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Onurdongel/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- For travelers who wish they could squeeze in a final hug or few more minutes at the gate with friends or family before departing on their holiday flights, one airport has a sweet new solution. Starting Nov. 1, just in time for holiday travel, Philadelphia International Airport will allow ticketed passengers on domestic flights to bring non-traveler guests past security checkpoints with its new PHL Wingmate Pass. The airport called the pass "an exclusive ...

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesRichard Roundtree, best known for playing the titular character in the groundbreaking Shaft franchise, passed away Tuesday, October 24, at age 81. His longtime manager, Patrick McMinn, confirmed to ABC News Roundtree died following a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He said Roundtrees family was at his bedside. Roundtree’s career spanned five decades, but it was his portrayal of Detective John Shaft in the 1971 action thriller that established him as ...

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- For decades, scientists have been studying why some people experience prolonged illnesses in the wake of even mild infections. Now, due to the millions of people suffering from a similar phenomenon after COVID-19 infection, new funding and research efforts are beginning to unlock some of the mysteries that can help explain long flu, long cold and long COVID. According to Dr. Todd Ellerin, chief of infectious diseases at South Shore Health, ab...

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- After President Joe Bidens primetime address from the Oval Office where he announced he was requesting that Congress pass $105 billion in aid predominantly to Israel and Ukraine and expressed his dedication to bringing home hostages, some Arab and Muslim Americans described feeling "dumbfounded" and "disheartened." "He doesnt even mention the U.S. citizens in Gaza. Its unbelievable," Chicago-area resident Nabil Alshurafa ...

AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- United Nations Humanitarian and Emergency Relief Chief Martin Griffiths has said half-a-year of war has plunged Sudan into “one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history." As battles continue between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, up to 9,000 people have been killed and over 5.6 million people have been displaced both within and outside national borders. “For six months, civilians ...

Tim Drivas Photography/GETTY Images(NEW YORK) -- A jewelry store customer was trapped in a locked Diamond District safe room for about 10 hours overnight -- only freed when the doors, on a timer, popped open. The 23-year-old man became locked inside the secure room inside 580 Fifth Avenue, which houses multiple small jewelry stores and vaults, just after 8 p.m. Tuesday, New York Fire Department officials said. He was checking his safety deposit box when the door to the room was locked from the o...

JohnFScott/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Starbucks, McDonalds and other major companies have touched off controversy tied to the Israel-Hamas war, exemplifying the corporate challenges posed by the high-stakes and politically charged conflict. Starbucks sued its union, Starbucks Workers United, earlier this month after the labor organization posted a since-deleted message on X, formerly known as Twitter, expressing solidarity with Palestinians. The message from the union triggered calls to boycott S...

Paramount PicturesEthan Hunts next mission will have to wait nearly a year as Paramount Pictures has bumped the release of Tom Cruises eighth Mission Impossible movie from June 28, 2024 to May 23, 2025. The movie was forced to halt production due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike and wont be completed in time to open next summer, according to Variety. Mission Impossible 8 will also have a new title. Paramount and Skydance have removed Dead Reckoning Part 2 from the title, though it will st...

Westend61/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A former National Security Agency employee pleaded guilty on Monday to attempting to sell classified documents to a person he believed was a Russian agent -- but who was actually an undercover FBI employee. Jareh Dalke, 31, pleaded to six counts of attempting to transmit national defense information to a foreign government, admitting that in August and September of 2022 he sought to sell copies of three classified documents containing information marked top ...

200mm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With all eyes on the Israel-Hamas war, and Israeli Defense Forces airstrikes happening daily in Gaza, world leaders and others have been anxiously awaiting what some experts say is an inevitable ground operation into Gaza. Since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack, Israeli military leaders have been mustering more than 360,000 IDF reservists from around the world and have not ruled out sending them into combat to retaliate against Hamas and rescue more than 220 Israeli...