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Gordon Ramsay says COVID-19 “wiped the slate clean” of bad restaurants
FOX/Scott Kirkland (NOTE LANGUAGE) While admitting the COVID pandemic has been “devastating” for the hospitality industry, outspoken Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares star Gordon Ramsay says there was a silver lining: Restaurants are getting better post-lockdowns. “Well, just s***holes in a prime [Read More…]
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Pancake mix sold at Walmart recalled due to possible contamination from cable fragments
FDA (WASHINGTON) — The brand behind a buttermilk pancake and waffle mix sold at Walmart has recalled a single lot of the product, some of which it says may have possible foreign material contamination. Continental [Read More…]
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Jergens recalls moisturizer due to possible bacteria contamination
FDA (CINCINNATI) — The company that makes Jergens lotion is recalling select bottles of moisturizers due to possible bacterial contamination. Kao USA Inc., based in Cincinnati, issued a voluntary recall on March 11 and is [Read More…]
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Trial of Theranos executive Sunny Balwani to begin
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (SAN JOSE, Calif.) — The criminal fraud trial of Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the ex-boyfriend of convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and a top executive at the blood-testing company, is expected to begin [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings live updates: Nominee responds to GOP attacks
Sha Hanting/China News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, faces up to 11 hours of grilling Tuesday on Day 2 of [Read More…]
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White House press secretary Psaki has COVID, Biden tests negative
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — White House press secretary Jen Psaki said she has tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, on the eve of President Joe Biden’s trip overseas. Psaki said she was [Read More…]
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Experts say Biden’s risk-averse approach to Russian could create greater threat
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WARSAW, Poland) — President Joe Biden’s high-stakes summit with other NATO leaders on Thursday will be one of the most scrutinized meetings on the world stage in decades, and could have enormous [Read More…]
ABC National News
Tornado outbreak in Texas, Oklahoma kills one, injures at least 10
PBNJ Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least three southern states were under a tornado watch Tuesday following an outbreak of twisters Monday night in Texas and Oklahoma that cut a path of destruction, killed [Read More…]
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Russia-Ukraine live updates: Moscow responds to Biden on biological, chemical weapons
Andriy Dubchak / dia images 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,” [Read More…]
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Prominent Putin critic Alexey Navalny sentenced to additional nine years
Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images (LONDON) — The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been sentenced to an additional nine years, in a fresh trial roundly criticized by human rights organizations as politically motivated. [Read More…]
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Doctors on Ukraine border say mental health is top medical priority
Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Since the war in Ukraine began, more than three million refugees have fled — by bus, train, car and foot — for neighboring countries. Some have [Read More…]
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K-pop inspired food trucks help COVID-hit restaurants and children in need
ABC News (SEOUL, South Korea) — The scrumptious smell of shrimp patties and brioche buns cooking over a sizzling pan filled the air. Watermelon-shaped rice cake bars were piled up in one corner, iced tea [Read More…]
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US recognizes Myanmar’s atrocities against Rohingya as ‘genocide’
Anadolu Agency/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. government has determined the attacks by Myanmar’s military against the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority, constituted genocide and crimes against humanity, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Monday. [Read More…]
ABC National News
Injuries, damage reported from Texas tornado
PBNJ Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Injuries have been reported and multiple homes and businesses are damaged after a tornado tore through Round Rock, Texas, Monday evening, according to the local fire and police departments. [Read More…]
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Climate change exhibit opens at DC’s Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center (WASHINGTON) — A man submerged up to his chin in brown, murky floodwaters and a group of miners covered head to toe in black soot — these are a few of the [Read More…]
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Firefighter injured in central Texas as wildfires rage on
Visoot Uthairam/Getty Images (HOOD COUNTY, Texas) — Extreme weather conditions are causing deadly wildfires across the country. A wildfire in central Texas that started over the weekend has burned over 11,000 acres and injured a [Read More…]
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Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized with infection, Supreme Court says
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized with an infection, the Supreme Court announced in a statement. Thomas was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Friday evening after [Read More…]
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One dead, at least 28 shot, including children, at Arkansas car show
Courtesy Amberly R. Taylor (DUMAS, Ark.) — At least 28 people were shot, including six children, at a car show in rural Arkansas on Saturday night. At least one person has died, according to police. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings live updates: Nominee responds to attacks
Sha Hanting/China News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, faces up to 11 hours of grilling Tuesday on Day 2 of [Read More…]
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Eric Greitens, GOP Senate candidate and former governor, accused of abuse by ex-wife
Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some GOP members of Congress are calling on fellow Republican and former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens to drop out of his Senate race [Read More…]