Chris Langham, the BAFTA-winning comic actor and writer whose British television career collapsed after his conviction for downloading child sexual abuse images, died of pancreatic cancer on June 24, 2026, at 77. Nothing was said publicly for more than two months, until an obituary ran on September 3, disclosing...

First Lady Melania Trump will not join President Donald Trump in Dallas for the first-ever midterm convention of the Republican National Committee (RNC) on September 9 and 10, 2026, a White House official told The Independent on Friday, September 4. The president will appear both evenings at the American Airlines...

Jackie Glass, the retired Clark County district judge who hosted the syndicated courtroom series “Swift Justice” and who in 2008 sentenced former football star O.J. Simpson to decades behind bars, died on August 28, 2026, in Las Vegas. She was 70. Her daughter Rachel Wolfson, a comedian and stuntwoman, announced...

Fox News Media abruptly cut ties with anchor Maria Bartiromo on Thursday, September 3, 2026, ending a run of more than a decade at the conservative media company and touching off an immediate scrubbing of her name from its schedule and websites. "We thank Maria for her work over the...

Relatives of Carla Jeffery — known to Disney Channel audiences as the perky cheerleader Bree in the "Zombies" films — are disputing baseless internet chatter tying drugs to her death, stating plainly that she was not a drug user. Jeffery was 33 when she died September 1, 2026, at...

Of all the objections raised to President Donald Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario, Fox News host Trey Gowdy landed on one nobody saw coming: the acronym. Gowdy, a lawyer and former Republican representative from South Carolina, told viewers of “The Five” on Thursday, August 27, 2026, that trading “Ontario”...

Alphonso Smith Jr., a two-time All-American defensive back at Wake Forest who went on to play four NFL seasons with the Denver Broncos and Detroit Lions, died on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, at the age of 40. Wake Forest announced the death on Thursday, saying it had been informed...

Lionel Richie is back at his Los Angeles home after admitting himself to a St. Louis hospital for testing following his August 29, 2026, show at the Muny. The 77-year-old singer was admitted “as a precaution” and spent the days that followed in intensive care before he was discharged...