San Diego Comic-Con kicks off Thursday: What to wear, what to expect
“Black Adam” – Warner Bros. PicturesSeeing masked heroes is nothing new for patrons of any comic convention. But it will be the mandate this year, when the mothership of all cons, San Diego Comic-Con, kicks off Thursday.
Amid a spike of COVID cases in…
Rental car drives itself until you get behind the wheel
[Halo.car founder/CEO Anand Nandakumar hopes to launch a fleet of all-electric on-demand rental cars in Bellevue. Photo: Halo.car]]
“I think I was embarrassed”: Witney Carson hid cancer surgery from ‘Dancing with the Stars’ producers
ABC/Kelsey McNealIn a new interview with People, Witney Carson explains she hid having skin cancer surgery so she wouldn’t miss her first season on Dancing with the Stars.
Carson was 19 when she was diagnosed with melanoma, a genetic form of skin can…
Luke Evans, Olivia Colman, Jonathan Pryce head to Netflix’s animated ‘Scrooge: A Christmas Carol’
NetflixCharles Dickens’ holiday classic is coming to Netflix in a computer-animated movie called Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, and some big names are bringing it to life.
Oscar and Emmy winner Olivia Colman will be voicing this version of the Ghost of C…
Trump relishes another primary win, in Maryland, as GOP critics warn of political ‘suicide’
SteveChristensen/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Gov. Larry Hogan is a popular Republican who won two statewide elections in Democratic-leaning Maryland — but his full-throated endorsement didn’t mean enough to the Republican base in Tuesday’s primary.
H…
Bipartisan senators reach deal on Electoral Count Act reform in wake of Jan. 6
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — As the House committee probing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol continues to reveal how it says then-President Donald Trump and his allies worked to overturn the 2020 election, a bipartisan group…
CDC finds significant increase in opioid overdoses among minority groups
Spencer Platt/Getty Images, FILE(ATLANTA) — A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found a significant increase in opioid overdose death rates among Black and American Indian/Alaskan Natives people in the US.
Experts fro…
Uvalde school district to decide whether to fire Police Chief Pete Arredondo in Saturday meeting
Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images(UVALDE, Texas) — The Uvalde, Texas, school board will meet in a special session Saturday to consider the recommendation to fire Police Chief Pete Arredondo for cause following widespread criticism of ho…
Denzel Washington honors the late Jackie Robinson at Major League Baseball All-Star Game
Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty ImagesDenzel Washington paid tribute to the late Jackie Robinson, the former Brooklyn Dodger who broke baseball’s color line, during the Major League Baseball All-Star Game at LA’s Dodger Stadium Tuesday night. This ye…
“Let’s go!”: Cast films video teasing third season of ‘Bridgerton’
Netflix/Liam DanielLady Whistledown is sharpening her quills as Bridgerton’s third season is now underway. The cast of the hit Netflix show dropped the news in a video that shows Luke Newton, Jonathan Bailey, Nicola Coughlan, Golda Rosheuvel and other …