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Celebrities with birthdays todayActor Joyce Bulifant (“The Mary Tyler Moore Show”) is 83. Actor Liv Ullman is 82. Journalist Lesley Stahl (“60 Minutes”) is 79. Guitarist Tony Hicks of The Hollies is 75. Actor Xander Berkeley (“The Walking Dead”) is 65. Actor Alison LaPlaca (“The John Larroquette ...

In a span of seven months this year alone, Anya Taylor-Joy played a meddling British brat in “Emma,” a Russian mutant with teleportation powers in the latest “X-Men” film, and an American orphan who turns out to be a chess phenom who can checkmate grown men by the time she’s 8 in “The Queen’s Gam...

AAA is predicting a decline in holiday travel this month of at least 29% compared to a year ago, due to public health concerns related to COVID-19.Still, the agency said as many as 84.5 million Americans may travel between Dec. 23 and Jan. 3, the vast majority by car.Jim Garrity, a spokesman for ...

 Federal regulators asked Wednesday for Facebook to be ordered to divest its Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services as the U.S. government and 48 states and districts accused the company of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors.The antitrust lawsuits were a...

The Texas lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden’s victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, as 106 members of Congress and multiple state attorneys general signed onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail.The Ohio members of Congre...

 That’s a Lot of money: The results are in and the Jewish Federation of Cleveland has announced that $33,105,529 has been raised by more than 12,000 donors representing 8,701 gifts in the 2021Campaign for Jewish Needs, the annual fundraising campaign that serves Jewish Cleveland and the global co...

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (NASDAQ: GT) has struck a strategic relationship with a pioneer in autonomous heavy equipment to incorporate its tire intelligence in the programming of autonomous vehicles such as earthmovers.Goodyear will exchange site data with SafeAI in Milpitas, California, to prot...

Who says Broadway is dark for the holidays? Join Tony nominee Tina Fey and a cast sure to bring the house down for One Night Only: The Best of Broadway,on NBC. You can also watch the two-hour special to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on FuboTV.Cast members from hit shows including Ain’...

For the first time, TIME will announce its Person of the Year in a TV special. Find out who won this year’s title tonight, Dec. 10, at 10 p.m. ET on NBC. You can also watch the announcement on FuboTV.A tumultuous 2020 has affected us all. But who has had the most influence in 2020? Among more tha...

Celebrities with birthdays todayActor Rita Moreno is 89. Singer David Gates of Bread is 80. Actor Donna Mills (“Knots Landing”) is 80. Singer Paul Beasley of The Blind Boys of Alabama is 76. Actor Linda Day George (TV’s “Mission: Impossible”) is 76. Actor Bess Armstrong is 67. Singer Jermaine Jac...