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Maymah(NEW YORK) -- Maymah, a weightlifter and social media influencer who just goes by her first name, was part of Gymshark’s sports hijab launch in London. When asked about what it’s like working out or weightlifting with a regular hijab, she says, “If I was doing something like running or skipping when theres a lot of head movement, it could be quite annoying and it distracts you from your actual workout.” So when her manager told her about Gymshark’s sports hijab, she immediately a...

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Omar Martinez/picture alliance via Getty Images(GUANAJUATO, Mexico) -- At least seven people are dead, including one child, in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato after several gunmen stormed the La Palma resort on Saturday, according to authorities. Authorities said when they arrived, they found the deceased bodies of three women, three men and a 7-year-old child, according to a release from the state attorney generals office. Another injured person was found and transported to a local hos...

Tramino/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Michael Critchleys job is to persuade his longtime Ford customers to swap their gas-guzzling pickups for the F-150 Lightning. Ford started production of the all-electric Lightning in late 2021 and the Dearborn automaker still cannot keep up with demand. Critchley says he has so many requests for the electric truck that hes forced to turn away wannabe owners. "People are offering me a lot of money over MSRP. Ive been offered $20K above sticker price," ...

L-R - Angourie Rice, Jennifer Garner -- Apple TV+In this day and age of instant communication, theres a lost art of letter writing — but dont tell that to Jennifer Garner, who tells ABC Audio it was personal notes that snagged her the plum role of Hannah in Apple TV+s new drama The Last Thing He Told Me.  Based on Laura Daves bestseller, and co-produced by Reese Witherspoon, the show sees Garners character looking for her missing husband (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) — and finding out he wasn...

Tim Robberts/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Parler, a social media platform popular among conservatives, will temporarily shut down after being acquired by the hedge fund Starboard, the company said on Friday. The acquisition comes months after the failure of a bid for the apps parent company, Parlement Technologies, undertaken by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. Starboard pulled down the app as part of a "strategic assessment" but plans to relaunch the platform, the company sai...

KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(MICHIGAN) -- Nearly 100 probable cases of a rare fungal infection, including one fatal, have been linked to a Michigan paper mill. Public Health Delta & Menominee Counties (PHDM) said 21 cases of blastomycosis have been confirmed while another 76 are suspected. All cases are in employees, contractors or visitors of the Escanaba Billerud Paper Mill on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Amid the outbreak, 12 people have been hospitalized and one person...

Handout(LONDON) -- It was in early March when Fereshteh, a 42-year-old mother of two, said she received a phone call from a friend claiming there had been a chemical gas attack at a girls school in their small town in Irans Isfahan Province. She ran all the way to her daughters high school, fearing for her only daughters safety. "I felt my heart coming out of my chest with fear. I dont know how my feet dragged me to Roshanas (her daughter) school," Fereshteh said. ABC News has agreed t...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- More than 26 million Americans from the Heartland into the South are under a severe weather threat Saturday. Severe thunderstorms are possible from Illinois to Texas through the evening, affecting cities including Houston, New Orleans, St. Louis and Little Rock, Arkansas. Numerous severe thunderstorms are possible in a region along the Missouri and Arkansas border. The primary hazards will be strong, potentially damaging wind gusts and large hail -- though brief, isolated t...

Ramsey County Sheriffs Office(NEW YORK) -- A Minnesota judge sentenced a man to life in prison without parole Thursday for the death of his first wife, 13 years after police said he shot her over their financial troubles and lied to investigators that it happened during a home invasion. Several of Heidi Firkus friends and family gave emotional victim statements before the judge sentenced her husband Nick Firkus, 40, for his crimes. For years, Nick Firkus maintained he was innocent and that a mys...