Chris Bohjalian’s The Amateur tells a story from the perspective of an adult looking back at a decades-old pivotal event she sometimes misremembers. The event and its consequences shift their shape. Sometimes the story seems to be about killing someone with a golf ball. Sometimes it is about adult men who take sexual advantage of […]
Comedian Bill Maher condemned the reported harsh conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on Friday, saying accounts of food shortages and broken toilets the sailors onboard have worked under made his “blood boil.” Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao announced on Friday that the aircraft carrier would be returning to the U.S. from deployment after spending...
Active and retired WNBA players and coaches are speaking out during Hall of Fame weekend about the widespread debate the league is facing over issues relating to gender, race and equity. Decorated basketball player and coach Dawn Staley, who was inducted for the second time in the Hall of Fame, said she believed this kind...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has voted to approve the 2028 presidential primary calendar, starting with South Carolina. The party okayed a plan that has the Palmetto State kicking off the cycle on Jan. 22, 2028, followed by Nevada on Feb. 1. New Hampshire, long a first-in-the-nation contest, will hold its primary third, on Feb....
The United Arab Emirates accused Iran on Saturday of attacking another vessel belonging to its state oil company while it transited through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, the third such incident in less than a week. The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) vessel was struck Friday while traveling through the strait, Reuters reported,...
Kalshi is pushing back against the state of Nevada’s claims that the prediction market operator failed to comply with geofencing requirements, accusing the state’s gaming regulator of violating federal law. In a motion filed in state court on Friday evening, state prosecutors argued that the firm failed to implement a geofencing solution by Aug. 12...
Jennie Murray, president and CEO of The Forum, calls for lawmakers to implement firm, fair, and compassionate immigration reforms to stabilize the nation's broken system.
Recent polling and sociological analysis suggest that the United States is experiencing a severe generational decline in trust and a rise in mutual contempt driven by economic and political incentives.
A crypto firm partially owned by President Trump’s family received preliminary conditional approval for a bank charter on Friday. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted conditional approval for an application from World Liberty Trust Co. for a national trust bank, according to a letter posted on the OCC’s website. The OCC...
Outrage is building among congressional Democrats who are alarmed by new plans from the Trump administration to buy gloves that will allow immigration agents to deliver a painful electric shock as they carry out deportations. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday published a notice of its plans to spend as much as $20...
President Trump targeted several Democratic politicians in a series of Truth Social posts while also calling attention to vandalism at the World War II Memorial on Friday evening. Several of the posts focused on Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive labeled as “crazy” in the past by members of the Trump administration. One...
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro is warning that a widely speculated 2028 presidential contest between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance could backfire on the secretary. In a podcast interview with host Patrick Bet-David released on Wednesday, Shapiro cast doubt that Rubio would launch a presidential bid, citing the secretary’s history as...
Former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) is distancing herself from an endorsement from former Vice President Kamala Harris as she looks to win the Alaska Senate race. Harris threw her support behind Peltola in a fundraising email on Wednesday from her Fight for the People PAC, urging supporters to donate to Peltola’s campaign as Democrats seek...
A major pro-Israel group is zeroing in on one of their last contests before November: The special election for former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-Calif.) seat. The super PAC of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), United Democracy Project (UDP), has poured roughly $2.5 million into the race to attack frontrunner state Sen. Aisha Wahab...