From the death of beloved celebrity Leslie Jordan, to the installation of Rishi Sunak as Britain's newest prime minister, here's some of the top news from the last week.
2 men plead not guilty in Lake Erie fishing tournament scandal
CLEVELAND (AP) — Two men accused of stuffing five walleye with lead weights and fish fillets during a lucrative fishing tournament on Lake Erie pleaded not guilty to cheating and other charges on Wednesday.
A starfish crawls along coral reefs, damaged from years of dynamite fishing, in Les, Bali, Indonesia, on April 11, 2021. Cyanide fishing was also common in the area. There have been efforts to reduce some of the most destructive practices, but the trade is extraordinarily difficult to regulate and track as it stretches from small scale fisherman in tropical seaside villages through local middlemen, export warehouses, international trade hubs and finally to pet stores in the U.S., China, Europe and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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Made Partiana uses a net to catch aquarium fish on north coast of Bali, Indonesia, on April 10, 2021. Millions of saltwater fish are caught in Indonesia and other countries every year to fill ever more elaborate aquariums in living rooms, waiting rooms and restaurants around the world with vivid, otherworldly life. (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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Made Partiana looks at sea urchins in a tank in the LINI center in Les, Bali, Indonesia, on April 12, 2021. “I hope that [healthier] coral reefs will make it possible for the next generation of children and grandchildren under me,” Partiana says. He wants them to be able to “see what coral looks like and that there can be ornamental fish in the sea.” (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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Workers sort fish at a middle man house in Les, Bali, Indonesia, on April 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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Villagers hang out near boats along the coast in Les, Bali, Indonesia, on April 9, 2021. The area is commonly used for aquarium fishing. (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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Dead fish lie in a container at a sorting station in Les, Bali, Indonesia, on April 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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A worker checks a sort and order list at middle man area in Les, Bali, Indonesia, on April 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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Workers sort fish in Les, Bali, Indonesia, on April 11, 2021, for shipment to Denpasar for export. Nearly 3 million homes in the U.S. keep saltwater fish as pets, according to a 2021-2022 American Pet Products Association survey. (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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Pak Ketut, who has been selling fish for over a decade sits in aquarium middle man house in Les, Bali, Indonesia, on April 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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Workers sort aquarium fish caught and delivered to an export warehouse in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, on April 12, 2021. Fish from around Indonesia are brought to this facility. (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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Made Partiana inspects a tank at the LINI center in Les, Bali, Indonesia, on April 12, 2021. The Bali-based nonprofit works for the conservation and management of coastal marine resources. (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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Local villager and fisherman Made Partiana and a local villager search for fish off the coast of Les, Bali, Indonesia, on April 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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Made Partiana and another villager sort fish caught during the day on April 11, 2021. “I hope that [healthier] coral reefs will make it possible for the next generation of children and grandchildren under me,” Partiana says. He wants them to be able to “see what coral looks like and that there can be ornamental fish in the sea.” (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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Made Partiana walks along beach area at Les, Bali, Indonesia, on April 11, 2021, as he prepares to catch aquarium fish. Over the years Partiana began to notice the reef was changing. “I saw the reef dying, turning black,” he says. “You could see there were less fish.” (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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Boats line the coast of Les, Bali, Indonesia, on April 11, 2021. This site is commonly used for aquarium fishing. In the vast archipelago of Indonesia, there are about 34,000 miles (54,720 kilometers) of coastline across some 17,500 islands. That makes monitoring the first step of the tropical fish supply chain a task so gargantuan it is all but ignored. (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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The center of Les, Bali, Indonesia is seen on April 11, 2021. The saltwater aquarium fishing town is tucked between the mountains and ocean in northern Bali. (AP Photo/Alex Lindbloom)
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Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. She was 96. A link to the almost-vanished generation that fought World War II, she was the only monarch most Britons have ever known, and her name defines an age: the modern Elizabethan Era. The impact of her loss will be huge and unpredictable, both for the nation and for the monarchy, an institution she helped stabilize and modernize across decades of huge social change and family scandals.
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Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John, the Grammy-winning superstar who reigned on pop, country, adult contemporary and dance charts with such hits as “Physical” and “You’re the One That I Want” and won countless hearts as everyone’s favorite Sandy in the blockbuster film version of “Grease,” died Aug. 8, 2022. She was 73. From 1973-83, Newton-John was among the world’s most popular entertainers. She had 14 top 10 singles just in the U.S., won four Grammys, starred with John Travolta in “Grease” and with Gene Kelly in “Xanadu.” The fast-stepping Travolta-Newton-John duet, “You’re the One That I Want,” was one of the era’s biggest songs and has sold more than 15 million copies.
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Bill Russell
Bill Russell, the NBA great who anchored a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years — the last two as the first Black head coach in any major U.S. sport — and marched for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr., died July 31, 2022. He was 88. A Hall of Famer, five-time Most Valuable Player and 12-time All-Star, Russell in 1980 was voted the greatest player in NBA history by basketball writers. He remains the sport’s most prolific winner and an archetype of selflessness who won with defense and rebounding while leaving the scoring to others.
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Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen and became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, died Jan. 6, 2022. He was 94. Poitier won the best actor Oscar in 1964 for “Lilies of the Field.”
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Naomi Judd
Naomi Judd, whose family harmonies with daughter Wynonna turned them into the Grammy-winning country stars The Judds, died April 30, 2022 at age 76. The mother-daughter performers scored 14 No. 1 songs in a career that spanned nearly three decades. The red-headed duo combined the traditional Appalachian sounds of bluegrass with polished pop stylings, scoring hit after hit in the 1980s. Wynonna led the duo with her powerful vocals, while Naomi provided harmonies and stylish looks on stage.
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James Caan
James Caan, the curly-haired tough guy known to movie fans as the hotheaded Sonny Corleone of “The Godfather” and to television audiences as both the dying football player in the classic weeper “Brian’s Song” and the casino boss in “Las Vegas,” died July 6, 2022. He was 82. After a break from acting in the 1980s, Caan returned to full-fledged stardom opposite Kathy Bates in “Misery” in 1990. He introduced himself to a new generation playing Walter, the workaholic, stone-faced father of Buddy’s Will Ferrell in “Elf.”
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Bob Saget
Bob Saget, the actor-comedian known for his role as beloved single dad Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House” and as the wisecracking host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” died Jan. 9, 2022. He was 65.
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Anne Heche
Anne Heche, the Emmy-winning film and television actor whose dramatic Hollywood rise in the 1990s and accomplished career contrasted with personal chapters of turmoil, died of injuries from a fiery car crash. She was 53. By the late 1990s Heche was one of the hottest actors in Hollywood, a constant on magazine covers and in big-budget films. In 1997 alone, she played opposite Johnny Depp as his wife in “Donnie Brasco” and Tommy Lee Jones in “Volcano” and was part of the ensemble cast in the original “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
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2022: Meat Loaf
One year ago: Meat Loaf, the rock superstar known for his “Bat Out of Hell” album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as “Paradise By the Dashboard Light” and “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” died at age 74.
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Nichelle Nichols
Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood when she played communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, died July 30, 2022, at the age of 89. Her role in the 1966-69 series as Lt. Uhura earned Nichols a lifelong position of honor with the series’ rabid fans, known as Trekkers and Trekkies. It also earned her accolades for breaking stereotypes that had limited Black women to acting roles as servants and included an interracial onscreen kiss with co-star William Shatner that was unheard of at the time.
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Taylor Hawkins
Taylor Hawkins, for 25 years the drummer for Foo Fighters and best friend of frontman Dave Grohl, died during a South American tour with the rock band. He was 50. Hawkins was Alanis Morissette's touring drummer when he joined Foo Fighters in 1997. He played on the band's biggest albums including “One by One” and “In Your Honor,” and on hit singles like “Best of You.”
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Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw, CNN’s chief anchor for two decades and a pioneering Black broadcast journalist best remembered for calmly reporting the beginning of the Gulf War in 1991 as missiles flew around him in Baghdad, died Sept. 7, 2022. He was 82. Shaw was at CNN for 20 years and was known for remaining cool under pressure. That was a hallmark of his Baghdad coverage when the U.S. led its invasion of Iraq in 1991 to liberate Kuwait, with CNN airing stunning footage of airstrikes and anti-aircraft fire in the capital city.
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Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, has died of cancer. She was 84. President Bill Clinton chose Albright as America’s top diplomat in 1996, and she served in that capacity for the last four years of the Clinton administration. She had previously been Clinton's ambassador to the United Nations.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died Aug. 30, 2022. The last Soviet leader was 91. Though in power less than seven years, Gorbachev unleashed a breathtaking series of changes. But they quickly overtook him and resulted in the collapse of the authoritarian Soviet state, the freeing of Eastern European nations from Russian domination and the end of decades of East-West nuclear confrontation.
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Ivana Trump
Ivana Trump, a skier-turned-businesswoman who formed half of a publicity power couple in the 1980s as the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother of his oldest children, died July 14, 2022. She was 73.
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Gilbert Gottfried
Gilbert Gottfried, the actor and legendary standup comic known for his raw, scorched voice and crude jokes, died April 12, 2022, at age 67. Gottfried was a fiercely independent and intentionally bizarre comedian’s comedian, as likely to clear a room with anti-comedy as he was to kill with his jokes. Gottfried also did voice work for children’s television and movies, most famously playing the parrot Iago in Disney’s “Aladdin.”
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Estelle Harris
Estelle Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza’s short-fused mother on “Seinfeld” and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” franchise, died April 2, 2022. She was 93. As middle-class matron Estelle Costanza, Harris put a memorable stamp on her recurring role in the smash 1990s sitcom. With her high-pitched voice and humorously overbearing attitude, she was an archetype of maternal indignation.
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Liz Sheridan
Liz Sheridan, a veteran stage and screen actress who played Jerry Seinfeld's mother, Helen, on "Seinfeld," died April April 15, 2022, at age 93. Though she had dozens of film credits, she was best known as Seinfeld's doting mother on his titular sitcom, which ran for nine seasons. She also appeared as the snoopy neighbor Mrs. Ochmonek on the alien-led sitcom "ALF."
Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Aug. 2, 2022. He was 94. As the longest tenured broadcaster with a single team in pro sports history, Scully saw it all and called it all. He began in the 1950s era of Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson, on to the 1960s with Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax, into the 1970s with Steve Garvey and Don Sutton, and through the 1980s with Orel Hershiser and Fernando Valenzuela. In the 1990s, it was Mike Piazza and Hideo Nomo, followed by Kershaw, Manny Ramirez and Yasiel Puig in the 21st century.
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Len Dawson
Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson, whose unmistakable swagger in helping the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl title earned him the nickname “Lenny the Cool,” died Aug. 24, 2022. He was 87.
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David McCullough
David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, died Aug. 7, 2022. He was 89.
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Pat Carroll
Pat Carroll, a comedic television mainstay for decades, Emmy-winner for “Caesar’s Hour” and the voice Ursula in “The Little Mermaid,” died July 30, 2022. She was 95. Carroll won an Emmy for her work on the sketch comedy series “Caesar’s Hour” in 1956, was a regular on “Make Room for Daddy” with Danny Thomas, a guest star on “The DuPont Show with June Allyson” and a variety show regular stopping by “The Danny Kaye Show,” “The Red Skelton Show” and “The Carol Burnett Show.” A new generation would come to know and love her voice thanks to Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” which came out in 1989.
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Tony Dow
Tony Dow, who as Wally Cleaver on the sitcom “Leave It to Beaver” helped create the popular and lasting image of the American teenager of the 1950s and 60s, died July 27, 2022. He was 77. Dow's Wally was an often annoyed but essentially loving big brother who was constantly bailing out the title character, Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver, played by Jerry Mathers, on the show that was synonymous with the sometimes hokey, wholesome image of the 1950s American family.
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Shinzo Abe
Shinzo Abe, a divisive archconservative who was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister and remained a powerful and influential politician after leaving office, has died after being shot during a campaign speech July 8, 2022. He was 67. Abe, a political blueblood, was perhaps the most polarizing, complex politician in recent Japanese history. At the same time, he revitalized Japan’s economy, led efforts for the nation to take a stronger role in Asia and served as a rare beacon of political stability before stepping down two years ago for health reasons.
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Philip Baker Hall
Philip Baker Hall, the prolific character actor of film and theater who starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's first movies and who memorably hunted down a long-overdue library book in “Seinfeld,” died June 12, 2022. He was 90. In a career spanning half a century, Hall was a ubiquitous hangdog face whose doleful, weary appearance could shroud a booming intensity and humble sensitivity. His range was wide, but Hall, who had a natural gravitas, often played men in suits, trench coats and lab coats.
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Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta, the actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams,” died May 25, 2022. He was 67. Liotta’s first big film role was in Jonathan Demme’s “Something Wild” as Melanie Griffith’s character’s hotheaded ex-convict husband Ray. A few years later, he would get the memorable role of the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams.” His most iconic role, as real life mobster Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” came shortly after.
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Paul Sorvino
Paul Sorvino, an imposing actor who specialized in playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in “Goodfellas” and the NYPD sergeant Phil Cerreta on “Law & Order,” died July 25, 2022. He was 83. In his over 50 years in the entertainment business, Sorvino was a mainstay in films and television, playing an Italian American communist in Warren Beatty’s “Reds,” Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone’s “Nixon” and mob boss Eddie Valentine in “The Rocketeer.”
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Tony Sirico
Tony Sirico, who played the impeccably groomed mobster Paulie Walnuts in “The Sopranos” and brought his tough-guy swagger to films including “Goodfellas,” died July 8, 2022. He was 79.
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Fred Ward
Fred Ward, a veteran actor who brought a gruff tenderness to tough-guy roles in such films as “The Right Stuff,” “The Player” and “Tremors,” died May 15, 2022. He was 79. A former boxer, lumberjack in Alaska and short-order cook who served in the U.S. Air Force, Ward was a San Diego native who was part Cherokee. One early big role was alongside Clint Eastwood in 1979’s “Escape From Alcatraz.”
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Sonny Barger
Sonny Barger, the leather-clad fixture of 1960s counterculture and figurehead of the Hells Angels motorcycle club who was at the notorious Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, died June 29, 2022. He was 83.
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Howard Hesseman
Howard Hesseman, best known as the hard-rocking disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on the sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati," died Jan. 28, 2022. In addition to earning two Emmy nominations for his role on "WKRP," Hesseman also appeared on "Head of the Class" and "One Day at a Time," along with guest appearances on "That 70's Show," among others. The Oregon native also hosted "Saturday Night Live" several times. — CNN
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Larry Storch
Larry Storch, the rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was capped by his “F Troop” role as zany Cpl. Agarn in the 1960s spoof of Western frontier TV shows, died July 8, 2022. Storch was 99.
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Emilio Delgado
Emilio Delgado, who spent more than 40 years entertaining generations of children playing the Fix-It Shop owner Luis on "Sesame Street," died March 10, 2022. He was 81. Delgado had cited the PBS show's importance as a cultural touchstone in the way people of color were depicted on TV. — CNN
Louie Anderson, whose four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series “Baskets,” died Jan. 21, 2022. He was 68. In 2016, Anderson won a best supporting actor Emmy for his portrayal of Christine Baskets, mother to twins, in the FX series “Baskets.” He was a familiar face elsewhere on TV, including as host of a revival of the game show “Family Feud” from 1999 to 2002.
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Orrin Hatch
Orrin G. Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history who was a fixture in Utah politics for more than four decades, died April 23, 2022, at age 88. A staunch conservative on most economic and social issues, he also teamed with Democrats several times during his long career on issues ranging from stem cell research to rights for people with disabilities to expanding children’s health insurance.
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Bob Lanier
Bob Lanier, the left-handed big man who muscled up beside the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as one of the NBA’s top players of the 1970s, died May 10, 2022. He was 73. Lanier played 14 seasons with the Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks and averaged 20.1 points and 10.1 rebounds for his career. He is third on the Pistons’ career list in both points and rebounds. Detroit drafted Lanier with the No. 1 overall pick in 1970 after he led St. Bonaventure to the Final Four.
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Mickey Gilley
Country star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy” and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, died May 7, 2022. He was 86. Overall, Gilley had 39 Top 10 country hits and 17 No. 1 songs. He received six Academy of Country Music Awards, and also worked on occasion as an actor, with appearances on “Murder She Wrote,” “The Fall Guy,” “Fantasy Island” and “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
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Ronnie Spector
Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock ‘n’ roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as “Be My Baby,” “Baby I Love You” and “Walking in the Rain” as the leader of the girl group The Ronettes, died Jan. 12, 2022. She was 78.
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Bobby Rydell
Bobby Rydell, a pompadoured heartthrob of early rock ‘n roll who was a star of radio, television and the movie musical “Bye Bye Birdie,” died April 5, 2022, at age 79. Between 1959 and 1964, Rydell had nearly three dozen Top 40 singles including “Wild One,” “Volare,” “Wildwood Days,” “The Cha-Cha-Cha” and “Forget Him." He had recurring roles on “The Red Skelton Show” and other television programs, and 1963's “Bye Bye Birdie” was rewritten to give Rydell a major part as the boyfriend of Ann-Margret.
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William Hurt
William Hurt, whose laconic charisma and self-assured subtlety as an actor made him one of the 1980s foremost leading men in movies such as “Broadcast News," “Body Heat” and “The Big Chill,” died March 13, 2022. He was 71. In a long-running career, Hurt was four times nominated for an Academy Award, winning for 1985's “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” After his breakthrough in 1980’s Paddy Chayefsky-scripted “Altered States” as a psychopathologist studying schizophrenia and experimenting with sensory deprivation, Hurt quickly emerged as a mainstay of the '80s.
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Claes Oldenburg
Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of a baseball bat, a clothespin and other objects, died July 18, 2022, at age 93.
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Tony Siragusa
Tony Siragusa, the charismatic defensive tackle who was part of one of the most celebrated defenses in NFL history with the Baltimore Ravens, died June 22, 2022. He was 55. Siragusa, known as “Goose,” played seven seasons with the Indianapolis Colts and five with the Ravens. Baltimore’s 2000 team won the Super Bowl behind a stout defense that included Siragusa, Ray Lewis and Sam Adams. Siragusa was popular with fans because of his fun-loving attitude, which also helped him transition quickly to broadcasting after his playing career.
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Scott Hall
Scott Hall, professional wrestling’s “Bad Guy” who revolutionized the industry as a founding member of the New World Order faction, died March 14, 2022. He was 63. Hall, who also wrestled for WWE as Razor Ramon, was a two-time inductee into the company’s Hall of Fame.
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Mike Bossy
Mike Bossy, one of hockey’s most prolific goal-scorers and a star for the New York Islanders during their 1980s Stanley Cup dynasty, died April 14, 2022, after a battle with lung cancer. He was 65. Bossy helped the Islanders win the Stanley Cup four straight years from 1980-83, earning the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in 1982. He scored the Cup-winning goal in 1982 and ’83.
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Guy Lafleur
Hockey Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur, who helped the Montreal Canadiens win five Stanley Cup titles in the 1970s, died at age 70. One of the greatest players of his generation, Lafleur, nicknamed "The Flower," registered 518 goals and 728 assists in 14 seasons with Montreal.
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André Leon Talley
André Leon Talley, a towering figure who made fashion history as a rare Black editor in an overwhelmingly white industry, died Jan. 18, 2022. He was 73. Talley was the former creative director and editor at large of Vogue magazine. Often dressed in sweeping capes, he was a highly visible regular in the front row of fashion shows in New York and Europe for decades.
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Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich, the ascot-wearing cinephile and director of 1970s black-and-white classics like “The Last Picture Show” and “Paper Moon,” died Jan. 6, 2022. He was 82. Bogdanovich was heralded as an auteur from the start, with the chilling lone shooter film “Targets” and soon after “The Last Picture Show,” from 1971, his evocative portrait of a small, dying town that earned eight Oscar nominations and catapulted him to stardom.
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Ivan Reitman
Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind many of the most beloved comedies of the late 20th century, from “Animal House” to “Ghostbusters,” died Feb. 12, 2022. He was 75. Known for bawdy comedies that caught the spirit of their time, Reitman’s big break came with the raucous, college fraternity sendup “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” which he produced. He directed Bill Murray in his first starring role in the summer camp flick “Meatballs," and then again in 1981's “Stripes,” but his most significant success came with 1984’s “Ghostbusters.”
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Vangelis
Vangelis, the Greek electronic composer who wrote the unforgettable Academy Award-winning score for the film “Chariots of Fire” and music for dozens of other movies, documentaries and TV series, died May 17, 2022, at age 79.
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John Clayton
Longtime NFL journalist John Clayton, nicknamed "The Professor," died March 25, 2022, following a short illness. He was 67. Clayton spent more than two decades covering the Pittsburgh Steelers for the The Pittsburgh Press and the Seattle Seahawks for The News Tribune in Tacoma. Clayton moved to ESPN in 1995, becoming one of the lead NFL writers for the company. Clayton appeared on TV and radio for ESPN and worked at the company for more than 20 years.
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Bobbie Nelson
Bobbie Nelson, the older sister of country music legend Willie Nelson and longtime pianist in his band, died March 10, 2022. She was 91. An original member of the Willie Nelson and Family Band, Bobbie Nelson played piano for more than 50 years with her brother.
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Sally Kellerman
Sally Kellerman, the Oscar and Emmy nominated actor who played Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in director Robert Altman's 1970 film “MASH," died Feb. 24, 2022, at age 84. Kellerman had a career of more than 60 years in film and television. She played a college professor who was returning student Rodney Dangerfield's love interest in the 1986 comedy “Back to School.” But she would always be best known for playing Major Houlihan, a straitlaced, by-the-book Army nurse who is tormented by rowdy doctors during the Korean War in the army comedy “MASH."
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Marilyn Bergman
Marilyn Bergman, the Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with husband Alan Bergman on “The Way We Were,” “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?” and hundreds of other songs, died Jan. 8, 2022. She was 93.
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Manfred Thierry Mugler
French fashion designer Manfred Thierry Mugler, whose dramatic designs were worn by celebrities like Madonna, Lady Gaga and Cardi B, died Jan. 23, 2022. He was 73. Mugler, who launched his brand in 1973, became known for his architectural style, defined by broad shoulders and a tiny waist. The use of plastic-like futuristic fabric in his sculpted clothing became a trademark.
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Gaspard Ulliel
French actor Gaspard Ulliel, known for appearing in Chanel perfume ads as well as film and television roles, died Jan. 19, 2022, after a skiing accident in the Alps. He was 37. Ulliel portrayed the young Hannibal Lecter in 2007's “Hannibal Rising” and fashion mogul Yves Saint Laurent in the 2014 biopic “Saint Laurent.” He is also in the Marvel series “Moon Knight."
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Dan Reeves
Dan Reeves, who won a Super Bowl as a player with the Dallas Cowboys but was best known for a long coaching career highlighted by four more appearances in the title game with the Denver Broncos and the Atlanta Falcons, all losses, died Jan. 1, 2022. He was 77.
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Don Maynard
Don Maynard, a Hall of Fame receiver who made his biggest impact catching passes from Joe Namath in the wide-open AFL, died Jan. 10, 2022. He was 86. When Maynard retired in 1973, he was pro football’s career receiving leader with 633 catches for 11,834 yards and 88 touchdowns. The Jets retired his No. 13 jersey.
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Don Young
Alaska Rep. Don Young, who was the longest-serving Republican in the history of the U.S. House, died March 25, 2033. He was 88. Young, who was first elected to the U.S. House in 1973, was known for his brusque style. In his later years in office, his off-color comments and gaffes sometimes overshadowed his work.
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Michael Lang
Michael Lang, a co-creator and promoter of the 1969 Woodstock music festival that served as a touchstone for generations of music fans, died Jan. 8, 2022. He was 77.
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Lawrence N. Brooks
Lawrence N. Brooks, the oldest World War II veteran in the U.S. — and believed to be the oldest man in the country — died Jan. 5, 2022, at the age of 112.
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Charles McGee
Charles McGee, a Tuskegee Airman who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars and later helped to bring attention to the Black pilots who had battled racism at home to fight for freedom abroad, died Jan. 16, 2022. He was 102.
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Tom Parker
Tom Parker, a member of British-Irish boy band The Wanted, died March 30, 2022, after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. He was 33. Formed in 2009, The Wanted had a string of hit singles including U.K. No. 1s “All Time Low” and "Glad You Came.”
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Shirley Spork
Shirley Spork, one of the 13 founders of the LPGA Tour who learned two weeks ago she would be inducted into the LPGA Hall of Fame, died April 12, 2022. at age 94. While she never won on the LPGA Tour — her best finish was runner-up in the 1962 LPGA Championship at Stardust Country Club in Las Vegas — Spork's impact stretched across seven decades of starting the tour and teaching the game.
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Rayfield Wright
Rayfield Wright, the Pro Football Hall of Fame offensive tackle nicknamed “Big Cat” who went to five Super Bowls in his 13 NFL seasons with the Dallas Cowboys, died April 7, 2022. He was 76.
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Charley Taylor
Charley Taylor, the Hall of Fame receiver who ended his 13-season career with Washington as the NFL's career receptions leader, died Feb. 19, 2022. He was 80. Taylor was the 1964 NFL rookie of the year and was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame's All-1960s Team. The eight-time Pro Bowl selection was a first-team all-NFL pick in 1967.
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Tommy Davis
Tommy Davis, a two-time National League batting champion who won three World Series titles with the Los Angeles Dodgers, died April 3, 2022. He was 83. Recruited to play for the Dodgers by Jackie Robinson, Davis batted .357 with 17 home runs, 104 RBI and 68 stolen bases in 127 games in that first season with the team. He won consecutive titles in 1962, when he hit .346 and led the NL in hits and RBI, and 1963, when he hit .326.
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Bill Fitch
Bill Fitch, who guided the Boston Celtics to one of their championships during a Hall of Fame coaching career spanning three decades, died Feb. 2, 2022. He was 89. A two-time NBA coach of the year, Fitch coached for 25 seasons in the NBA, starting with the expansion Cleveland Cavaliers in 1970. He was Larry Bird's first pro coach with Boston in 1979, won a title with the Celtics in 1981 and spent time with Houston, New Jersey and the Los Angeles Clippers.
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Robert Morse
Robert Morse, who won a Tony Award as a hilariously brash corporate climber in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” and a second one a generation later as the brilliant, troubled Truman Capote in “Tru,” died April 20, 2022. He was 90.
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Dede Robertson
Dede Robertson, the wife of religious broadcaster Pat Robertson and a founding board member of the Christian Broadcasting Network, died April 19, 2022. She was 94.
AP file, 1988
Robert Krueger
Robert C. Krueger, who followed two U.S. House terms with a brief interim appointment to the Senate before launching a sometimes-hazardous diplomatic career, died April 30, 2022, at age 86.
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Johnnie A. Jones Sr.
Johnnie A. Jones Sr., a Louisiana civil rights attorney and World War II veteran who was wounded during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, died April 23, 2022. He was 102 years old.
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Gary Brooker
Gary Brooker, the Procol Harum frontman who sang one of the 1960s' most enduring hits, “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” died Feb. 19, 2022. He was 76. Brooker was singer and keyboard player with the band, which had a huge hit with its first single, “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” With its Baroque-flavored organ solo and mysterious opening line - “We skipped the light fandango, turned cartwheels cross the floor" — the song became one of the signature tunes of the 1967 “Summer of Love.”
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Brent Renaud
Brent Renaud, an acclaimed filmmaker who traveled to some of the darkest and most dangerous corners of the world for documentaries that transported audiences to little-known places of suffering, died March 13, 2022, after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle in Ukraine.
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Ronnie Hawkins
Ronnie Hawkins, a brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who became a patron of the Canadian music scene after moving north and recruiting a handful of local musicians later known as the Band, died May 29, 2022. He was 87.
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Andy Fletcher
Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, the unassuming, bespectacled, red-headed keyboardist who for more than 40 years added his synth sounds to Depeche Mode hits like “Just Can’t Get Enough” and “Personal Jesus,” died May 26, 2022, at age 60.
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Ann Turner Cook
Ann Turner Cook, whose cherubic baby face was known the world over as the original Gerber baby, has died. She was 95. Cook was 5 months old when a neighbor, artist Dorothy Hope Smith, drew a charcoal sketch of her that was later submitted for a contest Gerber was holding for a national marketing campaign for baby food. The image was a hit, so much so that it became the company's trademark in 1931 and has been used in all packaging and advertising since.
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Dwayne Hickman
Dwayne Hickman, the actor and network TV executive who despite numerous achievements throughout his life would always be remembered fondly by a generation of baby boomers for his role as Dobie Gillis, died Jan. 9, 2022. He was 87.
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Mark Shields
Political commentator and columnist Mark Shields, who shared his insight into American politics and wit on “PBS NewsHour” for decades, died June 18, 2022. He was 85.
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James Rado
James Rado, co-creator of the groundbreaking hippie musical “Hair,” which celebrated protest, pot and free love and paved the way for the sound of rock on Broadway, died June 21, 2022. He was 90. “Hair,” which has a story and lyrics by Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot, was the first rock musical on Broadway, the first Broadway show to feature full nudity and the first to feature a same-sex kiss.
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Bruton Smith
O. Bruton Smith, who emerged from North Carolina farm country and parlayed his love of motorsports into a Hall of Fame career as one of the biggest track owners and most successful promoters in the history of auto racing, died June 22, 2022. He was 95.
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Marlin Briscoe
Marlin Briscoe, who became the first Black starting quarterback in the American Football League more than 50 years ago, died June 27, 2022. He was 76.
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Vernon Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey’s father, Vernon Winfrey, died July 8, 2022, at the age of 89. Vernon served as a member of Nashville's Metro City Council for 16 years and was a trustee for the Tennessee State University. Oprah spent her early childhood at her father's hometown of Kosciusko, Mississippi, and in Milwaukee with her mother, Vernita Lee, who died in 2018.
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William “Poogie” Hart
William “Poogie” Hart (center), a founder of the Grammy-winning trio the Delfonics who helped write and sang a soft lead tenor on such classic “Sound of Philadelphia” ballads as “La-La (Means I Love You)” and “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time),” died July 14, 2022, at age 77.
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David Warner
David Warner, a versatile British actor whose roles ranged from Shakespearean tragedies to sci-fi cult classics, died July 24, 2022. He was 80. Often cast as a villain, Warner had roles in the 1971 psychological thriller “Straw Dogs,” the 1976 horror classic “The Omen,” the 1979 time-travel adventure “Time After Time” — he was Jack the Ripper — and the 1997 blockbuster “Titanic,” where he played the malicious valet Spicer Lovejoy.
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Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake, who built one of Japan’s biggest fashion brands and was known for his boldly sculpted pleated pieces as well as former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ black turtlenecks, died Aug. 5, 2022. He was 84.
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Bert Fields
Bert Fields, for decades the go-to lawyer for Hollywood A-listers including Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson, George Lucas and the Beatles, and a character as colorful as many of his clients, died Aug. 7, 2022, at age 93.
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Melissa Bank
Melissa Bank, whose 1999 bestseller “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing" was a series of interconnected stories widely praised for its wit and precise language and embraced by young readers, died Aug. 2, 2022, at age 61.
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Albert Woodfox
Albert Woodfox, a former inmate who spent decades in isolation at a Louisiana prison and then became an advocate for prison reforms after he was released, died Aug. 4, 2022, of complications from COVID-19. He was 75.
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Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich, the author, activist and self-described “myth buster” who in such notable works as “Nickel and Dimed” and “Bait and Switch" challenged conventional thinking about class, religion and the very idea of an American dream, died Sept. 1, 2022, at age 81.
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Coolio
Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop's biggest names of the 1990s with hits including “Gangsta's Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” died Sept. 28, 2022. Coolio won a Grammy for best solo rap performance for “Gangsta's Paradise,” the 1995 hit from the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer film “Dangerous Minds” that sampled Stevie Wonder's 1976 song “Pastime Paradise" and was played constantly on MTV.
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Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, died Oct. 4, 2022. She was 90. As a songwriter, Lynn crafted a persona of a defiantly tough woman. The Country Music Hall of Famer wrote fearlessly about sex and love, cheating husbands, divorce and birth control and sometimes got in trouble with radio programmers for material from which even rock performers once shied away.
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Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury, the big-eyed, scene-stealing British actress who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy” and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” died Oct. 11, 2022. She was 96. Lansbury won five Tony Awards for her Broadway performances and a lifetime achievement award. She earned Academy Award nominations as supporting actress for two of her first three films, “Gaslight” (1945) and “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1946), and was nominated again in 1962 for “The Manchurian Candidate” and her deadly portrayal of a Communist agent and the title character’s mother.
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Louise Fletcher
Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, died Sept. 23, 2022, at age 88.
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Sacheen Littlefeather
Sacheen Littlefeather, the actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Academy Award for “The Godfather” on his behalf in an indelible protest of Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans, died Oct. 2, 2022. She was 75. Littlefeather’s appearance at the 1973 Oscars would become one of the award show's most famous moments. Clad in buckskin dress and moccasins, Littlefeather took the stage when presenter Roger Moore read Brando's name as the winner for best actor.
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Eileen Ryan
Eileen Ryan, an actor who appeared on TV, in films and on Broadway and the matriarch of the steeped-in-the-arts Penn family, died Oct. 9, 2022. She was 94. Her TV credits include appearances on “The Twilight Zone,” “Bonanza,” “The Detectives,” “Marcus Welby, M.D.,” “Little House on the Prairie,” “Arli$$,” “Ally McBeal,” “NYPD Blue,” “ER,” “CSI,” “Men of a Certain Age” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” Her film roles included “Parenthood,” “At Close Range” and “Benny & Joon.”
AP file, 2008
Ken Starr
Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment and put Starr at the center of one of the country’s most polarizing debates of the 1990s, died Sept. 13, 2022, at age 76.
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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard, the iconic “enfant terrible” of the French New Wave who revolutionized popular cinema in 1960 with his first feature, “Breathless,” and stood for years among the film world's most influential directors, died Sept. 13, 2022. He was 91. Over a long career that began in the 1950s as a film critic, Godard was perhaps the most boundary-breaking director among New Wave filmmakers who rewrote the rules for camera, sound and narrative — rebelling against an earlier tradition of more formulaic storytelling.
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Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author who turned Tudor power politics into page-turning fiction in the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” trilogy of historical novels, died Sept. 22, 2022. She was 70. Mantel is credited with reenergizing historical fiction with “Wolf Hall” and two sequels about the 16th-century English powerbroker Thomas Cromwell, right-hand man to King Henry VIII — and in Mantel’s hands, the charismatic antihero of a bloody, high-stakes political drama.
AP file, 2009
Art Laboe
Art Laboe, the pioneering radio DJ who read heartfelt song dedications to generations of loyal listeners and was credited with helping end segregation in Southern California during an eight-decade broadcast career, died Oct. 7, 2022. He was 97. Laboe is also credited with popularizing the phrase “oldies, but goodies.”
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Judy Tenuta
Judy Tenuta, a brash standup who cheekily styled herself as the “Love Goddess” and toured with George Carlin as she built her career in the 1980s golden age of comedy, died Oct. 6, 2022. She was 72.
AP file, 2009
Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders, the influential tenor saxophonist revered in the jazz world for the spirituality of his work, died Sept. 24, 2022. He was 81. Sanders launched his career playing alongside John Coltrane in the 1960s.
AP file, 2014
Leslie Jordan
Leslie Jordan, the Emmy-winning actor whose wry Southern drawl and versatility made him a comedy and drama standout on TV series including “Will & Grace” and “American Horror Story,” has died. He was 67. The Tennessee native, who won an on outstanding guest actor Emmy in 2005 for “Will & Grace,” appeared recently on the Mayim Bialik comedy “Call me Kat” and co-starred on the sitcom “The Cool Kids.”
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James A. McDivitt
James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, died Oct. 13, 2022. He was 93. McDivitt was also the commander of 1965’s Gemini 4 mission, where his best friend and colleague Ed White made the first U.S. spacewalk. His photographs of White during the spacewalk became iconic images.
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Robbie Coltrane
Robbie Coltrane, the baby-faced comedian and character actor whose hundreds of roles included a crime-solving psychologist on the TV series “Cracker” and the gentle half-giant Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies, died Oct. 14, 2022. He was 72.
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Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and sustained a career otherwise upended by personal scandal, died Oct. 28, 2022, at age 87. Lewis was the last survivor of a generation of groundbreaking performers that included Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
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Orionid meteor shower from Halley's Comet to light up sky: How to watch
The night of Oct. 20-21 will feature the peak of the Orionid meteor shower, one of the best celestial events the fall season has to offer.
One of nature's most anticipated light shows is set to climax this week as space debris and dust trails from the famous Halley's Comet scatter across the night sky.
The Orionids meteor shower is expected to peak at 2 p.m. ET on Friday, Oct. 21, but will be best observed earlier in that time zone, between the hours of midnight and dawn. If viewing properly, away from any bright lights and light-polluted areas, viewers can expect to see around 10 to 20 meteors per hour during this time, according to EarthSky.
This image provided by NASA on Monday, July 11, 2022, shows galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope is designed to peer back so far that scientists can get a glimpse of the dawn of the universe about 13.7 billion years ago and zoom in on closer cosmic objects, even our own solar system, with sharper focus.
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This combo of images provided by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, shows a side-by-side comparison of observations of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, at left, and mid-infrared light, at right, from the Webb Telescope.
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This image released by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, shows the bright star at the center of NGC 3132 for the first time in near-infrared light.
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This image provided by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, shows Stephan's Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies captured by the Webb Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).
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This image released by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, shows the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on the James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth, according to NASA.
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This image released by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, combined the capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope's two cameras to create a never-before-seen view of a star-forming region in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), this combined image reveals previously invisible areas of star birth.
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Update: 3 dead, including suspect in shooting at St. Louis high school
ST. LOUIS — At least three people were killed, including the suspect, and seven more were injured after a shooting Monday morning at Central Visual & Performing Arts High School in south St. Louis.
A woman died at a hospital, and a teen girl was pronounced dead inside the school, both of gunshot wounds.
Taniya Lumpkin, and Taniya Gholston students at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School, and Takisha Duncan, a student's parent, react to the school shooting that happened on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022.
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A look at some of America's deadliest school shootings
Intro
Until the massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School in 1999, the number of dead in U.S. school shootings tended to be in the single digits. Since then, the number of shootings that included schools and killed 10 or more people has mounted. The most recent two were both in Texas. In May 2022, an 18-year-old attacker killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. In May 2018, a 17-year-old killed 10 people at Santa Fe High School near Houston. Most of the victims were students.
Columbine High School, April 1999
COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL, April 1999: Two students killed 12 of their peers and one teacher at the school in Littleton, Colorado, and injured many others before killing themselves.
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Red Lake High School, March 2005
RED LAKE HIGH SCHOOL, March 2005: A 16-year-old student killed his grandfather and the man's companion at their Minnesota home, then went to nearby Red Lake High School, where he killed five students, a teacher and a security guard before shooting himself.
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Virginia Tech, April 2007
VIRGINIA TECH, April 2007: A 23-year-old student killed 32 people on the campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, in April 2007; more than two dozen others were wounded. The gunman then killed himself.
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Sandy Hook Elementary School, December 2012
SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, December 2012: A 19-year-old man killed his mother at their home in Newtown, Connecticut, then went to the nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 first graders and six educators. He took his own life.
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Umpqua Community College, October 2015
UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, October 2015: A man killed nine people at the school in Roseburg, Oregon, and wounded nine others, then killed himself.
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, February 2018
MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL, February 2018: An attack left 14 students and three staff members dead at the school in Parkland, Florida, and injured many others. The 20-year-old suspect was charged with murder.
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Santa Fe High School, May 2018
SANTA FE HIGH SCHOOL, May 2018: A 17-year-old opened fire at a Houston-area high school, killing 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. The suspect has been charged with murder.
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Robb Elementary School, May 2022
ROBB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, May 2022: An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two adults, officials said. The 18-year-old attacker was killed by law enforcement.
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Jury finds that Kevin Spacey didn't molest actor Anthony Rapp in 1986
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury concluded Tuesday that Kevin Spacey didn’t molest fellow actor Anthony Rapp in the 1980s, bringing to a conclusion a trial that was an outgrowth of the #MeToo movement.
The verdict in the Manhattan federal court civil trial came after jurors considered whether to believe Rapp’s claims that he was psychologically damaged after Spacey made a sexual advance on him in 1986. Both were relatively unknown actors in Broadway plays.
In January 2018, millions of women participated in more than 600 protests and events around the world as part of the second annual Women's March. The inaugural Women's March on Washington in 2017 kicked off a trend of protests, with Americans protesting en masse at thousands of events in 2017, a trend that has continued in 2018. #MeToo, #TimesUp and other women's movements are persisting and inspiring other groups and movements to use their right to protest.
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Stars declare 'Time's Up' at awards shows
In response to #MeToo, Hollywood celebrities banded together to start the #TimesUp movement against sexual assault and harassment, announced on Jan. 1, 2018. The movement called on stars to wear all black as part of a solidarity "blackout" at the Golden Globes. During her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award, Oprah Winfrey said, "For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak the truth to the power of those men. But their time is up." Harvey Weinstein accusers Annabella Sciorra, Ashley Judd and Salma Hayek took the stage at the Oscars to also talk about the movement.
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Larry Nassar's victims speak out
More than 150 victims of former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar confronted him in court about the sexual abuse he subjected them under the guide of treatment. After he was convicted of sexually abusing gymnasts and other female athletes, the women and girls read victim impact statements during his sentencing, coming face to face with their abuser and being lauded for their bravery. In January 2018 Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexual abuse.
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USA Gymnastics puts off its reckoning
For its mishandling of the scandal and its institutional and individual failures to protect gymnasts from decades of abuse, USA Gymnastics also faced consequences. In November 2018 the U.S. Olympic Committee announced it will revoke USA Gymnastics' status as the sport’s national governing body. Facing 100 lawsuits, the organization filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which stops its decertification and all legal proceedings in civil court. This move has been criticized as a way to avoid justice.
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Bill Cosby found guilty
Bill Cosby was sentenced to 3-10 years in prison after being found guilty in April 2018 on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand. Constand was among 60 women who accused the actor and comedian of sexual assault. Cosby's conviction came four years after a viral clip of stand-up comic Hannibal Buress discussing the Cosby allegations brought them to new light. Before that, the complaints against Cosby were an open secret.
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#MeToo sinks 25 candidates
During the 2018 election cycle, 25 candidates from both ends of the political spectrum have been ousted or had their campaigns derailed by sexual misconduct allegations, according to The Atlantic's calculations. There were 12 Republicans and 13 Democrats, with eight of those being federal-level campaigns. Former Sen. Al Franken left office in January, and Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned in May. Other non-elected officials have been called out as well, including Donald Trump's staff secretary Rob Porter, who resigned in February.
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Pulitzer for pieces that took down Harvey Weinstein
In April 2018, Jodi Cantor and Megan Twohey of the New York Times and Ronan Farrow of the New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service. Their respective pieces on Harvey Weinstein's decades of alleged sexual harassment and assault led to criminal charges against Weinstein as well as the outing of other predatory men who abused their positions, wealth and power in what the Pulitzer Prize organization called "a worldwide reckoning."
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Harvey Weinstein turns himself in
In May 2018, Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to New York authorities on charges of sexual assault against two women, one in 2006 and the other in 2013. The charges include two counts of predatory sexual assault, with a potential sentence of life in prison.
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Nobel Peace Prize winners reflect #MeToo
The honorees of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize reflected the world's focus on #MeToo and preventing sexual violence. Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Iraqi Yazidi activist Nadia Murad were jointly awarded the prize in December 2018 "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict." Mukwege has spent 20 years treating and counseling women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, earning him the nickname "the man who mends women." Murad was kidnapped, raped and tortured by Islamic State militants. After escaping, she became a human rights activist against genocide and wartime sexual violence.
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Cristiano Ronaldo's rape case in spotlight
While Hollywood is where stories first broke, the domino effect of #MeToo has affected tech, business and the world of sports. Perhaps the biggest sports star to face scrutiny is one of the highest-paid soccer players in the world, Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese Juventus player was accused of rape in 2009. The ensuing case and settlement received little attention, and German newspaper Der Spiegel was the only major outlet to report on it with a story in 2017. But with the cultural shift of #MeToo, the victim was inspired to come forward with her story again and filed a suit to reopen the case in 2018. This time, her accusations made waves and international headlines.
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Top executives ousted
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. Lululemon CEO Laurent Potdevin. CBS CEO Les Moonves. Metropolitan Opera Director James Levine. Pixar and Walt Disney Animation CCO John Lasseter. These are just a few of the men across the industries of tech, fashion, media, the arts and more who were fired or resigned in 2018 over accusations of sexual misconduct. According to a New York-based crisis consulting firm, more than 400 high-profile executives and employees were outed by the #MeToo Movement through June 2018.
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CBS' Les Moonves resigns
One of the year's biggest resignations was that of CBS chairman and CEO Les Moonves. Following his Harvey Weinstein piece, Ronan Farrow published a story that detailed six allegations of sexual misconduct against Moonves. Six more women came forward with allegations of harassment and assault. Moonves was forced to step down, and CBS announced he would not get his $120 million severance payment.
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#MeToo mutes R. Kelly
Throughout his career, singer R. Kelly has faced allegations of sexual misconduct. Since he illegally married a 15-year-old Aaliyah in 1994, Kelly has been accused of predatory behavior toward underage girls. He's been sued multiple times in civil court, accused of running a "sex cult," indicted on 21 felony counts of child pornography and arrested for possession of child pornography. Even more allegations came to light in 2018, leading activists to launch a #MuteRKelly protest campaign calling on companies to cut ties with Kelly. Celebrities such as John Legend, Ava DuVernay and Viola Davis supported the campaign. Some streaming services stopped promoting his music in playlists, and a Chicago performance was canceled. R. Kelly denies all the accusations and remains defiant.
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Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testifies
After accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a high school party in 1982, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September. More than 20 million people around the world tuned in to the hearing, in which Ford and Kavanaugh both testified. Despite not stopping his confirmation, Ford did force a delay on the vote for a brief FBI investigation.
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#MeToo hits McDonald's
The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements helped motivate employees to demand better workplace protections, including workers at McDonald's. In September 2018, hundreds of McDonald's employees staged a nationwide protest aimed at pressuring the company to implement stronger policies to protect workers from sexual harassment. According to organizers, it was the first strike in more than 100 years to protest sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Google employees stage walkout
In November, thousands of Google employees and contract workers around the world walked out in protest of the company's alleged workplace inequality and in response to alleged sexual harassment. The week before, the New York Times revealed that the company gave a senior vice president, Andy Rubin, a $90 million exit package in 2014 after he was accused of sexual harassment. Organizers aimed to push the tech giant to set a new standard for accountability and transparency regarding the equality and safety of employees from underrepresented groups.
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#MeToo inspires television
In 2018 the ripple of #MeToo finally made it into scripted media, especially television. Shows such as "The Good Fight," "13 Reasons Why," "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," "Younger" and "Will & Grace" all tackled storylines involving consent, boundaries or sexual harassment and assault. The trend doesn't seem to be slowing either, TV show runner Ryan Murphy has said he wants to develop an anthology series called "Consent" that would be a spin on the Hollywood scandals of people like Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey.
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The movement heads to #ChurchToo
A spinoff of the #MeToo movement, #ChurchToo gained traction at the end of 2017. The hashtag opened up the conversation about abuse of power in religious settings. Many shared stories of sexual abuse in church settings, including Jules Woodson. Inspired by #MeToo, she wrote a blog post in January 2018 detailing abuse of power and sexual assault by prominent pastor Andy Savage. Savage, who at the time was Woodson's youth pastor, admitted to the encounter and ultimately resigned, and the publication of his upcoming book was canceled. Bill Hybels, head pastor of evangelical megachurch Willow Creek in Illinois, and the entire board of elders resigned in August after multiple allegations of sexual abuse and harassment against Hybels came to light.
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Billie Eilish's new love interest, Tom Brady apologizes for military comments, and more celeb news
Anne Heche's son bids to 'expand authority' over late mum's estate
Anne Heche's son is bidding to "expand his authority" over his late mum's estate.
Homer Laffoon, 20, asked for a bond of $800,000 (£703,000) as part of his 'ex-parte application' with the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles County to extend his control as special administrator of the estate.
Matthew Perry spent at least $9 million to get sober.
The 'Friends' actor, 53, told The New York Times on Sunday (23.10.22) he spent a fortune trying to kick his drink and drug addictions, as he continues to promote his upcoming memoir 'Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing'.
'The Daily Show' host, 38, dismissed rumours of a feud in a TikTok video while responding to an audience member who asked him about an alleged falling out between the pair.
Halsey thanks Alanis Morissette for helping her write 'best f*** you' songs
Halsey has thanked Alanis Morissette for helping her write "the best f*** you" songs.
The 28-year-old paid tribute to her fellow singer, 48, while performing at the 'We Can Survive' concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Saturday night. (22.10.22)
Salman Rushdie blind in right eye and has lost mobility in hand after knife attack
Salman Rushdie is blind in his right eye and has lost mobility in a hand after he was stabbed 15 times in New York.
The writer's agent revealed his condition after 75-year-old Salman - renowned for his 'The Satanic Verses' novel, which triggered a decades-long fatwa calling for his death - was repeatedly knifed as he prepared to give a talk on artistic freedom at the Chautauqua Institute on August 12.
Harry Styles has been tipped for success at both the Grammys and the Brit Awards next year.
The 'As It Was' singer is set to perform at the ceremonies on both sides of the Atlantic in 2023 and insiders suggest that he is likely to take home some gongs.
Angelina Jolie to play opera singer Maria Callas in biopic
Angelina Jolie will play opera singer Maria Callas in a new biopic.
The 47-year-old actress will take on the role of the American-born Greek soprano in the film 'Maria', which is being helmed by 'Spencer' director Pablo Larrain.
Matthew Perry dumped Julia Roberts as he feared she would leave him
Matthew Perry dumped Julia Roberts because he was frightened she would leave him.
The 'Friends' actor had a romance with the 'Pretty Woman' star in the 1990s after persuading her to appear on the popular sitcom but confessed that he called time on the relationship as he didn't think he was good enough for the Hollywood actress.
Pierce Brosnan: The outtakes from Mrs Doubtfire were ridiculous!
Pierce Brosnan says the outtakes from 'Mrs. Doubtfire' were "ridiculous".
The 69-year-old actor played Stu in the 1993 comedy which starred the late Robin Williams as a divorced man who impersonates an elderly female nanny in order to spend time with his kids, and the former James Bond star has spilled that the children had to be sent off-set while Robin in character improvised a string of rude insults towards Stu, the new partner of his ex-wife Miranda (Sally Field) in the famous dinner scene.
Millie Bobby Brown wants to make Stranger Things into 'more of a musical'
Millie Bobby Brown wants to make 'Stranger Things' into "more of a musical."
The 18-year-old actress has starred as Eleven on the Netflix sci-fi hit since its inception in 2016 and explained that even though she says some things as a "joke", she would "love" to write a musical episode for the show.
Ed Sheeran to shoot ten epic music videos for new album
Ed Sheeran will shoot up to ten music videos for his new album.
The 31-year-old singer is set to release his sixth studio album in 2023 and is planning to film a number of epic videos later this month to accompany the record.
Peter Frampton is recording his 19th studio album.
The 72-year-old rock star - who is best known for hits such as 'Show Me the Way, 'Baby, I Love Your Way,' 'Do You Feel Like We Do' and 'I'm in You' - released his first record 50 years ago and is now creating an album full of self-penned tracks.
Michael B. Jordan: Directing Creed III is the most challenging thing I've ever done
Michael B. Jordan says directing 'Creed III' has been the most "challenging" test of his career so far.
The 35-year-old actor has appeared in almost 20 films since making his motion picture debut as a teenager more than 20 years ago but has now stepped behind the camera for the boxing sequel - which is a spin-off of the 'Rocky' boxing franchise created by Sylvester Stallone - and was "pushing his limits" throughout the process even though he had a "clear vision" for what he wanted on screen.
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Mel B engaged to hairdresser boyfriend Rory McPhee
Mel B is engaged to her boyfriend Rory McPhee.
The Spice Girls star is said to be "overwhelmed" after the hairdresser proposed earlier this week and credits him for restoring her faith in men following her ten-year marriage to Stephen Belafonte - who she has accused of domestic abuse.
Kanye West plotting to build 'Yecoverse' network of cities
Kanye West is planning to build a network of tiny cities called the 'Yecoverse'.
The controversial rapper, whose nicknames include Yeezy, is attempting to trademark the words 'Yeezyverse', 'Yzyverse' and 'Yxyverse' for his new project, according to Rolling Stone magazine.
Sharon Osbourne keeps dead mice in her home to scare guests
Sharon Osbourne keeps dead mice in the corners of her home to frighten visitors.
The 70-year-old star - who has been married to Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy, 73, since 1982 and has Aimee, 39, Jack, 38, and 37-year-old Kelly with him - revealed that keeps the taxidermy rodents in discreet areas of her house so she can give guests an almighty fright.
Vladimir Putin 'could be showing signs of cancer' as IV marks spotted on his hands
Vladimir Putin "could be showing signs of cancer" as marks thought to be from IV treatment were spotted on his hands.
The Russian president, 70, launched an ongoing military invasion of neighbouring country Ukraine in February but now Kyiv Post correspondent Jason Jay Smart has claimed that he could be showing signs of having had intravenous chemotherapy and pointed out marks on his hands.
Britney Spears: I flew six hours to see my mom but she just ignored me
Britney Spears says she was ignored by her mother Lynne after flying for six hours to see her.
The 40-year-old pop star - who regained control of her multi-million dollar fortune and various aspects of her life when a conservatorship governed by her family was terminated in 2021 after 13 years - alleged that she had once travelled for hours to see her mother, but claimed she was more interested in her mobile phone and just told her to feed the then-infant daughter of her younger sister Jamie Lynn.
Cardi B has won a lawsuit over her explicit album art.
The 30-year-old rapper was sued by plaintiff Kevin Michael Brophy, who claimed that she misused his image on the cover of her 2016 mixtape 'Gangsta B**** Music, Vol. 1'.
Carly Simon grieving after sisters die one day apart
Carly Simon lost both her sisters to cancer this week.
The 78-year-old singer is grieving after Broadway composer Lucy Simon died following a battle with breast cancer just one day after former opera singer Joanna Simon lost her fight with thyroid cancer.
Ed Sheeran can't sleep after a concert without having some wine to calm him down
Ed Sheeran can't sleep after a concert without having some wine to calm him down.
The 31-year-old pop star always thought that having a drink after a show was an "excuse" used by alcoholics but now feels he "has to have" at least half a bottle of wine to wind down after playing to the crowds.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson could 'identify' with Black Adam because of his brown skin
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson could "identify" with Black Adam because of his brown skin.
The 50-year-old actor stars in the title role of the new superhero movie and explained that while he grew up as a fan of classic DC character Superman, he was "mesmerised" upon seeing Black Adam for the first time and is "thrilled" to be making the movie.
Idris Elba was shocked when he no longer had to audition for movies
Idris Elba was shocked when he no longer had to audition for movies.
The 50-year-old actor started his career by starring in a commercial but now starred in over 50 blockbusters and remembers feeling "mind-blown" when it became apparent that he would just be offered parts.
George Clooney was 'terrified' to become a father to twins at 56
George Clooney was "terrified" to become a father to twins at the age of 56.
The 61-year-old actor married human rights lawyer Amal, 44, in 2014 and welcomed twins Ella and Alexander two years later but admitted that he was shocked to learn that two babies were on the way after initially only expecting one.
Billie Lourd is still unsure how to grieve for her mother Carrie Fisher
Billie Lourd is still unsure how to grieve for her mother.
The 30-year-old actress is the daughter of late 'Star Wars' legend Carrie Fisher - who died of a sudden heart attack aged 60 in 2016 - and took to social media on what would have been her mother's 66th birthday on Friday (21.10.22) where she explained her grief is "forever changing."
Murder, She Wrote star Ron Masak dies one week after Dame Angela Lansbury
Ron Masak has died at the age of 86.
The actor - who was known for starring as Cabot Cove Sheriff Mort Metzger alongside Dame Angela Lansbury on 'Murder, She Wrote' - passed away on Thursday (20.10.22) surrounded by his wife Kay Knebes and their six children.
The 38-year-old pop singer is already mother to 20-month-old August with husband Taylor Goldsmith but the trio have now become a family of four with the slightly "late" arrival of baby Ozzie on Friday (21.10.22.)
The 47-year-old actress - who is currently single but has daughters, Frankie, eight, and Olive, nine, with her ex-husband Will Kopelman - explained that when she is home alone she finds it "very liberating" to walk around in the nude.
The 45-year-old rapper - who legally changed his name to Ye last year - was married to reality TV superstar Kim, 42, from 2014 until 2021 and has North, nine, Saint, six, Chicago, four, and three-year-old Psalm but insisted that the pair are only divorced "on paper" and wants to continue to be her "protector."
Carly Rae Jepsen 'couldn't stop laughing' when she kicked her shoe into the audience
Carly Rae Jepsen "couldn't stop laughing" when she kicked her shoe off into the audience.
The 36-year-old pop star took over the title role in a Broadway production of 'Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella' from 'You're the One That I Want!' winner Laura Osnes in 2014 and recalled how because she had so little time to rehearse the technicalities prior to opening night, she ended up losing a glass slipper just before her debut.
'Worst place in the world to raise female children': Brian Cox slams Hollywood
Brian Cox thinks Hollywood is the "worst place in the world" to raise girls.
The 'Succession' actor - who has Alan, 52, and Margaret, 45, with first wife Caroline Burt and Orson, 20, and Torin, 18, with spouse Nicole Ansari - insisted the Californian neighbourhood isn't as glamorous as it seems because there are a lot of "very sad people" desperate to make it big in the movie industry and it "exacerbates" the pressures on young women.
George and Amal Clooney write love letters to each other
George Clooney and his wife Amal write love letters to each other.
The 'Ticket to Paradise' actor recalled how his agent knew he was "going to marry" the barrister as soon as he met the 44-year-old beauty in 2013, and though the 61-year-old star was initially skeptical, the pair quickly hit it off.
Emily Ratajkowski has no plans to stop sharing sexy pictures of herself online - insisting it "won't change anything".
The 31-year-old 'Gone Girl' star has become an outspoken champion of women's rights in recent years, but she has been hit with accusations she's part of the problem facing young girls because of the picture perfect images she regularly shares on social media - however, Emily is adamant she won't make much of a difference by changing the way she posts on Instagram.
Joy Behar: I've had sex with ghosts and never got pregnant
Joy Behar says she has had sex with ghosts.
The 80-year-old TV star - who has been married to Steve Janowitz since 2011 but has daughter, Eve, 51, with late ex-husband Joseph Behar - was appearing in her regular role as a host on 'The View' alongside her co-stars and was discussing a Texas woman who worries that her home is "haunted" by apparitions because it was once the site of a brothel.
David Beckham is suing a fitness company for more than $20 million.
The retired footballer and former golfer Greg Norman have taken legal action against F45 after a promotional agreement allegedly failed to pay out "substantial cash and equity compensation".
Miley Cyrus is struggling with her dad since his divorce
Miley Cyrus is finding it "hard to connect" with her dad since his divorce.
The 29-year-old pop star is the daughter of country singer Billy Ray, 61, and his estranged wife Tish, 55, - who filed for divorce from the 'Achy Breaky Heart' hitmaker earlier this year after 28 years of marriage - and is hoping to "work" on her relationship with her father following the split.
Nick Carter "totally missed" his daughter's third birthday.
The Backstreet Boys star - who has been married to fitness trainer Lauren Kitt since 2014 and has children Odin, six, Pearl, two, and three-year-old Saoirse with her - claimed that parenting can be "tough" and was so busy with touring commitments in Europe he couldn't be there for his middle daughter's special day.
James Corden has insisted he hasn't "done anything wrong" after being banned from a restaurant over his "abusive" behaviour.
Earlier this week, Keith McNally slammed the 'Late Late Show' presenter for his behaviour at his New York eatery Balthazar, but rescinded his ban hours later after revealing the 'Cats' actor had "apologised profusely".
UK's Truss quits after turmoil obliterated her authority. Live updates and video of her speech
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned Thursday — bowing to the inevitable after a tumultuous six-week term in which her policies triggered turmoil in financial markets and a rebellion in her party obliterated her authority.
She said “I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected.”
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted an emergency stay pending the appeal of a lawsuit seeking to delay the scheduled rollout of the Biden administration’s promised student debt relief.
In other words, borrowers hoping to see $10,000 or $20,000 wiped from their debts will have to wait while this lawsuit proceeds; hearings are already scheduled for next week. There are also four other lawsuits pending appeal or awaiting hearing.
Car found buried in pricy California home's yard with possible human remains, cops say
ATHERTON, Calif. (AP) — Police are digging into why someone buried a car in the yard of a multi-million-dollar Northern California home in the 1990s and left unused bags of concrete inside.
Drought conditions have caused the river to recede low enough to reach an island in Missouri on foot.
Thomas temporarily blocks Graham testimony in Georgia
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday temporarily blocked Sen. Lindsey Graham's testimony to a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in the state.
Thomas' order is intended to prevent Fani Willis, Fulton County district attorney, from compelling Graham to testify while the Supreme Court weighs the senator's request for a lengthier halt to the proceedings.
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Renters face charging dilemma as U.S. cities move toward EVs
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Stephanie Terrell bought a used Nissan Leaf this fall and was excited to join the wave of drivers adopting electric vehicles to save on gas money and reduce her carbon footprint.
But Terrell quickly encountered a bump in the road on her journey to clean driving: As a renter, she doesn't have a private garage where she can power up overnight, and the public charging stations near her are often in use, with long wait times. On a recent day, the 23-year-old nearly ran out of power on the freeway because a public charging station she was counting on was busy.
The great transition to electric is well underway for single-family homeowners who can charge their cars at home overnight, but for millions of renters like Terrell, access to charging remains a significant barrier to owning a zero-emissions vehicle.
the state of electric vehicle adoption across the country
Few announcements have rocked the automotive industry as hard as the one-two punch of General Motors’ notice of intent to exclusively produce electric-powered vehicles by 2035 and the Ford Motor Company’s $30 billion investment in electric vehicle development. The latter has thus far resulted in the release of an all-electric F-150 and Mustang, the automaker’s two top-selling models. Of course, other automakers have taken a dip into the EV pool, among them Chevrolet, Volvo, Porsche, Mazda, and Mercedes Benz, and it would seem that Tesla set a gold standard for the development and marketing of the electric vehicle.
CoPilot ranked each state (and Washington D.C.) by the number of registered EVs as a percentage of total registered private and commercial vehicles to offer a quick look at where the nation stands on electric vehicle adoption, using data from the Department of Energy and Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Ties were broken at the thousandths of a percent level which, for brevity, are not shown. Charging station and charging port data came from an Alternative Fuel Stations report issued by the BTS. The U.S. Department of Energy also maintains a live map of all AFS locations nationwide. It should be noted that the stated number of ports per 100 EVs is not necessarily inversely related to the overall quantity of EVs in a given state, but rather the number of highway miles running through the state or the number of established “alt-fuel corridors.”
While Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar Tesla “experiment” has without question forced the auto industry to rethink the public’s appetite for EVs, it’s the anteing up of the big players that has the potential to permanently change an industry. Just 30 years ago the industry dismissed electric vehicle investment like an allowance given to an unruly child so they won’t ask for something more expensive.
In its December 2021 sales report, Ford showed a 121.1% increase in total EV sales year over year. Not only does this mark the best-ever EV sales for the company, but it also represents 36% faster growth than the entire segment—meaning Ford, the nation’s largest carmaker, has already begun to dominate this sector. The Mustang Mach-E has become second only to Tesla’s Model Y in total EV sales, and the F-150 continues to be the top-selling truck in America (which it has been for more than 40 years running). Orders for the F-150 Lightning EV have vastly exceeded expectations. Ford not only anticipates 40% of its overall sales to be electric by 2030 but has recently invested deeply in both manufacturing and battery production and recycling. It is more than clear that an irreversible revolution in car manufacturing and ownership is now upon us.
On a wider scale, global EV sales reached 6.6 million in 2021, a more than threefold rise over the previous year. This number is impressive in and of itself but becomes staggering when you consider that in 2012 only about 130,000 EVs were sold across the globe. There are now an estimated 16 million EVs on the road, and if sales trends pan out as predicted, that number is going to get a whole lot bigger. When it does, naturally the other side of the equation will be a decrease in gas-powered vehicle sales.
The need for a nationwide network of charging stations to allow cross-country travel has emerged alongside the expansion of electric vehicle ownership. At best, the longest range a current EV can go on a single charge is 520 miles—but the Lucid Air Dream Edition also comes with a $170,000 price tag. The Tesla Model S, one of the most popular EVs on the market, can get 400 miles to a charge, which is no small feat. But without the right kind of charging infrastructure, it still won’t get you from the Rockies to an East Coast vacation spot, to say nothing of making it across a state as expansive as Texas (where, incidentally, the most popular truck is the F-150).
In its December 2021 Action Plan, the Biden-Harris administration outlined its strategy to “put [the country] on the path to a convenient and equitable network of 500,000 chargers and make EVs accessible to all Americans for both local and long-distance trips.” This strategy includes a $5 billion investment in the national EV charging network and a further $2.5 billion to be made available through a grant program to ensure states’ ability to support rural charging and charging access in disadvantaged communities.
Continue reading to find out the state of electric vehicle adoption across the country.
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#51. North Dakota
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.02%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 220 (#51 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 61 (#49 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 63.2 (#1 overall)
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#50. South Dakota
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.03%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 410 (#49 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 57 (#50 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 38.0 (#7 overall)
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#49. West Virginia
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.04%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 600 (#48 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 111 (#46 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 51.2 (#4 overall)
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#48. Mississippi
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.04%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 780 (#47 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 112 (#45 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 55.5 (#3 overall)
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#47. Wyoming
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.04%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 330 (#50 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 70 (#48 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 55.8 (#2 overall)
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#46. Arkansas
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.05%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 1,330 (#44 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 160 (#41 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 34.1 (#9 overall)
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#45. Montana
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.05%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 940 (#45 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 75 (#47 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 22.6 (#18 overall)
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#44. Louisiana
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.05%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 1,950 (#39 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 159 (#42 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 19.7 (#22 overall)
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#43. Alabama
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.06%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 2,890 (#31 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 276 (#35 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 23.5 (#15 overall)
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#42. Iowa
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.06%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 2,260 (#37 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 280 (#34 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 25.8 (#14 overall)
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#41. Kentucky
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.06%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 2,650 (#33 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 222 (#37 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 19.9 (#21 overall)
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#40. Oklahoma
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.09%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 3,410 (#29 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 313 (#31 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 31.9 (#13 overall)
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#39. Nebraska
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.10%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 1,810 (#42 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 182 (#39 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 20.8 (#20 overall)
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#38. South Carolina
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.10%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 4,390 (#28 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 384 (#28 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 19.6 (#23 overall)
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#37. Indiana
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.11%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 6,990 (#25 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 354 (#29 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 13.6 (#38 overall)
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#36. Wisconsin
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.11%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 6,310 (#27 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 474 (#25 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 15.0 (#36 overall)
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#35. Idaho
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.12%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 2,300 (#36 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 139 (#43 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 15.0 (#37 overall)
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#34. Kansas
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.12%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 3,130 (#30 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 493 (#24 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 32.5 (#12 overall)
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#33. Alaska
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.12%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 940 (#46 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 52 (#51 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 10.0 (#46 overall)
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#32. Missouri
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.12%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 6,740 (#26 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 1,053 (#14 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 32.6 (#11 overall)
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#31. Michigan
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.13%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 10,620 (#21 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 834 (#19 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 17.3 (#27 overall)
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#30. Tennessee
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.14%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 7,810 (#24 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 691 (#21 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 21.1 (#19 overall)
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#29. Ohio
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.14%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 14,530 (#17 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 959 (#16 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 15.2 (#35 overall)
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#28. New Mexico
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.15%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 2,620 (#34 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 187 (#38 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 17.4 (#26 overall)
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#27. Pennsylvania
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.17%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 17,530 (#15 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 1,143 (#10 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 15.2 (#34 overall)
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#26. Maine
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.17%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 1,920 (#41 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 295 (#32 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 32.8 (#10 overall)
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#25. Minnesota
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.18%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 10,380 (#22 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 589 (#22 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 13.4 (#39 overall)
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#24. Rhode Island
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.19%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 1,580 (#43 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 255 (#36 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 39.7 (#5 overall)
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#23. North Carolina
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.19%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 16,190 (#16 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 1,117 (#12 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 17.2 (#28 overall)
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#22. Delaware
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.19%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 1,950 (#40 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 134 (#44 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 16.1 (#31 overall)
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#21. New Hampshire
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.20%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 2,690 (#32 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 164 (#40 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 13.0 (#40 overall)
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#20. Texas
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.24%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 52,190 (#3 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 2,316 (#4 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 10.5 (#45 overall)
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#19. Illinois
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.25%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 26,000 (#8 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 1,077 (#13 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 10.6 (#44 overall)
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#18. Georgia
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.27%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 23,530 (#10 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 1,579 (#8 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 16.7 (#29 overall)
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#17. Virginia
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.27%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 20,510 (#13 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 1,139 (#11 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 16.1 (#32 overall)
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#16. New York
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.29%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 32,590 (#5 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 2,974 (#2 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 23.4 (#16 overall)
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#15. Connecticut
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.32%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 9,040 (#23 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 533 (#23 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 15.8 (#33 overall)
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#14. Florida
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.32%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 58,160 (#2 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 2,624 (#3 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 11.6 (#42 overall)
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#13. Vermont
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.37%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 2,230 (#38 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 328 (#30 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 39.1 (#6 overall)
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#12. Massachusetts
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.42%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 21,010 (#12 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 2,175 (#5 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 23.2 (#17 overall)
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#11. Maryland
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.43%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 17,970 (#14 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 1,250 (#9 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 19.0 (#24 overall)
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#10. Nevada
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.44%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 11,040 (#19 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 447 (#26 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 12.3 (#41 overall)
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#9. Utah
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.46%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 11,230 (#18 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 908 (#17 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 17.6 (#25 overall)
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#8. Colorado
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.47%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 24,670 (#9 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 1,614 (#7 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 16.1 (#30 overall)
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#7. Arizona
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.48%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 28,770 (#7 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 890 (#18 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 7.8 (#49 overall)
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#6. New Jersey
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.51%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 30,420 (#6 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 745 (#20 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 6.6 (#51 overall)
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#5. Oregon
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.57%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 22,850 (#11 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 995 (#15 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 10.7 (#43 overall)
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#4. Washington
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.71%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 50,520 (#4 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 1,775 (#6 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 8.6 (#48 overall)
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#3. Washington, D.C.
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.74%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 2,360 (#35 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 289 (#33 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 34.8 (#8 overall)
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#2. Hawaii
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.86%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 10,670 (#20 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 385 (#27 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 7.8 (#50 overall)
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#1. California
- Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 1.43%
- Total registered electric vehicles: 425,300 (#1 overall)
- Number of statewide charging stations: 14,616 (#1 overall)
- Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 9.7 (#47 overall)
This story originally appeared on CoPilot and was produced and distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio.
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Rishi Sunak to become Britain's next prime minister
LONDON (AP) — Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak won the race to be leader of the Conservative Party on Monday and will become Britain’s next prime minister — the third this year.
The former Treasury chief will be Britain’s first leader of color, and faces the task of stabilizing the party and country at a time of economic and political turbulence.
Former chancellor Rishi Sunak has made the final two of the Tory leadership contest. We take a look at the Richmond MP's policies as he strives to become Prime Minister.
British lawmaker Rishi Sunak, the newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer arrives at 10 Downing Street, where he was given the job as the former Chancellor Sajid Javid, resigned, in London, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson shook up his government on Thursday, firing and appointing ministers to key Cabinet posts. Johnson was aiming to tighten his grip on government after winning a big parliamentary majority in December's election. That victory allowed Johnson to take Britain out of the European Union in January. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during his first Cabinet meeting flanked by his new Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, after a reshuffle the day before, inside 10 Downing Street, in London, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tightened his grip on the government Thursday with a Cabinet shake-up that triggered the unexpected resignation of his Treasury chief, the second-most powerful figure in the administration. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak stands outside No 11 Downing Street and holds up the traditional red box that contains the budget speech for the media, he will then leave to make budget speech to House of Commons, London, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak will announce the first budget since Britain left the European Union. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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Britain's Chancellor Rishi Sunak looks on, during a visit to Leeds Station to highlight the record infrastructure spend after Wednesday's budget, in Leeds, England, Thursday March 12, 2020. (Danny Lawson/Pool Photo via AP)
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, left, greets an employee during a visit to Worcester Bosch factory to promote the initiative, Plan for Jobs, in Worcester, England, Thursday July 9, 2020. (Phil Noble/Pool via AP)
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Britain's Chancellor Rishi Sunak learns the art of handling clay to make plates with Wayne Swindaill, during a visit to the Emma Bridgewater pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Employees at the factory are now back at work after being furloughed due to the coronavirus outbreak. (Andrew Fox/Pool Photo via AP)
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Britian's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak gestures during a visit to Imperial Clinic Research Facility at Hammersmith Hospital, where he met staff and was instructed on research techniques, to mark the announcement of his Spending Review, in London, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. (Jack Hill/Pool Photo via AP)
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, right, welcomes USA's finance minister Janet Yellen, ahead of the G7 finance ministers meeting at Lancaster House in London, Friday June 4, 2021. (Steve Reigate/Pool via AP)
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak holds up a Green briefcase as he arrives for a speech at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. The British government plans to make the U.K. "the world's first net-zero aligned financial center" as companies and investors seek to profit from the drive to build a low-carbon economy. Sunak will lay out the government's plans during a speech Wednesday as top financial officials from around the world meet at the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
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Britain's Prince Charles and Chancellor Rishi Sunak, third right, leave after visiting a JD Sports store in London, Wednesday May 11, 2022, to meet young people supported by The Prince's Trust through the UK Government's Kickstart Scheme. (Paul Grover/Pool via AP)
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak arrives for a regional cabinet meeting at Middleport Pottery in Stoke on Trent, England, Thursday, May 12, 2022. (Oli Scarff/Pool Photo via AP)
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British Conservative Party Member of Parliament Rishi Sunak launches his campaign for the Conservative Party leadership, in London, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Contenders to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson were racing Tuesday to clear their first hurdle: amassing enough support from colleagues to make the Conservative Party leadership ballot. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
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FILE - Liz Truss, right, and Rishi Sunak on stage after a Conservative leadership election hustings at Wembley Arena in London, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. After weeks of waiting, Britain will finally learn who will be its new prime minister. The governing Conservative Party will announce Monday, Sept. 5, 2022 whether Foreign Secretary Liz Truss or former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak won the most votes from party members to succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and British prime minister. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
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FILE - Liz Truss, right, looks across with Rishi Sunak at left, at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, Monday Sept. 5, 2022. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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FILE- Priti Patel, Britain's Home Secretary, right with Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer, centre and Oliver Dowden Minister without Portfolio listen to Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson making his keynote speech at the Conservative party conference in Manchester, England, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. Sunak ran for Britain’s top job and lost. Now he’s back with a second chance to become prime minister. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)
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Conservative Party leadership candidate Rishi Sunak leaves his campaign office, in London, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. Former British Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is frontrunner in the Conservative Party's race to replace Liz Truss as prime minister. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
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Conservative Party leadership candidate Rishi Sunak leaves the campaign office in London, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Former British Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is frontrunner in the Conservative Party's race to replace Liz Truss as prime minister. (AP Photo/Aberto Pezzali)
