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COVID-19 live updates: Scale of education lost ‘nearly insurmountable,’ UNICEF warns
John Moore/Getty Image (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 866,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by [Read More…]
Police investigate homicide of six people found dead at Milwaukee home
Yegor AleyevTASS via Getty Images (MILWAUKEE) — Six people were found dead at a home in Wisconsin’s largest city in what police are investigating as a homicide. Officers were conducting a welfare check at a [Read More…]
Another violence interrupter killed in Baltimore as community reels from gun violence
Andre Chung for The Washington Post via Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — A man who worked on the front lines of preventing gun violence in Baltimore, Maryland, was shot and killed on Wednesday night in a [Read More…]
Stowaway survives 11-hour flight in wheel well from Africa to Europe
Jaromir Chalabala / EyeEm/Getty Images (AMSTERDAM) — A stowaway was found alive in the nose wheel well of a cargo airplane that traveled from South Africa to the Netherlands on Sunday, according to Dutch police. [Read More…]
State Department orders diplomats’ families to leave US embassy in Kyiv amid Russia tensions
Anna MarchenkoTASS via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The State Department ordered diplomats’ families Sunday afternoon to depart the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, amid heightened fears of a Russian attack on the country. The embassy [Read More…]
Regina Hall, Sterling Brown, Keke Palmer featured in Sundance Film Festival virtual events this weekend; Mack Wilds hosts ‘Profiled: The Black Man;’ and more
Amy Sussman/Getty Images Regina Hall, Sterling Brown and Keke Palmer are among the stars featured this weekend in virtual Sundance Film Festival events. They are participating in the fifth annual Macro Lounge focusing on diversity, inclusion and people of color. On [Read More…]
‘Mission: Impossible’ movies move again because of COVID
Paramount Pictures Release dates for the next Mission: Impossible movies are proving to be as elusive as Tom Cruise‘s spy Ethan Hunt. Paramount Pictures has announced that the already COVID-delayed Mission: Impossible 7 has been bumped from its September 30, [Read More…]
94th Oscars will “likely” have multiple hosts, ‘Variety’ says
ABC and AMPAS While the search goes on for who will fill the role of host of the upcoming 94th Annual Academy Awards, Variety reports producers are looking for more than one set of shoes to fill. [Read More…]
‘Jack Ryan’ movie, TV producer Mace Neufeld dead at 93
Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Producer Mace Neufeld, who had a long a varied career in Hollywood, has died. The Hollywood Reporter notes the producer passed away in his sleep at his Beverly Hills home at 93. When Neufeld was [Read More…]
Intel investing $20 billion to bring chip manufacturing to Ohio amid global shortage
iStock (NEW YORK) — Amid a global chip shortage that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Intel announced Friday that it will invest more than $20 billion in two new chip factories in Ohio. [Read More…]
COVID hospitalizations and deaths surge in Los Angeles County
iStock/narvikk (NEW YORK) — As the recent COVID-19 wave begins to ebb on the East Coast and in the Midwest, Los Angeles County is still being battered by the virus. The county reported 102 new [Read More…]
US preparing to approve evacuation from embassy in Ukraine: Sources
Geraint Rowland Photography/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of State is preparing to approve the evacuation of some U.S. diplomats and diplomats’ families from the embassy in Ukraine, sources confirmed to ABC News. The final [Read More…]
Biden’s 1st-year record on immigration: tough challenges, harsh criticism
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden has faced persistent challenges as his administration worked to reform U.S. immigration policy during his first year in office. Some efforts over the past 12 months have [Read More…]
Anti-abortion rights proponents say they are prepping for ‘post-Roe America’
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The anti-abortion rights movement is at a critical moment, motivated in large part by conservative justices on the Supreme Court who seem poised to rule in favor of states’ stringent [Read More…]
‘Multiple’ dogs may have been sickened by rat-transmitted illness, NYC official says
WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — New York City dog owners are being warned after several pets may have been sickened by leptospirosis, a disease commonly associated with rats. A city council member said this week his [Read More…]
Hazardous weather conditions after winter storm hits southeastern US with snow, ice
GETTY/Andrew Bret Wallis (NEW YORK) — The southeastern United States is weathering snow and ice yet again a week after the region was slammed with hazardous winter conditions. Two to 4.5 inches of snow have been [Read More…]
NYPD officer killed, 2nd officer and suspect in critical condition after shooting
GETTY/Alan Schein Photography (NEW YORK) — A rookie New York City officer is dead and another officer was in critical condition after they were shot responding to a domestic violence call in Harlem Friday night, police [Read More…]
Worker shortages, flight delays contributing to slow delivery of rapid tests
bunhill/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Rebeca Andrade had been waiting days for a shipment of COVID-19 rapid tests to help keep her school open. The superintendent of a school in Salinas, California, Andrade said she [Read More…]
‘Critical missing’ 11-year-old boy found safe, police say
iStock/ijoe84 (DALLAS) — Dallas police said an 11-year-old boy who was missing for two nights and last seen wearing only shorts and socks during frigid temperatures has been found safe. Traveon Michael Allen Griffin left [Read More…]
Hollywood takes to social media to remember Louie Anderson
Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/WireImage Like millions of his fans, Louie Anderson‘s famous friends are remembering the Emmy-winning comic and Baskets actor on social media. Anderson passed away this morning at a Las Vegas hospital, from complications of cancer. [Read More…]