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Jason Aldean, the country music singer who was on stage in Las Vegas last Sunday when a gunman opened fire into the crowd, started this week's episode of "Saturday Night Live" with a tribute to the victims and survivors of the deadly attack. "So many people are hurting. There are children, parents, brothers, sisters, friends, they're all part of our family." Aldean said. "So I want to say to them: We hurt for you and we hurt with you," he continued. "You can be sure that we are going to walk through these tough times together every step of the way.

LOS ANGELES — A bicoastal staff meeting of the Weinstein Company was hastily convened late Thursday. Staff members were scared and shaken after public complaints of sexual harassment against Harvey Weinstein, the entertainment company’s pugnacious co-founder. With the help of a video conferencing system, David Glasser, the Weinstein Company’s president and chief operating officer, tried to rally the troops. “We are going to be O.K.,” two people who attended the meeting recalled Mr. Glasser saying.

Now that The New York Times has put together a stomach-turning chronicle of alleged sexual harassment by the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein — complete with brave, on-the-record statements from, among others, the actress Ashley Judd — we’re hearing a lot about how the story of his misconduct was “the worst-kept secret” in Hollywood and New York. But until now, no journalistic outfit had been able, or perhaps willing, to nail the details and hit publish. For decades, stars of Oscar-winning movies produced by Mr.

Update: The Weinstein Company’s board is planning to investigate sexual harassment complaints against Harvey Weinstein as he takes a leave of absence. Find more coverage here. Two decades ago, the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein invited Ashley Judd to the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for what the young actress expected to be a business breakfast meeting.

The lawyer Lisa Bloom resigned on Saturday as an adviser to Harvey Weinstein, the high-powered film producer facing allegations of rampant sexual harassment, amid harsh criticism of her handling of his defense. Among those upset with her were two members of the board of Mr. Weinstein’s company: his brother, Bob Weinstein, and Lance Maerov, who had both exchanged confrontational emails with Ms. Bloom over the past two days. In making her announcement on Twitter, Ms.

LOS ANGELES — Yasiel Puig's bloop single didn't even drive in a run. He still flipped his bat , sprinted to first and triumphantly pointed back at his dugout, where the cheering Los Angeles Dodgers pointed right back while the crowd chanted his name. Some of baseball's norms just don't apply to the exuberant Puig.

Staggering from the impact of hurricanes that walloped Texas, Florida and neighboring states, the economy lost 33,000 jobs in September, the first monthly decline in employment in seven years, the government reported on Friday. But economists discounted the discouraging report, describing it as a blip in a job market that was fundamentally strong. Some of the good news released by the Labor Department — a drop in the jobless rate to 4.2 percent and a year-over-year gain i

LONDON — The London police arrested a man on Saturday after his car jumped the curb and crashed into several pedestrians near the Natural History Museum, injuring at least 11 people, the authorities said. The crash, which the police said appeared to be a “road traffic collision” and not terrorism, occurred on Exhibition Road in the South Kensington neighborhood. Photographs on social media showed officers pinning a man to th

SANT BOI DE LLOBREGAT, Spain — Standing in front of his apartment across from barracks occupied by Spain’s national police, Xavi Gomez recounted the dueling protests over Catalonian independence that unfolded on his street the previous night. He talked about the secessionists who protested recent police violence by laying down flowers and the nationalists who chanted, “Long live Spain.” Then, as he no

An explosion at a gas station in the African nation of Ghana killed at least one person and injured several others, according to government officials and news reports. Officials told local news outlets that a fire broke out at a gas station in the capital, Accra, and then spread to another station.