Entertainer Jelly Roll recently posted a heartbreaking video revealing that he had fallen off the wagon — literally — and regained some of the weight he had lost. The...
President Trump’s suggestions that the suspects in two high-profile killings face the death penalty add to his administration’s increasingly aggressive approach toward capital punishment. This week, Trump called for the 22-year-old accused of killing Charlie Kirk and the man charged in Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska’s stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail system to face execution. It...
Recent revelations about how artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are interacting with and affecting children are colliding with longstanding concerns about tech companies’ approach to safety and revitalizing efforts to pass kids’ online safety legislation. Chatbots from both Meta and OpenAI have come under scrutiny in the past few weeks, raising questions about how to protect...
Television Academy Chairman Cris Abrego criticized Congress for voting to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), in a speech paying tribute to the organization at the Emmy Awards on Sunday evening. “For more than 50 years, CPB has been the backbone of American Public Media, bringing us everything from ‘Sesame Street’ to ‘Mr. Rogers...
President Trump on Sunday warned that left leaning groups will be investigated after the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, though he offered no details. “If you look at the problem, the problem is on the left. It’s not on the right, like some people like to share the right, the problem we have is...
Vice President Vance will host the "The Charlie Kirk Show" on Monday, sitting in for his friend who was fatally shot on Wednesday. He announced the gig Sunday night on social platform X, along with a photo of his desk, a microphone and a china cup and saucer. The show starts at noon EDT on...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Sunday formally endorsed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, in the general election this November. She announced her endorsement in a New York Times op-ed Sunday evening, stressing the importance of working together with the city’s mayor. “The question of who will be the...
President Trump said in a weekend interview that the White House ballroom will be a “little bigger” than initially planned. In a telephone interview Saturday with NBC News, Trump said the ballroom will have a capacity of 900 people, nearly 40 percent larger than the estimates provided in late July by the White House. “We’re...
The White House is continuing its push to remove Federal Reserve board of governors member Lisa Cook, filing a response in federal appeals court ahead of a 3 p.m. deadline on Sunday. The brief, filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, argues that it is within President Trump's discretion to...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said Sunday the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk had “every right” to be speaking on the Utah Valley University campus when he was assassinated on Wednesday. “Charlie Kirk and I didn't agree on much politically. I'm a Democrat. He's clearly a Republican. He was one of my constituents,” Kelly said in...
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) criticized technology companies as “conflict entrepreneurs” that have turned Americans against each other, suggesting the public needs to reclaim its agency. “I can't emphasize enough the damage that social media and the internet is doing to all of us, those dopamine hits. These companies, trillion dollar market caps, the most...
A public memorial for Charlie Kirk will take place Sept. 21 in Glendale, Ariz., Turning Point USA announced Saturday. It will occur inside State Farm Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals, which can hold more than 63,000 people. Kirk, 31, was fatally shot during an event on the campus of Utah Valley University on Wednesday....
An ObamaCare deadline has collided with a fight over government funding, as Democrats are signaling they want Republicans to extend the law's expiring premium subsidies before they support any bill to keep the government open. Without action, enhanced tax credits passed during the COVID-19 pandemic to help people afford coverage will expire at the end...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is "ready" to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin face-to-face to negotiate an end to the war between their countries. "Sometimes we need it. Even if we don't love faces," Zelensky told CNN's Fareed Zakaria to laughter at the Yalta European Strategy Conference on Friday in Kyiv, Ukraine. The interview...
