Actor Jeff Hiller’s new memoir is Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success. He’s pictured above in Savannah, Ga., in November 2024. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for SCAD hide caption toggle caption Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for SCAD For much of his career, actor Jeff Hiller felt stuck. He had a string of small parts, often playing rude …
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Sydney Chandler as Wendy in Alien: Earth. Patrick Brown/FX hide caption toggle caption Patrick Brown/FX FX’s new series Alien: Earth opens with a scene familiar to any fans of the storied science fiction horror film franchise: A crew of dysfunctional, blue-collar workers waking from extended hibernation in a sprawling spaceship. In this case, it’s the year 2120 — two years …
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This graphic from the National Hurricane Center shows a possible path of Tropical Storm Erin over the course of the week. National Hurricane Center hide caption toggle caption National Hurricane Center A tropical storm churning in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa could become the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2025 season. Federal forecasters expect Tropical Storm Erin, …
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Amr Bo Shanab/Getty Images With the passage of the big Republican tax and spending bill, the federal government is poised to reduce support for Medicaid and the insurance marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that these cuts could cause 10 million Americans to lose health insurance by 2034. Lawmakers have justified these cuts as …
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President Donald Trump talks to the media in the Hall of Nations at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 17, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Trump’s announcement on Truth Social that the 48th annual Kennedy Center Honors recipients would be announced tomorrow caught Kennedy Center …
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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters at the White House on Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP President Trump extended a truce between the U.S. and China on tariffs, a move that could potentially set the stage for a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this year. With hours left on the …
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Eleanor Ceres found out she had lung cancer after the tumor spread from her chest and began protruding out her neck. Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, Ceres has been smoking for over 30 years — and smoking causes nearly three-quarters of lung cancer deaths around the world. Why wasn’t she diagnosed earlier? Prior to the tumor’s manifestation, …
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In a cold, dark ocean, life thrives near hydrothermal vents. Ralph White/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ralph White/Getty Images How did life start on Earth? The answer is a big scientific mystery scientists are actively investigating. After talking with many scientists, host Regina G. Barber found that an abundance of water on Earth is most likely key, in some …
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The AOL logo is shown on a wall of the company’s New York office, on Monday, May 12, 2008. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Lennihan/AP Beep, bop, boop, boooopp, scrsssshh… Such was the sound of AOL’s dial-up service, a marker of trying to connect to the internet in the 1990s. Now the company has announced it’s getting rid …
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A Russian Orthodox Church in the Alaska village of Tatitlik. Alaska was a Russian colony from 1799 until it was sold to the U.S. in 1867 for $7.2 million. President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are holding a summit in Alaska on Friday. David McNew/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption David McNew/Getty Images North America Russia lost …
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