Workers erect scaffolding at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, June 12, 2026. Andrew Leyden | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s name must come off the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington by Friday night, as a federal appeals court rejected a last-minute bid to block a lower-court judge’s…
ABC late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel explained his controversial joke about First Lady Melania Trump, but declined to apologize for offending her. On Monday, President Trump repeated his demand that ABC fire the longtime show host over a joke that aired on βJimmy Kimmel Live!β two days before the White House Correspondentsβ Assn. dinner in Washington….
Sir Keir Starmer should make tackling misogyny the sixth key mission of his government, Harriet Harman has said. The former Labour cabinet minister told our political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast that the work so far to tackle it is “just not good enough”, and women’s voices need to be respected in…
Short, pained lives marked by achievement and promise and then abruptly gone leave a restless afterglow. Youth is supposed to fade away, not become oneβs permanent state. And regarding the late musician Jeff Buckley β a roiling romantic with piercing good looks whose singing could rattle bones and raise hairs β that loss in 1997,…
Record executive Antonio βL.A.β Reid has settled a sexual assault lawsuit from former employee Drew Dixon, avoiding a jury trial that was set to begin Monday. In 2023, Dixon filed a lawsuit under the New York Adult Survivors Act, alleging abuse from Reid including sexual harassment, assault and retaliation while she worked under him as…
Jordan Jensenβs comedy is hard to categorize, just like the rest of her. And while thatβs generally how we like our funny people β layered, nuanced, tortured β it tends to wreak havoc on the actual lives of the comics themselves. Not quite fitting in a box (even though she definitely knows how to build…
The UK’s flagship stock index has had its best year since 2009 after a series of record-breaking days. The Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) 100 ended the year up 21.5% compared to the start. It means the share price of the publicly traded companies making up the FTSE 100 had the greatest annual increase in…
The state pension is likely to rise by 4.7% in April, after the latest official figures showed this was the pace of wage growth. The pension is determined by the triple lock, which means it will rise every year by whichever is highest: inflation in September, average weekly earnings from May to July or 2.5%….
Meta is rolling out an Instagram subscription service for $3.99 a month, called Instagram Plus, which adds features such as “stories” that last for 48 hours, double the amount of time for nonpaying users.Β The new service is aimed at helping Meta diversify its revenue base, which is heavily dependent on advertising. The photo-sharing app…
AI-generated images, old videos and altered photos proliferated on social media in the hours following former Venezuelan President NicolΓ‘s Maduro’s capture. Several of these images quickly went viral, fueling false information online.Β CBS News analyzed circulating images by comparing dubious images to verified content and using publicly available tools such as reverse image search. In…