Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the most prominent and influential unions in the country, said Wednesday it will not endorse any presidential candidate this year. The 1.3-million-member union has historically thrown its weight around in presidential cycles and endorsed Democratic presidential candidates in recent cycles, […]
Tetra Images/Getty Images (PAWLET, Ver.) — A man, his wife and her 13-year-old son were found shot to death at their Vermont home, state police said, with authorities looking for a suspect. Officers responded to a report of a “suspicious person” early Sunday, Vermont State Police said. The investigation led them to a home in […]
Denise Truscello/Getty Images for Live Nation Following the loss of both her mother and her sister in August, Mariah Carey is “doing the best that she possibly can.” That’s according to her ex-husband Nick Cannon, the father of her twins, Monroe and Moroccan. On Aug. 27, Mariah revealed to People, “My heart is broken that I’ve […]
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday will forge ahead with a vote on his government funding plan despite it being expected to fail. “We’ll see what happens with the bill,” Johnson told reporters. “The quarterback’s calling the play. We’re going to run the play. I’m very confident.” Johnson’s measure would […]
Richard T. Nowitz/Getty Images (CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis.) — More than two dozen people were injured in a tractor accident at an apple orchard in Wisconsin, authorities said. The incident was reported Wednesday morning at Bushel and a Peck Apple Orchard in Chippewa Falls. Emergency personnel were dispatched for a “tractor accident involving two hay wagons […]
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate a half of a percentage point on Wednesday in a landmark decision that dials back its years-long fight against inflation and could deliver relief for borrowers saddled with high costs. The central bank’s first rate cut since 2020 came after a […]
Disney/Randy Holmes The trailer has dropped for Mickey 17, director Bong Joon-ho‘s follow-up to his Best Picture Oscar winner Parasite, and it stars Robert Pattinson. Or, more accurately, Pattinsons. An adaptation of Edward Ashton‘s novel Mickey 7, the darkly comedic sci-fi film has the star playing the title role(s). English actor Pattinson’s voice in character […]
Greg Swales Jennifer Hudson is briefly bringing her first holiday album to a live stage. The Gift of Love: An Intimate Live Experience, which supports her Gift of Love album, is slated to kick off Nov. 24 in Brooklyn. JHud will then perform in her hometown of Chicago on Dec. 13 and LA on Dec. 18, wrapping up with […]
Ambulances rush wounded people to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on September 17, 2024. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — At least 14 more people were killed and 450 injured in Lebanon on Wednesday after a series of new explosions of wireless devices rocked the South, the Bekaa and the […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — “I wanted some kind of revenge. I was seeing red,” one of the former Memphis, Tennessee, officers who pleaded guilty to charges connected to the death of Tyre Nichols said on the witness stand Monday evening. The federal trial of three former Memphis police officers charged in connection with […]
