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FILE - The sun sets between buildings along 42nd Street in New York during a phenomenon known as "Manhattanhenge," May 30, 2023. Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers. Manhattanhenge happens for the first time this year on Tuesday, May 28, at 8:13 p.m. and Wednesday, May 29, at 8:12 p.m. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

What is Manhattanhenge and when can you see it?

Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.

FILE - Producer Albert S. Ruddy accepts the Oscar for best picture for "The Godfather" at the 45th Annual Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 27, 1973. The Canadian-born producer and writer who won Oscars for “The Godfather” and “Million Dollar Baby,” died Saturday, May 25, 2024, at age 94. (AP Photo, File)

Albert Ruddy, Oscar-winning producer of ‘The Godfather’ and ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ dies at 94

Awkwafina attends the 30th annual Accessories Council ACE Awards Gala at the Pierre Hotel on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in New York. (Photo by CJ Rivera/Invision/AP)

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Former President Donald Trump speaks alongside his attorney Todd Blanche following the day's proceedings in his trial Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo via AP)

Donald Trump may be stuck in a Manhattan courtroom, but he knows his favorite legal analysts

FILE - Former NFL tight end Greg Olsen gives a report during pregame warmups prior to the start of the first half of an NFL football game between the Washington Football Team and the Dallas Cowboys, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021, in Landover, Md. Olsen won a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Event Analyst. Olsen will not be Fox Sports top NFL analyst this upcoming season as Tom Brady joins the network. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Fox’s Greg Olsen wins top analyst at Sports Emmy Awards and CBS’ Super Bowl coverage wins top event

Aerials show standoff between police and suspect on Anaheim freeway

Aerial footage from KABC shows a standoff between police and a suspect on the 91 freeway in Anaheim Friday morning that ended with the death of the suspect, according to reporting from local news KABC.

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NewsNation completes transition to cable news outlet next week

The NewsNation television network completes its transition to an all-news outlet next week. When acquired by Nexstar, the former WGN America network began its shift to news in 2020.

FILE - Actor Ray Romano attends a special screening of "Somewhere in Queens" in New York on April 17, 2023. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

Everybody may love Raymond, but Ray Romano loves Peter Boyle

Ray Romano is looking back at his hit sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond” and saluting a fellow actor for its success.

FILE - Dabney Coleman appears on the set of "Courting Alex" at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, Calif., on Jan. 25, 2006. Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in "9 to 5" and the nasty TV director in "Tootsie," died Thursday, May 16, 2024, his daughter, Quincy Coleman, told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 92. No other details were immediately available. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Dabney Coleman, actor who specialized in curmudgeons, dies at 92

Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in “9 to 5” and the nasty TV director in “Tootsie,” has died.

FILE - CNN anchors Jake Tapper, left, and Dana Bash, right, speaking to members of the audience before the start of the CNN Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. The two planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that were swiftly organized this week, Thursday, May 16, 2024, are good news for CNN and ABC News. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Taking presidential debates out of commission’s hands virtually guarantees fewer viewers

The two planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that were swiftly organized this week are good news for CNN and ABC News.

FILE - Paul Walter Hauser arrives at the ESPY awards on July 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Major League announced an A-list addition to its biggest event of the year Battle Riot VI. Hauser has declared for the 40-man Battle Riot match. Hauser is an Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor who is trying to make a serious run at a wrestling career. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)

From acting to the squared circle, Emmy winner Hauser is ready to rumble for Major League Wrestling

Emmy winner Paul Walter Hauser is set to take the next step in his professional wrestling career. Hauser has declared for the 40-man Battle Riot match on June 1 for the Major League Wrestling promotion card in Atlanta.

Pulaski County Sheriff Eric Higgins answers questions from legislators about the Netflix documentary series "Unlocked: A Jail Experiment" during the Joint Performance Review Committee meeting on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at the state Capitol in Little Rock. (Thomas Metthe/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)

Sheriff faces questions from Arkansas lawmakers over Netflix series filmed at county jail

Arkansas lawmakers are questioning a sheriff’s decision to allow a Netflix documentary series to be filmed at a county jail.

FILE - Jimmie Johnson stands on pit lane during practice for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Indianapolis. Johnson will attempt his own version of “The Double” when he becomes the first driver to be part of the Indianapolis 500 broadcast team hours before he competes in NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Jimmie Johnson to attempt his own version of Indy 500 & NASCAR doubleheader

Jimmie Johnson will attempt his own version of “The Double” when he becomes the first driver to be part of the Indianapolis 500 broadcast team hours before he competes in NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600.

This combination of images shows, from left, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and Stephen Colbert. LateNighter, a website and newsletter that follows late-night television comedy, began in February. (AP Photo)

Who’s laughing? LateNighter, a digital news site about late-night TV, hopes to buck media trends

The media industry is crumbling, and late-night comedy on television has less than half of the audience than it had a decade ago.

This combination of album covers shows “Hit Me Hard and Soft" by Billie Eilish, left, “Room Under the Stairs” by Zayn, center, and “Music for Man Ray” by SQÜRL. (Darkroom-Interscope/Mercury/Sacred Bones via AP)

What to stream this weekend: ‘Bridgerton,’ Billie Eilish and Zayn Malik albums, ‘American Fiction’

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include new music from Billie Eilish and Zayn Malik, the Oscar-winning “American Fiction” lands on Prime Video and “Bridgerton” returns to Netflix.

Nicholas Hankins appears in the studio during a taping of "The Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins: Bob Ross' Unfinished Season." (Derek Sanford/WDSC-TV via AP)

Bob Ross’ legacy lives on in new ‘The Joy of Painting’ series

When Bob Ross died of complications from cancer in 1995, he had completed about half of the paintings he planned to teach from in a 32 season of “The Joy of Painting.”

Firefighters use a raft to transport a horse after rescuing it from a roof, where it was trapped for days amid flooding, after heavy rain in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Wesley Santos)

Caramelo, the Brazilian horse stranded on a roof by floods, is rescued after stirring the nation

A horse that was perilously stranded on a rooftop by Brazil’s deadly floods has been rescued. The horse nicknamed Caramelo was one of many animals rescuers have tried help.

This cover image released by Dey Street Books shows "You Never Know" a memoir by Tom Selleck with Ellis Henican. (Dey Street Books via AP)

In new memoir, Tom Selleck looks back at the hard years that made him a star in ‘Magnum, P.I.’

Tom Selleck starts his memoir in the middle of a car crash. He is 17 and in the passenger seat when he and two friends go airborne in his mom’s Chevy Corvair, tumbling off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles.

This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo)

The Taliban warn journalists and experts against cooperating with Afghanistan International TV

The Taliban are warning journalists and experts against working with Afghanistan International TV. It’s the first time they have told people not to cooperate with a specific media outlet.

FILE - Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) waves after the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game against the San Francisco 49ers Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, in Las Vegas. The tight end has been cast on FX's "Grotesquerie" season. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Travis Kelce lines up another TV job and joins FX’s ‘Grotesquerie’ from Ryan Murphy

Travis Kelce continues to work in the NFL off season. The Super Bowl winner has booked a role on a new horror drama series called “Grotesquerie” for FX.

Jeannie Epper, epic stuntwoman behind feats of TV’s ‘Wonder Woman,’ dies at 83

Stuntwoman Jeannie Epper has died at age 83. She did stunts for many of the most important women of film and TV action of the 1970s and ‘80s.

Food personality Lidia Bastianich appears in New York on Sept. 17, 2015, left, actor Melody Thomas Scott, center, and "The Bold and the Beautiful" producer Edward J. Scott appear at the 49th annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Pasadena, Calif., on June 24, 2022. (AP Photo)

Lidia Bastianich, Melody Thomas Scott and Ed Scott to receive Daytime Emmys lifetime achievement

A cookbook author, actor and producer will be the Lifetime Achievement honorees at the Daytime Emmys in June.

FILE - Kim Godwin attends the Disney 2022 Upfront presentation at Basketball City Pier 36, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in New York. Godwin is out as ABC News president after three years as the first Black woman to lead a television network news division. On Sunday, May 5, 2024, Godwin said she was retiring from the business. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Kim Godwin out as ABC News president after 3 years as first Black woman as network news chief

Kim Godwin is out as ABC News president after three years as the first Black woman to lead a television network news division.

Brian Hernandez Jr. rides Mystik Dan, top right, to the finish line to win the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Kentucky Derby’s thrilling finish draws 16.7 million viewers. It’s the biggest audience since 1989

Mystik Dan’s nose victory in the 150th Kentucky Derby drew 16.7 million viewers, the biggest audience for the race since 1989.

FILE - Actor Robert De Niro attends the Tribeca Festival opening night premiere of "Kiss the Future" at the OKX Theater at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in New York. On Friday, May 3, 2024, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming De Niro was captured on video yelling at anti-Israel protesters in New York City.(Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: A video clip of actor Robert De Niro yelling in a crowd shows him rehearsing for a Netflix series, not confronting anti-Israel protesters in New York.

FILE - Dan Schneider, center, accepts an award in Los Angeles. Schneider sued the makers of “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, alleging the makers of the documentary series wrongly implied that he sexually abused the child actors he worked with. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)

Ex-Nickelodeon producer Schneider sues ‘Quiet on Set’ makers for defamation and sex abuse implications

Former Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider is suing the makers of the documentary “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” for implying that he sexually abused children.

Wrexham fans invade the pitch celebrating promotion to League One after the final whistle of a League Two soccer match, Saturday, April 13, 2024, in Wrexham, Wales. The Welsh team co-owned by actor Ryan Reynolds clinched promotion to the third tier of English soccer thanks to a 6-0 home win over Forest Green on Saturday. (Jacob King/PA via AP)

Wrexham owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney want to expand stadium capacity to 55,000

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have given an insight into their long-term ambitions for Welsh soccer team Wrexham.

Sports Emmy Awards will honor 8 individuals as Gold and Silver Circle inductees

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will honor eight individuals as Gold and Silver Circle inductees during the Sports Emmy Awards on May 21.

Dua Lipa poses for a portrait to promote her new album "Radical Optimism" on Friday, April 26, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Drew Gurian/Invision/AP)

What to stream this week: Dua Lipa, Seinfeld’s ‘Unfrosted’ and ‘Welcome to Wrexham’

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include the return of “Hacks” on Max and the new Jerry Seinfeld movie “Unfrosted” on Netflix.

This photo provided by CBS News shows Dan Rather with CBS correspondent Lee Cowan during an interview on “CBS Sunday Morning." Rather returned to the CBS News airwaves Sunday, April 28, 2024, for the first time since his bitter exit 18 years ago, appearing in a reflective interview on “CBS Sunday Morning” days before the debut of a Netflix documentary on the 92-year-old newsman's life. (CBS News via AP)

Once dominant at CBS News before a bitter departure, Dan Rather makes his first return in 18 years

Dan Rather was synonymous with CBS News before the veteran anchorman left in bitterness in 2006, following a discredited report on then-President George W.

FILE - Journalist Poppy Harlow poses for photographers as she arrives at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, Saturday, April 29, 2023. CNN says on Friday, April 26, 2024, that Harlow announced her parting from the cable news giant in an email to colleagues.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

News anchor Poppy Harlow is leaving CNN after more than 15 years

Anchor Poppy Harlow is leaving CNN. The network said Friday that Harlow announced her parting from the cable news giant in an email to colleagues.

Jerry Seinfeld poses for a portrait to promote the film "Unfrosted" on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)

Jerry Seinfeld’s commitment to the bit

Nearly three decades after Jerry Seinfeld was, in one episode of “Seinfeld,” cajoled into bootlegging the movie “Death Blow,” he has finally made his first film.

FILE - A sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building, May 6, 2021, in New York. In spring 2024, NBC News, The New York Times and National Public Radio have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it inward at their own employers. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Journalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news organizations

Journalists see themselves as truth-tellers, and sometimes as contrarians. That fuels news organizations, but it also can bite back.

This image released by 20th Century Studios shows David Jonsson in a scene from "Alien: Romulus." (20th Century Studios via AP)

Summer Movie Guide: Virtually all the movies coming to theaters and streaming from May to Labor Day

Are you ready for some movies this summer? There’s action-adventure, romance, horror, franchises and anniversary re-releases of some of your favorites populating theaters and streaming services from May through Labor Day.

This image released by PBS shows actor John Lithgow, right, with Yoli, as they work on a screen print drawing during the filming of "Art Happens Here With John Lithgow," premiering April 26. (Antonio Diaz/PBS SoCal via AP)

John Lithgow takes on the role of the new kid in school for a PBS special celebrating arts education

Besides being an accomplished actor, John Lithgow is a Harvard graduate who was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of the Arts.

This combination of book covers released by Random House Books for Young Readers shows "I Am Wednesday (a Little Golden Book), left, and "Wednesday Official Coloring Book," a collaboration with Penguin Random House and Amazon MGM Studios. (Random House Books for Young Readers via AP)

Publishing spinoff of ‘Wednesday’ has everything from tarot cards to ‘Woeful Waffles’

Penguin Random House is teaming with Amazon MGM Studios on a series of books based on “Wednesday,” the Emmy-winning Netflix hit about young Wednesday Addams of Addams Family fame.