Will Smith has issued an apology to Chris Rock, the Academy and viewers after slapping the comedian on stage at the 94th Academy Awards, saying he was “out of line” and that his actions were “not indicative of the man I want to be”.
The fallout from Sunday’s show continued on Monday as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences condemned Smith’s onstage assault and said it would launch an inquiry. Smith apologised to the Academy during his best actor acceptance speech, which notably didn’t include an apology to Rock.
On Monday, he issued a stronger apology and account of his actions, writing on Instagram that he “reacted emotionally” to Rock’s joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who has been open about her alopecia-related hair loss.
		
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William Hurt, whose laconic charisma and self-assured subtlety as an  actor made him one of the 1980s' foremost leading men in movies such as Broadcast News, Body Heat and The Big Chill, has died. He was 71.
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Inside one of the only federal  women’s prisons in the United States, inmates say they have been  subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and even the  warden, and were often threatened or punished when they tried to speak  up.
The  U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and NAACP reached a settlement to resolve a  2020 lawsuit over election mail that the Justice Department said would  ensure prioritizing delivering ballots in future elections.
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