The reopening of Boston’s Opera House is part of a nationwide renaissance of the grand theaters that once dotted every city. Successful touring productions of shows like “The Lion King” and “The Producers” are driving the restorations, along with the strength of the preservation movement and the revival of urban downtowns. From the recently reopened Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore to the California Theater in San Jose–reopening in September after a 31-year vacancy and a $73 million restoration–so many upgrades are in the works that the League of Historic American Theatres started a best-of-the-year award (this year’s winner will be announced Saturday)....

Bradi Foster, who is now 19 months old, was discharged from Franciscan Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday, where she has spent several months receiving rehabilitative care, the Boston Herald reported. The child received a special send-off from staff at the children’s hospital as she was wheeled out of the facility in her pushchair by her parents. “All her doctors and her nurses and her respiratory therapist—everybody was there, blowing bubbles and cheering for her,” her mother, Darlene Foster, said, according to WCVB....

The actor’s latest arrest in the 50th state took place early Tuesday morning, according to KITV. Miller was charged with second-degree assault, police said. This comes after the 29-year-old star was also arrested in the state last month on charges of disorderly conduct and harassment following an incident at a bar. Officers were called to a residence in Pahoa a little after 1 a.m. for a report that Miller threw a chair at a 26-year-old woman, leaving her with a cut to the forehead, police told the station....

It has also been confirmed that Sergio Aguero will face no action for his role in a fracas with Wigan fans on the pitch at full-time, as reported by Goal on Tuesday afternoon. The governing body has also confirmed that there will not be any action taken against either club for a confrontation between City boss Pep Guardiola and Wigan counterpart Paul Cook in the tunnel at half-time. However, both sides are likely to be punished for the reaction of their players following Fabian Delph’s first-half red card....

WATCH: Ronaldo’s instant joke regret Former Barcelona attacker Pedro finished off a wonderful move to put Chelsea in front against the Championship side and has now been involved in six of his side’s nine goals in the competition this season. He hit a wonderful cross-field ball to Victor Moses to start the move before running the length of the pitch to finish it off with a neat header down into the ground and past Carl Ikeme....

After discovering an outage in its computerized Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) systems—which helps guide air traffic and provide crucial instructions to pilots—overnight, the FAA ordered all flights within, into, or out of the U.S. across the country to be grounded until 9 a.m. ET. But even though flights have resumed, the ongoing congestion at airports across the U.S. is yet to be unclogged. Amid the still-unfolding chaos that the system failure caused, more than 1,300 flights were canceled and more than 10,000 delayed, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware....

Even though some of the tournament’s big names aren’t on the first page of the leaderboard, there are still intriguing players and stories worth attention. Argentinean Fabian Gomez and Englishman Greg Owen share the lead at 9 under with 18 players within five shots of the lead. MORE: Bubba Watson holes no-look putt at practice | Tiger Woods no longer golf’s highest-paid player Brooks Koepka and enigmatic Camilo Villegas are lurking to spoil the party....

This shadow version of the popular social networking platform—not visible on the surface level—can be used to investigate “social properties” of the companies suite of applications by forcing bots to fight and intentionally attempt to break systems or violate guidelines, researchers said this week. In a new paper, the team outlined its Web-Enabled Simulation (WES), which is known internally as “WW” and being built to take advantage of real website infrastructure....

The data includes phone numbers, email addresses, full names, birthdates, location and other Facebook biography details. However, a Facebook spokesman said in a statement to Newsweek that this is old data connected to a problem that was addressed in 2019. At the time, Facebook removed people’s ability to directly find others using their phone numbers on both Facebook and Instagram because the function could be exploited to imitate Facebook and provide a phone number order to find out which user it belonged to....

TV news reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were killed by a former co-worker while reporting for Roanoke, Virginia’s WDBJ-TV in 2015. Video footage of the shooting has repeatedly resurfaced on Facebook and Instagram, violating the company’s own terms of service in hosting videos that glorify violence, Parker’s father, Andy Parker said Tuesday. Parker’s family is asking the Federal Trade Commission to take action against Facebook for failing to remove the footage showing her death, despite assurances from top executives that it will be removed....

The posts, which included memes and comments, some of which were of a sexually graphic nature, were only removed after BBC News alerted Facebook to the groups in which they were hosted. The posts include claims that Harris was not a US citizen, a lie that has peddled by right-wingers consistently throughout the election campaign, as well as calls for Harris to be deported to India, the birthplace of her mother, and comments about her not being “Black enough” for the Democratic Party....

The Mark Zuckerberg-led site said in a blog this week that it was restricting publishers and citizens from “sharing or viewing Australian and international news content” in response to a new “media bargaining” law that reached parliament this week. However, several government and non-news pages were mistakenly silenced as the changes were being rolled out. Among the accounts was ACT Health—which provides residents with information about COVID—alongside the Bureau of Meteorology and Queensland Health....

The lawsuit was filed against Meta on Thursday with the U.K.’s Competition Appeal Tribunal in London, TechCrunch reported. The lawsuit claims Facebook, which was recently renamed Meta, should pay its 44 million British users’ compensation for taking all their personal and private data between 2015 and 2019. Facebook has yet to respond to the lawsuit. The claim is that due to Facebook’s dominance in the social media sector, the people had no other viable social media platform they could use instead....

Germany has been forced to introduce new energy-saving policies as it struggles to meet the demand amid a downturn in Russian energy exports due to sanctions and closure of pipelines to Russia’s European clients. Recent posts on social media went as far as to suggest Berlin residents have taken to chopping down trees in its largest park, Tiergarten, to keep the lights on. But was the claim ground in fact or fiction?...

The U.S. National Hurricane Center has predicted that Hurricane Ian could become a Category 4 hurricane before it reaches Florida’s shores, with potential winds of up to 130mph. As preparations are underway to brace for the hurricane, comments from President Joe Biden about hurricane preparedness made last year have garnered renewed attention. The Claim On Tuesday, Benny Johnson, host of The Benny Report on conservative network Newsmax, shared a video of President Joe Biden on Twitter urging people who live in states where hurricanes often occur to get vaccinated....

The Claim Conservative commentator and author Matt Margolis on Monday posted “Kamala Harris joked about killing Trump, Pence and Sessions with Ellen in 2018. Can we impeach her?” in a tweet that shared a clip of Harris’ 2018 interview with DeGeneres that received more than 200 likes and 200 retweets. Another Twitter user wrote on Saturday that “Kamala Harris Jokes about Killing Trump, Pence, Sessions,” and shared a 2018 article from the National Review with the same headline....

These posts resurface around the time of major anniversaries or birthdays associated with the princess, most recently during the 25 anniversary of her death, which occurred on August 31, 1997 when she was just 36 years old. In recent days, a number of posts on social media appear to show a little known aspect of this competitive royal pastime, with King Charles III (then Prince of Wales), running in what appears to be a similar race....

While Gaetz and his allies delayed McCarthy’s smooth ascension to House speaker, a series of concessions appeared to persuade him and the others, with changes allegedly around limits on spending and bigger committee roles for hardliners. But was there more behind why Gaetz changed his tune? Videos and stills shared on social media suggested that a word in his ear might have had a persuasive effect. The Claim A number of tweets and Reddit posts, shared starting Sunday, claimed that Florida Representative Matt Gaetz voted for Kevin McCarthy as House speaker after a conversation with a colleague whose face is obscured....

Reports this week describe that nearly one-third of Moscow officials have fled Russia following new conscription efforts, with some Russian politicians directly calling out the president. Despite these hardships, reports that a convicted drug dealer had been appointed to civic office by Putin directly seemed stranger than fiction. The Claim A tweet posted on October 28, 2022, claimed that Konstantin Yaroshenko, a pilot reportedly arrested in 2010 for transporting a large shipment of cocaine, was appointed to the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation....

While conservatives mourned, many left-leaning voices criticized Limbaugh, who had been long accused of espousing racist, sexist and homophobic views throughout his career. Though a radio pioneer, Limbaugh peddled conspiracy theories and used his platform to deny climate change. His death has led to many to comment on a particular time in his career, when his show discussed the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ’90s. The AIDS crisis, caused by HIV, saw gay and bi men die from the sexually transmitted disease at alarming rates....