Ali Siddiq is one hell of a storyteller. The laid-back Houston native has built a comedy career that spans more than 25 years, all based on being himself. All of his YouTube specials, including βMondays,β βRuggedβ and his groundbreaking four-part comedy series βDomino Effect,β have racked up millions of views and his 2025 special βMy…
You donβt have to be afraid to put your dream in action, because youβll never fade, Trina Vega, youβll be the main attraction β in a βVictoriousβ spinoff. Netflix announced Friday that βHollywood Arts,β a spinoff of the Nickelodeon teen sitcom following a group of students attending a performing arts high school, is now in…
Last year the Chinese car company BYD (which stands for Build Your Dreams) overtook Tesla as the world’s top seller of fully electric vehicles, despite the U.S. market being virtually closed to them. Correspondent Seth Doane looks at how China’s long-term investments in innovation are paying off in EVs β and how protective tariffs may…
President Donald Trump said Wednesday at the G7 conference that the U.S. will “go right back to dropping bombs” if he doesn’t like the Iran deal. Trump said that the proposed agreement to bring the Middle East conflict to an end, which is set to be formalized at a signing ceremony in Geneva on Friday,…
The text was every parentβs worst nightmare: A 17-year-old said he had been abducted, shot and wounded by a group of men on a Florida highway. Law enforcement scrambled to the scene. A statewide alert went out to locate the boy. After it became known that the teen had said his abductors were βHispanic,β an…
US President Donald Trump waves as he returns to the White House in Washington, DC, on May 31, 2026 after golfing at his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at critics as a potential agreement with Iran remains elusive,…
UK economic growth slowed as US President Donald Trump’s tariffs hit and businesses grappled with higher costs, official figures show. A measure of everything produced in the economy, gross domestic product (GDP), expanded just 0.3% in the three months to June, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It’s a slowdown from the first…
The jewellery tycoon, alleged to have orchestrated a Β£170m scam which defrauded a legion of wealthy investors, will be declared bankrupt if a bid by his former company’s liquidators is successful. Sky News has learnt that insolvency practitioners in charge of probing the demise of Vashi, a luxury diamond jeweller which had shops in some…
Labour’s new deputy leader Lucy Powell promised to be Sir Keir Starmer’s ally. Yet in her victory speech she criticised his government and its record no fewer than 20 times. And told him to raise his game, or else. Politics live: Follow for updates as Labour names new deputy leader Here’s what she said –…
Christopher Soto, the founder of the Center for California Literature. Los Angeles is, historically, a haven for writers and poets. In its city sprawl and California light, L.A. has fostered legendary writers from Joan Didion to Octavia E. Butler, created countercultural literary communities like the Watts Writers Workshop, and inspired Raymond Chandlerβs βThe Long Goodbyeβ…