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Sharon Hughes stayed up as late as she could Monday night, forcing herself to open her eyes. The widow of the only NFL player to die on the field during a game, she needed to know that history was not repeating itself. She needed to know that Damar Hamlin was still alive. Hamlin, 24, a safety for the Buffalo Bills, was in critical condition after going into cardiac arrest during Monday night's game against the Cincinnati Bengals. His medical episode stunned fans in the stadium and those watching on television, including Hughes, who watched Hamlin get to his feet after…

Pictured: Crystal Onion, White Noise, and Betrayal Welcome to your weekly roundup of the biggest stories from Netflix's top 10 hourly figures for the week ending January 1, 2023. Netflix updates its Top 10 Stats page weekly with 40 new figures per hour for the top movies and shows from the past seven days. If you want to easily browse the top 10 hourly data, visit our tool. Last week Netflix also released their Top 40 list of the entire year, which we've rounded up here. Note: In this report of Netflix hours watched from December 26, 2022 to January…

"Good Morning America" ​​co-host Robin Roberts made a surprise announcement on ABC's morning show Monday, saying she is ready to marry her girlfriend of almost 18 years, Amber Laign.“I'm hesitating because I haven't said it out loud yet. Okay, I'm saying 'yes' to marriage,” Roberts told motivational speaker and author Gabby Bernstein during a conversation about setting intentions for the new year. "We are getting married this year."Roberts added that she and Laign, whom she began dating in 2005, previously discussed marriage but "put it off" after Laign was diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2021.Laign, co-founder of women's wellness…

The attack is one of the deadliest attacks on Moscow forces since the war began 10 months ago, but some influential pro-military voices in Russia, as well as officials in Kyiv, suggested the death toll may have been much higher. NBC News was unable to verify the claims on either side.The defense ministry's public stance appeared to do little to quell criticism from nationalist bloggers and pro-war voices at home.Semyon Pegov, a war correspondent who was recently awarded an Order of Courage by Putin, questioned the official explanation for the attack.“The 'mobile' story is not very convincing,” Pegov said in…

NFL legend Michael Irvin has spoken about his reaction to the medical emergency suffered by Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin in Monday night's game against the Cincinnati Bengals.Irvin appeared in 95.7 The game in San Francisco on Tuesday and talked about how difficult it was to see the faces of Bills and Cincinnati Bengals players who were emotional after the incident. Hamlin had to get his heartbeat back on the field after going into cardiac arrest."I saw the faces of all the guys around. It told me how profound that moment was. I went back to that and said, wow,"…

Images: Getty Images In an effort to boost its output of thrilling epic crime series, Netflix will produce bodies, an adaptation of the 2015 graphic novel of the same name by Si Spencer. Bodies will tell the story of four detectives in four different eras of London who find themselves investigating the same murder, uncovering a conspiracy spanning 150 years. Created by No offense Y Torch writer Pablo TomalinNetflix bodies will be an eight-part limited series and its episodes will be directed by Marco Kreutzpainter (Beat, Extinction, Soulmates) Y haolu wang (Doctor Who, Pregnant Earth, Lao Wai). The scripts for…

WASHINGTON — Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and his conservative detractors will clash for the second day in a row as lawmakers prepare to resume voting Wednesday for the next House speaker.A group of 20 far-right rebels banded together Tuesday and prevented McCarthy from getting the necessary 218 votes.Three separate ballots were held, and each time McCarthy, R-Calif., a longtime member of the GOP leadership, came up short. It was the first time in 100 years that the speakers' vote was cast on multiple ballots.“This is about saving the country and getting somebody to cut back and put us on a…

Ron DeSantis took office for a second term as Florida governor on Tuesday, amid his rise as the potential top alternative to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.DeSantis spoke for about 15 minutes after he was sworn in, making no mention of a possible presidential run, but positioning his administration as the bulwark against Democratic leadership at the state and federal levels."It is now often said that our federalist constitutional system with 50 states capable of pursuing their own unique policies represents a laboratory of democracy," he said. "Well, these last few years have seen a…

A possible cause of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin's collapse and cardiac arrest, witnessed in real time by millions of "Monday Night Football" viewers, was immediately recognized by heart experts who were also watching the game."I knew exactly what was going on," said Dr. Nahush Mokadam, director of the division of cardiac surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. "The way he first got to his feet and then collapsed...it's not what a concussion would look like."In a statement released Tuesday, Hamlin's family thanked first responders and health professionals at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he…