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Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’As previously announced, The Drew Barrymore Show is returning on Monday, October 16 -- but without its three WGA writers. The shows head writers Chelsea White, Cristina Kinon and Liz Koe -- all vocal critics of the shows attempted return amid the Writers Guild Strike in mid-September -- have declined an offer to return with it, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. During the strike, all three could be seen picketing outside ...

Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Vice President Kamala Harris swore in Sen. Laphonza Butler to serve as Californias senator on Tuesday, replacing the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Butler, whose appointment was announced by California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday, was flanked by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who met with Butler on Tuesday just prior to her being sworn in, and California Sen. Alex Padilla as Harris administered the oath on the Senate floor. After her swearing in, member...

Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(CONCORD, N.H.) -- The trial of a 27-year-old drifter charged with fatally shooting a retired couple on a New Hampshire hiking trail began Tuesday with a prosecutor telling a jury that evidence will show that "he alone" is guilty of the grisly slayings, and a defense attorney countering police "got the wrong man." Logan Clegg is accused of murder and other crimes stemming from the 2022 killings of retired international humanit...

ATU Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers across the country are planning to strike Wednesday morning over what a coalition of unions allege are unfair labor practices. The strike -- which will last for three days in most locations and include employees in California, Colorado, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, Washington and Washington, D.C. -- would be the largest among health care workers in U.S. history, according to the unions. The Coalition of Kaiser Permane...

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A bus crash in Mestre, a suburb near Venice, and on Italys mainland, left 21 dead and 18 injured on Tuesday, according to Italian officials. The bus, which was carrying passengers to a campsite in Marghera, fell off of an overpass, police said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The accident happened in the Mestre and Marghera neighboring districts of Italy, near the city of Venice. Many of the injured, who were rescued in an evacuation operation...

Catherine McQueen/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Powerball frenzy was in full swing Wednesday as potential billionaires were lining up at kiosks across the nation with dreams of what theyll do if theyre lucky enough to hit the estimated $1.2 billion jackpot up for grabs. The drawing Wednesday night will be the third-largest purse in the American lottery games history and the biggest so far this year. Its also the seventh-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever, according to a press release from Powerball....

Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- An ongoing strike carried out by tens of thousands of autoworkers has cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars, denying workers their wages and cutting output at car companies, according to a study from a Michigan-based research firm that was reviewed by ABC News. Over its first two weeks, the strike cost workers $325 million in lost wages while imposing more than $1 billion in manufacturing declines at the Big 3 U.S. automakers – General Mo...

Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Pope Francis suggested it may be possible to bless same-sex unions in a newly public response to cardinals who questioned the popes affirmation of the LGBTQ community in the Catholic Church. In the July letter, which is written in Spanish, he reaffirmed that "the Church has a very clear understanding of marriage: an exclusive, stable, and indissoluble union between a man and a woman, naturally open to procreation," according to the Vatican...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Vivek Ramaswamy tells ABC News that he feels his campaign has entered "a new phase" eight months into his presidential bid -- as the Republican hopeful and entrepreneur has won a following among primary voters but like other candidates still trails far behind Donald Trump. Asked about how he is changing while in California on Saturday, where he was addressing a state party convention, Ramaswamy told ABC News, "I laid the foundation, I introduced myself, start...

ABC/Jeff LipskMonday, October 2 marked the long-awaited return of late-night TV following the writers strike, and the hosts addressed it in their respective monologues. Stephen Colbert applauded the new contract "that includes protections from A.I., cost of living increases, [and] better pay for streaming." "Plus, thanks to the picket lines, my writers got fresh air and sunshine -- and they do not care for that," he quipped. "Now they’re back safely in their joke h...