An 18-year-old man is dead and another person wounded after gunfire erupted inside an Allentown McDonald's last Friday night, turning a routine evening at the Union Boulevard restaurant into the city's latest homicide investigation. The Allentown Police Department announced Monday that the teen had succumbed to his injuries while hospitalized,...

A bomb tore through a street outside a Defense Ministry building in central Damascus on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, killing a Syrian soldier and wounding about a dozen others as troops worked to dismantle a separate explosive device discovered nearby. The blast struck the Bab Sharqi district, a historic quarter...

Virginia voters narrowly approved a controversial redistricting referendum on April 21, 2026, with 51.5 percent support — 1,575,288 votes in favor versus 48.5 percent opposed — potentially handing Democrats control of 10 of the state's 11 congressional seats. The next day, President Trump took to Truth Social to declare...

Jason Collins, the pioneering NBA veteran who became the first openly gay active player in any major North American professional sport, died May 12, 2026, at age 47 after battling Stage IV glioblastoma for eight months. The following day, his longtime friend Chelsea Clinton shared her grief publicly. Clinton, 46,...

Barry Blaustein, the comedy writer whose decades-long partnership with Eddie Murphy produced some of the most enduring sketches in "Saturday Night Live" history and a string of blockbuster films, died on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. He was 71. His death was confirmed by Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and...

Welsh music icon Bonnie Tyler remains in intensive care at a Portuguese hospital, where she suffered cardiac arrest while doctors worked to bring her out of a medically induced coma. The 74-year-old "Total Eclipse of the Heart" singer had to be resuscitated at Faro Hospital, where she continues to battle...

The widow of Charlie Kirk is facing intense criticism after accepting an honorary degree from Hillsdale College, with detractors pointing to the late activist's bestselling book arguing that American universities are scamming young people out of their futures. Erika Kirk, 37, who now leads Turning Point USA, received the honor...

Ann Robinson, the famous redhead who fled Martian invaders alongside Gene Barry in the Oscar-winning 1953 adaptation of "War of the Worlds" and became forever linked to the science-fiction classic, has died. She was 96. Robinson died at her home in Los Angeles on September 26, 2025, though her death...