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Trump campaign says it has raised more than $9 million since mug shot
Fulton County Sheriff’s Office (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign now says it has raised a total of $9.4 million since the release of his mug shot. The figure has been revised since the [Read More…]

Billie Jean King reflects on gender equality 50 years after ‘Battle of the Sexes’
Jackson Lee/GC Images via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the U.S. Open kicks off this week, legendary tennis star Billie Jean King is taking a look back at how the landscape of women’s sports [Read More…]

Scoreboard roundup — 8/29/23
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Philadelphia 12, LA Angels 7 Texas 2, NY Mets 1 Tampa Bay 11, Miami 2 Washington 5, Toronto 4 [Read More…]

Former Trump health adviser believes current COVID response is falling behind
Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Late last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signaled it expects to have the updated COVID vaccine available by mid-September, along with a likely recommendation that everyone should [Read More…]

And Just Like Cat… Sarah Jessica Parker adopts Carrie Bradshaw’s kitty
Craig Blankenhorn/Max Sarah Jessica Parker took to Instagram on Tuesday to share that she and husband Matthew Broderick have adopted Carrie Bradshaw’s And Just Like That… cat, who plays Shoe on the Max series. “His off-camera name is Lotus. He [Read More…]

Rare video shows American Paul Whelan inside Russian prison
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian state media has released rare footage showing Paul Whelan inside a notorious prison camp, providing the first publicly available video images of the imprisoned American in more than [Read More…]

Idalia live updates: Storm ‘rapidly intensifies’ into Category 4 hurricane
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Idalia is forecast to make landfall Wednesday morning in Florida’s Big Bend area, north of Tampa. The storm is expected to intensify as it nears the Sunshine State, possibly [Read More…]

Willis seeks to have all 19 defendants in Georgia election interference case tried together
Kenneth Chesebro is seen in a mugshot provided by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia, Aug. 23, 2023. — Fulton County Sheriff’s Office (ATLANTA) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in a filing Tuesday [Read More…]

‘The Bachelorette’ star Josh Seiter “alive and well,” blames “cruel” hack for suicide post
Getty Images A day after news of Bachelorette contestant Josh Seiter‘s apparent suicide spread on his Instagram page, the reality show veteran told fans in a video on Tuesday, August 29, that he’s actually “alive [Read More…]

‘Suits’ creator says Buckingham Palace took a word of dialogue out of Meghan Markle’s mouth
L-R: Patrick J. Adams, Markle — Shane Mahood/USA Network/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images With Suits having become one of the hottest shows ever to come to Netflix, The Hollywood Reporter published an interview with [Read More…]

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner Group leader killed in plane crash, buried in private funeral
Artem Priakhin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (ST. PETERSBURG, Russia) — Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was buried in a private funeral on Tuesday, his press service said, nearly a week after he and nine others died [Read More…]

Idalia live updates: Storm strengthens to Category 2 hurricane
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Idalia is forecast to make landfall Wednesday morning in Florida’s Big Bend area, north of Tampa. The storm is expected to strengthen further as it nears Florida, possibly becoming [Read More…]

California sues school district over transgender ‘outing’ policy
Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (CHINO, Calif.) — California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit to try to halt a school district’s enforcement of what his office calls a “forced outing policy” [Read More…]

Remembering the victims of the racially motivated Jacksonville Dollar General shooting
Sean Rayford/Getty Images (JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — One was a loving mother working as an Uber driver, another was a devoted father who wanted to give his 4-year-old daughter the world and the youngest victim killed in [Read More…]

Hurricane Idalia tracker: See the latest landfall map
ABC News (TAMPA, Fla.) — Hurricane Idalia is bearing down on Florida, where it’s forecast to make landfall in the Big Bend region Wednesday morning. Landfall is expected between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Wednesday. Storm [Read More…]

Haley vs. Ramaswamy ramps up while Suarez winds down, and other campaign takeaways
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy lambasted each other at last week’s GOP presidential primary debate, and the feud is only getting fiercer. The two [Read More…]

COVID hospitalizations increase for 6th consecutive week but still at historic lows
Allison Dinner/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID hospitalizations are continuing to increase in the United States, according to data updated Monday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalizations rose for the sixth [Read More…]

Kimmel, Colbert, Fallon assemble for ‘Strike Force Five’ podcast benefiting striking late-night show writers
Spotify Spotify announced Tuesday it has united the hosts of all the major network late-night talk shows — Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver— for a unique podcast benefiting their [Read More…]

Scorsese’s star-studded ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ getting wider release October 20
Apple TV+ Killers of the Flower Moon, the book adaptation from Martin Scorsese starring Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Brendan Fraser, will make a bigger splash in theaters than previously known. As [Read More…]

Is Oscar winner Mira Sorvino headed to ‘Dancing with the Stars’?
Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images Officially, ABC is mum on the matter until the cast is revealed on Wednesday, September 13, but Entertainment Tonight says Mira Sorvino will be joining the forthcoming season of Dancing with the [Read More…]