Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) had a friendly and generally light-hearted late night debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight, with only a brief mention of last week’s debate and much focus on his past as a high school teacher. “I can come up with no greater compliment than this, but you seem to me like the […]

This summer, residents of the northern French town of Villers-Saint-Paul received a disturbing warning: Don’t eat your chickens’ eggs. Tests had revealed that local eggs contained a cocktail of potentially dangerous PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” a group of man-made substances that do not break down and can cause serious health problems including cancer, liver damage […]

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart couldn’t help but mock Elon Musk after the influential multi-billionaire and X owner spoke at a rally for Donald Trump on Saturday, going viral for his awkward, enthusiastic jumping as he entered the stage. “Elon Musk has ups,” Stewart quipped in his monologue on Monday, before showing the clip […]

During a 60 Minutes interview that aired Monday, Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris made clear she owns a semiautomatic handgun and she has fired it. Harris first began talking about owning a gun during the 2019 Democrat primary season when she received pushback on her gun control agenda and her opposition to teachers being armed […]

CIA Director William Burns warned Monday of the potential for simmering clashes in the Middle East to spread across the region even as, he said, the U.S. intelligence community had assessed the leaders of Iran and Israel are not looking for “all-out conflict.” “[W]e face the very real danger of a further regional escalation of […]

Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 79 days as the presumptive, and now, official Democratic nominee for president without holding an official press conference.  Trump has held six news conferences where he took questions from the media since the beginning of August, including another on Friday after meeting with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp about hurricane […]

Connections is word-based game from The New York Times released in 2023. Today, it’s the second-most played game from the newspaper behind Wordle. Wyna Liu, Connections developer and crossword editor at the Times, recently shared her disbelief with Newsweek about the puzzle’s global appeal. “The response has been really incredible and overwhelming, and unexpected,” she […]

Drew Crecente woke at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday to find a Google Alert on his phone about his daughter. It had been 18 years since Jennifer Ann, a high school senior and Crecente’s only child, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in Austin. Grieving, Crecente had started a nonprofit in her name, working since 2006 to […]

Through two games of a knotted NLDS, whether the Mets challenge the Phillies’ best hitter or avoid him, Bryce Harper has found a way to do damage. 

Heroes, zeros and the full inside pitch from the Yankees’ 4-2 loss to the Royals in Game 2 of the ALDS on Monday.