WASHINGTONΒ βΒ Directly outside the Washington Hilton ballroom, as the yearly White House Correspondentsβ Assn. dinner got underway Saturday, a Times reporter had just entered the menβs room when he heard a handful of loud pops ring out. βShooter!β someone shouted. βGet down! Shots fired!β Inside the ballroom, thousands of journalists and politicians began to duck for…
Andy Burnham has backed Labour’s newly announced candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election, after being blocked from standing himself by the party’s governing body. In a post on X, the Greater Manchester mayor congratulated Angeliki Stogia, a city councillor for Whalley Range, and said she would do “a great job”. He added: “I will…
Grammy-nominated rapper Mystikal has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for third-degree rape. The βDangerβ rapper was arrested in the summer of 2022 and booked into the Ascension Parish Jail in Louisiana and charged with first-degree rape, simple robbery, domestic abuse batteryβstrangulation, false imprisonment and simple criminal damage to property after the victim identified…
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WASHINGTON Β βΒ The Supreme Court heads into the final month of its yearly term facing decisions on birthright citizenship, gun rights, transgender athletes and President Trumpβs power over independent agencies. Unlike in years past, the termβs most significant rulings were not left for the last week in June. The court dealt Trump a major defeat in…
A coalition of nearly 30 advocacy groups is calling on Google and Apple to remove access to social media platform X and its AI app, Grok, from their app stores after Grok allowed users to generate sexualized images of minors and women.Β The organizations, which focus on child safety, women’s rights and privacy, expressed their…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ President Trump is requesting $152 million from Congress to begin βrebuildingβ the prison on Alcatraz Island for operational use, though his administration appears to have taken few steps toward advancing the project. The request, in the presidentβs proposed budget for fiscal year 2027, resurrects Trumpβs attention-grabbing concept of converting the crumbling site β which has…
Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure, has died. He was 65. The band announced on its website on Dec. 26 that Bamonte died βafter a short illness at home over Christmas.β βQuiet, intense, intuitive constant and hugely creative, βTeddyβ was a warm hearted and vital part of the Cure story,β the band said….
A view of the National Mall during at sunset in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 04, 2025. Mehmet Eser | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump will headline an event commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary on the National β Mall next month after several musical performers scheduled to appear in the celebration canceled, citing concerns about…
Jaxon Smith-Njigba was sent a trophy for Offensive Player of the Year that contained multiple typos. But, hey, at least they got his name right. The Seattle Seahawks receiver posted a video to his Instagram Story on Monday in which he displays the award from the NFL and Associated Press with an engraving that appears…