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Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Unions representing thousands of Hollywood movie and television writers reached a "tentative" deal with major studios on Sunday, ending a strike that lasted 146 days and brought pickets to productions and company offices nationwide. "WGA has reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP. This was made possible by the enduring solidarity of WGA members and extraordinary support of our union siblings who joined us ...

Taylor Hill/Getty Images for Live Nation UrbanHow does the NFL follow up a Rihanna halftime show? With Usher. The multi-Platinum performer will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show when it airs live on CBS from Las Vegas Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024. "Its an honor of a lifetime to finally check a Super Bowl performance off my bucket list," Usher said in a statement. "I cant wait to bring the world a show unlike anything else theyve seen from me before....

Aston Martin(NEW YORK) -- For decades, the fictional spy James Bond helped boost sales of Aston Martins beautifully designed sports cars and grand tourers. Now, the 110-year-old British marque has found a new star to attract customers: Fernando Alonso. The two-time world Formula One champion has racked up six podium finishes so far in 2023, putting Aston Martin in fourth place in the Constructor standings. Last year, the 42-year-old driver signed a multi-year contract with Aston Martin, replaci...

Keegan Barber/NASA via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A seven-year-long NASA mission has come to an end with the first asteroid sample collected in space. This capsule, the size of a microwave oven, landed safely on Sunday morning to a crowd of cheering spectators -- a bit earlier than planned but exactly in the manner it was supposed to land. Before it landed, the capsules cover was ejected at 102,000 feet above Earths atmosphere, and rogue parachutes were deployed to stabilize it. Operations for t...

ABC News(TEHRAN) -- In a new interview, the wife of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi repeated claims by her countrys officials that the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last fall was the result of a preexisting illness -- which Aminis family vigorously disputes, believing instead that she was beaten in custody after being arrested by Irans notorious morality police for not wearing her hijab properly. Speaking with ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz in an interview that aired Sund...

MoMo Productions/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Weekly COVID hospitalizations have been ticking up over the past 11 weeks, rising to 20,538 for the week ending Sept. 9, the highest figures seen since March of this year. Although the majority of U.S. counties are reporting low hospital admissions levels, a growing number are seeing moderate and even high levels, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Despite the uptick, doctors and hospital administrators across the cou...

MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP via Getty Images(DETROIT) -- A labor strike against the three largest motor vehicle manufacturers in the United States expanded on Friday as 38 new strike locations were announced targeting Stellantis and General Motors. United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain made the announcement, saying all parts distribution locations for Stellantis and GM at cities across 20 states will now join the strike. Ford is coming closer to a deal with the UAW, unlike GM and Stellantis, accordin...

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A lawyer for the New York attorney generals office described "staggering" misrepresentations about the value of former President Donald Trumps properties and assets, arguing that Trump engaged in a prolonged "bait-and-switch" to lower his tax burden while inflating his assets to obtain favorable loan terms. "The court should not allow Mr. Trump to play it both ways," New York AG special litigation counsel Andrew Amer said at ...

Apple TV+David S. Goyer knows a thing or two about the superhero genre: The Foundation writer and executive producer wrote Blade; co-wrote the Oscar-winning Batman movie The Dark Knight; and wrote Henry Cavills hit 2013 Superman debut, Man of Steel, among others. However, on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, he confirmed what many fans believed at the time — that Warner Bros. was so desperate to catch up to the Marvel Cinematic Universe that common sense started flying out the window, without Su...

Antonio Masiello/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, the first in the countrys history to be reelected to office, has died, according to the nations press service ANSA. He was 98. The former president, who served from 2006 until 2015, was the first in the countrys history to be reelected to the office. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived president in the history of the modern Italian Republic. He was also the first official from the Italian Communist Par...