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Congressional leaders warm to idea of punting a looming government shutdown
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congressional leaders in both parties are signaling an increased willingness to punt the deadline to fund the government to later this year, possibly delaying a looming government shutdown until the winter [Read More…]
How the Georgia pardon process works in light of Trump’s latest indictment
Scott Olson/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — With former President Donald Trump indicted on criminal charges for the fourth time, the pardoning process in Georgia has come into focus. Trump and 18 other people were charged late Monday [Read More…]
What’s in the sweeping Trump racketeering indictment in Georgia
Win McNamee/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — For the fourth time in five months, former President Donald Trump has been indicted on criminal charges. Trump and 18 other people were charged in a sweeping racketeering indictment for alleged [Read More…]
Weekly COVID hospitalizations rose 14%, as numbers still lower than at other points in pandemic
Allison Dinner/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 hospitalizations are continuing to increase in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the week ending Aug. 5, COVID hospitalizations increased [Read More…]
Man who allegedly sold fake COVID cure arrested after 3-year manhunt
Chris Rogers/Getty Images (SALT LAKE CITY) — After a three-year manhunt, a Utah man has been arrested on charges of allegedly selling a fake COVID-19 cure, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah announced [Read More…]
Hawaiian Electric shares plummet 40% after Maui wildfires lawsuit
Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (HONOLULU) — Shares of Hawaiian Electric have plummeted nearly 40% since trading opened Monday over concerns that the utility company could be held liable for damage wrought by the Maui [Read More…]
Millie Bobby Brown talks “graduating” from ‘Stranger Things’, privacy around wedding
Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Millie Bobby Brown is opening up about two major events in her life: the final season of Stranger Things and her wedding to fiance Jake Bongiovi. Having catapulted to fame on Stranger Things [Read More…]
Keri Russell says her only souvenirs from her ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ days were her “sanity” and “dignity”
Keri Russell in ‘The Diplomat’ – Max While most first heard of The Diplomat star Keri Russell when her show Felicity became a hit, the actress’s first big gig was as a Mouseketeer in The [Read More…]
Maui residents targeted in scams to grab land after tragedy, officials say
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (LAHAINA, Hawaii) — As Maui residents begin a long mourning and recovery process following deadly fires that have ravaged their neighborhoods, local officials say outsiders are attempting to take advantage of the tragedy [Read More…]
Why climate change can’t be blamed entirely for the Maui wildfires
Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (LAHAINA, Hawaii) — Climate change may have amplified the conditions that led to the deadly inferno on the Hawaiian island of Maui but it cannot be blamed entirely. An [Read More…]
Severe flooding from Alaska glacial break would not have happened without climate change, scientists say
Sam Nolan (JUNEAU, Alaska) — The glacier lake outburst that sent an unprecedented amount of water rushing towards Alaska’s capital, destroying homes, would not have happened without climate change, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric [Read More…]
Maui wildfires live updates: 60 people who were ‘missing’ found safe in a house
FILE — chuchart duangdaw/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Officials say the wildfires that erupted on the Hawaii island of Maui on Aug. 8 have become the deadliest natural disaster in state history. The blazes spread [Read More…]
Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief Charles McGonigal pleads guilty in case related to Russian billionaire
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — One of the highest-ranking FBI agents to ever face criminal charges pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and commit money laundering. The [Read More…]
“Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?” New species named in honor of Harrison Ford
Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images A new species of snake discovered in 2022 at Otishi National Park in Peru has been coyly named in honor of Harrison Ford, who played perhaps the most famous ophidiophobic [Read More…]
Director of ‘Tron: Ares’ laments Hollywood strikes on what would have been movie’s start date
John Lamparski/Getty Images On his Instagram, Joachim Rønning, the filmmaker set to direct the upcoming third film in the Tron series, lamented the state of striking Hollywood on what would have been the Disney-produced movie’s [Read More…]
Austin Butler says Tom Hanks offered him first post-‘Elvis’ role for his “mental health”
ABC/Randy Holmes While the movie Elvis showed that his manager, “Colonel” Tom Parker, didn’t always have the superstar’s best interests in mind, the same can’t be said of Parker’s big-screen alter ego, Tom Hanks, to [Read More…]
Mom of 6-year-old accused of shooting teacher pleads guilty to felony child neglect
Newport News Police Department (NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — The mother of a 6-year-old boy accused of shooting his first-grade teacher during class in Newport News, Virginia, in January has pleaded guilty to a felony charge [Read More…]
Trump indictment updates: Former president to hold press conference on Georgia
Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — After a two-and-a-half-year probe, a Fulton County grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others on charges related to efforts to overturn the results of the [Read More…]
AP African American studies canceled by Arkansas officials just before school begins
Stella/Getty Images (LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — The Arkansas Department of Education has removed the AP African American Studies course from its schools in what the state’s professional organization of educators called a “last-minute” decision. The [Read More…]
Maui wildfire now ranks as the fifth-deadliest in US history
Paula Ramon/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With dozens of people still unaccounted for, the conflagration that has caused widespread devastation across the Hawaiian island of Maui is now the fifth-deadliest wildland fire in [Read More…]