Month: August 2022
ABC Entertainment News
Viola Davis joins cast of ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’
Lionsgate Viola Davis has landed a role in The Hunger Games prequel. The Oscar-winning actress will be playing the “diabolical” Head Gamemaker Volumnia Gaul in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, based [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Amber Heard switches up legal team for appeal of Johnny Depp trial verdict
EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Amber Heard is switching up her legal team for her appeal of the June 1 verdict in the high-profile defamation case between her and ex-husband Johnny Depp. The Aquaman actress [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘John Wick’ prequel series coming to Peacock in 2023
Lionsgate The John Wick prequel series is coming to Peacock, thanks to a new multiyear deal with Lionsgate. The Continental, a three-part series based on the popular Keanu Reeves action franchise, will premiere on the [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Thousands of Capri Sun cases recalled over potential cleaning solution contamination
Kraft Heinz (NEW YORK) — As children are heading back to school this month, Kraft Heinz announced a recall on Friday of more than 5,000 cases of Capri Sun due to a possible contamination. This [Read More…]
ABC Business News
More than 2 million infant rockers and swings recalled due to entanglement and strangulation hazards
Amanda Maile via GMA (NEW YORK) — More than 2 million infant rockers and swings have been recalled due to entanglement and strangulation hazards, leading to at least one death. The Consumer Product Safety Commission [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Burned-out employees are ‘quiet quitting’ their jobs: What to know about the trend
boonchai wedmakawand/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When Paige West decided to scale back the amount of effort she was putting into her corporate job, she joined a growing workplace trend known as “quiet quitting.” “When [Read More…]
ABC Health News
7th child in US tests positive for monkeypox
Anadolu Agency/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A child in Martin County, Florida, has tested positive for monkeypox, state health data shows. Across the U.S., at least seven children have now tested positive for monkeypox. The [Read More…]
ABC Health News
6th child tests positive for monkeypox in US: What parents should know
ABC News (NEW YORK) — As monkeypox continues to spread across the U.S., the number of children infected with the virus is growing as well. At least six children have tested positive for monkeypox since [Read More…]
ABC Health News
New York City officials host monkeypox town hall as disease continues to sweep city
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York City officials are holding a town hall Monday to discuss the ongoing monkeypox outbreak as cases continue to climb and thousands of vaccine appointments over the weekend [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
How Liz Cheney went from rising Republican star to primary underdog after Jan. 6
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has gone from House GOP leadership to party gadfly in the span of just over 18 months as she stands out as the loudest Republican critic [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden to sign major health, climate and tax bill Tuesday at White House ceremony
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden plans to sign the Democrats’ massive climate, health and tax bill into law on Tuesday at the White House, marking a major accomplishment for his domestic agenda [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
DOJ opposes news media request to unseal Trump search affidavit, calls it ‘roadmap’ to criminal investigation
CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department said in a new court filing Monday that it opposes an effort by multiple media organizations, including ABC News, to unseal the supporting affidavit [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump-backed Kari Lake walks fine line with Ron DeSantis in Arizona
Mario Tama/Getty Images, FILE (PHOENIX, Ariz.) — Republican candidate for Arizona governor Kari Lake, a former Phoenix news anchor who has seized the conservative spotlight in recent weeks, was careful not to forget former President [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
1 year later, Republicans, Biden White House argue over Afghanistan withdrawal
prasit photo/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On the one-year anniversary Monday of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, House Republicans and the Biden administration quarreled over who is to blame for the series of events that led [Read More…]
ABC National News
Millions of people in Midwest to experience ‘extreme heat belt’ by 2053: Report
Bloomberg via Getty Images/FILE (NEW YORK) — Millions of Americans are at risk of experiencing an “extreme heat belt” that would affect parts of the Midwest over the next three decades, according to a new [Read More…]
ABC National News
99-year-old woman ‘absolutely ecstatic’ to meet her 100th great-grandchild
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A 99-year-old Pennsylvania woman got to meet her 100th great-grandchild in person earlier this month. It was a once-in-a-lifetime event for Marguerite “Peg” Koller — also known as “grandmom” to [Read More…]
ABC National News
Woman killed in alligator attack in South Carolina
Tom Wozniak / 500px / Getty Images (SUN CITY HILTON HEAD, S.C.) — A woman was killed in an apparent alligator attack in South Carolina on Monday, officials said. The large alligator was spotted “near [Read More…]
ABC National News
Former federal prosecutor reveals ‘powder keg’ in FBI raid on Trump
John Roca/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Last Monday, FBI officials raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., executing a court-ordered search warrant the Department of Justice [Read More…]
ABC National News
Man arrested for 1992 double murder says he was ‘very drunk,’ has ‘snippets’ of memories of crime
Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (WEYAUWEGA, Wisc.) — A Wisconsin man, 51-year-old Tony Haase, has been arrested for a 1992 double murder after police used DNA from a recent traffic stop to connect him to the [Read More…]
ABC World News
A fatwa against author Salman Rushdie led to more than 30 years of terror: a timeline
Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images (LONDON and CAIRO) — Since 1989, when the Iranian supreme leader of the time, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued an apostasy fatwa against the Indian-British Salman Rushdie, it has not been [Read More…]