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US pushes diplomacy, prepares sanctions as Ethiopia launches new offensive in brutal war, risking famine
beyhanyazar/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Nearly a month after President Joe Biden created a new U.S. sanctions authority and threatened to impose economic penalties on Ethiopian leaders unless they halted a conflict in the country’s northern province, [Read More…]
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Ellen Pompeo teases what to expect when Kate Walsh returns to ’Grey’s Anatomy’ tonight
ABC It’s been about nine years since Grey’s Anatomy fans have seen Dr. Addison Montgomery and, on Thursday, that dry spell finally ends. Kate Walsh, who plays the self-assured surgeon, will make her grand return to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital in the episode [Read More…]
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Hope springs ‘Eternals’: Film’s pre-sales out-pacing both Marvel Studios predecessors ‘Black Widow’ and ‘Shang-Chi’
Marvel Studios Theater-chain owners might just start exhaling after hearing this news. Following the strong showings of the Marvel Studios films Black Widow and Shang-Chi, tickets for the studio’s next film, Eternals, are already selling better than those for its predecessors. In [Read More…]
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Just in time for Halloween, Netflix’s ‘The Movies That Made Us’ takes a stab at three horror classics
“A Nightmare on Elm Street” — New Line Cinema/Getty Images Just in time for Halloween, the third season of Netflix’s hit The Movies That Made Us peels back the curtain on the making of three horror classics: [Read More…]
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Yvonne Orji to host Amazon’s ‘Yearly Departed’; Michael B. Jordan gushes over working with Denzel Washington
Merie W. Wallace/HBO Amazon has has tapped Insecure star Yvonne Orji to host the second installment of Yearly Departed, a comedy special that says good-bye to everything left behind in 2021. Similar to the first [Read More…]
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Watch official trailer for upcoming ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ docuseries, which premieres next month
Disney+ The first official trailer for the highly anticipated three-part Beatles documentary series The Beatles: Get Back has just debuted, and it’s really “Something.” As previously reported, the docuseries — which was created from hours [Read More…]
ABC Business News
President Biden to meet with port heads ahead of expected Christmas supply crunch
halbergman/iStock (WASHINGTON) — With global supply chain bottlenecks threatening the Christmas shopping season, President Joe Biden will highlight his administration’s work with ports on Wednesday and try to stave off the potentially politically explosive headaches [Read More…]
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Diaper crisis escalates amid COVID-19 pandemic
Laboko/iStock (NEW YORK) — As her belly curves in a small circle overlapping the top button of her jeans, Elisha White, 26, anticipates the birth of her fifth child. White is currently unemployed and without [Read More…]
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When should I mail holiday gifts? USPS, FedEx, UPS release 2021 ship-by dates
400tmax/iStock (NEW YORK) — Each year, we spend time sweating over getting holiday gifts out in time and worrying about shipping delays. This year, experts are warning of possible shortages and delays on getting everything [Read More…]
ABC Health News
FDA recommends restaurants, food manufacturers cut back on use of salt
iStock/alvarez (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released sweeping new guidance for the food industry to voluntarily reduce sodium in processed, packaged and prepared foods in an attempt to reduce Americans’ [Read More…]
ABC Health News
People turn to glucose monitors to track their body’s reaction to foods: What to know
Click_and_Photo/iStock (NEW YORK) — People with diabetes rely on blood glucose devices to monitor their blood sugar levels, but now people who do not have diabetes are tapping into the technology. People without diabetes are [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 10/13/21
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PRESEASON Phoenix 119, Portland 74 Dallas 127, Charlotte 59 Orlando 103, Boston 102 Indiana 109, Memphis 107 New York 108, [Read More…]
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White House pushes for release of Jan. 6 documents as Trump, Bannon rebuff committee
OlegAlbinksy/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The battle over White House records of former President Donald Trump’s activities related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack intensified Wednesday as President Joe Biden formally rejected Trump’s claims that the documents [Read More…]
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Mayorkas calling for end to ICE raids shows diversity of Biden’s cabinet, experts say
iStock/OlegAlbinsky (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, one of four Latino cabinet members in President Joe Biden’s administration, said on Tuesday he wanted to end raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at workplaces. [Read More…]
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Supreme Court considers Boston Marathon bomber death sentence as Biden halts executions
YinYang/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Wednesday will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, even as the agency has suspended all federal executions and [Read More…]
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Republicans fight for Latino voters in Democratic strongholds
tovfla/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Voting rights activists from Mi Familia Vota said after years of being ignored, they are seeing significant investments from politicians trying to reach out to the Latino community. As the largest non-white [Read More…]
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Senate committee questions TikTok in Jan. 6 Capitol attack investigation
5./15 WEST/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday added TikTok to a list of social media companies being scrutinized for their potential involvement in the spread of misinformation related to the Jan. [Read More…]
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School bus carrying 6 children crashes into woods after driver suffers medical emergency
WCVB (PLAISTOW, N.H.) — A driver experiencing a medical emergency crashed a school bus carrying six children into the woods in New Hampshire Tuesday, according to the Plaistow Police Department. The accident took place at [Read More…]
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COVID-19 live updates: US to reopen Mexico, Canada borders for vaccinated
Mongkolchon Akesin/iStock (NEW YORK) — The United States has been facing a COVID-19 surge as the more contagious delta variant continues to spread. More than 716,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 while over 4.8 million [Read More…]
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Black construction worker shot 7 times in potential hate crime, police say
kali9/iStock (STOCKTON, Calif.) — The family of a Black man who was shot seven times in Stockton, California, last week is pushing for justice in what is now being investigated as a potential hate crime. [Read More…]