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(NEW YORK) -- Fears of a recession have cast a thundercloud over the economy for many months but forecasters sun-kissed by falling inflation and a robust jobs market have grown optimistic about the U.S. averting a downturn. Gross domestic product data to be released by the federal government on Thursday will show if and how much the economy grew over the three months ending in June, offering a fresh look […]

ABC Audio Megadeth's Dave Mustaine has given a positive update on his ever-shifting relationship with his former Metallica bandmates. Mustaine, of course, was Metallica's original lead guitarist before he was infamously fired from the band in 1983. Frontman James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich then replaced him with Kirk Hammett, who's remained in Metallica ever since. “It took a while for James and Lars and I to kind of come […]

ABC/ Craig Sjodin Mick Jagger officially became an octogenarian on July 26, and he received lots of birthday wishes from his famous friends. The day started with The Rolling Stones' social media accounts sharing a tribute video to Mick, set to the Stones track “You Got Me Rocking.” “It’s a special day today! Join us in wishing @mickjagger a very happy 80th birthday!!” they captioned the post. “Keep on rockin’ Mick!” The now 80-year-old also received lots […]

(NEW YORK) -- For couples ready to take that next step together, there’s nothing like planning a wedding -- then going into sticker shock after discovering just how much it’s going to cost. The average cost of a wedding in 2022 was about $30,000, according to wedding planning site The Knot. And that figure isn’t accounting for things like bachelor and bachelorette parties, engagement rings and the honeymoon. What’s more, […]

Franziska Krug/Getty Images for Medical Inn "Charity begins at home," goes the old adage, which is a far kinder way to put the Internet's reaction to Megan Fox asking her followers to donate their money to help a friend. On Tuesday, July 25, Fox pointed her more than 21 million Instagram followers to a GoFundMe set up by her nail technician, Brittany Boyce, for Boyce's father, who was diagnosed with […]

iStock (NEW YORK) -- Here are the scores from Tuesday's sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE LA Dodgers 8, Toronto 7 (10) Tampa Bay 4, Miami 1 Philadelphia 4, Baltimore 3 Boston 7, Atlanta 1 NY Mets 9, NY Yankees 3 Chi Cubs 7, Chi White Sox 3 Final San Francisco 2 Oakland 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 5, Kansas City 1 LA Angels 7, Detroit 6 Houston 4, Texas 3 […]

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- You still have a chance. The Mega Millions jackpot has jumped to $910 million after Tuesday night's drawing ended without a winner. The numbers drawn late Tuesday night were: 3, 5, 6, 44, 61 and gold Mega Ball 25. The next drawing for Mega Millions and its nearly billion-dollar prize is on Friday. It has an estimated cash payout of $464.2 […]

(NEW YORK) -- More than a dozen people across four states have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to ground beef, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Sixteen people in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts have been sickened in the outbreak, the CDC said in an investigation notice published on Tuesday. Among those, six people have been hospitalized, it said. All of the people who remembered […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Harvard University's practice of legacy admissions is being probed by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, a spokesperson for the agency told ABC News. The investigation comes a month following the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision on Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard that struck down race-based affirmative action for colleges and universities. Lawyers for Civil Rights filed the complaint against Harvard earlier this month contending […]