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T.I. is teaming up with Fox for the new cop drama “Atlanta’s Most Wanted.”

The rapper will star in the show as Marcus Armstrong, the son of an infamous criminal kingpin, Variety reported. Armstrong is recruited to be on a vice squad that investigates Atlanta’s growing criminal activity, which will jeopardize his deep secret and threaten life as he knows it.

Along with T.I., Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Brian Sher, KristieAnne Reed and Rob Hardy will executive produce the hour-long show. Former Ebony magazine editor-in-chief Mitzi Miller will co-executive produce, and James Oh will serve as producer. 

“I am honored to partner with Fox and Bruckheimer on what is truly a passion project for me,” T.I. told Variety. “It’s going to be amazing to see my city represented in this fashion.” 

The show is currently in the early stages of development. “Atlanta’s Most Wanted” is one of Fox’s first drama orders for the 2017-2018 development season, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

T.I made his acting debut in 2006 in the film “ATL.” Since then, the Atlanta native has gotten more than a dozen acting credits and reality shows, including “T.I. & Tiny: Family Hustle,” under his belt. He will also be executive producing Showtime comedy “The Studio” with Kevin Hart, working on “The Trap” starring himself and Mike Epps, and filming for Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” 

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The Trump administration on Wednesday made its final plea to the U.S. Supreme Court to allow its proposed ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries to go into effect as the justices weigh how to handle the hotly contested dispute.

The court papers filed by President Donald Trump’s administration complete the briefing on the government’s emergency application asking the justices to block lower court injunctions in favor of challengers to the ban. The Supreme Court could now act at any time.

The lower court rulings blocked the 90-day ban on travelers from Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen and a 120-day ban on all refugees entering the United States to give the government time to implement stronger vetting procedures.

In the court papers, Acting Solicitor General Jeff Wall said the lower courts had wrongly second-guessed the president on national security policy when reviewing the March 6 executive order.

“The president expressly determined that the order’s provisions are needed to promote national security, but the lower courts here … nullified that judgment,” he wrote.

In court papers filed on Tuesday, lawyers for the state of Hawaii and individual plaintiffs in Maryland urged the high court not to allow the ban go into effect.

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JERUSALEM, June 21 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday, beginning a new U.S. effort to revive long-fractured Middle East peace efforts.

Kushner, a 36-year-old real estate developer with little experience of international diplomacy or political negotiation, arrived in Israel on Wednesday morning and will spend barely 20 hours on the ground ― he leaves shortly after midnight.

Video showed him giving Netanyahu, a friend of Kushner’s father, a handshake and a hug as they prepared to sit down with the Israeli ambassador to Washington, the U.S. ambassador to Israel and other senior officials for preliminary discussions.

“This is an opportunity to pursue our common goals of security, prosperity and peace,” said Netanyahu. “Jared, I welcome you here in that spirit. I know of your efforts, the president’s efforts, and I look forward to working with you to achieve these common goals.”

Kushner replied: “The president sends his best regards and it’s an honor to be here with you.”

Israeli and U.S. officials provided no information on what was to be discussed and there are no plans for Kushner to speak to the media or take any questions, maintaining the circumspect profile he has established since Trump took office.

Later on Wednesday, he will travel to Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, for talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Iftar, the evening meal that breaks the Ramadan fast.

U.S. officials are calling the trip part of an effort to keep the conversation going rather than the launching of a new phase in the peace process, saying that Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, the president’s special representative for international negotiations, are likely to return often.

Greenblatt arrived in Israel on Monday for preparatory talks in both Jerusalem and Ramallah, and will remain for follow-up discussions after Kushner has departed, officials said.

Trump has described peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians as “the ultimate deal” and made it a priority since taking office. As well as receiving both Netanyahu and Abbas in the White House, he visited the region last month.

But it remains unclear what approach Trump, via Kushner and Greenblatt, plans to take on resolving one of the world’s most intractable conflicts.

For at least two decades, the goal of U.S.-led diplomacy has been a “two-state solution,” meaning an independent Palestinian state living side-by-side and at peace with Israel.

But when Trump met Netanyahu in Washington in February, he said he was not fixed on two states saying, “I’m looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like.”

Netanyahu has in the past given conditional backing to two states. But ahead of his last election victory in 2015, he promised there would never be a Palestinian state on his watch, a remark seen as an attempt to shore right-wing support.

In discussions with Greenblatt before Kushner’s visit, Palestinian sources said the phrase “two state solution” had not been used.

BULLET POINTS

Palestinian sources said that ahead of Kushner’s meeting with Abbas, they had been asked to draw up a list of 12 ‘bullet point’ demands they would want met in any negotiations.

They saw it as a helpful exercise in focusing on core elements rather than an oversimplification of a complex issue.

Trump administration officials have said that if they are going to make progress on peace, they do not want to get bogged down in process but to move rapidly on tackling what are known as “final status” issues, the complexities around Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, water resources, security and borders.

Those issues have long been thorny problems in the multiple rounds of peace negotiations launched by both Republican and Democratic presidents since the mid-1990s. It remains unclear what new approach Trump’s administration may have to untangling disputes that blend politics, land, religion and ethnicity and have defied resolution for 70 years.

(Additional reporting by Jeffrey Heller; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Richard Balmforth)

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Nothing says “I’m totally not upset that I found out about your wedding through Instagram” like a ~sexy~ photo shoot. 

This week has been an emotional minefield for ride-or-die “Drake & Josh” fans after the latter didn’t invite the former to his nuptials over the weekend. Drake Bell seemed lightweight devastated at Josh Peck’s supposed snub, but he rebounded Wednesday with a smoldering photo shoot for Flaunt Magazine. 

Posing shirtless with his pants undone, Bell does his best serious model face in what looks like the canyon over from Britney Spears’s “I’m Not A Girl” music video. 

The photo shoot comes a day after Bell posted and then deleted a series of tweets in which he seemingly cut ties with Peck after not being invited to his TV stepbrother’s wedding.

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Wildlife experts called black bears’ back-to-back fatal maulings of people in Alaska this week “an anomaly” ― but warned the rare incidents could rise as humans encroach on the animals’ habitat.

In the latest mauling, a bear killed a contractor who was taking geological samples for a gold mine near Delta Junction on Monday, officials for Pogo Mine told The Associated Press.

A second contractor sustained non-life-threatening injuries from the late-morning attack and was being treated in hospital. Authorities said they located and killed the black bear.

The attack followed a similar one on 16-year-old Patrick Cooper, who was participating in a trail run south of Anchorage when he was mauled on Sunday.

The teen reportedly phoned his brother just after noon to say that a black bear was chasing him. Authorities later recovered his body near the trail and shot the the bear in its face, but the bear escaped.

Ken Marsh, a representative from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said that the attack was unusual because it appeared to be predatory and defensive ones are more common.

“It’s very unusual,” he told the AP of the mauling. “It’s sort of like someone being struck by lightning.”

As for two fatal attacks coming back-to-back, Marsh told CBS News, “It just doesn’t happen.”

“To have two in two days is an anomaly,” he added.

Before this week’s attacks, there had been only six deaths linked to black bears in Alaska over the past 130 years, the Alaska Dispatch News reported citing two local wildlife researchers.

“The black bear — that’s really odd,” Brigham Young University associate professor Tom Smith, who has studied bears since working at Katmai National Park in 1992, told the paper.

When black bears do attack, it’s typically once every other year in Alaska, according to records that the local paper obtained.

Marsh said to National Geographic that conflicts between humans and bears are likely to rise as more people come into contact with wildlife. That risk comes as Alaska’s human population continues to rise, with it increasing more than fivefold since the early 1950s.

When it comes to how humans should react if a bear approaches them, it often depends on the species, wildlife officials say.

A brown bear, also known as a grizzly, is more likely to attack out of defense, so wildlife officials recommend playing dead.

“Lie flat on your stomach, legs spread apart for stability, with your hands protecting the back of your neck. A defensive bear usually ends its attack if it feels you are not a threat,” Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game recommends. “Remain motionless for as long as possible. If you move, and the bear sees or hears you, it may return and renew its attack. In a prolonged attack, fight back.”

When it comes to black bears, which are more likely to attack for predatory reasons, like food, experts recommend grabbing a weapon ― such as a stick, a rock or bear spray ― and fighting back.

“In almost all situations, your best defense against an attacking black bear is to fight back,” the state’s website advises. Concentrate on the bear’s face or muzzle with anything you have on hand.”

One thing you should never do is try to outrun a bear.

“Bears can run much faster than a sprinter and, like dogs, they will chase fleeing animals,” the website warns.

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