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Happy 50th ‘SNL!’ Here’s a look back at the show’s very first castSep 19, 2024 5:04 pm - Live from New York! It’s 50 seasons later for “Saturday Night Live.” The landmark NBC sketch comedy show premiered Oct. 11, 1975. Fast forward to this year, Sept. 28, when the first episode of “SNL’s” half-century season is set to air in a lead-up to a three-hour live prime time special Feb. 16.
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Zachary Quinto steps into some giant-sized doctor’s shoes in NBC’s ‘Brilliant Minds’Sep 19, 2024 4:56 pm - In NBC’s “Brilliant Minds,” Zachary Quinto plays a character inspired by Dr. Oliver Sacks, the path-breaking researcher and author who rose to fame in the 1970s and was once called the “poet laureate of medicine.”
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Republicans are trying a new approach to abortion in the race for CongressSep 19, 2024 2:44 pm - WASHINGTON — In the most contested races for control of the U.S. House, many Republican candidates are speaking up about women’s rights to abortion access and reproductiv...
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Clooney and Pitt carry the fixer caper ‘Wolfs’Sep 19, 2024 2:31 pm - The overriding tension in “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival fixers brought in to clean up the same crime, isn’t so much the threat of police arrest or Albanian mob assassination. It’s that Clooney and Pitt aren’t pals — at least at first.
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A new genetic analysis of animals in the Wuhan market in 2019 may help find COVID-19’s originSep 19, 2024 1:40 pm - Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people, an effort they hope could allow them to trace the outbreak back to its source.
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Bank of England keeps its main interest rate on hold at 5% in wake of big US Fed rate cutSep 19, 2024 7:35 am - LONDON — The Bank of England kept its main interest rate unchanged at 5% Thursday despite a big cut from the U.S. Federal Reserve, its first since the onset of the corona...
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These evangelicals are voting their values — by backing Kamala HarrisSep 19, 2024 7:27 am - WASHINGTON — When the Rev. Lee Scott publicly endorsed Kamala Harris for president during the Evangelicals for Harris Zoom call on Aug. 14, the Presbyterian pastor and fa...
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Residents of Springfield, Ohio, hunker down and pray for a political firestorm to blow overSep 19, 2024 6:58 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — In the quiet corners of Springfield, Ohio — out of sight of the drumbeat of politicians and journalists, troopers and newly installed security cameras...
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Jean Smart, Ariana Grande, Michael Keaton among hosts for ‘SNL’ season 50Sep 19, 2024 6:57 am - Fresh off her Emmys win, Jean Smart is taking her comedy to a new audience — she’ll kick off “Saturday Night Live’s” landmark 50th season.
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Is Israel preparing for a war with Hezbollah?Sep 19, 2024 6:54 am - JERUSALEM — With Israel's defense minister announcing a “new phase” of the war and an apparent Israeli attack setting off explosions in electronic devices in Lebanon, the...