Month: September 2022
ABC Entertainment News
‘Best in Dough’ proves you can’t judge a pizza by its toppings
Hulu/Michael Desmond It’s a cooking competition, but just for pizza. New to Hulu this week is the series Best in Dough, where pizza makers from all walks of life come together to compete for $10,000 [Read More…]
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Brad Pitt launches gender-neutral skin care line
ABC If you’ve ever wanted to look like Brad Pitt, here’s your chance. Sort of. The Oscar winner has launched a new skin care line in partnership with the famed Château Beaucastel wine growers of [Read More…]
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“It would suck to do something else”: Adam Sandler on gratitude, growing up and growing old
Courtesy “AARP The Magazine” In the October/November issue of AARP The Magazine, 56-year-old Adam Sandler opens up about growing up, getting older in Hollywood and his gratitude for his long career. “I’m calmer than I [Read More…]
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“What a fantastic human being”: Dave Chappelle, John Stamos salute Bob Saget at scleroderma benefit
ABC/Craig Sjodin Many of the late Bob Saget‘s comedian friends were on hand in Los Angeles Wednesday night to salute him at the annual Scleroderma Research Foundation benefit he’d been involved with for more than [Read More…]
ABC Business News
What the rate hike will mean for housing
moodboard/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Federal Reserve’s string of interest rate hikes this year has thrown cold water on the once red-hot housing market. Existing home sales fell for the seventh straight month in [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Heating bills to reach 10-year high this upcoming winter: NEADA report
Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Heating costs for the upcoming winter season are expected to increase by 17%, mainly impacting lower-income families, according to a new report from National Energy Assistance Directors Association. Costs [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Fed hikes benchmark rate 0.75% in significant escalation of inflation fight
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve instituted a dramatic interest rate hike on Wednesday, the latest in a series of borrowing cost increases, as the central bank tries to dial back near-historic inflation [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Big bank CEOs sound alarm on inflation fight: ‘Expect tougher times ahead’
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Chief executives at some of the largest U.S. banks sounded the alarm over sky-high inflation in testimony before Congress on Wednesday, warning that price hikes would require further borrowing cost [Read More…]
ABC Health News
CDC director weighs in on whether pandemic is over, says bivalent COVID shot is ‘critically important’
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky became the latest American to receive the new bivalent COVID-19 booster shot on Thursday, telling ABC News that, thus far, “millions” [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Some school uniforms were found to have high levels of potentially harmful PFAS chemicals
Mario Tama/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — High levels of chemicals called per-and polyfluoroalky substances (PFAS) were detected in water-proof or stain-resistant school uniforms in the United States and Canada, according to a new study published [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Updated boosters for elementary school-aged children ‘weeks’ from authorization: FDA vaccine chief
IMAGINESTOCK/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New boosters for 5- to 11-year-olds are just weeks away from authorization, the vaccine chief at the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Peter Marks, said Tuesday. While primary vaccines are [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Toddler goes home after over 500 days in the hospital
Tyler Robinson (NEW YORK) — An Illinois mom says it’s “wonderful” to have her daughter home with her after the 18-month-old spent more than 500 days in the hospital, first in the neonatal intensive care [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Cancer deaths in US declined by 2% every year since 2016, report says
Isaac Lane Koval/Corbis/VCG (NEW YORK) — Cancer deaths in the United States are continuing to decline, according to a new report from the American Association for Cancer Research. The report, published Wednesday, found that deaths [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 9/21/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Cincinnati 5, Boston 1 NY Yankees 14, Pittsburgh 2 Philadelphia 4, Toronto 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE Houston 5, Tampa Bay [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Beasley and Demings show how ‘unique’ swing-state Democrats are embracing law enforcement
Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — During an August campaign event in Durham, North Carolina, former state Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, the Democratic candidate for Senate, proudly proclaimed that she does not support defunding the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
More Democrats Than Ever Support The Palestinian Cause, And That’s Dividing The Party
Mark Kerrison/In Pictures/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Twenty years ago, Tallie Ben Daniel was a college student wandering the campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz, when she came across a bumper sticker that [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Blinken says UN must tell Putin to stop ‘reckless nuclear threats’ over Ukraine
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday called on the United Nations to send a clear message to Russia’s Vladimir Putin demanding an end to his “reckless nuclear [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
House Democrats look for a legislative victory on policing before the midterms
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Democrats, hoping to notch another major legislative win before the midterm elections, will vote Thursday on a long-delayed package of changes to policing and public safety. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
House Majority leader gives outlook on control of Congress as midterms loom
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — As the November midterm elections quickly approach, all eyes are on the latest efforts by both parties to gain control of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. House Majority Leader [Read More…]
ABC National News
One aspect of Trump, DOJ saga ‘a frolic and a detour,’ former federal prosecutor says
Andrew Spear/The Washington Post/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In another twist in the case against former President Donald Trump, who has been accused of keeping classified government material at his Mar-a-Lago estate, a panel of judges [Read More…]