The 2025 Critics Choice Awards will remain on pause amid the ongoing wildfires across Los Angeles.
The award show—originally set to air Jan. 12 with host Chelsea Handler, before it was postponed…
Hollywood is pressing pause as the community navigates heartbreaking wildfires.
The 2025 Critics Choice Awards, originally set to air on E! Jan. 12 with host Chelsea Handler, have been postponed until Jan. 26. The rescheduled event will remain at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California, with Handler as the emcee.
“This unfolding tragedy has already had a profound impact on our community,” CCA CEO Joey Berlin said in a statement Jan. 8. “All our thoughts and prayers are with those battling the devastating fires and with all who have been affected.”
This announcement comes as fires from Pacific Palisades to Pasadena continue to destroy homes and businesses throughout the Los Angeles area, which has resulted in two deaths, L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony C. Marrone confirmed Jan. 8, adding that the high winds are “placing all residents of Los Angeles County in danger.”
Amid the devastation, many residents, including Jamie Lee Curtis, have spoken out about their beloved city.
“My community and possibly my home is on fire,” the Oscar winner wrote on Instagram Jan. 8. “My family is safe. Many of my friends will lose their homes. Many other communities as well.”
The organizing committee of the South Sudan Premier League has decided to postpone the match between Holy Family Rumbek and Olympic Renk, which was scheduled to be held Friday.
This came in a statement issued by the head of the organizing committee of the competitions, Wiyual Lam. who said that the Olympic FC Renk team sent an apology letter to the organizing committee of the Competition to call off its match against Holy Family Rumbek due to circumstances beyond the team’s control.
Accordingly, the organizing committee accepted the letter.
Unfavourable weather conditions have forced Everton, the hosts, to postpone their Premier League match against Liverpool, the team said on Saturday.
This Saturday’s Merseyside derby at Goodison Park is the first English Premier League football match to be postponed due to Storm Darragh.
A safety advisory group meeting that included representatives from Liverpool City Council, Merseyside Police, and both clubs’ executives led to the decision to postpone, Everton said in a statement.
“Due to the risk to safety in the local area due to strong wind gusts, and an amber severe wind warning that remains in place until 6am on Sunday, today’s fixture should be postponed on safety grounds,” the statement added.
Merseyside police on Friday had advised residents to avoid any non-essential travel until weather conditions improved.
“We appreciate this will be deeply disappointing for supporters, but the safety of fans, staff and players is of paramount importance,” league leaders Liverpool said in a statement.
“Information relating to a rearranged date for the fixture, including ticketing, will be announced in due course.”
With Everton leaving their home field since 1892 at the end of the season, the game was scheduled to be the final Merseyside Premier League derby at Goodison Park.
Cardiff City vs. Watford and Plymouth Argyle vs. Oxford United, two second-tier Championship games scheduled for Saturday, were also postponed on Friday.
Liverpool will go to Girona for a Champions League match, and following Saturday, Everton, in 15th place, will play Arsenal in the league.
Lyle Menendez, then 28, married model and salon receptionist Anna Eriksson on July 2, 1996, the day he and brother Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 1989 double murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.
Anna started writing to Lyle in 1993 during his first trial, which ended in a mistrial, and then moved to California to be near him the following year. She became a reliable presence at the months-long retrial that began in 1995 and resulted in convictions in March 1996, according to the Los Angeles Times.
They couldn’t take their vows in person, however, Lyle instead taking the plunge over speaker phone, the groom in custody and the bride in the office of defense attorney Leslie Abramson.
He seemingly hoped to be able to wed Anna in person, once he knew where he’d end up.
“We do have a marriage proceeding,” California Correctional Institution spokesman Lt. Jack Pitko told the LA Times in September 1996 once Lyle and Erik had been ordered to separate prisons. “There’s a waiting list…But I don’t see why he shouldn’t be able to get married if he follows all the rules.”
Anna filed for divorce in 2001 after, according to multiple reports from the time, she allegedly found out Lyle was exchanging letters with other women.
The Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission, ODIEC, has announced the indefinite postponement of the local government election in the state.
The Chairman of ODIEC, Dr Joseph Aremo, announced the development at a stakeholders’ meeting on Monday in Akure, the state capital.
According to report ODIEC had scheduled the election into the 18 local government areas and 33 local council development areas for July 13.
However, a state High Court in June declared that the 33 LCDAs created by the late Governor Rotimi Akeredolu was unconstitutional.
The court held that the law passed by the House of Assembly creating the LCDAs was signed by the late governor in Ibadan, outside the state.
During the meeting on Monday, Aremo, however, said that non-compliance of political parties to the electoral process caused the postponement of the election.
“The political parties did not submit their nomination forms neither did they comply with the adjusted timetable from the last meeting.
“As a precursor to the conduct of the election, between June 26 and June 28, political parties were expected to submit the lists of their agents.
“In the last meeting with the leaders of political parties, the commission informed them that the July 13 date set for the election was sacrosanct.
“We also stated that we would not be changing the date,” he said.
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