Country music icon Dolly Parton addressed rumors that have been circulating this week about her being very ill and possibly close to death.
The 79-year-old recording artist posted a video to social media that included the cheeky caption, “I ain’t dead yet!”
“Today is October the 8th, and obviously, I’m here doing some commercials for the Grand Ole Opry,” Parton said while perched on a stool in front of a green screen. “Before I got started, I wanted to say &#8230; I know lately everybody thinks that I am sicker than I am. Do I look sick to you? I’m working hard here!”
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She continued, saying she wanted to “put everybody’s mind at ease” and addressed all the fans who had expressed concern that Parton was sick.
The “Jolene” singer said she appreciated everyone’s prayers. “I want you to know that I’m OK,” Parton went on, saying that she had neglected her health after the death of her husband, Carl Dean, in March of this year.
Parton explained that her doctor advised her to take care of some health concerns that were “nothing major,” which caused her to cancel some appearances and added fuel to the speculation that she was sicker than she let on.
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“I’m not ready to die yet,” Parton concluded. “I don’t think God is through with me, and I ain’t done working. So I love you for caring, and keep praying for me.” 
Rumors of Parton not doing well began when she postponed her highly anticipated Vegas residency. Those rumors reached a fever pitch earlier this week when the singer’s sister, Freida, posted on social media about needing prayers for Parton’s health.
&#8220;Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn’t been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead [sic] to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me,” Freida posted to Facebook. 
“She’s strong, she’s loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she’s going to be just fine. Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. We all love you!&#8221;
Several hours later, Freida clarified her comments after panicked fans feared the &#8220;9 to 5&#8221; hitmaker was on her deathbed.
&#8220;I want to clear something up. I didn’t mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious when asking for prayers for Dolly,&#8221; Freida wrote in a follow-up. &#8220;She’s been a little under the weather, and I simply asked for prayers because I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up. Your love truly makes a difference.&#8221;

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Country star Zach Bryan is pushing back after facing fierce criticism for his new anti-ICE song, “Bad News.”
The 29-year-old recording artist was criticized for the timing and message of the lyrics, as incidents of violence against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been increasing. In a new Instagram Story, he insisted that people are missing the “full context” of the song.
“I love this country,” Bryan wrote in a lengthy defense of the viral track.
“My friends are all degenerates, but they’re all I got/ the generational story of dropping the plot/ I heard the cops came, Cocky motherf****s, ain’t they?” the song lyrics say. 
“And ICE is gonna come bust down your door/try to build a house no one builds no more/but I got a telephone/ Kids are all scared and all alone/The bar stopped bumping, the rock stopped rolling /the middle fingers rising, and it won’t stop showing/ Got some bad news /The fading of the red, white, and blue.”
Bryan tried to explain himself on social media.
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“This shows you how divisive a narrative can be when shoved down our throats through social media,” the country singer wrote. “This song is about how much I love this country and everyone in it more than anything. When you hear the rest of the song, you will understand the full context that hits on both sides of the aisle. Everyone using this now as a weapon is only proving how devastatingly divided we all are. We need to find our way back.”
“I served this country, I love this country and the song itself is about all of us coming out of this divided space. I wasn’t speaking as a politician or some greater-than-thou a***hole, just a 29-year-old man who is just as confused as everyone else,” the post went on. 
“To see how much sh** it stirred up makes me not only embarrassed but kind of scared. Left wing or right wing we’re all one bird and American. To be clear I’m on neither of these radical sides. To all those disappointed in me on either side of whatever you believe in just know I’m trying my best too and we all say things that are misconstrued sometimes.”
He added that he’s been “scrutinized” over the last few months more than ever. He reiterated that he is “SO proud to have served in a country where we can all speak freely and converse amongst each other without getting doxxed or accosted on the internet or worse.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem weighed in on Bryan’s new song, saying it made her feel “disappointed and disheartened.”
“I hope he understands how completely disrespectful that song is, not just to law enforcement but to this country,” Noem <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1975691861525471439">told</a> conservative podcast host Benny Johnson on Tuesday. “To every single individual that has stood up and fought for our freedoms. He just compromised it all by putting out a product such as that, that attacks individuals who are just trying to make our streets safe.”
“Zach, I didn&#8217;t listen to your music. I&#8217;m happy about that today,” she added. “Today, that makes me very happy that I never once gave you a single penny to enrich your lifestyle. I am going to go out and probably download some Jason Aldean, John Rich, Kid Rock, and Jon Pardi songs.”

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Zach Bryan Pushes Back After Anti-ICE Song Sparks Backlash, Says He’s Not ‘Radical’

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Taylor Swift’s new album is predictably at the top of the charts, but some of her most devoted fans are not pleased with her departure into what’s been described as the “trad life.”
“Taylor Swift is handing the conservative agenda on a silver platter to the masses,” TikTok influencer Liittle Debbie said in a lengthy <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@beysus.christ/video/7557367237150035231" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critique</a> of Swift’s newest and much-hyped album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”
“You cannot convince me that the master lyricist of our generation, akin to Shakespeare, that the Easter egg master of our generation, is not aware of what her entire optics and lyrics and album and everything is giving at this very moment,” she added.
In her viral video, the influencer insists the album is not “satirical,” as some desperate Swifties have suggested as a way to explain away Swift’s apparent turn from feminist hero to suburban romantic.
For her part, Swift has described the project as a labor of love.
“We knew that we had to bring the best ideas that we ever had,” she said during her appearance on the “New Heights” podcast, hosted by her fiancé, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, and his brother, Jason. “I also know the pressure that I’m putting on this record by saying that, but I don’t care because I love it that much.”
“This is the record that I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time,” the pop star added.
To some fans, that statement was practically an admission of betrayal. Liittle Debbie accuses Swift of “aligning” her brand with the NFL, “one of the most racist and problematic industries in our country,” she adds, and of “creeping [her] way down the conservative pipeline.”
The proof, in her view, lies in Swift’s high-profile engagement to Kelce.
“She’s aligning herself with him,” the influencer argues, incredulous that the same conservative commentators who once derided Swift as a “childless cat lady” have also celebrated her engagement. To her, this represents a horrifying shift from Swift being a girlboss to a white picket fence proponent.
The TikTok creator points to some of the lyrics in “The Life of a Showgirl” as proof.
In the song “Eldest Daughter,” Swift admits, “When I said I don’t believe in marriage, that was a lie.”
The lyrics to Swift’s new track “Wi$h Li$t” only pour more gasoline on the fire of outrage:
<blockquote>“They want those bright lights and Balenci shades/And a fat ass with a baby face/They want it all./“Hope they get what they want/ I just want you/ Have a couple kids, got the whole block looking like you/ We tell the world to leave us thе f*** alone, and they do, wow/ Got me dreaming about a driveway with a basketball hoop.”</blockquote>
The influencer hears those lines as evidence of something sinister, saying Swift’s supposed desire for a “racially homogenous neighborhood” and a glorification of marriage and motherhood represent abandonment of her childless cat lady fans.
To many observers, the outrage says more about the culture than about Taylor Swift.
For years, progressive fandom has treated female pop stars as symbols of what women should be. The idea that one of them might want to write about — or simply want — domestic life, love, or marriage is being perceived as an attack on that ideology.
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Longtime Swifties know the singer has been a hopeless romantic for most of her career, and that singing about fairytales and daydreams of being rescued by a knight in shining armor have featured in tracks spanning her entire catalog of music.
In “Starlight” (2012), the singer fantasized about running off, getting married, and having lots of children. “We’ll have 10 kids and teach them how to dream,” Swift sang.
Perhaps this latest album feels more urgent, not just because conservatives are finally back in charge of the government, but also because Swift is closer to that kid-filled happy ending than ever before. After a string of bad relationships, she’s now engaged to a man who is clearly smitten. Her engagement photo announcement was incredibly traditional. This album, coupled with the much-maligned “optics,” likely signals the end of Swift’s girlboss cat lady days.
Her fans, who had bought into embracing eternal singlehood, feel betrayed.
But there are some supporters arguing that Swift’s seeming to head down the trad wife road doesn’t prove she’s an anti-feminist, because true feminism was always about having the choice. And the billionaire singer flat-out said it was “<a href="https://people.com/taylor-swift-shuts-down-theories-about-last-album-marrying-travis-kelce-11824657" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shockingly offensive</a>” that anyone suggested she was quitting music during this next phase of life.
Whether she has the 10 kids and basketball hoop in suburbia and releases a bunch of songs about parenting remains to be seen. But Swifties may want to get used to the fact that their favorite singer is changing — or else find a new cat lady idol to worship.

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Wife, Or A Showgirl? Taylor Swift’s New Album Is Breaking Liberal Feminists

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The very first thing I did after watching the trailer for a new documentary on John Candy was send it via text to my sister. She was at work, but I knew she would reply. The expected response came in just a few minutes.
“Why would you do this to me?”
She didn’t have to explain that she was sitting at her desk crying. I had done the same minutes earlier.
There’s no doubt that producer Ryan Reynolds and director Colin Hanks created “John Candy: I Like Me” — which premieres on Amazon Prime this Friday — to have this exact effect on adults who grew up watching Candy-led comedies. I was still young enough when he died of a heart attack in 1994 not to understand the depth of the entertainment world’s loss. 
But now I’m older and well-versed in the comedies currently being churned out in Hollywood. There’s a reason why, even when faced with an endless list of options on Netflix on a Friday night, I’m a lot more likely to select “Uncle Buck” for the umpteenth time than I am to pick a movie made in the last decade. 
It’s the same reason that my kids know our agenda for Thanksgiving Eve every year: a screening of “Planes, Trains, &amp; Automobiles.” Pass the popcorn. “Those aren’t pillows!”
It’s been three decades since Candy’s unexpected death at the age of 43, and people have been moved by this trailer because we desperately miss men like him in modern Hollywood. Candy was not a perfect person. But he was a genuine person — &#8220;a real one,&#8221; as the kids would say. That’s one trait that Hollywood&#8217;s been missing for decades.
The documentary, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) last month, left audiences laughing and crying because it showcased a rare kind of entertainer: a man who was funny without being cruel, warm without being fake, and, most impressively, talented without having an ego. 
He made the world laugh while making everyone feel totally at ease. Who else can say they’ve done that?
My sister and I were crying because to us, Candy reminds us of our own father — big, funny, mustachioed, often a little embarrassing, but with a huge heart. For everyone else, the Canadian star felt like a father figure, no matter what their actual dads looked or sounded like. He was America’s dad. We felt like we needed to protect him, and now that he’s gone, it’s his legacy that’s earned our fierce sense of loyalty.
That’s the magic of John Candy. In a business that rewards arrogance, he stood apart with the humility of someone who remembered where he came from. 
Steve Martin once <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/steve-martin-tears-doc-recalling-142346260.html">said</a> Candy was “very sensitive and very complex and we really loved each other,” while Catherine O’Hara <a href="https://ruralradio.com/rrn/abc_news/stars-remember-john-candy-on-the-30th-anniversary-of-his-death-abcide22dd96c/#:~:text=Schitt's%20Creek%20Emmy%20winner%20Catherine,had%20that%20kind%20of%20swagger.%E2%80%9D">promised fans</a> he was “just as lovely as you’d want him to be.” That authenticity is what audiences connected with then, and it’s what will resonate all over again through the documentary.
It’s proven by how many of Candy’s former co-stars, even big-time players, were willing to participate in the project even three decades after his death. 
Martin, O’Hara, Bill Murray, Martin Short, Macaulay Culkin, Mel Brooks, and Dan Aykroyd all appear to share stories of their late co-star.
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“I can’t tell you what was right about John Candy, or what was wrong. But he was my friend,” Murray says in the trailer. “And … I don’t wanna cry, but when you see him, when you see his face….” he adds, trailing off as he begins tearing up.
What makes the documentary especially powerful is how much of it comes through the perspective of Candy’s children, Jennifer and Christopher. 
“He was the best dad,&#8221; Jennifer told Today. &#8220;He’d say, ‘Don’t worry what people think about you. Just be your authentic self.’”
That’s advice you’d expect from a counselor, not necessarily from one of the most famous comedians on the planet. But that was Candy through and through, exhibiting a tenderness at home that matched the sorts of people he played in movies.
In another moment, Jennifer reflected on stories of how her father looked out for young actors, including Culkin, who had a difficult relationship with his own father. 
“When we hear about Macaulay Culkin, that doesn’t surprise me because that’s who our dad was,” she explained. “He wasn’t going to just kind of ignore a kid because he was a kid actor and he was moving on to something else. It’s like he genuinely wanted to know.” 
The documentary doesn’t appear to shy away from Candy&#8217;s own struggles. He wrestled with anxiety, stress, and the pressure of constantly being “on.” The actor was complex, flawed, and human, which was part of what made him so likable. 
That duality is part of what audiences adored. He could play the bumbling uncle, the earnest underdog, or the unlikely leader of a Jamaican bobsled team. Through it all, he made you believe in human goodness. 
Candy’s characters reflected who he was: a decent person with a good heart. That’s what people connected with in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and it’s what people are craving again as Hollywood continues to lose the plot.
Reports from TIFF describe the documentary receiving standing ovations, laughter, tears, and an overwhelming sense of nostalgia, not just for Candy, but for what he represented. The actor is being celebrated as a Canadian treasure, but Candy’s impact was always bigger than just one country. He was the rare celebrity who transcended the usual divides because his brand of humor and humanity wasn’t political, it was universal. 
Everyone could laugh with John Candy. Everyone could feel like they knew him.
That’s the secret to his enduring legacy. We live in an era where comedy is floundering, unfunny, and usually exhaustingly partisan. Candy’s work is a reminder that humor can be wholesome without being boring, that kindness can be funny, that the best comedians are just out there being themselves.
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“John Candy: I Like Me” isn&#8217;t just a chance to revisit his greatest hits. It&#8217;s an opportunity to introduce new generations to a man who changed comedy for the better. And it will be a reminder for the rest of us of what we’ve lost in Hollywood.
He wasn’t perfect, but he was rare. That’s why John Candy mattered then and why he matters now. Even though this documentary is going to be a real gut punch, it will hopefully also be a harbinger of things to come. 
As for my sister and me, we’re getting the tissues ready.

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Robin Williams’ daughter is begging fans to quit sending her creepy AI-generated videos that digitally resurrect her father.
The famous actor and comedian died by suicide in August 2014. 
Zelda Williams, a 36-year-old filmmaker, made the remarks via Instagram Stories.
“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” she <a href="https://variety.com/2025/film/news/robin-williams-daughter-ai-recreations-gross-1236541633/">wrote</a>. “Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on. But please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want.”
She continued, blasting the hollow imitation of AI-crafted versions of real people.
“To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to ‘this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that’s enough’, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening,” she continued. 
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“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”
Zelda wrote in a follow-up that AI is “badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.”
The filmmaker previously spoke out against the use of her father’s voice for AI in October 2023, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/robin-williams-daughter-says-using-ai-to-mimic-his-voice-is-personally-disturbing">reported</a>.
“I am not an impartial voice in SAG&#8217;s fight against AI,” Zelda wrote at the time. “I&#8217;ve witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad. This isn&#8217;t theoretical, it is very very real.”
She said it was “personally disturbing” to hear artificial intelligence mimic her father’s voice.
“Living actors deserve a chance to create characters with their choices, to voice cartoons, to put their HUMAN effort and time into the pursuit of performance,” Zelda continued. “These re-creations are, at their very best, a poor facsimile of greater people, but at their worst, a horrendous Frankensteinian monster, cobbled together from the worst bits of everything this industry is, instead of what it should stand for.”

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Country star Zach Bryan is facing some serious backlash online following the release of his anti-ICE song, “Bad News.”
The lyrics specifically target Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers with lyrics that say, “ICE is gonna come, bust down your door / Try to build a house no one builds no more / But I&#8217;ve got a telephone / Kids are all scared and all alone.”
“I&#8217;ve got some bad news / The fading of the red, white and blue,” the song goes on.
The song’s messaging has inspired country fans to come out in force to blast Bryan for his anti-ICE stance.
“Who&#8217;s ready for the Zach Bryan-Dixie Chicks tour? Prob a huge Bud Light sponsorship for this one,” country star John Rich joked on X, mocking both the Chicks’ infamous 2003 feud with President George W. Bush and Bud Light’s controversial tie-up with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney.
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“Nashville is full of guys like this,” Rich wrote in a follow-up.
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“&#8217;Cocky motherf****** ain’t they. And ICE is gonna come, bust down your door. The fading of the red, white, and blue.&#8217; He just drew over 112,000 fans to what became the largest concert in U.S. history last week. Now, that will never happen again. When will they learn?” conservative podcast host Benny Johnson <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1975290487926935876">wrote</a>. 
“We were just invaded by over 10 million illegal aliens and who does Zach Bryan cheer for? The illegals,” another commenter wrote. “I smell a boycott brewing.”
“Dear Zach Bryan, F*** you. Sincerely, American Patriots,” another popular comment <a href="https://x.com/Notwokenow/status/1975258380299116710">said</a>. “ICE agents risk their lives daily. Violent leftists throw bricks at them, attack them, spit at them, even shoot at them. And this is the song he released. Career over.”
The song release comes after a recent episode of “Law &amp; Order: SVU” portrayed ICE agents as villains who target innocent immigrants to deport for no apparent reason.
Rapper Bad Bunny, who was just tapped to play the halftime show at the Super Bowl in February, has avoided touring in the United States due to a perceived threat that ICE could pose to his fans.
“…There was the issue of — like, f***ing ICE could be outside (my concert). And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about,” he said.
Meanwhile, ICE has been hard at work enforcing the federal immigration laws and has been villainized for its trouble. 
Attacks on ICE agents and their families have skyrocketed nearly 1,000% in just eight months — and many are pointing the finger at Democrats and the media for painting them as villains.

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Amazon Prime Video is backtracking after fan outrage erupted over its decision to digitally erase guns from James Bond promotional artwork — a move critics mocked as absurd.
The images in question featured actors who played the Bond character, including Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig. But rather than holding guns in the images, all of them stand awkwardly and empty-handed. 
The company’s revised artwork now features images from the movies themselves, though none of the promotional images show 007 with a weapon.
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They photoshopped all the guns out of the James Bond movie thumbnails.
Just in case you still had hope for Amazon being in charge of the franchise. <a href="https://t.co/eeosPEPFnJ">pic.twitter.com/eeosPEPFnJ</a>
— John A. Douglas (@J0hnADouglas) <a href="https://twitter.com/J0hnADouglas/status/1974160271448174917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In posters from Connery’s “Dr. No” and Brosnan’s “Goldeneye,” the guns were edited out of the original images and replaced with nothing. In Moore’s “A View To A Kill” and Craig’s “Spectre,” the images were altered and cropped to remove the weapons.
The backlash on social media began on October 5, James Bond Day, when UK-based fans noticed the blatant photo manipulations.
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“They photoshopped all the guns out of the James Bond movie thumbnails. Just in case you still had hope for Amazon being in charge of the franchise,” one person <a href="https://x.com/J0hnADouglas/status/1974160271448174917">noted</a>.
“Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker,” British actor Rufus Jones <a href="https://x.com/rufusjones1/status/1974072843546804499">wrote</a>, echoing what many others were saying. 
“Gaaagh! I feel my testosterone levels dropping just looking at these,” a third fan <a href="https://x.com/NoahRayWrites/status/1974182585602617498">said</a>.
“When are they giving the characters on the posters purple hair and a mask?” another commenter <a href="https://x.com/PaulSkytrace/status/1974504185216610445">joked</a>.
Amazon acquired the rights to the Bond franchise in 2022. Reps for Amazon MGM said at the time of the acquisition that they were “committed to honoring the legacy” of James Bond, a fictional British Secret Service agent created by Ian Fleming in 1953. His popular books were later adapted into films, which became one of the highest-grossing movie franchises of all time, earning more than $7 billion at the box office since Sean Connery first took on the role of “Dr. No” in 1962.
The last film in the franchise, starring Daniel Craig as 007, “No Time to Die,” premiered in 2021 following a COVID delay. 
There are no known Bond movies in the works.

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Amazon Prime Dragged For Scrubbing Guns From ‘James Bond’ Artwork

Amazon Prime Dragged For Editing Guns Out Of 'James Bond' Artwork

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Sean &#8220;Diddy&#8221; Combs was sentenced to over four years in prison on Friday by Judge Arun Subramanian following the rap mogul&#8217;s July conviction on federal prostitution charges.
Prior to the sentence being read, Judge Subramanian <a href="https://x.com/innercitypress/status/1974210630392377453?s=19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> in part: &#8220;A history of good works can&#8217;t wash away the record in this case. You abused these women. You used that abuse to get your way, freak-offs and hotel nights. The evidence of the abuse is massive. I was sitting right here, during the testimony &#8230; This was subjugation &#8212; that is the reality of what happened. These offenses irreparably harmed two women. You plied them with drugs. Why did it happen so long? You had the power and resources to keep it going.&#8221;
After reading the sentence, the judge thanked the woman &#8220;who came forward: Ms. Ventura and Jane, you&#8217;ve been through trauma we can&#8217;t imagine.&#8221;
&#8220;As Doctor King taught us, out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. Mr. Combs, your mom writes that you have always been a good son. The same power that enabled you to hurt these women, you could use to help,&#8221; Judge Subramanian concluded, adding that a $500,000 fine would be imposed as well. &#8220;Adjourned.&#8221;
In a lengthy statement before the sentencing, Combs said in part: &#8220;I hate myself right now. I&#8217;ve been stripped down to nothing. I want to apologize to my seven children &#8212; I&#8217;m so sorry. You deserve better. &#8230; I&#8217;m not a bad person. I&#8217;m sorry to my community; I let y&#8217;all down. People can change; I know I&#8217;ve changed.&#8221;
&#8220;I beg your Honor for mercy, to be a father again, to be a son again,&#8221; he added.
The sentencing comes after the convicted rap mogul wrote a letter to the judge begging for leniency ahead of his sentencing on Friday. In the four-page letter, Diddy blamed his behavior on drug addiction and apologized &#8220;for all of the hurt and pain that I have caused.&#8221;
&#8220;I lost my way,&#8221; he wrote in part. &#8220;My downfall was rooted in my selfishness. I have been humbled and broken to my core.&#8221;
Combs was found guilty of two prostitution charges in July and was facing up to 20 years in prison. He was acquitted of the more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.
Prosecutors wanted to see the rapper behind bars for at least 11 years, but Combs&#8217; lawyers petitioned for him to be released later this month. Prosecutors called Diddy &#8220;unrepentant.&#8221;
&#8220;The defendant tries to recast decades of abuse as simply the function of mutually toxic relationships,&#8221; prosecutors wrote in a September filing. &#8220;But there is nothing mutual about a relationship where one person holds all the power and the other ends up bloodied and bruised.&#8221;
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The federal investigation into Combs gained national attention earlier this year when raids on his Los Angeles and Miami properties yielded large amounts of electronic devices, reportedly containing potential evidence connected to the charges. Prosecutors alleged that Combs orchestrated a network of parties and events where women were trafficked and abused. Meanwhile, the rapper claimed that his sexual exploits were unorthodox but fully consensual.
Beyond the courtroom, the fallout has already impacted Combs’ vast business empire. This has led to speculation about whether his music legacy can survive the scandal.
Many critics were furious that Combs was acquitted of the more serious charges.
After the verdict was delivered, Combs appeared to celebrate the jury’s decision that acquitted him on several of the charges. He raised his hands in a prayer motion and then hugged one of his defense attorneys, Teny Geragos.
His lawyer also said Diddy received a standing ovation from fellow inmates following the conclusion of the trial.

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Sentenced To Over 4 Years In Prison On Federal Prostitution Charges

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Turning Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet said he and other members of the company are glad Jimmy Kimmel was put back on the air because it ensures he no longer has “martyr” status.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want Jimmy Kimmel to be a martyr. He doesn&#8217;t deserve it. He&#8217;s a liar, he&#8217;s an unrepentant liar, but he should not be considered a martyr by anybody,&#8221; Kolvet <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/turning-point-didnt-want-jimmy-kimmel-canceled-because-abcs-liar-doesnt-deserve-martyr">told</a> Fox News Digital in a newly published interview.
Kimmel’s late night show was suspended for less than a week after comments he made about the assassination of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk on September 10. This led to the Left having absolute meltdowns about free speech and suggesting that the Trump administration had orchestrated the show’s suspension.
Kolvet says the best way to deal with someone like Kimmel is to let them keep lying and keep getting terrible ratings, which will eventually lead to their shows getting canceled.
&#8220;It&#8217;s important that when people lie, and they lie in that type of setting and that platform about such a huge event, that there are real consequences. And I think the best consequence would be that people just tune out,&#8221; he told the outlet. &#8220;People refuse to watch a liar on TV and that when the ratings come up and the P&amp;L statement, ABC reviews it, that they just say, ‘Hey, this isn&#8217;t worth continuing.’&#8221;
&#8220;When that happens, I don&#8217;t think that he&#8217;s gonna be able to blame us for it. I think he&#8217;s just gonna have to blame himself and his own choices, and when that happens, I&#8217;m not gonna be sad about it,&#8221; Kolvet added.
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Kimmel’s return last Tuesday evening drew a record-breaking 6.3 million viewers, more than triple his regular audience. By Thursday, those numbers had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jimmy-kimmels-ratings-spike-crashes-back-down-to-his-usual-terrible-numbers?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Jimmy+Kimmel%E2%80%99s+Ratings+Spike+Crashes+Back+Down+To+His+Usual+Terrible+Numbers">dropped by 64%</a>, leveling off at 2.3 million.
Kolvet said he’s been most upset to hear the narrative that political violence is &#8220;equally as extreme whether it&#8217;s on the Right or the Left.&#8221;
&#8220;I think that&#8217;s why I keyed in on the Jimmy Kimmel saga because he tried to lie to his audience and tell us that it was actually somebody from the Right that killed Charlie and that&#8217;s just simply not true,&#8221; Kolvet said.
&#8220;There&#8217;s no facts that back that up,&#8221; he told Fox News Digital. &#8220;And that strikes me as a really fundamental problem because … if you feel you can go into that platform and lie brazenly … that says that you don&#8217;t care about us as humans. That tells me that you think that we are worth smearing, slandering, lying about and dehumanizing people. And that&#8217;s how we get this violence in the first place.&#8221;
The saga began last month when Kimmel was accused of slandering conservatives when he suggested Kirk’s assassin was part of the “MAGA gang,” despite authorities saying otherwise. “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said at the time.
While the host addressed the controversy during his return monologue, many viewers, including Kolvet, found his comments to be insincere. The TPUSA spokesperson called Kimmel an “unrepentant liar.”

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Turning Point Spokesman Says He’s Glad ‘Liar’ Kimmel Is Back On TV So He’s Not A ‘Martyr’

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Elon Musk confirmed that he would cancel his Netflix subscription after clips of animated shows aimed at children featuring pro-trans content started circulating on X.
Musk posted on X, “Cancel Netflix for the health of your kids,” on Wednesday, which included a cartoon of the “transgender woke agenda” inside a Trojan horse.
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Cancel Netflix for the health of your kids <a href="https://t.co/uPcGiURaCp">https://t.co/uPcGiURaCp</a>
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1973292474375479556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The billionaire Tesla founder also <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973101319222165785">commented</a> “Same” to someone on X who wrote, “Just cancelled my Netflix subscription. If you employ someone who celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk and makes content that pushes pro-trans content on my kids&#8230;you will NEVER get a dime of my money. It&#8217;s as simple as that.”
This was after clips from multiple shows marketed to children ages seven and up were being shared on X. The short-lived series “Dead End Paranormal Park,” a Netflix original that aired 20 episodes across two seasons in 2022, featured a storyline in which the main character claimed to be transgender.
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OMG. Dead End Paranormal Park, a show on Netflix, is pushing pro-transgender on CHILDREN.
This show is advertised for 7-YEAR-OLDS
It’s being promoted on <a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netflix</a> kids now.
Parents- BEWARE <a href="https://t.co/gh5UZftKns">pic.twitter.com/gh5UZftKns</a>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1972756249986126260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Another clip going viral was part of the animated show “Ridley Jones,” which includes Fred, the non-binary cow, fretting over using a “different name and pronouns” for the first time since last seeing his grandmother.
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ANOTHER kids&#8217; show on Netflix is pushing pro-trans propaganda with the use of pronouns
This show, Ridley Jones, is targeted towards 7-YEAR-OLDS
Parents, do you know what your children are watching? <a href="https://t.co/YMFpWf7qwk">pic.twitter.com/YMFpWf7qwk</a>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1973050371300868281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Chaya Raichik, who runs the popular account Libs of TikTok, has been leading the charge to expose the content of these shows and has been reposting many screenshots of users proving they canceled their Netflix subscriptions, too. 
She also noted that Hamish Steele, the trans-identified creator of the show “Dead End Paranormal Park,” made vulgar comments on Bluesky following the assassination of Charlie Kirk last month.
“Why the f*** are you even commenting on this d***head? You [sic] sympathy for any of the families being slaughtered by your weapons but a random nazi gets shot and its a public statement. You’re such a f***ing evil sh**,” Steele’s alleged message said.
The post has since been deleted, but screenshots allegedly show Steele was replying to U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, offering condolences after Kirk’s murder.
Steele has addressed the controversy in a few posts on Bluesky, writing, 
“It&#8217;s all lies and slander! Netflix is NOT promoting [the show] at the moment!” 
A few hours later, the series creator wrote, “I have mostly been very ok today and found it all quite funny, while really appreciating everyone who has reached out, but the extremely nasty weird [homophobic] and antisemitic emails have started rolling in and it is getting a little scary so I apologise if I take longer to respond to stuff.” 
Steele also referenced backlash following the surfacing of the post about Kirk, writing, “My Instagram comments are now flooded with replies saying I AM CHARLIE KIRK and that I celebrated his death (which I never did).”

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Elon Musk Says He Will Cancel Netflix Subscription Over Trans Propaganda Aimed At Children

Elon Musk, Others Say They're Canceling Netflix Over Trans Propaganda Aimed At Children

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Following days of swirling speculation, Nicole Kidman has made it official — she’s divorcing her husband of almost two decades, country music star Keith Urban.
The petition for divorce was filed in Davidson County, Tennessee, citing “irreconcilable differences.” 
Neither Kidman nor Urban has issued public statements about their split, but the tabloids have been working overtime to speak to unnamed insiders in an attempt to figure out what went wrong and when. These sources say the two had been living apart since the beginning of the summer, and the divorce is not surprising to the power couple’s inner circle.
Kidman met Urban in January 2005 at an annual gala in Los Angeles hosted by the American Australian Association, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/arts/nicole-kidman-keith-urban-divorce.html">The New York Times</a>.
“It sounds a bit like a pickup line from ‘Crocodile Dundee,’” Urban said during a speech last year about their first meeting. “I was trying to play it cool, but inside I felt like I’d snuck into the royal ball,” he said, adding that his future wife had an “otherworldly aura about her,” adding that it “felt a bit like I was meeting a real-life princess.”
They married in 2006 and went on to have two daughters together. Kidman was previously married to actor Tom Cruise from 1990 until 2001 and also has two children with him. 
Urban previously admitted to being treated for substance abuse after checking into rehab months after their wedding. He praised Kidman for sticking by him during that difficult time. 
Despite the prevalence of divorce in Hollywood, fans have long regarded Urban and Kidman as the exception to the rule thanks to the longevity of their marriage and their apparent devotion to each other. In May, Urban thanked his wife while being honored at the Academy of Country Music Awards. “My wife, Nicole Mary, is here tonight,” Urban said at the time. “I love you, baby girl.”
A source close to Urban told People that the singer has “just been going through some stuff” lately.
“He has been making questionable choices for some time now and this was not the case of them just drifting apart,” a source familiar with Kidman <a href="https://people.com/keith-urban-been-going-through-some-stuff-amid-nicole-kidman-split-sources-exclusive-11821691">told</a> the outlet.

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It’s Over: Nicole Kidman Files For Divorce From Keith Urban After Almost Two Decades Of Marriage

Nicole Kidman Files For Divorce From Keith Urban After Close To 20 Years Of Marriage

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Jimmy Kimmel couldn’t help but gloat about his post-suspension viewership spike, going so far as to publicly thank President Donald Trump for making it all possible. But after a very brief ratings boost, those numbers have come crashing back down to normal.
The ABC late-night host was temporarily taken off the air after comments he made about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk. After a suspension that lasted less than a week, Kimmel returned to the air with a tearful non-apology, whining about how his words must have been misconstrued.
Kimmel’s return last Tuesday evening drew a record-breaking 6.3 million viewers, more than triple his regular audience. By Thursday, those numbers had dropped by 64%, leveling off at 2.3 million.
In the coveted demographic of viewers aged 25-54, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” dropped from 1.7 million viewers on Tuesday to 465,000 on Thursday, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/09/29/media/jimmy-kimmel-sheds-64-of-audience-after-short-lived-ratings-spike-following-suspension/">The New York Post</a>.
The saga began earlier this month when Kimmel was accused of slandering conservatives when he suggested Kirk’s assassin was part of the “MAGA gang,” despite authorities saying otherwise. “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said at the time.
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While the host addressed the controversy during his return monologue, many viewers found his comments to be insincere, noting that he stopped short of apologizing for what he had said.
“Kimmel is an unrepentant liar who tried to blame Charlie’s assassination on the part of the country that just spent the last 2 weeks praying and holding vigils,” Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet said in response, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unrepentant-liar-charlie-kirks-team-is-not-buying-jimmy-kimmels-crocodile-tears">reported</a>. “What he’s really saying is that he still thinks it’s fair game to slander conservatives. He would rather advance his own political and cultural agenda than confront the truth.”
Kolvet added, “It’s critical that liars admit they lied. There can be no restoration without that. Anything short of that is a fake and scripted cry line designed to endear him to his fans, not to make right the wrong he committed.”
The Left is exploiting Kimmel’s suspension to push the narrative that free speech is under siege and to fault the Trump administration for silencing critics. But others have noted how ABC made a business decision to suspend Kimmel, which they were well within their rights to do.

Jimmy Kimmel’s Ratings Spike Crashes Back Down To His Usual Terrible Numbers

Jimmy Kimmel Viewership Spike Crashes Back Down To Terrible Numbers As Usual

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