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Megan Varner/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- A controversial Republican-backed bill that would criminalize state bail funds and expand the list of charges that require cash or property bail has been signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp."This bill carries out important bail reforms that will ensure dangerous individuals cannot walk our streets and commit further crimes," said Kemp, in statements provided by his office concerning the signing of the bill.The bill adds roughly 30 charges that would...

UniversalIf you only know one thing about The Fall Guy, its probably that in one scene Ryan Goslings character sits in a car and cries while listening to Taylor Swifts song "All Too Well." It turns out the filmmakers were going to use a different song, until Gosling stepped in.Producer Kelly McCormick tells Vanity Fair that The Fall Guys director, David Leitch, whos also her husband, initially had a tune by late singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson playing in that scene....

A Somers Point couple have admitted running a large marijuana operation out of their home and using their teenage son to distribute the drugs. According to the Press of Atlantic City, 40 year old Donna Shiffle pleaded guilty Tuesday to employing a juvenile, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, maintaining a production facility and endangering ... Read more

Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Retail dairy samples recently tested for the avian flu virus, including cottage cheese and sour cream, did not detect any viable virus that would represent a risk to consumers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.In a joint press briefing with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Dr. Donald Prater, acting director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition for the FDA, shared up...

Scott Heins/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to be retried "sometime after Labor Day," a judge said Wednesday, as the disgraced film mogul appeared in a Manhattan courtroom for the first time since the New York Court of Appeals threw out his rape conviction.Court officers wheeled Weinsteins wheelchair into and out of the courtroom in Manhattan Supreme Court Wednesday afternoon. He sat before Judge Curtis Farber in a dark suit and tie and made no statements during...

People walk in a camp for displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip by the border with Egypt on April 28, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- As the Israel-Hamas war approaches the seven-month mark, renewed negotiations are underway to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist organization, as Israeli forces continue to prepare for an apparent invasion of the southern Gaza town of Rafa...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Federal Reserve decided to hold its benchmark interest rate steady on Wednesday, postponing highly anticipated rate cuts as elevated inflation continues to burden U.S. households.The announcement arrives days after new government data showed that the economy is cooling off.The slowdown has coincided with a months-long stretch of stubborn inflation, putting pressure on the Fed to keep interest rates high despite a risk of hindering economic activit...

ABC News(JERUSALEM) -- "Every single day, Ive watched small children die."Those are the words of Nurse Brenda Maldonado from Washington State, describing to ABC News what she witnessed over the past two weeks.During that time, Maldonado said, she had been working in two of Gazas main hospitals. Her deployment to work as a healthcare professional there was organized by Med Global, a Chicago-based nongovernmental organization.There are currently believed to be only ten partially function...

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(AUSTIN, Texas) -- Officials in Austin, Texas, are investigating an "outbreak" of deadly drug overdoses spreading across the city.Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services (ATCEMS) and the Austin Police Department (APD) said they received a total of 51 calls for suspected overdoses as of Tuesday afternoon, with four suspected deaths related to the surge, according to local ABC News affiliate KVUE.APD said overdose patients range in age from 20s to 50s an...

Melissa McCarthy and Barbra Streisand in 2016; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for BSBWhile she was around when it was invented, Barbra Streisand still doesnt seem to understand how social media works. After being dragged online for a seemingly insensitive comment she made on a friends post, shes now apologizing.On April 29, actress Melissa McCarthy posted a couple of photos on Instagram of herself at an event with director Adam Shankman. Streisand responded by commenting, "Give him my regards did...