Fourteen people are confirmed dead, and 14 others remain missing from the 267 passengers and crew aboard a ferry that capsized off northern Cyprus on Sunday, August 30, 2026, and the toll is still rising, with searchers recovering another body on most days since the sinking. The 14th victim, a...

A text message from President Donald Trump was enough to make Bill Maher take it back on the air. The 70-year-old comedian, who hosts HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” gave over part of his August 28, 2026, program to retracting a claim he had made about the endorsement...

Vice President JD Vance was working a Republican rally in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Monday, August 31, 2026, when he told the crowd Americans were about to “celebrate” the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. He swapped the word out mid-sentence — too late, because the clip...

About 50 guests gathered at a private Hamptons estate on August 19, 2026, to mark the 80th birthday of Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States. Hosting duties fell to Huma Abedin, once the senior-most aide to his wife, Hillary Clinton, and to her husband, the billionaire...

A Grammy-winning singer and songwriter whose deep, smoky voice reshaped what modern jazz vocals could sound like, Cassandra Wilson died on the morning of September 2, 2026, in Jackson, Mississippi. She was 70. Hinds County Coroner Jeramiah Howard confirmed that Wilson died at her home in Jackson, Mississippi, according to...

Beverly Vance Aikins says that if she ever came face to face with Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat running for Senate in Michigan, she would probably throw a punch — and then, in the same breath, said she has no intention of doing any such thing. The mother of Vice...

Viewers of “The Source” saw the president’s polling problem on screen on Monday, August 31, 2026, when CNN host Kaitlan Collins displayed a graphic in which President Donald Trump’s net approval sat at minus 32 percentage points. The Republican Party itself registered minus 21 in the network’s own polling...

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...