Vice President JD Vance clashed with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on This Week, bristling at questions about an FBI tape allegedly capturing Tom Homan accepting $50,000. As Vance argued to focus on a potential shutdown, Stephanopoulos cut to commercial, saying Vance hadn’t answered. Vance later blasted the segment on X; the...
Twenty members of the U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization Barrio 18 escaped from Guatemala's Fraijanes II prison after evading security controls, prison director Ludin Godinez said. He noted an intelligence warning on Friday about a possible breakout and said officials are probing potential corruption. Washington last month blacklisted the El Salvador-based...
At the Supreme Court this week, Louisiana and the Trump administration ask the justices to erase the state’s second majority-Black U.S. House district and sharply curb the use of race in redistricting. The conservative-leaning court ordered rare second arguments, pressing whether intentionally creating a majority-minority district violates the Fourteenth or...
The WHO sounded the alarm over surging drug-resistant infections, warning that one in six lab-confirmed bacterial cases worldwide in 2023 defied antibiotics. Resistance increased in over 40% of monitored drugs. Globally, over 40% of E. coli and 55% of K. pneumoniae infections now resist third-generation cephalosporins, the first-choice treatment. Surveillance...
Six weeks in, the NFL is upside down: a record 27 late game-winners, Baker Mayfield driving the 5-1 Buccaneers, and the Colts scraping to 5-1 after a bizarre pregame injury spree in a 31-27 win over Arizona. Baltimore’s freefall deepened with a 17-3 loss to the Rams as boos rained...
Barack Obama returned to Marc Maron’s “WTF” for its finale, closing a 16-year, 1,686-episode run that began in a garage and grew into an institution. The former president, who once recorded with Maron while in office, hosted the conversation in his Washington office, opening by asking how Maron felt about...
Two men, ages 25 and 43, were arrested on suspicion of murder after Ian Watkins—the Lostprophets singer and convicted pedophile—was fatally stabbed at HMP Wakefield on Saturday. Police have not named the suspects as a murder inquiry proceeds, the BBC reported. Watkins, 48, was serving a 29-year sentence for 13...
Coral reefs have become the first environmental system to cross a climate tipping point, a new Global Tipping Points report warns, calling the crisis unprecedented. University of Exeter researchers say warming oceans have pushed reefs into self‑perpetuating dieback, with bleaching now the most extensive and intense ever recorded and an...
All living hostages held in Gaza returned to Israel as a ceasefire plan advanced by US President Donald Trump drew praise in the Knesset. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is committed to this peace, lauding Trump’s leadership and asserting the proposal ends the war and opens a path to...
Woody Allen mourned Diane Keaton, 79, in a tender essay for The Free Press, recalling the shy spark that became a romance after auditioning her for Play It Again, Sam. He described making films for “an audience of one,” praising her fearless taste and wide-ranging talents, from acting to photography...
