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In the last few days, President Donald Trump flip-flopped on his order to launch a military strike on Iran and then suddenly delayed his much-hyped mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.

A backpack and phone believed to belong to a missing YouTuber have been recovered on the Manhattan Bridge in New York City, according to police sources.

BATANGAS --- National team coach Yeng Guiao on Sunday that he wants to bury the proverbial hatchet apropos of Ray Parks Jr.'s decision to decline Gilas Pilipinas' invitation to attend Gilas pool trainings for the FIBA World Cup. "Let's end that episode," Guiao told a handful of reporters shortly after his NLEX Road Warriors absorbed a 100-85 beating at the hands of Barangay Ginebra at Batangas City Coliseum. "For me, when you play for the national team, it should be a hundred percent commitment," he added. "And if you're half-hearted, I suggest that you might as well don't." According to reports Thursday, Guiao said that Blackwater rookie Parks Jr. declined to pass up on the invitat...

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TOKYO---At 15, Millie Bobby Brown looks more like one of those pinup-ready actresses from romantic comedies than the intense child actress who swept sci-fi aficionados off their feet in the first season of Netflix's acclaimed sci-fi drama, "Stranger Things," in 2016. Things have certainly changed for the teen actress three years after capturing viewers' imagination in the cult favorite, which begins streaming its third season on July 4. For one, she has become very recognizable, with a luminous beauty that complements her razor-sharp sensitivity as an emerging actress. The fact that Millie is also part of a string of hip projects---from Maroon 5's "Girls Like You" and Drake's ...

Keep on reading: Millie Bobby Brown talks about ‘Stranger Things,’ dealing with fame and her first kiss

This time, I hope to be the one to shock her," declared Joem Bascon, who will play the leading man of Iza Calzado in the historical drama "Culion." The two actors first worked together in the 2007 Adolf Alix Jr. drama "Batanes: Sa Dulo ng Walang Hanggan," which happened to be Joem's first-ever project on the big screen. "That was my first big break as an actor. Iza taught me a lot while working on that film. Hiyang-hiya pa ako sa kanya because she was already Iza Calzado at that time," recalled Joem when the Inquirer asked him about his working relationship with Iza then. "My first kissing scene and love scene were with her. She was my first love-team partner, if that's what you c...

Keep on reading: ‘Culion’ a reunion movie for Joem Bascon and Iza Calzado

Veteran actress Marissa Delgado has always wanted to be an actress as a young girl. So fresh out of high school in 1966, Marissa, then 16 years old, did a screen test for Artemio Marquez's "Dalawang Kumander sa WAC" with lead stars Dolphy and Chiquito. She passed and that began her show biz career. "My favorite movie was 'Lumuha Pati Mga Anghel' where I played the role of the stepmother of Lorna Tolentino and Arnold Gamboa," said Delgado. Directed by Lino Brocka, this earned Marissa her first Famas Best Supporting Award in 1971. Ishmael Bernal directed her in "Till Death Do Us Part" where she won her second Famas Best Supporting Actress Award in 1972. One of Marissa's recent...

Keep on reading: Veteran actress Marissa Delgado helps OFWs achieve their dreams

While director Erik Matti said he was pleased with his action film "BuyBust" winning the Gawad Urian best picture honor, he felt prouder that members of his tech and creative teams were recognized, too. "BuyBust," about a female antinarcotics agent (Anne Curtis) trying to escape a special operation that went awry, also won for best sound (Erwin Romulo, Malek Lopez), best production design (Roma Regala, Michael Espaol) and best cinematography (Neil Bion) awards. Erik failed to attend the awards show at the UP Cine Adarna on Tuesday night because he was in Bacolod shooting for the HBO series, "Food Lore." "This has got to be the most complicated sound design they had ever made...

Keep on reading: How ‘BuyBust’ team created movie magic

Model Chrissy Teigen is defending a video she posted of her daughter's first time at the dentist after some are criticizing Teigen for not taking her earlier.

President Donald Trump said in an interview aired Sunday that he's not prepared to lose the 2020 presidential election.

BATANGAS---Gilas Pilipinas lost an old reliable ahead of its second appearance in the FIBA World Cup after Jayson Castro begged off on Friday. But national team coach Yeng Guiao didn't have to look far for a fitting replacement as he cited Kiefer Ravena to pickup the cudgels from the two-time Asia's best point guard. "Right now, he is the most logical choice to fill up the slot of Jayson," he said Sunday night in Batangas shortly after NLEX's loss to Barangay Ginebra. "It's almost a done deal for the slot of Jayson," Guiao added. Ravena, 25, is slated to rejoin Gilas Pilipinas training on Monday then, with the Road Warriors on Tuesday following a long ban meted out by FIB...

Keep on reading: Kiefer Ravena ‘most logical choice’ as replacement for Jayson Castro at Gilas, says Yeng Guiao

During an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Vice President Mike Pence would not say whether climate change is a threat to the US. Pence's comment comes as the Environmental Protection Agency announced last week it will roll back Obama-era restrictions on coal plants and allow states to set their own emission standards.

Fox News doubt Trump's Iran claims: 'It doesn't add up' Trump won't say if he'll order Khashoggi death investigation US hit back at Iran with cyberstrike

The Vatican canceled a friendly football match between its new women's team and a club in Vienna, after a number of Austrian players protested against the Catholic Church's stance on abortion.

The financially challenged New York City Opera will have another reduced schedule for its 2019 to 2020 season, which will be limited to just two staged productions plus several concerts that total nine or 10 performances. General director Michael Capasso's original plan when the company emerged from bankruptcy in January 2016 called for 72 performances of 13 operas from 2018 to 2019 to mark the company's 75th anniversary. City Opera had cut its schedule at the 1,185-capacity Rose Theater from 16 performances of four operas from 2017 to 2018 to just five performances of one opera this season, plus several works in smaller venues. Board Chairman Roy G. Niederhoffer quit in Feb...

Keep on reading: New York City Opera plans another reduced season

Soundgarden and estates representing Tupac Shakur and Tom Petty are among those suing Universal Music Group for materials lost in a 2008 fire. In a suit filed this week in federal district court in Los Angeles, the artists allege that Universal failed to protect music ruined in the fire and to inform them of the full extent of the fire's impact, recently revealed by The New York Times. Besides music by Petty and Shakur, the fire is believed to have destroyed master tapes and other recordings by Ella Fitzgerald and Chuck Berry, among others. The plaintiffs, who also include Steve Earle and the band Hole, are seeking compensatory damages in excess of $100 million. A Universal ...

Keep on reading: Tom Petty estate, Soundgarden among those suing record label

A hot air balloon dropped down on spectators at the Bicentennial Celebration in Missouri. The cause of the incident is under investigation.

No one arrived in a horse-drawn carriage. But there was valet parking for the guests invited to a "mini-ball" held at the Library of Congress in honor of the Disney film "Cinderella". The event on Thursday, June 20 featured a costumed Cinderella character, who descended the library steps to the cheers of a crowd of children and adults, including some members of Congress and their families. Before Cinderella made her grand entrance, hundreds watched a screening of the Disney classic animated movie, released 70 years ago. The Library of Congress recently added the film to the National Film Registry. Attending a brief ceremony to mark the honor were Librarian of Congress Carla ...

Keep on reading: ‘Cinderella’ film feted at Library of Congress

Beth Chapman, the bail bondswoman who starred on the reality show "Dog the Bounty Hunter," is in a medically induced coma, her husband Duane "Dog" Chapman has confirmed on Facebook.

Academy Award-winning actor Geena Davis says achieving gender parity on screen is simple, and it could happen overnight. "Just go through (the script) and cross out a bunch of male first names and put female first names. That is all you have to do," Davis told the audience during a panel Saturday, June 22, at AT&T's SHAPE media conference in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank. Davis joined fellow actor Mayim Bialik on stage at the conference to discuss how gender parity in media can create social change. The conversation revolved around the need for diversity on the screen to break stereotypes and encourage young people to pursue careers they might otherwise have felt were o...

Keep on reading: Screenwriters can play key role in gender parity, actors say