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Trump Raises Cash for Scandal-Plagued Paxton as GOP Frets Over a Texas Senate Seat
Trump Raises Cash for Scandal-Plagued Paxton as GOP Frets Over a Texas Senate Seat President Trump headlined a Republican National Committee fundraiser Thursday at Houston’s Post Oak Hotel, with donors paying at least $10,000 to attend a reception aimed at boosting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s U.S. Senate campaign. Paxton defeated Sen. John Cornyn in…
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RFK Jr. Suggests Pennsylvania’s Measles Deaths Were “Fabricated,” Shapiro Fires Back
RFK Jr. Suggests Pennsylvania’s Measles Deaths Were “Fabricated,” Shapiro Fires Back Pennsylvania’s Department of Health confirmed this week that two unvaccinated residents, including a newborn in Lancaster County, died in connection with measles—the state’s first such deaths in 35 years. The state has now logged 424 confirmed cases across 28 counties, with nearly 200 concentrated…
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ICE Sweep Hits Connecticut School Bus Stops, Detaining Dozens This Week
ICE Sweep Hits Connecticut School Bus Stops, Detaining Dozens This Week Federal immigration agents have detained dozens of people in Danbury, Connecticut, in an operation that began Monday and continued through Thursday despite opposition from local officials and protesters. According to the advocacy group Danbury Unites for Immigrants, ICE detained 16 people Monday, at least…
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Judge Blocks Trump’s Mail-Ballot Crackdown 10 Weeks Before the Midterms
Judge Blocks Trump’s Mail-Ballot Crackdown 10 Weeks Before the Midterms U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston on Thursday blocked a newly finalized Postal Service regulation implementing President Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting, pausing it for 14 days pending further hearings. The rule would have directed USPS to track mail-in ballots and potentially reject…
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Trump Renames Lake Ontario “Lake America,” Turning a Trade War Into a Map Dispute
Trump Renames Lake Ontario “Lake America,” Turning a Trade War Into a Map Dispute President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” effective immediately, amid an escalating trade war with Canada. The order asserts that because “the deepest parts of the Lake’s waters” lie…
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Israel Expels Dutch Diplomats Over Settlement Boycott, Then Turns on Its Own Diplomats Too
Israel Expels Dutch Diplomats Over Settlement Boycott, Then Turns on Its Own Diplomats Too Israel has expelled Dutch representatives from the International Support Center for Gaza, the U.S.-led hub in Kiryat Gat that coordinates implementation of the Gaza ceasefire, after the Netherlands passed legislation banning trade in goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank,…
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‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Ratko Mladić Dies in Custody, Reopening a Reckoning That Was Never Finished
‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Ratko Mladić Dies in Custody, Reopening a Reckoning That Was Never Finished Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb military commander convicted of genocide for his role in the 1990s Bosnian war, died Thursday at a hospital in The Hague while serving a life sentence. He was 84 [1]. Mladić commanded Bosnian Serb…
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Glacier Collapse Sends Deadly Flood Wall Through Nepal and Tibet, Leaving 1,300 Missing
Glacier Collapse Sends Deadly Flood Wall Through Nepal and Tibet, Leaving 1,300 Missing A glacier collapse high in the Himalayas triggered flash floods that tore through valleys along the Nepal-Tibet border early Wednesday, sending a wall of water and debris through towns and villages. Nepali police say at least 469 people have been killed and…
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“Big Brother” Hits 1,000 Episodes and Shuts Down the Live Feeds to Prove a Point
“Big Brother” Hits 1,000 Episodes and Shuts Down the Live Feeds to Prove a Point CBS’s “Big Brother” aired its 1,000th episode on Thursday, August 27, 2026, a 90-minute live special that made it the first primetime entertainment series in American television history to reach that milestone, with host Julie Chen Moonves marking 26 years…
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“Six” Is Losing Its Head: Broadway’s Reigning Pop Hit Sets a Closing Date
“Six” Is Losing Its Head: Broadway’s Reigning Pop Hit Sets a Closing Date Producers of “Six,” the pop-concert musical retelling the stories of Henry VIII’s six wives, announced on Thursday, August 27, 2026, that the Tony Award-winning show will close on Broadway on January 3, 2027, after nearly six years and 2,178 performances. The announcement…