President Trump touched down in Beijing this week for a three-day state visit packed with cabinet secretaries, 16 corporate chief executives, his son Eric and daughter-in-law Lara — and one conspicuous absence. First Lady Melania Trump, who joined her husband for his triumphant November 2017 visit to China, stayed...

Donald Gibb, the towering character actor who terrorized the Tri-Lambs as Ogre in the "Revenge of the Nerds" franchise and traded blows with Jean-Claude Van Damme in "Bloodsport," has died at his Texas home. He was 71. Gibb died on Tuesday evening, May 12, 2026, following several months of declining...

An Ecuadorian judge was gunned down in broad daylight as she drove to a gym in the southwestern city of Machala, the latest casualty in a war between the state and the cocaine cartels that have turned this small Andean nation into one of the deadliest places in Latin...

Sixteen people died after a passenger bus collided head-on with a fuel tanker on one of Sumatra's main highways Wednesday, May 6, 2026, triggering an explosion that trapped and burned victims inside both vehicles. The intercity bus was traveling from Lubuklinggau city in South Sumatra to Pekanbaru with at least...

A 13-year-old boy killed two female staff members and wounded two other people when he opened fire Tuesday, May 5, 2026, at Instituto São José, a public school in Rio Branco, Brazil, authorities said. The teenage suspect was in custody by the time officers reached the school in Acre...

The 68-year-old actor who spent more than three decades building a career on stages and soundstages now says he wants none of it anymore. Alec Baldwin, in a Washington Times podcast interview released April 14, 2026, delivered a stark assessment of where his life stands: worn down by financial...

A single four-letter word uttered by former Vice President Kamala Harris at a Nevada Democratic event on May 7, 2026, has ignited a political firestorm, with video of her profane description of President Trump's Iran military campaign spreading rapidly across social media and drawing sharp reactions from both parties....

The father of Angelina Jolie is running out of time to repair their decades-long fractured relationship, and he knows it. Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight, now 87, has begun making urgent private appeals to his famous daughter for a single visit before she permanently relocates overseas, hoping to see her...