Jerry Springer, former mayor who transformed daytime TV, dead at 79
Slaven Vlasic/Getty ImagesJerry Springer, the former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, whose eponymous daytime show transformed talk television, has died, ABC News has confirmed. He was 79.
According to his rep, Springer “died peacefully Thursday at his home…
Fed Chair Jerome Powell duped by Russian tricksters pretending to be Zelenskyy on prank call
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke over the phone with two Russian pranksters falsely posing as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the central bank confirmed to ABC News on Thursday.
The inci…
South Korea’s Yoon addresses joint meeting of Congress amid state visit
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol touted his country’s longstanding partnership with the United States in an address before a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday.
Yoon, who received a st…
Unleash the ‘Beasts’: Paramount drops new trailer to ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’
Paramount PicturesOn Thursday, Paramount Pictures dropped an action-packed trailer for its June 9 release, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
Set in 1994, the movie has In The Heights’ Anthony Ramos as a human caught in the middle of an intergalactic c…
Gov. Jim Justice to announce W.Va. Senate bid, setting up potential ‘nailbiter’ with Joe Manchin
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is set to announce a Senate campaign on Thursday afternoon, setting up a potential challenge to incumbent Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who has not yet said if he’ll…
Chris Evans and Ana de Armas’ ‘Ghosted’ becomes Apple TV+’s most-watched movie
Apple TV+Ghosted, starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, has become the most-watched movie debut to date for Apple TV+, according to Deadline.
The movie, which debuted April 21, saw viewership climb through Tuesday, pulling in 328,500 viewers, accordi…
DeSantis responds to Disney lawsuit: ‘I think it’s political’
Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that he doesn’t think Disney’s lawsuit against him “has merit.”
“I think it’s political,” DeSantis said during a press conference in Jerusalem as he visited Isra…
Tucker Carlson breaks his silence with viral video tweet
Jason Koerner/Getty ImagesAfter his surprise ousting at Fox News, Tucker Carlson addressed his fans in a video posted to Twitter Wednesday night that has gone viral.
Sitting at his home studio, wearing a suit and tie, Carlson opened by noting, “One of…
Some women opt to go abroad to battle high cost of egg freezing
fstop123/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Some women are willing to go the distance to preserve fertility — and make it more affordable.
After the age of 30, a woman’s fertility decreases every year, leading some women to turn to fertility preservation trea…
US economic growth slowed significantly at start of 2023
Javier Ghersi/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. economy slowed at the start of 2023, suggesting that an aggressive series of interest rate hikes at the Federal Reserve has cooled business activity even as the stock and job markets have made gains.
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