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Semaglutide used for weight loss also helps reduce heart failure symptoms, study finds
bymuratdeniz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Semaglutide, the active ingredient in drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic, is also effective at reducing symptoms of heart failure, new research shows. A study published this month in the New [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Sopranos’ veteran Drea De Matteo joins OnlyFans
JOCE/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Drea de Matteo, who famously played Adriana La Cerva, the romantic interest of Tony Soprano’s mentee Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos, has joined OnlyFans. The move was apparently a joke at first for [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Simone Biles makes gymnastics history as 8-time US national all-around champion
Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Simone Biles is commonly hailed the G.O.A.T. — greatest of all time — for good reason. She proved why once again Sunday, August 27, with her historic all-around win at the 2023 [Read More…]
ABC National News
Fire rescue helicopter crashes in Florida, two hospitalized
PBNJ Productions/Getty Images (POMPANO BEACH, Fla.) — Two people have been taken to the hospital after a Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire Rescue helicopter crashed in Pompano Beach, Florida, on Monday morning, the sheriff’s office said. [Read More…]
ABC National News
Tropical Storm Idalia updates: Florida braces for hurricane’s landfall
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Idalia is expected to strengthen to a hurricane on Monday as it bears down on Florida. Idalia could become a major Category 3 hurricane by Tuesday night. Landfall [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Simone Biles makes gymnastics history as eight-time US national all-around champion
Loren Elliott/AFP via Getty Images (SAN JOSE, Calif.) — Simone Biles is commonly hailed the G.O.A.T. — greatest of all time — for good reason. She proved why once again with her historic all-around win [Read More…]
ABC Business News
China trip to promote ‘healthy competition’ between countries: Commerce Secretary says
Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo’s plane touches down in Beijing, the goal of the trip, according to the Secretary, is to promote “healthy competition” between the two [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Dancing with the Stars’ pro Witney Carson will not return for season 32
ABC/Kelsey McNeal Dancing with the Stars pro Witney Carson has announced she will not be returning for the upcoming 32nd season. “This was not a decision that we took lightly. We definitely thought and prayed [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Pete Davidson, John Mayer, Busta Rhymes help Dave Chappelle celebrate 50th birthday
Richard Bord/Getty Images Dave Chappelle marked his 50th birthday on Saturday with a show in New York City that included friends John Mayer, Busta Rhymes, Common, T.I. and Pete Davidson, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Davidson, entertained the audience by joking about his [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: Disney+ cancels ‘Doogie Howser’ spin-off, and more
Disney+ has canceled Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. after two seasons, according to TVLine. The updated take on the popular 1990s ABC series Doogie Howser, M.D., which starred Neil Patrick Harris, followed Lahela “Doogie” Kamealoha -played by [Read More…]
ABC National News
Houston issues mandatory water conservation efforts as drought conditions continue
Tim Graham/Getty Images (HOUSTON) — Houston, Texas, implemented the second stage of its mandatory water conservation measures on Sunday, as the area experiences drought conditions, according to the city. The city’s drought contingency plan is [Read More…]
ABC National News
Tropical Storm Idalia expected to become hurricane this week, has Florida in its sights
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Idalia is forecast to become a hurricane on Tuesday as it continues to churn off the eastern coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Idalia has maximum sustained winds of [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Georgia election hearing live updates: Meadows seeking to have case moved
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, charged along with 18 others in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ sweeping racketeering indictment for alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Special counsel, Trump attorneys to clash over start date for federal election interference trial
Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s team and former President Donald Trump’s lawyers are due back in court on Monday to present arguments for when Trump’s federal election interference case should go to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
How Vivek Ramaswamy has changed his characterization of Jan. 6
Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Most candidates at the first GOP primary debate said former Vice President Mike Pence did the right thing by certifying the 2020 election results while also suggesting [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Candidates react to Jacksonville shooting, and more takeaways from the campaign trail
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Republican presidential candidates including Mike Pence and Tim Scott are lamenting the Saturday shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, and the racism that authorities said motivated it — but the White [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 8/27/23
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE NY Mets 3, LA Angels 2 Colorado 4, Baltimore 3 LA Dodgers 7, Boston 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE Tampa Bay [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Gran Turismo’ races past Barbie to top box office with $17.3 million
Clive Rose – Gran Turismo/Gran Turismo via Getty Images Gran Turismo squeezed past Barbie to claim top honors at the domestic box office with an estimated $17.3 million. The film, starring David Harbour, Orlando Bloom and Djimon Hounsou, and based on the [Read More…]
ABC World News
DNA confirms Wagner Group leader among crash victims, Russian officials say
Artem Priakhin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (LONDON and AMSTERDAM) — Remains found after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private plane crashed last week were confirmed by genetic testing to be those of the Wagner Group leader, Russian investigators [Read More…]
ABC World News
3 dead as Marine helicopter crashes in Australia during training, officials say
abzee/Getty Images (DARWIN, Australia) — At least three U.S. military personnel were killed on Sunday when a Marine helicopter crashed during a training exercise off the northern coast of Australia, U.S. officials said. The Bell Boeing [Read More…]