• Ben Sasse Says Trump’s QAnon Remarks Will Be Partly to Blame if Dems Retake Senate

    Ben Sasse Says Trump’s QAnon Remarks Will Be Partly to Blame if Dems Retake Senate

    Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) slammed President Trump’s remarks on Wednesday in which he seemed to encourage believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory. Followers of QAnon believe that the U.S. is run by a cabal of pedophiles and cannibals in the Democratic “deep state,” media, and Hollywood, and that Trump is saving the country from …
  • Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects Trump’s Pardon

    Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects Trump’s Pardon

    The Susan B. Anthony Museum and House has rejected President Donald Trump’s pardon, arguing that the move would go against the late women’s suffrage leader’s wishes. “On news of a presidential pardon for Susan B. Anthony on August 18, 2020:  Objection! Mr. President, Susan B. Anthony must decline your offer of a pardon today!” the …
  • Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Hospitalized in Suspected Poisoning

    Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Hospitalized in Suspected Poisoning

    Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, a staunch critic of President Vladimir Putin, was hospitalized in critical condition after a suspected poisoning on Thursday morning. Navalny was on a flight to the Siberian city of Tomsk when he fell ill, and the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk where he was brought to intensive care. …
  • Meet the couple who went on wild dating show ‘Singletown’ to see other people

    Meet the couple who went on wild dating show ‘Singletown’ to see other people

    Natasha “Tash” Finn and Luke Louza are an average twentysomething couple who met on Tinder and have been together for almost three years. So they solidified their relationship by breaking up and dating other people on television. It’s part of “Singletown,” an HBO Max series premiering Thursday that originally aired on the UK’s ITV2. The …
  • Thom Brennaman’s slur apology was awkwardly interrupted by Reds home run

    Thom Brennaman’s slur apology was awkwardly interrupted by Reds home run

    The Reds gave Thom Brennaman a chance to apologize Wednesday night on air after his homophobic slur was broadcast to Fox Sports Ohio viewers over a hot mic. However, the 56-year-old’s mea culpa — for saying “one of the f-g capitals of the world,” to the shock of viewers — was interrupted by a Nick …
  • NYC Teachers’ Union Threatens Strike Unless ‘Every Single Person’ Who Enters a School Receives COVID Test

    NYC Teachers’ Union Threatens Strike Unless ‘Every Single Person’ Who Enters a School Receives COVID Test

    New York City’s largest teacher’s union on Wednesday threatened to go on strike unless the city’s education department complies with a list of safety demands before public schools reopen for in-person classes, including that every person who enters a school building be tested for coronavirus. The president of the powerful United Federation of Teachers union, …
  • Reds announcer Thom Brennaman suspended after using homophobic slur

    Reds announcer Thom Brennaman suspended after using homophobic slur

    Longtime play-by-play man for the Cincinnati Reds Thom Brennaman was suspended indefinitely Wednesday and acknowledged his career might be over after video showed him using a homophobic slur on a hot mic earlier in the day. Brennaman was pulled from the broadcast booth by the Reds after he said, “One of the f-g capitals of …
  • Billie Eilish debuts ‘My Future’ song, endorses Joe Biden at DNC

    Billie Eilish debuts ‘My Future’ song, endorses Joe Biden at DNC

    Teenage music sensation Billie Eilish debuted her new song “My Future” at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night — in an apparent appeal from the party to young voters. Before she took the stage, the 18-year-old Grammy-winner urged Americans to cast their ballots for Joe Biden “like our lives and the world depend on it.” …
  • LA cuts power to TikTok star Bryce Hall’s home after massive parties

    LA cuts power to TikTok star Bryce Hall’s home after massive parties

    The lights are going out on one of TikTok’s brightest stars. The mayor of Los Angeles has shut the power to Bryce Hall’s Hollywood Hills rental home after officials said the TikTok influencer repeatedly held massive parties in violation of the city’s coronavirus regulations, the New York Times first reported. “Despite several warnings, this house …
  • Carole Baskin fears for big cats at shuttered ‘Tiger King’ zoo

    Carole Baskin fears for big cats at shuttered ‘Tiger King’ zoo

    “Tiger King” star Carole Baskin is roaring mad over what might happen to the big cats who were housed at Joe Exotic’s former Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park. It has been closed after the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service suspended the license of Jeff Lowe, who now operates the zoo. “Jeff … closing …