Month: October 2022
ABC Entertainment News
“The Royal Family is in crisis”: Netflix drops trailer to ‘The Crown’ season five
Netflix On Thursday, Netflix dropped the eagerly anticipated trailer to the fifth season of The Crown. Debuting on the streaming service November 9, the latest chapter shows “The Royal Family is in genuine crisis,” according to a TV [Read More…]
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Spoiler alert: Danny and Lucy DeVito tease tonight’s ‘Little Demon’ season 1 finale
Michael Kovac/Getty Images for IMDb Season 1 of the satanic animated comedy Little Demon comes to an end tonight on FXX, with real life father and daughter Danny and Lucy DeVito playing Satan and Satan’s love child, Chrissy, and Lucy tells ABC [Read More…]
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Dame Judi Dench calls out Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ for “crude sensationalism,” calls for disclaimer before episodes
Mike Marsland/WireImage Add Dame Judi Dench to the chorus of critics speaking out about how Netflix’s The Crown portrays the British royal family. In a piece for The Times published Wednesday, the English actress — [Read More…]
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‘Rust’ to resume production after fatal firearms incident, but not in New Mexico
Deadline reports the Alec Baldwin western Rust will resume production in January, 15 months after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot on set, but not in New Mexico. No final decision has been made on the new location, but producers are reportedly [Read More…]
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In Brief: New ‘Sex Lives’ trailer for HBO Max, and more
HBO Max on Wednesday dropped the first trailer for season 2 of The Sex Lives of College Girls, the comedy from Mindy Kaling. The four roommates — Kimberly, Bela, Leighton and Whitney, played respectively by [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Child care industry struggles with shortage of workers: ‘This is unheard of’
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Marcelo Candia spends all day teaching a classroom full of 4-year-old children in northern Virginia — then walks across the street to work in a grocery store bakery for four [Read More…]
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CSPC sets federal safety standard for furniture aimed at reducing deaths, injuries
SBenitez/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Wednesday a mandatory safety standard for testing and labeling clothing storage units in an effort to curb deaths and injuries caused by wobbly [Read More…]
ABC Business News
What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As rising gas prices strain the budgets of many Americans, President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday moves that aim to address the oil supply shortage behind the cost spike. [Read More…]
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Popeyes will ship a frozen, fully cooked Cajun-style turkey to your Thanksgiving table for just under $100
Popeyes (NEW YORK) — Whether you’re planning a big holiday meal for a large family this Thanksgiving and dislike cooking, or are in charge of the main dish for your upcoming friendsgiving, fast food chain [Read More…]
ABC Health News
CDC corrects conservative claim: They cannot mandate COVID vaccines in schools
IMAGINESTOCK/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pushing back on a claim made by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, who said on his show this week that a CDC decision [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Mom of three credits influencer with saving her life by sharing breast cancer diagnosis
Courtesy Delia Chatwin (NEW YORK) — Carli Williams, of Texas, went from following an influencer on Instagram to crediting the woman with saving her life. Williams, 33, said she felt a small lump in her [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Children’s hospital in talks with FEMA to set up medical tent amid surge of respiratory illnesses
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (NEW YORK) — As the surge in children’s respiratory illnesses, including rhinovirus and enterovirus, continues across the country, one children’s hospital is considering installing a field tent to deal with the [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Florida seeing ‘abnormal’ increase in flesh-eating bacteria cases due to Hurricane Ian
Tetra Images/Getty Images (FORT MYERS, Fla.) — Florida is seeing an increase in confirmed cases of flesh-eating bacteria this year due to the impact of Hurricane Ian, health officials said. The Florida Health Department has [Read More…]
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COVID subvariants: What to know and should you be concerned?
SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Even as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations driven by the omicron subvariant BA.5 continue to fall in the United States, the proportion of infections attributed to other omicron offshoots is [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
New Trump-backed super PAC injects nearly $4 million in ad spending into key races
IronHeart/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A new super PAC backed by former President Donald Trump is injecting money into key 2022 races, investing $4 million in a new round of ad spending in battleground states, according [Read More…]
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Blinken discusses top challenges facing US abroad: Russia, Saudi Arabia, China
Michael Le Brecht/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown “no interest” in engaging in “meaningful diplomacy” with Ukraine, after eight months of bloody war. “Our [Read More…]
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Jan. 6 committee has yet to find a Trump lawyer who’ll accept service of subpoena, sources say
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Jan. 6 committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol has yet to formally subpoena former President Donald Trump, in part because investigators are still trying [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Would Pence vote for Trump in 2024? ‘There might be somebody else I’d prefer more,’ he says
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Mike Pence had this to say on Wednesday night when asked if he would vote for Donald Trump in 2024, if his former boss were the Republican presidential [Read More…]
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Trump was told Georgia election fraud numbers were inaccurate, emails say
adamkaz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge said in a ruling Wednesday that evidence shows former President Donald Trump had been told the number of 2016 voter fraud instances he alleged occurred in Georgia were [Read More…]
ABC National News
College enrollment drops for third consecutive year since pandemic, report says
Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — College enrollment in the United States fell for the third consecutive year, deepening the woes endured by universities nationwide since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a report released [Read More…]