Advisers to California Gov. Gavin Newsom spent the week monitoring new White House advance staffers’ social media accounts, hoping for clues for where President Donald Trump might be headed when he lands in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon to talk about the wildfire damage. That’s the state of relations as…
Just months after an NBC News investigation revealed that a Texas university had run a “flourishing business” providing unclaimed bodies to medical researchers around the world, the president of the University of North Texas Health Science Center has resigned. The university’s board of regents announced that Sylvia Trent-Adams resigned for…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently “loved” a viral AI image on Facebook known as “Challah Horse” that was originally posted as a warning against generative AI. It’s unclear if Zuckerberg understood that the image he was reacting to was AI-generated, but Facebook has been flooded with AI-generated slop for some…
The Dallas Cowboys could be in the latter stages of hiring a new head coach to replace Mike McCarthy. Owner Jerry Jones and Co. have been conducting interviews since Dallas parted ways with McCarthy back on Jan.13. Former New York Jets head coach and San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert…
Topline President Donald Trump ordered Thursday the declassification of all records concerning the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., issuing the release of the documents after some were left redacted following his first presidential term. Key Facts Trump…
Costco is pushing back on a shareholder proposal that urges the wholesale club operator to conduct an evaluation of any business risks posed by its diversity, equity and inclusion practices. Read More
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Shares in Burberry strutted higher on Friday as the company announced better-than-forecast sales for the end of 2024. At £12.38 per share, the FTSE 250 fashion house was last dealing 15.7% higher in end-of-week trading. Sales continue to fall at embattled Burberry but at a lesser rate than analysts had…
Ohio State won the first College Football Playoff to cap the 2014 season and won the first expanded 12-team playoff to conclude the 2024 campaign. How the Buckeyes fare in defending their championship is something that will come into focus beginning with the Aug. 30 season opener against Texas. They…
Not many artists who started independently have had SZA’s success. Last year, the “Kill Bill” singer’s 2020 single “Good Days” reached one billion streams on Spotify, becoming her fifth song to achieve that feat. That same year, she released SOS Deluxe: Lana, an expanded version of her 2022 album SOS,…
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MoreRobert Saleh will likely be on the San Francisco 49ers’ sideline this upcoming season. It never really seemed likely when he departed Northern California to become the New York Jets’ head coach back in 2021. It seemed even less likely with Saleh being seen as the front runner for the…
Jack De Mave, who played Forest Ranger Bob Erickson in CBS’ Lassie, died in hospice care in Macon, Georgia on January 16 following a heart attack on Thanksgiving Day. He was 91. Born John Francois De Mave in Jersey City, New Jersey on December 8, 1933, Jack De Mave’s father…
Looking for Thursday’s Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: TGIF! The week is almost over, ladies and gentlemen, and the weekend is spread out before us, filled with opportunity. There’s also snow in the forecast here in the high desert mountains, so that—perhaps paradoxically—warms my heart.…
The road to the 2025 Academy Awards begins with the announcement of the Oscar nominations Thursday morning. The Oscar nominations come after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences postponed the annual live ceremony amid the devastation caused by Los Angeles-area wildfires. Originally, the nominations were set to be announced on Friday, Jan. 17, before the the date was shifted to Sunday, Jan. 19. Last week, AMPAS moved the date of the nominations to Thursday, Jan. 23. Actors Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live, Wicked) and Rachel Sennott (Saturday Night, The Idol) will announce the nominations live on Thursday at…
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Tariff Day has left us with Canada and Mexico in the crosshairs. With North American trade in focus, this may actually give a respite to stocks with supply chains elsewhere and light a fire under them. Today we’ll talk about two dividend growers that have serious upside. One has a supply chain independent of Canada and Mexico, while the other has no manufacturing worries but some misguided RFK fears. The pair returned 138% and 199% during Trump 1.0, and, if history rhymes, the duo could return triple-digits again during Trump 2.0. ADI Returned 138% During Trump 1.0 Our first stock,…
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Central America for his first trip as the top US diplomat. Rubio is expected to depart late next week for Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said. The trip comes as President Donald…
President Donald Trump repeated false claims about the US trade relationship with Canada and Europe in virtual Thursday remarks to the World Economic Forum in Davos. He also delivered a smattering of other misstatements and exaggerations about trade, tariffs and economic policy. Here is a fact check of some of…
A federal judge said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship was “blatantly unconstitutional” and issued a temporary restraining order to block it. Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee who sits in Seattle, granted the request by Washington Attorney General Nick Brown and three other Democratic-led…
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyer Chase Strangio appeared to employ a new term for an adult human female Tuesday. The trans rights activist – who is also a transgender man –appeared on the left-wing digital news show “Democracy Now!” to slam President Donald Trump’s executive order on sex and gender. Strangio…
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump released meme coins just days before he took the oath of office. A splashy pre-inaugural party was held at a property his company owns. And a Saudi-backed golf tournament is headed to a Trump club this spring. Trump’s latest money-making moves are…
Jaws dropped throughout Washington’s National Cathedral when an egomaniacal female Episcopal bishop sabotaged the Inaugural Prayer Service with a left-wing rant from the pulpit about illegal migrants and LGBT issues, aimed directly at President Trump, who was sitting politely in the front pew. What the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde,…
The federal judges in Washington, DC, who handled hundreds of cases from January 6, 2021, are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for convicted rioters, rebuking the newly pardoned as “poor losers” and memorializing the “blood, feces, and terror” from the US Capitol attack. The orders from the…
President Donald Trump is targeting federal employees who focus on diversity, equity and inclusion and career policy staffers as he follows through on campaign promises to exert more control over the federal bureaucracy. The moves, just days into his new administration, go after programs he’s long attacked and civil servants…
The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice Department found a pattern of misconduct, according to a memo issued Wednesday. “The new administration may wish to reconsider settlements and consent decrees negotiated and approved by the prior administration,” said the…
The random cutaway gags from Family Guy translate well to memes, and one of the most popular jokes is a scene featuring Peter telling his family that he “did not care for The Godfather.” The scene is a bit like Family Guy’s version of the iconic “Steamed Hams” sketch from…
