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Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel is ending its HBO run after 29 seasons, according to Deadline. The show, which features episodes consisting of multiple sports-related stories, and also several prominent correspondents, has won 37 Sports Emmys throughout its run as well as 3 Peabody Awards. “Since day one at Real Sports we’ve consistently tried to look beyond the scoreboard, and focus instead on the many societal issues inherent in the world of sports,” host Bryant Gumbel said in a statement...

Callista Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- At least six people have died on the East Coast this summer after being infected with "flesh-eating" bacteria in warming waters. Health officials say two people in Connecticut, one person in New York and three in North Carolina died in July and August from Vibrio vulnificus, a potentially deadly bacterium. The U.S typically sees a handful of deaths in Gulf states, but its rare for deaths to be spiking in East Coast states. In response, the Cen...

ABCOn his Instagram on Tuesday, Matthew McConaughey told his fans he is voicing the audio version of his new childrens picture book, Just Because. The Oscar-winning actor said the book is for children, "but its also for the kid in all of us." He said the idea for the book came to him in the middle of the night. Taking the form of a "Bob Dylan ditty, a scat-rap song," McConaughey said he wrote down the fruit of his nighttime Eureka moment, thinking it "would be good for m...

Bill Pugliano/Getty Images(DETROIT) -- A four-day workweek at full-time pay, a 46% wage increase and a share of company profits are among the demands of the union representing approximately 150,000 workers at the Big 3 U.S. automakers -- General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. The United Auto Workers, or UAW, has vowed to launch a strike on Sept. 14 if the union and the automakers fail to reach an agreement by then. Even UAW President Shawn Fain last month described the workers set of demands as &...

US Army(WASHINGTON) -- Army attack helicopter pilot Larry Taylor scrambled to rescue a small patrol of soldiers surrounded by enemies on the ground in Vietnam, according to a dramatic account he and the men he helped save tell about the life-and-death moments more than five decades ago. Flying them out seemed to be the only option, but there was a problem: his Cobra gunship had no room inside. With bold action and quick thinking, he found a way to get them out of danger. More than 55 years late...

ABC News(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska is "afraid" the worlds attention is turning away from the war, more than 18 months since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of her country. Speaking with ABC News in an interview in Kyiv, Zelenska said, "sometimes people become reluctant, people talk about Ukraine fatigue." "This is the topic of our existence. We cant stop fighting for ourselves. So my message is, please dont stop to help us fight," Z...

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images(LONDON) -- A surgical tool “the size of a dinner plate” has been discovered inside a woman’s abdomen 18 months after undergoing a caesarean section while giving birth to her child, health officials have confirmed. The unnamed woman from New Zealand, who was in her 20s when she gave birth to her child in 2020, underwent a scheduled caesarean section at 36 weeks plus three days gestation, according to a report released by New Zealand’s Health and Dis...

Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- "Margaritaville" singer Jimmy Buffett died on Sept. 1 after a four-year battle with a rare skin cancer. Buffets website revealed he had been diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma, but had been able to perform until recently, when his health began to decline. Heres what you need to know about MCC, including signs and symptoms, what causes it and how its treated: What is MCC? Merkel cell carcinoma is much less common than the main...

David Crane/picture alliance via Getty Images(PERSHING COUNTY, Nev.) -- A death was confirmed at the Burning Man festival over the weekend after thousands of attendees were left mired in mud from torrential rains and were advised to conserve food and water, as all roads in and out of the desert arts and "self-reliance" festival remained shut off Sunday. The sprawling event is held each year in whats known as Black Rock City (BRC), in the Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada. Follow...

Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AFIKristin Chenoweth and Josh Bryant have tied the knot. The Tony Award-winning actress and singer married her longtime boyfriend in a wedding ceremony in Dallas over the weekend. "I have been a self-proclaimed bachelorette my whole life," Chenoweth told People, which shared the first exclusive photos from the couples wedding ceremony. "I was never going to get married," the 55-year-old continued. "I even got engaged before and couldnt do i...