Slap survey: 63% say they’ll tune into the Oscars next year just because of Will Smith incident
ABCIt has been shown that Will Smith’s slapping Chris Rock goosed the ratings of last Sunday night’s Oscars by some 600,000 viewers, so the results of a new survey about the show may not come as a surprise.
A OnePoll survey of 1,000 American viewers r…
Biden to get second booster after outlining dire need for COVID funding
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will receive his second booster shot following his scheduled remarks Wednesday about the state of the country’s COVID response, according to the White House.
Biden is expected in his spee…
Biden gets second booster after outlining dire need for COVID funding
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden received his second booster shot before television cameras on Wednesday following remarks at the White House about the state of the country’s COVID response.
Biden’s speech promoted the l…
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returns to Earth after record-breaking spaceflight
Bill Ingalls/NASA/Getty Images(DZHEZKAZGAN, Kazakstan) — NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth Wednesday, after spending a record-breaking 355 days in low-Earth orbit. Vande Hei shared a spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts as tensions bet…
ABC News special explores mental health crisis among youth amid COVID-19
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, mental health challenges still impact youth.
But in a new one-hour ABC News primetime special anchored by Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy sa…
“Shocked and stunned” and “still triggered” Amy Schumer unpacks Oscars slap
ABCOne of Sunday night’s Oscars hosts, Amy Schumer, has broken her silence about the so-called “slap heard ’round the world.”
“Still triggered and traumatized,” she said on Instagram. “I love my friend @chrisrock and believe he handled it like a pro. …
GOP’s Susan Collins to vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Sen. Susan Collins of Maine plans to support the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court, the nominee’s first GOP supporter.
“After revi…
How to decide whether to get a second Covid-19 booster shot?
The FDA and the CDC have given permission for anyone 50 or older, and otherwise in good health, to get a second Pfizer or Moderna booster shot as early as four months after a first booster of
FTC sues Intuit TurboTax’s ‘free’ filing campaign
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — As Americans continue to file their taxes ahead of Tax Day, the Federal Trade Commission has slapped a lawsuit against a company behind a popular tax filing software.
The FTC announced on Tuesday i…
In Brief: ‘It’ prequel series coming to HBO Max, and more
HBO Max is developing a prequel to the Stephen King novel It, according to The Ankler. The series, tentatively titled Welcome to Derry, will be set in the 1960s in the time leading up to the events of the 2017 film It: Part One and is said to include t…