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After two years of COVID limitations, ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve”s Ryan Seacrest predicts Times Square will be “packed”
ABC Saturday night on ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, Ryan and his co-host, Liza Koshy, will be in New York’s Times Square counting down to midnight. In 2020, COVID-19 kept Times [Read More…]
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Emma Heming Willis reminisces in video post about falling in love with Bruce Willis
VCG/VCG via Getty Images Emma Heming Willis is getting nostalgic for her early days with Bruce Willis. Heming Willis, 44, shared an Instagram video December 28 showing her and the Die Hard actor, now 67, partaking in outdoor winter activities, such [Read More…]
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More parts of George Santos’ background contradict, including details of mom’s death
Wade Vandervort/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — More discrepancies are emerging about New York Rep.-elect George Santos’ background, adding to a growing list of fabrications and exaggerations that the incoming congressman has told about his [Read More…]
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Sisters celebrate anniversary of kidney donation that’s lasted a remarkable 50 years
Courtesy of Carolyn Rogers and Patti Rogers Harris (NEW YORK) — Two sisters are celebrating a very special anniversary this year: the 50th anniversary of one donating her kidney to the other. Usually organ transplants, [Read More…]
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Who could Elon Musk choose as the next Twitter CEO?
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Elon Musk earlier this month pledged to step down as the head of Twitter as soon as he finds someone “foolish enough to take the job.” [Read More…]
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Lawsuit alleges Apple Watch’s blood oxygen sensor ‘racially biased’; accuracy problems reported industry-wide
hocus-focus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Apple is facing a proposed class action lawsuit alleging the Apple Watch’s blood oxygen sensor is racially biased against people with dark skin tones. Experts say accuracy problems have been [Read More…]
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How to get refunds for canceled flights
E4C/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A massive storm has triggered widespread flight cancellations, most notably at Southwest Airlines, which has canceled more than 15,000 flights since last week, stranding droves of customers during peak holiday [Read More…]
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Biden signs $1.7T government spending bill, ensuring funding for most of 2023
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden Thursday signed the omnibus spending bill into law while on vacation, extending funding for the government into next year. Biden, on vacation in St. Croix in the [Read More…]
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House investigation finds FDA, drug firm Biogen ignored internal concerns for Alzheimer’s drug
Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — A congressional investigation into the Food and Drug Administration’s review process for an Alzheimer’s treatment found that the agency “deviated” from its standard procedures to approve the Aduhelm drug [Read More…]
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Southwest Airlines announces plan to return to ‘normal operations’ by Friday
Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Southwest Airlines said it plans to return to “normal operations with minimal disruptions” Friday, after days of chaos that saw the company cancel thousands of its [Read More…]
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Justice Department sues pharma distributor AmerisourceBergen over opioid orders
Tetra Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — One of the nation’s largest wholesale distributors of prescription drugs failed hundreds of thousands of times over the last decade to report suspicious orders of opioids, fueling the country’s opioids [Read More…]
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Water pressure mostly restored in Jackson, precautionary boil water notice still in effect
Ruy Barbosa Pinto/Getty Images (JACKSON, Miss.) — Water pressure has been restored to much of Jackson, Mississippi, but a precautionary boil water notice is still in effect as crews continue to look for leaks and [Read More…]
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Buffalo residents rescue birds stuck in ice after historic winter storm
Alex McArthur/Seamus Gallivan (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Buffalo residents helped free 16 birds stuck in ice along the waterfront of LaSalle Park after a deadly blizzard swept through the region over the weekend. Seamus Gallivan and [Read More…]
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Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood dies at 81
David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for LG SIGNATURE Vivienne Westwood, the fashion designer who made punk and new wave fashion mainstream, has died. She was 81. Westwood died Thursday “peacefully and surrounded by her family, [Read More…]
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Nick Cannon welcomes 12th child, daughter Halo Marie
John Sciulli/Getty Images for Amnesty International USA Nick Cannon’s ever-expanding family just welcomed its latest addition. Cannon and model Alyssa Scott have welcomed their second child together — Cannon’s 12th child total. Their baby girl, [Read More…]
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Brazilian soccer legend Pelé dead at 82
FRANCK FIFE/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Brazilian soccer legend Pelé, a three-time World Cup champion who’s largely considered to be one of the best players ever, has died. He was 82 years [Read More…]
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The Year in Entertainment 2022: Those we lost
January January 6 – Sidney Poitier, Oscar-winning trailblazer, 94 January 6 – Peter Bogdanovich, Paper Moon director, 82 January 9 – Bob Saget, comedian and Full House star, 65 January 12 – Ronnie Spector, frontwoman for The Ronettes, 78 January 18 – Andre Leon Talley, journalist, 73 [Read More…]
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Kate Winslet on being welcomed to Pandora by ‘Avatar”s original stars
20th Century Studios While jumping into the long-awaited sequel to the highest-grossing movie of all time might have been intimidating, Avatar: The Way of Water star Kate Winslet says she found the water just fine. [Read More…]
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Investigation underway after man dies in Connecticut jail
amphotora/Getty Images (SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn.) — The Connecticut Office of the Inspector General announced it is launching an investigation into the death of a man in police custody in South Windsor. Kevin Doherty, 55, of [Read More…]
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Buffalo braces for possible flooding as temperatures rise after major storm
Normand Blouin / EyeEm/ Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Residents of western New York are going from shoveling snow to filling sandbags as a historic blizzard that killed at least 39 people in metropolitan Buffalo [Read More…]