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3 Marines found dead in vehicle in North Carolina died from carbon monoxide poisoning: Sheriff
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WILMINGTON, N.C.) — The three Marines who were found dead inside a vehicle in North Carolina died from carbon monoxide poisoning, the Pender County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release. [Read More…]
Family desperate for answers after 39-year-old woman vanishes: ‘She needs somebody to advocate for her’
Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — More than a week after a 39-year-old woman vanished in North Carolina, her family is desperate for answers. Allisha Watts was last seen on July 16 leaving a house [Read More…]
Hunter Biden live updates: No plea as judge refuses to ‘rubber-stamp’ deal
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is appearing in a Delaware courthouse Wednesday to formally agree to the plea deal he negotiated last month with federal prosecutors, in [Read More…]
Texas lawmaker urges federal government to mandate water breaks for outdoor workers
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — As a dangerous heat wave continues to plague tens of millions of Americans across the country, one Texas lawmaker is pushing for heat protections, including water breaks, for those who work outside [Read More…]
Biden administration criticizes ruling striking down asylum policy
David Peinado Romero/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration expressed a federal judge’s ruling striking down the Biden administration’s asylum policy that established a “rebuttable presumption” of asylum ineligibility. Secretary of Homeland Security [Read More…]
Biden admin canceling $130M in debt for students who it says were ‘ripped off’ by Colorado college
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration on Tuesday said it was canceling $130 million in federal debt for 7,400 students who went to a Colorado college that the government says lied about its successes. [Read More…]
McConnell freezes during weekly press conference, returns after stepping away
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a shocking moment on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was unable to finish his opening remarks during his weekly press conference — and briefly left the [Read More…]
‘Investigate these claims’: UFO transparency at center of House hearing
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A former intelligence community official testified Wednesday on an alleged covert government program to recover and reverse engineer crashed alien spacecraft. David Grusch, a member of a previous [Read More…]
1 in 6 toddlers have not completed childhood vaccine series, study finds
Karl Tapales/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Several routine childhood vaccines require multiple doses to be effective, but a new study finds children are not receiving all of them. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics Wednesday, [Read More…]
Fed raises interest rates 0.25%, intensifying inflation fight despite cooling prices
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate another 0.25% on Wednesday, reviving its inflation fight despite a significant cooldown of price increases in recent months. The rate hike brought the [Read More…]
High-stakes economic releases to test hope of averting recession
Javier Ghersi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Alarm over a possible recession has blared for well over a year, but in recent months a cooldown of inflation alongside resilient job gains has quieted the din. Growing [Read More…]
Young couples face wedding vs. house dilemma amid skyrocketing costs
ABC News (NEW YORK) — For couples ready to take that next step together, there’s nothing like planning a wedding — then going into sticker shock after discovering just how much it’s going to cost. [Read More…]
‘Back to the Future’ film cast reunites at gala for Broadway musical
Variety via Getty Images The Back to the Future movie cast recently reunited at an event for the Broadway musical based on the iconic 1985 film. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson, who played Marty McFly, Emmett “Doc” [Read More…]
Brittany Brower adds to Bethenny Frankel’s reality star “reckoning,” claims she wasn’t paid for ‘Next Top Model’
Bower in 2005 – Amanda Edwards/Getty Images Brittany Brower is joining Bethenny Frankel‘s rallying of reality show veterans, claiming she wasn’t paid a dime for her season 4 appearance on America’s Next Top Model. Frankel [Read More…]
“Who are we without a homicide?” Hulu drops season 3 trailer to ‘Only Murders in the Building’
Hulu/Patrick Harbron On Wednesday, July 26, Hulu debuted the anticipated third-season trailer to Only Murders in the Building. Picking up the pieces — and the clues — after the Broadway stage death of Paul Rudd‘s [Read More…]
Writer-director Greta Gerwig on ‘Barbie’ backlash and when she knew she found her Ken in Ryan Gosling
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc./Jaap Buitendijk Barbie is a bonafide smash, but some on the Margot Robbie/Ryan Gosling movie are crying foul, mainly from the right side of the political spectrum. Conservative columnist Ben Shapiro, for [Read More…]
Paramount greenlights big-screen sequel, TV series before ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ opens
Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayem hasn’t even opened yet, but Paramount Pictures has given the green light to more adventures from the green heroes. ABC Audio has confirmed a [Read More…]
Actor Kevin Spacey found not guilty on sexual assault charges in London
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (LONDON) — Actor Kevin Spacey was on Wednesday found not guilty in a London court of a series of sexual assaults against several accusers. Twelve jurors at the Southwark Crown Court had [Read More…]
Alleged program to recover crashed alien spacecraft at center of House hearing
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A former intelligence community official testified Wednesday on an alleged covert government program to recover and reverse engineer crashed alien spacecraft. David Grusch, a member of a [Read More…]
Giuliani won’t contest claims he made ‘false’ statements about two Georgia election workers
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s one-time personal attorney Rudy Giuliani won’t contest that he made “false” statements about two Georgia election workers in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The mother-daughter [Read More…]