Washington — President Trump touted the construction of the White House ballroom in his first appearance since Republicans’ overwhelming losses in the midterm elections, hosting a celebratory event that stood in stark contrast with his new political reality in Washington. The president assembled reporters and construction workers in the unfinished massive new structure, where the…
Heidi Klum underwent a bloody transformation to become a giant, gruesome severed hand for her annual Halloween party in New York on Saturday, 25 years after she began hosting the much-anticipated event. Klum was unrecognizable, with only her eyes and mouth showing, blood dripping from her mouth as she stuck her tongue out. The top…
As nearly 60,000 runners take on the 26.2-mile course of the iconic New York City Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 1, all eyes will be on the finish line. But ask Joanne Navarra and she’ll tell you the real magic happens at the start, where the full spectrum of the human experience unfolds. “You know, it’s more exciting…
Sioux City, Iowa — Less than 24 hours after President Trump held a raucous rally inside an airplane hangar in this western Iowa town, Senate Majority Leader John Thune stood alongside Rep. Ashley Hinson in a strip-mall bar and grill a few miles away. Looking out over a giant water tank that punctuated the flat…
Japanese prosecutors have indicted a U.S. Marine on suspicion of murdering a woman on Okinawa, a court spokesman told AFP on Monday, in a case that prompted public outrage. The alleged killing of the 39-year-old Japanese woman caused Japan’s premier to slam the “heinous crime” and reignited controversy over the heavy U.S. military presence on…
This was actress Parker Posey’s first headshot as a teenager. “How cute is this?” she laughed. Parker Posey It’s been a long time, but I still see this girl. “I’m still that girl, are you kidding?” she said. I met that girl in 1985, when we were both 16, at the North Carolina School of…
Harry Houdini, the greatest escape artist who ever lived, has been the subject of hundreds of books and movies. A pop icon, even today. He died 100 years ago this week, on Halloween – a coincidence that did nothing to diminish his mystique. But we’ll get to that. Erik Weisz was born in Hungary, in…
Dozens of cattle spilled onto a street in Kansas City, Missouri, when a semitractor-trailer plunged off a highway overpass in the city’s downtown area and onto a car early Sunday, shutting down some roads and setting off a search for the traumatized animals that survived. The accident occurred shortly before 3 a.m. and the roundup…
Officials are reviewing the off-base code of conduct for U.S. troops in Japan following the killing of an Okinawan woman, allegedly by a U.S. Marine, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Tuesday. Crimes including rapes, assaults, hit-and-runs and drunk driving by U.S. military personnel have long triggered protests on the southern Japanese island, which…
A year ago, there weren’t many voters talking about data centers. Now, the massive facilities being built to satisfy the enormous computing needs of the AI boom have become one of the most explosive issues of the 2026 midterms, and their construction is opening a divide between the Trump administration and Republicans running in state…
