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EGYPT (33A: Country where Sham el-Nessim ... format. By the way, BERT's pet pigeon is named Bernice, ERNIE's rubber duck is named Rubber Duckie, and ELMO's pet named Dorothy is a goldfish.

UPDATE: Sept. 18, 2018, 2:55 p.m. EDT Sesame Workshop has since released a statement denying that Bert and Ernie have any sexual orientation at all on the grounds that they are puppets.

EXCLUSIVE: Ernie Hudson has been tapped as a series regular opposite Donnie Wahlberg and Sonequa Martin-Green in CBS‘ upcoming Blue Bloods universe series Boston Blue which will debut this fall ...

The launch of “Sesame Street” in 1969 was my window to the world as a 3-year-old in the six-TV station Chicago media market, and Bert and Ernie were the talk of my kindergarten class.

Ernie Hudson has joined “Boston Blue,” CBS’ upcoming spinoff of “Blue Bloods,” as a series regular. The series stars Donnie Wahlberg as his “Blue Bloods” character, detective Danny ...

Barkley and Ernie Johnson had a tense argument about that on Inside the NBA on Sunday night with Barkley calling Haliburton out for not talking with the media. Johnson, meanwhile, defended the ...

TORONTO - Ernie Clement emerged for his post-game session with reporters on Saturday with a massive ice bag on his right throwing shoulder. If a body part required treatment for the Toronto Blue ...

Ernie Hudson has officially joined the cast of Boston Blue alongside Donnie Wahlberg and Sonequa Martin-Green as a series regular. The new series received a straight-to-series order back in ...

Facing record heat and surging electricity demand, Egypt is struggling with a renewed natural gas shortfall. Cairo is in advanced negotiations with Qatar for long-term LNG supply deals ...

The pieces were recovered in New York City. Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week it had successfully recovered a rare trove of smuggled artifacts from the United States ...