https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/south-park-2025-return-skipping-presidential-election-1236131691

‘South Park’ to Return in 2025; Creators Are Skipping Election ‘on Purpose,’ Avoiding Trump Jokes and Also ‘Waiting for Paramount to Figure Their S— Out’

“South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed in a new interview with Vanity Fair that their long-running animated series will not return until 2025, which means “South Park” will be skipping the 2024 presidential election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The duo said the delay is somewhat “on purpose” because they no longer have an interest in lampooning Trump on the show, but Parker added that they’re also “waiting for Paramount to figure all their shit out.”

Neither creator specified on what Parker meant about Paramount, but the studio has been going through a proposed sale over the last several months. Paramount Global is currently pending sale to Skydance after the two companies reached a sale agreement in early July worth a reported $8 billion. Skydance claims the deal has an enterprise value of $28 billion, with Skydance itself valued at $4.75 billion.

As for skipping the 2024 presidential election on purpose, Stone noted: “We’ve tried to do ‘South Park’ through four or five presidential elections, and it is such a hard thing to — it’s such a mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance.”

“Obviously, it’s fucking important, but it kind of takes over everything and we just have less fun.” Parker added. “I don’t know what more we could possibly say about Trump.”

“South Park’s” last proper season was its 26th, and it consisted of six episodes that aired in 2023. Since then, Parker and Stone have created three standalone specials that streamed exclusively on Paramount+ starting last fall: “South Park: Joining the Panderverse,” “South Park (Not Suitable for Children)” and “South Park: The End of Obesity.” The latter special, which targeted weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, streamed in May 2024. That will be the last bit of “South Park” until 2025 it now seems.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/father-georgia-high-school-shooting-suspect-arrested

Father of Georgia high school shooting suspect arrested

The father of Colt Gray, the teen suspect in the Apalachee High School shooting, has been arrested, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Thursday.

Colin Gray, 54, is being charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children, GBI said.

His son, a student at Apalachee High School, allegedly killed four people, two students and two teachers, when he opened fire at the school in Winder, Georgia, on Wednesday morning. Nine others were wounded and hospitalized, but they were all expected to survive. Hospital officials said Thursday that at least seven of those nine patients had been treated and released, and at least one other remained hospitalized in stable condition.

Police and federal agents were investigating if the weapon used in the shooting, described by officials as an AR-style weapon, was purchased by the teen's father as a gift for his son in December 2023, according to four federal law enforcement sources close to the investigation.

In May of last year, the suspect and his father were both interviewed by the Jackson County Sheriff's office after the FBI received tips about online posts threatening a school shooting, the FBI said in a statement Wednesday night. At the time, investigators didn't have enough evidence for an arrest or enough probable cause "to take any additional law enforcement action," the FBI said.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

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Georgia school gunman Colt Gray received AR-15 for mass shooting as Christmas present from father just months after FBI questioned him over threats to massacre students

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13819107/Georgia-school-shooter-Colt-Gray-received-AR-15-mass-shooting-Christmas-present-father.html

The 14-year-old was arrested on Wednesday at Apalachee High School in Winder, minutes after authorities say he opened fire on students and teachers. Law enforcement sources told CNN Thursday that the teenage shooter received the gun for the holidays this past December. His father Colin Gray has told authorities that he bought the gun for the boy himself. Colin Gray has yet to make any public comment on the shooting.

all is well, we just needed some clarity >>21539695

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13812803/Chinese-lab-Covid-leak-deadly-virus-wiv14-saukett.html

EXCLUSIVE: Lab leak 2.0: Chinese lab linked to Covid may have also leaked ANOTHER deadly virus

The Chinese lab that the FBI believes likely leaked Covid-19 may have also released a 'highly evolved' strain of a mutant virus.

Indecent assault charges against shamed US film mogul Harvey Weinstein are DROPPED as CPS rules 'no realistic prospect of conviction'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13816519/harvey-weinstein-indecent-assault-charges-dropped.html

Prosecutors have dropped indecent assault charges against US film mogul Harvey Weinstein as they ruled there is 'no realistic prospect of conviction'.

The producer, 72, had been charged in June 2022 with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in August 1996.

Frank Ferguson, head of the UK's Crown Prosecution Service special crime and counter terrorism division, said: 'Following a review of the evidence in this case, the CPS has decided to discontinue criminal proceedings against Harvey Weinstein.'

It comes after the New York Court of Appeals threw out his 2020 rape conviction on April 25 after ruling he did not receive a fair trial - effectively erasing his 23-year prison sentence and ordering a retrial.

But he remains in prison as he was found guilty of the rape and sexual assault of Italian actress and model Evgeniya Chernyshova in Los Angeles and was sentenced to 16 years.

1 down, 10 million to go

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"rescind" - does this mean return the money back to the people ?

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