Smoking, vaping increases risk of death from COVID, study finds
Martina Paraninfi/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Smokers and vapers are more likely to have a severe case of COVID-19 or die of the disease, a new study finds.
People who reported use of tobacco products prior to their hospitalization were 39% more likely …
Television legend Norman Lear to celebrate his 100th birthday with ABC special
ABCNorman Lear, the legendary producer of TV classics like All in the Family, The Jeffersons and Good Times, turned 100 years old on Wednesday, and ABC is going to throw him a party.
The network has announced a one-night-only celebration called Norman…
Two arrested in alleged road rage shooting involving young child
Benjamin Greene and Nazly Ortiz are seen in a video retweeted by the Harris County Sheriff’s Dept. The two people charged in a wild road rage shooting that was caught on camera. – Harris County Sheriff’s Dept./Twitter(HOUSTON) — Two people have been a…
“OOH WEE!” ‘Rick and Morty’ returns for season six on September 4
Adult Swim”WUBBA LUBBA DUB-DUB!” The absurdist, Emmy-winning animated series Rick and Morty will make its anticipated return for season six on Adult Swim on Sunday, September 4 at 11 p.m.
The show, co-created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, the latt…
America’s nun population in steep decline
Sister Kelly Williams pictured with her roommates, who are also becoming nuns, in Chicago, Illinois. – ABC News(NEW YORK) — Across the United States, young adults are becoming less religious.
A 2018 and 2019 Pew Research Center survey found that the …
Bronze statue of Amelia Earhart unveiled in the Capitol
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) – Nancy Pelosi was the guest speaker at the unveiling of a new statue at Statuary Hall of Amelia Earhart, the famous aviator born in Atchison, Kansas in 1897, who made history as the first female pilot to fly …
Shania Twain opens up about battle with Lyme disease: ‘I thought I’d lost my voice forever’
Andreas Rentz/Getty Images,FILE(NEW YORK) — Country music superstar Shania Twain is sharing new details about the health battle she says she faced due to Lyme disease.
Twain, 56, said she thought she had lost the ability to sing after a tick bite she…
Gun CEOs testify to House after mass shootings, blame ‘erosion of personal responsibility’
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) — Leading gun manufacturing executives testified Wednesday before a House panel investigating the role of the firearms industry in the nation’s high rates of gun violence, maintaining under shar…
Biden addresses public from Rose Garden after negative COVID tests, ending isolation
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Tuesday night and again Wednesday morning and will end “his strict isolation measures,” according to the physician to the president, Dr. Kevin…
“Our actions matter” — Candace Cameron Bure buries the hatchet with JoJo Siwa
ABC – NetflixCandace Cameron Bure has broken her silence on JoJo Siwa’s claim on TikTok that the Full House alum was the “rudest” celebrity they’d ever met.
Bure, taking to Instagram on Tuesday, says she and Siwa had a “great conversation” that mornin…