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The Star
15 hours ago
- Health
- The Star
Actor Eric Dane says disease has taken all function in right arm
ALS has robbed Eric Dane (pic) of functioning in his right arm and is creeping through his left, the actor said in an emotional interview about the diagnosis he revealed in April. The symptoms began rather subtly about a year and a half ago, the Euphoria and Grey's Anatomy star told Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America in an interview that aired Monday morning. He is looking to raise awareness about the disease. 'I started experiencing some weakness in my right hand,' said Dane, 52. 'And I didn't really think anything of it at the time. I thought maybe I'd been texting too much, and my hand was fatigued.' It didn't go away, however, leading to a string of specialist visits that culminated nine months later with a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease for the Yankees Hall of Fame player who died of it in 1941. 'A few weeks later I noticed it had gotten a little worse,' Dane recounted. 'So I went and saw a hand specialist, who sent me to another hand specialist. I went and saw a neurologist, and the neurologist sent me to another neurologist, who said, 'This is way above my pay grade.' ' Now, his right arm has 'completely stopped working,' the actor said. 'I feel like maybe a couple more months and I won't have my left hand either.' The letters ALS are burned into Dane's brain. 'I will never forget those three letters,' the veteran actor told Sawyer. 'It's on me the second I wake up.' The rare motor neuron disease affects nerve cells, weakening the muscles and leading to paralysis that eventually extends to the muscles that control speaking, eating and breathing, the Mayo Clinic explains. Dane is weathering this storm with the help of his wife, actress Rebecca Gayheart, and their daughters Billie Beatrice, 15, and Georgia Geraldine, 13. He said the diagnosis really hit home a few months ago during a boat trip with one of his daughters, when he jumped into ocean and realised he couldn't make it back to the boat on his own. 'I realised in that moment, I'm not safe in the water anymore,' he said. His daughter dragged him back, and he made sure she returned to the water to finish her snorkeling session with the guide. 'But I was just heartbroken.' Nonetheless, Dane is determined to keep working as long as he is able. 'I don't think this is the end of my story,' he told Sawyer. 'In my heart I just don't feel like this is the end of me. I'm fighting as much as I can.' At the same time, he allowed, 'There's so much about it that's out of my control.' – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
AsiaOne
21 hours ago
- Politics
- AsiaOne
Muslim NY mayoral candidate reports threats; Jewish Ohio lawmaker was threatened separately, World News
WASHINGTON — The New York City Police Department (NYPD) said on Thursday (June 19) its hate crime unit was probing anti-Muslim threats against mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani while in another incident US Representative Max Miller of Ohio said he was "run off the road" by another driver with a Palestinian flag. These marked the latest US incidents to raise concerns about the rise in hate against Americans of Muslim, Arab, Jewish, Israeli and Palestinian heritage since the start of Israel's war in Gaza in late 2023. An NYPD spokesperson said police received reports that on Wednesday at 9.45am, Mamdani, a Democratic state assembly member and mayoral candidate, reported that he "received four phone voicemails, on various dates, making threatening anti-Muslim statements by an unknown individual". There have not been any arrests so far and the investigation remained ongoing, the NYPD added. The New York Daily News reported a man threatened to blow up Mamdani's car. Mamdani had no immediate comment. Separately, Republican US Representative Max Miller from Ohio said on X he was "run off the road" in the city of Rocky River on Thursday while he and his family were threatened by a person with a Palestinian flag. He said he had filed a police report. "Today I was run off the road in Rocky River, and the life of me and my family was threatened by a person who proceeded to show a Palestinian flag before taking off," said Miller, who is Jewish and pro-Israeli. He labelled the incident, which was also condemned by top congressional Democrats, as antisemitic. Recent incidents that raised alarm over antisemitism and anti-Israel attitudes in the US include a fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington and a Colorado attack that left eight people wounded when a suspect threw incendiary devices into a pro-Israeli crowd. Incidents raising alarm about anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian prejudice include the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian child in Illinois, the attempted drowning of a 3-year-old Palestinian American girl in Texas and a violent mob attack on pro-Palestinian protesters in California. [[nid:713441]]
The Star
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Star
'Frasier' star Kelsey Grammer, 70, expecting eighth child with third wife
Kayte Walsh (left) and Kelsey Grammer are parents to daughter Faith, 12, as well as sons Kelsey, 10, and eight-year-old Auden. Photo: TNS Septuagenarian Kelsey Grammer is gearing up to welcome his eighth child, who will be over four decades younger than the actor's eldest. The Emmy-winning Frasier star, 70, and his third wife, Kayte Walsh, are expecting their fourth child together, according to photos People published of the parents-to-be walking in London. Though it's unclear when the couple — who got together during his marriage to Camille Grammer — will welcome their newest addition, the due date looks like it could be around the corner as 46-year-old Walsh appeared heavily pregnant. The news comes just over a month after Grammer spoke to the outlet about juggling his seven other children, aged 12 to 41, he shares with four women. 'I have neglected a couple of the kids in my life, especially the first two,' he said of daughters Spencer, 41, and Greer, 33. The 41-year-old Greek star was the only child from Grammer's first marriage to Doreen Alderman. Her younger sister, best known for the show Awkward , was born to Grammer and then-girlfriend Barrie Buckner, months before he wed dancer Leigh-Anne Csuhany. That marriage was annulled the following year and produced no children. Grammer has daughter Mason, 23, and son Jude, 20, from his marriage to Camille Grammer, the demise of which was chronicled in the first season of Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills . 'I'm not proud of the way we started out,' Walsh told Oprah Winfrey in 2012, during the couple's sit-down to discuss their affair, during which Grammer wouldn't even say his ex's name. Together, Grammer and Walsh are parents to daughter Faith, 12, as well as sons Kelsey, 10, and eight-year-old Auden. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ábrego García: Why the White House blinked
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Finally, a "win for the rule of law," said the New York Daily News in an editorial. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced last week that Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland father of three who was shipped to a prison in his native El Salvador in March, is now back on U.S. soil. The undocumented migrant's deportation was clearly illegal: A 2019 court order barred his removal to El Salvador due to fear of persecution. But for three months, the Trump administration defied judicial orders to "facilitate" Ábrego García's return—including one from the Supreme Court—coyly claiming the U.S. was powerless to interfere in El Salvador's custodial system. It eventually backed down amid warnings of a constitutional crisis. "But this being the Trump administration," Ábrego García, 29, is not a free man. Instead, he is suddenly facing multiple federal charges over allegations that he "unlawfully transported thousands of undocumented aliens" across the U.S. as a member of the street gang MS-13. "Whether the indictment is solid or not, Ábrego García will now have competent legal defense and will be before independent judges." He will have all the protections that are due to him under the Constitution, protections he lost during his "disappearance" to El Salvador. This is "not the homecoming Ábrego García hoped for," said Jonathan Turley in If convicted on these serious charges, which include accusations that he smuggled guns and narcotics, he will face life in prison. As for the administration, it's ended this controversy "on its own terms": neither defying the courts nor conceding limits on its power to deport. Democrats, meanwhile, have committed "a historic political blunder," said Peter Laffin in the Washington Examiner. They spent months insisting Ábrego García was a model citizen swept up in Trump's "supposedly racist deportation scheme." But during his trial, prosecutors will detail his alleged trafficking of women and children and how his wife repeatedly accused him of domestic violence. Each "hideous new detail" will remind voters of his "beatification" by "the party of open borders." That assumes the government is "telling the truth about Ábrego García," said Mark Joseph Stern in Slate, and "there are reasons to be skeptical." If prosecutors had proof of criminal wrongdoing, why didn't they reveal it back in March and spare themselves months of scandal? More to the point, why wasn't he arrested in 2022? Most of the trafficking charges in the indictment stem from an incident that year in Tennessee, when cops found Ábrego García driving an SUV with nine male Hispanic passengers. (Ábrego García said he was headed to a construction site). He wasn't detained that day, let alone charged, and Bondi will have to explain what's changed since then, other than Trump's election, and "his suddenly urgent desire to find a justification for his blatantly unlawful rendition program." Some Democrats did go overboard trying "to portray Ábrego García as sympathetic," said Jason Willick in The Washington Post. But "this story was never about a particular migrant's character." It's about whether the president can "send people from U.S. soil to foreign prisons and hold them there even when courts say it is illegal." That question remains terrifyingly unresolved, said Ilya Somin in Reason. Ábrego García's return proves the administration is not yet entirely resistant to judicial and public pressure. But Trump has deported "hundreds of other migrants" without due process. It's now up to the courts—" and the rest of us"—to push for their return, and "ensure that such a thing can never happen again."
NBC Sports
2 days ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Giants being cautious in Andrew Thomas' return from a foot injury
Giants left tackle Andrew Thomas underwent foot surgery on a Lisfranc injury Oct. 17. He still is rehabbing and might not be ready for the start of training camp. The Giants are being deliberate in Thomas' return. 'He's rehabbing,' coach Brian Daboll said, via Pat Leonard of the New York Daily News. 'He is doing everything he can do to get better. So, we'll see when that time comes.' The initial expectation was Thomas would return in time for organized team activities, but Leonard reports the Giants merely are being deliberate. Foot injuries need to fully heal to minimize the possibility of reinjury. Thomas, the No. 4 overall pick of the 2020 draft, had played 100 percent of New York's offensive snaps in 2024 before his injury. He has made 60 starts in five seasons, but he has started only 16 of a possible 34 games the past two seasons since signing a five-year, $117.5 million contract extension with the team in July 2023. 'Somebody's got to play left tackle,' offensive line coach Carmen Bricillo said of Thomas' absence. 'But I would say that you would feel — with his talent and what he brings to the room — you certainly would feel his absence.' The Giants had four different left tackles in five games after Thomas was injured. Josh Ezeudu, Chris Hubbard and right tackle Jermaine Eluemunor all took turns at Thomas' spot.
