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Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After long negotiations, the House is set to vote Wednesday on a bipartisan tax bill that would enhance the popular Child Tax Credit to benefit millions of American families. The $78 billion tax package called the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 would increase the child […]
Portland Police Bureau (PORTLAND, Ore.) — Portland, Oregon police are asking for the public’s help to find a woman wanted for her husband’s murder. On Friday morning, officers responded to a missing persons report and found 37-year-old Phillip Pierce shot dead inside a home in Portland’s Lents neighborhood, police said. Police initially said no suspects […]
Variety reports HBO is working on a limited series based on Gillian Flynn‘s novel Dark Places. The plot follows Libby Day, the only survivor of a massacre that killed her two sisters and mother. Her testimony against her teenage brother leads to his conviction for the murders. Twenty-five years later, she meets a group of […]
(WASHINGTON) — The chief executives of the nation’s top social media companies will testify before Congress on Wednesday in a hearing intended to drum up support for federal legislation to safeguard children from the online world. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from Linda Yaccarino, the chief of X, formerly known as Twitter; Shou Chew, […]
(WASHINGTON) — Despite vacillating comments from key figures involved in negotiations to free the more than 100 hostages thought to still be detained in Gaza, U.S. officials remained bullish on Tuesday that months of gridlock could soon give way to an agreement that would also pause the fighting between Israel and Hamas. “There’s no reason […]
(ATLANTA) — Fulton County prosecutor Nathan Wade has come to a “temporary agreement” canceling an upcoming hearing in his divorce proceedings that have embroiled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump. The move comes on the eve of a hearing in the case that had […]
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for TIME We can all use a friend like Austin Butler. During an appearance with his Masters of the Air co-star Callum Turner on The Drew Barrymore Show airing Wednesday, Butler offers to be Drew’s “get out of here free” phone call for an upcoming blind date — her first in a […]
Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A pharmaceutical company has presented new data for an experimental drug that they say can reduce acute pain, raising the possibility of an alternative to addictive opioids. In a press release, Vertex says two studies showed that the new drug, VX-548, showed a “clinically meaningful reduction” in pain over […]
Westend61/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — China’s hackers are preparing to “wreak havoc” and “cause real-world harm” to Americans, FBI Director Christopher Wray will warn in Congressional testimony submitted on Wednesday. Director Wray, along with U.S. Cyber Command Commander General Paul Nakasone, Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly and Harry Coker, […]
National Park Service (NEW YORK) — Human skeletal remains have been discovered just off of a trail in Joshua Tree National Park, police say. The grisly discovery happened last Thursday at approximately 12:08 p.m. when the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office received a call after somebody discovered human skeletal remains in Twentynine Palms, a region on […]
