Wendy Williams thanks fans for 'overwhelming' response to dementia diagnosis
NEW YORK (AP) – Former talk show host Wendy Williams reacts to the revelation that she has been diagnosed with dementia and well-wishers ahead of the airing of a Lifetime documentary about her struggle. I am grateful to you. “I feel immense gratitude for the love and kind words I have received,” Williams said in a statement released to The Associated Press on Friday. She also stated that she needs “personal space and peace to grow.” It also came hours after a New York judge ruled on Lifetime's “Where's Wendy Williams?” The documentary will air as scheduled this weekend. The documentary will air in two parts, Saturday and Sunday, and will feature footage and interviews with the former talk show host.
Actor calls on French film industry to stand up against sexual abuse during live broadcast of César Awards ceremony
PARIS (AP) – French actor Judith Godreche urged the French film industry to “face the truth” about sexual violence and physical abuse during a live broadcast of the César Awards, France's version of the Oscars, on Friday. I called out. Godreche was invited to speak about sexual violence at the ceremony after actors claimed they were victims of teenage sexual abuse by directors decades older than them, and the country's It sheds light on the dark side of the industry. Godreche asked the audience if they were ready to “face the truth” and urged them to “say out loud what you're thinking.” She received a standing ovation for her speech.
A clock that melted during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima sells for more than $31,000
BOSTON (AP) — A clock that melted during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 sold for more than $31,000 at auction Thursday. The clock stopped at 8:15 a.m., the moment the atomic bomb exploded at the end of World War II. Boston-based RR Auctions said the small brass-colored clock was recovered from the ruins of a Japanese city and offers a glimpse of the untold destruction of the first atomic bomb detonated over a city. Other auction items included a signed copy of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong's “Red Book,” which sold for $250,000.
The story behind the disputed “Hotel California” lyrics page: “I felt it lacked content,” a former auction executive says.
NEW YORK (AP) – A former auction house executive says an explanation he received about the source of a 13-page lyric draft for the Eagles' “Hotel California” raised red flags. Former Christie's magazine manuscript manager Tom Leckie testified Friday in a New York criminal trial over the composition page of one of classic rock's biggest hits. Leckie said he became concerned after being told in 2015 that a potential seller had received information from a writer who wrote an unpublished biography of the band. However, he admitted that after leaving Christie's, he asked the seller again about marketing possibilities. Those on trial are three collectibles experts who owned the page at various times. They have pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy to possess stolen property.
World War II bombs led to evacuations in England, carried to sea and blown up
LONDON (AP) – An unexploded World War II bomb has been safely transported through the eerily deserted streets of Plymouth, a port city in southwestern England. It will be loaded onto a ship Friday for its final voyage to sea, where it will be blown up by Navy divers. The bomb caused Britain's largest post-war evacuation. Military convoys carried Nazi-era explosives from the backyards of homes in the city to the sea. About 10,000 people were told they could go home. The bomb is believed to have weighed approximately 500 kilograms or 1,100 pounds. If it explodes, there is no doubt that it will give off a tremendous amount of spray.
IS bride trapped in Syrian refugee camp loses appeal over British citizenship revocation
LONDON (AP) — A woman who traveled to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group has lost her appeal against the British government's decision to strip her of British citizenship. Shamima Begum was 15 years old when she joined the extremist group in February 2015 along with two other girls from London. Shortly after she surfaced in a Syrian refugee camp in 2019, authorities stripped her of her British citizenship on national security grounds. Her lawyers filed a lawsuit to overturn that decision. The Home Office opposed the challenge. In Friday's ruling, three judges rejected her appeal.
MLB players are uncomfortable with the sport's new see-through pants and have expressed their concerns to the league.
PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — MLB's new uniform announcement hasn't gone very well. Now the rampant criticism has moved below the belt. Bruce Meyer, deputy executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, acknowledged Thursday that the organization has relayed concerns from players to MLB about the new pants, which are somewhat transparent. The complaint, first reported by ESPN, is part of a broader disdain for the new uniforms, which were designed by Nike and manufactured by Fanatics. Commissioner Rob Manfred previously said he expected the criticism to wane, but that was before there was any real criticism.
AT&T says disruptions to U.S. mobile phone networks were not caused by a cyber attack
AT&T said the hours-long outage to its U.S. cell phone network appears to be the result of a technical error rather than a malicious attack. The Dallas-based company blamed Thursday's outage on a coding error during a network expansion, without providing further details. The company has restored wireless coverage after a power outage cut off cell phone service on its network across the United States. The power outages began around 3:30 a.m. ET and peaked at about 73,000 reports, according to the outage tracker DownDetector. AT&T reported more than 58,000 outages around noon ET in areas including Houston, Atlanta and Chicago. The company's subscriber count is the largest in the country, exceeding 240 million. By 8 p.m. ET, reports of outages on AT&T's network had fallen to fewer than 1,000.
Three University of Wyoming swimmers killed in Colorado highway crash
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – Three members of the University of Wyoming swimming and diving team have died in a highway crash in northern Colorado. The accident occurred Thursday afternoon on Route 287, about 16 miles south of the Wyoming-Colorado line between Laramie, Wyoming, and Fort Collins, Colorado. Two other team members were injured in the crash and are expected to survive, the University of Wyoming said in a statement. The accident occurred when the driver veered off the road and the SUV rolled over multiple times. In 2001, eight University of Wyoming cross-country runners were killed in a head-on collision with a drunk driver on the same highway.
Wendy Williams diagnosed with same type of dementia as Bruce Willis
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former talk show host Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with the same type of dementia as actor Bruce Willis. A statement released on Thursday on behalf of Wendy's caretakers said that the 59-year-old's diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia “has already caused significant disruption to Wendy's life.” He said that it affects behavior and cognition. The announcement comes a day after Williams' family was cited in a People magazine cover story about the nature of her struggles ahead of a documentary on her life scheduled to air on Saturday. Representatives listed in the release referred questions back to the written statement.
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