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Gary Busey Pleads Guilty to Sex Crimes Charge, Admits 'It Was Not an Accidental Touching' Christine Pelisek, Jen JuneauAugust 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM Gary Busey pleaded guilty to one count of fourthdegree criminal sexual contact on Thursday, July 31 Busey admitted he inappropriately touched a woman durin...

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Gary Busey pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact on Thursday, July 31

Busey admitted he inappropriately touched a woman during the semi-annual Monster-Mania Convention at a Doubletree Hotel in New Jersey on Aug. 13, 2022

"He's glad to put this behind him," Busey's criminal defense attorney tells PEOPLE

Gary Busey pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact on Thursday, July 31.

Busey entered his plea during a virtual court appearance where he admitted he inappropriately touched a woman at the semi-annual Monster-Mania Convention at a Doubletree Hotel in New Jersey in August of 2022.

"It was not an accidental touching," Busey told the judge, according to The Guardian.

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Busey's criminal defense attorney Blair Zwillman tells PEOPLE that in order for the judge to accept the guilty plea, "there has to be a factual basis where he admits the offense. He had to admit that it was non-consensual."

"This was the best disposition for him," says Zwillman. "He's glad to put this behind him. He is basically a family guy. He is not a criminal."

Busey, who was initially charged with four counts of criminal sexual contact and one count of attempted criminal sexual contact, has yet to be sentenced. He faces fines and one to five years of probation.

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"We're going to ask that he'd just be fined and end it," says Zwillman.

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Three women reported that the actor touched them inappropriately during an autograph signing meet-and-greet at Monster-Mania in 2022.

The actor initially denied any wrongdoing.

"None of that happened," he told TMZ. "It was a partner, a camera lady and me, and two girls ... it took less than 10 seconds, and they left. Then they made up a story that I assaulted them sexually and I did not. Nothing happened, it's all false."

Busey was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story. He also has appeared in dozens of other films including Predator 2 and Point Break.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar Trains for 'Buffy' Reboot With New Vampire Slayer Ryan Kiera Armstrong: 'We Don't Sweat. We Sparkle' Jazz TangcayAugust 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM Sarah Michelle Gellar is getting ready to slay, and so is the new slayer — Ryan Kiera Armstrong.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar is getting ready to slay, and so is the new slayer — Ryan Kiera Armstrong.

The "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" actress, who is set to star in the series reboot, posted a video to her social media of the two training at a gym in preparation to take on the vampire-slaying roles. Gellar wrote, "Warrior 1 and 2 We don't sweat … we sparkle."

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UCLA loses federal research funding in administration's ongoing fight with top universities Andy Rose, CNNAugust 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM Security officers stand guard on the lawn in front of UCLA's Royce Hall on May 6, 2024, the week after a ProPalestinian encampment was dismantled.

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UCLA is the latest major institution of higher learning to see promised research funding snatched away by the Trump administration, the university's leader said in an open letter to students and faculty Thursday.

"This is not only a loss to the researchers who rely on critical grants," wrote Chancellor Julio Frenk. "It is a loss for Americans across the nation whose work, health, and future depend on the groundbreaking work we do."

Grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health are included in the suspensions, Frenk said, but did not provide an amount of how much funding is in peril. The Los Angeles Times reported that roughly $200 million in grants awarded to UCLA are being suspended, citing a partial list of suspended grants provided to them by a source.

A spokesperson for the National Science Foundation declined to provide specific figures, saying grant awards are being suspended "because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorities and/or programmatic goals."

"We will not fund institutions that promote antisemitism," said a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the National Institutes of Health. "We will use every tool we have to ensure institutions follow the law."

The Trump administration has repeatedly cited antisemitism – especially in the context of contentious pro-Gaza protests on campuses – as a reason to deny promised funds to universities, including Harvard and Columbia. Harvard is fighting the funding decisions in court, while Columbia agreed to a settlement with the government that restored its grants.

The funding cut comes days after the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced it found UCLA in violation of federal law by "acting with deliberate indifference in creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

While the formal notice to UCLA said the federal government "now seeks to enter into a voluntary resolution agreement," Attorney General Pam Bondi sounded less conciliatory.

"DOJ will force UCLA to pay a heavy price for putting Jewish Americans at risk and continue our ongoing investigations into other campuses in the UC system," Bondi said in a statement.

It is not just the Trump administration that has tangled with UCLA over charges of antisemitism. A group of Jewish students filed suit against the university last June, saying the school allowed discrimination against Jews to flourish following Israel's military operation in Gaza in response to the October 7 attacks.

The lawsuit said UCLA leaders waited days before responding to a group of pro-Palestinian protesters that refused to allow students to enter campus unless they agreed to "a statement pledging their allegiance to the activists' views."

UCLA settled the lawsuit earlier this week for $6.45 million, with more than $2 million of the total going to designated "organizations that combat antisemitism and support the UCLA Jewish community."

UCLA also agreed it is prohibited from "knowingly allowing or facilitating the exclusion of Jewish students, faculty, and/or staff" from university programs and activities.

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US warns of corruption and reported bribery aimed at destabilizing Haiti as crisis deepens DÁNICA COTO August 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM FILE Haitian and Kenyan police who are part of a UNbacked multinational force stand at a police station in PontSonde, Haiti, Oct.

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. officials announced Friday they are aware of "reported bribery attempts" aimed at destabilizing Haiti, raising concerns that the troubled country could sink further into crisis.

The announcements were made on X by the U.S. Embassy in Haiti and the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.

Officials did not provide details except to say that they commended members of Haiti's transitional presidential council "for their rejection of corruption" and for collaborating with the current prime minister to "work together" to stabilize the country.

"We will hold accountable anyone who attempts to undermine this collaboration," the embassy wrote on X.

The announcement comes as infighting threatens the stability of the council while gangs that control up to 90% of Haiti's capital continue to seize more territory in Port-au-Prince and in Haiti's central region.

The council's voting members did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Neither did the U.S. Department of State nor the office of Haiti's prime minister.

Some people on social media mocked the announcement as they accused some council members of being corrupt.

In October last year, Haiti's anti-corruption unit accused three council members of bribery and corruption involving the government-owned National Bank of Credit. No one has been charged, and the council members remain in their positions.

Haiti's political stability has been fragile ever since a powerful gang federation known as "Viv Ansanm" launched attacks early last year on critical government infrastructure including police stations and the country's main international airport, forcing it to close for nearly three months.

The attacks prevented then-Prime Minister Ariel Henry from returning to Haiti. He eventually resigned, unable to enter his homeland following an official visit to Kenya to talk about a U.N.-backed mission that police from the eastern African country are currently leading to try and quash gang violence.

The council is under pressure to hold general elections by February 2026, with the previous ones held nearly a decade ago. No date has been set yet.

The council was created in April 2024 as the international community scrambled to meet with Haitian officials to rebuild the country's government after Henry resigned. Political stability remains fragile, with three prime ministers having been appointed in the past year.

Meanwhile, gang violence continues to surge in the aftermath of the July 2021 killing of President Jovenel Moïse.

In a report released Friday, the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti noted that at least 1,520 people were killed and more than 600 injured from April to the end of June. Nearly 80% of those incidents happened in Port-au-Prince, with nearly 20% reported in Haiti's central region.

More than 60% of the killings and injuries occurred during operations by security forces against gangs, with another 12% blamed on self-defense groups.

The report noted that Johnson André, best known as "Izo" and considered Haiti's most powerful gang leader, was injured in drone strikes earlier this year, as was gang leader Renel Destina, who goes by "Ti Lapli" and leads the Grand Ravine gang.

From April to June, more than 400 homes and other buildings including schools and health centers "were ransacked, burned or destroyed by gangs," the report stated.

Gang violence also has displaced more than 1.3 million people in recent years.

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writers Matthew Lee in Washington and Evens Sanon in Port-au-Prince, Haiti contributed.

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Judge pauses termination of LGBTQ+ health research grants Molly Reinmann, CNNAugust 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM Pedestrians cross the intersection of Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue near the Stonewall Inn on June 27, 2019, in New York.

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A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration's cancelation of US National Institutes of Health grants that research on LGBTQ+ related health issues.

Ruling from the bench, US District Judge Lydia Griggsby, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, said she would issue a preliminary injunction against NIH directives to terminate grants for LGBTQ+ health research, describing such directives as designed to "focus and target LGBTQ+ members."

"It's clear that why the funding is being terminated and why the grants will not move forward is because they relate to that community," Griggsby said.

The lawsuit, filed in May by the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights, against the NIH and Department of Health and Human Services alleges that in targeting only certain, predominantly LGBTQ+-related research projects for funding cuts, the NIH engaged in unlawful discrimination.

In determining what grants to cut, Physicians for Human Rights attorney Omar Gonzalez-Pagan argued on Friday, NIH employees "literally do a search term of projects, and they literally look for words" associated with LGBTQ+ related issues – including transgender, nonbinary, and sexuality.

The reason the government is targeting transgender research projects "is because they believe transgender people do not exist," Omar Gonzalez-Pagan said.

"We need to take the government at its word," he continued. "That this a president of the United States who has spoken so denigratingly of the people that he governs"

Assistant US Attorney Michael Wilson argued that the court lacked jurisdiction and would become "involved in what should be a political process."

This is not the first time a district court has thwarted the NIH's attempts to cancel grants funding identity-related research.

In a separate legal challenge to the case, a district court judge in Massachusetts ruled in June that the gutting of NIH grants in diversity-related fields is illegal, though that ruling addressed only a fraction of the hundreds of grants actually terminated.

District Judge William Young, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, said it is "palpably clear" that "racial discrimination and discrimination against America's LGBTQ community" was behind the NIH's grant termination plans.

Griggsby said she would issue a written ruling on the matter in the coming weeks.

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'Star Wars: A New Hope' Will Get 50th Anniversary Theatrical ReRelease in 2027 Brent LangAugust 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM The movie that started the Skywalker saga and arguably created Hollywood's franchise frenzy is flying back into theaters.

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The movie that started the Skywalker saga and arguably created Hollywood's franchise frenzy is flying back into theaters. "Star Wars: A New Hope" will return to the big screen on April 30, 2027, to mark the film's 50th anniversary.

Disney, which purchased LucasFilm in 2012 and with it the rights to the "Star Wars" series in 2012 for $4 billion, announced the planned re-release on Friday. The company also said that it would debut "Whalefall," an adaptation of the novel by Daniel Kraus, on October 16, 2026. The survival thriller is directed by Brian Duffield, stars Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin and will be released by 20th Century Studios. The film is about a scuba diver who is swallowed by a sperm whale.

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Nick Cannon Hopes His Daughters Don't 'Date People Like Their Dad,' Says He Wants Them to 'Learn from My Mistakes' Kayla GrantAugust 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM Jesse Grant/Variety via Getty Nick Cannon Nick Cannon is getting real about how fatherhood changed his dating life The Drumline actor revealed that ...

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Nick Cannon is getting real about how fatherhood changed his dating life

The Drumline actor revealed that being a father of five girls made him change his perspective on dating and give up his old player ways

Cannon is a father to 12 different children from six different women

Nick Cannon is getting real about how fatherhood has changed his dating life.

While talking about his new late-night show with Extra's Mona Kosar Abdi, the Wild N' Out creator, 44, opened up about his personal life and his old dating habits. Cannon said that being a dad to five daughters has changed his outlook on how he approaches the dating scene, adding that he hopes to he can inspire his daughters to "learn from my mistakes and not date people like their dad."

"When you have five daughters and you're like, 'All right, I at least want to be able to be true and honest,' but like I can't live the same life that I've always been living and attempt to right my wrongs in that sense of where like hopefully my daughters learn from my mistakes and not date people like their dad."

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Cannon shares twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex-wife Mariah Carey; sons Golden Sagon and Rise Messiah Cannon and daughter Powerful Queen with Brittany Bell; twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir and daughter Beautiful Zeppelin with Abby De La Rosa; son Legendary Love with Bre Tiesi; and daughter Onyx Ice Cole with LaNisha Cole. Cannon is father to two children with Alyssa Scott — son Zen, who died at five months old in December 2021 after being diagnosed with brain cancer, and daughter Halo Marie Cannon.

As for expanding his family, Cannon told PEOPLE in March that he's "pressing hold" on welcoming any more children. The Drumline star explained that while he's "not against it," he won't be welcoming any little ones any time soon.

"I really don't know. I'm being honest. I'm having so much fun in this space right now, and the way my bank account is set up, I'm going to press hold on this 12 for right now," he told PEOPLE. "But. I was just speaking of three years from now [or] five years from now, who knows? I'm not against it."

"There was a point in time where I was just like, 'Nah, I'm done.' And, then I was like, 'Who am I to say that?' " he added. "It seemed like it was such an emphatic thing. I never imagined that I would have 12 kids. So, it's one of those things where I love children. I love my life, and if it could keep going in the direction that it's going, why not?"

While speaking with PEOPLE at ESSENCE Festival of Culture about his podcast We Playin' Spades presented by Amazon and Wondery, Cannon opened up about his "nontraditional, unorthodox" life as a dad of 12. Cannon said that he loves his children unconditionally and "there's nothing more important" to him than them.

"I love my kids unconditionally, and there's nothing more important than my children, so it's a learning lesson of love for me every single day," he told PEOPLE. "The number one thing is just to be present and to be able to say, 'Hey, I'm here, we're growing together.' "

"But also to put a different face on the fatherhood, too, because you see it in so many different ways now that you didn't see before," he continued. "You can be present and you can have multiple relationships. We're getting so many different flavors of how fatherhood can look."

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The actor and comedian went on to say that his children are growing up "surrounded with love," despite what the public thinks about his "nontraditional" parenting style.

"I always tell everybody it's the proof is in the pudding, so we're gonna see," he said. "As these children grow up and they're surrounded with love, all I can do is pray that they can have an open and loving life because they see what that is in a very, like you said, non-traditional, unorthodox way, but it's still filled with love."

When asked if there's anything different about parenting single children versus multiple children, the host of The Masked Singer notes that his twins were born as "best friends."

"Twins are best friends. Friends out the gate," he said. "They have a different understanding. They locked in together and it's actually like once they get to a certain age, they always got a companion, so it's kind of cool."

"They can ... parent each other, but they have that built in like a strong balance that they got going to where they'll check each other," he added. "They'll embrace each other and they [will] be down for each other like no other sibling or family infrastructure."

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