Sam Neill, star of “Jurassic Park,” “The Piano,” and other acclaimed films, died from pneumonia this week, his agent told The Associated Press. Neill was 78. The actor’s death in Sydney, Australia, was announced Monday by his family. He will be honored at a private memorial service, which is set to take place at a later date…
More than 40 years ago, a group of English professors at the University of Colorado wrote a children’s book called “The Weighty Word Book.” After a recent viral video post, the book sold more in a week than it had in nearly two decades. Tony Dokoupil has the story. Source link
An American Airlines flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Newark made an unexpected stop in Baltimore late Thursday night due to a disruptive passenger, the Fort Worth-based airline confirmed Friday. Video obtained by TMZ shows multiple members of the crew and other passengers working to restrain the man with duct tape. A picture from on board…
Washington — President Trump on Friday said he still won’t sign the landmark bipartisan housing bill passed by Congress, though it will become law within hours if the president doesn’t veto it. He didn’t say whether he planned to veto the legislation. The president has fumed over the Senate’s failure to pass his preferred version…
As of Wednesday, there was still no verdict in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy. The jurors went home after a fifth day of deliberations, telling the judge for a second time that they could not decide whether Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her three young children. The judge told them to keep trying….
France has become the first country in the European Union to ban social media for children under the age of 15, after its parliament overwhelmingly approved landmark legislation by 279 votes to 81. Under the new law, children under 15 will be prevented from creating new social media accounts on platforms such as TikTok and…
A Turkish court on Friday convicted three pest control company workers and a hotel owner over the deaths of a family of four from Germany who were poisoned by insecticide while on vacation in Istanbul, sentencing them to between 18 and 12 years in prison, state media reported. The Turkish-German Bocek family were staying at the…
The following is the full transcript of an interview with Reps. Adriano Espaillat, Democrat of New York, and Carlos Gimenez, Republican of Florida, a portion of which aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on July 5, 2026. The interview was taped on July 2, 2026. ED O’KEEFE: We turn now to Democratic Congressman…
A judge on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to either release unredacted versions of several files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein or explain why it can’t do so, following a lawsuit accusing Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche of improperly redacting documents. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan gave the government until Thursday, July 2,…
When the 2026 FIFA World Cup final kicks off Sunday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, Spain and Argentina will compete as the last two teams standing in a tournament between 48 nations from across the globe. It was the largest FIFA World Cup in history, with the highly anticipated men’s final capping a 39-day…
