SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it’s happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes intensified by a warming planet and drought-fueled wildfires are destroying our communities. Rising seas and flooding are swallowing our homes. And record-breaking heatwaves are reshaping our way of life. The […]
Photo Credit: Prince Williams/WireImage/James Devaney/GC Images (WASHINGTON) — The race for the White House remained essentially a dead heat on Friday — with 11 days to go until Election Day. Kamala Harris was headed to Texas to highlight abortion access and Donald Trump was set to appear on Joe Rogan’s highly-popular podcast. McConnell, Johnson rebuke […]
KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Generative artificial intelligence companies capable of generating creative content are also said to be disrupting the livelihoods of creatives around the world, according to a group of creatives speaking out publicly about the issue. “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, […]
Gilles Mingasson/Disney While The Golden Bachelor and Bachelorette spin-offs have been hits, don’t expect to see Martha Stewart as a future contestant for the latter. In a recent segment of Watch What Happens Live opposite her bestie Snoop Dogg, Steward said plainly she would never appear on the show. In fact, she said, “Absolutely not,” adding, “the guys aren’t […]
Getty Images Major League Baseball announced the umpiring crew for the 2024 World Series on Thursday, just over 24 hours before the scheduled first pitch of Game 1 between the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers. Mark Carlson, who previously worked the World Series in 2015 and 2020, will serve as crew chief for […]
Jalaa Marey via Getty Images (LONDON) — Israeli forces continued their intense operations inside Gaza after Hamas leader and Oct. 7, 2023 attack mastermind Yahya Sinwar was killed in a firefight with Israeli forces. The development comes as Israel continues intense air and ground campaigns against Hezbollah in Lebanon and against Hamas in the Gaza […]
ABC NEWS/MICHAEL LE BRECHT II (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump is denying he praised Adolf Hitler as having done “some good things,” as his former chief of staff and retired Marine general John Kelly was reported to have said this week. “Never said it,” Trump said, answering reporter questions as he campaigned in battleground Nevada on […]
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — For more than a century, from the early 1800s to the 1960s, Indigenous children were taken from their tribes — sometimes forcibly from their homes — to attend government assimilation boarding schools. On Friday afternoon, President Joe Biden will issue a formal apology from the U.S. government to impacted communities. […]
Netflix Angelina Jolie takes center stage as opera singer Maria Callas in a brand-new trailer for the film Maria. In the new look released Thursday, Jolie portrays the world-famous opera singer toward the end of her life. “The film follows the American Greek soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life […]
Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images Lil Durk — born Durk Devontay Banks — has been arrested in South Florida in a murder-for-hire plot, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. He is being held by the U.S. Marshals Service, records show. The Chicago rapper, 32, won a Grammy earlier this year for best melodic rap performance; his […]
