The communication channel Melania Trump built with Moscow and Kyiv to reunite Ukrainian children has now produced a ceasefire over one starving occupied city. The White House announced on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, that the First Lady had secured a localized truce between Russia and Ukraine in Oleshky, a city...

President Donald Trump has pored over the Constitution's two-term limit, and he has a theory about why it shouldn't keep him off the ballot. Trump, 80, teased another White House run at a midterm campaign rally at Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa, on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, where...

Jennifer Lopez's post-divorce stretch has produced a Las Vegas residency, a run of unusually frank interviews and, lately, one very closely watched car ride. Lopez, the singer and actress, and Brett Goldstein, her co-star in the Netflix film "Office Romance," reportedly arrived at and departed a Los Angeles party hosted...

All a teenage boy named Billy Batson had to do was shout one word to become a superhero, and the actor who shouted it for three seasons on CBS has died. Michael Gray, who starred as Billy in the live-action series "Shazam!," died Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, of natural causes....

The bushy-mustached character actor behind the “Jump to Conclusions” mat turned up in more than 400 theater, film and television projects and rarely saw his name near the top of a movie’s billing. Richard Riehle, who played Tom Smykowski, the Initech product manager who loses his job in director Mike...

A 911 call about someone in the water off Northwestern University's campus ended with a 19-year-old student dead. Saba Hani Alkaabi, a 19-year-old Northwestern undergraduate, was pronounced dead at 8:05 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, at Endeavor Health Evanston Hospital, after rescuers pulled her unresponsive body from Lake Michigan near...

President Donald Trump's administration has won a hearing at the Supreme Court in its fight to keep the records of the now-defunct Department of Government Efficiency out of public view. The justices agreed Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, to hear the administration's bid to withhold records from the Department of Government...

A Venezuelan singer was found at the bottom of his own backyard pool, and first responders’ radio traffic described him as “tied up.” Gustavo Enrique Ormo, 45, the singer, composer and pianist who performed as Gus Ormo, was found face down in the pool of his Weston, Fla., home on...