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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks during a forum in Boston in this Nov. 20 file photo.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks during a forum in Boston in this Nov. 20 file photo.

Members of a small Baptist church in southwest Georgia where former President Jimmy Carter frequently teaches Sunday school are capping the number of people who can attend. Representatives of Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., said in a statement that starting Sunday, only 400 people can attend the lesson inside the church. Carter’s recent disclosure that he’s being treated for cancer that has spread to his brain drew more than 700 people to the church Sunday. While the 90-year-old Carter taught two classes and took photos, organizers say the events put a strain on the ex-president. In the future, any overflow visitors can watch a live stream of the lesson at the nearby high school.

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Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson attends the premiere of "Southpaw" at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square in New York in this July 20 file photo.

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The Rev. Al Sharpton speaks in front of a portrait of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in this May 2 file photo.

The bankruptcy attorney for 50 Cent says the rapper will try again to sell his 50,000-square-foot Connecticut mansion. The rapper’s attorneys have said he’s been trying to lease the mansion when it didn’t sell as quickly as he’d hoped. The rapper listed it for $18.5 million in 2007 and has dropped the price several times. During a hearing Wednesday in Hartford, Conn., attorney Pat Neligan said the rapper, who didn’t attend the hearing, would make another effort to sell the property. Attorneys also worked out other details on court oversight of payments to the rapper’s attorneys and accountants and disclosure to creditors of his endorsement deals. He filed for bankruptcy last month after a New York City jury ordered him to pay $7 million to a woman who said he posted her sex tape online.

Al Sharpton is losing his daily show on MSNBC, with the network saying he’ll be downshifted to the weekend. Sharpton’s Politics Nation has aired at 5 p.m. on weeknights for the past four years at the ratings-challenged news network. MSNBC is in the midst of wholesale changes under NBC News boss Andrew Lack, de-emphasizing its left-leaning programming during the daytime hours in favor of more straight news shows. Sharpton’s show occasionally put MSNBC in awkward positions since he continued his political activism while doing some stories involving racial controversies. MSNBC said Wednesday that Sharpton’s daily show will end Sept. 4 and that starting Oct. 4, Sharpton’s Politics Nation will air at 7 a.m. Sundays.

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