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ABC NewsCruise ship employee charged after allegedly stabbing 3 people with medical scissors
A man accused of going on a stabbing spree with a pair of medical scissors while aboard a Norwegian Cruise Line ship was arrested on Tuesday and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, according to prosecutors. Ntando Sogoni, 35, from South Africa, who was working on the Norwegian Encore ship at the time of the incident, was arrested by FBI agents in Juneau, Alaska, on Tuesday after allegedly stabbing three individuals with medical scissors on Monday. In a press release from Alaska's U.S. Attorney's Office, prosecutors say Sogoni was sent to the ship's medical center for an assessment after fellow employees noticed him "attempting to deploy a lifeboat," but he became "irrational" and tried to leave, attacking a security guard and nurse.
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50 million Americans under severe weather threats amid multiday tornado outbreak
There have been more than 50 reported or confirmed tornadoes across nearly a dozen states since Monday, as the tornado threat continues Wednesday. In the last 24 hours, there have been 27 reported tornadoes across six states -- Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Arkansas. There were more than 20 confirmed tornadoes on Monday across six states -- Tennessee, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Nebraska -- including a destructive EF4 tornado in Barnsdall, Oklahoma.
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Trump praises Kristi Noem amid book controversy: 'I like her a lot'
Former President Donald Trump has praised South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, saying he likes her "a lot" and that she's gone through "rough" days amid controversy of her newly released book. Noem is among Trump's close allies whose name has come up as Trump's potential vice presidential hopefuls. Noem has been harshly criticized for describing how she shot and killed her 14-month-old dog "Cricket" and was forced to admit what she called "errors" in her book including claiming she once met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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Trump seeking to fast-track challenge to gag order in his hush money trial
Former President Donald Trump is seeking to fast-track a challenge to the constitutionality of the limited gag order imposed on him by the judge overseeing his criminal hush money trial in New York. Trump's defense team on Wednesday asked an intermediate appeals court to issue a ruling on an expedited basis, or, alternatively, to grant them permission to appeal directly to the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals. The Appellate Division previously rejected Trump's attempt to pause the trial while he fights the limited gag order, which prohibits Trump from making statements about witnesses, jurors, attorneys, and others associated with the hush money case.
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Cynthia Erivo shares how 'special' Met Gala performance with Ariana Grande came to life
Cynthia Erivo is opening up about her "special" performance with Ariana Grande at the Met Gala on Monday night. In a sweet Instagram post she shared Wednesday, Erivo explained how grateful she was when Grande asked her to take the stage with her and how much she loves her "Wicked" co-star. Erivo, who plays Elphaba in the upcoming "Wicked" film alongside Grande, who plays Glinda, also shared in her post the story behind how the performance came to be.
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Woman says she lost 60 pounds after undergoing experimental weight loss procedure
Brooke Nelson said she was over 200 pounds and struggling to lose weight when she decided to take part in a clinical trial of a new, minimally-invasive weight loss procedure. The procedure Nelson underwent is called endoscopic ablation, which the lead author of the clinical trial, Dr. Christopher McGowan, says targets ghrelin, the so-called "hunger hormone." According to McGowan, an obesity medicine, internal medicine, and gastroenterology specialist, the procedure involves inserting a camera into the patient's stomach while fluids are administered to protect the underlying stomach tissue.
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Laken Riley murder suspect indicted on 10 counts in University of Georgia campus slaying
The suspect accused of killing 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley has been formally indicted on murder and other offenses in connection with the brutal slaying on the University of Georgia campus. A grand jury indicted Jose Ibarra, 26, with malice murder and felony murder in connection with the death of Riley, who was found dead in a wooded area on the Athens campus on Feb. 22 after she didn't return from a run. The indictment was returned on Tuesday and alleges that Ibarra killed the Augusta University student by "inflicting blunt force trauma to her head and by asphyxiating her" and seriously disfigured her head by striking her "multiple times" with a rock.
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Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones chase tornadoes in new heart-pounding 'Twisters' trailer: Watch here
A new trailer for the highly anticipated "Twisters" film is here. Daisy Edgar-Jones is featured in the new trailer, which dropped Wednesday, as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser, who crosses paths with Tyler Owens, played by Glen Powell, a reckless social-media superstar who thrives on storm-chasing. The trailer opens with a dramatic scene at what appears to be a rodeo.
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How olive oil could lower risk of dementia mortality
From vegetables and legumes to fish and fresh herbs, Mediterranean ingredients provide a wide array of health benefits, and the Mediterranean diet is consistently ranked the top overall diet. Now, researchers have found new health associations between consuming more than 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil a day and lower risk of dementia-related death. According to a new study published Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health followed the dietary decisions of 92,383 health care professionals over 28 years and found that those who incorporated more olive oil of any kind into their diet lowered their probability of dying from dementia.
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Prince Harry steps out solo in London while King Charles III attends Buckingham Palace garden party
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, is not seeing his father King Charles III while he is in London to mark the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games, ABC News has confirmed. A spokesperson for the duke told ABC News on Tuesday that Charles' schedule does not allow time for him to see his younger son, who now lives in the United States. "It unfortunately will not be possible due to His Majesty's full programme," the spokesperson said of a meeting between Harry and Charles.
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US withheld bomb shipment to Israel out of fears it could be used in Rafah
The Biden administration opted to pause a shipment of some 3,500 bombs to Israel last week because of concerns the weapons could be used in Rafah where more than one million civilians are sheltering "with nowhere else to go," a senior administration official told ABC News. Other weapon transfers from the U.S. to Israel -- including the sale of Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM kits -- are being closely scrutinized as part of a larger review of U.S. military aid to Israel that began last April, the official said. The decision to pause the shipment and consider slow-walking others is a major shift in policy for the Biden administration and the first known case of the U.S. denying its close ally military aid since the Israel-Hamas war began.
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Democrats work to keep protests from disrupting Chicago convention, with concerns over parallels to 1968
In 1968, violence at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, with hundreds of protesters arrested in a police crackdown, upended the party's gathering and soured public opinion in the final months before the presidential election. Now, more than 50 years later, as college campuses across the United States have erupted into protests over the Israel-Hamas war, some experts say history could repeat itself at this year's DNC convention -- also in Chicago. While the 1968 protests were against the Vietnam War, activists today are blaming President Joe Biden for his support of Israel's military operations in Gaza -- and some have expressed intentions to disrupt the party's plan to nominate him this summer for a second term.
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Khloé Kardashian explains why it took 8 months to name son
Khloé Kardashian opened up in a recent podcast episode about taking several months to legally name her second child Tatum. Kardashian spoke about the deliberations over her son's name on the May 7 episode of the "SHE MD" podcast. After explaining the familial significance behind the name of her first child, daughter True, the reality star said, "Tatum is a little different of a story."
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Mom shares warning after daughter's arm gets stuck in elevator
A mom is sharing a warning for other parents after her daughter's arm was caught in an elevator last year. Loni Garatziotis of Florida and her three children were visiting Hoboken, New Jersey, where they used to live, last August. Garatziotis said her daughter Zoe, then 5, had her hand on the elevator door when the elevator they were traveling in started opening up on the seventh floor.
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Is it still the economy, stupid?
This is the first installment of the 538 Politics podcast mini-series, "Campaign Throwback." Across three episodes, we're taking a look back at campaign tropes from past elections such as, "it's the economy, stupid," or "soccer moms" or that question about which candidate you'd rather share a beer with. It's a trope that dates back to Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
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Bruce Willis' wife says family 'desperately needed' support after dementia diagnosis
Emma Heming Willis is opening up about how sharing her husband Bruce Willis' frontotemporal dementia or FTD diagnosis in 2023 impacted her. "I could breathe, you know, I could really exhale and sort of just feel this weight sort of lift from my shoulders but everything changed for the better once we were able to disclose his diagnosis," Heming Willis said in a video shared Tuesday by The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration at their 2024 Education Conference. "I was able to see the support that I so desperately needed for my husband, for our whole family," the 45-year-old added.
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What to know about the new AI data center in Wisconsin
President Joe Biden is set to announce on Wednesday a $3 billion investment by tech giant Microsoft to build an artificial intelligence data center in southeast Wisconsin. The sprawling facility will be located on the same plot of land where, in 2018, former President Donald Trump announced a multi-billion dollar investment by Taiwanese company Foxconn that largely failed to materialize. The project sits at the convergence of several key Biden administration goals: upgrading U.S. infrastructure, rejuvenating domestic manufacturing and stewarding the responsible development of AI.
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Keanu Reeves wants 'Speed 3' with Sandra Bullock: 'We'd freakin' knock it out of the park'
"Speed" turned Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock into an iconic action duo in 1994, and the "John Wick" star is ready to hop back on the bus 30 years later. Bullock vowed, "Before I die, before I leave this planet, I do think that Keanu and I need to do something in front of the camera." The "Speed" sequel "Speed 2: Cruise Control" was released in 1997, with Bullock in a lead role once again, but without Reeves.
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Georgia court to take up Trump's appeal of Willis disqualification ruling, possibly delaying election case
An appeals court in Georgia has agreed to take up former President Donald Trump's appeal of the Fani Willis disqualification ruling that ultimately allowed her to remain on the Georgia election interference case -- a move that could significantly delay the case against the former president. The Georgia Court of Appeals, in a one-page order, said they would grant the request to review the ruling from Judge Scott McAfee. Trump and his codefendants now have 10 days to file the appeal.
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North West, Heather Headley, Lebo M. join 'The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl' concert event special
West, who is the daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, will star in the upcoming concert event special, along with Headley, Lebo M. and more, which will celebrate the 30-year evolution of "The Lion King," according to a press release. The roles of Headley, who originated the role of Nala in "The Lion King" Broadway musical and Lebo M., the voice and spirit of "The Lion King," are also unconfirmed.