Year: 2022
With an incoming COVID surge, health officials push urgently for boosters. Do you need one?
Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Early cases of COVID-19 are believed to be linked to a live-animal market in Wuhan, China. Facing yet another COVID-19 variant, this one said to [Read More…]
Secret Service deleted texts from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, after watchdog sought records
Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Secret Service deleted text messages from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, after an internal watchdog requested them as part of a review of the department’s [Read More…]
NY AG delays depositions of former President Trump, 2 of his children
Win McNamee/Pool via Bloomberg (NEW YORK) — Depositions of former President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. in connection with the New York attorney general’s civil investigation have been delayed, the New York [Read More…]
Biden, under pressure from own party, fires back as 2024 questions persist
Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As a slew of historic challenges pile up on Joe Biden’s presidency, he faces increasing dissatisfaction from within his own party and questions about his electability just months [Read More…]
Republicans block bill to shield people who travel out of state for abortions
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a bill that would have both legally shielded the people who travel across states lines to receive an abortion and the providers who care for [Read More…]
Texas AG sues Biden for telling doctors to perform abortions as needed in emergencies
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday filed the first legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s executive order on abortion — accusing the administration of turning emergency health care [Read More…]
1 million fentanyl pills linked to Sinaloa Cartel seized in record-breaking drug bust
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (INGLEWOOD, Calif.) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has seized approximately one million pills laced with fentanyl allegedly linked to the Sinaloa Cartel in what authorities say is the biggest [Read More…]
Buffalo supermarket, site of mass shooting, reopens
John Normile/Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — The supermarket in Buffalo, New York, where a deadly mass shooting occurred in May is officially reopening Friday after extensive renovations. The Tops Friendly supermarket was closed for months [Read More…]
Buffalo supermarket reopens, while community ‘food desert’ concerns remain
John Normile/Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — When the Tops Friendly Market on Jefferson Avenue shut down after the Buffalo mass shooting, the community lost its only grocery store — a lifeline in a predominantly Black [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russian filtration camps called ‘war crime’
Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to [Read More…]
Demand for artificial limbs surges in Ukraine
Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — One of Ukraine’s leading medical experts on developing prosthetic limbs for amputees says there has been a dramatic surge in demand for artificial arms and legs [Read More…]
Families of Saudi mass execution fear Biden visit ‘legitimizes’ Saudi Crown Prince
Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images (RIYADH, Saudi Arabia) — U.S. President Joe Biden has promised to bring up human rights concerns when he meets with Saudi leaders in Jeddah on Friday as part [Read More…]
Life sentence for man who fatally struck grandfather
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man was been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for intentionally running down a North Dakota man who was picking up his granddaughter from practice at [Read More…]
South Dakota identifies first monkeypox case
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Health officials said Thursday a man from the eastern part of the state has contracted the state’s first assumed case of monkeypox, a disease that has emerged in [Read More…]
White Sox rout Twins 12-2, extend win streak to three games
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Luis Robert hit his first grand slam, Johnny Cueto pitched six strong innings and the Chicago White Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 12-2 Thursday night to extend their winning streak to three [Read More…]
“I almost lost my life”: ‘The Terminal List”s Constance Wu reveals she attempted suicide after Twitter backlash
Amazon Studios Crazy Rich Asians star Constance Wu revealed on Twitter Thursday that backlash from a series of tweets she’d sent back in 2019 led her to attempt suicide. Wu, who also starred in Hustlers with Jennifer Lopez, caught flak online when [Read More…]
Yes! ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’ returns to TV on August 4
Paramount+ Just weeks after their new movie, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, dropped on the platform, Paramount+ has announced new Beavis and Butt-Head episodes will debut on August 4. The streaming service promises the pair will be “back [Read More…]
Milo Manheim, Meg Donnelly tease ‘Zombies 3’ will be “otherworldly”
Disney Zombies 3 sings and dances its way onto the Disney+ streaming service this Friday, and its main stars say this installation is both satisfying and supernatural. Milo Manheim, who plays the zombie Zed, tells ABC Audio the [Read More…]
Top ‘Secret’: The Russo Brothers reveal what project would bring them back to Marvel Studios
L-R: Anthony, Joe Russo — Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Netflix Joe and Anthony Russo directed four Marvel Studios films: fan-favorite Captain America: The Winter Soldier in 2014; Captain America: Civil War in 2016, Avengers: Infinity [Read More…]
“The enemy is still out there”: Amazon drops sprawling teaser to ‘The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power’
Amazon Studios/Ben Rothstein On Thursday, Amazon Studios dropped an extended look at what’s said to be the most expensive television series ever made: The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power. As previously reported, [Read More…]
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