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Eric Dane is set to guest star in an episode of NBC’s Brilliant Minds as an ALS patient while he is battling the disease himself. Dane, 52, is most notable for his roles in Grey’s Anatomy, Euphoria, and Countdown. The star opened up in April about being diagnosed with ALS, a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord and causes the loss of muscle control. The disease currently has no cure. “I don’t think this is the end of my story. I just don’t feel like it, in my heart,” Dane told Good Morning America in June. Turns out he was right! The Grey’s Anatomy actor not only worked on the third season of HBO’s Euphoria after his diagnosis, but has no landed the Brilliant Minds guest role. Dane plays the role of Matthew, an esteemed firefighter who is struggling to tell his family about his ALS diagnosis, turning to Dr. Oliver Wolf (Zachary Quinto), the series’ lead, for guidance. The episode is set to air Nov. 24. County singer Keith Urban performed a telling song to open his new reality show in what many are viewing as a possible jab at estranged wife Nicole Kidman. Urban chose to play his track “Straight Line,” the opening song on his newest album High, at the premiere of the new CBS series The Road. The reality singing competition will see contestants battle it out to earn a supporting slot on his new tour. However, some viewers are speculating that his song choice could have been more than just a coincidence, according to Page Six. Urban spoke about the song’s meaning in February 2024, telling his Instagram followers that it explored “wanting to break out of a soul-sucking routine that you might be stuck in.” He added, “Maybe in a relationship, a job, with creativity, with yourself... whatever it is!!” The song itself was written to express sensations of “feeling alive again and getting out from under that dark cloud,” the 57-year-old musician said. 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Colman Domingo reveals he has joined the cast for Wicked: For Good as the voice of the Cowardly Lion. Domingo is known for his performances in acclaimed films, including The Color Purple, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Sing Sing.The Emmy Award-winning actor took to Instagram on Monday, to reveal his participation in the upcoming sequel with one of the few new roles from the mainstay 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The first 2024 Wicked film was a box office success, becoming Universal’s second highest-grossing film of the year globally. Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo received Oscar nominations for their performances in the first film. The highly anticipated movie will merge timelines with the original Broadway musical, marking the first time Elphaba and Glinda meet iconic “Oz” characters: Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. The storyline will continue in the series sequel in theaters on Nov. 2. A critical shortage of air traffic controllers, forced to work without pay, is causing severe flight disruptions at airports across the country as the government shutdown enters its 20th day. Nearly 9,000 flights have been delayed since Sunday, FlightAware reports, with airports in Newark, Chicago, Atlanta and Dallas suffering the worst delays due to spiraling staff shortages. Around 13,000 air traffic controllers and 50,000 TSA agents have been denied paychecks and forced to work six-day weeks throughout the shutdown, resulting in large numbers of sick days making an already short-staffed profession even worse. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said 53 percent of airport delays since the shutdown have been due to staff shortages, compared to around 5 percent during normal service. Throughout the shutdown, the Trump administration has aired videos at airports across the country blaming the Democrats refusal to reopen the federal government for the delays. 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AMD harms central vision, which allows people do things like drive and read.The Financial Times reported participants registered “clinically meaningful improvements in their vision.” The device mounts a camera on a pair of bespoke glasses, which then projects onto an implant in patients’ retinas. The findings of the experiment were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The paper’s lead author, Frank Holz, hailed the signifigance of the breakthrough. “This study confirms that, for the first time, we can restore functional central vision in patients blinded by geographic atrophy,” he said. “The implant represents a paradigm shift in treating late-stage age-related macular degeneration.” A video showing an Iranian regime enforcer escorting his daughter into a luxury Tehran hotel in a plunging strapless wedding gown has ignited fury over hijab crackdowns. The clip, which was shared to X by activist Cameron Behzadi, shows Ali Shamkhani—the 70-year-old senior adviser to the supreme leader and former secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council—leading his daughter Fatemeh into the Espinas Palace Hotel as guests cheer. The Western-style ceremony triggered accusations of double standards, given the state’s enforcement of strict dress codes for women, according to the Daily Mail. The outlet reported that critics had blasted the “lavish” celebration amid economic hardship and the regime’s mandatory hijab laws. Exiled activist Masih Alinejad said on X that the wedding showed how the elite “preach ‘modesty’ while their own daughters parade in designer dresses.” Swedish-Iranian MP Alireza Akhondi called it a “display of hypocrisy.” Shamkhani helped oversee the state response after 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini died in police custody in 2022. She was arrested for allegedly violating rules requiring women to wear the headscarf. The subsequent unrest saw the government make mass arrests and use deadly force.
