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Florida Supreme Court hears arguments in challenge to 15-week abortion ban
ftwitty/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — The Florida state Supreme Court heard arguments Friday morning in a legal challenge seeking to throw out the state’s 15-week abortion ban, claiming it violates the state’s constitution. The hearing [Read More…]
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USDA recalls over 245K pounds of frozen chicken strip products
US Department of Agriculture (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that ConAgra Brands Inc. is recalling approximately 245,366 pounds of frozen chicken strip products due to possible contamination with extraneous materials, specifically [Read More…]
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“Pay her the money”: ‘Scream’ creator Kevin Williamson weighs in on Neve Campbell’s salary controversy
‘Scream’ – Paramount Pictures Scream series creator Kevin Williamson took part in a new installment of the Happy Horror Time podcast, where he weighed in on Neve Campbell‘s decision not to return to the franchise [Read More…]
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Lahaina’s children and their families, uprooted by wildfires, grapple with an unknown future
gio_banfi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In a normal year, the young students at Lahaina’s King Kamehameha III Elementary School would be entering their second month of classes. Now, all that’s left is a gray hazmat [Read More…]
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Philadelphia officer who shot Eddie Irizarry in his car surrenders to police
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed a man sitting in his car last month surrendered to authorities Friday morning. It is not clear what charges Mark Dial, [Read More…]
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Trump inflated his net worth by $3.6 billion, NY attorney general says
James Devaney/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump inflated his net worth by at least $3.6 billion, the New York attorney general’s office said in a new court filing Friday, a sum far [Read More…]
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Millions of American kids struggle to read. What are states doing to address it?
Dawson Elementary School’s library is shown in Jackson, Mississippi. — ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Learning to read isn’t fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it’s a frustrating, agonizing process that, if [Read More…]
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Florida Supreme Court to hear challenge to 15-week abortion ban
ftwitty/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — The Florida state Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Friday in a legal challenge seeking to throw out the state’s 15-week abortion ban, claiming it violates the state’s constitution. [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Paqui pulls ‘One Chip Challenge’ from shelves as teen’s death investigated
Sarah Dussault/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Paqui, an Austin, Texas-based chip company famous for its viral Paqui “One Chip Challenge” product, is working with retailers to pull the tortilla chip [Read More…]
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Kurt Russell spilling all the monster tea in trailer for Apple TV+’s Godzilla series
Apple TV+ On Friday, September 8, Apple TV+ dropped a teaser to Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, the live-action series set in the world of Godzilla and his fellow city-stomping kaiju. Set in the same universe [Read More…]
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Reality Roundup: ’House of Villains’ trailer teases juicy season and more
(NOTE LANGUAGE) Have no fear, your reality roundup is here! Here’s a look at what’s happened in the world of reality television this week. The Ultimatum (Netflix)Ultimatum stars Treyvon Brunson and Jeriah Nelson are expecting [Read More…]
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In Brief: Sandra Oh and Awkwafina in Hulu’s ‘Quiz Lady,’ and more
Hulu on Thursday dropped the trailer for Quiz Lady. The comedy, from 20th Century Studios, stars Awkwafina and Sandra Oh respectively as “a brilliant but tightly wound, gameshow-obsessed young woman … and her estranged, train-wreck [Read More…]
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Dayslong rescue mission now underway to save American who fell ill exploring deep cave in Turkey
Elmurod Usubaliev/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Mark Dickey, a 40-year-old experienced American caver and researcher who fell ill almost 1,000 meters (more than 3,000 feet) below the entrance of a cave in [Read More…]
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Maui slowly edges toward rebuilding one month after the deadly wildfires
Zeng Hui/Xinhua via Getty Images (LAHAINA, Hawaii) — Wildfires tore across parts of Maui last month and now the displaced community searches for answers about their future. Thousands were displaced, as their homes and businesses [Read More…]
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Hurricane Lee strengthens to Category 5: Projected path, maps and tracker
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lee, now churning over the Atlantic Ocean, has become a Category 5. As a Category 5, hurricane Lee is expected to have winds of 160 mph. The National Hurricane [Read More…]
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US Open interrupted by climate change protesters
Frey/TPN/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Play at the U.S. Open was interrupted on Thursday night when climate change protesters began shouting during a match at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. The delay of the [Read More…]
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Scoreboard roundup — 9/7/23
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Seattle 1, Tampa Bay 0 Detroit 10, N.Y. Yankees 3 LA Angels 3, Cleveland 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE LA [Read More…]
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Disney narrows its lawsuit against DeSantis to focus on free speech
Megan Varner/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Walt Disney Company narrowed the scope of its lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday to focus solely on its First Amendment claim that the governor politically [Read More…]
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Jimmy Fallon apologizes to ‘Tonight Show’ staffers following report of toxic workplace environment
Rosalind O’Connor/NBC Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon apologized to staffers on Thursday afternoon following accusations of a toxic culture at the NBC late-night program. On Thursday, Rolling Stone published a report in which two current and 14 former Tonight Show employees alleged Fallon’s “erratic behavior” [Read More…]
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In battle over border barriers, judge calls out Texas’ contradictory arguments
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department is likely to succeed on its claim that floating barriers Texas deployed in the Rio Grande to prevent migrants from crossing were illegally installed, a federal judge [Read More…]