A 6-year-old New Jersey girl, Declan Lopez is wowing the world with her smarts. Her IQ, 138, is right at genius level. To put this in perspective, the highest average score for people under 64 years of age is 109. Declan Lopez is a bubbly kindergartener interested in arts, science, math, and geography, and reads…
Jamison, 80, was speaking of Alvin Ailey, the pioneering choreographer who 65 years ago founded Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. It began with a small gig at the 92nd St Y in Manhattan, a pickup group he’d gathered of fellow Broadway dancers. Judith Jamison looked out onto the glittering crowd at New York City Center…
A South African company will make vaginal rings that protect against HIV, which AIDS experts say should eventually make them cheaper and more readily available. The Population Council announced Thursday that Kiara Health of Johannesburg will start making the silicone rings in the next few years, estimating that 1 million could be produced annually. The…
Flu is picking up steam while RSV lung infections that can hit kids and older people hard may be peaking, U.S. health officials said Friday. COVID-19, though, continues to cause the most hospitalizations and deaths among respiratory illnesses — about 15,000 hospitalizations and about 1,000 deaths every week, said Dr. Mandy Cohen, head of the…
It was President Joe Biden ‘s turn to bring some holiday spirit to the U.S. capital. The president and his wife, Jill, participated Thursday in the annual tradition of lighting the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse, an area known as President’s Park, on the south side of the White House. “Merry Christmas, everyone,” Biden said after he…
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died on Friday. She was 93. Sandra Day O’Connor died in Phoenix, of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness, the Supreme Court said in a news release. Chief Justice…
After a long and hard-fought season, Harry Jowsey’s journey on Dancing With the Stars came to an end on Tuesday, after he and pro-partner Rylee Arnold were ousted at the conclusion of Taylor Swift Night. ET’s Deidre Behar spoke with the pair after the elimination Tuesday night, and Jowsey, 26, said that the experience was “bittersweet.” “We made it so far, and I’m…
Sharon Stone is making sure the facts are properly reported when it comes to the recent story about her paying Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe’s salaries while they were filming The Quick and the Dead. Taking to Instagram on Monday, Stone, 65, confirmed that she did pay for DiCaprio, 49, to work on their 1995 Western film after the…
Zack Goytowski and Bliss Poureetezadi are gearing up to welcome their first child together, and the couple are opening up about the experience, and how they tried to keep it secret until they were truly ready to share the joyous news. The happy couple — who gained fame when they found each other during season 4 of Love Is…
Collins Enebeli Ajereh, the father of famous Nigerian record producer and music executive, Don Jazzy, has revealed that he is not pressurizing his 40-year-old son to get married. He said Don Jazzy had been married before but he and his estranged wife decided to go their separate ways. Speaking in a recent interview with TVC,…
