Missouri will run its November general election on districts drawn in 2022, after the U.S. Supreme Court granted an emergency stay on Thursday, September 10, 2026, that bars the state from using the redrawn congressional map backed by President Donald Trump — a reversal that arrives even though the...

Jennifer Welch, who co-hosts the profanity-soaked liberal show “I’ve Had It Podcast,” tore into First Lady Melania Trump in a curse-laden rant that spread widely online and was reported on Wednesday, September 9, 2026. “I don’t like anything for Melania,” Welch said. “And I wish I could be the...

First Lady Melania Trump appeared at President Donald Trump's side at the Pentagon on Friday, September 11, 2026, for the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks — two days after she skipped the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, where her husband was the headline act. Melania,...

Iceland’s government summoned the U.S. ambassador in Reykjavik on Monday, September 7, 2026, after President Donald Trump published an image on Truth Social that draped the American flag over the island and a swath of its neighbors. The graphic spreads the U.S. flag across Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico, Central America...

Making “Seinfeld” a television phenomenon took a fair amount of head-butting, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus sees no reason to pretend otherwise. Elaine Benes, the sharp, independent character she played on the NBC sitcom, came out of a writing and performing process full of “tons” of friction between the cast and...

Instead of Dallas, First Lady Melania Trump chose the White House Rose Garden on the opening night of the first Republican midterm convention, September 9, 2026. A White House official had confirmed on September 3 that she would skip the gathering altogether. President Donald Trump had pushed for the convention...

Operators of the pedophilia chat room that Jim Thornton, the 61-year-old former “Wheel of Fortune” announcer, is said to have used during a May flight went public Tuesday, September 8, 2026, with a statement defending the site — and arguing that the furor that cost him his job is...

George Clooney set his own career aside on the Lido to talk about his older sister, Adelia “Ada” Zeidler, who died of cancer at 65 on Friday, December 19, 2025. The Oscar-winning actor and director had collected the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival on...