The City University of New York on Friday deleted an article from its newsletter to students celebrating an alumna of the school system who served on Johnny Depp's legal team. Anne Heche, the prolific television and stage actress who also starred in the film Donnie Brasco, has been hospitalized in critical condition after her car crashed into a California home. A third person has died after four people were hit by a lightning strike near the White House, police said Friday. Oksana Pokalchuk, the head of Amnesty International's office in Ukraine, has resigned from her post after a scandal over the human rights organization's criticism of the country's military amid its war with Russia. While much of the United States is kicking off this weekend with heavy rain, extreme heat and even tornadoes, one area will experience the country's first winter storm warning of the season. An early-morning fire in the eastern Pennsylvania town of Nescopeck killed 10 people Friday, state police said. Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was penalized Friday by a Texas jury which said he must pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to parents of Sandy Hook shooting victim Jesse Lewis. The Republican National Committee voted Friday to hold its 2024 convention in Milwaukee after Nashville -- the other contender to be host -- withdrew from consideration. The Indiana House on Friday passed two bills -- one which outlaws nearly all abortions and the other which provides a $200 refund to taxpayers while also earmarking $75 million for social service programs for women. As ever-changing as technology is, it can still spring up on us at rather peculiar times. Even, it seems, on live television. A Montana couple said they are in the market for a new car after a bear entered their vehicle and ended up spending the night when the door closed behind the animal. The Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 stock indexes rounded out the first week of August trading with some gains after the release of the better-than-expected jobs report. A pair of Netherlands fitness enthusiasts challenged themselves to perform pull-ups from the treads of a helicopter -- and one of them walked away with a Guinness World Records title. The Pentagon has denied Washington, D.C., Mayor Murial Bowser's request to deploy the National Guard to assist with migrants being bussed into the nation's capital. A former player for the Kansas City Chiefs was reunited with his 1969 Super Bowl champion ring when a member of the public found it in a golf course parking lot. Israel used multiple airstrikes Friday to hit Gaza, killing a senior leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a 5-year-old girl and at least eight others; 55 were wounded. The goat that ran loose through the middle of a Spanish city before breaking into a jewelry store was taken to a farm -- where it escaped for a second time. The U.S. Senate passed a bill to help veterans exposed to toxins from burn pits. President Joe Biden isolates with a rebound case of COVID-19, speaking remotely on a new bill to increase U.S. production of semiconductor chips and explaining and a counterterrorism operation that killed al-Qaida's top leader, among the highlights in Washington news for the week of August 1, 2022. Federal Elections Commission filings show former President Donald Trump's Save America PAC, claiming to be an "election defense fund, paid $60,000 to a fashion designer for Melania Trump. Here's a look at celebrities who have split from their significant others or spouses in 2022. Three of Paul McCartney's iconic solo albums are now available to own as a single box set. President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 Friday despite feeling "very well" one week after being diagnosed with a rebound case of the virus, his physician announced. A Canadian man who found a stick of string cheese in the refrigerator of his new home offered the snack up for trade with a large billboard ad in the middle of downtown Toronto. A countersuit against Twitter from Elon Musk accuses Twitter of misleading him about Twitter's true advertising base, leading Musk to try to get out of his $44 billion offer to buy Twitter. The collision of two distant neutron stars released one of the most powerful short gamma-ray bursts ever recorded, according to Chile's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA. The Perseid meteor shower, one of Earth's biggest, is set to peak with best viewing starting Aug. 11. NASA says the annual meteor shower will peak the next day, but this year the full Moon may interfere with visibility. Alexander Skrarsgård has joined the cast of Fred Armisen and Bill Hader's documentary spoof series "Documentary Now!" |
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