Year: 2017

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Melissa McCarthy’s “Spicey” returns to “SNL”

NBC/Rosalind O'Connor(NEW YORK) -- Melissa McCarthy spiced up this weekend's Saturday Night Live. After a spate of guest appearances mocking White House press secretary Sean Spicer in recent weeks, she was back on Saturday's edition of the NBC satire show to preside as host in what turned out to be SNL's most-watched May telecast in seven years. The Spicer sketch began with cast member Aidy Bryant playing Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the […]

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Entertainment

Melissa McCarthy's “Spicey” returns to “SNL”

NBC/Rosalind O'Connor(NEW YORK) -- Melissa McCarthy spiced up this weekend's Saturday Night Live. After a spate of guest appearances mocking White House press secretary Sean Spicer in recent weeks, she was back on Saturday's edition of the NBC satire show to preside as host in what turned out to be SNL's most-watched May telecast in seven years. The Spicer sketch began with cast member Aidy Bryant playing Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the […]

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Entertainment

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2” conquers the box office for the second straight week; “King Arthur” disappoints

Marvel Studios - 2017(LOS ANGELES) -- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ruled the box office for the second straight week, raking in an estimated $63 million, according to Box Office Mojo. The sequel to Marvel's first Guardians movie has now topped $630 million worldwide. Marvel, like ABC News, is owned by Disney. Snatched, the mother-daughter comedy starring Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn, came in a distant second with an estimated $17.5 million haul -- far below the $30 […]

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National

Ninth Circuit questions Trump’s statements on Muslims

ABC News(SEATTLE) -- A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle Monday pressed attorneys for the Trump administration and the State of Hawaii on whether President Donald Trump’s statements, both as a candidate and as president, render his revised travel ban unconstitutional, and whether Trump has disavowed his call for a “Muslim ban.”Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey B. Wall asked the appeals court to reverse U.S. District […]

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Girl wears First Communion dress made from mom’s wedding gown

iStock/Thinkstock(LIMA, Ohio) --  Lily Whittaker's First Communion dress may have been the typical white color, but it was far from average. The dress was made from the wedding gown that Lily’s mother, Quinn Whittaker, wore, which was made by her grandmother, Suzanne Kelley. Whittaker, of Lima, Ohio, said she started to panic a few weeks before Lily’s May 7th First Communion when she realized she did not yet have a […]

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Ninth Circuit questions Trump's statements on Muslims

ABC News(SEATTLE) -- A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle Monday pressed attorneys for the Trump administration and the State of Hawaii on whether President Donald Trump’s statements, both as a candidate and as president, render his revised travel ban unconstitutional, and whether Trump has disavowed his call for a “Muslim ban.”Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey B. Wall asked the appeals court to reverse U.S. District […]

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Girl wears First Communion dress made from mom's wedding gown

iStock/Thinkstock(LIMA, Ohio) --  Lily Whittaker's First Communion dress may have been the typical white color, but it was far from average. The dress was made from the wedding gown that Lily’s mother, Quinn Whittaker, wore, which was made by her grandmother, Suzanne Kelley. Whittaker, of Lima, Ohio, said she started to panic a few weeks before Lily’s May 7th First Communion when she realized she did not yet have a […]

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Learjet crashes on approach to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey; Two dead

iStock/Thinkstock(CARLSTADT, N.J.) -- Two crewmembers are dead after a small plane crashed this afternoon in an industrial area in the northern New Jersey town of Carlstadt, police say. The Federal Aviation Administration said a Learjet 35 that was en route from Philadelphia International Airport to New Jersey's Teterboro Airport crashed at 3:30 p.m. while on approach to Runway 1 at Teterboro. Fire officials confirmed in a press conference Monday that […]

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Baton Rouge high school quarterback gunned down ahead of graduation

iStock/Thinkstock(BATON ROUGE, La.) -- Police have no suspects and no motive in the deadly shooting of an 18-year-old high school quarterback in Baton Rouge, police said.Bryant Lee, the "intelligent, hard-working, focused, fun-loving" football quarterback at McKinley Senior High School, died after he was shot around 1:50 a.m. local time Saturday, the Baton Rouge Police Department and high school principal said.The shooting was near Baton Rouge's Southern University, an area where, […]

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