Daniel Steinle/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republicans – including former President Donald Trump – who disagree with President Joe Biden’s immigration policies paint a dire picture of America as a country ruined by crime committed by migrants living illegally in the U.S. It is true that some people who have committed the misdemeanor of […]
Brett Carlsen/Getty Images (CINCINNATI) — Dangerous tornadoes tore through the central U.S. Tuesday night, including Kentucky, where one person was killed, according to the governor. Over the last two days, more than 20 tornadoes were reported across states including Georgia, Tennessee, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Missouri. In Kentucky, where wind gusts topped 100 mph, […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve will see if inflation moves beyond its current rough patch before imposing highly anticipated interest rate cuts, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday. Addressing a business conference at Stanford University, Powell touted progress in the fight to cool price increases while acknowledging that such headway had […]
Netflix/Mathieu Bitton Comedian Matt Rife is following up his hit 2023 Natural Selection special on Netflix with two more for the streaming giant, ABC Audio has confirmed. According to Netflix, the first special will be shot at The Comedy Zone in Charlotte, North Carolina. It will be the streaming service’s first full “crowd work” comedy special […]
Photo by Cindy Ord/MG21/Getty Images Chance the Rapper and his wife, Kirsten Corley, have decided to call it quits. They announced their plans to get divorced in a joint statement shared Wednesday. “After a period of separation, the two of us have arrived at the decision to part ways,” read the post on their Instagram Story. […]
MEGA/GC Images Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, is being accused of “severe discrimination, harassment, and retaliation” by a former employee at his Donda Academy private school. Trevor Phillips, who was hired in November 2022, filed a suit in which he accuses Ye of treating Black employees worse than white ones, noting he would “scream and berate Black employees, […]
ABC News A Manhattan criminal court judge has denied Jonathan Majors‘ motion to set aside his conviction in his domestic violence case. The Creed III and Loki star’s sentencing will move forward Monday as scheduled. A jury found Majors, 34, guilty of assaulting and harassing his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. He was convicted of one count […]
BASHAR TALEB/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is showing no signs of trying to restrict or withhold the billions the U.S. spends each year in military aid to Israel, despite growing concerns that some of those weapons are being used in bombings that kill civilians. The U.S. has sent more military and foreign aid […]
Scott Olson / Staff / Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Wednesday urged a judge to reject an attempt by former President Donald Trump to delay his criminal hush money trial, scheduled to begin in less than two weeks, due to the large amount of pretrial publicity. Prosecutors argued that […]
VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Disney shareholders on Wednesday rejected board nominees allied with activist investor Nelson Peltz, ending a combative, months-long proxy battle centered on the company’s navigation of the topsy-turvy onset of the streaming era. A majority of shareholders instead voted in support of a 12-person slate of board nominees put forward […]
