Mike Ditka, the punishing tight end who remade his position and then returned to Chicago to coach the Bears to the only Super Bowl title in franchise history, has died at 86. His death was announced Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, by Jarrett Payton, son of Hall of Fame running...

President Donald Trump is setting aside a portion of his $400 million political war chest to cover his family's legal bills — his 20-year-old son, Barron, included — in case Democrats capture Congress in the Nov. 3, 2026, midterm elections, according to a Daily Mail report. Some of the hundreds...

Seconds after he met the actor Ross Kemp in Ilminster, Somerset, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, Prince William, the Prince of Wales, gave away just how closely he and his wife, Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, have been following “Celebrity Traitors.” The prince had come to the town...

Eva Marie Saint, who won an Academy Award for her very first film, playing opposite Marlon Brando in “On the Waterfront,” and who later played a cool, calculating spy for director Alfred Hitchcock, died at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. She was 102. She died...

Eight girls were stabbed at a middle school in Istanbul’s Başakşehir district on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, by a 15-year-old who walked into the schoolyard wearing the school’s uniform and attacked pupils at random. Hours later, Turkish Education Minister Yusuf Tekin confirmed that one of them had died. The girl...

The Audrain Newport Concours d’Elegance & Motor Week at Fort Adams State Park drew an unannounced guest on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026: former President Joe Biden, 83. The rare public outing pulled in a crowd and set off a wave of commentary. His slow, stiff walk across the show...

Nearly five months after contractors digging in the yard first struck a grave, archaeologists have lifted seven coffins of human remains out of the lawn at the North Dakota Governor’s Residence in Bismarck, N.D. An empty wooden box of unknown origin came up with them, the state’s Office of...

Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, said he slipped into a depression lasting about two weeks after arriving in Canada in late 2019, with the collapse striking within days of his leaving Britain. Harry made the remarks in a MasterClass session on grief that he recorded with neuroscientist Mary-Frances O’Connor,...