Actor Christina Applegate announced Tuesday that she had been misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis after years of believing she had the condition — and experts say her experience is more common than many people realize. Applegate shared the news on her podcast, MeSsy, where she and actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler discuss life with MS. In a follow-up…
Christina Applegate announced Tuesday that she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, more than five years after announcing she had been told she had the chronic condition. Applegate, 54, shared the news in a double episode of her podcast MeSsy, where she and co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler discuss life with multiple sclerosis. Applegate had taken a break from…
(CBS News) Lena Dunham’s hit TV series “Girls” is the most talked-about television these days . . . and she talked about it all with our Tracy Smith: If you want to feel better about yourself, consider Hannah Horvath, the central character in HBO’s comedy-drama series, “Girls.” Hannah is an aspiring writer on her own…
Six Flags has temporarily closed nine rides across six of its parks after a man died when he fell from a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia Monday, the company said. The man fell out of his seat on Goliath, a hypercoaster that reaches 70 miles per hour and 200 feet high, witnesses said….
Julia Donaldson’s stories have been filling children’s heads with wonder for decades. “When I’ve got a pencil in my hand, it’s like an electric current,” she said. “My brain can send the words down my arm onto the page.” Donaldson has sold more than 75 million books worldwide, and more in the U.K. than any…
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 was awarded Friday to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a South African-born former judge with the International Criminal Court who went on to become the United Nations human rights chief and is still serving with the U.N.’s other judicial body, the International Court of Justice. The Nobel Committee said it was…
A growing body of research suggests GLP-1 drugs can do more than just help people lose weight by curbing addictive behaviors. Now, experts at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania want to see whether the drugs can benefit people’s bank accounts by reducing risky financial decisions, such as gambling or compulsive shopping. “We…
Christa Pike‘s attorneys said she has pneumonia, a blood clot, couldn’t swallow, and is unable to move her arms or hands once she regained consciousness in a Tennessee hospital, days after the death row inmate survived a botched execution by the state. “Her hands looked like if you were to blow up a surgical glove,”…
The following is the full transcript of the interview with Brett McGurk, who served as a top Middle East adviser to former Preident Joe Biden, a portion of which aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Oct. 4, 2026. MARGARET BRENNAN: So, October 6th, 2023, Saudi Princess Reema Bandar shakes hands with you…
An AI model downloaded over 3 billion times and used by U.S. firms like Airbnb and Uber is embedded with China-friendly narratives and programmed for censorship, new research shows. Qwen, a freely available model made by Chinese conglomerate Alibaba, doesn’t acknowledge the violent suppression of protests in Hong Kong in 2019 or Tiananmen Square in…
