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Mark Ruffalo attends The Center at West Park's "All the President's Men" reading at Guild Hall to benefit West-Park Presbyterian Church on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, in East Hampton, N.Y. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)

Hollywood group, Jewish leaders blast Mark Ruffalo over Ellison comments

RESPONSE TO RUFFALO: A Hollywood group representing nearly 1,000 members and allies of the Jewish community has signed on to an open letter accusing actor Mark Ruffalo of invoking antisemitic tropes in his campaign against Paramount Skydance's pending acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, joining a growing list of Jewish advocacy organizations that have condemned the actor over the past week.

August 26, 2026
Dolly Parton at the CMA Awards in Nashville in 1977. (AP Photo)

Dolly Parton’s life in moments: From Tennessee cabin to icon

Dolly Parton, the singer, songwriter and actress who rose from rural Sevier County, Tennessee, to become one of America's most beloved entertainers, died Tuesday in Nashville at age 80. Revisit some of the defining moments in the music icon's life.

August 25, 2026
Dolly Parton performs in concert in Tokyo, July 30, 1979. (AP Photo/Tsugufumi Matsumoto) **FILE**

Dolly Parton, country music icon, dead at 80

Dolly Parton, the singer-songwriter whose six-decade career made her one of the most recognizable figures in American music, has died, according to an announcement posted Tuesday to her official Instagram account. She was 80.

August 25, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice logo is seen on a podium before a news conference, May 4, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Tetra Tech accused of faking radiation data at San Francisco shipyard, settles for $57 million

Tetra Tech EC Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tetra Tech Inc., paid $57 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it fabricated work and falsified data used by the U.S. Department of the Navy to determine whether the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in the San Francisco Bay was free from harmful radiation, the Justice Department announced.

August 25, 2026
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a group portrait in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. The Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, that Thomas failed to publicly disclose additional travel on GOP megadonor Harlan Crow's private jet. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote to Crow's lawyer asking about the trip. Wyden is backing an election-year push to tighten the high court's ethics rules. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Clarence Thomas rejects idea Black Americans must hold liberal views

CLARENCE THOMAS rejects idea that Black Americans must vote liberal: "When I came to this town, one of the greatest difficulties ... was that there were those who thought that I should think a certain way ... You confuse me with someone who's been in indentured servitude or something."

August 25, 2026