorneys for a group of parents and students filed the federal lawsuit against Virginia Public Schools, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice over a federal rule that says transgender students in public schools must be allowed to use restrooms that correspond with their gender identity. Virginia parents and students formed the group Privacy Matters to challenge the school district's policy.

Friday's warning from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Thomas Frieden came as lawmakers start to sort out a stopgap government funding bill that is being targeted to also carry long-delayed money to battle Zika. [...] negotiations are underway to break the impasse over Zika and add it to the only piece of legislation that has to pass Congress before the election: A stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown on Oct. 1. Democrats and the White House have greater leverage... Читать дальше...

Fred Savage, ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Duo Team for NBC Mixed-Race Family Comedy “Fresh Off the Boat” duo Kourtney Kang and Nahnatchka Khan have received a put-pilot commitment from NBC for their next family comedy, TheWrap has learned. Based on Kang’s real upbringing as a member of the only mixed-race family in her suburb of Philadelphia, the untiled sitcom will be of the single-camera variety. Will Fred Savage's New Fox Deal Take Him Out of the Kelly Ripa Co-Host Sweepstakes? The “Wonder Years”... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Flooding closed roads and schools in southern Kansas on Friday after the area was inundated with rain. Emergency officials reported multiple water rescues and said several hundred Westar Energy customers lost power in Sedgwick County. Wichita public schools also warned on Twitter that high waters could cause some bus delays and make certain spots inaccessible.

(AP) — Volunteers at Jackson State University have collected and transported supplies to flood victims in the town of Crosby, which was hit hard by recent flooding but didn't qualify for federal disaster funds.

Ford Motor Co. announced Friday that it will buy San Francisco shuttle startup Chariot for an undisclosed sum and expand its services nationally and internationally, as the century-old automaker seeks to transform itself into a broader transportation company. Ford also will partner with New York bike-sharing firm Motivate to bring shared bicycle services to more cities throughout the Bay Area, with the goal of deploying 7,000 bikes in the region by the end of 2018. Riders will be able to access those bikes... Читать дальше...

Project Runway” host Tim Gunn slammed season 14 winner Ashley Nell Tipton’s clothes as “hideous,” and he wouldn’t “dream of letting any woman […] wear them. “I’ve never seen such hideous clothes in my life: bare midriffs; skirts over crinoline, which give the clothes, and the wearer, more volume; see-through skirts that reveal panties; pastels, which tend to make the wearer look juvenile; and large-scale floral embellishments that shout ‘prom,'” he wrote in a column for the Washington Post. Gunn... Читать дальше...

People in Hong Kong are laughing at Apple's new iPhone 7, and it's not just because of the headphone jack kerfuffle.

Did David Bowie's goddaughter scatter the late musician's ashes at Burning Man last week?

At a House subcommittee hearing reviewing the federal response, Edwards said the money is needed for housing, economic development and public works after August flooding that caused more than $8.7 billion in damage. Edwards met with members of Congress and administration officials, and he and Louisiana lawmakers hope flood aid can be part of spending legislation that Congress must soon pass to keep the government operating past month's end. The Democratic governor praised the federal response so... Читать дальше...

(AP) — University of Louisville trustees are threatening to sue the school's foundation for what they see as a lack of accountability in the university's fundraising arm. The trustees approved a resolution Friday clearing the way for the potential lawsuit if the foundation fails to meet several conditions.

The Daily Star of Hammond reports (http://bit.ly/2cLqm9f) that in June, the school board requested a final declaration on unitary status for staff assignment, which would mean the court would no longer supervise the school system's staff employment decisions. In its request, the board argued that the school system has met its 40 percent black, 60 percent white diversity goal among staff.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah public records officials are ordering the Provo and Orem police departments to release a report showing any time a Brigham Young University employee accessed police records. The decision comes as federal education officials investigate the school's sex assault policy and state police review whether BYU officers inappropriately shared sexual assault case information, leading to leading to honor code investigations of students who reported assault.

Since it was founded in 2002, SpaceX has had its share of failures. Its first three rockets blew up, nearly bankrupting the company. Then last year, another exploded a couple minutes into its flight to deliver more than $100 million worth of cargo to the International Space Station.

Movie stars Holmes, Luke Wilson, Richard Kind, Mark Consuelos, Judy Greer and Eve Lindley Gravitas Ventures has acquired the North American rights to Katie Holmes‘ directorial debut, “All We Had,” which premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. The two go from escaping from an abusive boyfriend to living out of their car and being flat out broke. “As an actress, I have been honored to work on sets my entire career with directors who have inspired me,” Holmes said in a statement. Читать дальше...

Captain Sully Plays Tom Hanks in Biopic Parody ‘Hanks’ (Video) Landing a crashing plane in the Hudson River and not losing a single passenger is easy, but what about playing Academy Award winner Tom Hanks? Sullenberger, who could probably have a profitable second act as a voice-over actor at the very least, was delightfully game, perfectly capturing Hanks’ affable cockiness in his floppy-haired youth for the fake biopic “Hanks.” [...] given the positive “Sully” reviews and decent box office start... Читать дальше...

The investigation into the football program in Gloucester Township began when the prosecutor's office received a 13-page anonymous letter from a group calling itself Stop Taking Our Players, which alleged illegal recruitment.

The Silicon Valley entrepreneur calls the Republican presidential candidate dangerous and divisive and says his appeal to Americans who feel left behind is "quite possibly a deliberate con." Moskovitz wrote about his planned contributions in a Thursday night posting on the website Medium titled "Compelled to Act." [...] Moskowitz had made only one federal campaign contribution, $5,200 in 2013 to Democrat Sean Eldridge.

Ratings: NFL Kickoff Game Shuts Out ‘Big Brother,’ Everything Else Sorry, networks that don’t have professional football rights, NFL season is upon us. NBC destroyed its broadcast competition on Thursday with the official kickoff to the National Football League’s regular season, which saw the Denver Broncos defeat their Super Bowl 50 rival Carolina Panthers, 21-20. Back in fast-national-ratings land, CBS finished a very distant second overall, with an original “Big Brother.” [...] Read: NBC's... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Four Oregon high schools outperformed the rest, equipping two-thirds or more of their students with the writing, reasoning, research and math skills they'll need in college and in life, new test scores indicate. Common Core standards call on students to master sophisticated, intellectually complex tasks: read and synthesize college-level texts, construct a coherent argument and marshal evidence to support it, apply math to multi-step real-world problems and explain the logic underlying that work. Читать дальше...

Six varsity players have been cited with the juvenile equivalent of harassment and assault charges from an incident at the team's conditioning camp in July. A volunteer assistant coach is also facing a criminal mistreatment charge. Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson said 11 freshman players had intimate parts of their bodies targeted during an initiation. All football activities were suspended during the investigation and players didn't resume practice until this week.

Take a little kid to the circus and show him a clown, he’s more apt to scream with fear than laugh,” the author of “It... Stephen King totally understands why people in North and South Carolina are on edge following reports of strangers dressed as clowns lurking around in the woods.  “If I saw a clown lurking under a lonely bridge–or peering up at me from a sewer grate, with or without balloons– I’d be scared, too,” King told the Bangor Daily News. “I chose Pennywise the Clown as the face which... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Over White House objections, House passes bipartisan bill allowing families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia.

In an effort to sidestep the balancing act of riding a BART train while lugging a bicycle, the transit agency is rolling out a test program on cars that uses a new strap to hold bikes upright. The way things are now, the 4 percent of BART passengers who lug their bikes onto trains have to figure out how to balance their bike along the metal bar — which isn’t easy. People wind up standing clutching their bikes, wrapping bungee cords around the bar, or even rigging up makeshift straps using their helmets. Читать дальше...