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The upcoming episode of “Toxic,” titled “The Depraved Heart,” promises to deliver a gripping exploration of tragedy and betrayal. Set to air on Monday, May 19, 2025, at 10:00 Pm on Investigation Discovery, this episode dives deep into the heartbreaking story of the Harris family. Elizabeth, the show’s determined investigator, takes a closer look at the mysterious circumstances surrounding the untimely death of Sarah Harris.

What began as a routine dental visit for Sarah quickly spiraled into a nightmare. Viewers will witness Elizabeth’s sensitive approach as she meets with the Harris family, who are still reeling from the loss of their beloved daughter and sister. The episode reveals the shocking details of a seemingly well-respected surgeon whose actions led to a toxic and dangerous relationship with Sarah.

As Elizabeth unravels the layers of this tragic story, the emotional weight of the family’s grief becomes palpable. The episode promises to...

This Saturday, May 10, 2025, at 9:00 Pm Et/Pt, 48 Hours presents an encore episode titled “The Depraved Heart Murder”, investigating the tragic death of Sarah Harris, a bright young woman who dreamed of a career in medicine. On January 26, 2022, Sarah was found unresponsive in the home she shared with her boyfriend, Dr. James Ryan. While Ryan claimed her death was the result of a drug overdose, Sarah’s family believed there was more to the story.

48 Hours contributor Nikki Battiste reports on the investigation into Sarah’s death and the shocking revelations that followed. Dr. James Ryan, an oral surgeon, initially told police that Sarah had a history of drug use and had stolen drugs from his office. Two surgical anesthetics—ketamine and propofol—were found in her system. Ryan’s story seemed plausible to first responders, but Sarah’s family wasn’t convinced, leading to further scrutiny.

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This Saturday, May 10, 2025, at 9:00 Pm Et/Pt, 48 Hours presents an encore episode of “The Depraved Heart Murder”, reporting on the mysterious death of Sarah Harris and the investigation into her boyfriend, Dr. James Ryan, a prominent oral surgeon. Correspondent Nikki Battiste investigates this chilling case, where a young woman’s promising future was tragically cut short, and suspicions swirl around the person closest to her.

On January 26, 2022, Sarah Harris, a bright and ambitious woman from Maryland, was found unresponsive on the floor of the home she shared with Dr. Ryan. While Ryan claimed it was an accidental overdose, the discovery of toxic drugs in her system and mounting evidence uncovered by her family painted a different picture. Harris’ sister uncovered startling evidence that led police to question Ryan’s version of events, prompting a deeper investigation into their relationship and his involvement in her death.

Sarah’s family...

Less than three months after Edward and Akua Enninful announced the launch of a global media and entertainment company called EE72, the siblings have revealed specific details about the venture including a quarterly print publication and a digital platform.

Set for a September debut, the platform will be known as EE72 while the publication is titled 72 Magazine. Both “aim to drive culture forward with news-making images and stories that transcend traditional media boundaries” with a focus on the intersection of fashion, beauty, luxury and culture, per the Enninfuls. The goal, it seems per the launch announcement, is to blend “the timeless depth of print with the dynamism of digital” with coverage of top creative forces, no doubt leaning into Edward Enninful’s enviable Rolodex of A-list stars, designers and creators gathered through years spent in the fashion and media space with tenures at British Vogue and as European editorial director of Vogue.

On Friday, Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to overturn a temporary court order and let him deport migrants without a hearing after he sent almost 300 Venezuelan migrants to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. The filing argues that the president has the ultimate authority to remove people based on their nationality.

“This case presents fundamental questions about who decides how to conduct sensitive national-security-related operations in this country — the President … or the Judiciary,” Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris wrote in the filing. “The Constitution supplies a clear answer: the President.

Hey, "48 Hours" fans. We're back in action to let you guys know that the CBS folks are delivering up another new episode of 48 Hours tonight, October 5, 2024. This one will be the 3rd installment of this current season 37, and we've got some new preview intel for it. CBS put out an official press release for tonight's new episode 3. So, we will certainly refer to it for this preview session. Let's get to it. First thing's first is the official title. CBS let us know that it's called, "The Depraved Heart Murder." In this new episode 3, the 48 Hours team will take a deep look at a story about a Maryland woman named Sarah Harris. She had a dream of working in medicine before she was found dead on the floor of a house that she shared with her boyfriend Dr. James Ryan. Ryan told the police that she died of a drug overdose.

Why do we bestow upon Hollywood’s finest the name of ‘stars’? Consider this for a moment; it is not mere hyperbole: these big screen icons exude an aura that can carry charismatic waves across an entire room, drawing us into their gravitational pull. And thus, it won’t be wrong to say that Austin Butler, the Golden Globe-touting charmer, incarnates this star-quality phenomenon.

For instance, last month, he mesmerized and gave Sarah Harris, host of The Project, a rosy-cheeked tizzy. He worked his magic with the finesse of a maestro, making laser-focused eye contact and using a voice that seemed to channel Elvis Presley himself—all without revealing too much about his game.

Austin Butler in Elvis | Universal Pictures

A masterclass in magnetism, Butler’s smoldering charm was not only palpable to the enamored interviewer but also to the legion of fans who found themselves orbiting his star power in the comments.

AFI Fest on Monday announced the films that received this year’s awards, with Clint Bentley’s Jockey from Sony Pictures Classics and the Tommy Oliver-directed Juice Wrld taking the narrative and documentary Audience Awards, respectively.

The Grand Jury Award winners for Live Action and Animated Short will be eligible for the Best Live Action Short and Best Animated Short Oscars.

“Bringing filmmakers and movie fans together to celebrate the moving image is at the heart of AFI Fest,” said Sarah Harris, Director of Programming for AFI Festivals. “The excitement of all festival goers to be together in the theaters once again was electric. This year’s festival has truly shown everyone the power of the art form to lift our spirits when it’s needed the most.”

The AFI Fest jury was composed of film curator and writer Kiva Reardon; Amanda Salazar, head of programming and acquisitions at...

AFI Fest announced its 2021 jury and audience award winners, with audience prizes going to “Jockey” and the documentary feature centered on the late rapper Juice Wrld.

“Bringing filmmakers and movie fans together to celebrate the moving image is at the heart of AFI Fest. The excitement of all festivalgoers to be together in the theaters, once again, was electric,” Sarah Harris, AFI Festivals’ director of programming said in a statement announcing the winners. “This year’s festival has truly shown everyone the power of the art form to lift our spirits when it’s needed the most.”

Director Clint Bentley’s “Jockey” earned the audience award for a narrative feature; the film stars Clifton Collins Jr. as an aging jockey with hopes to win one last title for his longtime trainer who has acquired what appears to be a championship horse, despite the years and injuries that have taken a toll on his body.

Resuming its traditional post as the last stand of the fall festival season, the American Film Institute’s AFI Fest will return to its traditional home at the Tcl Chinese Theatres in Hollywood, its first in-person fest since 2019. Per AFI president and CEO Bob Gazzale, the event will re-enter the scene with its sense of purpose intact.

“AFI Fest was created to fulfil a need, and that need seems to change every year, certainly during a global pandemic,” Gazzale says. “And what we determined early was that the goal of AFI this year was to manifest what we learned during the pandemic: that experiencing life with others is a joy. To laugh together, to experience a jump scare, to experience a story well told has always proven a tonic for dark times.”

Perhaps appropriately considering that mantra, the fest’s marquee lineup is heavy on festival favorites, musicals and crowd-pleasers.

After opening the Venice Film Festival and continuing on to the New York Film Festival, Oscar winner Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers from Sony Pictures Classics will have a red-carpet premiere at this year’s AFI Fest at the Tcl Chinese Theatre on Saturday, Nov. 13.

In the movie, two women, Janis and Ana, played respectively by Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way. Cruz won the Volpi...

The American Film Institute said Tuesday that it has added the world premieres of Apple Original Films’ Swan Song, starring two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, and Halle Berry’s directorial debut Bruised from Netflix to this year’s AFI Fest lineup.

When Netflix picked up Bruised at the Toronto Film Festival last year, the pic was in its unfinished form, and its debut in November will be the first time it’s being shown to moviegoers in polished form.

Swan Song and Bruised will screen in-person at the Tcl Chinese Theatre on Friday, November 12, and Saturday, November 13, respectively.

Swan Song reps Oscar winner Benjamin Cleary’s (Stutterer) feature directorial debut and follows Ali as a man diagnosed with a terminal illness who is presented with an alternative solution by his doctor (Glenn Close) to shield his family from grief. The pic also stars Naomie Harris, Awkwafina and Adam Beach. Cleary wrote the screenplay.

Fest runs November 10-14 in Los Angeles.

Updated: Halle Berry’s feature directing debut Bruised and Mahershala Ali and Awkwafina drama Swan Song will receive premieres at AFI Fest in November.

Netflix’s Bruised plays on November 13 and stars Berry as a washed-up Mma fighter struggling for redemption as an athlete and a mother. The film premiered at TIFF 2020 and gets its US premiere at AFI Fest.

Apple Orginal Films’ Swang Song from feature directing debutant Benjamin Cleary gets its world premiere on November 12 and stars Ali as man diagnosed with a terminal illness who is presented with an alternative...

Fest runs November 10-14 in Los Angeles.

Halle Berry’s feature directing debut Bruised and Mahershala Ali and Awkwafina drama Swan Song will receive their world premieres at AFI Fest in November.

Netflix’s Bruised plays on November 13 and stars Berry as a washed-up Mma fighter struggling for redemption as an athlete and a mother.

Apple Orginal Films’ Swang Song from feature directing debutant Benjamin Cleary plays on November 12 and stars Ali as man diagnosed with a terminal illness who is presented with an alternative solution by his doctor (Glenn Close) to shield his family from grief. The film also stars Naomie Harris,...

Will Smith starrer “King Richard” will close the AFI Fest on Nov. 14 at the Tcl Chinese Theatre, the American Film Institute announced Wednesday.

Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, the film follows Richard Williams, the father of Venus and Serena Williams, and his life raising the champion athletes. AFI graduate Robert Elswit is cinematographer on the Warner Bros. film.

After premiering at the Telluride Film Festival, “King Richard” quickly entered the awards conversation, particularly for Smith.

“AFI’s mission includes inspiring audiences, and ‘King Richard’ sets the bar for this year,” said Sarah Harris, Director of Programming at AFI Festivals. “Movies often deliver when we need them most, and now is the perfect time for this film to remind young people that nothing is out of reach, and that with perseverance and determination they can influence future generations.”

Aunjanue Ellis, Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singleton co-star with Tony Goldwyn and Jon Bernthal,...

Will Smith’s “King Richard,” in which he plays the father of tennis greats Venus and Serena Williams, will close the 2021 AFI Fest, it was announced on Wednesday.

The Closing Night screening will take place on Nov. 14 at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Reinaldo Marcus Green directed the film that was written by Zach Baylin and produced by Tim White and Trevor White’s Star Thrower Entertainment and Smith’s own production company Westbrook.

“AFI’s mission includes inspiring audiences, and ‘King Richard’ sets the bar for this year,” Sarah Harris, director of programming at AFI Festivals, said in a statement. “Movies often deliver when we need them most, and now is the perfect time for this film to remind young people that nothing is out of reach, and that with perseverance and determination they can influence future generations.”

“King Richard” follows Richard Williams, the father of Venus and Serena Williams,...

Running June 22-27, the AFI Docs festival will bring a smorgasbord of nonfiction offerings to the greater Washington, D.C., area, screening 77 features in both the nation’s capital and nearby Silver Spring, Md. As with almost every festival making a provisional return to in-person events this summer, AFI Docs is approaching its 19th edition as a hybrid fest, with online components making up for the limitations on physical capacity.

But as AFI Festivals director of programming Sarah Harris points out, the American Film Institute, which puts on the event, finds itself in the unusual position of organizing its third virtual festival since the start of the pandemic. AFI Docs was one of the first to go fully virtual last summer, and then the organization also put on its flagship namesake festival online in the fall, so “we knew we could build on that experience and make this one great,...

AFI Docs, the annual nonfiction film festival in the D.C. region, returns on Tuesday as a hybrid of in-person events and virtual screenings, a format mandated by ongoing safety concerns over Covid-19. While the ability to host at least some screenings at the AFI Silver Theater parallels the reopening of movie venues in general, this year’s festival reflects ongoing caution and a deference for health and safety. The selections themselves point more to “personal stories and personal reflections,” in the words of Sarah Harris, the director of programming for AFI Docs, at a time when people are just now rediscovering human connection. “A lot of what the country needs is healing,” Harris said. “We are coming out of the pandemic, coming out of a lot of political trauma in D.C. We are looking to have that healing through this form of art.” The event includes 77 films from 23 countries,...

Delivering the opening remarks at the impeachment trial of President Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) evoked the founding fathers to put impeachment in historical context. Schiff said that Alexander Hamilton had cautioned that a public official unfit for public office may one day get elected to “pursue his own interests.”

“When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the ability of military habits — despotic in his ordinary demeanor — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of...

Just one day after a Chicago reporter made headlines for posting a rude letter from a viewer who told her she needed to lose weight for her job security, a fellow newscaster posted a sad milestone – Lauren Jones had finally gone one week without a viewer mocking her growing pregnancy belly.

"We are celebrating today because Lauren has gone one week without someone saying something mean to her about baby weight gain. That's a new record," her colleague at Louisville, Ken. station Wave 3, John Boel, posted on Facebook. "Big day is only 9 weeks away!"

Of course, that record quickly came...

Just one day after a Chicago reporter made headlines for posting a rude letter from a viewer who told her she needed to lose weight for her job security, a fellow newscaster posted a sad milestone - Lauren Jones had finally gone one week without a viewer mocking her growing pregnancy belly. "We are celebrating today because Lauren has gone one week without someone saying something mean to her about baby weight gain. That's a new record," her colleague at Louisville, Ken. station Wave 3, John Boel, posted on Facebook. "Big day is only 9 weeks away!" Of course, that record quickly...

Just one day after a Chicago reporter made headlines for posting a rude letter from a viewer who told her she needed to lose weight for her job security, a fellow newscaster posted a sad milestone - Lauren Jones had finally gone one week without a viewer mocking her growing pregnancy belly. "We are celebrating today because Lauren has gone one week without someone saying something mean to her about baby weight gain. That's a new record," her colleague at Louisville, Ken. station Wave 3, John Boel, posted on Facebook. "Big day is only 9 weeks away!" Of course, that record quickly...

A pregnant Australian news anchor has a message for the body-shamers who called her "fat" and "ugly" – and she's not holding back.

"On behalf of all of the pregnant women out there who might be feeling a little bit chubby and a little bit flabby. On behalf of all of them, I want to say to the haters, get stuffed," Sarah Harris, Studio 10 co-host, said Thursday on the Australian morning show.

One day earlier, photos surfaced of Harris, 33, dressed casually and wearing no makeup. The talk show host, who is expecting a baby in December, says she "made the mistake of reading the comments.

The last thing a pregnant woman should have to worry about is defending her appearance to some Internet trolls who just aren't worth her time. Australian journalist Sarah Harris, co-host of Studio 10, was unfortunately put in that position when body-shaming haters criticized her looks after paparazzi photos showed the pregnant TV personality leaving a restaurant, dressed casually and without makeup. Harris wanted to address the critics, to hopefully empower other pregnant women and mothers out there too. "My first reaction when I saw these photos was 'oh my God,'" said Harris, of the Daily Mail pics. She then described the hurtful comments that some made about her body. "I...