Ohio officials this week goaded President Donald Trump with a snarky name change to a portion of Lake Erie, after the president sought to rename another one of the Great Lakes. The Cleveland City Council renamed a section of Lake Erie as the “Gulf of Cleveland,” in a jab at Trump’s recent executive order declaring […]
Former President Barack Obama shared that the family’s beloved Portuguese Water Dog, Sunny, died on Tuesday. “Yesterday, we lost a cherished member of our family,” Obama wrote on X on Wednesday. “We got Sunny at the start of our second term in the White House, and all of us – including our first dog, Bo […]
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) poured $3.6 million from his campaign war chest into the Democratic Party of Georgia as he seeks to build a broader political operation ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The spending, disclosed Wednesday, represents contributions made over the past two years and is part of Ossoff’s effort to bolster Democratic candidates […]
Charlie Kirk’s family took an initial step towards filing a lawsuit against the state of Utah and Utah Valley University, where the conservative activist was assassinated in September 2025. The Kirk family filed a notice of claim blaming Utah, Utah Valley University, the Utah Valley University Police Department, and other officials for failing to take […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she’ll be changing the channel if singer Ed Sheeran comes on the radio, and criticized stadium owners of Sheeran’s tour for censoring “genocide in Gaza.” “We need to be very clear about how dangerous a precedent this is,” Ocasio-Cortez told TMZ Tuesday. The controversy stems from a promoter’s decision to […]
Three people, including two crew members and one person on the ground, were killed after an NBC News helicopter crashed in Los Angeles while covering a car accident. The two crew members were identified as NBC4 and Telemundo reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw. The duo had been flying together since 2023, NBC Los […]
Saudi Arabia claimed that the Houthis, an Iranian-backed terrorist group, targeted Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, in an airstrike on Tuesday. Saudi air defense forces said they intercepted a Houthi drone on Tuesday evening in the airspace south of Mecca, destroying the strike drone before it could reach the city Muslims deem holy. Maj. Gen. Turki […]
Oil market shocks related to wars in the Middle East and Ukraine have triggered international protests, unrest slated to grow as continued shocks send oil and gas prices soaring. After months of relative stability, clashes in the Strait of Hormuz over the past two weeks have led to a rise in oil prices, followed last […]
Ousted CBS television host Stephen Colbert told Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday that he is not thinking about returning to the late-night airwaves, in an interview months after his show formally ended. Colbert hosted his last episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in May, nearly one year after CBS and its parent company, Paramount, […]
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday that the 27-nation bloc wants Canada as its first associate member, a new effort to strengthen ties between the two as relations with the United States sour. Talks of a new partnership with Canada were first revealed last week, and were given new credence on […]
