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MythBusters star Adam Savage denies sexual assault allegations made by sister: I will fight – Fox News
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MythBusters star Adam Savage denies sexual assault allegations made by sister: I will fight – Fox News

In a new lawsuit, former “MythBusters” co-host Adam Savage is being accused of sexually abusing his younger sister when they were children. Miranda Savage Pacchiana, now 51, claims that the abuse happened in the 1970s when she was between 7 and 10 years old and Savage was between 9 and 12 years old and they lived in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. According to the lawsuit, Savage allegedly raped Pacchiana, forced oral sex upon her and forced her to perform oral sex on him. He has denied the allegations in a statement to Fox News through this attorney. MYTHBUSTERS' STAR ADAM SAVAGE ACCUSED OF ALLEGEDLY SEXUALLY ABUSING SISTER AS A CHILD: LAWSUIT “While I hope that my sister gets the help she needs to find peace, this needs to end. For many years, she has relentlessly and falsely attacked me and o...
Prince Harry apologizes for ‘institutional racism’ during Princess Diana Awards ceremony – Fox News
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Prince Harry apologizes for ‘institutional racism’ during Princess Diana Awards ceremony – Fox News

Prince Harry delivered a special message during the 2020 Princess Diana Awards on July 1, which would have been the late humanitarian’s 59th birthday. During the virtual ceremony, Harry, 35, focused his message toward the young changemakers who are doing work to combat racism and injustice. He stated Diana would have been “fighting [in] your corner” if she was still alive. “My wife [Meghan Markle] said recently that our generation and the ones before us haven't done enough to wipe the wrongs of the past. I too am sorry,” the Duke of Sussex began. PRINCE WILLIAM WRITES LETTER TO CHARITY HONORING PRINCESS DIANA ON BEHALF OF PRINCE HARRY AND HIMSELF “Sorry that we haven't got the world to the place where you deserve it to be. Institutional racism has no place in our societies, yet it i...
Tom Hanks Blasted People Who Arent Wearing Masks And, Well, He Did Not Hold Back – BuzzFeed
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Tom Hanks Blasted People Who Arent Wearing Masks And, Well, He Did Not Hold Back – BuzzFeed

"I just think shame on you." Tom Hanks, aka America's dad, has a message for those of you who still aren't following the CDC's guidelines for reducing the spread of the coronavirus. Jon Kopaloff / Getty Images For context, just last week, the US reported its highest number of new coronavirus cases in a single day. NIAID director Dr. Fauci has warned that the country is "going in the wrong direction" and could see 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day. FYI, the CDC recommends protecting yourself and others by utilizing simple measures, including wearing a mask, practicing social distancing whenever possible, and washing your hands...
Director Christopher Nolan Shuts Down Anne Hathaways Claim That He Doesnt “Allow” Chairs on Set – E! NEWS
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Director Christopher Nolan Shuts Down Anne Hathaways Claim That He Doesnt “Allow” Chairs on Set – E! NEWS

Director Christopher Nolan is addressing Anne Hathaway's recent claim about having chairs on the set of his films. Just days ago, Variety released Hathaway's Actors on Actors interview with her former Les Misérables co-star, Hugh Jackman. During the duo's chat, Hathaway talked about working with Nolan on the set of 2012's The Dark Knight Rises. Talking to Jackman about taking on the role of Catwoman, Hathaway shared, "You know how you have those jobs and you just go, 'I don't know how I'm going to work again because this was such fun.' I'm such a director nerd. I love just seeking out the best directors I can and then just watching them." "Chris' whole approach to filmmaking is one of my favorite ones. He's broken it down to its most minimal, but also his movies are just so huge and ornat...
D.L. Hughley Says He Spread COVID-19 to His Radio Show Team – TMZ
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D.L. Hughley Says He Spread COVID-19 to His Radio Show Team – TMZ

Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com D.L. Hughley's got a good idea where he picked up the coronavirus, and even without experiencing any symptoms ... he's pretty sure he passed it on to his radio show staff too. The comedian tells us he's recovered from COVID-19 and is in the last days of self-quarantine, and while the virus probably contributed to his on-stage collapse last month at a Nashville comedy club ... he says he's remained asymptomatic -- before and after diagnosis. Unfortunately, as health experts ha...
Testing czar says coronavirus surge is straining testing capacity – POLITICO
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Testing czar says coronavirus surge is straining testing capacity – POLITICO

Lagging labs: Commercial laboratories like Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp have warned that their turnaround times for test results are rising due to a surge in demand. Earlier this week, Quest said that it now needs an average of 3-5 days to produce results on non-priority samples, up from 2-3 days. What’s next: Giroir emphasized that young adults, who account for the majority of new cases, must be vigilant about practicing social distancing and wearing a mask. The Department of Health and Human Services is developing plans to implement surge testing in moderate-sized communities of high concern in Texas, Florida and Louisiana, to try to bring the outbreaks in those areas under control. “A blitz of testing over a few days could help to identify a lot of the under 35-year-old asymptom...
Coronavirus in NY earlier than previously known, study finds – syracuse.com
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Coronavirus in NY earlier than previously known, study finds – syracuse.com

New York — A new study has found the coronavirus was in New York earlier than previously known. WABC reports researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai analyzed more than 5,000 plasma samples from patients at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Antibodies for Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, were detected in samples from the week ending Feb. 23. That’s at least a week earlier than New York’s first confirmed case of coronavirus on March 1. Antibodies also suggest the patients were infected at least two weeks earlier, meaning it’s possible the virus was spreading in early February or January. NYC became America’s largest epicenter for the virus as the state saw more than 18,000 hospitalizations in April and a peak of 800 deaths in one day on April 14. As of Mo...
California counties worry about future of coronavirus testing sites | TheHill – The Hill
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California counties worry about future of coronavirus testing sites | TheHill – The Hill

A number of California counties are worried about the future of their state-funded coronavirus testing sites as the number of new cases surges within the state, Kaiser Health News reported Wednesday. Almost two dozen county public health officials expressed concern to Kaiser Health News that the state has threatened to cut funding to underutilized testing sites. Officials from Contra Costa County, Riverside County and Mendocino County told the news outlet they felt they were at risk of losing their testing sites. Ali Bay, a spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health, stressed in a statement that the state has not “halted/suspended/ended any testing programs.”  The state has more than 100 community testing sites, Bay told The Hill. These sites are on contract ...
As cases surge, lines for coronavirus tests sometimes stretch miles in the summer heat – The Washington Post
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As cases surge, lines for coronavirus tests sometimes stretch miles in the summer heat – The Washington Post

Reagents — substances used to carry out tests — and pipettes remain in short supply in many places, and the machines that run the tests are expensive and time-consuming to build. There are also limits on collection sites, exacerbated by rising summer temperatures. Staff at testing sites, standing outside in full-body protective gear, must rotate more often to avoid heat-related health problems. Some testing sites have been temporarily or permanently closed because of extreme heat. “The demand, in light of the surge — it’s overwhelmed the system,” said Marcia Katz, associate dean for clinical affairs at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. “The lines are incredibly long. . . . There is availability for testing, there’s just limitations in terms of how many people can ...
Cases spike in Sunbelt, other states back off on reopening – The Associated Press
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Cases spike in Sunbelt, other states back off on reopening – The Associated Press

PHOENIX (AP) — California closed bars, theaters and indoor restaurant dining all over again across most of the state Wednesday because of a surging coronavirus caseload, and Arizona’s outbreak grew more severe by nearly every measure, as the crisis across the South and West sent a shudder through the country. The run-up in confirmed cases has been blamed in part on what’s been called “knucklehead behavior” by Americans not wearing masks or obeying other social-distancing rules as restaurants and other sites reopened from coast to coast. “The bottom line is the spread of this virus continues at a rate that is particularly concerning,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in dramatically expanding the closings he first announced over the weekend. The shutdown announcement, which came just ahea...