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Samsung introduces new sleep-tracking metrics that take advantage of SmartThings enabled devices

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Samsung just announced new sleep-tracking tools available via the company’s Health app. This includes a new analysis tool that leverages other SmartThings enabled devices. Each morning, users receive a “sleep environment report” that takes factors like temperature, humidity, air quality and light intensity into account.

The app will also let folks automatically adjust room settings via the aforementioned connected devices. This should help people “create the ideal sleep environment.”

There’s another tool called “sleep time guidance” that suggests the optimal bedtime and wake-up time for each individual user. This is determined by analyzing sleep patterns, nightly habits and room conditions. Finally, the app now includes a new mindfulness tracker that helps manage “mood, breathing and stress levels.”

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The company also made some announcements regarding the Galaxy Ring, just ahead of Samsung Unpacked on January 22. New sizes of the smart ring will be available for purchase on that date, which include two larger variants. This brings the number of available ring sizes to 11, with three color options. Additionally, the device is coming to new regions. These countries include Greece, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan and many more.

This news likely indicates that there won’t be a Galaxy Ring 2 announced at Unpacked. Instead, the event should focus on new smartphones and (of course) AI junk, er, I mean tools.



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Democrats Are Going On Offense Before Trump Takes Office

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A super PAC affiliated with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) isn’t waiting for Trump to take office before they start hammering Republicans on the economy. The issue arm of the House Majority PAC, House Majority Forward is spending $10 million to hammer Republicans on their planned tax cuts for the rich.

Axios reported:

  • The campaign will include TV and digital ads to “hold Republicans accountable for refusing to lower costs,” according to a press release first shared with Axios.

  • It will also involve research and polling to “develop a deeper understanding of how Republican policies are hurting American wallets.”

  • HMF president Mike Smith said: “Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans have only just been sworn in, but they’re already breaking their promises by failing to lower costs. It’s time to stop playing games, and start working for the American people.”



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Suspect Arrested for Stabbing Boy to Death, Was on Street Due to Dems’ No Cash Bail Policy | The Gateway Pundit

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Waldo Mejia was arrested in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024, according to New York City police records.

But he was out on the street Friday when 14-year-old Caleb Rijos was stabbed to death in the Bronx while walking to school, according to the New York Post.

Mejia, 29, was arrested for the crime Saturday with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch noting that there was little to smile about.

“Today, a 14-year old-boy is dead. A family is devastated. A city is in mourning, and the systems that we have in place to deal with repeat offenders and individuals with severe mental health issues continue to fail us,” Tisch said.

After being stabbed twice in the chest, Rijos called his father

“You know, he called his father and told his father that he couldn’t breathe and that he was scared, and his father heard him dying,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said.

“It’s unfathomable to think about the level of this tragedy,” he said.

Mejia was arrested by police on a knife charge in 2015, and a gun charge in 2017, before facing burglary and arson charges in 2019 after the lobby of a former girlfriend’s building was set on fire. The 2019 charges were pleaded down to reckless endangerment, and Mejia was handed a conditional discharge

Charges against Mejia did not end there.

In November, he was charged with stabbing a Ring doorbell camera. Tisch said Mejia was released on his own recognizance, noting that crime was not one where Mejia could have been locked up and required to post bail.

“The status quo is just not working for New Yorkers,” Tisch said Saturday.

“We do not have a system that puts the rights and needs of victims first. And my message to New Yorkers is something has to give,” she said.

Tisch said once again New York City faces the “brutal, unprovoked killing of a 14-year-old child by a career criminal or recidivist over and over again, with [a severe] history of mental health interactions with the NYPD.”

“How many times [does] the mayor have to keep talking about this before something changes? I’m hopeful something will change. Let this be a call to action,” Tisch said.

On Sunday Jan. 5, five days before Rijos was killed, a 38-year-old man was stabbed at a subway station — a crime police have linked to Mejia.

“During the course of this homicide investigation, an officer assigned to the Transit Bureau recognized that the suspect in this murder looked very similar to another perpetrator that had committed a stabbing on East 138th Street on the subway stairs,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny said, according to WABC-TV.

Tisch said that when Mejia was arrested, he was “wearing the same sneakers and pants he wore during the homicide, and he was in possession of a bloody knife,” according to CBS.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.




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Iran nuclear talks resume ahead of Trump's return: What's at stake?

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Talks resume this Monday in Geneva between Iran and the UK, France and Germany over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The discussions are a continuation of ones held last month and come ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump next week. The talks are described by all sides as “consultations” rather than “negotiations”, but France’s foreign ministry says they intend to work towards a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear programme, the progress of which it calls extremely problematic. In Perspective, FRANCE 24’s Oliver Farry spoke to Lukasz Kulesa, Director of Proliferation and Nuclear Policy at the Royal United Services Institute. 


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IDF admits ‘serious offence’ after using vehicle marked ambulance in raid in which a grandmother was killed | World News

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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has admitted to a “serious offence” after a Sky News investigation analysed CCTV footage showing the moment an 80-year-old Palestinian grandmother was shot in the West Bank.

Halima Abu Leil was shot during a raid in Nablus. The grandmother died soon after.

During the course of the investigation, we noted that a blue vehicle marked as an ambulance and with a red light on its roof was used by IDF troops to enter the West Bank.

Our investigation stated: “Figures who appear to be Israeli military forces exit the ambulance in the foreground. They are equipped with helmets, backpacks, rifles, and other gear.”

The use of a marked medical vehicle for a security operation could be a contravention of the Geneva Convention and a war crime – as well as Halima’s killing.

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The IDF has subsequently told Sky News: “On December 19, 2024, soldiers from the ‘Duvdevan’ unit took part in an operational mission to detain terrorists in Nablus.

“During the operation, an ambulance-like vehicle was used for operational purposes, without authorisation and without the relevant commanders’ approval.”

It added: “The use of the ambulance-like vehicle during the operation was a serious offence, exceeding authority, and a violation of existing orders and procedures.”

It also said the commander of the ‘Duvdevan’ unit was “reprimanded”.

However, it gave no update into the death of Halima, saying “the circumstances of the incident are being examined”.

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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on occupied Palestinian territory Francesca Albanese watched the CCTV video and told Sky News her death could be a “war crime”.

She said: “When I look at the footage, what emerges prima facie is that there were no precautions taken – within these operations whose legality is debatable – to avoid or spare civilian life.

“No principle of proportionality because there was wildfire directed at the identified target and ultimately no respect for the principle of distinction.

“So this was a murder in cold blood and could be a war crime as an extrajudicial killing.”

According to the United Nations Office Of Human Rights in occupied Palestinian territory, Israeli security forces and settlers have killed at least 813 mostly unarmed Palestinians, including 15 women and 177 children, since 7 October 2023.



This story originally appeared on Skynews

Judge Aileen Cannon paves the way for release of Jack Smith’s special counsel report : NPR

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Florida district judge Aileen Cannon has paved the way for the Justice Department to release the first part of a special counsel’s inquiry into President-elect Donald Trump, covering the investigation and charges against Trump tied to the 2020 presidential election.

Cannon denied a motion by Trump’s former co-defendants who sought to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the election interference case.

The DOJ has been fighting in court about whether it is allowed to publicly release a final report from Smith about his cases against Trump. Such a report is an obligatory part of the special counsel’s work, and may be the last chance for prosecutors to explain their decisions after they dropped the federal cases against Trump after he won the election. Trump was charged with election interference in Washington, D.C., and with hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort and refusing to return them to the FBI.

The DOJ agreed not to publicly release volume two of its report, about the classified documents case, to avoid interfering with an ongoing case against two other defendants. But it wants to release the first volume, covering the investigation and charges against Trump tied to the 2020 presidential election.

Last week Cannon, a Trump appointee, temporarily blocked the DOJ from releasing the entirety of Jack Smith’s report until a federal appeals court resolves the legal fight.

Trump has also argued the special counsel was appointed unlawfully and that any public report would be legally invalid and hurt his transition into the White House.

Lawyers could still appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to block the report’s release.



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Stuart Spencer dead: Strategist launched Ronald Reagan’s political career

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Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him California governor and, later, president — helping invent the modern political consulting business along the way — has died. He was 97.

Spencer died Sunday, according to his daughter, Karen.

Spencer once dreamed of coaching big-time college football and his blunt, salty style could have served him well barking orders from the sideline or delivering a tongue-lashing locker-room speech. Instead, he offered his unvarnished advice in the Oval Office and other perches of the powerful.

It was Spencer who dissuaded a stumble-prone President Ford from venturing too far from the Rose Garden during his unsuccessful 1976 reelection campaign, telling him, “As much as you love it, you’re a s— campaigner.”

It was Spencer who demanded — profanely — that the vacationing Reagan descend from the Santa Ynez Mountains to make a statement after the Soviet Union shot down a Korean passenger plane in 1983, sending Cold War shudders across the globe.

It was Spencer who flew from California to Washington in 1987 to help persuade Reagan to publicly admit his administration sold arms to Iran in exchange for freeing American hostages.

In a Republican Party that turned sharply rightward and increasingly valued combat over compromise, Spencer was a throwback, a self-described moderate who respected and even befriended members of the partisan opposition and political press corps. As the decades passed, Spencer found himself increasingly estranged from his lifelong party.

He was no fan of Donald Trump, taking particular umbrage at those who tried wrapping him in the Reagan mantle.

Spencer never voted for the real estate developer and reality TV star, casting his ballot for a third-party candidate in 2016 and voting for Joe Biden in 2020 — the first Democrat whom Spencer supported for president since Harry Truman in 1948. He voted for Kamala Harris in 2024.

Spencer considered Trump “a demagogue and opportunist” and suggested if Reagan were alive he’d be sickened by Trump’s outlandish behavior. “The way he treated women,” Spencer said in a 2021 interview. “All those people he robbed of money.” (As a businessman, Trump was known for not paying contractors.)

Spencer spent the last several decades of his life as a kind of Cassandra, offering advice many in the Republican Party chose to neither hear nor heed.

He warned about the danger of alienating the country’s growing Latino population with harsh rhetoric on immigration and affirmative action. “The choices we make will impact California and the country for easily the next 10 to 20 years,” Spencer wrote prophetically in a 1997 open letter to GOP leaders.

He coupled his counsel with joviality and a scratchy, infectious laugh that took some of the sting out of his sometimes-unwelcome advice. And he was discreet to the end. Although he had plenty of stories, which he shared in private, he refused lucrative offers to write a warts-and-all account of the Reagan presidency, making him one of the few people close to the administration to decline the opportunity to cash in.

It was not his style, Spencer said, to kiss and tell.

He was born Stuart Krieg Murphy on Feb. 20, 1927, in Phoenix, the son of an alcoholic father who abandoned his family when Stuart was an infant. He grew up in California and took the surname of his mother’s new husband, A. Kenneth Spencer, a dentist and prominent Orange County Republican activist who helped Richard M. Nixon win his first race for Congress.

In 1944, Spencer enlisted in the Navy the day after graduating from high school. He was 17 and eager to serve. But after a few years scrubbing decks, he grew convinced that college offered a better path forward. (He also came to regret the anchor tattooed on his forearm.)

Spencer graduated from Cal State Los Angeles in 1951 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and took a job as recreation director for the city of Alhambra. Despite his stepfather’s activism, Spencer was not a reflexive Republican. In the early 1950s, Spencer was recruiting for the Junior Chamber of Commerce when an arch-conservative up-and-comer, John Rousselot, made an offer: He would join the chamber if Spencer would join the GOP.

Spencer took to politics immediately. It was like sports, with obvious winners and losers, and he liked that. After volunteering in a series of campaigns, he eventually took a job as an organizer for the Los Angeles County Republican Party. While there, Spencer met Bill Roberts, who for a time made his living selling TV sets. After working a year together, the two left their party positions and started a political consulting firm. They flipped a quarter. Spencer called heads and won, so Spencer-Roberts it was.

They worked for anyone who would hire them, from Rousselot to the left-leaning Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Kuchel. It was only later, when they could afford it, that Spencer-Roberts became more selective in its clientele.

The two men helped pioneer the slick, TV-centric campaigns that became the norm in California and, eventually, nationwide.

“Bill Roberts and Stu Spencer were certainly the fathers of modern political consulting in California and made it a full-time profession and a respected profession at the same time,” said Sal Russo, a Sacramento-based GOP consultant who followed them into the field.

The two could play rough. Spencer relished the story of how Reagan, making his first run for public office, ended up hiring Spencer-Roberts to manage his successful 1966 campaign for governor. Working for New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in California’s 1964 Republican presidential primary, the pair ran a searing campaign against Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, falling just shy of an upset. About a year later, Goldwater told Reagan, “If I ran in California, I’d hire those sons of bitches Spencer-Roberts.”

“It shows the pragmatism of Ronald Reagan,” Spencer said, laughing during a 2002 interview. “He knew what we did.”

Spencer, too, was a pragmatist. Although he worked for a man who became a demigod to conservative worshipers, he and Reagan had significant differences, among them Spencer’s support for legalized abortion, affirmative action and certain gun controls.

Spencer took issue with revisionists who glossed over parts of Reagan’s record — raising taxes, increasing the size of the federal government, signing a law that gave amnesty to millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally — that contravened the Reagan myth. A lot of people “don’t really understand what he did,” Spencer said with characteristic bluntness in another interview on the eve of a 2011 presidential debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. “It’s just a matter of attaching themselves to a winner.”

Spencer, who disdained Washington and refused to live there, had a few small brushes with controversy involving consulting work — “influence peddling,” as he candidly called it — for clients including apartheid-era South Africa and the Panamanian government of dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega. But Spencer made no apologies and offered no regrets.

“Anything I did, I did,” he said. “Met a lot of great people. Met a lot of [jerks]. I saw a lot of the world.”

As his life neared its end, however, Spencer expressed disappointment at the direction the Republican Party had taken, with so many in Trump’s personal thrall.

“I feel like I wasted a lot of years. When you get to my age” — he was 94 at the time — “you hope thing are getting better, not worse. But things have gotten a lot worse.”

Spencer and his first wife, Joan Dikeman, divorced in 1987 after 37 years of marriage. In 1992, he married Barbara Callihan, who survives him along with his two children, Karen, who followed him into the political consulting business; and Steven; a stepdaughter, Debbie DeSilva; and six grandchildren.



This story originally appeared on LA Times

Best gear for Apple users out of CES 2025

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We saw some great products for Apple users after a week of wearing our feet to the bone at CES! Here’s what we like the most that we got the chance to check out in person at the show.

While we found a lot of future-looking tech, everything we rounded up will be shipping soon.

Specifically, we’ll be looking at accessories for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. We won’t cover smart home though, but we’ll be talking about that soon.

Lexar

Storage purveyor Lexar had plenty of storage solutions on display at CES. Everything from metal SD cards to fast NVMe media for gaming consoles.

For Apple users, Lexar is launching a new SSD bundle with its SL500 drive. This new bundle includes a silicone cover with an integrated lanyard.


The new Lexar SSD cover adds MagSafe support for iPhones

On top of adding protection, this silicone sleeve also has a series of MagSafe magnets. This lets the drive magnetically connect to your iPhone.

Now, your SL500 can be used with your Mac or can be used in the field to record ProRes video directly from your iPhone.

The bundle is shipping soon, starting at $149 for the 1TB option, with capacities available up to 4TB.

Aukey

There were tons of different charging solutions from Aukey to check out when we visited the booth, but the new 6-in-1 MagFusion charger is what caught our eye.

Dual wireless charging stand with circular charging pads on a sleek gray base, featuring a small white button and branding text.
You can charge six devices with the new Aukey MagFusion Titan

This charger has two magnetic adjustable 15W Qi2 chargers on top with a fast charging Apple Watch puck and a Qi charger for your headphones down below.

Around back you’ll find a USB-C port and a USB-A port for wired charging. We saw a pre-production model that had dual USB-C ports, which we would have frankly preferred.

The 6-in-1 MagFusion charger launches later in 2025 for an unannounced price.

RollingSquare

We saw a lot of Find My-enabled devices this year, including the new AirCard Pro from RollingSquare. This 2.2mm thick card is made of metal with hardened glass on the front and back.

Electronic device connected to a cable on a stand next to a rectangular card on a textured surface. Background displays app compatibility icons.
RollingSquare AirCard Pro is wirelessly rechargeable and works with Find My

What’s good about the updated version of this Find My tracker is that it supports wireless charging. That way you don’t need a proprietary charger or have to recycle the card once the battery dies.

It’s very easy to charge while on the go using any Qi or Qi2 charger. It also has a built-in speaker, a QR for a digital ID, and left behind alerts.

A Google Find My Device version also launched in a white colorway while the Apple model is black. It starts shipping later in January 2025 for $39.

Ugreen Thunderbolt 5 dock

After Thunderbolt 5 launched in 2024, we’re seeing more and more devices hit the market. This includes Green’s new Revodok Max 2131 docking station.

A black UGREEN Thunderbolt docking station with multiple ports, including USB, SD card slots, and a power button, sits on a reflective green-tinted surface.
Ugreen is among the first to come to market with a Thunderbolt 5 dock

This dock has three Thunderbolt 5 ports for connectivity, alongside four USB-A ports (two USB 3.2 and two USB 3.0) and a USB-C port with USB 3.2 speeds. A front-facing USB-C port also offers 140W of USB PD.

Other I/O includes a 2.5Gb Ethernet port, SD and microSD card readers, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. It will pair well with Apple’s latest MacBook Pro line.

The brand plans to bring it to market in March 2025. Pricing has not yet been disclosed.

Ecoflow batteries

This year for CES, Ecoflow launched a new line of portable power that is much smaller than its typical backup solutions. We saw sleek new MagSafe Battery Packs, complete with integrated stands and 5K or 10K capacities.

A person presents a compact black power station with multiple ports, including USB and AC, on a white table.
The power station can expand and has a removable MagSafe battery pack

What we really liked though was the Ecoflow River 3 Plus Wireless. This is a larger power station that’s great for taking with you outside that can expand based on your needs.

It’s part of the River 3 line and can stack atop additional batteries to increase its overall power. The top also has a Qi2 charger for 15W of wireless power.

Best of all, that top Qi2 charger can be removed and used as a magnetic battery pack and when you place it back in the dock, it recharges automatically via pogo pins.

Pricing and release date have not been announced yet.

OhSnap Mcon controller

The Mcon controller first hit Kickstarter in the winter of 2024 but we got to try out out for ourselves during CES. It’s a portable gaming controller that magnetically connects to the whole back of your iPhone.

Hand holding a smartphone with a Lexar storage device attached, displayed in a tech showroom.
The Mcon controller works with MagSafe and feels great to use

Unlike other controllers, it’s intended to be very portable and fit into your pocket. It’s just the size of your iPhone with collapsable grips that spin out when needed.

Right now it’s still in the early stages but they say they hope to receive MFi certification ahead of its launch later this year.

Satechi Mac mini hub

If you have one of the New Mac mini machines, you’ll be very interested in the new Mac mini M4 Stand & Hub with SSD enclosure that is soon to launch.

A new Mac mini sitting on a smaller metal base with multiple ports on the front
The new Satechi Mac mini hub adds USB ports to your tiny desktop computer

They’ve almost perfectly matched Apple’s anodized aluminum color and it sits just below the tiny desktop computer. There’s a cutout to access the bottom power button and it connects with a single USB-C cable in the back.

On the front are three USB-A ports and an SD card reader. We’d have preferred more USB-C but Satechi says since Apple removed the USB-A, they felt an obligation to return them for those that needed them.

You can pick one up for yourself in March for $100.

Moft Find My wallet

Known for their origami-like stands and MagSafe accessories, Moft has a new wallet coming to market. This one features built-in support for Apple Find My.

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This wallet supports Apple Find My and wireless charging

It can hold two cards at once and folds back into a handy kickstand that works vertically or horizontally. Plus, it can recharge with any Qi charger and doesn’t require any proprietary connector.

Personally, we’d have preferred the capacity was upped to at least three cards, but two cards is fairly standard in the space.

Moft is targeting a May release with a $49.99 price tag.

Laifen toothbrush

Finally, Laifen has continued to borrow design cues from Apple with its latest smart toothbrush. The packaging and even the charger look carbon copied from Apple.

Hand holding a metallic electric toothbrush with a blue bristle head, wearing a CES event wristband and black beaded bracelet, against a blurred background.
Laifen now has a new titanium toothbrush too alongside stainless steel and plastic

Now, the new toothbrush comes in a stunning titanium color that matches Apple’s use on iPhone and Apple Watch. Since the launch in 2024, they’ve also released new accessories like a travel case and replacement head holder.

The new titanium color is available now for $159, though as of January 13, 2025, it’s sold out.



This story originally appeared on Appleinsider

Israel Adesanya training with longtime rival Robert Whittaker for UFC Saudi Arabia — ‘New year, new friends’

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Head coach Eugene Bareman wasn’t kidding when he said Israel Adesanya was undergoing “drastic” changes for his middleweight return against Nassourdine Imavov, which tops the UFC Saudi Arabia fight card on Sat., Feb. 1, 2025 inside The Venue in Riyadh.

Adesanya, 35, recently revealed one of his “new friends” for 2025: former UFC middleweight champion and longtime 185-pound rival Robert Whittaker. “The Last Stylebender” defeated “The Reaper” by technical knockout at UFC 243, then prevailed a second time in a much closer fight after their UFC 271 rematch.

Adesanya (24-4) is coming off back-to-back losses to Sean Strickland and current champion Dricus Du Plessis and will compete in his first non-title bout in over five years. As for Imavov (15-4, 1 NC), now ranked in the Top 5 at 185 pounds, he’s looking to capture his fourth straight win after disposing of Brendan Allen at UFC Paris last September.

The still-healing Whittaker (26-8) remains unbooked following a submission loss to Khamzat Chimaev last October in Abu Dhabi.



This story originally appeared on MMA Mania

Who is Leslie Charleson? Learn About the Late ‘General Hospital’ Star – Hollywood Life

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General Hospital‘s own Monica Quartermaine has passed. According to Variety, soap opera icon Leslie Charleson died on January 12, 2025 at the age of 79. Per the outlet, Frank Valentini, the longtime soap’s executive producer, released a heartfelt tribute to the actress who had such an impact on the show. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my dear friend and colleague, Leslie Charleson,” he wrote . “Her enduring legacy has spanned nearly 50 years on General Hospital alone and, just as Monica was the heart of the Quartermaines, Leslie was a beloved matriarch of the entire cast and crew. I will miss our daily chats, her quick wit and incredible presence on set. On behalf of everyone at General Hospital, my heartfelt sympathy goes out to her loved ones during this difficult time.”

Variety reports that Leslie was struggling with health issues during the “past few years.” An official cause of death has not been announced. Amid news of the actress’s death, learn more about her life, below.

Leslie Charleson Was a Prolific Television Actress

Leslie is best known for her work in soap operas, but she enjoyed a prolific career across TV, film and daytime television. In 1964, she appeared on a short-lived ABC soap called A Flame in the Wind before joining the cast of As the World Turns in 1966. In 1967, she began appearing on Love is a Many Splendored Thing in the role of Iris Donnelly Garrison. In August of 1977, she began a decades-long tenure on General Hospital as cardiologist Monica Quartermaine. Per Soap Hub, at the time of her death she was the longest running cast member on the show.

She stepped away from the show in December of 2023 amid health issues, according to Closer Weekly. She had been on the beloved soap for nearly five decades. Leslie also appeared in various TV series through the years (including Friends, Happy Days, The Rockford Files, and Dharma & Greg,) and a handful of films.

She Was Born in Kansas City, Missouri

According to Soap Opera Digest, Leslie was born in arts and culture hub Kansas City, Missouri, on February 22, 1945, and she knew from “an early age that she wanted to act.” She moved to New York City to pursue her dream.

Leslie Charleson Was Briefly Married

Per her Wikipedia page, Leslie was briefly married to Bill Demms, from 1988-1991. Little is known about their short-lived marriage.

She Was an Award-Winning Actress

According to Soaps.com, Leslie was the recipient of four Daytime Emmy Nominations and four wins. She won Outstanding Lead Actress awards for her role on General Hospital in 1986, 1988, 1990, and 1993. Her first nom was for her role in Love is a Many Splendored Thing.

Leslie Charleson Was a Celebrity Spokesperson For Various Causes

Per Soaps.com, Leslie was happy to roll up her sleeves for a good cause. She was a celebrity spokesperson for various medical and health care causes, including cystic fibrosis, breast cancer, and AIDS-related charities.



This story originally appeared on Hollywoodlife