Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: GoFundMeA woman who was rescued from an Alabama house fire that killed her young granddaughter over the weekend has tragically succumbed to her injuries.According toWBRC, Waniki Lushun Fox, 41, died on Tuesday at UAB Hospital after she was rescued from a house fire in Center Point on Sunday. The blaze also claimed the life of Fox’s 7-year-old granddaughter, Za’Niyah, who died on Sunday morning, the outlet reported.The fire began around 6 a.
Mar. 16, 2025
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In her rural town of Panola, Alabama, Dorothy Oliver is calling the shots.
Oliver has helped almost all of Panola’s 344 residents get aCOVID-19vaccine, no small feat in a state where less than half the population is fully vaccinated. As for the handful of holdouts, Oliver, 69, refuses to quit. Even after a year of making phone calls and knocking on doors, “I keep talking,” she says.
Since vaccines first became available, Oliver has wanted to keep her community safe.
Mar. 16, 2025
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A federal judge has blockedAlabama’s ban on abortions, which would have stopped abortion at all stages of pregnancy and criminalized doctors who performed the procedure.
The ban, which Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey had signed into law in May, would have gone into effect on Nov. 15. The only exceptions would have been for cases where the mother’s life is at risk, and there would be no concessions for rape or incest.
Mar. 16, 2025
Disney’sAladdinlive-action remake has one more surprise in store for fans.PEOPLE is exclusively premiering a new duet between Naomi Scott’s Princess Jasmine and Mena Massoud’s Aladdin featured in a delete scene from the movie. The remake of the 1992 animated original hit theaters in May to blockbuster success, pulling in over $1 billion worldwide.The deleted scene starts with Jasmine singing in her room as she looks at the shining moon up above, before it switches to Aladdin also looking up at the sky while in the desert.
Mar. 16, 2025
He can show you the world!A new sneak peek from Disney’s upcoming live-actionAladdinadaptation teases one of the beloved songs from the1992 original, “A Whole New World.”“You should see these places,” Aladdin (Mena Massoud) tells Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott) in the clip. “I mean, there’s a whole world outside of books and maps. Do you want to?”When Jasmine explains that every door to her palace is guarded, Aladdin — who’s posing as Prince Ali — offers another way out.