Todd Phillips, who co-wrote and directed the first "Joker" movie starring Joaquin Phoenix, confirmed Tuesday on social media that a sequel to the Oscar-winning 2019 film is officially in the works. Recurrent Israeli-Palestinian violence is mainly due to Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian territory and discrimination against Palestinians, a United Nations report published Tuesday said. The WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks fired head coach and general manager Derek Fisher on Tuesday, the team announced. Reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were found guilty Tuesday in Atlanta on federal charges including bank fraud and tax evasion. Douglas K. Uhde, 56, who was accused of shooting and killing former Juneau County Circuit Court Judge John Roemer was pronounced dead Tuesday. The Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday fired manager Joe Maddon amid the club's 12-game losing streak. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will temporarily stop transporting most inmates while it investigates how a convicted murderer escaped from a prison bus last month. Jim Seals of the 1970s duo Seals and Crofts, which produced soft-rock hits "Summer Breeze" and "Diamond Girl," has died, his family announced. He was 80. Oxfam on Tuesday reported that the funding needed to assist countries facing weather emergencies brought on by climate change has increased 800% in the past two decades. The bodies of 210 Ukrainian soldiers who defended the eastern city of Mariupol were transported to Kyiv on Tuesday as part of an exchange of the war dead with Russia, Ukrainian officials announced. British geologist Jim Fitton was sentenced to 15 years in an Iraqi prison for taking artifacts from a site in southern Iraq during an archaeological trip. The son of one of the victims in a mass shooting at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket called on U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday "to stop the cancer of White supremacy" that led to the massacre. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law on Tuesday expanding various school safety measures taken in the state following the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 people. An independent advisory committee voted Tuesday overwhelmingly in favor of authorizing biotech company Novavax's protein-based COVID-19 vaccine. Actor Matthew McConaughey visited the White House Tuesday and urged leaders to make the loss of 21 people in last month's Uvalde school shooting "matter" with responsible gun legislation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 264 points Tuesday as markets shook off declining retail stocks. President Joe Biden signed nine bipartisan bills into law Tuesday, all connected to military veterans, including one that dramatically broadens federal care for those who served near toxic burning pits. Several Democratic members of the U.S. House and Senate, and former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to honor the 45,000 people killed by gun violence each year. A visitor to a Mississippi island found a lost iPhone in the water and was able to return it to its owner after discovering the device still worked after nearly a week underwater. A Rhode Island zoo announced the birth of a baby tamandua, a South American animal also known as a lesser anteater. A group of boaters captured video when they encountered an 8-foot great white shark that approached their boat off the New Jersey coast. "Dear Evan Hansen" announced Tuesday that it will hold its final Broadway performance on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in New York on Sept. 18. Prices for newly marketed brand-name drugs in the United States shot up over the last decade and increased health care spending by more than half a trillion dollars in 2020, according to study published Tuesday in JAMA. |
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