Angelica Hale – NBC/Trae Patton(LOS ANGELES) — The final live performance show of the current America’s Got Talent season took place at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater on Tuesday night, featuring the final 10 acts hoping to win the $1 million prize and a chance to be a headline act in Las Vegas.

Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, Mel B and Heidi Klum were treated to some truly amazing performances, all introduced by host Tyra Banks.

America’s votes will decide who moves on and who goes home. The result will be announced during Wednesday’s live show on NBC.

 Here’s a rundown of the final performances:

 Angelica Hill, who recently became a big sister, got the show started with her cover of Clean Bandit’s “Symphony,” bringing all four judges to their feet. Heidi told the nine-year-old, “You are only four-feet-tall, but you are a giant,” adding that in her opinion, Hale was the best singer of the season.

Acrobatic dance crew Diavolo jumped, slid and flew through the air, aided by props, including a huge see-saw ship. Simon declared that any casino owners watching on Tuesday should be booking them immediately.

Evie Clair, 13, who recently lost her father to cancer, delivered a moving rendition of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.” Howie said, “Our hearts and souls go out to you,” adding, “We all go through dark times. What gets us through is hoping and praying for that light at the end of the tunnel…Your voice is that light.”

Singer Kechi survived a horrific plane crash and burns over her entire body to make it to the AGT finals. Following her uplifting performance of Estelle’s “I Am a Conqueror,” Simon declared, “That wasn’t a song — that was an anthem.” Mel B called the performance “powerful and moving.”

Darci Lynne Farmer, a 12-year-old ventriloquist, brought her friends Oscar and Petunia on stage and sang The Beatles’ “With a Little Help from My Friends.” All four judges considered Darci Lynne the odds-on favorite to take home the $1 million prize.

Ukrainian dance crew Light Balance, was the last act of the night and delivered a greatest-hits performance of sorts, reprising some of the costumes and elements that made them a hit with the judges. “This is like the Super Bowl, you think someone’s won it, then something else happens ten minutes later that changes it all!” said Simon. Heidi declared, “You should already be in Vegas and I’m going to see it again and again!”

The winning act of season 11 will be crowned when NBC’s America’s Got Talent returns on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET.

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ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — On Wednesday night, Jimmy Kimmel laced into Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana for proposing new health care legislation that Kimmel said fails the “Jimmy Kimmel” test Cassidy himself had proposed in an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last May.

Cassidy appeared on the program after Kimmel had made an emotional plea for health care legislation in the wake of his newborn son’s need for life-saving heart surgery.

But, Kimmel said, with new legislation that Cassidy and co-sponsor Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have proposed, “Not only did Bill Cassidy fail the Jimmy Kimmel Test, he failed the Bill Cassidy Test.” 

Kimmel said Cassidy “wasn’t very honest” when he appeared on the show.  

“He said he wants coverage for all, no discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, lower premiums for middle class families and no lifetime caps.  And guess what? The new bill does none of those things,” Kimmel said.

“Stop using my name,” Kimmel said, “’cause I don’t want my name on it.  There’s a new Jimmy Kimmel Test for you, it’s called a lie detector test, you’re welcome to come by the studio and take it any time.”

Kimmel also had words for critics on social media. “Before you post the nasty Facebook message saying I’m politicizing my son’s health problems, I want you to know, I AM politicizing my son’s health problems because I have to,” he said.

“They’re taking care of the people who give them money, like insurance companies, and we’re all just looking at our Instagram accounts, liking things, while they’re voting on whether people can afford to keep their children alive or not,” Kimmel said of bill’s backers. 

“Most of the Congress people who will vote this probably won’t even read it. They want to us to do the same thing,” Kimmel continued. “They want us to treat it like an iTunes service agreement. And this guy Bill Cassidy lied right to my face.”

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©2017 CBS Broadcasting Inc./Scott Kowalchyk(LOS ANGELES) — Hillary Clinton stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night to promote her book, What Happened, about the 2016 presidential election. 

The major topic of conversation, no surprise, turned out to be Russian meddling in the campaign — just one of the many factors on which Clinton blames her electoral defeat at the hands of President Donald Trump.

“I don’t think anybody can with a straight face say that the Russians did not set out to influence our election, and they did so,” Clinton said. “This latest revelation about the way they bought ads on Facebook and targeted them — we’re gonna find out a lot more, Stephen.”

Clinton explained Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motives, and sounded a cautionary note.

“He wants to undermine how we see each other, how we respect each other, how we support our institutions and our society,” Clinton said.  “I think they believe they had a good outing in 2016 and I think that they will be back in 2018 and 2020 unless we stop them.”

She suggested that if collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia is proven — and despite exhaustive investigation and seemingly endless coverage, it isn’t — people need to take political action.

“What you do is mobilize politically to express your will and your rejection of that kind of Russian involvement and coordination at the ballot box. I mean, that is where we settle our political differences, and that’s where it should be,” she said.

Clinton also told a story about Putin from her time as secretary of state.  “He takes me…into this inner sanctum with this huge desk and the biggest map of Russia I think exists, and he started telling me he’s going here to tag polar bears. And then he says to me, ‘Would your husband like to come?'” Clinton recalled. “I said, ‘Well, I’ll ask him, but if he’s busy, I’ll go.'”

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Marvel – 2017

(NEW YORK) — The trailer to Thor: Ragnarok is already retro, from its garishly-colored logo to its use of Led Zeppelin’s “The Immigrant Song.” But Nerdist has taken things a step further, and revised the coming attraction to make it look as if it’s a trailer you’d see on a VHS tape in 1987, not 2017. 

From the hammy narration, to the non-widescreen aspect ratio, to the video tracking errors — for the young, those are image warbles that had to be adjusted with a knob on your VCR — Nerdist left no detail untouched. 

“He’s back to Ragnarock-and-roll!” the narrator exclaims, as an electric guitar riffs. “Thor is fantasy! Thor is excitement! Thor is a world of fantasy and excitement beyond your imagination!”

The teaser even uses TV show footage of Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk battling Eric Allan Kramer as Thor from his appearance in the cheesy 1988 TV movie The Incredible Hulk Returns, in place of Chris Hemsworth.

All this, in addition to special effects that were deliberately downgraded to look as if the movie was made in the Reagan era. 

Thor: Ragnarok will open November 3 from Marvel Studios, which is owned by Disney, parent company of ABC News.

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