In brief: Chelsea Handler to host Critics Choice Awards, and more
The Critics Choice Awards has announced that Chelsea Handler will host this year’s ceremony. The event will take place January 15 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, where it will be broadcast live, starting at 7 p.m. Eastern on the CW. Handl…
Who will be the UK’s next prime minister? Here are the potential candidates
Andrew Holt/Getty Images(LONDON) — Liz Truss announced her resignation on Thursday after only 45 days in office, making her the shortest-serving U.K. prime minister in history.
Her resignation follows weeks of political and economic turmoil after her…
Lawsuit against Barilla over slogan ‘Italy’s No.1 brand of pasta’ may proceed
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Barilla Pasta is being sued for its marketing as “Italy’s No. 1 brand of pasta.”
A lawsuit filed last year by customers Matthew Sinatro and Jessica Prost claims that the slogan in question “leads reasona…
Hurricane Ian flood damage to EVs creating ticking time bombs in Florida
ABC News(NEW YORK) — As Florida officials and residents continue to clean up and assess the damage caused by Hurricane Ian, they’re discovering the storm has turned some electric vehicles into incendiary devices on roads, parking lots and even on the …
How an emergency medicine physician chooses baby food for her kids
Tetra Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Feeding a baby is something a parent must do multiple times a day, every day, and yet it can be one of the most confusing and stressful things that any parent does.
Before the recent headlines of a baby formula s…
Google sees less Chinese and Iranian hacking this election cycle, they say
boonchai wedmakawand/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Just weeks away from the 2022 midterm elections, a senior Google official said Wednesday that the company hasn’t seen the same style of hacking from groups backed by the governments of China and Iran as du…
Military to provide leave, travel expenses for troops seeking abortions out-of-state
guvendemir/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — In the wake of the Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade, the Pentagon announced Thursday that it will provide travel funding and approval for troops and their dependents to seek abortions outside of the states whe…
Students in Texas are being sent home with child ID kits
Dallas ISD(NEW YORK) — Students in K-8 schools in Texas are being sent home with child identification kits, meant to help identify kids in the unlikely event they go missing, get abducted, or are trafficked.
The kits are being distributed by local sc…
Over 70% of pediatric hospital beds in US full amid surge of respiratory illnesses
Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — As the surge in children’s respiratory illnesses, including rhinovirus and enterovirus, continues across the country, one children’s hospital is considering installing a field tent to deal with the i…
Three men imprisoned for 28 years freed after judge vacates murder convictions
Hans Neleman/Getty Images(NEW ORLEANS) — For 28 years, Kunta Gable, Leroy Nelson and Bernell Juluke were wrongfully imprisoned, convicted as teens for a fatal drive-by shooting in New Orleans that they did not commit.
The three men were finally freed…