Month: October 2021
ABC Entertainment News
“I’m going to be a ‘Rocket Man'”: Captain Kirk is going where few men have gone before
ABC News/Stephen Iervolino Space. The final frontier. Sure, it’s old hat for the starship Enterprise‘s Captain James Tiberius Kirk, but it will be a whole new experience for his alter-ego, 90-year-old William Shatner. The actor will be [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Sterling K. Brown to star, exec-produce Hulu’s ‘Washington Black’; Regal offers immersive auditoriums
Photo: ABC/Nick Agro Sterling K. Brown is headed to Hulu for his next major TV project. The This Is Us actor will executive-produce and star in Washington Black, a new series based on Esi Edugyan’s best-selling novel [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Ben Affleck says playing Batman again in ‘The Flash’ movie “was really fun” after the “difficult” ‘Justice League’
20th Century Studios/Walt Disney Studios Ben Affleck has reason to smile lately, even if Batman rarely does. Unless you’ve been under a rock, you know that he’s dating Jennifer Lopez again. He’s also got The Last Duel coming out next week, [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back after hours-long shutdown
iStock/luchezar (NEW YORK) — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back. The apps, owned by Facebook, stopped working Monday for millions of users across the U.S., according to outage site Down Detector. Both the mobile and web [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Windows 11 rolls out to PC users – but not all of them
Microsoft (NEW YORK) — Starting Tuesday, PC owners who run Windows 10 will be eligible to download Windows 11 for free. But the ability to use Microsoft’s latest operating system will largely depend on your [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Carvel brews up 3 new ‘Hocus Pocus’ shakes for 31 Nights of Halloween
Carvel/Freeform (NEW YORK) — Freeform and ice cream shop Carvel conjured up a sweet collaboration to celebrate the 31 Nights of Halloween. Carvel added three limited-edition shakes, each one inspired by the Sanderson Sisters of Disney’s [Read More…]
ABC Health News
New York’s largest private hospital system now 100% vaccinated
iStock/Bill Oxford (NEW YORK) — Northwell Health, the largest hospital system in New York state, announced Monday that all of its employees have been vaccinated against the coronavirus. The move comes just one week after the [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Stanley Tucci reflects on his cancer battle
iStock/peterspiro (NEW YORK) — Stanley Tucci is opening up about how his cancer battle three years ago affected his ability to enjoy one of his greatest passions — food. The 60-year-old actor, who previously revealed he [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Fauci notes COVID-19 progress but warns more surges are possible
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — As the U.S. sees its first notable decline in COVID-19 metrics in more than three months, with coronavirus-related hospital admissions and average daily new cases dropping by more than 30% over [Read More…]
ABC Health News
What is retinol and should you be using it?
Jun/iStock (NEW YORK) — The skin care ingredient retinol has been receiving a lot of attention lately, especially on social media apps like TikTok. But what does retinol actually do and should you be using [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Lawmakers try to change how people are supported after pregnancy loss
NSA Digital Archive/iStock (NEW YORK) — When Sarah Smith experienced three miscarriages in less than two years, she suffered through each of them while at work. “I didn’t ever feel like there was a space [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 10/03/21
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events: INTERLEAGUE Final Boston 7 Washington 5 AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Cleveland 6 Texas [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
NBA’s Andrew Wiggins gets vaccine after he’s denied exemption
Bill Oxford/iStock (SAN FRANCISCO) — Andrew Wiggins, an NBA player who has vocally opposed the COVID-19 vaccine, just received a dose, according to his coach. Wiggins, of the Golden State Warriors, refused to answer reporters’ [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Suspect arrested in connection with Utah football player Aaron Lowe’s death
iStock/Kali9 (SALT LAKE CITY) — Investigators arrested a suspect Sunday morning who they say was involved in the shooting of University of Utah football player Aaron Lowe and an unidentified woman. Salt Lake City detectives arrested [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Exclusive: Ex-Trump aide Stephanie Grisham says ‘I am terrified’ of Trump running in 2024
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Stephanie Grisham, one of former President Donald Trump’s most senior and longest-serving advisers, says she is “terrified” that her former boss may run for office again. “I am terrified of him running [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema claps back after chased into bathroom by pro-Biden agenda protesters
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Krysten Sinema, an Arizona Democrat, is clapping back after she was videotaped and chased into a school bathroom over the weekend by a group of pro-Biden agenda activists, confronting her [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden calls out Republicans for refusing to help raise debt ceiling
ABC News/Twitter (WASHINGTON) — Two weeks before the “calamity” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen predicts could strike by Oct. 18, President Joe Biden on Monday blasted Republicans for “playing Russian roulette with the U.S. economy” in refusing [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Exclusive: Stephanie Grisham says ‘I regret’ enabling culture of dishonesty in Trump White House
ABC News (NEW YORK) — In an exclusive interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, Stephanie Grisham, one of former President Donald Trump’s most senior and longest-serving advisers, said she regrets enabling a culture of dishonesty [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Supreme Court pivots to abortion, guns, and death penalty as public approval slides
YinYang/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Facing an onslaught of political pressure tactics and plunging public approval, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sails into a new term set to decide some of the most divisive cases in [Read More…]
ABC National News
COVID-19 live updates: Daily deaths nearly 8 times higher than in July
Halfpoint/iStock (NEW YORK) — The United States has been facing a COVID-19 surge as the more contagious delta variant continues to spread. More than 702,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 while over 4.8 million people [Read More…]