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ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As debate grows over how gender identity is handled in schools, many employees at educational institutions have said that they feel caught in the middle, and some also say that theyve been disciplined because of it. That includes Shua Wilmot, a former residence hall director, who says his former employer, Houghton University, fired him and another residence hall director after they added their gender pronouns to their work email signatures. Houghton University is a private...

ABC/Paula LoboAfter his surprise reappearance in a post-credits scene in Fast X, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson took to social media to make a "long awaited" announcement that his Fast character, lawman Luke Hobbs, will be back on the big screen. "Its true," Johnson said in a video. "Hobbs is back in the Fast and Furious franchise." In the caption for the video, Johnson noted the next movie to feature the legendary lawman "will be the HOBBS movie that will...

Chris Rogers/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Just six weeks ago, Greg DeStefano began a new chemotherapy combination. The 50-year-old, from Northbrook, Illinois, had recently been diagnosed with his fourth round of cancer and doctors were hopeful the medication would treat the tumors growing in his neck. DeStefano was responding well, but then, in late May, he got a call from his doctor and was told one of the three drugs he was receiving -- carboplatin -- was under a global shortage and because of th...

Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Digital mental health company BetterHelp is facing multiple potential class action lawsuits over claims from patients that it shared their personal information to advertisers — including Facebook. The lawsuits came soon after BetterHelp agreed in March to pay $7.8 million over charges from the Federal Trade Commission that it revealed sensitive patient data. "When a person struggling with mental health issues reaches ...

ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- Some South Asians, many miles away from their homes, say they are suffering from experiences with discrimination that dates back to thousands of years. From job rejections to unsupported marriages, they claim that severe harassment from the caste system crossed over into America and has gone unchecked. "When we talk about our personal experience, people dont believe me," Prem Paariyar, a Nepalese immigrant who said he was discriminated against because of his c...

Patricia Schlein/Star Max/GC ImagesHaving famously said "The answer was always no and a respectful, firm, no" regarding a return to the role of Samantha Jones that made her a Sex and the City icon, ABC News has confirmed that Kim Cattrall will be seen in the upcoming season of the sequel series And Just Like That... . The character has been spoken of, and spoken and texted to, by Sarah Jessica Parkers Carrie Bradshaw on the Max series, which ended its first season with Carrie calling h...

City man arrested in Cattaraugus County in connection with drug-related death... A Jamestown man has been arrested in Cattaraugus County for allegedly selling a dangerous drug to a 23 year-old woman...

Vietnam veteran remembers friends and comrades he lost during Jamestown Memorial Day service... For this year’s Memorial Day speaker at Lakeview Cemetery in Jamestown, remembering those lost i...

NetflixAlfred Gough and Miles Millar might not be household names, but their latest show certainly is: Wednesday. The pair created the Netflix phenomenon, based off the work of cartoonist Charles Addams characters from the 30s, which were adapted into the 1964 TV show The Addams Family, as well as movies decades later. The pair collaborated with director Tim Burton to bring the show to life, but Gough told The Wrap the success of Wednesday was "kind of shocking." "We were very pro...

ATU Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- While cases of COVID-19 and RSV were decreasing across the United States this spring, infections linked to another lesser-known respiratory virus were increasing. The percent of tests positive for human metapneumovirus (hMPV) surged to 19.6% for antigen tests and 10.9% percent for PCR tests at the beginning of March, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During the four years before the pandemic, the weekly percentage of posit...