(NEW YORK) — A dangerous tornado outbreak is headed to the South, where intense, long-track tornadoes reaching EF-3 or higher are possible Friday afternoon and evening.
Damaging winds and large hail are also a threat all the way to Tennessee and Indiana, as is flash flooding, which could stretch from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania.
The storms will start up in eastern Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas Friday afternoon and will strengthen in the evening along the Mississippi River from Louisiana to Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee.
To the north, along the Ohio River Valley, Friday thunderstorms could spark several inches of rain and flash flooding.
The same storm system will bring snow from Iowa to Michigan on Saturday morning.
This storm will then move into the Northeast on Saturday, bringing rainy, windy and chilly conditions.
(SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.) — Arizona officials are searching for a large coyote who they say injured two toddlers in separate attacks in Scottsdale this week.
Both toddlers were treated for minor injuries and released following the incidents on Saturday and Wednesday, according to Arizona’s Game and Fish Department.
“The coyote shows little fear of people and may have been illegally fed in the past,” the department said in a statement on Thursday. “Parents of toddlers in the area should keep their children close when outdoors and be vigilant.”
The Game and Fish Department said it’s patrolling the area with help from Scottsdale police.
The department asks anyone who spots a coyote to immediately call 623-236-7201.
(NEW YORK) — From the iconic Egg McMuffin at McDonald’s to French Toast Sticks at Wendy’s, the competition among fast food chains to serve Americans breakfast has registered another entry.
Dunkin’ launched its latest menu offering, Breakfast Tacos, on Wednesday to capitalize on consumers’ love of on-the-go options to start the day.
The tacos are made with a flour tortilla, scrambled eggs, melted sharp white cheddar cheese, fire-roasted corn and a drizzle of lime crema. Customers can enjoy the tacos as they come or order them topped with crumbled bacon.
The quick service coffee and doughnut chain noted in a press release that the tacos have “spring-forward ingredients” including the fire-roasted corn, though it wasn’t clear whether those ingredients are fresh, frozen or canned. According to the Seasonal Food Guide, corn is at its peak from May through September, so whatever the case, Dunkin’ seems to be getting a head start.
Jill McVicar Nelson, Dunkin’s chief marketing officer, said in a statement that the culinary team developed the tacos with “the vibrancy of Spring in mind” and hailed them as “undoubtedly one of the tastiest savory items we’ve launched.”
The Massachusetts-based chain’s tacos differ in ingredients and flavors from that of the beloved Tex-Mex breakfast item.
Breakfast tacos have a long history as a beloved favorite across Texas, from San Antonio to Austin, where chains like Veracruz All Natural and Torchy’s offer a variety of fresh, locally made tortillas filled with flavorful fillings, such as the classic Migas taco — made with eggs, tortilla chips, tomatoes, onion and peppers or chiles, cheese and, most times, avocado.
Dunkin’s new offering leans more towards Southwestern flavors, treating the corn like a traditional Mexican street food, esquites, which are charred kernels with white cheese, spices, mayonnaise and lime.
With its new Breakfast Tacos, Dunkin’ is going up against the likes of Taco Bell, which offers an array of breakfast burritos and breakfast quesadillas, McDonald’s, which offers sausage breakfast burritos and more traditional breakfast sandwiches, Burger King’s eggnormous burrito, Carl’s Jr.’s Big Country Breakfast Burrito and even more from regional chains.
The new menu item is slated to be served any time of day as breakfast, a midday snack or late night bite and can be purchased for $2.59 without bacon or $2.99 with the crispy crumbled bacon topping.
(NEW YORK) — Simply search the hashtag #facetaping on social media and you’ll get tens of thousands of posts about this beauty trend that promises to help prevent wrinkles and smooth fine lines.
Face taping, as the trend is known, involves placing tape on the areas of the face where a person wants to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines, like the forehead and cheeks.
The type of tape people use includes everything from regular clear, sticky tape to the kinesiology tape normally used to treat injuries to newer brands of tape marketed just for face taping.
To see whether this viral trend is one that is safe to try at home, ABC News’ Good Morning America spoke with Dr. Jennifer Ashton, a board-certified OB-GYN and ABC News’ chief medical correspondent.
Here are her answers on whether face taping is safe and, importantly, whether it actually works:
1. Does face taping have any real, physical benefits?
Possibly, according to Ashton, but any benefit would be temporary.
“Very superficially and very temporarily, it can smooth out those superficial wrinkles,” Ashton said. “It depends on the age of the person, how much sun damage there is, how much elasticity or collagen there is in their skin, how much volume they’ve lost with age. All of those things can contribute to the appearance of wrinkles.”
Ashton emphasized that a person’s wrinkles could return within “minutes” of face taping.
“It’s possible that when you remove the tape, those wrinkles can re-form in minutes to hours,” she said. “So it’s going to be a very transient effect.”
2. Does face taping help deep wrinkles?
No, said Ashton.
“You have to ask yourself whether you’re dealing with fine wrinkles and lines or deep wrinkles,” Ashton said. “Taping your face at night for several hours is very unlikely to do anything significant for deeper wrinkles.”
According to the Cleveland Clinic, fine lines are the first stage of wrinkles. They look like small creases on the skin and are closer to the skin’s surface.
Fine lines are most likely to be in places where you make repetitive movements, like around your eyes and mouth. As a person ages, those fine lines become wrinkles.
Wrinkles, according to the Cleveland Clinic, are “deeper creases” within the skin and can form anywhere on the body, not just the face.
3. Is there a risk to trying face taping?
Ashton said the main risks associated with face typing would be a reaction to the type of tape that is used, which would vary person to person.
A person could be allergic to a specific type of tape, according to Ashton, who recommends trying a small patch of skin first.
“We see all the time allergic reactions to tape on the skin in surgery,” Ashton said. “I would suggest if you’re going to try this, try it on a part of your body that the whole world doesn’t see in case you have an allergic reaction.”
Ashton said caution also needs to be taken when a person removes tape so that it doesn’t cause a burn.
“In some cases there can be tape burns,” Ashton said. “You can actually remove the superficial level of the epidermis, and obviously that would be a big problem.”
4. What are other options for reducing fine lines and wrinkles?
Ashton said injections like Botox and fillers performed by a certified professional are the “gold standard” when it comes to the prevention or improvement of wrinkles.
“Obviously there’s cost involved and that result is also temporary,” she said of injections, which can cost hundreds of dollars per session. “It’s just that instead of lasting a few hours, [injections] last a couple of months — three to four months in some cases, even six months.”
The American Academy of Dermatology notes that lifestyle changes can make a difference when it comes to wrinkles and fine lines.
Among the group’s recommendations are to wear sunscreen every day, moisturize the skin, avoid getting a tan from the sun or a tanning bed, testing facial products before using and using products as directed.
Queen + Adam Lambert are bringing their Rhapsody Tour back to North America. The tour first kicked off in North America in 2019, and now they’ve expanded and updated it for a second leg.
“Our last tour featured our most ambitious production ever,” guitarist Brian May shares. “So we decided to rip it apart and get even more ambitious.”
“Watch out world.” Lambert adds. “I can’t wait to tour North America one more time with the Rhapsody tour alongside the two unbelievably talented legends that are Brian May and Roger Taylor.”
The Rhapsody Tour kicks off October 4 in Baltimore, Maryland, hitting such cities as Toronto, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, Denver and more, and wraps November 11 in Los Angeles, California. You can find a complete list of tour dates at queenonline.com.
Tickets for all shows go on sale Friday, March 31 at 10 a.m. local time. In an attempt to keep the tickets away from scalpers, the band announced that all tickets will be non-transferrable and can only be resold through Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange. That’s not the case for the shows in New York, Illinois and Colorado, because of laws in those states that prohibit the artist from restricting transfers.
Selena Gomez is trying to put the Hailey Bieber drama to rest.
The singer/actress posted a message on her Instagram Story Friday, asking for kindness.
“Hailey Bieber reached out to me and let me know that she has been receiving death threats and such hateful negativity,” Selena wrote.
“This isn’t what I stand for,” she continued. “No one should have to experience hate or bullying. I’ve always advocated for kindness and really want this all to stop.”
There have long been rumors of a feud between the two — Hailey is of course married to Selena’s ex, Justin Bieber — but things ramped up online recently with fans flooding social media with alleged evidence that Hailey has been bullying Selena, including a video where Hailey and her pal Kylie Jenner appeared to be shading Selena’s eyebrows.
Beyoncé and Adidas have mutually agreed to end their partnership in her Ivy Park activewear line, a source tells The Hollywood Reporter.
Ivy Park began as a joint venture between The Grammy-winning singer/entrepreneur and Sir Philip Green of Topshop in 2016, but the 50-50 venture with Topshop ended two years later and Beyoncé gained full ownership of the brand, leading to her partnership with Adidas.
However, there have apparently been major creative differences between Ivy Park and Adidas and Beyoncé is hoping to “reclaim her brand, chart her own path and maintain creative freedom,” per THR.
Ivy Park launched its latest collection, Park Trail, in February, after previewing it at a private concert in Dubai, which marked Beyoncé’s first live show in four years.
Ellie Goulding is still figuring herself out and admits she might never fully discover who she is — but she’s learned who she isn’t and won’t let others influence that.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, the singer opened up about resisting pressure from others. “I think that the most shocking thing for me at the beginning was how much people cared about your physical appearance: your weight, your hair, your clothes, and also your opinion on things,” she said.
Ellie recalled hearing conflicting messages and realized she couldn’t win when it came to making everyone happy. “I was not prepared to be scrutinized in that way. And I think the thing that has always kept me going is that I never got lost in that,” she noted.
When talking about “Like A Saviour,” which is her favorite song off her upcoming new album, Higher Than Heaven, Ellie said, “Right when I first started out, it was quite vulnerable because there was no kind of support for young female artists going into the studio with predominantly male artists and producers.”
“I think when I wrote that song, I just needed to reclaim a power that maybe I’d lost at the beginning where I’d go into studios and it just didn’t feel safe. You go into sort of survival mode,” she continued, adding she wrote the song as the #MeToo movement was happening. “That’s probably the deepest [song] on the album.”
Ellie also appeared to let slip she has a deluxe version of Higher Than Heaven: “There’s a song on the deluxe version called ‘Better Man,’ which just feels really empowering to sing because it’s me saying I’m the better man.”
She also hinted at the potential of a tour, saying, “I am trying to make my tour carbon-neutral.”
Jeremy Renner is proving once again that his sense of humor remained unscathed after the New Year’s Day snowplow accident that could have killed him.
The actor posted a video to his Instagram stories of him recording that he has been reunited with his snowcat snowplow that was at the center of his near-fatal mishap.
Reno, Nevada authorities had seized the 14,330 pound vehicle as part of their investigation into the accident, which occurred when the actor was pulled under its tracks, suffering more than 30 broken bones as well as blunt chest trauma.
According to the video, the snowcat was returned to him on Thursday, From another car, Renner recorded the plowing machine being driven back to his home, with the help of local cops.
“The cat get a police escort. Feels like the Green mile!” Renner captioned the video, referencing the 1999 film in which Tom Hanks played a prison guard who worked on death row.
The Mayor of Kingstown star required emergency surgery and spent weeks in intensive care after the accident. He continues to recover at home.
Showtime has canceled The L Word: Generation Q after three seasons, according to Deadline, but the franchise may continue on the cabler with a reboot of the series, tentatively titled The L Word: New York. There are no further details at this time. The L Word: New York would be the latest Showtime series to get a reboot, joining Billions and Dexter…
The third season premiere of Netflix’s teen drama Outer Banks pulled in 3.15 billion minutes of viewing time for the week of February 20-26 — the biggest single-week total of 2023 to date for any title in the Nielsen rankings, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Viewing of the first and second seasons accounted for almost a third of that total, per Nielsen. That’s an unusually high amount for back episodes of an original show, which typically make up less than 25 percent of viewing time in a week when new seasons of a binge-release show debut…
Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning, Eve Hewson, Jack Reynor and The White Lotus standout Meghann Fahy are in “various stages of negotiations” to star in Netflix’s The Perfect Couple, sources tell Deadline. The six-episode murder mystery follows Celeste Otis, a Nantucket native who’s about to marry the perfect man, who happens to be from the area’s wealthiest family. However, when a body is discovered floating in the harbor on the morning of what was to be the wedding of the year, everyone at the party is suddenly a suspect, per the the streamer…
Variety reports Daveed Diggs, the actor and rapper best known for playing Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in the Broadway smash Hamilton, is set to join Rashida Jones and Saturday Night Live alum Kate McKinnon in In the Blink of An Eye, the upcoming feature from Finding Nemo and WALL-E director Andrew Stanton. The film “follows three storylines, spanning thousands of years,“ that “intersect and reflect on hope, connection and the circle of life.” Diggs will next be seen in the live-action Disney film The Little Mermaid, voicing the role of Sebastian…
