There is an elevator at the Pentagon that climbs from the parking garage directly into the defense secretary's suite, and Jennifer Hegseth can ride it. That detail, along with her direct line to her husband's inner circle — his chief of staff among them — anchors an exhaustive report...

The flags came down across the country for a woman who started out in a one-room cabin in the Tennessee mountains. Dolly Parton — songwriter, movie star, businesswoman, giver-away of millions — died peacefully in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 25, 2026, at 80. President Donald Trump, calling her one of...

Bones turned up in southwest Tucson on August 17, 2026, roughly 15 miles from the home where 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was taken on February 1, 2026 — and for a few days the discovery reignited hope, then fear, that the case of the “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie’s mother had...

She was a teenage sitcom daughter, an accidental pop star, an Elvis Presley leading lady and, decades later, a two-time Emmy nominee. Shelley Fabares, whose career stretched from 1950s anthology television to the long-running ABC comedy “Coach,” died in Los Angeles on August 22, 2026. She was 82. Her family,...

The father of a Miami seafood entrepreneur killed alongside six others when a safari helicopter went down in northern Kenya on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, has spoken publicly about the loss of his son. Roger Duarte Sr. told the Daily Mail, "I'm very devastated right now. I don't have...

Two songs into a 10-song set, the drums went quiet. Meditasi frontman Bakaruddin Daud turned toward the riser and found Raja Azreen Raja Talib, the drummer he had known for decades, slumped over his kit. The 56-year-old Malaysian musician had collapsed mid-performance at the Teruntum Rock Festival in Kuantan,...

Honolulu police have opened an unattended death investigation after a Southwest Airlines flight attendant was found dead in Waikiki during a layover, leaving her Oklahoma family pressing for basic answers about how she died. Jenny Lupton, 50, of Moore, Oklahoma, was found around 6 a.m. on Thursday, August 20,...

Bunny Levine, who traded a 25-year career as a school librarian for a working actor’s life and turned up in “Gilmore Girls,” “La La Land” and several Adam Sandler comedies, died at her home in Tarzana, California, on August 20, 2026, at age 97. Her manager, Brandon Kjar, said she...