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...

A horse strayed from its path during a rodeo in Alberta, Canada, on Saturday, September 5, 2026, and struck Georgina Lightning, the Cree director who was the first Indigenous woman from North America to helm a major feature; she died at 63. Accounts of where she died differ: LBC...

Former President George W. Bush revisited one of the defining decisions of his first week after the September 11, 2001, attacks on Wednesday evening, September 9, 2026, telling an audience at his presidential center in Dallas that reports of Muslim women being harassed in public sent him to a...

President Donald Trump went to Truth Social within hours to mourn the departure of an ally who had given him a platform for years. Longtime anchor Maria Bartiromo was no longer with the company after more than 12 years, Fox News Media had announced earlier on Thursday, September 3,...