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Batting cage accident leaves high school senior in coma after being hit in head with baseball bat
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A high school senior is in a coma after he was hit in the head by a baseball bat in the campus batting cages, school officials said. Jeremy Medina, [Read More…]
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Taye Diggs can’t wait to sip *this* special family drink on Thanksgiving
ESPN Images/Joe Faraoni Like many people on Thanksgiving, Taye Diggs is looking to eat well and drink plenty. He told ABC Audio about his plans to spend the holiday with loved ones, specifically his sisters, who’ve mastered making the family’s famous [Read More…]
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Tim Burton not interested in ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ sequel or reboot
Disney We’ve got some bad news for fans wishing for a reboot of or sequel to The Nightmare Before Christmas. Tim Burton, who wrote the story for and produced the cult classic film, dashed all [Read More…]
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Israel-Gaza live updates: Israeli Supreme Court rejects appeal against hostage deal
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with [Read More…]
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Israel-Hamas war: What we know about the hostage deal
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (LONDON) — Israel and Hamas have agreed to a temporary cease-fire in the war-torn Gaza Strip and the release of dozens of hostages. Here’s what we know about the deal. The agreement between [Read More…]
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Rainbow Bridge between US, Canada closed following deadly vehicle explosion
mbbirdy/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two people were killed when a vehicle exploded Friday on the U.S. side of the Rainbow Bridge, which connects the U.S. to Canada at Niagara Falls, New York, according to sources. [Read More…]
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Remembering Rosalynn Carter, a tireless mental health advocate
Scott Cunningham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died at 96 last week, offered steadfast support for her husband, Jimmy Carter, throughout their 77-year marriage — but she forged her own legacy through [Read More…]
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Abortion rates in US increased by 5% in 2021, the final year it remained a constitutional right under Roe: CDC
Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Abortion rates increased by 5% in the United States in 2021, the final year the procedure remained a constitutional right under Roe v. Wade, [Read More…]
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Jenna Ortega reportedly drops out of ‘Scream 7’ after onscreen sister Melissa Barrera was fired for Israel comments
‘Wednesday’ – Netflix Tara and Sam Carpenter won’t appear in the seventh Scream movie, now that Jenna Ortega has reportedly left the project over what Variety says is a scheduling conflict. Ortega played Tara in [Read More…]
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Eric Stonestreet and Gabriel Iglesias on leveling up their love of Christmas with ‘The Santa Clauses’
Disney/James Clark Eric Stonestreet plays Magnus Antas, or the Mad Santa, in Disney+’s new season of The Santa Clauses. And while he plots to take the throne of the real Santa aka Scott Calvin aka Tim Allen, by [Read More…]
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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, by the numbers
NBCUniversal For millions of people, watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is a turkey day tradition, but they’ll have to wake up a little earlier this year: the festivities kick off a half hour earlier, [Read More…]
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Body camera footage shows police tasing death of Atlanta deacon Johnny Hollman
Alyssa Pointer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The Fulton County District Attorney’s office released body camera footage on Wednesday that shows the incident that led to the tasing death of Johnny Hollman, the 62-year-old Atlanta [Read More…]
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Rainbow Bridge between US, Canada closed following vehicle explosion: FBI
mbbirdy/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Rainbow Bridge connecting the U.S. and Canada at Niagara Falls, New York, has been closed after a vehicle explosion, according to the FBI and local authorities. The Niagara Falls [Read More…]
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Vet shares symptoms of mystery respiratory illness in dogs, answers viewers’ questions
Scaramanga Photography/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — With cases of a serious respiratory illness affecting dogs on the rise, veterinarians are trying to figure out what is making these canines so sick. The unknown illness has [Read More…]
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‘A Murder at the End of the World’ lead Harris Dickinson on the FX series’ around-the-world locations
FX/Chris Saunders Harris Dickinson plays Bill, an amateur sleuth, in FX’s twisty neo-whodunnit, A Murder at the End of the World, and the show actually took him all over the world. His character’s story is [Read More…]
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Israel-Gaza live updates: IDF continues to bombard Gaza despite hostage deal
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with [Read More…]
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone talk ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
Good Good Morning America’s Chris Connelly sat down with Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio about their new acclaimed drama Killers of the Flower Moon, and Leo called his co-star “electrifying.” He enthuses, “I’ve never seen [Read More…]
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In Brief: ‘Black Mirror’ reportedly returning, ‘Top Gear’ halted, and more
The BBC has announced it will “rest” the beloved flagship U.K. version of Top Gear in the wake of a serious 2022 car accident that left host Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff seriously injured. The former cricket [Read More…]
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Israel-Gaza live updates: Three Americans expected to be part of initial release of hostages, official says
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with [Read More…]
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US hits Iran-backed militants with fourth round of retaliatory airstrikes
CT757fan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — United States fighter jets struck two sites in Iraq used by Iran-linked militants on Wednesday morning local time, according to U.S. Central Command and defense officials. This is the fourth round [Read More…]