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Sandy Hook parents reflect on 10th anniversary of mass shooting, work to curb gun violence
ABC News (NEWTOWN, Conn.) — Nearly a decade after a group of students at Sandy Hook Elementary School and their teachers were killed in Newtown, Connecticut, two Sandy Hook parents said they are still in [Read More…]
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Eddie Murphy to receive Cecil B. DeMille Award at 2023 Golden Globes
ABC Audio The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced that Eddie Murphy will be presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at this year’s Golden Globes ceremony. First awarded to its namesake by the HFPA [Read More…]
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Austin Butler goes goblin mode in ‘Saturday Night Live’ promo
NBC/Rosalind O’Connor Elvis star Austin Butler looks glamorous in nearly every frame of his lavishly shot promo for his upcoming hosting stint on SNL. Butler looks dapper in a suit as he takes a deep breath and says, “Here we go.” He strides [Read More…]
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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ leads Critics Choice nominations
A24 Films The film nominations for the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards are in. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert‘s Everything Everywhere All at Once earned the most nominations on the film side this year, with 14 total nods in [Read More…]
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Death of Stephen “tWitch” Boss, Ellen’s in-house DJ and show co-executive producer, ruled a suicide
Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images The death at age 40 of Stephen “tWitch” Boss, Ellen DeGeneres‘ in-house DJ and show co-executive producer, has been ruled a suicide. ABC News has learned the Los Angeles County [Read More…]
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Jay Leno opens up about his accident: “My face was on fire”
CNBC Former Tonight Show host Jay Leno continues to open up about the accident he experienced last month. On Tuesday, he told People about the moment he was working underneath his 1907 white Model G steam car and unclogging a fuel [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Fetuses can be vulnerable to climate change, air pollution exposure, says researcher
Jennifer Cantley at home with her children. – ABC News (NEW YORK) — In Carson City, Nevada, one family is choosing to spend more time indoors because they said smoke from wildfires and soaring temperatures [Read More…]
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Two-year-old hospitalized with RSV spent eight days on ventilator
ABC News (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) — A mother is speaking out about how dangerous respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, can be as her 2-year-old battles the disease. Jazlynmae Gonzalez just spent her birthday in the pediatric [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Federal Reserve approves 0.5% hike, slowing rate increases
Murat Taner/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it was raising its short-term borrowing rate another 0.5%, slowing an aggressive series of rate increases while continuing an effort to cool the economy and [Read More…]
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Senators slam FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried and back crypto regulation
MARIO DUNCANSON/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senators across both major parties on Wednesday sharply criticized bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, while advocating for regulation of the digital currency sector. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Vivica A. Fox talks fun off set, and Black girl magic on, VH1’s ‘A New Divas Christmas Carol’
ABC Audio Wednesday at 8 p.m., Ashanti gets haunted in VH1’s holiday movie A New Divas Christmas Carol. “Is an updated ‘sista’ version of the classic Charles Dickens movie,” Vivica A. Fox enthuses to ABC [Read More…]
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Ellen DeGeneres “heartbroken” over the death of Stephen “tWitch” Boss
Mike Rozman/Warner Brothers/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Ellen DeGeneres is “heartbroken” by the death of her former DJ and Ellen DeGeneres Show co-host Stephen “tWitch” Boss. In an Instagram post on Wednesday, the talk [Read More…]
ABC World News
Earth had its fifth warmest fall on record: NOAA
Tayeb Benzian / 500px/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Rising temperatures are continuing to set alarming trends around the world, according to new data released Wednesday by climate scientists. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found [Read More…]
ABC National News
Atatiana Jefferson death: Jury begins deliberations in murder trial
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (FORT WORTH, Texas) — After just five days of testimony, the jury has begun deliberations in the murder trial of former Fort Worth, Texas, police officer Aaron Dean. Dean is accused of [Read More…]
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Mom, 8-year-old son killed by Louisiana tornado are identified
ABC News (KEITHVILLE, La.) — A Louisiana woman and her 8-year-old son were killed when a tornado swept through their Louisiana town on Tuesday, officials said. The body of Yoshiko Smith, 30, was found under [Read More…]
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Hundreds of former inmates allege prison sex abuse
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Almost 20 years later, 49-year-old Mia Wheeler is finally getting her day in court. Wheeler is among at least 900 former inmates who have come forward alleging they were sexually [Read More…]
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“In a city of millions, no one hears you scream”: Paramount Pictures drops teaser to ‘Scream VI’
Paramount Pictures Paramount Pictures dropped a new teaser to the sixth film in the Scream franchise, and what it lacks in dialog it makes up for in creepiness. This time around, the action has moved [Read More…]
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Stephen “tWitch” Boss, Ellen’s in-house DJ and show co-executive producer, dead at 40
Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images Stephen “tWitch” Boss, who was the in-house DJ for The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and later became a co-executive producer of the program, has died, ABC News has confirmed. He was [Read More…]
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‘Iron Man’, ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘When Harry Met Sally’ among 2022’s class for National Film Registry
National Film Registry On Wednesday morning, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced the annual selection of 25 motion pictures that will be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The movies, ranging from the film that [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Soccer writer Grant Wahl, who died at World Cup, suffered aneurysm
Richard Sellers/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — American soccer writer Grant Wahl died of an undetected ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium while attending the Netherlands-Argentina match last week, according to his wife, Dr. Celine Gounder. Gounder [Read More…]