NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer said Saturday that the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalized for a battery of tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape conviction. Attorney Arthur Aidala said Weinstein was moved to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan after his arrival on Friday to city jails. “They examined him and sent him to Bellevue. It seems like he needs a lot of help, physically. He’s got a lot of problems. He’s getting all kinds of tests. He’s somewhat of a train wreck health wise,” Aidala said. A message left with the ho ..read more

NEWPORT, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — There's some bizarre sea creatures washing ashore along the Southern California coastline. They can be described as jellyfish-like blobs that are shaped like oval discs. Known as Velella velellas, this marine species lives on the surface of the open ocean. Vellela vellela captured off the coast near Newport Beach, Calif. (Credit: Delaney Trowbridge/Davey’s Locker) With other names like sea raft, purple sail, little sail and by-the-wind sailor, this sea creature has a “sail” rising vertically from the center of its bodies ..read more

(KTLA) — After the family cat mysteriously "vanished," Carrie Stevens Clark said she tried everything to find her — from paper flyers, social media posts and searching every nook and cranny of her Utah neighborhood. On April 17, a week after Galena's disappearance, Clark received a call from more than 600 miles away from home. Turns out the seven days of searching didn't work because the family cat took an impromptu trip to the Golden State ..read more

(NEXSTAR) — With the stroke of his pen, President Joe Biden seemingly started the countdown to the demise of TikTok. Though it’s possible the app won’t actually be banned in the U.S., the potential end of the platform prompted some social media users to reflect on those we have lost. Here’s a look at the social media sites that have retired to the annals of the internet archive.  Myspace What better place to start than MySpace, arguably the first major social networking site? If you were a young Internet user in the 2000s, there’s a good chance you had a MySpace account. Users could styli ..read more

(The Hill) — Vice President Harris opened up about criticism over her laugh in an upcoming interview. Harris, in an interview with "The Drew Barrymore Show" that will air Monday, acknowledged that people often like to make fun of public figures when they trip or fall, and then mentioned the talk about how she laughs. "You were asking me earlier about what it means to be, like, the first woman. And, you know, it’s funny, because people still got to get used to this, right?" Harris said in the clip, obtained by Mediaite. "I mean, my staff, for example, sometimes they’ll show me little things tha ..read more

(NEXSTAR) – A recent report published in the medical journal Neurology suggests that two hunters contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal neurological disorder, after eating venison obtained from deer infected with chronic wasting disease. For years, researchers have thought cross-species transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) to be plausible. But this latest report, describing what researchers call a “cluster” of cases, presents some of the strongest evidence yet of possible animal-to-human transmission. “Although causation remains unproven, this cluster emphasizes the need for fu ..read more

Donald Trump has many enemies – or so he says.   But it seems that David Pecker, the ex-National Enquirer publisher and lead witness in the Manhattan district attorney’s case against the former president who has an immunity agreement with the very prosecutors targeting Trump, is not among them.  “David’s been very nice,” the former president said Thursday morning, hours before the publisher would retake the witness stand for a third day, where he would reveal even more details of the backroom deals at the heart of the case. “He’s a nice guy.”   Across four total days o ..read more

(The Hill) — Columbia University has banned the student protest leader, who said "Zionists don't deserve to live," from the campus, a university spokesperson confirmed to The Hill Friday. Khymani James, the organizer of pro-Palestinian protests at the school, also said in a video that recently resurfaced from earlier this year that people should “be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.” That comment came around the same time he met with school officials over a social media post he wrote about fighting a Zionist. “I don’t fight to injure or for there to be a wi ..read more

(WGN Radio) – There's a chance that lady taking a tumble in a crowded place isn't so helpless, travel experts are warning. The commotion could be part of a scam travelers encounter at airports, train stations, and tourist attractions. "If there's any crowd, or something jostling, or someone spills ketchup on you, or there's a commotion, all these thieves are trying to distract you," travel blogger and influencer Johnny Jet explained. One such scam involves a person – sometimes a person dressed as an elderly woman – pretending to fall down an escalator, Jet said. As bystanders rush to help, the ..read more

(NEXSTAR) — Warm weather is setting in throughout the country, which means many of the creepy crawlers winter spared us from are resurfacing. You may have already had a run-in with a few, including one nuisance bug related to invasive stink bugs and soon-to-appear cicadas. The pest in question? Boisea trivittatus, better known as the boxelder bug. Here are 4 things you should know about boxelder bugs. What are boxelder bugs? Unlike its invasive relative, boxelder bugs are native to North America, and are usually found with its preferred host (more on that in a moment). There is also a western ..read more