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Kellie Pickler returns to ‘American Idol’ stage 3 years after husband’s shocking death
Kellie Pickler made a rare return to “American Idol” three years after her husband, Kyle Jacobs, died by suicide in 2023. On Monday night, the “Red High Heels” singer took the stage to duet with Hannah Harper, who is in the Top 5 of this season’s competition series. The women sang Martina McBride’s “A Broken…
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Hegseth ends press conference after snapping at question about Netanyahu’s ‘pull’ on Trump
At the end of a brief and subdued Pentagon press conference on the Iran war, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cut off a reporter from Zero Hedge for suggesting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu will “pull” Donald Trump back into escalating the conflict. Toward the end of a long question from a reporter identifying…
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Approaching Half of New Podcasts Appear to Be AI Slop
Approaching half of new podcasts appear to be AI slop. Of the 10,871 new podcast feeds created in the past nine days, 4,243 of them, or 39 percent, have signs of being AI-generated, data from the Podcast Index cited by Bloomberg last week showed. “It’s absurd,” Dave Jones, who runs the Podcast Index, said on…
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Trump said to sink his own case during unscripted rant: ‘Got his words in a twist’
President Donald Trump hosted 130 small business owners at the White House Monday in honor of National Small Business Week, but what was supposed to celebrate entrepreneurs quickly derailed into a lengthy diatribe about the U.S. war against Iran, one that journalist Prem Thakker suggested undermined the president’s position. Trump has repeatedly called his war…
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Husband accused of killing pregnant wife cut off ankle monitor and flew to Italy seeking asylum
A Texas man accused of killing his pregnant wife cut off his ankle monitor and fled to Italy just before his trial began, his attorney said. Lee Mongerson Gilley, 39, who is charged with murdering his wife, Christa Bauer Gilley, in Houston in 2024, was due to appear in court on Tuesday but instead flew to…
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110 freeway closed in both directions outside Port of Los Angeles for tunnel fire
All lanes of the 110 freeway leading to and from the Port of Los Angeles were shut down Tuesday morning due to a tunnel fire, authorities said. The fire began in a tunnel under the freeway near West Harry Bridges Boulevard around 8:50 p.m. Monday and was first reported as a rubbish fire. The California…
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GOP embraces ‘unitary executive’ theory to give Trump sweeping control over mail-in voting
Federal agencies say they have yet to take steps to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail, as the Department of Justice fights a Democrat-led lawsuit against it. The Justice Department late Friday filed documents asking a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit and to not block the executive order on a…
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Bradley Cooper makes surprise Met Gala 2026 appearance for girlfriend Gigi Hadid
Bradley Cooper didn’t walk the Met Gala 2026 red carpet with girlfriend Gigi Hadid — but he did join her inside. The actor made a surprise appearance inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday night in a black suit. The Oscar nominee, 51, showed up on the heels of Hadid calling him her “happy…
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Photos: The Rescue of Timmy the Whale
Jens Büttner / DPA / GettyA helper splashes a stranded humpback whale at sunset in shallow waters of the Baltic Sea near Fährdorf, off the island of Poel, Germany, on April 24, 2026. The humpback whale, nicknamed Timmy by German media, became stranded in the area three weeks earlier. Daniel Bockwoldt / DPA / GettyGreenpeace…
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Voters disenfranchised: Louisiana strips counting power from 42,000 absentee House ballots
The Louisiana Secretary of State received more than 42,000 absentee ballots from voters for the May 16 election by the time Gov. Jeff Landry suspended primaries last week for the state’s six U.S. House races, according to records officials provided Monday. The numbers are taking on added significance after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down…