HBO Max drops ‘Friends: The Reunion’ teaser trailer and reveals premiere date

HBO Max announced on Thursday in a teaser that the highly anticipated Friends reunion special will premiere on Thursday, May 27th.  Cast members Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer will all be back for the special.  The Friends cast will be joined by many famous special guests, including David Beckham, …

Celine Dion, Katy Perry, Carrie Underwood, and Luke Bryan announce Las Vegas residencies at new Resorts World

Resorts World Las Vegas announced that Celine Dion, Carrie Underwood, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan will become the first headliners at the new luxury destination opening June 24. The 5,000-capacity Theatre at Resorts World Las Vegas will open its doors in November 2021. Celine Dion will return to Las Vegas with a brand-new show and a …

CDC finds additional cases of blood clots linked to Johnson & Johnson vaccine

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday that the agency has now identified 28 cases of blood clots with low platelets in people who received the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine. The 28 cases were found after more than 8.7 million doses of the single injection vaccine were administered, …

Colonial Pipeline begins to restart pipeline operations following cyberattack

Colonial Pipeline restarted operations on Wednesday, five days after a cyberattack on the company forced it to shut down the crucial fuel line that delivers nearly half the gasoline to the East Coast. The closure drained supplies of gasoline at many retail stations, causing panic buying across the southeastern U.S.   Colonial Pipeline warned that …

Miami Heat’s Victor Oladipo will undergo season-ending quad surgery

Miami Heat guard Victor Oladipo will miss the rest of the season to undergo surgery, the team announced Wednesday.  Oladipo’s surgery will take place on Thursday in New York; he has been out since early April with an injured right quadriceps tendon. According to Miami, there is no timetable for his return. Oladipo’s tendon isn’t …

NBC’s ‘This Is Us’ to end after Season 6

NBC’s top-rated family drama This Is Us will end after the upcoming sixth season. According to The Hollywood Reporter, an official announcement of This Is Us‘ final season likely will come Friday when NBC unveils its official 2021-22 television schedule. The news about the popular series ending is not surprising, as creator Dan Fogelman, the writers …

Ellen DeGeneres confirms her talk show will end in 2022 after 19 seasons

Ellen DeGeneres announced that her talk show “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” will end in 2022 after 19 seasons. The Hollywood Reporter shared the news Wednesday. DeGeneres told THR that the decision had been made for a while, saying, “I was going to stop after season 16. That was going to be my last season and they wanted …

Former Pentagon chief to defend military response to Capitol riots

Former acting defense secretary Christopher Miller is expected to defend his decisions at a congressional hearing in response to the deadly attack on the US Capitol on January 6th, saying that sending in troops would have created the appearance of a “military coup”. Miller plans to say the military was deliberately restrained on the day …

Prosecutors in Georgia to seek death penalty in Atlanta-area spa shootings which killed 8

On Tuesday, prosecutors in Georgia said they would seek the death penalty for the man accused of fatally shooting eight people at Atlanta-area spas, charging the suspect with committing hate crimes. 22-year-old Robert Aaron Long was indicted on murder charges in the March 16 killings of four women in Fulton County, Georgia, as well as …