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“Celebrity Big Brother” has once again dipped into President Trump’s former employee rolls for on-air talent: CBS announced Sunday that Anthony Scaramucci, the man who lasted less than two weeks as the White House communications director in 2017, is joining the B-list cast of the “Real World”-meets-“Survivor” competition series. Scaramucci follows in the stilettoed footsteps of former Trump staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman, whose salacious tenure on “Celebrity Big Brother” was marked by headline-grabbing confessionals about the utter chaos behind the scenes at 1600 Penn. While there’s no doubt that “the Mooch” will be dropping gems of his own, as a...

Lawyers for Richard Gates, a former Trump campaign aide charged with tax fraud and money laundering last year as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, have filed a motion to leave the case. Gates's lawyers filed the motion Thursday, though the reason for their leaving was not made public. "Pursuant to Local Rule 44.5(d), undersigned counsel hereby move to withdraw as counsel of record in this case effective immediately for the reasons set forth in Exhibit 1 which is the subject of a motion to be filed under seal," the filing reads. The motion by Gates's lawyers comes...

After decades of ignoring the polygamous sects of the American Southwest, state and federal officials are now cracking down on the child abuse and other illegal activity within them. Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), has been convicted of being an accomplice to rape and sentenced to two five years-to-life terms. Mohave County, Arizona, charged eight others for sexual conduct with minors in 2005. In March, 2006, the federal government fined one contractor over $10,000 in child labor law violations for using FLDS boys. Washington County, Utah, prosecutor Brock Belnap is investigating deaths of children in the...

December 1, 2003, 7:38 PM EST SALT LAKE CITY -- A lawyer for a Utah man with five wives argued Monday that his polygamy convictions should be thrown out following a Supreme Court decision decriminalizing gay sex. The nation's high court in June struck down a Texas sodomy law, ruling that what gay men and women do in the privacy of their homes is no business of government. It's no different for polygamists, argued Tom Green's attorney, John Bucher, to the Utah Supreme Court.

I honestly believe that the threat of lawsuits against individual downloaders was and is bogus. I have not seen one shred of evidence to the contrary. I've downloaded tons of songs beginning back with Napster. It never hurt the recording industry one ounce. What hurts them is when there is no interest. Luckily for them, Napster and Kazza kept the interest alive. When Napster first came out everyone loved it and there was no talk of lawsuits. The recording industry was booming. Sales were up and I remember news pundits and other talking heads say that the reason sales of...

Last call at Jimmy Kimmel's new ABC talk show NEW YORK (AP) - It's last call at Jimmy Kimmel's new ABC talk show. After a boisterous premiere during which actor George Clooney passed around a bottle of vodka and an audience member vomited, the bar that serves drinks to audience members has been shut down. Kimmel's late-night talk show, to run regularly on weeknights, premiered early Monday two hours after the end of the Super Bowl and was seen by an average of 4.8 million viewers. Besides Clooney pouring drinks, rapper Snoop Dogg tested censors by several times making an...

US polygamist convicted of child rape An avowed polygamist who practically dared prosecutors to go after him was convicted of child rape for impregnating a 13-year-old who later became his wife. District Judge Donald Eyre took just 30 minutes to convict Tom Green for his relationship with Linda Kunz, who is now his legal wife. Green's non-jury trial lasted about an hour. Green has appeared on TV talk shows, including the Sally Jessy Raphael Show, to talk about his many wives. Prosecutors submitted Kunz's testimony from previous hearings, as well as her 1973 birth certificate and the 1986 birth certificate...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Tom Green needs all five fingers to count the number of movie booby-prizes he received for ``Freddy Got Fingered.'' His much-reviled comedy was named worst picture of last year on Saturday at the Golden Raspberry Awards, an annual spoof held on the eve of the Academy Awards. Green also was chosen as worst actor and director for ``Freddy Got Fingered,'' shared the worst screenplay award with co-writer Derek Harvie and was cited for worst screen couple — ``Tom Green and any animal he abuses.'' Green became the first actor in the 22-year history of the...