Shia LaBeouf Gets Heated With Cops in New Orleans

Life in the Big Easy has been anything but that forShia LaBeouf. On Friday, the actor was back in the news following a confrontation at his home in New Orleans. He only relocated to the Louisiana hotspot last December, and he continues to be implicated in altercations.

The police came to his home on Friday, which seemed to trigger a whirlwind of emotion for the Transformers actor. It appears he was explaining to the cops something about his car. As it often does with him, Shia quickly became very agitated, and things got heated.

Shia LaBeouf confronted police outside his home

Shia and New Orleans don't appear to be getting along too well. After trying to explain his vehicle to officers,TMZreports that, for some reason, Shia is seen lifting his shirt and showing the sign of a cross. After that, he directs their attention to a security camera in his home, then shows the cops his phone. You can hear him saying, "You gotta understand who I am. I'm a target."

That turns into a meltdown of emotions where Shia says, "I have a f*cking three-year-old!" He brings up his past legal issues. This latest incident could be another red flag against the Maniac star. In February, he was arrested for allegedly starting a brawl during Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans. Shia reportedlyuttered gay slurswhile being handcuffed.

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In Friday's incident, Shia repeatedly tells the cops that he doesn't trust them. The video then cuts to the street with a distraught Shia yelling off camera to what's believed to be an officer. The cops eventually drive off, leaving Shia alone.

Last month, Shia was charged with simple battery for his alleged role in a huge fight in New Orleans. He andMia Gothbroke up last year. They have one daughter, born in 2022.

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King Charles and Queen Camilla Hire Royal Reporter to Join Their Inner Palace Team in Surprise Move

King Charles and Queen Camilla are adding a new staff member to their communications team

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• Rhiannon Mills, who has long covered the royal family for Sky News, will join as a media secretary

• Her partner also has a royal role, as a photographer often tapped by Kate Middleton and Prince William

King CharlesandQueen Camillaare adding a royal reporter to their team.

Sky News' longtime royal correspondent, Rhiannon Mills, will join the palace's press office as a media secretary, according toThe Times.She will be the deputy to Tobyn Andreae, the director of communications for the royal household, and succeeds Laura Sullivan in the role.

The royal communications team is responsible for media relations as well as communicating with various organisations on matters related to the monarchy.

Palace sources told the outlet that the journalist, who will reportedly start in the position before the summer, is "a great fit" for the role, citing her "intelligence, quick thinking, good humor and resilience."

In her decade-plus of experience covering the British royal family as a journalist, she has joined them on tours around the world — including Japan, Africa, Nepal, India, Bhutan, Pakistan, the Middle East, New Zealand and Australia — and spoken with key figures. According to herSky News biography page, "Her interviews have made news around the world, with Prince Harry telling her about his desire to have a family in 2015, and Prince William speaking about the Queen's support following the death of Princess Diana."

"She has played a major role in every significant royal event since 2015, including royal births, marriages, birthdays and celebrations when the Queen became Britain's longest reigning monarch," the bio adds.

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Jonathan Levy, executive editor and managing director of Sky News, said: "Rhiannon has made a great contribution to Sky News. Especially on the royal beat, where she has reported on an especially eventful period in the royal family's history. We wish Rhiannon the very best in her new role with King Charles."

Mills also has another connection to the royals: her partner,Andrew Parsons, is a photographer often tapped byKate MiddletonandPrince William.

While it's rare for the family to hire a royal rota reporter, it's not unprecedented for journalists to join the palace's communications team. Andreae is a former editor ofTheDaily Mail,while Simon Lewis, a communications secretary to the late Queen Elizabeth, previously worked at the BBC.

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Mills will join the monarch's press team at a tense time for the royal family, with headlines about the formerPrince Andrewdominating the news cycle in recent months, including hisarrest for allegations of misconduct in public officein February.

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Chadwick Boseman's widow on why actor wanted to keep cancer diagnosis private

Simone Ledward Boseman, the widow ofactor Chadwick Boseman, is opening up about his battle with colon cancer nearlysix years after his death.

In aninterview with the "Today" showaired March 20, Boseman told host Craig Melvin that both she and her husband were shocked by the suddenness of his diagnosis.The "Black Panther" actordied in 2020 at the age of 43.

"I didn't know that he was experiencing anything until he had already been to the doctor twice. It all seemed to come about very suddenly. It was a matter of weeks that he started not feeling well," she said.

Chadwick Boseman receivesposthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame star

Boseman described colon cancer as "really tricky in that way because he was so young, he wasn't even at the point where he would consider having a colonoscopy."

"I still don't know his family history," she told Melvin, saying that despite his Stage 3 diagnosis, the pair felt "very confident" that he "would make it through."

"To us, it was going be a challenging moment, but something that he would come out on the other side of and be fine. And they would do a surgery, and he would do some chemo afterward, and he would be OK," she said. "And there wasn't much talk at all of the possibility of him not being OK on the other side of that."

To explore the idea that he wouldn't be OK felt "like a betrayal of faith," she said. "There are a lot of moments where I look back on that time and wish that we had been able to find a way to talk about that."

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Boseman's deathcame as a shock to many fans who had not known he had been sick at all. His wife told "Today" that the decision to keep the battle private was intentional.

"Chad was not a person that would have wanted to be treated any differently because people knew that he was sick," she said. "The work is what was keeping him moving, so he didn't want the work to suffer just because he was sick. He didn't want to be handled with kid gloves because people thought he wasn't going to be able to do his job and slide underneath falling cabinets and run across fields."

Friends, family and colleagues of the late "Black Panther" actor, Chadwick Boseman, gathered on Thursday, Nov. 20, to honor him as he received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was an emotional moment for his widow Taylor Simone Ledward Boseman, "Black Panther" director Ryan Coogler and co-star Michael B. Jordan, and his "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" costar Viola Davis, who spoke at the ceremony. 

"This star, as beautiful as it is on the Walk of Fame, shines a whole lot less brighter than Chadwick is in heaven," Davis said as she concluded her speech.

A pair of shoes were also placed Bosemna's star during his posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame Star ceremony in Los Angeles. Boseman died on Aug. 29, 2020, at the age of 43 after a private four-year battle with colon cancer.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> "Black Panther" actress Letitia Wright, Boseman's widow Taylor Simone Ledward and "Sinners" actor Michael B. Jordan pay tribute to the actor.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> "Black Panther" actress Letitia Wright, Boseman's widow Taylor Simone Ledward and "Sinners" actor Michael B. Jordan pay tribute to the actor.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Chadwick Boseman's star is seen on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Nov. 20, 2025, in Hollywood, California.

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" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> "I have to believe that Chadwick is still alive," Viola Davis said during her remarks. "I can't use the word 'gone' or 'death' really when thinking about him."

The Oscar-winning actress shared a touching memory of Boseman. "We did 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' soon before he left us and he was always trying to engage me on the set, always sort of telling me in unassuming ways that ... I think that he understood the cap of success but the true power and significance of transcendence and that was usually the gist of all of our conversations ... What happens when you realize that you're possibly transitioning? That there's something else, right?"

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> "I celebrate him today. And I say to him, I hope all the angels in heaven just sang him to a beautiful rest," Viola Davis said visibly emotional. "And I thank him for what he left behind in me, which is a burning ember that always guides me to a higher meaning of my work and my purpose."

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Taylor Simone Ledward, Viola Davis, Ryan Coogler and Julius Tennon attend as Actor Chadwick Boseman is honored with a Posthumous Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 20, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Michael B. Jordan touches Chadwick Boseman's posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> "When I think of Chadwick Boseman I think of three things: leadership, teaching and generosity," director Ryan Coogler said. "He was an incredible leader." He was also wearing a necklace that featured a pendant engraved with Boseman's face.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Taylor Simone Ledward also took to the podium to pay tribute to her husband, Chadwick Boseman.

"Chad, today we recognize a lifetime of artistry. We recognize your skill and your devotion and we cement your legacy as a hero and icon," she said. "You lived with honor and you walked in truth. You were as brilliant as you were beautiful and as courageous as you were kind. We love you, we miss you and we thank you."

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Kevin Boseman (8th L), Derrick Boseman (3rd R) and guests attend as Chadwick Boseman is honored with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Ryan Coogler, visibly emotional, speaking about Chadwick Boseman.

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" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Derrick Boseman, Taylor Simone Ledward and Kevin Boseman

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" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Chadwick Boseman's "Black Panther" stars Letitia Wright and Michael B. Jordan

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Michael B. Jordan

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Ryan Coogler

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Ryan Coogler

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Taylor Simone Ledward

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Kevin Boseman holds a portrait of his brother Chadwick Boseman.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Derrick Boseman and Kevin Boseman

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Letitia Wright, Taylor Simone Ledward and Michael B. Jordan

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> A portrait of Chadwick Boseman is seen placed on his posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame Star.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Chadwick Boseman's friends and family.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> A view of Chadwick Boseman's covered star.

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Friends, family and colleagues of the late "Black Panther" actor, Chadwick Boseman, gathered on Thursday, Nov. 20, to honor him as he received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was an emotional moment for his widow Taylor Simone Ledward Boseman, "Black Panther" director Ryan Coogler and co-star Michael B. Jordan, and his "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" costar Viola Davis, who spoke at the ceremony."This star, as beautiful as it is on the Walk of Fame, shines a whole lot less brighter than Chadwick is in heaven," Davis said as she concluded her speech.A pair of shoes were also placed Bosemna's star during his posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame Star ceremony in Los Angeles. Boseman died on Aug. 29, 2020, at the age of 43 after a private four-year battle with colon cancer.

While Boseman said that time had eased some of her grief, she revealed it was still a "painful" process.

"The edges get less sharp, I think, is the best way to put it," she said. "There are still edges and there are still a lot of painful moments. But I think it becomes easier to find the love in those moments, as well. You become more accustomed to carrying the weight of grief. But it doesn't go away."

After starting out on TV shows like "Lincoln Heights" and "Persons Unknown,"Boseman hadhis breakthrough playing Jackie Robinson in 2013's "42" and then a year later inhabited the colorful wardrobe of R&B superstar James Brown in "Get on Up."

It was 2016, though, that started him on theroad to superstardomwith a cameo as T'Challa, a young Wakandan prince (later king) and heroic warrior, in Marvel's "Captain America: Civil War." Two years later, he headlined the blockbuster "Black Panther," a movie that caused a worldwide movement as Black men and women, boys and girls, took to heart its hero and the cross-armed "Wakanda Forever" salute.

Contributing: Andrea Mandell, Brian Truitt, Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY

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New Jersey sues Trump administration over proposed ICE facility

By Jasper Ward

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - New Jersey sued the Trump administration on Friday over a proposed ‌federal immigration detention center in its state.

The move ‌follows Maryland, which sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last month ​to stop construction of a similar facility in the state.

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill and Attorney General Jennifer Davenport's lawsuit against DHS and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seeks ‌to halt a ⁠plan to convert a vacant warehouse into a large-scale detention facility, which would have the ⁠capacity to hold 1,500 detainees.

The Trump administration plans to convert the warehouse and operate the immigration detention center without addressing ​the state's ​concerns about water, sewage and ​public safety, New Jersey ‌said.

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It also does not account for the site's sensitive environment or whether the warehouse is "an appropriate place" for detention, according to the state's leaders.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

U.S. President Donald ‌Trump, a Republican, returned to ​the White House last year after ​campaigning on a promise ​to carry out an aggressive immigration agenda. ‌His administration sought to ramp ​up immigration apprehensions, ​detentions and deportations in its first year.

Now, in year two, the Trump administration plans to spend more ​than $38 billion on ‌detention centers, a move that would increase ICE's total ​bed capacity to 92,600.

(Reporting by Jasper Ward in ​Washington, editing by Michelle Nichols)

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Cuba refuses to negotiate president's term in talks with United States

By Daniel Trotta

HAVANA, March 20 (Reuters) - Cuba on Friday rejected any suggestion that its political system or the term of its president were subject to negotiation in talks with the United States, following reports that ‌Washington sought to remove Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel from power.

"I can categorically confirm that ... the political system of ‌Cuba is not up for negotiation, and of course neither the president nor the position of any official in Cuba is subject to negotiation with ​the United States," Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio told a press conference.

Cuba acknowledged a week ago that it had entered talks with the U.S. government as an oil blockade imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump pushes the Communist-run nation deeper into economic crisis, and as Trump has said he can do "anthing I want" with Cuba, a sovereign neighbor.

USA Today, citing two sources with ‌knowledge of the Trump administration's plans, reported ⁠before Cuba's announcement that Trump was preparing an economic deal with Cuba that would relax trade restrictions but include an "off-ramp" for Diaz-Canel.

The New York Times, citing four people familiar with the talks, ⁠later reported that the Trump administration was seeking to push Diaz-Canel from power with two years remaining on his term as president and five years left as leader of the Communist Party.

Both reports said the U.S. proposal would leave untouched the family of former presidents ​Fidel ​and Raul Castro. Fidel Castro died in 2016 but Raul Castro, ​94, remains highly influential eight years after handing the ‌presidency over to Diaz-Canel, 65.

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Such a deal would resemble what has happened in Venezuela, where the United States deposed President Nicolas Maduro on Jan. 3. Rather than attempt to install an opposition government, the U.S. has cooperated with Acting President Delcy Rodriguez, who ascended when U.S. forces whisked away Maduro in an early morning raid.

But authority in Cuba is spread widely among senior Communist Party leaders, other government officials and the armed forces, unlike the concentration of power that characterized the Castro ‌years from the start of the 1959 revolution until Diaz-Canel's term began ​in 2018.

De Cossio, who has led the foreign ministry's office on U.S. ​relations, declined to offer further details of the bilateral ​discussions, leaving unanswered the questions of where and when they are taking place.

But he did say ‌there were plenty of topics of mutual interest, including ​trade between the two countries ​that has been severed by the comprehensive U.S. economic embargo against Cuba.

He also mentioned longstanding economic compensation that each country seeks. Cuba has claims against the United States for damages caused by the embargo, while there are 5,913 claims ​from Americans whose properties were nationalized in ‌Cuba after the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power.

"These are very complex issues that can ​be discussed, but they require dialogue," de Cossio said. "They require sitting down and are legitimate matters."

(Reporting by Daniel ​Trotta in Havana; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Alistair Bell)

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U.S. strikes alleged drug boat in eastern Pacific, leaving three survivors

The U.S. military conducted another strike on an allegeddrug boatin the eastern Pacific Ocean, leaving three survivors, U.S. Southern Command said Friday.

In a post on X showing video of the Thursday attack, SOUTHCOM said, "Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations."

"Intelligence confirmed the low-profile vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three narco-terrorists survived the strike," the post said.

It did not say how many people were believed to have been killed.

SOUTHCOM said that after the strike, it "immediately notified U.S. Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivors."

The Coast Guard and Defense Department did not immediately respond to requests for more information.

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The strike is at least the second to be conducted during the ongoingwar with Iran.

On March 8, SOUTHCOM said it struck a vessel in the same area of the Pacific and that "six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action."

The U.S. has carried out more than 45 strikes in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific since September, killing over 140 people.

The Trump administration has argued that the strikes are in the country's national security interest and have saved lives by preventing illicit drugs from entering the U.S. Some lawmakers and advocacy groups have criticized the strikes as illegal.

The X post on Friday said the strike had been directed by Gen. Francis Donovan, the head of Southern Command. Intestimony Thursdaybefore the Senate Armed Services Committee, Donovan said that, looking forward, "boat strikes aren't the answer."

He said they're working on "a counter cartel campaign process that puts total systemic friction" across various drug networks.

"I believe that actually kinetic strikes will be one of the many tools, and probably not the most effective tool, when we actually look at it as more of a campaign approach," Donovan testified.

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Audi team boss Jonathan Wheatley leaves 2 races into F1 season after reported Aston Martin interest

HINWIL, Switzerland (AP) — Team principal Jonathan Wheatley has left the AudiFormula 1team just two races into its rebranding from Sauber, following reportsAston Martinwas seeking to sign him as it tries to turn around a troubled season.

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Audi said Friday that Wheatley, who took charge ofwhat was then the Sauber teamin April 2025, was leaving "with immediate effect for personal reasons," and suggested there's more change to come.

Mattia Binotto, a former Ferrari and Sauber team principal who was in charge of the transformation into the Audi works team, including building its own engines, will now replace Wheatley as well ahead of next week's Japanese Grand Prix.

"The team's future structure will be fully defined at a later stage, as the organization continues to adapt to the evolving environment of Formula One," Audi said in a statement.

The announcement came a day after media outlets, including the BBC, reported that Aston Martin had approached Wheatley about a potential move.

Any move to Aston Martin would reunite Wheatley with former colleague Adrian Newey, the Formula 1 car-design great who took on team principal duties in what's been a woeful start to 2026 for the team.

Newey and Wheatley previously worked together at Red Bull when it was F1's dominant team.

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Aston Martin owner and executive chairman Lawrence Stroll issued a statement Friday which didn't name Wheatley but expressed confidence in Newey in his role as "managing technical partner", and said the team doesn't follow "the traditional team principal role that you see elsewhere."

Stroll added: "We are regularly approached by senior executives of other teams who wish to join Aston Martin Aramco, but in keeping with our policy, we do not comment on rumor or speculation."

Aston Martin has lacked pace at the start of a new engine partnership with Honda and struggled with vibrations which damage the car's battery and affect the drivers.

Fernando Alonso retired from last week's Chinese Grand Prix because of "discomfort" caused by the vibrations, the team said, and Newey previously warned of the risk ofnerve damage.

Audi has had reliability issues of its own with two failures to start races, but showed stronger pace with a ninth-place finish for Gabriel Bortoleto at the season-openingAustralian Grand Prix.

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