FILE – African delegates to the General Conference of the United Methodist Church pray outside the Charlotte Convention Center, in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Smith, File) A United Methodist church member was shot and killed in a confrontation between both factions in Taraba, a state in northeast Nigeria. A religious schism…
FILE – Herschel Walker speaks during a campaign rally at Atrium Health Amphitheater for Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, Nov. 3, 2024, in Macon, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) The president-elect described Walker, a former NFL player, as “a successful businessman, philanthropist, former Heisman Trophy winner.” Herschel Walker, the football legend who unsuccessfully ran…
FILE – Herschel Walker speaks during a campaign rally at Atrium Health Amphitheater for Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, Nov. 3, 2024, in Macon, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) The president-elect described Walker, a former NFL player, as “a successful businessman, philanthropist, former Heisman Trophy winner.” Herschel Walker, the football legend who unsuccessfully ran…
Pig kidney recipient Towana Looney is visited by Dr. Robert Montgomery of NYU Langone Health, center, on Dec. 10, 2024, at NYU Langone Health, in New York City. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum) Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ, freeing her from eight years of dialysis. NEW YORK (AP) — An Alabama woman is recovering…
Pig kidney recipient Towana Looney is visited by Dr. Robert Montgomery of NYU Langone Health, center, on Dec. 10, 2024, at NYU Langone Health, in New York City. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum) Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ, freeing her from eight years of dialysis. NEW YORK (AP) — An Alabama woman is recovering…
Screenshot: Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers/YouTube 1984’s “Beverly Hills Cop” is the first Eddie Murphy film in the National Film Registry. Nobody puts Baby in a corner, but they’re putting her in the National Film Registry. “Dirty Dancing,” along with another 1980s culture-changer, “Beverly Hills Cop,” are entering the Library of Congress’ registry, part of an annual group of 25…
Screenshot: Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers/YouTube 1984’s “Beverly Hills Cop” is the first Eddie Murphy film in the National Film Registry. Nobody puts Baby in a corner, but they’re putting her in the National Film Registry. “Dirty Dancing,” along with another 1980s culture-changer, “Beverly Hills Cop,” are entering the Library of Congress’ registry, part of an annual group of 25…
A federal judge granted lawyers for Derek Chauvin permission to have tissue samples from George Floyd‘s heart and other body fluids tested in order to pursue an expert witness theory that Floyd died of a heart condition, not asphyxiation from Chauvin kneeling on the 46-year-old Black man’s neck for nine and a half minutes. In…
Shocking video circulating on social media shows a parent strangling a North Carolina high school student until the child suffered a seizure. Authorities later arrested and identified that parent as 43-year-old Quinton Lofton. Lofton is accused of entering Fike High School in Wilson, North Carolina, on Dec. 16 and attacking a 17-year-old boy in the…
Jessica Simpson has an announcement to make! The 44-year-old songstress is preparing to release new music 16 years after her last album release. Simpson kept the news simple by posting a single photo of her looking glammed up in a studio, but the announcement wasn’t well received by everyone online. In the photo, she was…
