Actress Olivia Cooke has a knack for playing the social climber. In 2018, she embodied Becky Sharp in an adaptation of William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, wielding charm and wit to seduce her way into the upper class. Now, in Amazon Prime’s 2025 miniseries The Girlfriend, Cooke plays Cherry Laine, a similarly ambitious daughter of a London middle […]
Is it worth shutting down the government to keep billions in federal cash flowing to health insurers? That’s a question Republicans should be asking Democrats every chance they get. The minority party has brought business in Washington to a halt as part of a wrongheaded strategy to obscure the out-of-control growth in health insurance costs […]
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut blocks President Donald Trump's plan to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, ruling the action unconstitutional.
The failure of public school education for underprivileged minority children without political connections is the greatest civil rights scandal of our time.
As the government shutdown continues, the media seems fixated on one Republican talking point: That the Democrats want health- care benefits for illegal immigrants....
A federal judge on Saturday issued a temporary restraining order blocking President Trump from sending Oregon’s National Guard to Portland to defend federal agents...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Sunday said that hundreds of Texas National Guard members were headed to his state and Oregon and labeled it "Trump's Invasion." “This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from...
British primatologist and scientist Jane Goodall, who died last week, she in one of her last interviews that she wanted to send President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, alongside others she didn't like, into space. “There are people I don't like. And I would like to put them on one of [Elon] Musk's spaceships...
Federal prosecutors have charged a woman who was shot by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents on Saturday morning in Broadview, Ill., after authorities say she "boxed in" the law enforcement officers. Marimar Martinez, along with another driver, Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, are accused of using their vehicles to hit a CBP vehicle, a press...
President Trump said Sunday that talks with the Palestinian militant group Hamas have been “very successful, and proceeding rapidly.” “There have been very positive discussions with Hamas, and Countries from all over the World (Arab, Muslim, and everyone else) this weekend, to release the Hostages, end the War in Gaza but, more importantly, finally have...
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called President Donald Trump's plan to deploy Texas National Guard troops to his state 'Trump's Invasion' in a social media post.
