A Kennedy Center board member accused the White House of lying about the organization’s “unanimous” vote to change the center’s name to the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” claiming that her dissent was censored. On Thursday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the Trump-controlled board “voted unanimously” for the name change. Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), who sits on…
AP Photo/File Arnett reported on the Vietnam and Gulf Wars during his career (pictured here in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1963) Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and war correspondent Peter Arnett has died at the age of 91, US media has reported. Arnett won the international reporting prize in 1996 for his Vietnam War coverage at the Associated…
Local elections could be delayed again as merging councils lack the capacity for reorganisation, the government has announced, triggering claims from opposition parties that Labour is “scared of the voters”. Sixty-three council areas could opt to postpone elections until 2027 after some were already delayed until May 2026 as two-tier authorities are being combined into…
Mircea Barbu,Bucharestand André Rhoden-Paul Getty Images A Romanian court has sentenced Wiz Khalifa to nine months in prison for smoking cannabis on stage. The American rapper, real name Thomaz Cameron Jibril, admitted to smoking a joint during his performance at the Beach, Please! festival last year in Costinesti. A Romanian appeals court overturned an earlier…
Tiffanie Turnbulland Tabby Wilson,Sydney ‘An absolute superhero’: father describes how Jess saved his daughter When bullets began flying at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday, strangers Wayne and Jessica found themselves in the same nightmare scenario. They couldn’t find their three-year-olds. In the chaos, separately, they desperately scanned the green. People who’d gathered to celebrate the…
Singapore arrests former captain of alleged scam kingpin Chen Zhi’s yacht. (PHOTO: Getty) Singapore police have arrested a US-sanctioned man who operated a superyacht for the alleged mastermind of one of Asia’s largest scam networks, Bloomberg reported. Nigel Tang Wan Bao Nabil was arrested on 11 December after returning to Singapore, according to a police…
Nadine Yousif, Max Matzaand Tabby Wilson FBI The suspect in last week’s mass shooting at Brown University has been found dead in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, following a six-day multi-state manhunt, police say. They identified the suspect as Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national who studied at the university in Providence,…
House Oversight Committee The House Oversight Committee has released a batch of around 70 photos from the estate of late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It’s the third such release from a tranche of over 95,000 photos the committee has acquired from Epstein’s estate. It includes images of quotes from the book Lolita written across…
Peter Hoskins,Business reporterand Lily Jamali,North America technology correspondent Watch: TikTok owner signs agreements to avoid US ban TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance has signed binding agreements with US and global investors for the majority of its business in America, TikTok’s boss told employees on Thursday. Half of the joint venture will be owned by a group…
Novo Nordisk has struggled this past year, but its beaten-down valuation has made it a bargain buy today. Healthcare stocks haven’t gotten a lot of love from investors in recent years. While the market has been strong and the S&P 500 has rallied by 84% in the past five years, the Health Care Select Sector…