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Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC ImagesSAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher took New York City by storm on Thursday, August 3, making multiple appearances at picket lines to rally striking actors. To cheers, Drescher took to the podium at the picket line outside of HBO’s New York offices. According to video of the event sourced by Variety, she told her fellow actors, "I just want to say I am so grateful for your enthusiasm and your commitment to this strike. It means everything." She called ...

Belterz/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Russian President Vladimir Putins most prominent opponent was sentenced Friday to an additional 19 years behind bars on extremism charges. A Russian judge delivered the guilty verdict and sentencing in the closed-door trial against Alexey Navalny at a courtroom inside the maximum-security prison camp in Melekhovo, about 145 miles east of Moscow, where the Russian opposition leader is already serving 11 1/2 years. Russian prosecutors had requested a 20-year prison ...

Mint Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Disgraced crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried deserves to have his bail revoked and to be detained before he is tried for fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from the collapse of FTX, federal prosecutors in New York said in a new court filing. Prosecutors balked at Bankman-Frieds sharing with The New York Times excerpts from the personal documents of Caroline Ellison, Bankman-Frieds former girlfriend, who led his Alameda Research hedge fund and who has plea...

ABC News/WHOWhile cases of mpox continue to decline across the United States and Europe, infections are steadily rising in China. For the week ending July 21, 117 cases were confirmed in China, according to data from the World Health Organization. Between the week ending May 5 and the week ending July 21, 315 cases were reported. This comes after just six cases were confirmed throughout all of 2022, WHO data shows. Additionally, China had the highest increase in the weekly number of cases during...

FBIs Portland Field Office(OREGON)--An Oregon man is accused of holding a woman captive in a makeshift cinder block cell in his garage before she managed to break free, according to federal authorities, who said they believe there may be past sexual assault victims of the suspect. Negasi Zuberi, 29, is in federal custody for interstate kidnapping, the FBIs Portland Field Office said. He was arrested last month after a woman escaped from his home in Klamath Falls and claimed she was "kidnapp...

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagicMax, formerly known as HBO Max, announced that many of the original series that were part of the Oprah Winfrey Network have been made available on its streaming platform.  Shows featured on the OWN hub on Max include: Love & Marriage: Huntsville, Ready to Love, Belle Collective and Put a Ring On It, as well as previous seasons of Iyanla: Fix My Life and Super Soul Sunday. "Our mission at OWN is to deliver programming that serves the female Black viewer, and...

ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- A new heat wave has left 60 million people across 13 states under heat alerts Thursday. Record or near-record high temperatures are possible Thursday in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where temperatures could reach 100 degrees. New Orleans could reach 98 degrees, and San Antonio may reach 102 degrees. College Station, Texas, and Baton Rouge set new record temperatures on Wednesday, reaching 106 degrees and 102 degrees, respectively.   An excessive h...

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty ImagesNo more breeding for Breeders -- the FX comedy about a messy British family just started its final season on FX, streaming next day on Hulu. Before the start of the actors strike, show co-creator and star Martin Freeman told ABC Audio that he learned from his time on The Office -- which ran for just two short seasons -- and from other short-lived British shows like Fawlty Towers, "Knowing when to get off stage is vital." "Even from an egotistica...

Courtesy Dylan McCarty(NEW JERSEY)-- The lack of available homes on the market is near historic lows, sparking fierce bidding wars in cities across the country – and prompting many buyers to get creative with their offers. In June, 1.08 million homes were for sale nationwide, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), down 13.6% from a year ago, when 1.22 million homes were available. "Its still a sellers market, and we wont see that change anytime soon," Sarah Drennan,...

Severyn Korneyev/CDFA(LOS ANGELES) -- A part of Los Angeles County is under quarantine following the discovery of an invasive fruit fly from Asia, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA). State officials found 20 Tau fruit flies in an unincorporated area of Stevenson Ranch, close to the city of Santa Clarita. The California Department of Food and Agriculture has quarantined 79 square miles of the area, the department said last week in a press release. The Tau fruit...