Thousands of people ringed the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on the evening of Friday, September 18, 2026, linking hands into a chain around the Potomac River landmark in defiance of President Donald Trump's threat to tear it down. They arrived by subway in such numbers that...

Jon Kyl, the Arizona Republican who climbed to the No. 2 job in the Senate across nearly three decades in Congress and reshaped how the arid West divides its water, died Wednesday night, September 16, 2026, of complications from a neurological disease. He was 84. Gordon James, a communications professional...

Judy Sheindlin is walking away from the courtroom set that made her a household name. The 83-year-old prosecutor-turned-jurist, who sat on the Manhattan family court bench before turning televised small claims squabbles into a daytime institution, will end her on-camera courtroom career when “Judy Justice,” her Amazon Prime Video...

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, N.J., is where Michael Sweetney died on Wednesday, September 16, 2026. He was 43. The Georgetown standout went ninth in the 2003 NBA draft, played four seasons in the league and then spent a decade as a professional on four continents. His wife,...

Two young mothers from South Bend, Ind., who disappeared after a night out with friends were found dead inside a Jeep pulled from the St. Joseph River in Niles, Mich., on Tuesday, September 15, 2026. Vanessa Bautista, 24, and Alexa Navarro, 23, were named as the victims a day...

“Good Morning America” closed its Thursday, September 17, 2026, broadcast with a tribute to Judd Parson, an editor who had worked on the ABC morning program for nearly 25 years. George Stephanopoulos led the tribute, seated side by side on the studio couch with colleagues Michael Strahan, Rebecca Jarvis, Lara...

The ban President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on Friday, September 18, 2026, reached the White House gate the next morning. Reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were turned away on Saturday, September 19, and the Secret Service deactivated or confiscated their hard passes. The sharpest criticism...

Correspondent Lesley Stahl launched the 59th season of “60 Minutes” with a hidden-camera investigation into the lawyers and lobbyists who promise convicted felons a pardon from President Donald Trump. The season premiere ran on Sunday, September 13, 2026, and Stahl put what she found to the man who ran...