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50 Cent is going to war with Verizon ... telling "Power" fans to dump the provider over its STARZ blackout.

The rapper and TV mogul blasted Verizon and CEO Dan Schulman on Instagram after the company's Fios customers lost access to STARZ programming amid a messy carriage dispute.

50 urged fans -- particularly viewers in New York and New Jersey -- to switch providers, warning they could miss "Power" and the network's other hit shows.

Michigan just wiped 20,000 convicted sex offenders off its sex offender registry ... and Larry Nassar was one of them.

Here's what happened ... Michigan's Supreme Court recently ruled that amendments issued in 2021 to the Sex Offender Registration Act can't be used to retroactively require registration due to older incidents ... and as a result, the Michigan State Police scrubbed 20K sex offenders whose crimes happened before July 1, 2011.

That means Nassar's been scrubbed from the registry ... and a search for his name yields no results.

The two roommates of a Jane Doe who accused 7 Cornell fraternity brothers of drugging her and raping her are sharing a timeline of how she processed the alleged sexual assault ... and it took her some time to fully process things.

One roommate texted Jane Doe around 3:05 AM on Oct. 20, 2024, asking her when she'd be coming home ... before Jane Doe responded she wasn't sure ... the New York Times reported.

That same roommate said Jane Doe returned around 11:15 AM ... and told both roommates that she had sex with multiple men and had taken ketamine.

Elis Lima Carneiro -- a child in Brazil who rose to fame on social media because of her struggle with a rare aging syndrome -- is dead.

Her Instagram page announced her death ... saying she died Wednesday and inviting folks to her wake Saturday at a chapel in Boa Vista, with the burial taking place immediately after.

The funeral invitation is open to all people who wish to support the family during the difficult time ... and the post's caption thanks the public for their support.

Here's how Wendy Williams is doing ... she's looking happy and healthy while strolling through the Big Apple ... and the video tells it all.

The former talk show host stepped out in a multicolored blue-and-gold jacket and a pair of short white shorts for a night out in New York City.

She carried a black crocodile Hermès Birkin bag and painted her lips a fiery red for dinner Wednesday at Carnegie Diner & Café in Times Square.

Diddy's back in solitary confinement amid allegations that he's enjoying massages, fancy meals, a contraband phone and booze, and inmates doing his chores in prison.

Check out the new YouTube collab between TMZ and the New York Post, "The Low Down," where we bring you stories that are gripping, outrageous, and sometimes scandalous.

Dr. Reza Nabavi -- the head of Resolutions Living sober facility where Presley Gerber died -- was mum when we asked him about our report that his employees knew Presley was high when he was admitted to the facility.

Christa Pike repeatedly pointed out a shooting pain in her arm during her horrifically failed execution attempt ... according to one eyewitness.

Tori Gessner, a reporter for Nashville's WKRN, gave a detailed account of what happened after Pike received the lethal injection, or at least, it was supposed to be lethal.

During a news conference, Gessner revealed Pike's words ... "At one point, she said, 'My arm feels like it's about to burst open.' The curtains close at first, but she was clearly still alive -- she was clearly still breathing and snoring."

6:52 AM PT -- Rick Ross' lawyers Steve Sadow and Bradley Horenstein tell TMZ ... "William Roberts II, professionally known as Rick Ross, is being wrongfully accused by an ex-girlfriend whose true motivations are unclear. The ex did not even file a police report until a month after the claimed incident allegedly took place. Mr. Roberts is innocent and has pled not guilty to the charges. He respectfully requests that his friends, fans and the general public not prejudge the situation and allow the judicial process to run its course."

6:49 AM PT -- Rick Ross turned himself in to police Thursday morning and was arrested on two battery charges after an ex-girlfriend called the cops on Tuesday and claimed he had been violent with her ... according to our law enforcement sources.

We're told the woman told police the alleged violent incident went down on August 28 ... she said she was sleeping in the home they shared, and he woke her up in a jealous rage over a photo she was tagged in on social media ... and things quickly turned physical.

Our sources say the woman told police Rick questioned her about lying to him and then slapped her in the face. She said he later accused her of being involved in a relationship with someone else, and every time she denied it, he struck her.

We're told the woman claimed Rick struck her in the chest several times, choked her to the point where she could not breathe, grabbed her by her ponytail and slammed her against a wall.

Our sources say the woman gave police photos of her alleged injuries ... and Rick voluntarily surrendered to police but did not talk to cops about her allegations.

Court records show Rick has pleaded not guilty to both charges. He's still in custody, but we're told his legal team is working to get him released, and he could be out soon.

Rick Ross is in police custody in Miami-Dade County after being arrested on a couple of battery charges ... TMZ has confirmed.

The rapper was arrested Thursday morning on charges of felony battery by strangulation and misdemeanor battery.

Rick is currently behind bars in Miami-Dade County jail. He posed for a booking photo, and it looks like he's wearing a floral button-down shirt in his mug shot.

Working for House Speaker Mike Johnson has its perks ... you can plan a wonderful trip to Italy and France on the taxpayers' dime, and even try to visit a Ferrari factory ... but getting there is the problem.

NBC News obtained a draft itinerary for Johnson's top aide, Curt Beaulieu, and other staffers from both sides of the aisle, in which they mapped out their whole European journey they had planned for mid-October... just weeks before the midterm elections.

The report says the bipartisan staff was not only planning to visit the Ferrari factory near Bologna, Italy, but they were also going to make pit stops at high-end brand stores in either Milan or Florence before heading to France's Champagne region.

Mary Cosby went back to work pretty soon after her son, Robert Cosby Jr., passed away ... and she's now revealing she had to compartmentalize her life to get through it.

The new season of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" is out now ... and fans are seeing Mary deal with Robert's shocking death ... with a new scene showing her just two weeks after his "homegoing."

Mary says she's in "survival mode" ... forcing herself to only think about Robert briefly -- and not allowing her grief to consume her.

John Davidson is returning to the British Academy Film Awards months after his viral n-word outburst ... only this time, he'll be watching from a separate space.

The Tourette syndrome activist will attend the BAFTA Scotland Awards Nov. 15 in Glasgow, where the film based on his life, "I Swear," is up for 7 awards ... but Davidson won't be sitting inside the main ceremony.

BAFTA says he'll watch the show by video link from a separate "relaxed space" inside the venue, alongside family and friends. The organization says the setup came after talks with Davidson, Tourettes Action and Tourette Scotland ... and Davidson himself suggested the arrangement.

A helicopter with 5 people aboard crashed into the water off SoCal's Catalina Island, leaving 2 dead ... and, ironically, the chopper was in the middle of a mission to save a patient.

Four of the medevac helicopter's occupants were pulled from the water Wednesday night in joint efforts by the U.S. Coast Guard, local fire departments and L.A. County Sheriff's Office just before 8 PM.

The chopper had just taken off from Catalina, heading back to mainland California, when it went down ... according to officials.

President Trump was asked point-blank whether Mitch McConnell should resign over his health ... but he never actually answered -- instead, he lit into TIME for asking him "negative" questions and dropped an F-bomb.

Trump sat down with the magazine at the White House on Monday, and TIME brought up recent videos of McConnell back in the Senate before asking whether the 84-year-old Kentucky senator should step down because of his health.

Rather than weigh in on Mitch, Trump veered into Joe Biden's pardons before turning his fire on the interview itself ... telling the outlet, "You haven't asked me one f***ing positive question."

The wrong person was identified in the Cornell gang rape lawsuit, and his mother's home address became public record ... and now she says their family is being flooded with death threats ... and he's not even a Cornell student -- he's a United States Marine!!!

Sergeant Matthew Ingalls -- who serves in Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and has never gone to Cornell -- is not the Matthew Ingalls accused in Jane Doe's sexual assault lawsuit ... but somehow he was misidentified as Jane Doe's alleged rapist ... and now his family says they're paying the price.

The Marine's mother, Victoria Ingalls, told The Free Press that she and the rest of her family have been subject to non-stop harassment and death threats ever since she was mistakenly served with the lawsuit and their home address was added to the official court docket.

Online vigilantes began searching for "Matthew Ingalls" as soon as the lawsuit was filed ... and they found the address and posted it online, along with a phone number ... completely unaware that the wrong Matthew Ingalls was identified.

Presley Gerber showed up high when he was admitted to the Resolutions Living sober house -- and he died just hours later -- but the doctor who owns Resolutions was in no mood to talk about it when we asked.

We got Dr. Reza Nabavi in Malibu late Wednesday afternoon, and asked him about a story TMZ broke -- that Presley's sober coach called Resolutions and asked if Presley could stay in the facility's sober house, making it clear the son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber was high. We're told the admissions director said to bring him there. Multiple people in the rehab industry say there is a hard rule not to admit anyone into a sober house who is high.

The sober coach deposited Presley at the sober house and then left. We obtained video of Presley inside and he was clearly high. We're told he was doing drugs and apparently od'd hours later.

Christa Pike is still alive after 2 attempted lethal injections in Tennessee.

Around 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said “executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring” ... her lawyers said in a federal court filing, according to NBC News.

Pike was scheduled to be put to death Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Tennessee to carry out her execution ... overturning a last-minute stay from a federal appeals court.