The ban President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on Friday, September 18, 2026, reached the White House gate the next morning. Reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were turned away on Saturday, September 19, and the Secret Service deactivated or confiscated their hard passes. The sharpest criticism...

Correspondent Lesley Stahl launched the 59th season of “60 Minutes” with a hidden-camera investigation into the lawyers and lobbyists who promise convicted felons a pardon from President Donald Trump. The season premiere ran on Sunday, September 13, 2026, and Stahl put what she found to the man who ran...

Johnathon O’Halloran, the 28-year-old morning anchor at Sinclair-owned NBC affiliate WJAC-TV, posted on Instagram on Monday, September 14, 2026, that he was leaving the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, station after more than two years behind the desk, and that the next morning’s edition of “6 News at Sunrise” would be his...

ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel devoted much of his monologue on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, to President Donald Trump’s eyelids. The longtime Trump nemesis needled the 80-year-old president for appearing to nod off at the September 11 memorial ceremony, staged on the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks —...

First Lady Melania Trump’s office has moved to separate her from the uproar over the wedding celebration of Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s eldest son, a three-day party partly financed by a Russian businessman. “Mrs. Trump does not, and has never had, a relationship with Mr. Kremlev,” her...

A heckler interrupted Vice President JD Vance mid-speech at a manufacturing plant in Olathe, Kansas, on Monday, September 14, 2026, shouting an accusation about Sen. Roger Marshall’s medical practice — and Vance answered with a line about a Mexican flag. Make America Great Again Inc. (MAGA Inc.), President Donald Trump’s...

President Donald Trump said on Thursday, September 17, 2026, that he is nearing a decision on whether to resume large-scale military action against Iran, telling Axios in an interview that a far more aggressive phase of the war remains on the table. “I have a big decision coming up....

Rosalind Ashford, the soprano whose high harmony rides above “Dancing in the Street,” “Heat Wave” and “Nowhere to Run” as an original member of Motown’s Martha and the Vandellas, died on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, of natural causes at her home in Redford, Michigan, a Detroit suburb. She was...