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Iran has named the 56 year old son of recently killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the country’s new supreme leader.  Mojtaba Khamenei is known to have close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard  and has been in charge of coordinating the military.  President Trump has already said Mojtaba would not be an acceptable choice and any new leader not approved by Trump would “not last long.”

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Actor Timothée Chalamet has pissed off the ballet and opera community after a comment he made during a town hall event.   Chalamet said he didn’t want to end working in ballet or opera where artists are trying to keeps something alive that no one cares about anymore.  The backlash has been swift and fierce, with some artists calling Chalamet’s character into question. 

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Actor Ben Stiller is asking the White House to remove a clip from “Tropic Thunder” from a war video that shows several films from “Superman” to “Top Gun” to “Bravehart” interspersed with clips of U.S. missiles hitting targets in Iran.  Stiller is getting some push back for his comments but he joins a number of artists who have also complained about their work being used in White House videos, including Kesha, Sabrina Carpenter and even Pokémon.

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37 year old former head Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges after striking a plea deal with prosecutors.  Moore walked into court today, hand in hand with his wife, after losing his job for a multi year affair with his executive assistant.  Moore was accused of much more serious felony charges after his former girlfriend said he broke into her home and threatened to kill himself.  Today’s plea deal paves the way for Moore to redeem himself personally and professionally.

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The headlines are everywhere about 44-year-old Britney Spears arrested on suspicion of DUI after police say the pop star was driving erratically and at high speed. Since being released, Britney has deactivated her instagram account and released a statement through her reps, that is gives fans reason to believe she may soon be getting the help she needs. 

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Robach and Holmes cover the latest news headlines and entertainment updates and give perspective on current events in their daily “Morning Run.”

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Late Thursday evening the Department of Justice published the three missing interviews with a woman who claims President Trump sexually abused her when she was 13.  The DOJ says the 2019 interviews were mistakenly labeled as duplicative, and are now available to the public.  In them, there is a detailed account of an alleged forced sex act and other allegations of Epstein’s  and Trump’s conversations about young girls.

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It was an emotional day in court as the former lover of 35-year-old Kouri Ritchins wiped away tears, with his head on the table, unable to look at text messages between him and Kouri in the weeks leading up to Eric Richins’ death. Robert Joshua Grossman testified he had plans with Kouri the day Eric died, but she never showed up and eventually texted him “Eric has passed away.”  Ritchins is accused of fatally poisoning her husband with fentanyl in order to get out of debt and spend her life with Grossman. 

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President Trump just announced he is replacing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem with Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin.  Noem will move into a newly created position called the “Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas”  effective at the end of the month.  Noem has been facing growing criticism in the aftermath of Minneapolis, but the final straw may have been her committee testimony earlier this week where she said Trump approved that 200 million dollar ad campaign.

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After an urgent search that kept multiple communities on lockdown and in fear,  authorities have captured a 22 year old Iowa man for the murders of three women in Utah.  Police say Ivan Miller was tracked down in Colorado after fleeing Utah in one of his victim’s cars.  Right now police don’t believe the women were targeted, but released some of the details about how they were found and what happens next in the search for answers. 

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