The writers and directors of Airplane!, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, discovered the film while watching it on TV and decided to write a plane-disaster film. They realized their draft wasn’t great, so they decided to write it using the exact plot to Zero Hour! But, to avoid legal issues, the filmmakers even…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Kansas City Chiefs star receiver Rashee Rice isn’t the only one facing discipline for a March 2024 car crash in Dallas. Theodore “Teddy” Knox, a former SMU cornerback and teammate of Rice’s in college, was driving a Corvette while racing Rice’s Lamborghini on a Dallas highway before…
Hominins at the Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in Israel relied on driftwood gathered along a lakeshore to fuel their hearths, according to new research led by archaeologists from the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social and Bar-Ilan University; 780,000-year-old charcoal fragments from the site show that survival wasn’t about finding the…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rev. Franklin Graham defended President Donald Trump in a statement shared Thursday on Truth Social after backlash over an image critics said depicted Trump as Jesus Christ. The statement was released Thursday by Graham and shared by the president as a signed letter. “I do not believe…
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In looking at the stats from the April 14 match between the U.S. Women’s National Team and Japan – where the U.S. held 67% of possession and recorded 12 shots to Japan’s nine – one would hope that the USWNT would be able to get on the scoreboard. But it was Japan that earned the 1-0…
April 16, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Former deputy surgeon general Erica Schwartz nominated as new CDC chief The White House has nominated Erica Schwartz to replace NIH director Jay Bhattacharya as CDC chief. Bhattacharya has been leading the CDC on an acting basis since February, after the public health agency’s…
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Photo: Mauricio Santana/Getty Images Spooky critters have beef with Taylor Momsen. The Pretty Reckless singer was hospitalized after a poisonous spider bit her while on tour with AC/DC. “Hospital today, show tomorrow, poisonous spiders are NO BUENO,” she wrote on April 14. “🕷️🕷️but the show must go on, see you tomorrow Mexico City!” She noted…
Mike Trout surely does not want to leave the Bronx. The Angels beat the Yankees on Thursday afternoon (LA 11, NY 4) to earn a split of the four-game series at Yankee Stadium. Trout homered again Thursday and went deep in all four games of the series. He joined George Bell (1990), Darrell Evans (1985),…
