• Celebrity medium Thomas John dishes on new CBS show and naysayers

    Celebrity medium Thomas John dishes on new CBS show and naysayers

    Thomas John, who bills himself as a psychic medium, is getting his closeup in a new series. “The Thomas John Experience,” premiering Thursday on CBS All Access, follows John (born Thomas John Flanagan) as he travels around the country, meets strangers and puts them “in touch” with deceases loved ones. “The show is really about …
  • Erika Girardi defends cop son: ‘His job is to protect and serve all’

    Erika Girardi defends cop son: ‘His job is to protect and serve all’

    Erika Girardi is proud to be the mother of a policeman. The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star, 48, defended her son Tommy Zizzo on social media after an Instagram user commented, “Your son is an officer!” on her image of a black screen to support Black Lives Matter and Black Out Tuesday. “My son …
  • January Jones shares rare photo of 8-year-old son Xander protesting

    January Jones shares rare photo of 8-year-old son Xander protesting

    January Jones shared a rare photo of her 8-year-old son amid the George Floyd protests taking place around the country. In the photo, Xander wears a mask that reads “Black Lives Matter” and holds up a sign with “I CAN’T BREATHE” written on it in honor of Floyd. “I promise that I will always continue …
  • Grindr buyer reportedly has ties to Chinese owner of app

    Grindr buyer reportedly has ties to Chinese owner of app

    The investor group that’s buying Grindr has connections to the Chinese tech firm that was forced to sell the gay dating app in the first place, a new report says. Federal regulators last week approved Beijing Kunlun Tech Co.’s sale of Grindr to a company called San Vicente Acquisition LLC. The Committee on Foreign Investment …
  • Thomas Rhett, wife Lauren on dealing with racism as parents of black daughter

    Thomas Rhett, wife Lauren on dealing with racism as parents of black daughter

    Thomas Rhett and wife Lauren Akins spoke out Sunday in the wake of George Floyd’s death, taking a stand against racism while addressing their own experiences as the parents of a black daughter, 4-year-old Willa Gray. “As the father of a black daughter and also two white daughters- I have struggled with what to say …
  • Hong Kong Police Ban Annual Tiananmen Square Massacre Vigil

    Hong Kong Police Ban Annual Tiananmen Square Massacre Vigil

    Hong Kong police have banned the annual candlelight vigil commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre, the deadly 1989 crackdown on students demanding democracy in Beijing, just as tensions rise in the city over controversial national-security legislation. Police denied an application by the group that organizes the vigil in Victoria Park on Hong Kong Island, stating in a …
  • Stocks slide as Wall Street grapples with protests and China tensions

    Stocks slide as Wall Street grapples with protests and China tensions

    US stocks slid Monday as Wall Street grappled with mounting unrest over police brutality and continued tensions with China. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped as much as 140.82 points, or 0.5 percent, to 25,242.29 at the open, while the S&P 500 fell as much as 0.4 percent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost as much …
  • The United States should consider rebuilding its military and political ties to the Taiwan

    The United States should consider rebuilding its military and political ties to the Taiwan

    As the confrontation between the United States and China intensifies, Taiwan will occupy a pivotal place. Since becoming the site of the exiled Nationalist Chinese government after the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) conquest of mainland China in 1949, the island state has become a flourishing and prosperous liberal democracy boasting the 21st-largest economy in the …
  • Beijing Moves to Control Hong Kong

    Beijing Moves to Control Hong Kong

    The PRC’s geopolitical hardball could reshape Asia. Under cover of the global coronavirus crisis, China is moving to rewrite Asia’s geopolitical map. Beijing has announced it will essentially take control of Hong Kong by directly imposing a sweeping national-security law, bypassing the territory’s elected Legislative Council. Despite repeated assurances by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) …
  • Adam Amin adding Bulls TV to Fox Sports gig after bolting ESPN

    Adam Amin adding Bulls TV to Fox Sports gig after bolting ESPN

    The sports media job market is not that strong at the moment, unless you are Adam Amin. Besides leaving ESPN to broadcast NFL and MLB for Fox Sports, Amin is on the verge of becoming the new TV voice of the Chicago Bulls, according to sources. Amin, a 33-year-old Chicago native, will replace the retiring …