Month: November 2021
ABC Entertainment News
‘Home Sweet Home Alone’ is a sequel, not a reboot, says star Aisling Bea
Disney+ Home Alone, the perennial holiday movie about a mischievous boy defending his home from opportunistic burglars, has its story continued in the new Disney+ original, Home Sweet Home Alone. Star Aisling Bea [ASH-ling bee], who plays [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Ready the bunny pot: ‘Fatal Attraction’ series casts Lizzie Caplan in Glenn Close’s former role
Rich Polk/Getty Images for IMDb — Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images Paramount+ has cast Lizzie Caplan in a series adaptation of the 1987 hit Fatal Attraction, which starred Michael Douglas and Glenn Close. The show has already gotten a full season [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Power Book IV: Force’ debut date revealed, Idris Elba returns as Luther, Ava DuVernay to be honored & more
Starz The latest installment in the Power franchise, Power Book IV: Force, will premiere Sunday, February 6, 2022. Starz made the announcement Thursday about the series starring Joseph Sikora as Tommy Egan, with a teaser-trailer. In the fourth installment of Power, Egan leaves [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Historic unionizing efforts underway at Starbucks in upstate New York
mattjeacock/iStock (NEW YORK) — Starbucks workers in upstate New York are seeking to form the coffee chain’s first union in the U.S., as the labor movement gains steam in the wake of COVID-19-related shocks to [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Nearly 100,000 pounds of Trader Joe’s chicken recalled due to possible bone contamination
ablokhin/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Wednesday that Innovative Solutions, Inc., is recalling approximately 97,887 pounds of raw ground chicken patty products sold at Trader Joe’s locations. [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Cranberry production stays afloat with price increases, other Thanksgiving items with lower inventory
GMVozd/iStock (NEW YORK) — With supply chain issues hitting the fresh food industry, due to delays and struggles to get products from farms to store shelves, certain Thanksgiving staples like cranberries will have a steeper [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Biden visits Baltimore port amid supply chain, inflation woes
Official White House Photo by Erin Scott (BALTIMORE) — President Joe Biden visited Baltimore on Wednesday to tout his infrastructure bill and highlight his administration’s work to ease port delays as the country approaches the [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Experts sound alarm over rising COVID cases ahead of winter
Lubo Ivanko/iStock (NEW YORK) — State and local health officials are once again raising the alarm about the renewed threat of COVID-19 spread in communities across the country as people head indoors during the colder [Read More…]
ABC Health News
How climate change can harm your skin
PeopleImages/iStock (NEW YORK) — Experts agree climate change is exacting a hefty toll on human health — from increasing rates of asthma and heat stroke to depression and anxiety. But now, dermatologists are chiming in, [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Vermont has the highest vaccination rate in the country. So why are cases surging?
FatCamera/iStock (ATLANTA) — Vermont is one of the most vaccinated states in the country and has served as a model for its COVID-19 response throughout the pandemic. But now, the state is experiencing its worst [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Albuquerque hospitals enact crisis standards of care during ‘unprecedented’ time
PinkOmelet/iStock (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) — The two largest hospital systems in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have activated crisis standards of care due to an “unprecedented level” of activity during the pandemic, hospital officials announced Thursday. University of [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Texas abortion law impacting providers as far away as California, Maryland
iStock (DALLAS) — The impact of Texas’s near-total ban on abortions is being felt in states as far away as California and Maryland, according to new research. In the weeks since SB8, which outlaws most [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 11/11/21
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Toronto 115, Philadelphia 109 Indiana 111, Utah 100 LA Clippers 112, Miami 109 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Los Angeles 2, Ottawa [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 11/10/21
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Brooklyn 123, Orlando 90 Washington 97, Cleveland 94 Milwaukee 112, New York 100 Boston 104, Toronto 88 Detroit 112, Houston [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Durham probe offers fresh support for man who has long denied being ‘Steele dossier’ source
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The long-running special investigation into how the government probed candidate Donald Trump’s ties to Russia brought a new indictment last week and in the process cast fresh doubt on earlier claims [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows rebuffs Jan. 6 committee pending court ruling
OlegAlbinksy/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows wants a court to resolve former President Donald Trump’s claims of executive privilege before he cooperates with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Democrats move to censure Gosar over violent video attacking Biden, AOC
uschools/iStock (WASHINGTON) — A group of House Democrats have announced that on Friday they will formally introduce a measure to censure Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., for tweeting an edited Japanese cartoon showing him stabbing President [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Court pauses handover of Trump White House records to Jan. 6 committee
kuzma/iStock (WASHINGTON) — An appeals court has put a temporary pause on the handover of records from the Trump White House to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. A three-judge panel in the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden says mandates work. He’s about to find out with his own civilian workforce.
iStock/koto_feja (NEW YORK) — Pamela Millwood isn’t against getting vaccinated. But at the federal prison where she works in Jesup, Georgia, many of her coworkers are skeptical or downright opposed to getting a shot. The [Read More…]
ABC National News
COVID-19 live updates: Hospitalizations on the rise in 14 states
Rattankun Thongbun/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 758,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns [Read More…]