For the first time in the long-running game show’s history, two stars will take over the hosting reins, the show announced on Wednesday trib.al/mrhuOq3
Sony Pictures Television said controversial executive producer Mike Richards, as well as “The Big Bang Theory” actress Mayim Bialik, will host primetime and spinoff specials trib.al/sDmBoyi
THREAD: Andrew Cuomo resigns as governor of New York trib.al/i1ll7ph
After a week of threats of impeachment and calls for resignation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned on Tuesday following the ‘disturbing’ findings of an Attorney General sexual harassment probe trib.al/4zJRiHI
Cuomo’s surrender marks a stunning, ignominious end to the Democrat’s three-term run as governor, the same number of terms his father served trib.al/4zJRiHI
THREAD: Gov. Cuomo refuses to resign, denies independent probe that concluded he sexually harassed multiple women and violated federal and state law trib.al/cAWW6DX
Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed back on a bombshell official report commissioned by Attorney General Letitia James that found Cuomo touched staffers’ “intimate body parts” without consent and allegedly retaliated against some of his victims trib.al/6Jcb1dr
One former employee told investigators that Cuomo made women feel like “prey,” as his “gaze would linger on them, seemingly taking in their whole bodies, and then he would hold eye contact with the women for longer than expected” trib.al/IEtaoGS
THREAD: Who is Raven Saunders? Meet the latest Olympian to protest on the podium trib.al/uJluJfp
Silver medal-winning shot putter Raven Saunders has been dominating Olympic headlines after making an “X” formation over her head while on the podium in a sign of protest trib.al/5JyBlP7
The International Olympic Committee published a strict set of guidelines that bars competitors participating in the Tokyo games from using the world stage for political protests. This includes no gestures “of a political nature” trib.al/SeNYhix
THREAD: Bill Cosby set to be released from prison after court overturns sexual assault conviction trib.al/gyAK7yd
Pennsylvania’s highest court found on Wednesday that an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented Cosby from being charged for drugging and molesting Andrea Constand in 2004. Click here for the original conviction: trib.al/0lxpjb4
Charges were filed against Cosby in late 2015. Now 83, he served more than two years of a three- to 10-year sentence at a state prison near Philadelphia. The new ruling bars any retrial in the case, the Inquirer reported.
THREAD: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis edges out Trump in 2024 straw poll trib.al/OeDWsHT
DeSantis pulled in 74% approval to Trump’s 71% in a poll at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver. The poll was conducted among roughly 500 people in person at the conference and more online. The list included 31 candidates both Republican and Democrat.
The first-term governor, who has endeared himself to conservatives for bucking coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns and combating critical race theory as well as tech censorship in his state, hasn’t said he would mount a campaign in 2024.