George Joseph Kresge Jr., who was known to generations of TV watchers as the mesmerizing entertainer and mentalist The Amazing Kreskin, has died at age 89. read more
If you're seeing this story on Facebook, you aren't one of the thousands of people affected by an outage to the social media giant on Wednesday afternoon. Around 12:30 p.m. ET, users started reporting issues with Facebook and other Meta platforms including Instagram. The outage tracking site downdetector.com registered more than 100,000 reports of Facebook outages in the past hour. More than 65,000 users reported Instagram outages to the site. The outage even affected Meta's homepage, with Meta.com displaying a "Sorry, something went wrong, message to visitors as of 2 p.m. ET.
Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders sent a letter to Washington on Wednesday concerning new changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The letter was sent directly to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary-Designate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary-Designate, Brooke Rollins. CLICK ON THE LINK TO READ THE LETTER. read more
The viewing figures for Morning Joe and other MSNBC shows don't appear to be getting any better following the fallout of Donald Trumps presidential election victory in November. In a report from rival network Fox News, based on figures from Nielsen Media Research, Morning Joe is down 35% among total viewers, averaging 720,000, and down 37% in the key 25-54 demographic. As previously reported, the morning show hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski saw a dip in ratings following their meeting with Trump. The Monday, November 20 episode, where the hosts discussed their meeting with the president-elect, brought in 839,000 total viewers and 113,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo, while the Tuesday, November 21 episode dropped to 680,000 total viewers and 76,000 in the key demo.
Other MSNBC shows aren't faring so well, however. As reported by Fox News, Alex Wagner Tonight, Inside with Jen Psaki, and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell all recently hit record lows.
A biosecurity breach has come to light in Queensland, Australia, where 323 vials containing live viruses, including Hendra virus, Lyssavirus, and Hantavirus, have gone missing. The breach, which occurred in 2021, was only discovered in August 2023, prompting an investigation into the lapses in protocol. Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls disclosed that nearly 100 of the missing vials contained Hendra virus, a pathogen with a fatality rate of 57 percent in humans. This virus, discovered in the 1990s, is transmitted from horses to humans and has caused devastating impacts on infected individuals and industries alike. "Hendra virus has a 57 percent fatality rate in humans and has had a devastating impact on those who have been infected, their families, and on the veterinary and equine industries in areas where the virus spills over," said Raina Plowright, a professor at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, as reported by Newsweek.
WIC Has it figured out. SNAP should follow the WIC purchase requirements.