November 2024
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‘You got this’: Harris joins SNL for a pep talk With Maya Rudolph
The vice president’s appearance, in a sketch delivered across a fictional dressing-room mirror, contained a solid riff that poked some fun at Donald Trump.
- Katie Rogers, Nicholas Nehamas and Maggie Haberman
July 2024
Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ shooting case dismissed
‘Rust’ case against Alec Baldwin is dismissed over withheld evidence.
January 2024
How Tina Fey became ‘the most powerful woman in comedy’
The comedian has never kowtowed to cancel culture, but she has slightly reworked the musical version of her 2004 hit “Mean Girls” to acknowledge changing mores.
- Stephen Armstrong
April 2023
Charges against Alec Baldwin dropped over shooting
The movie star was charged with involuntary manslaughter over the 2021 shooting on the set of a movie he was filming.
- Andrew Dalton and Morgan Lee
January 2023
Alec Baldwin to be charged with manslaughter in shooting
Actor Alec Baldwin will be charged in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer who was killed on a New Mexico movie set in October 2021.
- Morgan Lee
December 2021
‘I didn’t pull the trigger’: Baldwin
Alec Baldwin said in his first interview since the gun he was holding on a film set killed the cinematographer that someone is responsible, but it is not him.
- Andrew Dalton
November 2021
Sabotage could be behind Baldwin movie set tragedy, lawyer says
Jason Bowles says his client, armourer Hannah Gutierrez, had pulled ammunition from a box that she believed contained only dummy rounds that were incapable of firing.
- Lisa Richwine
October 2021
‘It was a legit gun’: Criminal charges not ruled on Alec Baldwin film
Criminal charges have not been ruled out in a fatal accidental shooting by actor Alec Baldwin on the set of a western film, says the local district attorney.
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- Simon Romero, Graham Bowley and Julia Jacobs
Donald Trump jnr sells T-shirts mocking Alec Baldwin shooting tragedy
Ones that read ‘Guns Don’t Kill People, Alec Baldwin Kills People’ are selling for $US27.99 on a merchandise site linked to the former US president’s son.
- Brian Niemietz and New York Daily News
Crew member: Baldwin careful with guns before fatal shooting
Cameraman Reid Russell told a detective that Alec Baldwin had been careful with weapons on the set of the film Rust.
- Ryan Pearson and Gillian Flaccus
‘Vibrant’ cinematographer honoured as police probe movie set shooting
Details have emerged that suggest the production was troubled before the accident.
- Lisa Richwine
Focus turns to safety fears before New Mexico movie shooting tragedy
Just hours before the incident on the New Mexico set of Rust, a low-budget Western, several crew members quit in protest at what they saw as poor working conditions.
- Lisa Richwine
Gun fired by Alec Baldwin kills woman on movie set
A prop firearm discharged by the veteran actor killed his director of photography and injured the director.
- Morgan Lee and Walter Berry