Gena Rowlands, a celebrated actor and honorary Academy Award recipient, is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, her son, the filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, has revealed. Cassavetes, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published Tuesday, said Rowlands has had Alzheimer’s for five years. In the 2004 film “The Notebook,” Cassavetes directed his mother, …
Read More »Planetary Health Diet can reduce risk of early death and help planet, study finds. What is it?
Can a diet that’s good for the planet also be good for your health? A new study is pointing to yes. In the study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Monday, researchers found those who most closely adhered to the Planetary Health Diet had a 30% lower risk …
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MIAMI — A Miami professional athlete and fitness influencer faces multiple charges of sexual cyberharassment and resisting an arrest after she allegedly hacked her ex-boyfriend’s computer to leak another woman’s nude photos. Stefanie Cohen Magarici, 32, was arrested on Tuesday. She is better known as Stefi Cohen on social media, …
Read More »Former “General Hospital” star Johnny Wactor shot and killed in downtown LA, family says
Actor Johnny Wactor, who played Brando Corbin on the ABC daytime soap opera “General Hospital,” was killed in downtown Los Angeles, his brother has confirmed. Wactor’s brother, Grant, said Johnny was the victim of a fatal shooting on Saturday. Overnight Saturday, the LAPD says they received call of a shooting …
Read More »4 ways vaccine skeptics mislead you on measles and more
Measles is on the rise in the United States. So far this year, the number of cases is about 17 times what it was, on average, during the same period in each of the four years before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Half of the people …
Read More »Chicago Tribune, other major newspapers accuse artificial intelligence companies of stealing content
A group of major newspaper publishers, including the Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News, are accusing two of the biggest artificial intelligence companies of stealing their content to improve their products. That accusation comes in a civil lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in New York. The lawsuit …
Read More »3 juveniles, including 11 and 12
Three juveniles, aged 11, 12 and 16, were arrested Tuesday in connection with a bank robbery in Houston last week. “All three suspects known as the ‘little rascals’ are in custody,” charged locally with robbery by threat, FBI Houston said on social media. Because they are juveniles, no additional identifying …
Read More »Accused Half Moon Bay gunman Chunli Zhao indicted by grand jury
HALF MOON BAY – Nearly one year after seven people were killed at two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay, a grand jury in San Mateo County has charged the accused gunman with multiple counts of murder. District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe’s office announced Monday that the county’s criminal grand jury …
Read More »Theft of ruby slippers from “Wizard of Oz” was reformed mobster’s “one last score,” court memo says
MINNEAPOLIS — The aging reformed mobster who has admitted stealing a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in “The Wizard of Oz” gave into the temptation of “one last score” after an old mob associate led him to believe the famous shoes must be adorned with real jewels …
Read More »Most home listings were unaffordable for the typical household in 2023, real estate brokerage says
Most Americans cannot afford to buy the homes listed for sale in the U.S., real-estate brokerage Redfin said in report on Thursday. An analysis of listings in 97 of the most populous metropolitan areas in the country found that just 15.5% of homes for sale in 2023 were affordable for …
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