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Betty White’s rep says actress died of “natural causes”
RBL/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images As the entertainment world and her legions of fans mourns the death of Betty White, a rep for the beloved Golden Girls and Mary Tyler Moore Emmy winner has revealed her cause of death on December 31. Via [Read More…]
Halle Berry fakes a wedding; Lori Harvey calls Michael B. Jordan her “Babydaddy,” and more
Halle Berry and Van Hunt in October, 2021; Amy Sussman/Getty Images Halle Berry has been married three times, and on New Year’s Day, she had people all around the world convinced she had tied the knot [Read More…]
“Vaxxed and boosted” Whoopi Goldberg absent from ‘The View’ after testing positive for COVID-19
ABC On Monday’s installment of ABC’s The View, co-host Joy Behar announced that Whoopi Goldberg wouldn’t be appearing on the show for a spell, after testing positive for COVID-19 over the holiday break. “Since she’s vaxxed and boosted, her symptoms have [Read More…]
Tessa Thompson looks very much the Queen of Asgard in jacked ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ dressing-room photo
Emma McIntyre/Getty Images At the end of Avengers: Endgame, Chris Hemsworth‘s Thor steps aside as King of Asgard, leaving things in the capable hands of Tessa Thompson‘s Valkyrie. But with a new mirror selfie snap from Thompson’s dressing room on [Read More…]
‘The Bachelor’, by the numbers, and for the right reasons
ABC/Pamela Littky With the 26th season of The Bachelor kicking off on ABC tonight with Clayton Echard looking for love, any fan can tell you their favorite TV guilty pleasure has its share of clichés, from contestants to catchphrases. [Read More…]
Powerball jumps to over $522M following another winless drawing
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Another week, another chance to become a bigger multi-millionaire. No one had the winning numbers for Saturday’s half-billion-dollar Powerball jackpot, and the purse has now grown to over $522 [Read More…]
FDA authorizes Pfizer boosters for 12- to 15-year olds
JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Pfizer boosters for 12- to 15-year-olds. The moves comes as schools reopen after the holiday break. In a release, the [Read More…]
Fauci: Testing negative to end COVID isolation now under consideration
Al Bello/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Amid pushback from some public health officials on new Centers for Disease Control guidance for individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19, which does not require a negative test [Read More…]
Five ways to deal with anxiety during the holidays amid the omicron surge
Xesai/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With the explosion of coronavirus cases in the U.S., fueled in part by the highly contagious omicron variant, Americans are once again facing a wave of sickness and the anxiety [Read More…]
Disabled community ‘left behind’ in vaccine rollout one year later
ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/ANP/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Hundreds to thousands of calls come in to the Disability Information and Access Line (DIAL) each week from disabled people across the country with questions about COVID-19, [Read More…]
Scoreboard roundup — 1/2/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Toronto 120, New York 105 Sacramento 115, Miami 113 Cleveland 108, Indiana 104 Boston 116 Orlando 111 (OT) Dallas 95, [Read More…]
Cuomo not charged with COVID nursing home deaths: Manhattan DA
iStock/nirat (NEW YORK) — The Manhattan District Attorney’s office will not file criminal charges in connection with the handling of coronavirus deaths in New York nursing homes during the tenure of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, [Read More…]
Republican Liz Cheney calls Trump ‘clearly unfit for future office’
Samuel Corum/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., the top Republican on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, said former President Donald Trump is “clearly unfit for [Read More…]
COVID live updates: NY looking at COVID hospitalizations that began for other reasons
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 826,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by [Read More…]
Colorado families begin to pick up pieces following winter wildfire
iStock/Kamonchai Mattakulphon (DENVER) — Families and officials in Colorado began returning to their towns that were ravaged by last week’s wildfires. Gov. Jared Polis said in a news conference Sunday that over 1,000 homes were [Read More…]
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes convicted on 4 counts of fraud
iStock/CatEyePerspective (NEW YORK) — A jury has convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes on four counts of fraud on their seventh day of deliberations. She was acquitted on another four, and a mistrial was declared on [Read More…]
Protesters call for charges against officer who killed teen in dressing room
iStock/Tero Vesalainen (NEW YORK) — Protesters are calling for the firing or arrest of LAPD Officer William Jones Jr. in the fatal shooting of Valentina Orellana Peralta, a 14-year-old girl who was in a clothing [Read More…]
Schools welcome back students, in-person and remotely, amid latest COVID-19 surge
iStock/Favor_of_God (NEW YORK) — In a hodgepodge of in-person, remote and delayed reopenings, millions of students across the country are set to head back to school after several weeks on winter break. School districts in [Read More…]
Prince Andrew moves to dismiss lawsuit filed by Jeffrey Epstein victim
iStock/CatEyePerspective (NEW YORK) — A document Prince Andrew claims should prevent him from being sued by an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein was unsealed Monday by a federal judge in New York. The document, a [Read More…]
New Year’s Day flight cancellations: 2,500 and counting
GETTY/Erlon Silva (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 cases among airline staff plus poor weather conditions resulted in 2,581 nationwide flight cancellations as of 4 p.m. on Saturday, according to Flight Aware. The news comes after a week of mass [Read More…]