Month: September 2017

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Joe Biden to Julia Louis-Dreyfus: “We Veeps stick together”

HBO/Colleen Hayes(LOS ANGELES) -- Former Vice President Joe Biden offered his well-wishes to Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Thursday, after she announced that she is battling breast cancer. Tweeting a picture of himself and Louis-Dreyfus donning sunglasses as they stride down a hallway, Biden wrote, "We Veeps stick together. Jill and I, and all of the Bidens, are with you, Julia." "1 in 8 women get breast cancer," Louis-Dreyfus tweeted Thursday. "Today, I'm the one." "The good news is that […]

todaySeptember 30, 2017

Entertainment

“Will & Grace” presses the reset button as show returns to NBC after 11 years

NBC/Chris Haston(LOS ANGELES) -- Remember the finale of Will & Grace back in 2006, where Will and Grace grew apart, only to reconnect when their grown children met in college and got married?  Yeah, well, that never happened.  At least, it didn't according to "Eleven Years Later," the first episode of the show's reboot. The episode opens with Will, Grace, Jack and Karen in Will's apartment, playing Heads Up Charades.  Karen is […]

todaySeptember 30, 2017

Entertainment

“Will & Grace” presses the reset button as show returns to NBC after 11 years

NBC/Chris Haston(LOS ANGELES) -- Remember the finale of Will & Grace back in 2006, where Will and Grace grew apart, only to reconnect when their grown children met in college and got married?  Yeah, well, that never happened.  At least, it didn't according to "Eleven Years Later," the first episode of the show's reboot. The episode opens with Will, Grace, Jack and Karen in Will's apartment, playing Heads Up Charades.  Karen is […]

todaySeptember 30, 2017

Entertainment

“American Made” and “Flatliners” among this week’s new releases

"Flatliners" - © 2017 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Opening nationwide on Friday: * Flatliners -- Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton and Kiersey Clemons star in this sequel to the 1990 film of the same name about five medical students obsessed with the afterlife who embark on a dangerous experiment to trigger near-death experiences by stopping their hearts for short periods of time. Keifer Sutherland also reprises his role from the original. Rated PG-13. * American Made -- Tom Cruise stars […]

todaySeptember 30, 2017

National

After criticism, acting homeland security chief admits humanitarian situation in Puerto Rico ‘is not satisfactory’

Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Elaine Duke, the acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Secretary, said Friday that while she was "proud" of the federal response in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, the situation on the ground is still "not satisfactory.""I am proud of the work that's being done," Duke told a press conference in San Juan this afternoon upon arriving in the U.S. territory. "Clearly, the situation here in Puerto […]

todaySeptember 30, 2017

National

Tenn. church suspect’s car had note referencing retaliation for Dylann Roof’s Charleston attack

Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images(ANTIOCH, Tenn.) -- A 25-year-old accused of opening fire at a Tennessee church last weekend allegedly had a note in his car referencing some sort of retaliation for the Charleston church attack carried out by white supremacist Dylann Roof two years ago, a law enforcement official said.Police said on Sept. 24, 25-year-old Emanuel Samson shot and killed a 39-year-old woman in the parking lot of the Burnette Chapel […]

todaySeptember 30, 2017

National

Feds announce charges against 3,800 alleged gang members

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- A federal operation dubbed “Regional Shield” has resulted in criminal charges against more than 3,800 alleged gang members in the U.S. and Central America, the Department of Justice announced Friday.Dismantling one particularly violent gang, the El Salvador-based group MS-13, has become a priority for the Trump administration, especially U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the department said in a press release.“[It] is one of the most violent and […]

todaySeptember 30, 2017

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Puerto Rico to get aid from the Navy’s 900-foot long floating hospital, the USNS Comfort

U.S. Navy photo by Bill Mesta(WASHINGTON) -- An 894 foot-long U.S. Navy floating hospital, said to have one of the largest trauma centers anywhere in the United States, is heading to Puerto Rico.The USNS Comfort, which can hold as many as 65 civil service mariners and 1,215 Navy medical personnel, left Norfolk, Virginia, on Friday to help bring relief to the U.S. territory devastated by Hurricane Maria.U.S. officials estimate it […]

todaySeptember 30, 2017

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Georgia officer shot dead after pulling over suspicious vehicle

iStock/Thinkstock(POLK COUNTY, Ga.) -- An officer in Polk County, Georgia, was shot dead after pulling over a suspicious vehicle on Friday, officials said.A second officer survived and is in good condition, Polk County Assistant County Manager Barry Akinson said, crediting his bulletproof vest.Akinson said the officers had received a call about a suspicious vehicle, and after they ran the plates and learned the vehicle was stolen, they pulled the car […]

todaySeptember 30, 2017

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