Year: 2022
Why Kelly Stafford says pressure is off for Matthew Stafford’s Super Bowl debut
Christian Petersen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After being selected by the Detroit Lions as the No. 1 overall draft pick in 2009 and 12 seasons without a playoff win before being traded to the Los [Read More…]
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin blows gate in slalom, out of event
Tom Pennington/Getty Images (BEIJING) — For the second straight competition, Mikaela Shiffrin has busted out of the competition just seconds into the first run. Shiffrin missed the fourth gate in her slalom run, the event [Read More…]
Los Angeles could host the hottest Super Bowl on record
Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After months of relatively cooler weather throughout Southern California, temperatures are beginning to spike heading into Super Bowl weekend. An excessive heat watch has been issued [Read More…]
Scoreboard roundup — 2/8/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Phoenix 114, Philadelphia 109 Boston 126, Brooklyn 91 Atlanta 133, Indiana 112 Memphis 135, L.A. Clippers 109 New Orleans 110, [Read More…]
Pressure builds for Biden, Democrats to move past COVID
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — It’s a move that would have been unthinkable last year: Weeks after a holiday surge crushed hospitals and more people died in a single month than a typical annual flu [Read More…]
House lawmaker apologizes for using vulgarity when asked to mask up
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky, the second-most senior lawmaker in the House, told ABC News he has apologized to Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, after she said [Read More…]
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff escorted out of DC high school because of ‘security threat’
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, attending an event at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, was escorted out of the room by a U.S. Secret Service agent [Read More…]
McConnell rebukes RNC for breaking tradition as GOP divided over censure resolution
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican lawmakers are divided on what could become a defining issue for the GOP after the Republican National Committee passed a censure resolution last week including language critics [Read More…]
COVID-19 live updates: US reported more cases, deaths than any country last week
Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.7 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 909,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by [Read More…]
ABC News analysis: 50 years later, segregated neighborhoods are still pervasive
DNY59/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Milwaukee resident Exie Tatum III grew up in heart of the city and still lives there. The African American father owns a home in a predominantly Black neighborhood but has [Read More…]
Afghans struggle with humanitarian crisis, millions on brink of starvation
KeithBinns/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Four months after the Taliban seized power, Obaidullah Alikhil found himself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet as his son laid in bed with no strength to even open [Read More…]
Waste oil ignited explosion and fire at Miller high school
MILLER, S.D. (AP) — The cause of an explosion and fire at the school campus in Miller has been determined, according to fire officials. Fire Chief Steve Resel says some equipment being used in the [Read More…]
Teen sentenced to 40 years in prison for 2018 fatal shooting
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — An 18-year-old Rapid City man has been sentenced to 40 years in state prison for a fatal shooting in 2018. A judge Monday sentenced Ronald Black Cloud in the death [Read More…]
South Dakota GOP senators reject trans student bathroom ban
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Republicans on a South Dakota Senate committee Tuesday rejected a bill that would have banned transgender students from using school restrooms that match their gender identity. All but one senator on [Read More…]
Liam Neeson “fell in love” while filming in Australia, but she’s “taken”
Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Liam Neeson didn’t get the girl of his dreams on the set of his latest film, but he just may have found the premise for his next Taken movie. During an [Read More…]
DC-area sniper appeals life sentences given to him as a juvenile
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Maryland Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on Tuesday over whether Lee Boyd Malvo, the last living D.C.-area sniper, should be given a revised sentence under new federal and [Read More…]
COVID-19 live updates: Los Angeles County keeps mask mandate
Lucas Ninno/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.7 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 908,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by [Read More…]
Universal teases the trailer for Jordan Peele’s latest thriller, ‘Nope’
ABC/Randy Holmes The teaser-trailer for Get Out Oscar-winner Jordan Peele‘s latest thriller, Nope, notes a new Universal Pictures tease. And since Peele has proven to be a master of suspense, the teaser doesn’t reveal much about the new project, and instead [Read More…]
Oscar nominee Ariana DeBose celebrates Black History Month; Nick Cannon’s very unusual Valentine’s Day gift
Jon Kopaloff/WireImage West Side Story star Ariana DeBose is celebrating being nominated for an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. She is also recognizing Black History Month in an article she wrote for Variety. [Read More…]
Douglas Trumbull, effects wizard behind ‘2001’, ‘Blade Runner’, and more, dead at 79
Trumbull in 1977, working on ‘Close Encounters’ — Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Douglas Trumbull, a groundbreaking visual effects artist who left his mark on cinema history thanks to his pioneering work on classics like 2001: A [Read More…]
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