Pop music star Taylor Swift has donated $5 million to Feeding America to help those impacted by recent hurricanes in the American southeast. U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted separate cocaine shipments with a combined value of $13.2 million intended for Puerto Rico over the past week. A North Carolina doctor agreed to pay more than a half million dollars in fines to settle with the federal government over allegations he and his practice took covered-up kickbacks from a medical company. Prime Video has ordered a fourth season of "Reacher" ahead of the action thriller's third season premiere. San Francisco-based artificial intelligence firm Writer Incorporated launched its AI-writing model Wednesday to compete with Anthropic, OpenAI and other providers of generative AI writing content. An observational study published Wednesday of more than 100 million deaths across all six continents over four decades has found heightened mortality risk among people who live in areas that experience extreme rainfall. "Friday Night Lights" alum Kyle Chandler and "Genius: MLK/X" actor Aaron Pierre have signed on to star in HBO's "Lanterns." Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials urged residents to get out of harm's way Wednesday morning before Category 4 Hurricane Milton arrives over the mainland later in the evening. Rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs is making another appeal to be released from a New York jail after previous denials awaiting trial facing multiple allegations,. With another major hurricane poised to make landfall in Florida Wednesday, several federal agencies are warning consumers to be wary of potential scams. Chase Brown is among UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler's four must-start fantasy football running backs for Week 6. Dr. Geeta Rao Gupta will travel to Brazil this week for a "historic" G20 meeting to promote America's agenda on gender equality, the U.S. Department of State revealed. Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve announced a bear known as Grazer has been named the winner of Fat Bear Week for a second consecutive year. Tank Bigsby, Tyron Tracy Jr. and Rico Dowdle are among UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler's fantasy football waiver wire priorities for Week 6 of the 2024 NFL season. Jalen Tolbert and Darnell Mooney are among UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler's five must-start wide receivers for Week 6 of the fantasy football campaign. A crash on a California highway caused an hours-long "traffic yam" when one of the vehicles lost its load of sweet potatoes into the roadway. Netflix is teasing "The Merry Gentlemen," a new Christmas film starring Chad Michael Murray and Britt Robertson, which lands on the streamer Nov. 20. A Nebraska man said a fellow customer at a store inspired him to buy the lottery ticket that earned him a $200,000 prize one day before his birthday. Ronald Peet told UPI about several reasons he was eager to play fisherman Neville in the mystery dramedy, "Bad Monkey," but he was especially excited about the chance to work alongside Crystal the Monkey. Adam Brody, star of Netflix hit "Nobody Wants This," has portrayed many other roles beyond Rabbi Noah and Seth Cohen on "The O.C." The Idaho man with the most concurrently-held Guinness World Records titles added another to his name by dribbling a basketball for over an hour while blindfolded. An implosion early Wednesday morning reduced the Tropicana Las Vegas casino to rubble to make way for construction of the new home of the Las Vegas Athletics baseball team. Only a fifth of large U.S. companies cover pricey GLP-1 weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound in their health insurance plans, a new survey shows. |
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