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Hudson Meek, a teen actor best known for his work in “Baby Driver,” died after he fell from a moving vehicle in Alabama, officials said. He was 16.Meek sustained blunt force injuries when he fell from the motor vehicle in his hometown, Vestavia Hills, the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office told NBC News on Thursday. He was injured Dec. 19 and died at UAB Hospital on Saturday.The Vestavia Hills Police Department is investigating the circumstances surrounding his death, the office said. The incident happened in the 1900 block of Canyon Road in Vestavia Hills, a suburb south of Birmingham.A post…

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The special prosecutor in the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin in the deadly shooting on the set of the movie “Rust” has withdrawn an attempt to reinstate charges, a New Mexico district attorney said Monday.In a statement, First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said the special prosecutor, Kari Morrissey, withdrew the state’s notice of appeal, which would have sought to reinstate charges against Baldwin that had been dismissed by a lower court.In the summer, a judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter case against Baldwin, who was holding a prop gun on the set near Santa Fe in October 2021 when…

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MUNICH — German authorities said on Saturday that the death toll had risen five people, and over 200 injured from a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in eastern Germany.The car plowed 1200 feet into a crowd in the narrow alley where shoppers had gathered Friday night. The suspected driver, identified as a doctor from Saudi Arabia who lived in Germany, was detained, said Reiner Haseloff, premier of the state of Saxony-Anhalt.The suspect acted alone, and there was no ongoing threat to the public, he said. Officials have not given more information about a possible motive.The victims include at least one…

The job was considered impossible: Clear 17 million pieces of backlogged mail. In a war zone. Maj. Charity Adams knew it was a mission that could not fail, not just for the sake of morale of World War II troops, but also for the reputation of Black people in the eyes of the country’s top military brass. The real-life efforts of the 855 women of the Women Army Corps’ 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion are captured in Tyler Perry’s latest film, “Six Triple Eight,” streaming now on Netflix. To Kerry Washington, who portrays Adams, the battalion’s ability to resolve an ongoing problem…

A coming-of-age movie with a dramatic punk rock twist has a storyline that may sound unreal, but it’s based on true events. In “Los Frikis,” set in early 1990s Cuba, hundreds of young, disenfranchised Cubans inject themselves with HIV during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, hoping to escape political repression by going inside government-run clinics, or sanitariums. Based on true events, the film takes its title from the Spanish translation of the word “freaky,” referring to the punk rock movement that came together in Cuba during the 1980s and 1990s.“I grew up in Miami, I have Cuban family,…

A man has been arrested in connection with the assassination of the head of Russia’s chemical, radiological and biological weapons unit, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, authorities in the country said Wednesday. “During the interrogation, he explained that he was recruited by the Ukrainian special services,” Svetlana Petrenko, a spokesperson for Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement. “On their instructions, he arrived in Moscow and received a homemade explosive device. He placed it on an electric scooter, which he parked at the entrance to the residential building where Igor Kirillov lived,” she added.  The suspect rented a car and “installed a…