President Trump halted trade talks with Canada after Ontario aired a U.S. ad featuring Ronald Reagan’s 1987 warning against tariffs. Trump called the spot “fake” and accused it of trying to sway a Supreme Court case on his tariffs, though the ad uses accurate Reagan quotes, reordered. The Ronald Reagan...
In a breezy valley north of Los Angeles, Rocco — a dog with credits from Veronica Mars to The Morning Show — still trains and poses, but work is thinning. Trainers say advancing AI lets productions build animal performances in post, squeezing a business already hit by COVID, 2023 strikes...
Argentina heads into midterm elections that will renew half the lower house and a third of the Senate, a crucial test for President Javier Milei as the peso slides and a U.S. $20 billion swap arrives. Milei warns he needs more seats to advance his agenda; his party holds 37...
At an Urban Outreach drive in southeast Washington DC, staff partnered with Capital Area Food Bank distributed food assistance to federal employees who have gone three and a half weeks without pay, requiring worker IDs at the door. Volunteer coordinator Quinnae Higginbotham, who says she lost her own job at...
Social Security benefits will rise 2.8% in January, adding $56 a month for 75 million recipients, the Social Security Administration said Friday. The 2026 cost-of-living adjustment edges above last year’s 2.5% increase; over the past decade, COLA has averaged 3.1%. The announcement followed September inflation data that ticked up to...
New York Attorney General Letitia James pleaded not guilty in federal court in Norfolk, Va., to charges of bank fraud and making a false statement, a case pursued at President Trump’s demand despite objections from career prosecutors. A tentative trial is set for Jan. 26, expected to last about a...
The White House has been remade repeatedly—and disputed each time—from Jefferson’s colonnades to Truman’s gut renovation after a grand piano leg punched through the floor. Later updates ranged from Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden to Nixon’s press room. Now, President Donald Trump’s 90,000-square-foot ballroom, funded by $300 million in private donations,...
California’s Proposition 50 has ignited a high-stakes, big-money brawl over mid-decade redistricting, saturating screens with ads before the Nov. 4 special election. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s committee reports raising more than $116 million, fueled by labor unions and national Democrats — including $15 million from House Majority PAC — with major...
Law enforcement opened fire late Thursday after a vehicle backed toward the Coast Guard base in Alameda, hours after protests over federal immigration enforcement and President Donald Trump’s decision to halt a planned surge of agents in San Francisco. Around 10 p.m., officers fired when the driver, in what appeared...
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere hews closely to the record, zeroing in on 1981–82 as Bruce Springsteen crafts Nebraska, battles depression, and pushes his label to release stark home demos. Guided by Springsteen, the film gets major beats right: childhood bar pickups of his father, ad-hoc Stone Pony jams, a...
