Harvard President Claudine Gay announces resignation
Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Embattled Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned, she announced on Tuesday. “It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I
22 hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning after attending Utah LDS church
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 22 people were hospitalized after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building in Utah on New Year’s Eve, officials said. The Sevier
Michelle Yeoh celebrates becoming a grandmother
Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Michelle Yeoh has a lot to celebrate as the new year kicks off. The Oscar winner, 61, took to Instagram on January 2 to share that she and her husband, Jean Todt, are now grandparents.
Mickey Mouse stars in horror movie as 'Steamboat Willie' enters public domain
LMPC via Getty Images The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse has just entered public domain, and there’s already a new trailer for a non-Disney film using the character. Animated shorts Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy entered public domain at the beginning
In Brief: Shecky Greene dies, George R.R. Martin gives an update, and more
Legendary Las Vegas stand-up comic Shecky Greene died Sunday, December 31 of natural causes at his home in Las Vegas. His wife Miriam Musso Greene confirmed the news to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He was 97. Greene
Ken Jennings talks “intense” 'Celebrity Jeopardy!' semifinals
ABC/Eric McCandless Celebrity Jeopardy! returns this week with the first of the semifinal rounds, featuring Ghost’s Utkarsh Ambudkar, Oscar winner Mira Sorvino and Abbot Elementary’s Lisa Ann Walter. Early rounds of the show felt a little looser than what you’d see on syndicated Jeopardy!, and host Ken Jennings says the
Jeremy Renner pays respect to staff at Reno Hospital 1 year after his snowplow accident
Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images Jeremy Renner showed his deepest gratitude to those who helped him during his near-fatal snowplow accident one year after the incident. In an Instagram post on Friday, the two-time Academy Award-nominated actor shared a
'Loud explosions' in Kyiv as Russia again strikes capital, US ambassador says
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Russia launched an attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities early Tuesday, continuing its escalated large-scale attacks on residential areas, local officials said. Air raid sirens in Kyiv began to sound just
Japan Airlines plane bursts into flames at Tokyo airport with 379 people on board, all escape
This photo provided by Jiji Press shows a Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Jan. 2, 2024. (STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images) (TOKYO) — A Japan Airlines plane was engulfed
Why hospitals in several states are reinstating mask requirements
EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some hospitals across the United States are reinstating indoor masking rules amid rising cases and hospitalizations of respiratory illnesses including COVID-19 and influenza. Hospitals in at least six states — California, Illinois,