Paul Anthony Kelly at the Disney Upfront on May 12, 2026. (Disney/David Russell)
Paul Anthony Kelly is making the leap from romantic drama to psychological thriller.
The actor, known for playing John F. Kennedy Jr. in the hit FX series Love Story, will star in The Housemaid's Secret, Lionsgate announced Thursday.
The upcoming film is a sequel to The Housemaid, which was released in 2025.
Kelly will star as Douglas in the sequel alongside Sydney Sweeney, who reprises her role as Millie. Michele Morrone, who also starred in The Housemaid, will reprise his role as Enzo, according to Lionsgate.
Kirsten Dunst will also star in the film, with Paul Feig returning to direct the project.
According to a synopsis from Lionsgate, The Housemaid's Secret will see Millie "taking a job keeping house for a woman she's never allowed to see — only to discover the truth behind the locked door that threatens to expose secrets far darker than her own."
The Housemaid and The Housemaid's Secret are based on the New York Times bestselling novels of the same name by Freida McFadden.
McFadden's most recent Housemaid novel, The Housemaid Is Watching, was published in June 2024.
Lionsgate added in a press release that while The Housemaid's Secret enters production later this year, "the studio anticipates adapting even more of McFadden's beloved thrillers from the world of The Housemaid in the years ahead."
Kelly was also recently announced as the newest cast member for the 13th installment of American Horror Story, premiering later this fall on FX and Hulu.
The Housemaid's Secret will be released on Dec. 17, 2027.
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Ella Bright and Belmont Cameli in 'Off Campus.' (Liane Hentscher/Prime)
The Off Campus team is calling out fans’ unsportsmanlike behavior.
Prime Video’s popular college hockey romance series posted a message to social media Thursday imploring fans to be kind.
“The Off Campus community is built on a shared love of storytelling – and on respect for the real people who bring it to life,” read the message. “We ask that everyone in this space extend that respect to our cast and the people in their lives.”
It added, “Accounts that engage in targeted harassment will be removed from following our accounts.”
Prime Video had to issue similar notices for The Summer I Turned Pretty after some comments turned toxic. "PSA for the Summer community," the show's official social accounts shared last year before the third and final season aired. "Cousins is our safe place. Everything good, everything magical. Let's keep the conversation kind this summer."
More recently, the streaming service issued a plea to fans to stop sharing locations and visiting the set for the upcoming The Summer I Turned Pretty movie.
COLLIN COUNTY (ABC NEWS) – Karmelo Anthony, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf, filed a notice of appeal on Wednesday. In a one-page document filed with the court in Collin County, Texas, Anthony said he could not afford an attorney for the appeal and asked the court to appoint one.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice also released a new photo of Anthony, 19, in which he’s seen sporting a shaven head and wearing a sleeveless tunic.
He was transferred to the Wallace Pack Unit, a prison near Navasota, just outside of Houston, according to Texas officials, where he will begin his 35-year imprisonment sentence, as he is now in state custody.
Anthony was found guilty of murder over the fatal stabbing of Metcalf, another teen, at a high school track meet last year.
The deadly stabbing occurred at a Frisco Independent School District stadium on April 2, 2025, during a track and field competition involving multiple schools in the district.
Police said Metcalf, an 11th grader at Frisco Memorial High School, was stabbed during an altercation under his school’s tent in the stadium bleachers.
Witnesses told officers that the two got into an argument over Anthony, a then-17-year-old student at Frisco Centennial High School, being under Metcalf’s school tent during the rainy track meet, according to the arrest report.
Multiple current and former students recounted the incident during the trial. One witness testified that Anthony was asked to leave the tent about 15 times. Some witnesses recalled Anthony saying, “Touch me and see what happens,” during the altercation. Another witness quoted Metcalf as telling Anthony, “I’m not going to fight you.”
Witnesses recounted that Metcalf shoved or nudged Anthony, who was sitting on the bleachers, before Anthony stabbed him with a pocket knife. The blade perforated Metcalf’s right ventricle, and he was pronounced dead after being transported to an area hospital.
Prosecutors called the stabbing “senseless” and “plain and simple murder,” while the defense argued that Anthony acted in self-defense.
The jury began deliberating midday Tuesday before reaching the guilty murder verdict in three hours, according to a court spokesperson. The jurors also could have considered manslaughter, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years.
The same jury reached a decision on the sentence after several more hours of deliberation on Tuesday.
A person sits in shallow water as cargo and commercial vessels are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Monday, June 8, 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)
Something has to give in Iran. I believe that it was President Trump himself who said we are being “tapped along” by whomever it is who is calling the shots in that beleaguered country.
Tapping the west along is a well-worn tactic for the criminal theocrats who run Iran. They have been doing it for nearly half a century. Tapping the Obama administration along got them an airlift of pallets of euros and Swiss francs to the tune of the equivalent of about $400 million courtesy of the United States Air Force. Part of that deal was that Iran would curtail its enrichment of uranium. They did no such thing.
So, we can’t be tapped along. This thing needs to come to an acceptable conclusion.
Iran wasn’t always the theocratically-controlled despotic hellhole that it is now. Throughout history Iran was known as Persia. It was only in 1935 that Reza Shah Pahlavi, then the country’s ruler (and the father of the Shah of Iran that we all remember from 1979), asked governments around the world to start calling the country Iran.
Unlike the dark, totalitarian misery that is today’s Iran, Persia was an enlightened, accomplished society. We can credit Persia with modern algebra and the word, “algorithm.” Ancient Persia was the home of astronomer, mathematician and poet Omar Khayyam (“A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread – and Thou”).
Perhaps as much as any society, it was Persia that showed the world how to govern a large, diverse civilization through administration, infrastructure, tolerance, and cultural sophistication rather than through oppressive coercion.
All to say that the 90 million people who live in Iran today are the heirs of a rich, vibrant culture that has been suppressed by the theocratic thugs who took over the country in 1979.
President Trump is therefore reluctant to reduce the country to a pile of smoking rubble, though he can easily do so. Reducing Iran to the levels of devastation visited upon Europe in World War II would certainly neutralize the threat that Iran has posed to the civilized world for nearly 50 years. But it would simultaneously impoverish the Iranian people for a generation or more and perhaps create the circumstance for the rise of a regime that’s even worse than the one we have now.
But it may come to that whether we and President Trump like it or not. For the sake of the developed world on the macro level, and for the sake of our own domestic politics on the micro level, we must bring the business in Iran to an end.
The threat it has posed for nearly a half century must be decisively neutralized and the Strait of Hormuz must be open to the free passage of maritime commerce. Prior administrations going back to Jimmy Carter have been “tapped along” by Iran. But we can be tapped along no longer.
A decisive outcome in Iran may come at a horrendously painful price. But whatever the price, it must be paid.
SMITH COUNTY – An investigation into a dog theft case in May has led to the uncovering of extreme animal abuse at a Smith County home and officials are now seeking information on the suspect who has reportedly left town.
According to a press release from the Smith County Sheriff’s Office, deputies first received a report of two stolen dogs after a witness saw a delivery driver pick up the animals. After the driver never returned the dogs, despite being told to by their supervisor, the case was turned over to the Criminal Investigation Division. Continue reading Deputies find 38 abused dogs
Jay Clayton, US attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), during the Bloomberg Global Credit Forum in New York, US, on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. The event gathers some of the industry's most influential voices to explore where debt markets go from here. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump announced on Thursday a permanent pick to head the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, after the uproar over his temporary pick risked derailing the renewal of a key surveillance law.
Trump said that he is nominating the current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton to head the intelligence agency.
"I encourage the United States Senate to confirm Jay as soon as possible," Trump wrote in a social media post.
The reauthorization of the spy program was muddied by Trump's choice of Bill Pulte to serve as acting director after Tulsi Gabbard announced her resignation. Pulte drew bipartisan concern on Capitol Hill over his lack of previous experience in national security and intelligence.
ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott asked Trump on Thursday about Pulte continuing to serve as acting director given his lack of intelligence experience.
"He's only there for a little while. He's running it for a short while we get a very talented person, Jay Clayton, in," Trump said in the Oval Office.
Apart from the national security cases he oversaw while serving as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Clayton also lacks experience in intelligence gathering and national security matters.
Clayton spent the bulk of his career as a corporate attorney, and prior to his appointment as U.S. attorney last year, lacked meaningful experience in criminal matters.
He has spent the last year overseeing one of the country's highest profile federal prosecutor's offices -- focusing on drugs, gangs, immigration and fraud cases -- and was also tapped to lead an investigation that Trump directly called for into high-profile Democrats such Bill Clinton, Larry Summers and Reid Hoffman's alleged associations with Epstein. Nothing appears to have resulted from that investigation, and earlier this year acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department did not have any active cases into Epstein associates.
Clayton also oversaw the unsealing of grand jury materials related to Epstein, prompting complaints from victims about the disclosure of their sensitive personal information. The Justice Department's push to unseal those materials resulted in little new information about the investigations into Epstein and was criticized by judges as a largely performative effort while the DOJ refused to release their own materials.
Clayton's office has brought the first two prosecutions of insider trading on prediction markets, including cases against a special forces soldier and Google employee, putting his office at the center of the debate about how to govern the sites that critics say are rife with insider trading.
Clayton was never confirmed by the Senate as U.S. attorney, though his nomination was approved by the federal judges in the district and was seen by many as a steady hand to lead the high-profile office. He was, however, the subject of criticism earlier this week when he appeared on CNBC and opined about baseless claims of election fraud in California.
"There's a great phrase, 'opportunity for fraud,'" Clayton said, criticizing the state's mail-in voting laws.
Clayton spent most of his career at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, where he represented hedge funds, wealthy investors, large banks and massive corporations such as Deutsche Bank, UBS and Alibaba Group. Clayton represented Goldman Sachs during the 2008 financial crisis and Barclays when it purchased Lehman Brothers' assets out of bankruptcy.
During Trump's first administration, Clayton led the SEC, cracking down on cryptocurrencies and winning $14 billion in monetary remedies, including returning $3.5 billion to investors. While he championed the "long-term interests of the Main Street investor," Clayton also pushed deregulations -- such as removing the requirement that hedge funds publish stock positions and loosening the rules for corporate auditors -- that critics said weakened investor protections.
While Clayton generally avoided the political spotlight while at the SEC, a June 2020 proposal to nominate Clayton to serve as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York briefly resulted in political turmoil. The sitting U.S. attorney, Geoffrey Berman, refused to leave his post after then-Attorney General Bill Barr announced he would be replaced by Clayton. The standoff was resolved with Berman's deputy taking over the position, and Clayton continued to lead the SEC.
SMITH COUNTY – A woman who admitted to killing a Tyler man in 2017 was given a 20-year prison sentence on Thursday. According to court documents, Jakysia Rodgers, who was recently charged with capital murder in the shooting that killed Joshua Alon McGee, 22, on August 11, 2017, entered a guilty plea to the lesser charge of murder on Thursday. After that, Rodgers received a 20-year sentence. She was already serving a 20-year sentence for an unrelated aggravated assault charge in 2024 prior to the capital murder indictment. Continue reading Woman charged in cold case
KILGORE – The eastbound lanes of I-20 near Highway 31 in Kilgore are to be closed to about 6.pm. on Thursday as crews clean debris from a semi-truck crash off the roadway, that according to our news partner KETK.
The Kilgore Fire Department said, the truck tractor and trailer drove off the roadway and into the tree line off of I-20 near mile marker 590. Firefighters were able to extricate the driver, who was the sole occupant. The driver has been hospitalized for non-life threatening injuries.
Crews are now working to clean debris from the crash and remove the truck, which is expected to close down the eastbound lanes of I-20 in the area for the next five to six hours, Adam Albritton from DPS told KETK News.
TYLER – There are confirmed reports of a two vehicle accident on Highway 110 and Grande Blvd in Tyler. At this time, traffic is slow, but moving. You might consider taking an alternate route and watch out for emergency personnel. At this time, there are no reported injuries.
Workers wearing protective visit a patient in an isolation unit an Ebola treatment center on June 2, 2026 in Monigi, Democratic Republic of Congo. (Daniel Buuma/Getty Images)
(GENEVA) -- The World Health Organization said on Thursday that the risk of Ebola transmission in Europe and World Cup host countries is low as the tournament gets ready to kick off across the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO's regional director for Europe, said in a statement that there are currently no Ebola cases in North America or Europe amid an outbreak spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The DRC has recorded 676 confirmed cases as of Thursday morning, according to DRC's minister of health. In Uganda, there are 19 confirmed cases -- many of them travel-related -- and two deaths, the country's health officials said.
Kluge made reference to an Ebola patient who was treated in the European Region after being evacuated from the outbreak region.
An American physician, Dr. Peter Stafford, tested positive for Ebola after being exposed while treating patients at Nyankunde Hospital. Stafford, a medical missionary with the mission organization Serge, was transferred to Germany and treated at Berlin's Charite University Hospital.
His wife, Dr. Rebekah Stafford, and their four children were also transferred to the same hospital, where they were monitored in quarantine for 21 days as high-risk contacts.
Last week, the family was released from the hospital after Dr. Peter Stafford had no symptoms for more than 72 hours and a negative result in repeated PCR tests, Serge said.
"There is no reason to change your plans. Travel as normal, stay informed and enjoy the tournament," Kluge said.
Kluge said there are several reasons why the risk is low in other countries: most cases are in remote areas of the DRC, Ebola is not an airborne illness and it is spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of a sick person.
Additionally, screening is in place before travel is allowed from affected regions and people are only infectious once visibly ill, according to Kluge.
The CDC has temporarily restricted entry to the U.S. for certain travelers who were recently in the DRC, Uganda or South Sudan. Currently, U.S. citizens and nationals may still enter but will undergo enhanced public health screenings.
Kludge said the WHO does not recommend travel restrictions, "though if you don't have to travel to the affected areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Uganda, it is safer not to."
He added that it's important to challenge the stigma associated with Ebola patients and those from affected regions or African communities.
"The spread of Ebola is not determined by nationality or ethnicity," he said. "Stigma discourages people from seeking care and can make outbreaks harder to control. Stay informed, rely on trusted sources and treat others with understanding. With common sense and compassion, we can keep both people and the game safe."
Lili Reinhart attends 3rd Annual Gotham Television Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on June 1, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
Let’s hear it for women in STEM.
The Love Hypothesis, based on Ali Hazelwood’s bestselling romance novel, officially has a release date. The film comes to Prime Video on Sept. 23.
Star Lili Reinhart helped announce the news in a video posted to social media Thursday. We see a barista deliver a whipped cream-topped drink with 9.23 written on it to Reinhart’s character, Olive.
“Oh that’s me,” Reinhart says as she grabs the drink and takes a sip. “Could I actually get sprinkles on this?”
“Just a little something brewing,” Prime Video captioned the video. “The Love Hypothesis arrives September 23.”
The story follows a fake dating scheme between Olive Smith, a PhD candidate, and a surly biology professor, Adam Carlsen, played by Tom Bateman. Matters get complicated when their fake dating starts to give way to real feelings.
Cosmopolitan scored an exclusive first look at the film, including a photo of Olive and Adam’s memorable first kiss.
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Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum arrive at the premiere of Columbia Pictures' '21 Jump Street' at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on March 13, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
A third installment in the 21 Jump Street movie franchise is a go.
Producer Neal H. Moritz revealed the news in an Instagram post, with a photo of the script for 24 Jump Street. “It took so long to make we had to skip one,” the script’s cover page reads.
21 Jump Street, starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, was released in 2012, followed by its sequel, 22 Jump Street, in 2014.
As the photo of the script reveals, Hill co-wrote 24 Jump Street along with Rodney Rothman and Meghan Malloy.
"A picture says a thousand words!" Moritz captioned the photo.
Variety reports Hill, Tatum and Ice Cube are in talks to return as stars of the new film.
The first Jump Street film, a reboot of the 1980s TV series starring Johnny Depp, saw Hill and Tatum playing cops who go undercover at a high school. The sequel had them graduating to an undercover mission at a college.
The U.S. Capitol on November 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Eric Lee/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) -- The House and Senate on Thursday failed to pass last-minute, short-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is set to expire on Friday.
The House failed to pass a three-week extension of the spy program in a 198-218 vote, well short of the two-thirds majority needed. Nineteen House Republicans voted against the bill. Seven House Democrats voted in favor of it.
In the Senate, three separate efforts to unanimously pass short-term extensions of FISA authorities also failed.
The House and Senate are expected to now leave town as it grows increasingly likely that FISA's legal authorization will lapse for the first time in the program's history.
Efforts on Capitol Hill to renew FISA stalled after President Donald Trump tapped Bill Pulte to be acting director of national intelligence. Democrats in the House and Senate are opposed to Pulte, arguing the director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency does not have any national intelligence experience.
Pulte is also known in the Trump administration for launching probes into several of the president's perceived political enemies over allegations of mortgage fraud and possible misuse of authority. Targets of the investigations include Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, New York Attorney GeneralLetitia James, Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff and former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell. They've all denied wrongdoing.
"Today, we just offered a simple, clean, three-week extension of the FISA national security law. The Democrats, 199 of them, voted against a clean, three-week extension for political purposes," House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters after the failed vote. "And when the bill went down, they applauded it."
Senate Majority Leader John Thune led an effort to extend the program for one singular week until Pulte is installed to replace Tulsi Gabbard, who announced last month she was stepping down from the post.
"This is a program that saves American lives. And I have to ask the question: I can't for the life of me figure out why the Democrats continue to support policies that make this country less safe," Thune said.
House Minority Hakeem Jeffries called Thursday's vote a "show vote" from Republicans.
"Bill Pulte has no national security experience, no law enforcement experience and no military experience," Jeffries said. "So, it is highly irresponsible to try to elevate Bill Pulte, as we've made publicly clear repeatedly to Republicans and to the administration."
Speaker Johnson met with Trump twice this week to try to hammer out a FISA deal.
Trump on Wednesday repeated his praise for Pulte, who will take over as intelligence chief for Tulsi Gabbard following her resignation, despite the challenges his temporary appointment presented for FISA.
"He's going to do a good job," Trump told reporters. "He's going to be there for a very short period of time. He will be superseded and replaced by somebody that's going to have the job permanently."
Trump on Thursday afternoon, after the FISA votes failed on Capitol Hill, announced a new permanent pick for director of national intelligence: Jay Clayton.
WASHINGTON — A Texas couple was sentenced to 40 years each in prison for running a fraudulent chain-referral pyramid scheme, following their convictions by a jury on conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering charges in January 2026. The sentencing was handed down Tuesday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
“At the peak of the pandemic, LaShonda and Marlon Moore launched an investment fraud scheme and cheated struggling Americans out of $30 million,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “This fraud scheme exploited people out of their hard-earned money at a time when they needed it most. Opportunistic fraudsters like the Moores belong in prison.”
“The Moores’ get rich quick scheme has earned them a well-deserved stay in federal prison,” said U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs for the Eastern District of Texas. “Playing games with other peoples’ money while promising unrealistic returns is stealing and will be prosecuted and punished.”
“The harm caused by greed-driven, deceptive investments promising returns too good to be true cannot be overstated,” said Inspector in Charge Eric Shen of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Criminal Investigations Group. “The mission of the USPIS continues, to aggressively investigate such schemes and hold fraudsters fully accountable.”
“Those who exploit uncertainty and hardship for personal profit undermine the safety and security of our communities,” said Special Agent in Charge Christina Foley of the U.S. Secret Service Dallas Field Office. “The Moores took advantage of trust and hope during a time of national crisis, causing significant harm to thousands of victims. Today’s sentencing sends a clear message: the Secret Service remains steadfast in our mission to investigate and disrupt these schemes, and those who prey on vulnerable communities for personal gain will be held fully accountable.”
“The Moores used a polished image and a reality TV appearance to build trust, but behind the scenes, they orchestrated a deceptive pyramid scheme built on fake ‘playing boards’ and false promises of 800% returns,” said Special Agent in Charge Christopher J. Altemus Jr. of the IRS Criminal Investigation’s (IRS-CI) Dallas Field Office. “This scheme deliberately targeted the African American community, exploiting cultural trust and community ties. These sentences make it clear: if you abuse trust and exploit communities, you will face justice.”
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, LaShonda Moore, 38, and Marlon Moore, 39, of Frisco, Texas, co-founded and ran “Blessings in No Time,” known as “BINT,” an illegal chain-referral pyramid scheme that targeted victims during the COVID?19 pandemic from June 2020 to June 2021. BINT targeted and recruited victims with false and misleading promises through weekly live-stream video broadcasts to thousands of participants across the United States during the COVID-19 shutdown. Victims were falsely promised that they would earn 800% returns on each $1,400 investment and were guaranteed a refund if they were unsatisfied. The Moores falsely held out BINT as a way for people to help their own community by paying “blessings” of at least $1,400 to participants who had already joined. The Moores falsely promised that new participants’ “blessing” payments would be paid back eight-fold within a few weeks. BINT was falsely presented as an altruistic invitation-only community to help others during the economic downturn from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The defendants structured BINT to operate on “playing boards” that had positions for participants on four levels: eight Fires, four Winds, two Earths, and one Water. Once eight new participants were recruited to fill all eight Fire positions on the playing board, each Fire was directed to “bless” or pay at least $1,400 to the participant in the Water position. A Water participant then received eight payments totaling more than $11,000. After a Water participant received his or her payment, other participants at lower levels would move up one level on the playing board and then be required to recruit new participants into the Fire positions to perpetuate the scheme. To profit from the investment scheme, the defendants placed themselves in positions on the playing boards so that they received many of the ultimate payments, and they otherwise diverted substantial money to themselves that was paid by the participants. The defendants’ pyramid scheme victimized more than 10,000 people across the country and inflicted more than $30 million in victim losses.
SMITH COUNTY – A woman who admitted to killing a Tyler man in 2017 was given a 20-year prison sentence on Thursday. According to court documents, Jakysia Rodgers, who was recently charged with capital murder in the shooting that killed Joshua Alon McGee, 22, on August 11, 2017, entered a guilty plea to the lesser charge of murder on Thursday. After that, Rodgers received a 20-year sentence. She was already serving a 20-year sentence for an unrelated aggravated assault charge in 2024 prior to the capital murder indictment. 
TYLER – There are confirmed reports of a two vehicle accident on Highway 110 and Grande Blvd in Tyler. At this time, traffic is slow, but moving. You might consider taking an alternate route and watch out for emergency personnel. At this time, there are no reported injuries.
