"The View" hosts clashed over Michelle Obama's claim that America isn't ready for a female president, as Alyssa Farah Griffin argued Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris were "flawed."

Thirty-six House members won't seek re-election in 2026 midterms as bitter partisan climate drives lawmakers away from Congress, including moderate Republicans.

My walk through Virginia's historic Pocahontas Island, America's oldest free Black community, gave me new insights into restoring merit and faith in the American Dream.

Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar said he received a liver transplant on Monday after more than a year of being on the list.

President Trump will host Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, who oversees a major construction project that is in talks with the Trump family business.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine says he has new proposals to kick-start negotiations with Russia that have been stalled for months.

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The Security Council’s backing offered a scaffolding of international legitimacy that will be needed to persuade countries to help see the plans through.

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Larry Summers, a former Treasury secretary, is stepping back from public commitments. It’s the latest fallout for an associate of Jeffrey Epstein.

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The author’s newly unveiled papers reveal the meticulous planning and devotion to cooking that went into her big holiday meals.

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Raleigh, North Carolina, Mayor Janet Cowell indicated in a statement that U.S. Customs and Border Protection is coming to the state's capital city

Poland accuses Russian intelligence of orchestrating blast on railway used for Ukraine aid delivery.

Talk show host Bill Maher confronts Patton Oswalt about progressive politics, arguing Democrats polarized the country over gender, schools, and crime.

Once upon a time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino surprised his wife.

Parliament approves law giving police powers to raid and surveil homes in what are demarcated as security risk areas

Slovenia’s government has been accused of turning Roma neighbourhoods into “security zones” after the passing of a law giving police powers to raid and surveil homes in so-called “high-risk” areas.

At midnight on Monday, the country’s parliament backed the “Šutar law”, named after Aleš Šutar, who was killed in an altercation with a 21-year-old Romany man after rushing to a nightclub after a distress call from his son.

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ESPN appears to be making changes to Stephen A. Smith's on-air duties.

Every scene in Cary Grant’s mistaken identity caper is pure absurdity – including that famous cornfield chase. You can’t look away

Imagine: you’re a handsome and relatively successful ad man in idyllic 50s New York. You’re having a delicious mid-afternoon snack in the lobby of the Plaza hotel, which presumably cost all of $2.50, when suddenly you are abducted in broad daylight at gunpoint by two polite and well-dressed men. You don’t put up a fight. You merely walk with them to their car, trying to object in the only way you know how: asking nicely for them to stop. The kidnappers are gleeful; they’ve finally captured you, George Kaplan. That’s not your name, you exclaim, you’re Roger Thornhill! They must have the wrong man!

Thus begins Hitchcock’s funniest, most ridiculous and visually ambitious film, North by Northwest. All the hallmarks of a Hitchcock classic are here: Cary Grant as the leading man, a completely inexplicable MacGuffin (who is George Kaplan anyway? And more importantly, does anyone even care?), a director cameo, a mysterious and beautiful blonde (the darling and charming Eva Marie Saint), and a 20-minute opening so overstuffed with dialogue that you kind of tune out but it’s fine because once the inciting incident happens, you can’t look away. It’s so Hitchcockian that it borders on parody.

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A Man on the Inside Season 2 is almost here!

From Chicago to Stan & Ollie, the Oscar-nominated actor has sung on screen for years. Now he arrives on stage – inside a trunk – to serenade the audience

In one of Hollywood’s nicer ironies, character actor John C Reilly finally made it big with a song about being invisible. His Oscar-nominated performance as the duped and devoted schmuck Amos Hart in Kander and Ebb’s Chicago was defined by his solo, Mister Cellophane. Director Rob Marshall had him sing it in an empty theatre so Amos doesn’t even get an audience for his big number.

More than 20 years later, Reilly has dusted off a not dissimilar tailcoat and rouged his cheeks once more under a new moniker, Mister Romantic, and this time there’s a full house. Backed by a four-piece band he is here to win our hearts with 90 minutes of jazz standards and popular songs, plus the odd chanson and comic verse. After a dozen or so dates in the US, the show has a short run this week in London at Soho Theatre Walthamstow, whose beautifully restored interior and history as a music hall fits Mister Romantic like a glove.

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“This criminal illegal alien should have never been loose in our communities to attack this woman jogging in a park with a hammer,” Homeland Security assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

Holt praised the Outer Banks star as "so beautiful" and "so talented."

House of Commons Speaker tells lawmakers Beijing is using ‘recruitment agents and consultants’

Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them

The "Real Housewives of Atlanta" alum discussed her divorce, as well as her new romance with Kyle Mowitz, at BravoCon over the weekend.