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Brooke Shields says actor Bradley Cooper went into full rescue mode after she had a recent health scare.Shields recalled her friend Cooper coming to her aid after she had a grand mal seizure at a restaurant in New York City before a performance of her one-woman show, “Previously Owned by Brooke Shields,” at Cafe Carlyle in September.The “Blue Lagoon” star explained in an interview with Glamour magazine that low-sodium levels had led to the serious episode, saying, “Everything starts to go black. Then my hands drop to my side and I go headfirst into the wall.”Shields said she was “frothing…

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley took her own party to task for failing to reach out and win support from all demographics across the nation.“We’ve lost the last seven out of eight popular votes for president,” the former South Carolina governor and ambassador to the United Nations told “Daily Show” guest host Charlamagne Tha God on Wednesday. “That’s nothing to be proud of.” The only Republican presidential candidate to win a majority of U.S. voters over the past eight elections was George W. Bush in his 2004 reelection. She said Republicans should want to win the majority ― and that…

PHOENIX (AP) — Mitch Garver broke a scoreless tie with an RBI single in the seventh, Nathan Eovaldi threw six gritty innings and the Texas Rangers are World Series champions for the first time in their 63-year franchise history after beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-0 in Game 5 on Wednesday night.The Rangers finished with a postseason-record and nearly unfathomable 11-0 record on the road, capping the Fall Classic with three straight wins in the desert.One night after Texas took a 10-run lead by the third in a Game 4 snoozer, it finished the Series by outlasting the Diamondbacks in a…

The White House is working on a strategy to combat Islamophobia. Many Muslim Americans are skepticalWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is developing a national strategy to combat Islamophobia as the White House faces skepticism from many Muslim Americans for its staunch support of Israel’s military assault on Hamas in Gaza.Plans for the initiative, which the White House billed as the first of its kind, were announced Wednesday. It is meant to bring together lawmakers, advocacy groups and other community leaders with the administration in order to “counter the scourge of Islamophobia and hate in all its forms,” the…

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers won’t punish Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for leading a purported “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol last month.The House of Representatives on Wednesday evening rejected a formal censure resolution against Tlaib that had been introduced last week by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). Tlaib addressed a group of several hundred Jewish peace activists near the west side of the Capitol last month, where they called for an Israeli cease-fire in Gaza. Activists then entered a public Capitol office building, continued their demonstration and were arrested by Capitol police.Greene’s resolution dubiously claimed that Tlaib “led an insurrection at the…

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), the serial fabulist who is facing federal charges of stealing the identities of some of his political donors and using their credit cards, will get to remain in Congress for at least a little bit longer.Under the U.S. Constitution, a two-thirds majority is required to expel a member, but the resolution to oust Santos did not even garner a majority, failing 179 to 213 with 19 members voting “present.”Santos has been the subject of previous attempts to have him ousted, but those were led by Democrats who cited admitted falsehoods he’d told while campaigning to represent…

Bob Knight, one of the winningest college basketball coaches in history, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 83.“We are grateful for all the thoughts and prayers, and appreciate the continued respect for our privacy as Coach requested a private family gathering, which is being honored,” the family statement said. “We will continue to celebrate his life and remember him, today and forever as a beloved Husband, Father, Coach, and Friend.Knight was mostly known as the volatile longtime coach at Indiana University, which won three national titles during his reign. He later coached at Texas Tech…

Travis Kelce was seemingly flattered that “so many people” dressed up as him and his girlfriend, Taylor Swift, for Halloween. On Wednesday’s episode of his “New Heights” podcast, which he co-hosts with his brother Jason Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end gushed about the spooky holiday being a “Kelce Halloween” this year. He called the support from fans “cool.” During the episode, the Kelces showed off their top picks from fan-submitted Halloween costumes and dished out their reactions. Many of the costumes mimicked the siblings duo, pop star Swift and their mom, Donna. But one particular couple’s costume seemed…

Infant mortality rates increased in the United States last year for the first time in two decades, according to new government data, demonstrating the troubling state of Americans’ overall health when stacked against that of other industrialized countries.A report that the National Center for Health Statistics released Wednesday found that the infant mortality rate in the U.S. rose 3% between 2021 and 2022, marking the first year-to-year increase in that figure since 2002. Up until last year, the death rate of children under 1 year old had declined 22% over the past two decades.Now, the latest data shows, there are…

An insurance agent in Farmington, Missouri, is taking steps to ensure she never again has the shocking experience she had a few weeks ago: finding out there’s a giant spider living in her ear.Desirae Kelly’s “eerie” experience happened Oct. 18 when she woke up at 5 a.m. feeling a strange “fluttering” sensation in her right ear, according to People.At first, Kelly thought the feeling was caused by a tassel on her bed’s comforter, and went to back to sleep. When she awakened again, she considered going to a local urgent care. She said she “almost talked myself out of going…