Month: July 2022
ABC Entertainment News
Billy Porter says Anything’s Possible is a rom-com for the modern era
Walt Disney Television/Yolanda Perez Billy Porter makes his directorial debut with the groundbreaking new romantic comedy Anything’s Possible, out Friday on Prime Video. The film follows confident teen Kelsa, who is a transgender girl, as she navigates [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page go medieval in trailer to ‘Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’
© 2022 PARAMOUNT PICTURES. HASBRO, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS AND ALL RELATED CHARACTERS ARE TRADEMARKS OF HASBRO. “Who needs heroes when you have thieves?” is the tagline for the new trailer to Dungeons and Dragons: Honor [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘The Rookie’ stars Nathan Fillion, Niecy Nash-Betts phone it in to Comic-Con
ABC/Raymond Liu While fans were disappointed they didn’t get to see the stars in person, those who attended a San Diego Comic-Con panel featuring Nathan Fillion and Niecy Nash-Betts via video got some tidbits about [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Logan’, both ‘Deadpool’ movies coming to Disney+ July 22
“Deadpool” – 20th Century Fox (NOTE LANGUAGE) Two of some of the only mainstream R-rated superhero movies, Logan and both Deadpool films, are coming to Disney+ July 22. It’s fitting that both Hugh Jackman‘s final [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Economic cost of extreme heat is climbing
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — It’s been a pressure cooker of a summer for economies in both the U.S. and Europe, and experts say the extreme heat is making it increasingly difficult for workers to [Read More…]
ABC Business News
How US economy could avoid a recession, according to economists
Javier Ghersi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As recession forecasts have grown dire in recent months, they’ve faced one complication: Strong economic data. The U.S. showed robust job growth last month, defying expectations of a slowdown [Read More…]
ABC Business News
A moveable feast: Container farming may be a solution to US food deserts
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Even near some of the busiest cities in the United States, nearly 54 million people have a tough time accessing fresh and healthy food, according to the United States Department [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Viral ‘cash stuffing’ trend encourages people to save money: Here’s how to do it
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Are you looking for ways to take control of your budget or save for the future? According to a viral hashtag with more than 376 million views on TikTok, [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Novavax COVID vaccine will still save lives, experts say, even with limited supply
Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Amid growing concerns over highly contagious omicron subvariants that are spreading around the country, Americans are set to have one more COVID-19 vaccine from which to choose. Earlier this [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Louisiana attorney general wants funding withheld for cities that reject abortion laws
Fotosearch/Getty Images (BATON ROUGE, La.) — Louisiana’s attorney general said he wants cities that don’t enforce the state’s abortion laws to have their funding withheld. Louisiana was one of several states that had a trigger [Read More…]
ABC Health News
First polio case reported in US in nearly a decade detected in New York state
Joseph Sohm/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The first case of polio reported in the U.S. in nearly a decade was detected in New York state, health officials said Thursday. The case is in a resident of [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 7/21/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Texas 8, Miami 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE Houston 3, NY Yankees 2 Houston 7, NY Yankees 5 Detroit 7, Oakland [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Dramatic details you may have missed from Thursday’s Jan. 6 hearing
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 select committee used its second prime-time hearing Thursday to make the case that President Donald Trump not only did nothing to stop the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump ‘chose not to act’ as mob attacked, Jan. 6 committee says
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 committee’s second prime-time hearing focused on what it said was then-President Donald Trump’s “187 minutes” of inaction — from the time he left the [Read More…]
ABC National News
Two police officers shot, one in life-threatening condition: Report
kali9/Getty Images (ROCHESTER, N.Y.) — Two police officers have been shot in Rochester, New York, and one is in life-threatening condition Thursday night. The two officers were conducting a detail around 9:15 p.m. when “at [Read More…]
ABC National News
Southern entrance of Yosemite National Park to reopen as containment of Washburn Fire increases
Eloi_Omella/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The southern entrance of Yosemite National Park is scheduled to reopen now that firefighters have made headway with containing the wildfire that was threatening the park’s iconic sequoia trees. The [Read More…]
ABC National News
Woman dies after falling out of police car while in custody
avid_creative/Getty Images (SPARTA, Ga.) — A woman in Georgia has died after she was taken into custody but somehow managed to fall out of a police patrol car while authorities were taking her to the [Read More…]
ABC National News
Music producer Metro Boomin pays off family home of Buffalo security guard who confronted shooter
Scott Escobar (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — This past May, Aaron Salter Jr., a retired police officer, was killed in the Buffalo, New York, supermarket shooting while attempting to save others. Nearly two months after the tragedy, [Read More…]
ABC World News
See new photo of Prince George to celebrate his 9th birthday
Simon Bruty/Anychance/Getty Images (LONDON) — Kensington Palace has released a new photo of Prince George, in celebration of the young royal’s birthday. George, the oldest child of Prince William and Kate, the duchess of Cambridge, [Read More…]
ABC World News
NASA prepares return to the moon with new mission set for August launch
Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — NASA will return to the moon with a new mission planned for August, the agency said at a press conference Wednesday. Fifty-three years after the historic landing of Apollo [Read More…]