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Mike Pence declines invitation to CPAC as event’s leader comes under fire
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has declined an invitation to the Conservative Political Action Conference, sources told ABC News. The decision by Pence, who is debating a 2024 presidential run, [Read More…]
‘Modern Family’ vet Eric Stonestreet to play “Mad Santa” opposite Tim Allen in ‘The Santa Clauses” second season
Disney+ — Photo: Matthew McCabe The second season of Tim Allen‘s hit Disney+ series The Santa Clauses has just hired a bad Santa. According to the streaming service, Emmy-winning former Modern Family star Eric Stonestreet [Read More…]
Director Guy Ritchie says a third ‘Sherlock Holmes’ movie is up to Robert Downey Jr.
Jim Spellman/WireImage While promoting his new action comedy Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, director Guy Ritchie gave an update on his hit Sherlock Holmes series: In short, just like in the movies, only Holmes knows. [Read More…]
Tom Cruise and James Corden suited up for a stage performance in Disney’s ‘The Lion King’
Terence Patrick/CBS ©2018 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved Tom Cruise famously flies airplanes, climbs impossibly tall buildings and jumps off of mountains with a motorcycle, but James Corden put him up to a high-profile [Read More…]
Meta multiverse: You’ve seen ‘Ant-Man’, now you can read the book … sort of, explains Paul Rudd
Marvel Studios In September, fans will be able to get their hands on a meta piece of memorabilia from Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: the actual memoir from which Paul Rudd reads as [Read More…]
Life imitating art: ‘Rogers: The Musical’ from ‘Hawkeye’ coming to a Disney theme park
Marvel Studios The Disney+ Marvel Studios show Hawkeye contained a recurring inside joke: Steve Rogers aka Captain America’s life and the Battle of New York as seen in The Avengers had been immortalized in a [Read More…]
Idaho house where four students were killed will be demolished
Kaylee Goncalves/Instagram (MOSCOW, Idaho) — The Moscow, Idaho, house where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death will be demolished, according to the university president. “This is a healing step” in the wake [Read More…]
Airport runway incidents have risen but serious close calls have decreased over 20 years: FAA
DuKai photographer/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Amid a recent series of headline-making near misses involving commercial planes and an impending federal review of the nation’s aerospace system, data from the Federal Aviation Administration shows the [Read More…]
Bats found in high school force students to switch to remote learning
www.fuchieh.com/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Students at one Arkansas high school are attending classes remotely after bats were found inside the school. The North Little School School District has canceled all after-school activities, practices and [Read More…]
Two-year-old boy found alive in Florida woods about 24 hours after he went missing
Hernando County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook (NEW YORK) — A 2-year-old Brooksville, Florida, boy has been found alive in the woods about 24 hours after he went missing, authorities said. Joshua “JJ” Rowland was found Friday morning [Read More…]
Biden’s support for Ukraine has been unwavering, but challenges lie ahead
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — A year into Russia’s invasion, President Joe Biden has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to Ukraine. He’s sent more than $31 billion in aid and weapons, made [Read More…]
Since invasion, more than a quarter million Ukrainians have relocated to US
Valentyn Semenov / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Since the start of Russia’s invasion a year ago, more than a quarter million Ukrainians have relocated to the U.S. as a result of the biggest refugee [Read More…]
Measles outbreak that sickened 85 children declared over in Ohio
DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — The measles outbreak in central Ohio that left 85 children infected has officially been declared over, Columbus Public Health announced Thursday. “CPH has received the last pending test [Read More…]
‘Bar Rescue’ returns Sunday night on Paramount Network
Paramount Network Paramount Network’s hit reality show Bar Rescue returns Sunday night at 10 p.m. Eastern, and its star Jon Taffer tells ABC Audio, “this season may be the most intense of all.” The no-nonsense [Read More…]
HBO’s ‘Succession’ to end with the fourth season, creator says
HBO Max (NOTE LANGUAGE) HBO Max’s award-minting machine Succession will come to an end when the upcoming fourth season wraps up. In an interview with The New Yorker, show creator Jesse Armstrong dropped the bombshell [Read More…]
Killed, kidnapped and traumatized: Children under attack in Russia’s war against Ukraine
ABC News (NEW YORK) — When Russian tanks rolled into the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine nearly a year ago in a failed bid to take the capital, 14-year-old Dasha Pivtoratska and her family were driving [Read More…]
Ukraine war: Have sanctions on Russia worked? Gradually increasing weapons aid?
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As Russia’s forces closed in on Ukraine a year ago, many anticipated its capital Kyiv would collapse in a matter of weeks, if not days. But while Washington has widely rejoiced [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Blinken warns China is ‘contemplating lethal assistance’
Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — One year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, both sides are still fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian [Read More…]
Withdrawal of international aid from Afghanistan disproportionately harms women and girls: NGO
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Many aid organizations withdrew their funding to Afghanistan after the Taliban implemented several regressive policies on Afghan women’s human rights in the final months of 2022. But the withdrawal of [Read More…]
Tens of thousands dead in first year of Russia-Ukraine war, but true toll remains elusive
Halfpoint Images/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during his Jan. 5 nighttime address from Kyiv that he would speak directly to the Russian people. The war in Ukraine had been deadlier than [Read More…]