James Sloyan, the character actor who played four different aliens across three “Star Trek” series and appeared in the Oscar-winning “The Sting,” died at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif., on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, “tended by his family.” He was 85. An obituary in the Los Angeles Times, published...

Allies inside the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement handed U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. $4 million in book advances over the past year, according to a report published Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. The payments came after he assured federal ethics officials he would stay out of...

Dennis Haskins, the actor who spent more than a decade as Principal Richard Belding, the flustered but soft-hearted administrator of Bayside High on "Saved by the Bell," has died. He was 75. His death was confirmed Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. "Everyone loved Mr. Belding, and those of us who got...

A Los Angeles judge approved 21-year-old Zahara's petition to legally change her name from Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt to Zahara Marley Jolie on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, making her the latest of actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's six children to shed their father's surname in court. Judge Virginia Keeny presided...

A boxy shape appeared again under President Donald Trump's suit jacket on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, when Trump gave Chinese President Xi Jinping a tour of Marine One during a state visit. An apparent boxy protrusion showed beneath the back of his jacket, and video of the tour went...

Neither the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office nor the Iowa City Community School District had said as of Sept. 28, 2026, what led to the deaths of a Borlaug Elementary School teacher and a fifth-grade student pulled from the Coralville Reservoir last week. The Press-Citizen and the Des Moines Register...

Police said Monday, September 21, 2026 that they had charged a 50-year-old man with six counts of causing death by dangerous driving over a collision on the A61. The defendant, Christopher Cockell, 50, has an address given as Gresford Close, Woolley Grange, according to an ITV report published September...

Peter “Pete” Byrne, the English singer and co-founder of the new wave duo Naked Eyes, died peacefully in Los Angeles on September 14, 2026, after a brief illness, the band’s manager told Billboard. He was 74. The death was announced September 23, in a post carried on the band’s official...