Dwyane Wade is recalling how a routine checkup turned into a life-changing cancer diagnosis that forced him to confront his own mortality and ultimately led to the removal of 40% of his kidney. The 43-year-old basketball player opened up about his health ordeal on the Jan. 30 episode of his podcast, …
Read More »What we know about some of the D.C. plane crash victims after American Airlines jet and Black Hawk collision
“When you lose coaches like this, you lose the future of the sport, as well,” Zeghibe told reporters. Another well-known Russian figure skater, Inna Volyanskaya, was also among the dead, her former husband, Ross Lansel, told NBC Washington. Before becoming a skating coach in 2002 in Virginia, she wowed audiences …
Read More »Baltimore Ravens’ Justin Tucker denies allegations of misconduct by massage therapists
Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker on Thursday denied allegations by six women that he engaged in inappropriate behavior during massage therapy sessions. Six women identified only by initials spoke to The Baltimore Banner about their allegations, which span Tucker’s rookie season in 2012 through 2016. Five of them allege that …
Read More »American figure skating icon and broadcaster Dick Button dead at 95
U.S. figure skating icon Dick Button, who won consecutive Olympic gold medals on the ice before he became the voice of the sport on television, died Thursday, U.S. Figure Skating said. He was 95. The Associated Press first reported Button’s death, citing his son, Edward, who did not reveal a …
Read More »What are Black Hawk helicopters and how are they used? What to know after D.C. plane crash
The military helicopter that collided with a regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in a crash that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft was a UH-60 Black Hawk, considered the “workhorse” of Army aviation. The helicopter is a “utility tactical transport” aircraft — used for everything from …
Read More »‘Emilia Pérez’ star Karla Sofía Gascón issues apology about past social media posts
“Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón issued an apology Thursday after online users resurfaced her past posts on social media in which she appears to comment on Muslims, George Floyd and diversity at the Oscars. “I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt,” …
Read More »Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump has been sentenced to 10 years in deadly DWI crash
A Missouri woman convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and recently pardoned by President Donald Trump was sentenced to 10 years this week for killing a mother of two in a drunken-driving crash. Emily Hernandez was seen holding the broken nameplate of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after the mob of …
Read More »Court says banning gun sales to adults under 21 is unconstitutional
BATON ROUGE, La. — A U.S. appeals court on Thursday ruled against a federal law requiring young adults to be 21 to buy handguns, finding it violated the Second Amendment. The ruling, handed down by a panel of three judges on the conservative U.S. 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …
Read More »Boston Skating Club is at the center of another airplane tragedy
Nancy Kerrigan stepped to the microphone at the Boston Skating Club in Norwood, Massachusetts, visibly shaken. Just hours earlier she had heard the news of Wednesday night’s tragedy, in which 64 people aboard a commercial airliner died after it collided with a military helicopter midair near Reagan Washington National Airport. …
Read More »Big investors strike a cautious tone on markets for 2025 with Trump policies, inflation posing risks
The backdrop should be reassuring for many investors: A lively bull market, pro-business policies promised by the Trump administration and a Federal Reserve close to pulling off a soft landing. However, Wall Street’s biggest names aren’t sounding so bullish for the year ahead. Convening at an alternative investments conference in Miami …
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