ABC News (NEW YORK) — Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region Thursday night as a massive Category 4 hurricane — the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Big Bend on record. Helene has since weakened to a tropical storm and is now pushing through Georgia and the Carolinas, bringing catastrophic rainfall and […]
Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images, FILE (SILVER SPRING, Md.) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved the first new drug to treat people with schizophrenia in more than 30 years. Cobenfy, manufactured by Bristol Myers Squibb, combines two drugs, xanomeline and trospium chloride, and is taken as a twice-daily pill. In clinical trials, […]
Mega/GC Images/Getty Images An “incredibly relieved and grateful” Artem Chigvintsev is speaking out after the Napa County District Attorney’s Office in California announced it would not file criminal charges against the Dancing with the Stars pro in the wake of his arrest on Aug. 29 on suspicion of felony domestic violence. In a press release Tuesday, a […]
Alan Eugene Miller — Alabama Department of Corrections (ATMORE, Ala.) — Alabama carried out the second-ever nitrogen gas execution in the United States on Thursday. Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was sentenced to death for the 1999 murders of his then-coworkers Lee Holdbrooks and Christoper Scott Yancy, and his former supervisor Terry Lee Jarvis. Miller was […]
David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images Maggie Smith, the venerable British actress whose career on stage, film and television spanned more than 60 years, has died. She was 89. Her sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens, confirmed she had died in a statement to the Press Association. Having appeared in more than 50 films, Smith was […]
Mayor Rob Rue speaks to residents during a town hall about the 2024 presidential election’s focus on the town’s influx of Haitian immigrants, on Sept. 24, 2024, in Springfield, Ohio. — Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images via AFP via Getty Images (SPRINGFIELD, Ohio) — Springfield, Ohio, city officials declined to take a call with former President […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Helene — which weakened to a tropical storm on Friday morning over Georgia — made landfall as a massive Category 4 hurricane, slamming into the Big Bend region of Florida on Thursday night with 140 mph winds. The monster storm churned across Florida into Georgia, leaving at least three people […]
Netflix has officially greenlit a series adaptation of author John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. As previously announced, Florence Pugh will lead the cast, which also includes Poor Things‘ Christopher Abbott, Challengers’ Mike Faist and Warrior‘s Hoon Lee. Zoe Kazan, the granddaughter of director Elia Kazan, who previously adapted the novel into a 1955 film that launched James Dean‘s […]
US President Joe Biden (L), sits with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Photo by Miriam Alster / POOL / AFP/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — A 21-day cease-fire proposal aimed at pausing the conflict in Lebanon has become the latest […]
(Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (DOUGLAS, Ariz.) -Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday — her first trip there in more than three years — to call for tougher security measures and attack former President Donald Trump on an issue that has plagued her, a senior campaign official said. Harris plans […]
