The two federal directives Jill Biden championed as first lady, the ones that made women’s health research her signature cause, no longer exist. President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Advancing Women’s Health to Improve Outcomes in All Phases of Life” on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026, at a Rose...

“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart warmed up his closing appeal to voters with a bar of “Les Misérables,” then dropped any pretense that he was neutral about the midterms. Stewart handed his Monday, Nov. 2, 2026, episode to President Donald Trump’s closing message and to Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens, who...

The Detroit producer who gave techno its name was booked to play a club in Mexico City and never took the stage. Juan Atkins, the DJ and producer widely called the “Godfather of Techno,” was found unresponsive in his hotel room in Mexico City on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026, before...

Nearly two decades into her run behind the moderator’s desk at “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg has boiled her reason for staying down to three words. Goldberg, 70, told W Magazine in an interview published Oct. 27, 2026, that after almost 20 years on the ABC daytime show she keeps the...

A cousin of Monaco’s reigning prince walked out of a nightclub leaning on someone, and investigators still cannot say how he came to fall to his death hours later. Toxicology results from the autopsy on Antoine de Massy, 29, had not been released as of Oct. 31, 2026, and the...

The line a child wrote beneath a drawing of a blue umbrella has become Savannah Guthrie’s newest appeal for the mother who disappeared from her Arizona home. Guthrie, the 54-year-old “TODAY” co-anchor, posted a photo of the old drawing on Instagram on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026, nine months after her...

Cable’s most-watched network is pulling its smallest crowd in years, and the midterms are days away. Fox News averaged 1.1 million total day viewers in October 2026, its smallest total-day audience since December 2023, according to Nielsen data reported Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026. Status first reported the slide from preliminary...

A writer who spent years sharpening Jon Stewart’s punchlines, and some of Barack Obama’s, was killed on a rural road near his Pennsylvania country home. Kevin Bleyer, winner of four Primetime Emmy Awards for his writing on “The Daily Show,” died in a car crash in Millrift, Pa., on Sunday,...