Star Wars is a guaranteed money-making film franchise for Disney. Like an enormous Star Destroyer looming over every other film or franchise it’s up against on any opening day, it’s as close to a sure thing you can get in entertainment investments. The question here, however – with Disney, and more specifically with Kathleen Kennedy’s steering and the evolving face ...

A British Airways plane was held at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris Sunday morning after a “direct security threat” sparked an evacuation — ultimately leading to a false alarm.  Dozens of armed officers and firefighters surrounded the plane headed to London’s Heathrow Airport Sunday after they received a “security alert,” a spokesman for France’s national gendarme service said. James ...

The newest lawyer to join Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible Trump campaign team collusion with Russia gained notoriety for her conduct in defending former President Obama’s immigration orders, Politico reported Saturday. Besides her work for Obama, Kyle Freeny, now the 16th member of Mueller’s legal team, Federal Election Commission records show she donated in each of the past ...

Lawmakers in California on Saturday passed “sanctuary state” legislation even as President Trump and his administration have vowed to crack down on jurisdictions that do not cooperate with federal immigration agents. The bill approved early Saturday limits police cooperation with federal immigration authorities and is intended to bolster protections for illegal immigrants in the state. But the acting director of ...

British police Saturday raided a home in a London suburb that belongs to an elderly couple honored for their work with child refugees as part of the fast-moving investigation into London’s subway bombing Friday that injured 30 people.  The property is registered to Ronald Jones, 88, and his 71-year-old wife, Penelope, who have been honored by the Queen after taking ...

The attorney for a Tennessee woman who allegedly shot a homeless man who asked her move her Porsche in Nashville last month claims the man has a history of threatening locals. Related Image Expand / Collapse Katie Quackenbush is an aspiring singer charged with attempted murder. Peter Strianse, who is representing 26-year-old Katie Quackenbush, said attorney Brian Manookian contacted her ...

President Trump fired back at ESPN in an early morning tweet after the network’s tepid response to an anchor who called him a “white supremacist” on Twitter. “ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming). People are dumping it in RECORD numbers,” Trump tweeted Friday. “Apologize for untruth!” Trump’s not-so-subtle response was a reaction to ...

Bill Clinton’s real life impeachment is being turned into a TV series. The History Channel has greenlit six episodes of the scripted series, “The Breach: Inside the Impeachment of Bill Clinton,” according to The Wrap. The show is based on the book, “The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton,” written by Peter Baker, the Washington Post reporter ...