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RB/Bauer-Griffin/GC ImagesKeanu Reeves knows his way around a martial arts mat, what with his extensive training for The Matrix and John Wick franchises, and now he's about to pay tribute to a groundbreaker within the combat sports.Deadline reports Reeves and Oscar-winning director Fisher Stevens will co-produce a documentary on Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, who is credited with introducing mixed martial arts to the world. Now 71, Urquidez was a world champion karate and kickboxing legend who transitioned to training actors and coordinating fight scenes for movies. Inciden...

NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Friday marks a year since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia. The first American reporter to be imprisoned by Moscow since the Cold War, he remains trapped in jail while the United States struggles to find a deal with Russia to free him.Gershkovich, 32, has now spent 12 months in Moscow's Lefortovo Prison on espionage charges that his newspaper, dozens of leading international media organizations and the U.S. government have denounced as false. He has pleaded not guilty.The fight to free Gershkovich has becom...

Pentagon Press Secretary U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder. Via Joseph Clark/Department of Defense(WASHINGTON) -- The United States hasn't given Israel every weapon it has asked for as it continues military operations against Hamas in Gaza, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters on Thursday."Although we've been supporting them with capability, they've not received everything they've asked for," Gen. CQ Brown said at an event hosted by the Defense Writers Group,That is partly "because they've asked for stuff that we're -- either don't have the capacity [for] or...

Mpox virus particles. Via CDC/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)(NEW YORK) -- Mpox cases are on the rise in the U.S., increasing to almost double what they were at the same time last year, according to new CDC data.There is a national year-to-date estimate of 511 cases as of mid-March, compared to 287 cases during the same period last year. New York City has been dealing with over 100 cases so far this year, whereas last year, the city only had 30.Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is a disease that is rarely fatal, and its symptoms are similar to smallpox but milde...

The Upper Township Committee has approved a $17.6 million budget , which increases the local purpose tax rate by 1.4 cents to 29.43 cents for every $100 of assessed property value. For the average property owner, the increase will mean spending about $42 more a year on township taxes. The press of Atlantic City reports ... Read more