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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…]
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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…]
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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…]
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‘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…]
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‘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…]
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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…]
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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…]
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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…]
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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…]
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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…]
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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…]
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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…]
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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…]
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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…]
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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…]
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Pop singer arrested by Iran’s regime after releasing track dedicated to women
KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — Mehdi Yarrahi, a prominent Iranian pop singer, was arrested by Iranian authorities on Monday after releasing a song celebrating the anniversary of the Mahsa Amini protests coming up next month. Iran [Read More…]
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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez suspends 2024 Republican primary campaign
Scott Olson/Getty Images (MIAMI) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced Tuesday that he is suspending his campaign for president after failing to qualify for the first Republican primary debate last week in Milwaukee. “Running for [Read More…]
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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise diagnosed with blood cancer
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise announced Tuesday he has been diagnosed with a “very treatable blood cancer” and has started treatment. “After a few days of not feeling like myself [Read More…]
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Defendant in Georgia election interference case asks judge to unseal records
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) — Attorney Kenneth Chesebro, one of the 19 defendants in [Read More…]
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Eighteen-year-old donates kidney to mom, encourages others to ‘be a donor’
Courtesy Brooke Lyle and Jessica Jordan (NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas) — For years, Jessica Jordan of North Richland Hills, Texas, lived with debilitating pain. Her daughter, 18-year-old Brooke Lyle, remembers her mom tried to “hide [Read More…]