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Mario Tama/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- After 148 days, leaders of the Writers Guild of America have unanimously voted to lift its strike, allowing writers to return to work Wednesday, Sept. 27. "The WGAW Board and WGAE Council also voted unanimously to lift the restraining order and end the strike as of 12:01 am PT/3:01 am ET on Wednesday, September 27th. This allows writers to return to work during the ratification process, but does not affect the memberships right to make a final determinat...

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Much of the government is getting close to shutting down Oct. 1 as Congress struggles to pass a stopgap funding deal -- and on Monday, with just five days to go, many federal workers and agencies were bracing for impact. The House and Senate have until the end of the day on Saturday, Sept. 30 to pass a spending deal. Little progress was made over the weekend, and with Congress not returning until Tuesday evening after being off for the Yom Kippur holiday, ...

Daniel Garrido/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Eight people were recently taken to the hospital after a JetBlue Airlines plane encountered "sudden severe turbulence" early Monday as it neared Florida, the airline confirmed to ABC News. Last month, 14 people were injured after a Delta Air Lines plane experienced sudden turbulence on approach to Atlanta, Georgia. In August, two flight attendants were injured after a United Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Punta Cana experienced turb...

ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- A large explosion has reportedly torn through a fuel store being used by ethnic Armenia refugees amidst their exodus from the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Thousands of ethnic Armenians have started fleeing from Nagorno-Karabakh following Azerbaijan’s successful military offensive to retake control of the region last week. The explosion occurred at a fuel depot close to the Stepanakert-Askeran highway that leads from the enclaves capital, ac...

Jason Marz/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A group of prominent authors joined a proposed class action lawsuit filed against OpenAI over allegations that products like ChatGPT make illegal use of their copyrighted work, setting off a high-profile legal clash. While the lawsuit follows a series of similar legal challenges, it features a roster of well-known plaintiffs including authors George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult. The case targets a company at the center of a wave of artificial intelligence-dri...

Icy Macload/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The overdose crisis has reached historic levels in New York City, according to new data from the citys Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Provisional data shows there were 3,026 overdose deaths in New York City in 2022, the highest total since the department began recording such incidents in 2000. Newly released data shows that overdose deaths increased by 12% from 2021 to 2022. Fentanyl was detected in 81% of drug overdose deaths in New York City, acc...

LionsgatePhysicist — and arguably cinematic wet blanket — Neil deGrasse Tyson has traditionally been quick to point out scientific inaccuracies in films, but hes giving Halle Berrys 2022 dud Moonfall a top honor. Well, dishonor, really: He says the movie co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich has dethroned 1998s Armageddon as the movie that "violates the most laws of physics per minute." Tysons review of Moonfall, on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, sounds like a bad Hollywood...

David McNew/Getty ImagesThe Writers Guild reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end its historic 146-day strike. "The WGA and AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement," the parties announced in a joint statement Sunday evening, September 23. Specific details of the agreement werent immediately released by the WGA, pending the negotiating committees vote. However, the guild touted the deal as "exceptional with meaningful g...

ABC News/Washington Post(NEW YORK) -- President Joe Bidens job approval rating is 19 points underwater, his ratings for handling the economy and immigration are at career lows. A record number of Americans say theyve become worse off under his presidency, three-quarters say hes too old for another term and Donald Trump is looking better in retrospect -- all severe challenges for Biden in his reelection campaign ahead. Forty-four percent of Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll sa...

Craig Lovell/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Embassy of Cuba in Washington, D.C., was "the target of a terrorist attack," when two Molotov cocktails were tossed at the building on Sunday night, according to Cubas Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla. Embassy staff "suffered no harm" and "details are being worked out," Rodríguez Parrilla said on social media. "Terrorist attack against the Cuban embassy in the United States. The Cuban Embassy st...