• Billie Lourd is engaged to Austen Rydell

    Billie Lourd is engaged to Austen Rydell

    She said “duhhh!” Actress Billie Lourd and beau Austen Rydell are engaged. Rydell shared the happy news on Instagram, captioning a slideshow of the couple, “💍💍💍She said YES!! (Actually she said ‘Duhhh’) But I guess that’s even better than yes?!? 💗🤪🎉🎰💥🍾.” While the “Booksmart” actress, 27, has not posted about the engagement yet, she gushed …
  • Seattle Autonomous Zone Begins to Disband as Protesters Leave the Area

    Seattle Autonomous Zone Begins to Disband as Protesters Leave the Area

    The “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” (CHOP) moved towards disintegration on Thursday as protesters began leaving the area. Four shootings have occurred in the CHOP over the past several days, leaving one person dead. The area, which covers six blocks in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, has also been referred to as the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” …
  • Statues, awards honoring those with poor values not new in sports

    Statues, awards honoring those with poor values not new in sports

    To think that Mike Francesa begged Buddy Holly not to board that flight. What’s going on now — the indiscriminate often reckless and wanton destruction and wishful, cosmetic reconstruction of American history — is nothing new in sports. In 1935 the Heisman Trophy was first awarded. Named for John Heisman and presented to the best …
  • US economy shrank 5 percent in first quarter, more bad news ahead

    US economy shrank 5 percent in first quarter, more bad news ahead

    The US economy shrank at a 5 percent rate in the first quarter and a vastly worse performance is expected in the current three-month period, when the coronavirus pandemic began to spread across the US. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that the decline in the gross domestic product, the total output of goods and services, …
  • US workers file 1.48 million jobless claims, bringing coronavirus total to 47M

    US workers file 1.48 million jobless claims, bringing coronavirus total to 47M

    Some 1.48 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic began to stall, new data show. Thursday’s figure from the US Department of Labor brought the number of initial jobless claims filed during the crisis to 47.2 million — more than the population of Spain. While …
  • Wirecard files for insolvency owing $4 billion

    Wirecard files for insolvency owing $4 billion

    Wirecard collapsed on Thursday owing creditors almost $4 billion after disclosing a gaping hole in its books that its auditor EY said was the result of a sophisticated global fraud. The payments company filed for insolvency at a Munich court saying that, with 1.3 billion euros ($1.5 billion) of loans due within a week, its …
  • Trump to sign executive order protecting federal statues, monuments

    Trump to sign executive order protecting federal statues, monuments

    President Trump is expected to sign an executive order by the end of the week that would protect public statues and federal monuments and make vandalizing or any destruction to them punishable by jail time, Fox News has learned. Sources told Fox News Wednesday that the text of the executive order is still being finalized. …
  • Regal Cinemas to show classic movies for coronavirus reopening

    Regal Cinemas to show classic movies for coronavirus reopening

    Regal Cinemas, one of the largest movie theater chains in the US, has announced a plan to show classic movies and fan favorites when they reopen instead of blockbuster titles. According to Variety, the theatre chain plans to show favorites such as “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Jaws”  and “Black Panther.” The move comes just weeks …
  • Georgia Grand Jury Indicts Three Men on Murder Charges in Ahmaud Arbery Shooting

    Georgia Grand Jury Indicts Three Men on Murder Charges in Ahmaud Arbery Shooting

    A Georgia grand jury returned an indictment of nine charges against the three suspects in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Cobb County district attorney Joyette Holmes announced Wednesday. Holmes said that 64-year-old Greg McMichael, 34-year-old Travis McMichael, and 50-year-old William “Roddie” Bryan face malice murder, four counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, …
  • House Republican Proposes Criminalizing Destruction of Presidential Monuments

    House Republican Proposes Criminalizing Destruction of Presidential Monuments

    Representative Jim Banks (R., Ind.) is proposing a bill to revise the Veterans’ Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act to protect statues of former U.S. presidents and the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The Defending America’s Culture and Heritage Act (DAHCA) would amend the 2003 Veterans’ Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act, which criminalized the deliberate …