USA Update

On Monday evening, more than a dozen comedians walked into a Broadway theater near Times Square game to talk about love. The group, including David Letterman, Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, Pete Davidson, Olivia Munn, Anna Wintour and Jon Stewart, were gathered for an early performance of “All In: Comedy About Love” by Simon Rich, directed […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Tuesday just off the coast of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean, the USGS said. The quake occurred at a depth of 57 kilometers (35 miles) and was centered 30 kilometers (10 miles) west of Port Vila, the largest city in the island nation. The jolt […]

Judge Juan Merchan ruled on Monday that President-elect Donald Trump’s felony conviction in his “hush money” trial should not be dismissed based on the recent Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. The president-elect’s lawyers sought a dismissal of his May conviction in the New York business records case due to the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. […]

The love affair between Slovakia’s prime minister and president is over. And for their critics, it’s another sign the country is on the decline. Robert Fico, the country’s increasingly illiberal prime minister, who was seriously injured in an assassination attempt in May, no longer has the support of his one-time loyal servant, President Peter Pellegrini. […]

MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian state government on Tuesday proposed new restrictions on protesters in response to rising antisemitism, including a ban on demonstrations outside places of worship. Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan proposed the new laws after arsonists damaged a this month and protestors kept fearful worshippers trapped inside a Sydney synagogue for three hours […]

MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton warned Democrats Monday that not bragging about President Biden’s accomplishments would allow President-elect Donald Trump to “dictate the narrative.” When Biden relinquished the Democratic nomination and passed the baton to Vice President Kamala Harris, amid pressure from his political allies, many Democrats imagined it would be an easy victory for […]

PARIS — France’s new prime minister couldn’t be more different from President Emmanuel Macron. The 73-year-old father of six speaks the béarnais dialect of the Pyrenees, owns a tractor, and spends a lot of time in the village where he was born.  Yet Bayrou, the founder of centrist party MoDem and a familiar figure in […]

Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Monday that she was quitting her job and resigning from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet. She said she differed with Trudeau over charting the best path forward for the country on questions of addressing US President-elect against Canadian goods. “Our country today faces a grave challenge,” Freeland said in her resignation […]

Unless someone gets off the bench to make a deal, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery & Fox‘s big play into sports streaming looks like it is going to trial in October 2025, a federal judge ordered today. Making official what she told lawyers and executives for the lumbering media giants and upstart Fubo TV on December […]

Celebrity couple Matteo Guidicelli and Sarah Geronimo are taking a well-deserved break in Japan.