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Comedian Dave Chappelle will host a special “pop-up party and benefit concert” Sunday, Aug. 25, in Dayton, Ohio’s Oregon District, site of a mass shooting earlier this month that left nine people dead and 27 injured. Chappelle is a longtime resident of nearby Yellow Springs, Ohio. His benefit appearance arrives the…

Updated with statement by Hilary Swank: Universal will not be releasing Blumhouse’s The Hunt on September 27 as planned. Deadline hears that a collective decision was made by Universal leadership, led by Donna Langley, with The Hunt filmmaking team. For this particular film, it’s better to…

ABC has told its affiliates that ESPN2 has postponed its planned Sunday airing of an esports tournament involving the video game Apex Legends in the wake of the recent mass shootings in California, Texas and Ohio. The program, EXP Invitational Apex Legends at X Games, was set to air Sunday on cable outlet. In a memo…

Universal is putting the brakes on the marketing for their Blumhouse release The Hunt in the wake of recent mass shootings which have taken the lives of 34 people in El Paso, Texas; Dayton, Ohio; and Gilroy, California. "Out of sensitivity to the attention on the country's recent shooting tragedies, Universal Pictures…

President Barack Obama has weighed in on the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over the weekend, saying, “Until all of us stand up and insist on holding public officials accountable for changing our gun laws, these tragedies will keep happening.” He also called out “the racist language coming out of the mouths of our…

Neil deGrasse Tyson apologized this morning following a tweet Sunday deemed “insensitive” about the weekend mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton that sparked a fierce reaction on social media, but not everyone is accepting his apology. "My intent was to offer objectively true information that might help shape…

Before John Oliver began his regularly scheduled “dumb show” about doghouse foreclosures and turnip subsidies on Last Week Tonight, he took some time to address the shootings that have occurred in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Tex. “When it comes to gun control, I know it can feel like it everything has been said before,&#8221…

In less than 24 hours, there were two mass shootings in the country: one in El Paso, Tex. and the other in Dayton, Ohio. The mass shootings come a week after another terrorist opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California, killing three people and injuring 13. It didn’t take long for Hollywood and…

UPDATE: The Ohio gunman’s sister and her boyfriend were found shot dead in a car hours after the Dayton massacre. Police said the gunman, identified as Connor Betts, killed his sister Megan, age 22. Their bodies were found in a vehicle near the bar where the shooting took place. A Dayton community vigil is planned for…