Ida weakened to a tropical storm early Monday over southwestern Mississippi, after battering southern Louisiana on Sunday as a Category 4 storm with winds of 150 miles per hour. In a 4 a.m. CDT update, the National Hurricane Center (“NHC”) said Ida had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph, and was located 90 miles south-southwest …
Monthly Archives: August 2021
President Biden attends dignified transfer of 13 service members killed in Kabul
On Sunday, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden attended the dignified transfer of the 13 American service members killed in a pair of explosions near Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The president and first lady flew in Air Force One to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware where they met with some …
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Garth Brooks gives details about COVID protocols on the upcoming “Dive Bar’ tour
Garth Brooks cancelled his scheduled stadium concert events for 2021 due to the surge in COVID-19 cases earlier this week, but has unveiled plans to return to the road in the fall playing dive bars. Brooks provided details on his ‘Inside Studio G’ Facebook Live series, and said the ‘dive bar’ shows will require all …
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Chris Stapleton and wife Morgane donate to family who lost twins in devastating Tennessee floods
Chris Stapleton and wife Morgane have donated $10,000 to help a family grieving the death of their twin babies who were lost after the devastating flooding in Tennessee. A GoFundMe for the twins parents, Danielle Hall and her husband Matt, set a modest goal of $5,000, but donations quickly exceeded that figure and as of …
Netflix picks up ‘Manifest’ for fourth and final season
Netflix announced on Twitter over the weekend that it has renewed the sci-fi drama Manifest for a fourth and final season. NBCs had announced back in June that it would not be making more episodes of the show, which follows passengers of a plane who arrived more than five years after they took off, but …
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Legendary actor Ed Asner dies at age 91
Hollywood legend Ed Asner has passed away at age 91. Asner’s death was confirmed by his family on his Twitter account Sunday morning in a statement which read: “We are sorry to say that our beloved patriarch passed away this morning peacefully. Words cannot express the sadness we feel. With a kiss on your head- …
President Biden pledges retaliation after 12 U.S. service members and dozens others are killed in Kabul attack
President Joe Biden pledged retaliation after a pair of explosions near Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday killed 12 U.S. service members and dozens others. The Islamic State-Khorasan Province, a self-proclaimed offshoot of the IS which has denied affiliation with the Afghan-based militant group, has claimed responsibility for the attack. Pentagon press …
CDC warns against use of animal de-wormer to treat COVID-19
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent out an advisory on Thursday against the use of a drug prescribed to fight parasites in animals, which some believe can also treat those diagnosed with COVID-19. The CDC said it is seeing an alarming number of prescriptions for the drug ivermectin, due to false claims that …
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Luke Combs shares new music video for ‘Cold As You’
Luke Combs has premiered a music video for his latest single “Cold As You,” the latest single released from Luke’s chart topping “What You See Ain’t Always What You Get” deluxe album. Combs said about the video: “The team at TA Films did an incredible job on this one. My team and I are always …
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Kenny Chesney shares his music video for ‘Beautiful World’
Kenny Chesney has released the new music video for “Beautiful World.” Beautiful World is one of four new tracks featured on Chesney’s Here And Now Deluxe album, recorded during the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. The video was shot largely in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico; a press release states the video “[reminds] …
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