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Punxsutawney Phil predicts early spring after waking up to not see his shadow on Groundhog Day
Groundhog handler AJ Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil after he did not see his shadow predicting an early Spring during the 138th annual Groundhog Day festivities on Friday February 2, 2024 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. (Photo by [Read More…]
Pro-Palestinian protesters have tense standoff with riot police outside Biden’s campaign event in Michigan
Pablo Monsalve/VIEWpress via Getty Images (DETROIT) — Pro-Palestinian protesters had a tense standoff with riot police outside U.S. President Joe Biden’s campaign event near Detroit on Thursday afternoon. The standoff lasted more than 30 minutes [Read More…]
How cosmetic leg lengthening surgeries are luring patients and courting controversy
Doctors prepare for a leg lengthening surgery. — ABC News (NEW YORK) — Being tall is a stature that many men have longed for and some are turning to leg lengthening surgery to enhance their [Read More…]
Season 2 of Marvel’s ‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’ premieres Friday
Disney Channel Marvel’s Emmy-winning animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur premieres Friday at 8 p.m. ET on Disney Channel and Disney XD, and the next day on Disney+. Diamond White stars as the young [Read More…]
In Brief: Netflix eliminates ‘Obliterated’, and more
Netflix has eradicated the action comedy series Obliterated from its roster after one season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series, from Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald, follows a special [Read More…]
Gas explosion sparks massive fire in Nairobi, killing three and injuring 298
Firemen fight a blaze following a series of explosions in the Embakasi area of Nairobi, Kenya on February 2, 2024. (Photo by LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — At least three people were killed [Read More…]
Biden to attend dignified transfer of US service members killed in drone attack
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday will attend the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base of the three U.S. Army reservists killed Sunday in a drone [Read More…]
The top threats facing the 2024 election
PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The 2024 presidential election is likely to face a complicated array of threats, from voter manipulation to physical violence, according to a new federal assessment — and [Read More…]
‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ series delivers the action of the original, and little more
Amazon MGM Studios Mr. & Mrs. Smith are back in action. The 2005 movie starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as married spies is now a TV show, debuting Friday on Prime Video. This time around Donald Glover and Maya Erskine star as secret [Read More…]
Many students have still not regained pandemic-era losses in reading, math: Report
Ableimages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Elementary and middle school students have only made up some of the losses in math and reading they experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report finds. For the report, [Read More…]
Ex-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg in perjury plea talks, sources say
Alex Kent/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Trump Org. Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg is in plea talks with the Manhattan district attorney’s office to resolve a potential perjury charge, sources familiar with [Read More…]
139 passengers, crew sickened during gastrointestinal illness outbreak on Queen Victoria cruise: CDC
Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nearly 140 people have fallen sick during a gastrointestinal illness outbreak on a three-week Queen Victoria cruise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The [Read More…]
Pentagon defends delay in US retaliatory strikes for drone attack
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Warning that the Middle East is facing a “dangerous moment” in time, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday defended America’s seeming delay in responding to Sunday’s enemy drone attack that [Read More…]
Nikki Haley argues she won’t have to win in South Carolina to still claim a victory
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley insisted on Thursday that she won’t actually have to win in her home state in order to achieve victory there — after two huge [Read More…]
Bradley Cooper says ‘Wedding Crashers’ co-star Vince Vaughn was a major inspiration for him
Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Netflix Bradley Cooper is an acclaimed director and has 12 Oscar nominations, so one might think he’d have some highfalutin answer for his biggest inspirational moment as an actor. However, he revealed it [Read More…]
Tim Burton climbing ‘Fifty Foot Woman’ remake
Netflix Tim Burton is dipping back into the pulpy roots that gave us 1996’s Mars Attacks! for a remake of the 1958 sci-fi horror film Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, Deadline reports. The trade [Read More…]
Crypto exchange Binance sued by Hamas hostages, Oct. 7 victims’ families for allegedly ‘facilitating terrorism’
Ismail Kaplan/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An American woman freed after being held hostage in Gaza and the families of two men killed in the Oct. 7 attack in Israel sued Binance, the [Read More…]
Joshua Schulte, largest leaker of CIA material in history, sentenced to 40 years in prison
Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Joshua Schulte, who was convicted of orchestrating the largest leak of classified material in CIA history, was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday. Schulte, 35, handed WikiLeaks a [Read More…]
Murder suspect mistakenly released from jail after ‘cybersecurity incident’
Kali9/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Authorities in Georgia are searching for 30-year-old murder suspect Zion River Shaka, who was mistakenly released by Clayton County authorities last week, according to ABC affiliate WSB in Atlanta. Last week, [Read More…]
School staffers win $1 million Powerball prize after playing same numbers for years
Stuart Hammer/Kentucky Lottery (FLORENCE, Ky.) — A group of current and former staffers at Rector A. Jones Middle School in Florence, Kentucky, are celebrating this week after they played the Kentucky Powerball and won $1 [Read More…]