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Accused Waukesha, Wisconsin, parade killer Darrell Brooks said Wednesday that he is "afraid as hell" of possibly contracting COVID-19 and requested an adjournment during his continued pretrial hearing, in which he is representing himself. "When I was brought in there and they told me they had to test me for COVID, I was immediately, like, what do you mean you have to test me for this? … Immediately, in my head, I started to get afraid that they even had to test for COVID," Brooks said during his hearing livestreamed by FOX 6 Milwaukee of receiving a COVID-19 test in prison.

Scotland is to be battered with up to eight inches of snow, as the Met Office continues to predict a cold snap that will affect the entire country.

Michigan became the 22nd state Wednesday to ban “conversion therapy,” the discredited pseudoscience that attempts to convert gay, lesbian, and bisexual people heterosexual. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, signed two bills into law Wednesday — House Bill 4617, which defines conversion therapy, and House Bill 4616, which bars licensed therapists from subjecting minors to the practice and lays out penalties for violation, including discipline by public health regulators. Photo: Officer of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

dawg.“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg, 67, boldly stated Wednesday on the ABC talk show that “American Idol” was the “beginning of the downfall of society.”While the women of the show discussed why Netflix recently “dwelled” on the late Anna Nicole Smith’s last days in a new documentary, Goldberg claimed that viewers will watch this kind of programming because “people like to be judgy.”“You have ‘Basketball Wives,’ you have the ‘Housewives’ of whatever, all the Bravo shows, giving you the impression that you’re doing something wrong because you’re living your life.”“People watch these shows because they make them feel better,” Goldberg continued. “I think that we, as a society, love to watch stuff to judge folks.”“The Color Purple” star then offered up a specific example of when she believes the public became too power-hungry on passing judgment.

After Nathan Chasing Horse was recently charged with sexual assault in Nevada, a grand jury indicted the "Dances with Wolves" actor Wednesday on 19 counts -- including trafficking and child abuse to include kidnapping, lewdness and drug trafficking. The disgraced 46-year-old actor has allegedly been trafficking Indigenous women and girls for decades, as he faces charges in Nevada, Canada and now in Montana, on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, with the newest case.

On Wednesday, Netflix unveiled the first teaser for two-time Oscar nominee Tim Burton's live-action coming-of-age comedy series Wednesday centered on Addams Family teen Wednesday Addams.Jenny Ortega stars as the titular character who, in the first moments of the trailer, releases piranhas into the Nancy Reagan High School swimming pool to maim a water polo player who bullied her brother Pugsley.'The only person who gets to torture my brother is me,' Wednesday states before cracking a creepy smile. On Wednesday, Netflix unveiled the first teaser for two-time Oscar nominee Tim Burton's live-action coming-of-age comedy series Wednesday centered on Addams Family teen Wednesday Addams'I did the world a favor.