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Tornado barrels through Oklahoma, damaging 40 homes and shutting down roads
ENID, Okla. — Communities began cleaning up Friday after a powerful tornado in Oklahoma damaged at least 40 homes, ripping roofs off of some and reducing others to rubble in a rural community as emergency crews rescued trapped residents, authorities said. The confirmed tornado Thursday moved across parts of Enid, a city of about 50,000 people near
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Court reverses GOP candidate’s defamation win over ‘soliciting sex from young girls’
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has overturned $8.2 million in damages won by former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore (AL) after he sued the Senate Majority PAC (SMP) for defamation over an advertising campaign that alleged that he was banned from a mall for “soliciting sex from young girls.” In
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Bravo Launches Full Investigation Into ‘Summer House’ Reunion Audio Leak
Bravo has launched a full investigation into how audio from Thursday’s “Summer House” Season 10 reunion taping made its way online by Friday morning, with Andy Cohen even calling the leak “illegal.” “The ‘Summer House’ Reunion audio leak represents a serious breach of trust and a clear lack of respect for the cast, crew and
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Budget airline passenger hoped to avoid paying for a return flight — by hiding in the overhead bin
He’s bin up to no good. No plane ticket, no problem. An enterprising Ryanair passenger shocked fellow flyers by stowing himself in the overhead bin during a flight from Malta to Naples, Italy. Footage of the bozo’s self-storage challenge is currently taking off, with the stowaway joking that he did it to avoid paying for
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Is the U.S. Trying to Suspend Spain From NATO? Sánchez Addresses Reported Pentagon Email
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during a press conference at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on Dec. 15, 2025. —Thomas Coex—Getty Images Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez dismissed reports that the U.S. is floating the idea of suspending Spain from the NATO alliance. An internal Pentagon email reportedly suggested various ways the Administration could punish
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A ‘Let Them’ Theory of Ideas
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. One of my favorite works on the history of ideas is an episode of the podcast 99% Invisible, titled “Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out.” For most of the show, an artist named Ben Sisto investigates the
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Trump administration flies 10-year-old back from Cuba amid custody fight involving gender identity
LOGAN, Utah — President Trump’s administration took the unusual step this week of sending a government plane to Cuba to return a 10-year-old from Utah who is at the center of a complicated and contentious custody fight involving the child’s gender identity. The child’s parent, Rose Inessa-Ethington, a transgender woman, is accused of taking the child to
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Trump hit with ‘type of thing ruins presidents’ as data shows historic drop-off in support
President Donald Trump likes to boast that he’s created a historic economy, but new polling shows he may be on the wrong side of history. The 79-year-old president was re-elected to a second term in 2024 largely on the basis of his economic message, but CNN’s Harry Enten presented polling data that shows Americans have
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California family’s worst fears realized in airport murder-suicide: ‘We were crying for help’
There wasn’t one misstep or a single failure that led to the tragedy that will forever haunt Frank Perez. But when he learned that his son — his loving, yet tortured, son who struggled with severe mental illness — fatally shot his beloved 11-year-old grandson before turning the gun on himself earlier this month at
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Longtime Trump pal: President appears ‘unstable’ after all-nighter Truth Social binge
After being alerted to the fact that Donald Trump was up well after 2AM posting on Truth Social, only to resume once again five hours later on Friday morning, a lifelong friend from his Manhattan days claimed he was worried about the president’s health and stability. On MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Jonathan Lemire pointed