Miller Sanford The man accused of stabbing two people at Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Eve was hit with a series of charges Wednesday, including assault, police announced. Jason Sargeant, 28, of Brooklyn, was arrested after the violent spree Tuesday night, in which he allegedly stabbed a 26-year-old woman in the throat and slashed a 42-year-old man … Read more
Pope Francis waves before delivering his Christmas Day address from the main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. (Andrew Medichini / Associated Press) Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday urged “all people of all nations” to find courage during this Holy Year “to silence the sounds of arms and overcome … Read more
Edwin C. (Bill) Berry, a former president of the Chicago Urban League who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when the civil rights movement focused on the city, has died at the age of 77. Berry, who died Wednesday at Michael Reese Hospital where he was undergoing treatment for a pancreas ailment, was remembered … Read more
Want to look and feel younger? Click on Dr. Oz’s website. Seeking an alternative treatment to what ails you? Visit Andrew Weil’s daily blog. Aren’t sure whether it’s OK to spank your kid? Ask Dr. Phil. Society has revered famous physicians for years, swallowing their directives like vitamins. Dr. Benjamin Spock helped parents raise a … Read more
What if Josephine Baker and Billie Holiday — two powerful, celebrated, weed-smoking, Jazz Age Black women — somehow discovered a time portal in the back of a 1930s smoke-filled speakeasy and stepped through it into modern-day Los Angeles, where they promptly opened a pot shop? That sounds like the elevator pitch for a fantastical time-traveling … Read more
Mark Wahlberg’s wife, Rhea Durham, shared the family’s 2024 Christmas card to celebrate the jolly holiday. The former model posted an Instagram photo of their holiday card on Wednesday. The two-sided card features the family of six seated on a couch smiling with an illustrated wreath wrapped around the card’s border. A caption reads, “Merry … Read more
Elon Musk urged his supporters not to donate to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia after the organization budgeted more than $50 million to spend on controversial diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “Stop donating to Wokepedia until they restore balance to their editing authority,” Musk wrote Tuesday on X, where he has nearly 210 million … Read more
Netflix committed multiple flubs in the opening minutes of its NFL coverage. While the streaming quality on its pregame show is thus far standing up after issues during last month’s Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight, Wednesday’s Christmas broadcast began with silence while Kay Adams kicked things off, her microphone apparently not on during the opening roughly … Read more
Dramatic videos have emerged for the first time revealing key moments in the investigation and frantic 43-day international manhunt for convicted love-triangle killer Kaitlin Armstrong. Armstrong notoriously fled to Central America and even altered her face through plastic surgery after fatally shooting professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in May 2022 in a jealous rage over … Read more
Rachel Zegler, who is of Colombian and Polish descent, faced backlash after being cast as Snow White in Disney’s live-action remake of its 1937 animated film. (Evan Agostini / Invision / Associated Press) When Disney in 2021 announced Rachel Zegler as the lead in its “Snow White” revival, some consumers pledged to boycott the film … Read more
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