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Jason Marz/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit challenging book bans in Escambia County, Florida, can move forward on the same day the county released an updated list of more than 2,800 individual books that have been pulled from shelves for review. U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II ruled on Wednesday that book publisher Penguin Random House, free expression PEN America, authors, and families of Escambia County had standing to pursue their claims under the F...

Westend61/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Trading is set to begin for a new type of bitcoin fund that gives investors access to the crypto market without some of the hassle and fees of owning bitcoin outright. Freshly approved by federal regulators, bitcoin ETFs -- Exchange-Traded Funds -- allow investors to buy an asset that tracks the price movement of bitcoin. Fidelity, BlackRock and a host of other top investment firms have already begun to offer the product. Bitcoin ETFs promise major potential g...

CBS/Trae PattonIn a heartfelt, and often hilarious, conversation with his former high school classmate, Robert Downey Jr. sat opposite Rob Lowe in a new installment of Robs Literally podcast. In talking about his awards run with Oppenheimer, recent Golden Globe winner Downey explained how bad reviews for the bomb Dolittle, a movie he starred in and produced, led him to career heights with Christopher Nolans atomic bomb movie. "I felt so exposed after being in the cocoon of Marvel where I th...

Matei Brancoveanu / 500px / Getty Images(WARREN, Ohio) -- A grand jury decided Thursday not to indict an Ohio woman on allegations that she mishandled the remains of a fetus after miscarrying her pregnancy at home. The case had alarmed reproductive rights groups and legal experts who said there is no clear guidance on how to handle an at-home miscarriage and that police and local prosecutors overreached by charging the woman, who is Black, with "abuse of a corpse." Brittany Watts, 34, ...

Filo/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. military has unleashed large-scale retaliatory airstrikes against multiple Houthi targets in Yemen following months of attacks by the Iranian-backed militants on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, a U.S. official said Thursday. The official said that the strikes involved a mix of fighter jets and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from Navy surface ships and a U.S. Navy submarine, according to two U.S. officials. One of the officials identified the subma...

Namthip Muanthongthae/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday gave its approval for some Bitcoin ETFs, just a day after a fake post on the agencys account on X made a similar announcement and sent the value of Bitcoin soaring. The price of Bitcoin vaulted skyward on Tuesday afternoon after the SEC appeared to deliver a major breakthrough for the cryptocurrency. Minutes later, SEC Chair Gary Gensler punctured the euphoria, saying on X that a hacker had comma...

Tetra Images - Erik Isakson/Getty Images(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- The California legislature began debating a bill Wednesday that would ban youth tackle football for children under age 12. AB 734, introduced last year by Sacramento Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat, would "prohibit a youth sports organization that conducts a tackle football program, or a youth tackle football league, from allowing a person younger than 12 years of age to be a youth tackle football participant through ...

Warner Bros. Pictures - UniversalGreta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan, the directors who brought us "Barbenheimer" — that is, the two blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer — were recognized Wednesday with nominations for the 76th annual Directors Guild Awards. This years list also included Martin Scorsese for his period crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon, Alexander Payne for The Holdovers and Yorgos Lanthimos for Poor Things. As the Oscars race gains steam, all five films were also ...

Maskot/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Although rates of strokes in the adult population have generally decreased over the last several decades, the racial inequity gap persists, according to a new study in Neurology, which found that Black adults are still more likely to have strokes compared to white adults, and at younger ages. Researchers analyzed data on patients with their first stroke in Ohio and Kentucky from 1993 to 2015, and found that overall, the rates of strokes have decreased. However, ...

Amir Levy/Getty Images(LONDON) -- The death toll in Gaza has reached a grim milestone, with one of every 100 Palestinians there killed since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, which started following Hamas surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. With 23,357 killed in Israels military operation in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, the Gaza Strip population has now lost 1% of its 2.3 million residents. More than 10,000 of those killed were children, and about 7,000 a...