WH acknowledges mystery health attacks in U.S.

Mysterious health incidents that have affected dozens of U.S. personnel around the globe have also occurred within the U.S., the White House confirmed for the first time on Friday.

1st cases reported in 2016 »

  • Celebrity
    Variety

    Tawny Kitaen, ’80s Music Video Vixen and ‘Bachelor Party’ Star, Dies at 59

    Julie E. “Tawny” Kitaen, who famously appeared in several music videos for the rock group Whitesnake in the ‘80s, has died. The Orange County, Calif. coroner’s office, which listed her as Tawny Finley, stated that she died at her home in Newport Beach on Friday morning, but a cause of death has not been revealed. […]

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  • U.S.
    In The Know

    American teen shares her biggest ‘culture shocks’ from attending an Australian high school: ‘I can’t get over [it]’

    A teen is going viral after sharing the biggest culture shocks she faced in Australia.

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  • Politics
    Yahoo News

    Melania Trump, Jill Biden and the battle over the Rose Garden

    Just months after then-first lady Melania Trump unveiled her controversial redesign of the beloved space directly outside the Oval Office, some are calling for her successor, Jill Biden, to undo those changes and return the Rose Garden to the celebrated vision realized by the Kennedy administration in 1961.

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  • Lifestyle
    House Beautiful

    HGTV’s 2021 Dream Home Winner Has Listed the House for Sale Just Days After Winning — Here's a Look Inside

    For the past six years, winner Jeff Yanes entered the HGTV Home Giveaways twice daily. Now he's parting ways with his grand prize.

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  • U.S.
    Miami Herald

    Another brawl breaks out at Miami International Airport. It’s part of a national trend

    Just mere days after a huge brawl at Miami International Airport, another massive fight broke out in the terminal Tuesday night.

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  • Entertainment
    The Telegraph

    Disney’s problematic princess: why Snow White is forever being cancelled

    It’s a tale as old as Twitter. Disneyland’s new Snow White ride, which reopened this month after a year of Covid shutdown, faces criticism for its "non-consensual kiss" between Snow White and Prince Charming. Snow White’s Enchanted Wish is a reimagining of Snow White’s Scary Adventures, one of the park’s inaugural rides when it opened in 1955. And it retains many elements of the original: visitors clunk along in minecarts in front of scenes from the film, recreated with jazzy LED projections, lazers and herky-jerky animatronics. But this faithfulness to Walt Disney’s 1938 film is precisely the problem, according to theme park reviewers, Julie Tremaine and Katy Dowd. “The attraction preserves much of the charm of what was originally opened,” they wrote on SFGate. “[But] it also adds in the movie’s biggest problem.” They continued: “Haven't we already agreed that consent in early Disney movies is a major issue? Why not re-imagine an ending in keeping with the spirit of the movie and Snow White's place in the Disney canon, but that avoids this problem?” Why not indeed? Disneyland, after all, has proved a dab hand at hasty retrofits. As Tremaine and Dowd point out, another popular ride, Splash Mountain, has been overhauled because of its problematic Southern stereotypes. And The Jungle Cruise is still closed after Disney promised to remove the “Trader Sam” character, a jolly dealer in shrunken heads, and its ape-like depictions of indigenous people.

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