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Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The first debate consisting of Republicans competing for the 2024 presidential bid is finally here. This year’s primary Republican debate will take place tonight, Wednesday, Aug.

The first Republican debate of the 2024 presidential election primary cycle is Wednesday, August 23 beginning at 9 p.m. ET, airing live from Milwaukee, WI, exclusively on Fox News Channel and streaming on Fox Nation and Rumble.

Donald Trump says that he won’t participate in the first Republican debate, but seven of his rivals will be on the debate stage.

Get ready for a trip back to “Fargo”.

FX’s fifth season of multi-award winning series, Fargo, is returning on Tuesday, Nov. 21 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The network today also unveiled first look images from the new season and revealed more details on the plot of the Noah Hawley-created TV series spawned from the Oscar winning 1996 Coen Brothers movie.

Idaho’s law is similar to laws in at least eight other states that have passed laws in recent years barring transgender students from using school facilities matching their gender identity — although it does not go as far as laws in North Dakota and Florida that go beyond schools to prohibit transgender people from accessing gender-affirming restrooms in some or all government buildingsHowever, Idaho’s law does contain what critics have called a “bounty” — in which cisgender students and their parents may sue schools for up to $5,000 if they find a transgender student using facilities that do not match that student’s assigned sex at birth. As a result, the plaintiffs have claimed, the law encourages people to seek out and harass transgender students in the hope of finding them violating the law in exchange for a monetary award.Under the now-blocked law, schools would have been required to provide a “reasonable accommodation” for transgender students unwilling or unable to use restrooms matching their assigned sex at birth.

Luc Besson’s DogMan has become one of the first films to receive a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement that will allow talent to do press during the upcoming festival season. Actors will be allowed to promote the pic at its upcoming premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Thirteen Republican presidential candidates attended the Iowa GOP’s annual Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines Friday night.

Josh Duhamel and his wife Audra Mari are enjoying a rare night out.

Dakota Fred Hurt, who was a key part of several Discovery reality shows about looking for gold in the wild, died Tuesday after a brief battle with brain cancer, according to his family.

statement announcing his veto of the bills, Cooper accused Republicans of “scheming for the next election” by “hurting vulnerable children” and pushing “political culture wars.”He likened the measures to the state’s infamous HB 2 “bathroom bill” restricting transgender access to certain public multi-user facilities, which passed in 2016 and led to a large-scale economic backlash against the state.“A doctor’s office is no place for politicians, and North Carolina should continue to let parents and medical professionals make decisions about the best way to offer gender care for their children,” Cooper said of the restrictions on gender-affirming care, which prohibit rarely-recommended surgical procedures, hormone therapy, and puberty blockers, as well as mental health therapy that affirms a trans-identifying youth’s gender identity.“Ordering doctors to stop following approved medical protocols sets a troubling precedent and is dangerous for vulnerable youth and their mental health,” Cooper added.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) noshes on vegan chicken and waffles, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) likes cheeseburgers.

It might sound like a backhanded compliment, but Downtown Owl feels more like a pilot than a feature film and may yet yield a series. In today’s market, that could work out just fine for directors Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe, who, after a choppy start, finesse Chuck Klosterman’s digressive 2007 novel into a thoughtful, broad-canvas ensemble piece. T Bone Burnett helps nail things down with an eclectic alt-country score and soundtrack, infused with the music and spirit of Elvis Costello, but it’s Rabe that holds it all together onscreen with a controlled yet still wildly uninhibited performance.

Vanessa Hudgens and Lily Rabe are matching in black dresses at the premiere of their new movie!

For all involved, prolific author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman’s 2008 book “Downtown Owl” sets the stage for a number of firsts. For starters, it’s Klosterman’s earliest fiction novel and is the source at the heart of Lily Rabe (“The Tender Bar”) and Hamish Linklater’s (“Midnight Mass”) joint directorial debut which just premiered at the Tribeca Festival.If only the freshness associated with all these firsts was felt in the film by Rabe and Linklater, who are both creative collaborators and real-life partners.

Josh Duhamel is preparing for the future, but he’s taking it several steps past most people.

Josh Duhamel is staying ahead of the game.

Josh Duhamel is living that wilderness life. The star is enjoying nature at his large cabin home in North Dakota — and getting ready for anything the future might throw at him.The 50-year-old actor recently opened up for an interview with , while promoting his new comedy film,, and he spoke about his remote cabin estate in the woods.According to Duhamel, he's learning how to fish so he can catch dinner, he's chopping his own firewood, and he's learning to hunt.«I've become a bit of a doomsday prepper, I guess,» Duhamel said, adding, «I'm building something so if things do go south, I have a place to take my family.»Duhamel explained that, at first, his property included «one little cabin in the woods with no electricity and no water,» and it was a place for weekend retreats at the most. But then, the property next door went up for sale and he snagged it.«I have a tractor.

Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz. ” The FBI recovered the slippers in a sting operation in 2018. A grand jury indicted Terry Martin on Tuesday with one count of theft of a major artwork, federal prosecutors in North Dakota announced Wednesday.

you live in a state that is most likely to survive it?With the recent success of HBO‘s “The Last of Us,” insurance marketplace Insuranks surveyed more than 1,000 US citizens about zombies and what they might do in case of a terrifying undead apocalypse. They also analyzed more than 1,000 Google searches to determine where each state lands on zombie apocalypse preparedness.According to the survey, Wyoming is the readiest to take on the walking dead.

seven broad issues including schools and education, healthcare, free speech, access to accurate IDs, public accommodations, weakening of civil rights laws, marriage, and more. The number of anti-LGBTQ bills introduced has more than tripled since mid-January, and far exceeded the total number of bills introduced in all of 2022, which was 278.Oklahoma has the most anti-LGBTQ bills so far at 35, followed by Missouri (34), Texas (29 bills), Tennessee (26), Iowa (28), Mississippi (24), Indiana.

Starz has picked up “Three Women,” a 10-episode drama based on author Lisa Taddeo’s New York Times best-selling book of the same name, after it was dropped by Showtime.The series stars Shailene Woodley (“Big Little Lies,” “The Descendants”), Betty Gilpin (“Gaslit,” “GLOW”), DeWanda Wise (“She’s Gotta Have It,” “Jurassic World: Dominion”), Gabrielle Creevy (“In My Skin,” “The Pact”), Blair Underwood (“In Treatment, Impeachment: American Crime Story,” “Your Honor”) and John Patrick Amedori (“Dear White People,” “She Won’t Forget”). According to Starz, “Three Women” is an “intimate, haunting portrayal of American female desire that finds three women on a crash course to radically overturn their lives.”“Lina (Gilpin), a homemaker in suburban Indiana, is a decade into a passionless marriage when she embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming and transforms her life.

EXCLUSIVE: Molly Yeh has inked a two-year exclusive deal with Food Network, which will include more episodes of her Midwest-inspired cooking show Girl Meets Farm.

Ready to wed? Madison Johnson is one of the 30 women vying for Zach Shallcross‘ heart on season 27 of The Bachelor — and she’s not interested in anything casual.

Shake-a-doo! It’s been nearly 20 years since Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! hit theaters in 2004.

Shannon Brandt intends to "fully defend" himself against the murder charge he is facing in relation to the death of Cayler Ellingson. Brandt, 41, was arrested after police say he used his SUV to fatally hit Cayler Ellingson, 18, during the early morning hours of Sept. 18 after a street dance at a local bar in McHenry, North Dakota.

Shannon Brandt will appear in court on Thursday for his initial appearance. Brandt, 41, was arrested after police say he fatally hit 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson with an SUV on Sept. 18 during the early morning hours.The incident happened after a street dance at a local bar in McHenry, North Dakota.

A South Carolina man almost lost out on $300,000 after forgetting he purchased a scratch-off lottery ticket during a quick trip to a gas station. The man, who wished to remain anonymous but is from the Midlands area, drove around with the winning ticket for two days before remembering he had bought it, according to the South Carolina Education Lottery. "I threw the ticket in the car’s console and forgot about it," the man told lottery officials.

The North Dakota Supreme Court has extended to Oct. 31 the deadline for a lower court judge to reconsider his decision to prevent the state’s abortion ban from taking effect, after the judge cited workload and health factors.

A campaign over whether to impose term limits on North Dakota lawmakers and the governor is a mismatch so far — at least financially. U.S.Term Limits, a Washington, D.C.-based group, has contributed more than $810,000 in the past two years to get the ballot proposal before voters, while lawmakers and opponents complain they can't keep up with out-of-state interests. "We have no money," said Bismarck Republican Rep.