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Pope Francis to have intestinal surgery in Rome on Wednesday
ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images (ROME) — Pope Francis will undergo an intestinal surgery on Wednesday and spend several days in the hospital recovering, Vatican officials said. After his general audience at the Vatican on [Read More…]
Canadian wildfire smoke updates: East Coast skies engulfed in dangerous haze
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Hazy and dangerous fumes from ongoing Canadian wildfires have engulfed the skies over most of the northeast coast, prompting serious air quality alerts for millions of Americans. As of Tuesday [Read More…]
Family calls for arrest after Florida mother of 4 was killed in front of her children
Ben Crump Law (OCALA, Fla.) — The family of Ajike Owens, 35, and their attorney Anthony D. Thomas held a news conference on Monday demanding an arrest be made for the shooting death of Owens, a [Read More…]
2 teens arrested in connection with spate of Houston bike trail robberies
KTRK (HOUSTON) — Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with a spate of robberies along a popular Houston bike trail, as police look for more suspects in the attacks, authorities said Tuesday. Since May 16, [Read More…]
7 people shot following high school graduation in Richmond, Virginia: Police
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (RICHMOND, Va.) — Seven people were shot following a high school graduation in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday, police said. Two people are in custody, and there is no ongoing threat to the community [Read More…]
GOP revolt on gas stove vote shows fragility of McCarthy’s speakership: ANALYSIS
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The gas stove debate is boiling over, but it’s Kevin McCarthy’s speakership that may have been burned. A procedural first step to take up GOP-backed legislation to prohibit the federal government [Read More…]
Chris Christie launches 2024 bid: Choose ‘big’ over ‘small,’ he says, slamming Trump as ‘mirror hog’
Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (MANCHESTER, N.H.) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced he is running for president Tuesday, adding a firm anti-Trump voice to a still growing Republican [Read More…]
Al Pacino calls baby news “very special”
Dominik Bindl/Getty Images For the first time since news broke that the 83-year-old Oscar winner was going to be a father again, Al Pacino says the imminent bundle of joy is “really special.” Pacino was [Read More…]
Strategically vital Nova Khakovka dam destroyed near border with Ukraine and Russia-controlled Crimea
ABC News (LONDON) — A section of a strategically vital Ukrainian dam and hydroelectric powerplant under Russian control has been destroyed. Ukraine and Russia are blaming each other for the breach. The Nova Kakhovka dam, which [Read More…]
Joran van der Sloot, suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance, loses appeal; will be extradited Thursday
Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, has lost his extradition appeal and will be sent to the United [Read More…]
Timeline of plane crash outside DC that scrambled fighter jets raises questions
Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The chain of events set off by an unresponsive plane that eventually crashed Sunday in Virginia continues to raise questions about what happened on board and how the [Read More…]
2 shot at Maryland cemetery during burial of 10-year-old gun violence victim
Tetra Images/Getty Images (BOWIE, Md.) — Two people have been shot, one fatally, at a Maryland cemetery during the burial of a 10-year-old girl who fell victim to gun violence last month, according to police. It [Read More…]
Fight for transgender equality transcends generations
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Nicole Maines – a transgender actress who has starred in “Supergirl,” “Yellowjackets,” and more – never intended to become an activist. But when she and her family won a groundbreaking [Read More…]
Mom fears for her trans daughter in wake of gender-affirming care ban: ‘It’s not going to stop there’
ABC News (SIOUX FALLS, S.D) — A South Dakota law prohibiting gender-affirming care for minors is set to take effect next month, joining a growing list of states considering or enacting similar bans across the country. [Read More…]
Darker-skinned people urged to take extra precautions as laser hair removal industry booms
ABC News (NEW YORK) — For Eshanka Jayasinghe, or Eshi Jay, unwanted body hair negatively affected her self-esteem for years, so she decided to undergo laser hair removal treatments. But the procedure left the YouTuber’s body [Read More…]
Jennifer Lopez’s ‘The Mother’ now ranks as one of Netflix’s biggest movies ever
Netflix/Doane Gregory While the critics may not have been kind to Jennifer Lopez‘s action movie The Mother, the viewers have certainly responded: Netflix says the movie has moved into the Top Ten of its biggest [Read More…]
Does a post from Apple TV+ suggest a “potential” spinoff or more ‘Ted Lasso’?
Apple TV+ Ever since Ted Lasso‘s third season finale, fans have had the burning question of whether they’d ever see more of the Richmond AFC gang — and a new social media post from Apple [Read More…]
Chris Hemsworth talks to ‘British GQ’ about this life, career, marriage and whether there will be more Thor
Hemsworth in ‘Extraction 2’ – Netflix Ahead of the June 16 Netflix release of his sequel to one of the biggest hits in the streaming service’s history, Extraction, Chris Hemsworth sat down with British GQ [Read More…]
Strategically vital Nova Khakovka dam blown up near border with Ukraine and Russia-controlled Crimea
ABC News (LONDON) — A section of a strategically vital Ukrainian dam and hydroelectric powerplant under Russian control has been blown up. Ukraine and Russia are blaming each other for the breach. The Nova Kakhovka [Read More…]
Prince Harry addresses James Hewitt rumors in day one of testimony in tabloid phone hacking case
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (LONDON) — Prince Harry took to the witness stand in a U.K. courtroom on Tuesday, becoming the first British royal to do so in more than a century. The Duke of Sussex [Read More…]