Drug-resistant strain of Shigella bacteria prompts warning from CDC
Alissa Eckert/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY(ATLANTA) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory Friday about an increase in an antibiotic-resistant strain of the Shigella bacteria.
Shigella is highly infectious and causes aroun…
Florida judge issues arrest warrant for Kodak Black after alleged positive fentanyl test
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(BROWARD COUNTY, Fla.) — A judge in Broward County, Florida, issued an arrest warrant for rapper Kodak Black after he allegedly failed to submit to a drug test, then tested positive for fentanyl, in violation of his rel…
Conservative justices question Biden’s student loan plan in crucial SCOTUS case
Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, left, told ABC’s Devin Dwyer, right, she believes her state does not have legal standing to challenge the Biden administration’s student debt forgiveness plan in federal court because it is not directly harmed. — ABC News(W…
Scoreboard roundup — 2/26/23
iStock(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
INTERLEAGUE
Washington 3, Houston 2
NY Yankees 7; Atlanta 0
Philadelphia 10, Minnesota 8
Oakland 11, Milwaukee 4
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 7, Tampa Bay 6
Baltimore 10, Detroit 6
NY Yan…
Couple welcomes two sets of ‘rare’ twins 14 months apart
The University of Alabama at Birmingham(NEW YORK) — Britney Alba remembers the day she and her husband, Frankie Alba, received the news they were expecting twins. It had only been six months since they had welcomed their twin sons.
“Frankie and I wer…
Road to the Oscars 2023: ‘Elvis’ director Baz Luhrmann on what he’s looking forward to this awards season
Warner Bros. Pictures We’re just under two weeks out from the Oscars – Hollywood’s biggest night airs live on March 12 on ABC, and the movie Elvis is expected to pick up some hardware.
The film goes into Oscars night with 8 nominations, including a no…
2023 SAG Awards: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ sweeps with 4 wins
Courtesy of the 29th Annual ScreenActors Guild Awards®The 29th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards honored outstanding performances in film and television Sunday at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The event was streamed live on YouTube, Twitte…
Amid new report on COVID’s origins, investigation continues into 2 main theories
Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — While no firm conclusion has yet been made among health and government officials as to where COVID-19 came from, the U.S. Energy Department has now reportedly indicated it believes the virus was most likel…
Death toll climbs to 62 in migrant smuggling boat wreck on Italian coast
Antonino D’Urso/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images(CUTRO, Italy) — The death toll climbed to 62 on Monday after a human smuggling boat packed with migrants slammed into the rocks off the coast of southern Italy on Sunday and “disintegrated” just f…
Death of former American swimming champion probed in Virgin Islands
Todd Warshaw/Getty Images(ST JOHN, US Virgin Islands) — The sudden death of former American swimming champion Jamie Cail is under investigation by authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands, authorities said.
The 42-year-old Cail was found unresponsive …