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Max/Craig BlakenhornThe Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That… is coming back for its second season and the cast is excited for its return. On Wednesday, the official teaser for season 2 dropped on HBO Max featuring Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), as well as new characters who were introduced in the first season, Che (Sara Ramirez), Seema (Sarita Choudhury), Lisa (Nicole Ari Parker) and Dr. Nya Wallace (Karen Pittman). The upcoming se...

Fstop123/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Some women are willing to go the distance to preserve fertility -- and make it more affordable. After the age of 30, a womans fertility decreases every year, leading some women to turn to fertility preservation treatments, such as egg freezing, so they can delay starting a family while ensuring their chances of having one. Egg freezing for fertility preservation is a process that has been around since the late 1990s, according to the National Institute of Healt...

Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug Tuesday to treat a rare form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. The drug Qalsody (tofersen) is expected to help people with a very specific mutation, SOD1, which applies to only 2% of the ALS population. In a statement, the FDA said it estimates "there are fewer than 500 patients with SOD1-ALS in the United States." Among those who qualify, the drug has the potential to slow mus...

ABC News(ERIE, Pa.) -- Its been over a decade since researchers began looking into microplastics in the Great Lakes. Now, the issue is getting renewed attention amid broader concerns about the potential effects of microplastics on the human body and a possible future link to the hydro-fracking boom currently happening in the region. Microplastics form as plastic pieces in the environment erode into smaller and smaller pieces, eventually becoming so small that they cant be seen with the naked ey...

Anton Petrus/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian troops have liberated nearly 30,000 square miles of their territory from Russian forces since the invasion began on Feb. 24, 2022, but Putin appeared to be preparing for a long and bloody war. Heres how the news is developing. All times Eastern: Apr 25, 1:03 ...

Jon Challicom/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Chevrolet is saying bye-bye to the Bolt. The Chevy Bolt hatchback, as well as its crossover Bolt EUV sibling, will cease production this year, General Motors has confirmed to ABC News. The Bolt starts at just under $27,000 before federal and state electric vehicle incentives, making it the cheapest way to get into a new EV in the United States. In a statement, a Chevy spokesperson called the Bolt a “huge technical achievement,” but went on to say that ...

Warner Bros. PicturesAs the annual motion picture industry confab CinemaCon rolls on in Las Vegas, Warner Bros. Discovery dropped its cards on the table Tuesday morning, with sneak peeks of Wonka, The Color Purple, the sequel to Aquaman and a second trailer to The Flash. According to Deadline, Oprah Winfrey made her first appearance at the expo to talk up the musical reboot of The Color Purple, with the producer calling it a "full-circle moment." She earned an Oscar nomination for the ...

Steve Granitz/FilmMagicGabrielle Union will star in and executive produce a series adaptation of Darby Kanes bestseller, Pretty Little Wife, ABC Audio has confirmed. Produced by A+E and Amazon Studios, the project is being described as a "cat-and-mouse thriller with a pulpy edge and some sexy soap." It centers on "two brilliant — and very different — Black women: Lily, the pretty little wife suspected of murdering her husband, and Ginny, the detective on the case. Upon enterin...

Isaac Lane Koval/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A study released in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week has shed some new light on how breast cancer rates have been disproportionately affecting Black female patients and pressed for earlier screenings. The study found that Black women had the same risk of dying from breast cancer if they were screened starting at age 42 as the general population had with screenings starting at the recommended age of 50. Researchers, wh...

Mattel(NEW YORK) -- Barbie is marking a new first in the dolls 64-year history. On Tuesday, Mattel unveiled the first-ever Barbie doll with Down syndrome. The new Barbie was created through a partnership between Mattel and the National Down Syndrome Society, which describes itself as "the leading human rights organization for all individuals with Down syndrome." Around 1 in every 700 babies born in the United States have Down syndrome, or around 6,000 babies born each year, according t...