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Martin Mull, the comedic actor, musician and artist who gained widespread attention in the 1970s on television shows such as “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” and “Fernwood 2-Night,” and remained active in television and film in the later half a century, died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He is 80.His wife, Wendy Mull, confirmed the death. No reason was given.In “Mary Hartman,” Norman Lear’s satire of soap operas, Mr. Mull is Garth Gimble, a domestic abuser who met his death by nailing a star to the top of an aluminum Christmas tree.He also starred in the show’s subsequent spinoff,…

DETROIT — Miles Russell’s pants don’t fit. He accidentally showed his ankles in the first round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Thursday. It’s just that the inseam he recently measured no longer applies. He hit a growth spurt soon and now measures 5-foot-7, but is stuck in pants for a tiny 5-6. Her waist, meanwhile, remains almost non-existent. At 120 pounds, she sports a 28-inch waistline “with a scrunched belt.”So there Russell was on Thursday, walking around the Detroit Golf Club, those ankles flashing with every step.Such is the life of a 15 year old.Russell made his PGA Tour…

A scientist whose research has been at the center of controversy over an Alzheimer’s drug candidate has been charged with fraud.A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Hoau-Yan Wang, a professor at the City College of New York, on charges of falsification of data to secure grants of approximately $16 million from the National Institutes of Health.The studies of Dr. Wang has adopted research on a diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s disease and simufilam, a drug in advanced clinical trials. The manufacturer of Simufilam, Cassava Sciences, a pharmaceutical company based in Texas, says that the drug improves cognition in Alzheimer’s patients.Alzheimer’s…

Ever since scientists discovered the flu infecting American cattle earlier this year, they have puzzled over how it spreads from one animal to another. An experiment conducted in Kansas and Germany shed light on the mystery.Scientists have failed to find evidence that the virus can spread as a respiratory infection. Juergen Richt, a virologist at Kansas State University who helped lead the research, said the results suggested the virus was primarily transmitted through contaminated milking machines.In an interview, Dr. Richt said the results offer hope that the outbreak can be stopped before the virus evolves into a form that can…

Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report described President Biden as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, old man with a failing memory” — and many political analysts say that’s exactly the impression the president left on television viewers. debate on Thursday.Naa The February report, noting that Biden’s “memory also appears to have significant limitations,” Hur said he would not bring criminal charges against the president after a month-long investigation into his improper retention of classified document related to national security.”Based on our direct contact and observations with him, he is someone for whom many jurors would want to recognize a reasonable doubt,” the report…

A reformist candidate critical of Iran’s law requiring women to wear headscarves will compete next week against a hard-line conservative in a runoff election for the country’s presidency, state media said. on Saturday, following a special vote after the former leader was killed last month in a helicopter crash.The second round of voting, pitting reformist Masoud Pezeshkian against Saeed Jalili, an ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator, will take place on July 5. The runoff is partly the result of low voter turnout and a tight field of four candidate, three of whom fought for the conservative vote. Iranian law requires a…

This article is part of Misseda series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.For many fashionable women in the mid-20th century, no hat was worth wearing unless it was made by Otto Lucas.A London-based milliner, Lucas designed elegant turbans, berets and cloches, often made of luxe velvets and silks and decorated with flowers or feathers.Her designs have made it onto the covers of magazines such as British Vogue and among a clientele that has reportedly included actresses Greta Garbo and Gene Tierney, as well as the Duchesses of Windsor and Kent.The name…

In January 2020, Robert Williams spent 30 hours in a Detroit jail because facial recognition technology suggested he was a criminal. The fight was wrong, and Mr. Williams.On Friday, as part of a legal agreement in his false arrest, Mr. Williams got a commitment from the Detroit Police Department to do better. The city has adopted new rules for police use of facial recognition technology that the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents Mr. Williams, which should be the new national standard.”We hope this moves the needle in the right direction,” Mr. Williams said.Mr. Williams is the first person known…

Welcome to the Best of Late Night, a rundown of last night’s highlights that let you sleep — and let us get paid to watch comedy. Here are those 50 best movies on Netflix right now.Biden’s European VacationPresident Biden arrived in Italy on Wednesday for the G7 Summit, his second trip to Europe in a week.”He went to France last week, now he’s going to Italy,” Jimmy Fallon said. “Biden is like your friend who has somehow been posting pictures from Europe all summer.””It’s like banning LeBron James from basketball or Aaron Rodgers from podcasting.” — STEPHEN COLBERT”Ugh, come on,…

There was a point at the end of last year when there was a real sense that Daniel Ricciardo was opting to take Sergio Pérez’s Formula One seat at Red Bull for 2025.Ricciardo made it clear on his mid-season return to the grid with AlphaTauri (now RB) that a return to Red Bull, the same seat he vacated in 2018, was his ultimate target. As Pérez struggled in the second half of the season, suggestions of that happening only increased.But, Ricciardo did very little to press his case early in 2024. He often trailed teammate Yuki Tsunoda and, apart from…