JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump’s administration is working overtime to prevent a full-blown military escalation between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, and to cool rising tensions between the Jewish state and Syria. Bringing regional peace and new economic opportunities to the volatile region is one of the president’s very top priorities. Washington’s […]
The House has spent much of the last two months of this year trying to catch up on its work. It passed 22 bills in one recent day and held 13 committee meetings and hearings the day after. All told, the House has passed 41 bills since the end of the government shutdown on Nov. […]
President Donald Trump‘s administration has been marked by a renewed relationship with key Silicon Valley players this time around. Elon Musk was a skeptic of Trump during his first White House term. But in 2024, with Trump seeking a comeback after losing in 2020, Musk spent considerable time, effort, and money campaigning for the former […]
Many have left behind the obsession with diversity, equity, and inclusion that infected entertainment (and society) back in 2020. But CBS‘s Survivor has not, and its DEI casting is killing what used to be one of the best shows on TV. In 2020, CBS imposed racial quotas on the casting process for its reality shows, […]
President Donald Trump‘s administration is asking Americans and international allies of the United States to make sacrifices. Trump, trying to fulfill his longtime promise of fighting the Chinese Communist Party‘s existential threat, has imposed the highest tariff rates in a century on U.S. consumers and pressured allies to wrap up wars against Russia and Iranian […]
Despite the prosecution’s eventual loss in its felony sex trafficking and racketeering case against Sean “Diddy” Combs, there was not an honest broker in America who walked away from Diddy’s acquittal on the more serious charges with the belief that the man was innocent. The world watched the former rap mogul kick, beat, and bruise […]
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed “solidarity with the Venezuelan people” on Thursday amid growing tensions between Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, and the Trump administration. The Kremlin said in a statement that Putin spoke with Maduro by phone and reaffirmed his support for Venezuelan leader’s policy of “protecting national interests and sovereignty in the face of growing […]
Attendees of the 48th annual Kennedy Center Honors ceremony were treated to the increasingly uncommon experience of witnessing President Donald Trump in his natural habitat: show business. Dressed in a tuxedo with first lady Melania Trump alongside him on the red carpet, the former TV star and media mogul seemed genuinely mirthful and relaxed as […]
It goes without saying that a person who is or was a famous millionaire is unlikely to elicit sympathy, but sometimes such individuals can break our hearts, despite our prejudices against them. On the strength of his stellar new Hollywood drama, Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach understands this irony better than most. The movie, which debuted […]
And so this is Christmas, and for those of us who’ve spent decades hunting down every scratchy demo, rehearsal, studio outtake, telecast, or concert the Beatles and solo Beatles ever laid down, it’s a special one. The season heralds the release of Anthology 4, a new album and documentary of Beatles rarities and oddities. Nobody […]
