NBC(LOS ANGELES) -- Before launching her new talk show earlier this month, Kelly Clarkson was so worried no one would watch. But now the ratings for her first week are in, and it turns out she had nothing to worry about. According to The Hollywood Reporter, in its first week on air, The Kelly Clarkson Show scored the best debut ratings for a new syndicated series since 2012. The show, […]
Photo Credit: Robert Voets/ 2019 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.(LOS ANGELES) -- Young Sheldon, the hit CBS sitcom about the early days of Big Bang Theory's genius Sheldon Cooper, is about to boost the brains of some geniuses-to-be. The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation, named after both shows' producer Chuck Lorre, will be donating a $200,000 matching gift to fund middle school STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) projects. The […]
Stumptown/ABCCobie Smulders plays a complicated no-nonsense private eye in the new series Stumptown, which premieres tonight on ABC. Smulders plays a woman named Dex, who is running from a terrible past. When it comes to Dex's personal demons, however, Smulders told ABC audio that they sometimes get the better of her. "She was in the military, and now she's been out for about 10 years, and she is suffering PTSD because of her experiences there," […]
karlumbriaco/iStock(VILLA PARK, Ill.) -- A little girl in Illinois had a run-in with a coyote and her family's home surveillance camera captured the close encounter.Christine Przybylski, 5, ran down the driveway in hopes of retrieving her Halloween costume from the mail and came back empty-handed, but still got a scare.The surveillance video showed a coyote lurking as Christine ran around the family's Villa Park front yard outside Chicago. "I just […]
(Dallas County Jail) Domingo Ramirez-Cavente, 29, pictured in a photo released by authorities, has been charged with aggravated assault for the shooting of a transgender woman in Dallas.(DALLAS) -- Police have arrested a Dallas man who they say admitted to shouting anti-LGBTQ slurs at a transgender woman before shooting her several times.Domingo Ramirez-Cavente, 29, allegedly shot Rony Calderon, who is transgender, last week in northwest Dallas, hitting her multiple times […]
Andrew Lipovsky/NBC(LOS ANGELES) -- Ringo Starr dropped by The Tonight Show Music Room on Tuesday, where he joined host Jimmy Fallonand his house band The Roots for a performance of the Beatles' classic, "Yellow Submarine" using only classroom instruments. In the recurring segment, Fallon and The Roots back musical artists for a version of one of their popular songs using instruments you would find in a classroom, including a wood block, toy xylophone, melodica, ukulele, kazoos, apple shaker, bongos, […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Five tornadoes in Iowa, Kansas and Wisconsin were among nearly 80 damaging storms reported Tuesday from mostly Kansas to Wisconsin. Tornado damage was reported in Wisconsin's Chippewa County, with some buildings completely destroyed and cars flipped.Kansas and Minnesota saw straight-line winds gusting to 80 mph, with trees and power lines down.Tennis ball-size hail was also reported in Nebraska and Kansas.On Wednesday, the attention turns to the […]
Rawpixel/iStock(EAST RIDGE, Tenn.) -- A Tennessee kindergartner with autism was punished for giving a hug to his classmate, according to his family.Summery Putnam said she received a call three weeks ago from her son's teacher at East Ridge Elementary, who said "you need to have a talk with Nathan about boundaries," she told ABC Chattanooga affiliate WTVC."I was sick to my stomach," Putnam said.Putnam, who is Nathan's legal guardian, said […]
400tmax/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Homeland Security has announced a "compelling and urgent" framework to combat violent white supremacy.DHS said the agency hopes to provide an annual state of the Homeland Threat Assessment, which "evaluates the strategic threat environment within the Homeland related to terrorism and targeted violence," according to the report."We continue to see violent attacks based on hateful ideology," acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan said on Friday in announcing […]
