On June 21, Fran Drescher will officially be 20 years cancer-free, and that’s cause for celebration. “I tell you, I’d always envisioned hitting the big two-o and throwing a major bash, but of course that’s not going to happen right now,” Drescher told CNN in an interview this week about her clean bill of health.
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The leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party, Jagmeet Singh, was made to leave parliament on Wednesday after calling another politician “racist.” Singh made the accusation in the House of Commons after Alain Therrien, from the Bloc Québécois party, declined to support a motion calling on parliament to acknowledge the existence of systemic racism in the
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Here is a look at the life of former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco. Personal Birth date: July 2, 1964 Birth place: Havana, Cuba Birth name: Jose Canseco Capas Jr. Father: Jose Canseco Sr. Mother: Barbara Capas Canseco Marriages: Jessica Sekely (1996-2000, divorced); Esther (Haddad) Canseco (1988-1992, divorced) Children: with Jessica Sekely: Josie, 1996
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Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — Hundreds of protesters gathered in the Pearl District Wednesday evening and a group spent the night outside Mayor Ted Wheeler’s home. On Wednesday, the crowd came together in the area of Northwest 10th Avenue and Glisan Street. They said they were there because Wheeler
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BLUE SPRINGS, MO (WDAF) — A local husband and wife face charges of child neglect. Court records show they forced their 12-year-old son to live in solitude for five weeks, locking him in a house and failing to attend to his disabilities. Probable cause records from the Blue
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Some people are responsible for spreading the virus more than others. These people have been called “super spreaders,” but are they really different from the rest of us? CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to Elizabeth McGraw, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and professor of entomology at Penn State
Continue Reading Grab some ice cubes to pop into your hot chocolate and plan on settling in for “Christmas in July.” Hallmark will once again host their annual event of offering up some of their Christmas content during the warmer months. “Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries once again bring the yuletide poolside this July, with
Continue Reading Scientists have found evidence that large carnivorous dinosaurs lived in Australia. A team of researchers analyzed dinosaur footprint fossils and concluded they belonged to large-bodied carnivorous dinosaurs that were up to three meters high at the hips and about 10 meters long, according to a press release from the University of Queensland. “To put that
Continue Reading When Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey extended the state’s stay-at-home order into mid-May, Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb countered that the policy had gone on long enough. “The numbers don’t justify the actions anymore,” he told The Arizona Republic in early May. “Three hundred deaths is not a significant enough number to continue to ruin the
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Makeup sellers Ulta Beauty and Sephora have a problem on their hands. When it comes to beauty products, consumers love to test cosmetics, creams and fragrances on themselves before they buy them. But that’s not really an option right now given the current health and safety concerns tied to the pandemic. That’s bad news for
Continue Reading Nine Texas mayors, including those in Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio, have urged Gov. Greg Abbott to give them the authority to require masks be worn in public “where physical distancing cannot be practiced.” In a letter to Abbott, the mayors said “many people in many of our cities are still refusing to wear
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA, PA (KYW) — Eyewitness News is working to bring you stories committed to helping our community heal and grow with the issues now at the forefront – a renewed call for “Justice for All.” At a time when there is often tension between police and some communities,
Continue Reading The Washington State Patrol will start a new investigation into the death of Manuel Ellis, a black man who died while in the custody of the Tacoma Police Department, Gov. Jay Inslee said Wednesday. The governor said in a news release he’d ordered State Patrol Chief John Batiste to collect records from the Pierce County
Continue Reading The half-brother of Robert Fuller, the 24-year-old black man who was found dead hanging in the city of Palmdale, California, last week, was killed in a deputy-involved shooting in Kern County on Wednesday, according to Fuller’s family attorney. “This afternoon I had to notify the sisters of Robert Fuller that their half-brother Terron Jammal Boone
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Greensboro, NC (Greensboro News & Record) — The Greensboro Transit Agency will offer free reusable cloth masks to transit riders from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, the agency announced Wednesday. The giveaway will take place at the J. Douglas Galyon Depot transfer center, 236 E. Washington Street. One
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TIFTON, GA (Albany Herald) — Ten faculty members at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College will begin the 2020-21 academic year with promotions, and seven faculty members will be granted tenure at the college. ABAC Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Jerry Baker said faculty members receiving promotions and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW HAVEN, CT (WFSB) — Thursday is graduation day for a number of students in New Haven. The city’s two largest high schools, Wilbur Cross and Hill House, will finally get to celebrate the class of 2020. Some of the big ceremonies will take place at Lighthouse Point
Continue Reading We now know that many of us are part Neanderthal, with our genes carrying traces of past encounters between our early ancestors and the Stone Age hominins that populated Europe until around 40,000 years ago. The evidence that early humans interbred with Neanderthals emerged in 2010 after scientists led by geneticist Svante Pääbo pioneered methods
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Lindsay Bramson (WSMV) — Pictures of Nashville first responders not wearing masks in public have some News4 viewers concerned they’re putting people at risk. Health experts are continuing to ask anyone who is out in public wear a mask when around others to help stop the spread of
Continue Reading There are 700 islands in the Bahamas, 2,000 beaches, 32 national parks — and one underwater art installation. Off the western coast of New Providence island that holds the capital Nassau, visitors will discover an unforgettable site — the BREEF Coral Reef Sculpture Garden. Started in 2014, BREEF (Bahamas Reef Environmental Education Foundation) commissioned three
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, LA (KTBS) — Police are investigating a major accident Thursday morning involving the death of a man in a wheelchair. The accident occurred at the corner of Line Avenue and East 70th Street just after midnight, according to Caddo 911 records. Shreveport police spokeswoman Cpl. Angie Whilhite
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLORISSANT, MO (KMOV) — The Florissant police officer involved in the now-viral violent arrest that was caught on camera has been criminally charged. Online records said detective Joshua Smith was charged with two counts of assault, one felony and one misdemeanor, and one count of armed criminal action.
Continue Reading A team of European scientists say they have found two genetic variations that may show who is more likely to get very sick and die from coronavirus, and they say they have also found a link to blood type. Their findings, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, point to a possible explanation
Continue Reading “If I’m not (insert job title here), then who am I?” This is the type of question some adults are asking themselves as they struggle through the darkness of losing a job to the pandemic. Some never realized how tied their identities were to their careers until they lost them. They feel lost mentally and
Continue Reading Latvia is honoring the doctors, nurses and medical workers on the front lines in the fight against Covid-19 with a giant statue in the nation’s capital. Artist Aigars Bikše unveiled the statue on Tuesday at a ceremony outside the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga. The statue is almost 20 feet tall (6 meters)
Continue Reading Although the US economy has shown signs of improvement in recent weeks as lockdown restrictions have eased, millions of Americans are still seeking unemployment aid to make ends meet. Another 1.5 million workers filed for first-time jobless benefits last week — a decline of only 58,000 from the week before — the Department of Labor
Continue Reading(CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation. This story is breaking and will be updated.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS, LA (WGNO) — This week governor John Bel Edwards signed into law a bill that now allows any physician licensed in the state to prescribe medical marijuana to their patients. Proponents see this as a win for patient access. Ruston Henry of H & W Dispensary,
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection campaign. The outcome seems certain to elevate the issue in Trump’s campaign, given the anti-immigrant rhetoric of his first presidential run
Continue Reading “Where’s My Roy Cohn?” was a very good documentary about the notorious lawyer and fixer, including lessons — never apologize and constantly attack — he taught to a young client named Donald Trump. What sets “Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn” apart is the personal connection for director Ivy Meeropol, the granddaughter of
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