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Elections in limbo as redistricting litigation drags on
adamkaz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Early voting for Ohio’s May 3 primary starts in less than a week, and Election Day is just five weeks away. Yet the state’s congressional and legislative maps are still being [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Bruce Willis diagnosed with aphasia, his family announces
Rich Fury/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Bruce Willis’ family has announced the actor has been diagnosed with aphasia and is “stepping away” from his career due to the diagnosis. The 67-year-old actor’s wife, Emma Heming [Read More…]
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Oklahoma, Arizona sign transgender sports bans into law
Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE (OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) — Oklahoma and Arizona became the latest states to impose transgender sports bans Wednesday. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a law banning transgender women and girls from competing [Read More…]
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Biden gets second booster after outlining dire need for COVID funding
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden received his second booster shot before television cameras on Wednesday following remarks at the White House about the state of the country’s COVID response. Biden’s speech promoted [Read More…]
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20-year-old New York woman’s cold case homicide solved 42 years later
Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (NEW YORK ) — Eve Wilkowitz was 20 years old in 1980 when she was kidnapped, raped and strangled to death after she took a train home to Bay Shore, New [Read More…]
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Four Southern states under tornado watch
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Severe weather on Wednesday has prompted tornado watches for parts of four southern states, including some areas still cleaning up damage from a swarm of twisters that hit last week. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Danielle Brooks to star in Broadway play, ‘The Piano Lesson’
ABC The late August Wilson‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, The Piano Lesson will return to Broadway in September and award-winning actors Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks are set to star. The groundbreaking [Read More…]
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Jared Leto talks ‘Morbius’ and Sinister Six rumors on ‘The Tonight Show’
NBC/Todd Owyoung Jared Leto stars in Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man-adjacent action film Morbius, opening April 1, and during an appearance on Tuesday’s The Tonight Show, he talked about playing the titular character, and a possible connection to Marvel’s [Read More…]
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Bruce Willis “stepping away” from his career following aphasia diagnosis
Jim Spellman/WireImage On her Instagram, Rumer Willis revealed that her father, Bruce Willis is “stepping away” from the limelight, following the diagnosis of a condition that can rob someone of their ability to communicate. “To [Read More…]
ABC World News
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Putin’s advisers ‘are too afraid to tell him the truth’
FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” according to U.S. [Read More…]
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NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returns to Earth after record-breaking spaceflight
Bill Ingalls/NASA/Getty Images (DZHEZKAZGAN, Kazakstan) — NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth Wednesday, after spending a record-breaking 355 days in low-Earth orbit. Vande Hei shared a spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts as tensions [Read More…]
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“Miss You Pal”: John Stamos shares video message from Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins
Rich Fury/Getty Images (NOTE LANGUAGE) Like millions of Foo Fighters fans, John Stamos is mourning the loss of drummer Taylor Hawkins, who was found dead in a Bogota, Colombia, hotel room last Friday night. Stamos [Read More…]
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Elliot Page’s ‘Umbrella Academy’ character to come out as transgender in season 3
ABC They say art often imitates life, and that’s the case when it comes to Elliot Page and his Umbrella Academy character. Elliot, who came out as transgender in December 2020, starred as Vanya Hargreeves [Read More…]
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Slap survey: 63% say they’ll tune into the Oscars next year just because of Will Smith incident
ABC It has been shown that Will Smith‘s slapping Chris Rock goosed the ratings of last Sunday night’s Oscars by some 600,000 viewers, so the results of a new survey about the show may not come as [Read More…]
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“Shocked and stunned” and “still triggered” Amy Schumer unpacks Oscars slap
ABC One of Sunday night’s Oscars hosts, Amy Schumer, has broken her silence about the so-called “slap heard ’round the world.” “Still triggered and traumatized,” she said on Instagram. “I love my friend @chrisrock and [Read More…]
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In Brief: ‘It’ prequel series coming to HBO Max, and more
HBO Max is developing a prequel to the Stephen King novel It, according to The Ankler. The series, tentatively titled Welcome to Derry, will be set in the 1960s in the time leading up to [Read More…]
ABC Business News
FTC sues Intuit TurboTax’s ‘free’ filing campaign
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As Americans continue to file their taxes ahead of Tax Day, the Federal Trade Commission has slapped a lawsuit against a company behind a popular tax filing [Read More…]
ABC Health News
ABC News special explores mental health crisis among youth amid COVID-19
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, mental health challenges still impact youth. But in a new one-hour ABC News primetime special anchored by Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts, U.S. [Read More…]
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Biden to get second booster after outlining dire need for COVID funding
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will receive his second booster shot following his scheduled remarks Wednesday about the state of the country’s COVID response, according to the White House. Biden is expected [Read More…]
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GOP’s Susan Collins to vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Susan Collins of Maine plans to support the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court, the nominee’s [Read More…]