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Stormy Daniels brings her whirlwind tour to LA LOS ANGELES - The promotion on the Deja Vu strip club's Instagram said it all. "No Hush Money Required here. SEE THE PORN STAR WORTH $130,000 BUT WILL ONLY COST YOU THE PRICE OF ADMISSION." Stormy Daniels, who vaulted into the national spotlight as a result of her reported affair with Donald Trump, would be writhing - live on stage - at the North Hollywood club. Patrons paid $25 to see her perform Saturday night. The latest stop on her nationwide tour came with a fair bit of hype and anticipation. Earlier this month, President Trump's personal attorney acknowledged paying Daniels, who is known offstage as Stephanie Clifford, $130,000 just before the 2016 election, but has not said why. This led Daniels' manager, Gina Rodriguez, to say that her nondisclosure agreement was invalidated and that "everything is off now, and Stormy is going to tell her story." The North Hollywood club is a short dri...

Jane Seymour Says She Quit Hollywood After Being Sexually Harassed by a Producer Jane Seymour said she briefly quit acting after she was sexually harassed by an unnamed producer around 1972. The 67-year-old actor, best known for her roles in the James Bond film  Live and Let Die  and the 1990s TV drama  Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman , revealed her #MeToo story in an interview with  Playboy.  She also posed for a spread in the magazine. Seymour said the incident happened when a powerful producer invited her to his house to watch her screen test for a role. She said the producer told her: “I’ve persuaded everyone that you are the perfect person to play this role. It wasn’t easy. Now it’s your turn.” The producer, whom Seymour did not name, then put his hand on her leg “in the wrong place.” She said she moved away from him and asked him to call her a cab. “He put me in a car and said, ‘If anyone knows you ever came here, if you ever ...

Rachel McAdams Is Pregnant With Her First Child Rachel McAdams  is going to be a mom! The Oscar nominee is pregnant, multiple sources tell E! News. A rep for McAdams could not be reached. The actress has been keeping a low profile in recent months (she didn't attend Wednesday's premiere of  Game Night ), and she was last photographed at an airport in Toronto sporting a baggy jacket.  McAdams has typically been very private about her personal life, but she was spotted holding hands with screenwriter  Jamie Linden  in the summer of 2016, fanning speculation that the two were a couple.  Though she has yet to personally confirm the baby news, McAdams revealed years ago that she was looking forward to becoming a mother.  "Having a few [kids] would be great," she told  People  in 2009. Furthermore, she told the magazine, "My mom is a great inspiration to me...She's a nurse and very nurturing and gentle. She lets me be who I am. Hopef...

Which Country Leads The Winter Olympics Medals Count? Does It Matter? So now that the United States has won the Olympic gold medal in women’s hockey, the U.S. jumps right to the top of those Olympic medals standings/counts/trackers, right? After all, each of the 23 women on the team received a gold medal early Thursday morning after a thrilling shootout victory over Canada. Well, unfortunately for the U.S. — or fortunately if you are Norway or Germany  —  the medals standings/counts/trackers don't work that way. One event is worth one gold, silver, bronze, end of story, no matter how many people it took. These standings/counts/trackers are a highly inexact science. Actually, to me, the Olympic medal standings lost most of their news value on Dec. 26, 1991, the day the Soviet Union dissolved and there was no Cold War. Twenty-six years and 15 Games later, though, networks and news services (like this one) display these updated medals standings, as if they are signi...

Teen’s warning thwarts Vermont school shooting: 'It was a matter of lives at hand' POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Angela McDevitt didn’t recognize the person she knew in the messages she received. Her friend Jack Sawyer of Poultney, Vt., told her he planned “on shooting up” his former high school and had been preparing to do so for two years. “I was very conflicted on what to do because this was not the Jack that I knew in person,” McDevitt said. The 17-year-old junior at Arlington High School in Lagrangeville, N.Y., decided to bring the Facebook messages to the attention of a school official. And because of that, officials in New York and Vermont are praising McDevitt for helping to prevent a mass shooting at the Fair Haven, Vt., school of about 400 students. Sawyer, an 18-year-old former Fair Haven student, pleaded not guilty Friday afternoon to charges that include attempted murder. In an exclusive interview with the  Poughkeepsie Journal  on Tuesday, McDevit...

Billy Graham, evangelist pastor and counselor to presidents, dead at age 99 Billy Graham, the charismatic North Carolina pastor who took his evangelizing crusades around the country and the globe, died on Wednesday morning, according to officials of his organization. He was 99. Graham achieved a reach unlike any other evangelist, serving as a counselor or minister to a dozen U.S. presidents. He preached to an estimated 215 million people in 185 countries around the world during his life, and his message reached millions more as he maintained a near-constant presence on radio, television and the internet. Graham also wrote more than two dozen books, including his 1997 memoir, "Just as I Am," which was a New York Times best-seller. Graham was a steady presence among top leaders in this country, providing prayer and personal advice to every president starting with Harry S. Truman. In recent years, he took on a reduced role, but still earned the praise of President Dona...

U.S. women’s hockey players in tears after legend’s surprise About three months ago, the U.S. women’s hockey team took a bonding trip to Nike’s headquarters. One of those nights in Oregon, after a day full of training and meetings, players had just finished dinner and gathered in the team hotel for what they thought was one last debrief before bed. Some staff members started talking generally about legacy.  Cammi Granato  entered the room. No introduction was necessary. Granato received a standing ovation. “I was in tears, actually,” said  Meghan Duggan , one of four women who have captained the U.S. at the Olympics (Granato,  Krissy Wendell  and  Natalie Darwitz  are the others). Duggan, who has been on the national team for a decade, had never met Granato. “It wasn’t like she stood up at a podium and delivered a speech to us,” Duggan said. “She just kind of sat and talked to us about her experience.” The surprise appearanc...

Florida lawmaker's aide fired after claiming students are actors A Florida representative's aide lost his job Tuesday after sending an email to a reporter falsely alleging that two  students who survived the Florida school shooting  -- and were speaking out on TV -- are "actors." Benjamin Kelly, who worked as district secretary for Florida State Representative Shawn Harrison, emailed a Tampa Bay Times journalist with a message that read: "Both kids in the picture are not students here but actors that travel to various crisis when they happen." Several Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who have advocated for stricter gun laws, have become the subject of conspiracy theories and smear campaigns. Alex Leary, the Washington bureau chief for the Tampa Bay Times, who received the email said the message had been sent using state email. Leary told CNN it had been in response to his story that published in the morning. Leary said he had never b...

The India coin that set off millions of messages India's central bank is reckoned to have sent out hundreds of millions of text messages in the last couple of days - all part of a rearguard effort to protect the value of the Indian currency. Don't be too alarmed, the Indian economy isn't about to tank - not quite yet, anyway. The bank's herculean campaign is only designed to ensure the integrity of the country's humble 10 rupee coin - worth just 10 US cents or 10 UK pence. It's powerful evidence of just how seriously governments take their task of ensuring the illusion that the cash in our pockets actually has value. As I'll explain, the truth is that money is the greatest confidence trick in the history of humanity. The issue in India is simple: many people don't seem to believe that the 10 rupee coins are real and, as a result, they are unwilling to accept them. Rumours that the coin are fake - allegedly started in the western state of Guj...

Philippines 'concerned' as U.S. intelligence tags Duterte a threat to democracy Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is not an autocrat and is taking seriously a report by the U.S. intelligence community that names the firebrand leader among the threats to democracy in Southeast Asia, his spokesman said on Wednesday. The report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, places Duterte alongside Cambodia's Hun Sen, the Rohingya crisis and Thailand's military-backed constitution as impediments to democracy. "We view this declaration from no less than the intelligence department of the United States with some concern," presidential spokesman Harry Roque told DZMM radio. Democracy and human rights in many Southeast Asian nations will remain fragile in 2018 because of autocratic tendencies, rampant corruption and cronyism, the U.S. intelligence community said in its Worldwide Threat Assessment report of Feb. 13.(http://bit.ly/2BYI...

Messi finally breaks his duck vs. Chelsea to secure Barcelona draw LONDON -- Three quick thoughts on Chelsea's 1-1 draw with Barcelona in their Champions League round-of-16 first leg at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday. 1. Messi finally breaks his Chelsea duck to earn draw At the ninth time of asking, Lionel Messi finally scored his first goal against Chelsea to earn the Spanish giants a 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge in their Champions League round-of-16 first leg. Messi's lengthy drought against the Premier League champions, extended by a missed penalty in 2012, looked set to run on into a 10th game during a frustrating 90 minutes for the Argentinian against Chelsea. But with his only real chance of the game, the Barcelona forward beat goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois from close range on 75 minutes after being teed up by Andres Iniesta. A careless pass by Andreas Christensen across the face of his own penalty area gifted Barcelona their chance, with Iniesta beating...

Pence was set to meet with North Korean officials during the Olympics before last minute cancellation PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Vice President Pence departed for a five-day, two country swing through Asia earlier this month having agreed to a secret meeting with North Korean officials while in South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.  But on Saturday Feb. 10, less than two hours before Pence and his team were set to meet with Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and Kim Yong Nam, the regime’s nominal head of state, the North Koreans pulled out of the scheduled meeting, according to Pence’s office. The North Korean decision to withdraw from the meeting came after Pence had used his trip to denounce their nuclear ambitions and announce the “toughest and most aggressive” sanctions against the regime yet, while also taking steps to further solidify the U.S. alliance with both Japan and South Korea. It also came as Kim Jong Un, throug...