“Yes Day” star Jennifer Garner just got her ears pierced. The actress, 48, said it never really occurred to her to do it sooner and feared her father would get upset with her for putting holes in her ears. Garner told Ellen DeGeneres during an appearance on her talk show, “I was afraid that my
Continue Reading “Grey’s Anatomy” returned for its mid-season premiere Thursday night, but an unexpected death on the show is leaving fans of the long-running drama devastated. During a plotline on Thursday’s two-hour crossover episode with “Station 19,” Dr. Andrew DeLuca, played by Giacomo Gianniotti, attempted to pursue a sex trafficker and was stabbed. Deluca, a character on
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Click here for updates on this story WAYNE COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — You may remember the Walck family from Lake Ariel. Scott Walck, his wife, and two sons battled the virus when it first appeared in Wayne County in March of last year. Scott’s son Bailey recalls the toll the virus took on his family.
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Simon Hu has resigned as chief executive officer of Ant Group, months after the digital payments company was forced to pull its IPO amid a crackdown by Chinese regulators. “The Ant Group Board of Directors has accepted Mr. Simon Hu’s resignation request, due to personal reasons,” said a spokesperson for the Alibaba affiliate. “We are
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Partly cloudy skies will move out for the overnight hours allowing temperatures to drop into the 40s with winds still gusting in the teens. On Saturday, a storm system will bring a chance for light rain. The region will see about a 15-degree drop in temperatures with highs in the mid and upper 50s. Sunday,
Continue Reading With no need to house a big engine under a long hood, electric pickup truck designers are getting creative with shapes. There’s Tesla’s wedge-shaped Cybertruck, and Amazon-backed Rivian is planning to put a trunk where the engine would normally go. Now, another California-based electric vehicle startup, Canoo, has revealed a pickup truck with a “cab
Continue Reading Wall Street threw a party as President Joe Biden signed his sweeping $1.9 trillion stimulus package into law, giving investors confidence in their projections for a surge of economic activity once the threat of the pandemic recedes. What’s happening: The legislation is expected to boost demand for goods and services, especially as the country’s vaccination
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHESANING, Michigan (WNEM) — COVID-19 sent nearly two million working moms out of the workforce. For Danielle Devota it changed her career entirely. “I just think COVID-19 was the push that I needed. Because if anything it showed me that life is short,” Devota said. The working mother
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Nearly one year after the death of Breonna Taylor, the anniversary of which is Saturday, the family and attorney said, “there’s still not been justice for Breonna.” Tamika Palmer, Taylor’s mother, told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on New Day that justice for her daughter would mean the “officers arrested, and charged, and convicted.” Lonita Baker, the
Continue Reading Turns out Soleil Moon Frye — TV’s “Punky Brewster” — meticulously documented her formative years, recently wading back through home movies, phone messages and photos and assembling them into “Kid 90,” a documentary that she calls “A true chronological blueprint of what it was to grow up as a teenager in the ’90s.” But Frye
Continue Reading Sharon Osbourne has issued a public apology to the Black community after facing controversy over her impassioned defense of Piers Morgan on panel show “The Talk”. The 68-year-old star came under fire Wednesday after she demanded a definition of racism from Black co-host Sheryl Underwood during a heated discussion about Morgan’s controversial departure from ITV’s
Continue Reading On the audio-based app Clubhouse, people are gathering in virtual rooms to make whale moaning noises or to participate in silent meditation together. Hundreds of people on the popular gaming platform Discord started a server where they just send each other the letter “h” all day every day. And a new Twitter account created this
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Simon Hu has resigned as chief executive officer of Ant Group, months after the company was forced to pull its IPO amid a crackdown by Chinese regulators. “The Ant Group Board of Directors has accepted Mr. Simon Hu’s resignation request, due to personal reasons,” said a spokesperson for the digital payments firm. “We are thankful
Continue Reading NASA is naming landmarks and geological features on Mars in the Navajo language. The Perseverance rover’s team, in collaboration with the Navajo Nation, has been naming features of scientific interest with words in the language, according to NASA. And it includes a rock named “Máaz,” the Navajo word for “Mars.” It is common for NASA
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The Democratic National Committee, in cooperation with the Biden White House, will kick off a sweeping effort to sell the newly signed Covid-19 relief package to a politically divided American people on Friday, releasing a new national ad bragging about the bill along with a detailed guide on how Democrats across the country should tout
Continue Reading With 50 days until the United States is supposed to complete a total withdrawal of troops and personnel from Afghanistan — a move that a Pentagon report stated could be devastating to “the survival of the Afghan state as we know it” — the Biden administration is running out of time to decide on a
Continue Reading When President Donald Trump received his Covid-19 vaccine at the White House in January, it was not recorded by official photographers or videographers, according to a person familiar with the matter, who said it wasn’t clear there was any photographic documentation of the moment. That alone would have made it difficult for Trump to be included in
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Carrying the surname of one of the greatest Formula One drivers ever understandably brings huge pressure and expectation, but Mick Schumacher feels only pride. The 21-year-old, son of seven-time world champion Michael, is gearing up for his first season in F1, exactly 30 years after his father made his debut at Spa in 1991. Schumacher’s
Continue Reading Atlanta Public Schools are hoping to mitigate spring break spikes of Covid-19 by temporarily returning to online learning. In light of anticipated travel by many students and staff, the district will return to remote learning April 12-16, the week after their spring break, Superintendent Lisa Herring said in a memo to families Thursday. Federal and
Continue Reading The return of sport amid the pandemic has been one of the few saving graces for many people over the last year. It’s provided a welcome distraction from the humdrum of multiple lockdowns and offered a sense of hope that, one day, things will return to some sort of normality. The same is true in
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If you’re slightly intimidated by — or not really into — cardio workouts but still want to burn calories and lose weight, you’re not alone. Running, swimming and cycling are all great cardio exercises, but they can become repetitive over time. When workouts become ho-hum, a lot of people tend to lose the motivation they
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In a small nursing home by the southern English seaside, David Alexander, 89, walks into his wife’s bedroom for the first time since October. “Hello my darling,” he says. “Do you know who I am? I’m David.” Before even putting down his bags, David sits on Sheila’s bed, next to her armchair, and holds her
Continue Reading If you were expecting President Joe Biden to take a victory lap, to boast about his remarkable achievements in just 50 days in office, it’s understandable. After four years of the former president, many of us became accustomed to self-serving rhetoric. But Biden’s first prime-time address Thursday night was something altogether different from that. “I
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso health officials announced 12 coronavirus-related deaths and 191 new cases Friday morning. The latest deaths include a woman in her 40s, a man in his 50s, a man and 2 woman in their 60s, 3 men and a woman in their 70s, a man and a woman in
Continue Reading “Absolutely historic.” That’s how the National Weather Service in Wyoming is describing a winter storm that will hit part of the Plains and Rocky Mountain regions this weekend. Bundle up! Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to
Continue Reading Britain’s exports to Europe collapsed in January as companies grappled with new terms of trade following Brexit. The United Kingdom exported goods worth £8.1 billion ($11.3 billion) to the European Union in its first month completely outside the bloc, a 41% decline compared to December, according to the Office for National Statistics. The drop off
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(CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden conemoró un año de la pandemia de covid-19 que arrasa el país con su primer discurso en horario de máxima audiencia. Fue un discurso en el que mezcló cifras concretas sobre la distribución de vacunas con llamamientos a la unidad y una creencia profundamente arraigada en el poder de Estados
Continue Reading It’s been one year since millions of students last stepped inside a classroom. One year since schools started shuttering to help get Covid-19 under control. But just as the pandemic has fluctuated across the United States, so have the debates about when and how to bring students back into schools. With vague national guidelines about
Continue Reading TikTok has been banned in Pakistan for a second time. The popular short-form video app is no longer available on mobile devices in the country after regulators issued an order late Thursday to “immediately” block access to it. Pakistan’s Telecommunications Authority said it banned TikTok after a provincial court in Peshawar called for the platform
Continue Reading Washington (CNN) — La próxima ronda de cheques de estímulo comenzará a llegar a las cuentas bancarias de los estadounidenses este fin de semana, dijo el jueves la secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca, Jen Psaki. Los pagos serán de hasta US$ 1.400 por persona y se incluyeron en el proyecto de ley de
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