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Luckily, viewers won’t have to find out anytime soon. Despite a slight, and seemingly intentional, scare for audiences, Doocy announced during an May 1 broadcast that he would pare back his time as host rather than retire from the show outright.

Joking about the agony of the 3 a.m. wakeup call he has to abide by to make it to air by 6 a.m., Doocy said he would instead be helming the morning political commentary show three days a week, and broadcast from a new home in Florida rather than New York.

All the TV news anchors exiting their roles, including Lester Holt and Joy Reid

“It is a great job, but the hours suck,” he joked, describing driving into the city in the dark and missing breakfast every morning with his children.

“I’m not retiring, I’m not leaving the show. I’m still a host, but it’s time for a change,” said Doocy, who has been delivering hot takes from the “Fox and Friends” couch for 30 years.

The company’s Groom’s Cake ice cream flavor won its Great Scoop Revival Flavor Tournament last year and will be available in stores beginning May 1, the ice cream maker said in a news release.

The tournament was held via the company’s social media accounts and website and gave Blue Bell fans a chance to bring back one retired flavor. It began with 16 flavors “carefully chosen from the many consumer requests the company receives,” the company said.

Fans voted on flavors in a bracket-style tournament until it was down to the final two flavors: Groom’s Cake vs. Cookie Cake.

Jeff Knight, identified as a local businessman, stayed at the scene of the crash for several minutes until first responders arrived and tried to provide assistance, his lawyer J. Kevin Hayslett wrote in a letter to investigators that was published by CNN and WTSP.

The Clearwater Police Department previously said that the boat “fled the scene.”

“(A)ny suggestion that Mr. Knight left the scene is wholly unsupported,” Hayslett wrote in the letter dated April 29, published by CNN.

USA TODAY has reached out to Hayslett and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which is investigating.

When actors of that caliber get tother, you expect greatness. You expect to be doubled over in laughter as deep characters engage in high jinks and tomfoolery, but in a thoughtful way. Particularly when you hear Fey’s name, creator and star of “30 Rock,” “Mean Girls” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” Which is why the writer/actress’s new Netflix marriage comedy “The Four Seasons” (now streaming, ★★ out of four) is such a disappointment.

Based on the 1981 Alan Alda film, “Seasons” follows three couples on four vacations (one each season) as they deal with the difficulties of relationships large and small. Monotony, sex, divorce, parenting − it’s all wrapped up in a very picturesque package in a lakeside cabin, on a tropical beach, on an autumnal New England college campus and on a snow-capped mountain and ski lodge. The vacations may be polished and seasonally appropriate, but the relationships are distinctly messy and complicated.

Thought-provoking and relatable to anyone who has ever been in a long-term relationship, the setup seems perfect for the melodrama and conflict that makes for great relationship comedies. The original film had it all, including a series of manic tableaus brought to you by legends including Alda, Carol Burnett and Rita Moreno. But stretched out over eight half-hour episodes as a miniseries, “Seasons” feels surface-level at best, unfunny and dull at worst. (This marks the second attempt to bring the story to TV: CBS ran a series in 1984 that lasted only 13 episodes). “Seasons” is a big miss when it should have been an easy home run.

The three couples at the center each have at least one A-lister on board: Fey and Forte as dorky Kate and Jack, Carell’s smarmy Nick married to free-spirit Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver) and judgy Danny (Domingo), with artsy and emotional Claude (Marco Calvani). At the start of the series, when the group is at Nick and Anne’s lakeside house in springtime, everything seems as if it’s coming up roses. But the cracks immediately begin to show: Nick is thinking of leaving Anne for someone more “alive”; Danny is ignoring his health problems, much to Claude’s dismay; and dark humor and sarcasm don’t fully cover up the deep fault lines in Jack and Kate’s relationship.

He stared at his phone until something else caught his attention – his 20-year-old son, Bronny.

Standing in front of his locker, Bronny said something it seemed only his father could hear. The mundane moment signaled the end, at least for now, of something historical.

A father and son suited up for the same NBA team. So, where does playing alongside Bronny rank among LeBron’s accomplishments, especially considering everything Bronny has overcome?

“Number one for sure,’’ LeBron James said after the Lakers’ 103-96 loss. “That’s easy. That’s not even close. To be able to play the game that I love and to be able to be along my son this whole year has been one of the most gratifying, satisfying journeys I’ve ever been on.

Conservative radio host John Reid said the governor called him April 25, urging him to exit the 2025 race, after GOP researchers found a now-deleted social media account sharing Reid’s name, containing sexually explicit photos of men. 

Reid has denied any affiliation with the account. 

And he says the push to oust him is due to him being openly gay. 

“What happened today is another coordinated assassination attempt against me to force the first openly gay candidate off of a Virginia statewide ticket,” Reid said in a video posted online April 25. “It’s shameful, and I won’t back down.” 

Local news site The Richmonder was first to report the news of Youngkin’s call to Reid. 

Reid has dug in his heels, saying he is staying in the race and is prepared to fight back. 

Trump doubled down on his intentions in a congressional address in March: “I think we’re gonna get it. One way or the other, we’re gonna get it,” Trump said.

While the island’s role in the U.S.’s national and international security remains important, its vast mineral wealth – resources critical to modern industries where China holds near-monopoly power – has become a key driver of U.S. interest.

In April, Trump signed two executive orders aimed at securing critical minerals: one investigating the need for tariffs on mineral imports and another accelerating offshore mining.

Released on May 1, the show follows six married friends who go on quarterly weekend trips. However, old tensions and new conflicts arise when one couple decides to end their relationship.

“The Four Seasons,” created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield, is a reimagination of the 1981 movie with the same name.

“I’ve always loved this movie since I was a kid, and I do think that a series like this where you can really just expand things and take your time a little bit more felt like a perfect way to hang out with these characters a little bit longer,” Fey told The Hollywood Reporter.

In the 400-page review published May 1, unnamed authors determined there’s a lack of evidence supporting interventions such as puberty blockers, sex hormones and surgery and emphasized their potential risks despite most medical organizations and professionals backing its benefit.

An HHS statement said medical doctors, medical ethicists and a methodologist contributed to the report, however, the agency declined to provide names for the contributors.  

“Our duty is to protect our nation’s children – not expose them to unproven and irreversible medical interventions,” said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health. “We must follow the gold standard of science, not activist agendas.”