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Report: Tom Felton suffers medical emergency during charity golf match
ChristopherBernard/iStock Harry Potter star Tom Felton reportedly suffered a medical emergency while competing in a celebrity golf match on Thursday. People reports that Felton, 34, participated in this year’s Ryder Cup and collapsed on the 18th hole. Reports say he was immediately surrounded [Read More…]
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Let’s-a go! Chris Pratt to voice Mario in upcoming ‘Super Mario Bros’ movie
ABC/Randy Holmes The full cast of the long-awaited Super Mario Bros movie has been revealed and it was announced Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt will be voicing the iconic Nintendo hero, Mario. Illumination, the studio behind Despicable Me that’s producing the movie [Read More…]
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‘The View’ hosts leave mid-show due to testing positive for COVID-19, miss Vice President Harris interview
ABC/Lou Rocco The View had a bit of a shakeup on Friday as hosts Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin had to depart the set mid-episode after testing positive for COVID-19. Just before they were scheduled to bring out Vice President Kamala [Read More…]
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‘Celebrity Wheel of Fortune’ returns on ABC Sunday night
ABC/Eric McCandless Celebrity Wheel of Fortune returns when season two premieres on its new night, Sunday, September 26 at 8 P.M. ET. Hosted by pop-culture legends Pat Sajak and Vanna White, the series welcomes celebrity contestants [Read More…]
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The push for electric vehicles may be killing sedans for good: Experts
Volkswagen (NEW YORK) — Get your sedan while you still can. The Toyota Avalon, Mazda 6 and Volkswagen Passat will soon join the fast-growing list of sedans sent to automotive exile. Americans’ unyielding appetite for [Read More…]
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US enters deferred prosecution agreement with detained Huawei executive Weng Manzhou
Nadya So/iStock (NEW YORK) — Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in Brooklyn on Friday to resolve a sanctions violation case that has kept her detained [Read More…]
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Scoreboard Roundup 9/25/21
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from yesterday’s game’s: —— INTERLEAGUE Final Tampa Bay 8 Miami 0 —— AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Chicago White Sox 1 Cleveland [Read More…]
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GOP-led review of Arizona ballots reaffirms Biden’s win
Spiderstock/iStock (PHOENIX) — Nearly 11 months after Joe Biden was elected president, the GOP-led review of Arizona’s Maricopa County ballots has found no substantial deviation from the vote count reported by the county that helped [Read More…]
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Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, 88, running for reelection
Gwengoat/iStock (DES MOISE, Iowa) — Iowa’s senior Republican senator, Chuck Grassley, announced in an early morning tweet Friday that, at age 88, he will seek reelection in 2022. Grassley, who will be 89 by Election [Read More…]
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Harris interview with ‘The View’ delayed after co-hosts test positive for COVID-19
ABC (NEW YORK) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ interview on “The View” on Friday was delayed after two co-hosts tested positive for COVID-19. Harris, who was supposed to appear in-studio with the co-hosts of the [Read More…]
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COVID-19 live updates: US reaches vaccine milestone
oonal/iStock (NEW YORK) — The United States has been facing a COVID-19 surge as the more contagious delta variant continues to spread. More than 682,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 while over 4.7 million people [Read More…]
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Putin critic Navalny slams Google and Apple for accepting Kremlin censorship
zmeel/iStock (MOSCOW) — Russia’s best-known opposition figure, Alexey Navalny, has criticized Google and Apple for bending to Kremlin demands for censorship during recent parliamentary elections, accusing the tech giants of “cowardice” and of becoming “accomplices” [Read More…]
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China declares cryptocurrency transactions illegal as crackdown continues
Vertigo3d/iStock (BEIJING) — Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies dipped in value on Friday after China declared all transactions involving these digital currencies “illegal.” China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, issued a statement on [Read More…]
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A special Bond: Daniel Craig named honorary commander in the Royal Navy
Nicole Dove Daniel Craig now has something special in common with his onscreen character, James Bond. The British actor has been appointed as an honorary commander in the U.K.’s Royal Navy, matching his literary and on-screen alter ego, [Read More…]
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Gabourey Sidibe shares the special connection she has to her new podcast thriller ‘If I Go Missing the Witches Did It’
Courtesy of Realm Gabourey Sidibe knew she had something special when she took on the role of writer Jenna Clayton in the Realm podcast thriller, If I Go Missing the Witches Did It. Written by Pia Wilson, the [Read More…]
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Willie Garson died from pancreatic cancer, his obituary reveals
iStock/U.Ozel.Images Sex and the City star Willie Garson died unexpectedly this week at age 57, but a cause of death was not immediately given. It was confirmed Thursday in his obituary, which was published in The New York Times, that the [Read More…]
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Tony nominee Katori Hall shares what she’ll do with her award if she wins on Sunday night
Diane Zhao Pulitzer Prize winner Katori Hall has a lot to celebrate this year. After recently receiving the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her off-Broadway play Hot Wing King, the P-Valley creator is now nominated for her first Tony Award [Read More…]
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Billy Bob Thornton and Tania Raymonde on bringing ‘Goliath’ to a close with new fourth season
Amazon Studios Amazon’s legal drama Goliath drops its fourth and final season today. Oscar-winning lead Billy Bob Thornton returns as loose-cannon lawyer Billy McBride, who this season is taking on a massive pharmaceutical company implicated in the opioid crisis. “It’s [Read More…]
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EPA moves to reduce super-polluting greenhouse gases
LilliDay/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Environmental Protection Agency announced a new rule Thursday to reduce super-polluting greenhouse gases commonly used in air conditioners and refrigerators as part of the cooling process. This is a major leap [Read More…]
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Boppy newborn lounger pillows recalled after eight infant deaths
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (BETHESDA, Md.) — Over 3 million infant loungers made by Boppy, the popular maker of baby products, are being recalled after reports of eight infant deaths between 2015 and 2020, [Read More…]