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The 1975’s Matty Healy was spotted strolling around sunny Los Angeles for the first time since his on-stage antics sparked outrage in Malaysia.The British singer made headlines after kissing his bandmate on stage during a performance, causing a stir in the country over their LGBTQ+ laws. Dressed casually in a white vest and blue baggy shorts, the 34 year old was seen examining the wheels of his flashy BMW soft-top car while out in West Hollywood.The Sound singer hunkered down next to the pavement, getting up close and personal with the silver rims of his car as he chatted with a man who appeared to be a valet.

Tommy Fury has left his fans in tears once again as she posted a sweet declaration to his new fiancee Molly-Mae Hague. The loved-up couple whipped their followers into a frenzy over the weekend when they revealed they were engaged.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor TikTok has added the ability to create text-based posts — alongside its central short-form video format — although the move is more about giving users a new option for sharing content, rather than representing a new challenge to Elon Musk’s Twitter (which is rebranding as X) or Instagram’s Threads. TikTok’s new text posts have a 1,000-character limit. Users can customize their text posts by adding a sound (such as song snippets), tagging a location, enabling comments and allowing Duets, among other features. Unlike Twitter or Threads, on TikTok, text-based posts aren’t designed to facilitate a conversation — TikTok posts still function more like Instagram posts, which followers may be able to comment on but that’s not the main point.

Logic and wife Brittney Noell are now parents of two boys!

Editor’s note: Jesse Andrews is author of the novel Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, which is one of five books pulled from the library shelves of high schools within the purview of Tallahassee, Florida-based Leon County Schools superintendent Rock Hanna, after the Leon County chapter of the conservative group Moms for Liberty petitioned the schools to remove the book because of the frank depiction of sex and gender identity issues. The others include Push, the Sapphire-penned book that inspired the film Precious;Doomed by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk; Lucky by Alice Sebold; and Dead End by Jason Meyer. Still being scrutinized is an autobiography of tennis great Billie Jean King, because it discusses her sexuality. This has been an ongoing theme precipitated by policies passed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and legislative Republicans. DeSantis is running for president and probably figured to ride his brawl with Disney into the White House, until Bob Iger began pushing back in ways that have cost revenue and investments it planned for the state of Florida, where Disney is its largest taxpayer and employer. What’s it like to see your book banished for, as Moms for Liberty argued in its email to the school board, violate state law and subject school district personnel to potential felony prosecution and litigation? Here, Andrews — also a screenwriter whose credits include co-writing with Mike Jones Pixar’s Luca — explains it all.

Phil Foden hopes to see Manchester City duo Rico Lewis and Cole Palmer follow his example in graduating from the academy to nail down a first-team place.

firearms regulations, corporate diversity programs, a Florida school’s policy on a transgender student’s privacy, and the decision by credit card companies to separately classify gun purchases, to name a few issues.READ MORE: GOP Senators and Right-Wingers Freak Out Over Biden Ordering 3000 Reservists to Ready for Possible Deployment to EuropeHe or his office have also accessed the medical records of transgender people,Earlier this week anchor Rachel Maddow took a look into Skrmetti “demanding and obtaining the private medical records of trans people in Tennessee as Republicans look for ways to make the lives of trans people miserable,” MSNBC reported.Just yesterday, Skrmetti headed a coalition of 13 Republican state attorneys general “warning the nation’s largest companies — many of which have diversity and equity programs — they could face legal action for using race-based policies,” Tennessee Lookout reported. The sharply-worded letter “put Fortune 100 companies on notice they could be hit with legal action for violating the U.S.

Porno for Pyros have announced their first tour in 25 years in celebration of the 30th anniversary of their self-titled album.Titled ‘Horns, Thorns En Halos’ tour, the 21-city run will kick off on October 8 in Wheatland, California. From there, the band will be making stops all across North America including Las Vegas, Nevada, Chicago, Illinois,  Boston, Massachusetts,  Atlanta, Georgia, Nashville, Tennessee and more.The tour will wrap up on November 20 at Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater in Austin, Texas.

Elon Musk has taken his rivalry with Mark Zuckerberg too far.

Jamie Foxx is recovering and rehabilitating after suffering an unknown medical emergency last month that left him hospitalized in Atlanta.Jamie's health condition has been subject to rumors and speculation, and wildly varying reports have emerged regarding his condition and his recuperation.Meanwhile, many of his famous friends and colleagues have been keeping in touch, sharing their love and prayers and working with Jamie amid his health scare.ET is taking a look back at the Oscar winner's unspecified medical complication, from when news first broke that he'd been hospitalized through the most recent reports that he's at a physical rehabilitation facility in Chicago and his first sighting since hospitalization.On April 12 — one day after Foxx was spotted on the set of his most recent project, Back in Action — the actor's daughter, Corinne Foxx, revealed that her father had experienced a health scare, and was on the road to recovery.«We wanted to share that, my father, Jamie Foxx, experienced a medical complication yesterday,» Corinne began the message, written on behalf of the Foxx family. «Luckily, due to quick action and great care, he is already on his way to recovery.»The 29-year-old actress continued, «We know how beloved he is and appreciate your prayers.

EastEnders fans have gone wild as the soap has released the first clip of Lisa Fowler's return to the Square. Lisa is returning to Walford with her granddaughter Peggy Mitchell who is the daughter of Keanu Taylor and Louise Mitchell. Lisa left the Square with Louise and Peggy in early 2020 as they escaped the square and went to Portugal.

Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves‘ oldest son has reached a cool new milestone!

Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves' oldest son has reached a cool new milestone!On Friday, in honor of their son, Levi's, 15th birthday, the proud parents gave him an official welcome to Instagram. In a video, shared on both McConaughey and Alves' respective accounts, the duo said that after three years of discussion, they have allowed their son to have his own account. "@levimcconaughey #happybirthday #welcometoinstagram," the caption read. Making the occasion more personal, the location was set to «Levi is LIVIN.»The Oscar-winning actor shared that Alves was nervous for the milestone.

Meta launched Threads this week which is their response to Twitter and in many ways both platforms want to host digital town squares. However, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri is clearing things up and saying that the social network will not push topics about politics and hard news.

Jess a mom thing — no kidding. Jessica Simpson frequently has to tame her temper when it comes to her kids catching flights with the Kardashians to see the likes of Katy Perry perform — mostly because her brood has yet to ever see their “Irresistible”-crooning mom hit the stage. “They’ve never seen me do this,” said Simpson, 42, as the cover girl of Bustle’s July issue, referring to tots Maxwell, 11, Ace, 10, and Birdie Mae, 4, who she shares with husband Eric Johnson, 43.While wowing in eye-catching couture for the piece, the “Take My Breath Away” chanteuse candidly addressed her Ozempic-free weight loss, a sorely missed opportunity to work with Beyoncé’s songwriters due to her bout with alcoholism and regaining ownership of her eponymous “Jessica Simpson” fashion imprint for over $54 million in 2021. She also casually laughed off the recent wave of viral vitriol ex-hubby Nick Lachey, 49, has amassed on TikTok for criticizing her in resurfaced clips from MTV reality series “Newlyweds,” which chronicled their brief marriage in the early 2000s.But for Simpson, her daughter Maxwell’s enchantment with “Fireworks”-singing Perry is no laughing matter. “I have my daughter taking a private plane with North West to go see Katy Perry in Vegas,” she said.

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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Should you ditch Twitter in favor of Instagram’s Threads — which looks quite a lot like a clone of Twitter? Meta launched Threads, a “conversational” text-centric app tied to Instagram, on Wednesday, a day earlier than expected. The internet giant sees an opportunity to take on Twitter, controlled by tech mogul Elon Musk, which has been beset by various technical and business issues since he acquired the company. “I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Threads post. “Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we will.”

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has unleashed its frontal attack on Twitter, the social network controlled by Elon Musk. On Wednesday (July 5), Meta’s Instagram launched Threads, described as a “text-based conversation app.” The app is available in Apple’s App Store for iOS devices and in Google Play for Android.

Robyn returned to Instagram with a special announcement — she's a mom!On Tuesday, the «Dancing on My Own» singer (whose full name is Robin Miriam Carlsson) shared the news with her followers with an introduction to her baby boy.«My time is yours 4-ever Tyko,» the caption read, alongside a picture of her baby boy who looked up at the camera with his piercing baby blue eyes.