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Melania Trump has blasted a comedian for making 'inappropriate and insensitive comments' about her son after he tweeted that he hopes 'Barron gets to spend today with whoever his dad is'. John Henson, who brings his comedy to ABC's 'Wipeout,' E!'s 'Talk Soup' and hosts Food Network's 'Halloween Baking Championship,' made the remarks as President Donald Trump's four other children from two prior marriages wished him a happy Father's Day via social media. The First Lady responded to the stand-up comedian's Twitter post on Tuesday via her spokesperson.

John Henson, a second-generation puppeteer, has died at age 48. Henson — son of Muppets creator Jim Henson — suffered a sudden heart attack on Friday. The news was confirmed by the official Facebook page for the Jim Henson Company, of which John Henson was a shareholder and board member. The younger Henson also worked on several Muppets projects, playing the character Sweetums in films including Muppet Treasure Island and Muppets From Space. He is survived by his wife, Gyongyi, and two daughters.

LONDON – The Archbishop of Canterbury has given his personal backing to a new translation of the New Testament in which Christians are told to go out and have more sex. St. Paul’s condemnations of homosexual sodomy are deleted. Instead of censuring fornicators, adulterers and “abusers of themselves with mankind,” the new version of his first letter to Corinthians has St. Paul advising Christians not to go without sex for too long in case they get frustrated. The translation appears to contradict the authorized King James version which, in a passage in I Corinthians, often used to back the celibacy...