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HBO/John P. JohnsonLarry David, the Emmy-winning co-creator of Seinfeld and star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, is going live for a limited time. A Conversation With Larry David will be held both at The Anthem venue in Washington, D.C., on March 29 and at Bostons MGM Music Hall at Fenway on April 1. Presale tickets are up for grabs starting Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET at Live Nation and Ticketmaster; general ticket sales will start at the same time on February 2. In a statement to Variety, the acerbic Dav...

Bill Pugliano/Getty Images(OXFORD, Mich.) -- Jennifer Crumbleys trial continued on Tuesday with witnesses testifying about the morning of the 2021 Oxford High School shooting in Michigan. Andrew Smith, the CEO of the real estate company where Jennifer Crumbley worked at the time of the shooting, testified that she would have been allowed to leave for the day if she needed to take care of her son. Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of school shooter Ethan Crumbley, pleaded not guilty to four counts o...

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 a 48-hour period, compared to a placebo. The studies evaluated people who had recently undergone surgery and needed something to treat "ac...

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department on Monday indicted an Iranian man and two Canadian nationals in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme that targeted dissidents and critics of the Iranian regime. According to a newly-unsealed indictment, prosecutors say Naji Zindashti conspired with two Canadian men between December 2020 and March 2021 in an unsuccessful plot to assassinate two residents of Maryland. The intended victims of the plot, who at the time resided in...

ABC Audio - Disney XDMarvel’s acclaimed animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur returns on Friday for a second season on Disney Channel and Disney XD, and streams the next day on Disney+. The series was a big winner at Decembers Children & Family Creative Arts Emmys, which was a thrill for star Diamond White. White voices the lead character, a super-genius girl who becomes half of the titular superhero team after befriending a dino. "I think I was in Atlanta while the Emmys happened,...

KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- Arrests have been made after six people were found shot to death last week in a desert community in San Bernardino County, California, according to authorities. The San Bernardino County Sheriffs Department said it would announce more information at a press conference Monday evening. It was unclear how many people were arrested or any information on the charges. "No information will be released prior to the press conference," law enforcement said. Shortly after ...

Courtneyk/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the 2024 tax season kicked off across the nation Monday, the Internal Revenue Service is offering some new services it says will help make filing easier for taxpayers. The IRS is now offering Free File and Direct File for qualifying taxpayers and expanded in-person services through its Taxpayer Assistance Centers. The new programs come after an infusion of supplemental funding provided to the IRS through the Inflation Reduction Act. "As our transformat...

Juanmonino/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The working theory about how an enemy drone slipped past defenses at a U.S. base in Jordan is that American personnel mistook the enemy drone for one of their own returning from a surveillance mission, two U.S. officials confirmed Monday. One U.S. official confirmed that the explosive-laden attack drone approached the base at a low altitude and hit a housing area at the remote Tower 22 base in the Jordanian desert near the border with Syria and Iraq. The at...

SERGII IAREMENKO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA) -- The Philadelphia Department of Public Health is warning that several people may have recently been exposed to hepatitis A at a grocery store. An employee at a ShopRite, located in the northeast part of the city, was confirmed to have "acute hepatitis A" and was working behind the meat counter between Jan. 4 and Jan. 21 while possibly contagious, said officials. "The store is aware of the situation and is working ...

KeithBinns/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Iranian-backed militants killed three American service members and wounded more than two dozen others in a drone attack in Jordan on Sunday, U.S. officials said, with President Joe Biden warning that the strike would be met with American retaliation. The deaths were the first in the line of fire for U.S. troops since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October, sparked by Hamas terror attack. The U.S. has supported Israel against Hamas in Gaza but sought ...