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If you have ever wanted just 15 minutes to speak with the man, the myth, the legend known as Keanu Reeves, your opportunity has finally arrived. Hopefully you also have some deep pockets. CNN reports Reeves has partnered with Camp Rainbow Gold to hold an auction where the winning bidder will be given 15 minutes […]
Though it might have gone under your radar, Dog the Bounty Hunter is engaged. Surely this would be front page news in a world without COVID-19. A rep for Dog, whose real name is Duane Chapman, confirmed this personal development to E! News on Monday by stating that the 67-year-old reality star has, indeed, proposed […]
Ugandan actress Nikita Pearl Waligwa, who was in the 2016 Disney film Queen of Katwe, has died at 15 years old. Waligwa had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, BBC reports. After she initially found out she had a brain tumor in 2016, Queen of Katwe director Mira Nair reportedly urged people to donate to […]
Diddy is spotlighting a group of children battling cancer. TMZ reports that the former celebrity weed dealer Milk Tyson kicked off a viral campaign to have Diddy get involved in the kids’ fight against cancer and land them a segment on The Ellen Show. The children at Miami-based nonprofit Fighting All Monsters—which supports pediatric cancer […]
The U.S.’s cancer rate dropped 2.2 percent between 2016 and 2017, the sharpest one-year dip in cancer mortality ever recorded. According to American Cancer Society’s new report, the rate has dropped 29 percent since 1991, which means there have been around 2.9 million fewer cancer deaths than would have happened if the rate had stayed […]
During a rare interview with Michael Strahan that’s set to air on Thursday evening, Alex Trebek and his wife are opening up about the toll that the legendary Jeopardy! host’s battle with cancer is taking upon the both of them. According to Deadline, at one point in the interview Trebek says that concerns and outpouring […]
Civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The Georgia Democrat’s office made the announcement Sunday. Doctors discovered the cancer during a routine medical visit and reconfirmed the diagnosis. “I have been in some kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire life. I […]
An Indiana mother has been sentenced to seven years in prison for injecting fecal matter into her son’s IV bag. Tiffany Alberts will also serve five years of probation after her time in jail, CNN reports. Alberts was convicted of six counts of aggravated battery and one count of neglect during her trial in September. […]
A gay man has been awarded a whopping $157 million in a wrongful death lawsuit after his husband died of lung cancer related to smoking, NBC News reports. Tobacco companies R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris were ordered by a Broward County jury to pay Bryan Rintoul, the spouse of the late Edward Caprio, $157.4 million, […]
On Monday afternoon’s broadcast of Jeopardy!, the contestant in third place opted to forgo a guess at the correct answer during Final Jeopardy in order to tell longtime host Alex Trebek that he was loved. His intentionally incorrect response caused him to fall to $5, but it got Trebek choked up. “That’s very kind of […]
