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Woman on motorcycle plows through NYC park, mowing down 9 pedestrians in her path
Ten people were injured Sunday when a woman on a three-wheel motorcycle plowed through a Brooklyn park, striking several pedestrians in her path, according to authorities. The woman operating the Can-Am trike allegedly failed to navigate the roadway and crashed into Commodore Barry Park in Fort Greene around 6:40 p.m. — hitting nine pedestrians, according…
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LA voters pass another tax that’ll impact almost all shopping trips
Los Angeles County has voted to jack up the prices they pay for everyday items by approving a sales-tax increase — in a move critics say will backfire by sending residents across county lines for shopping trips. Measure ER, which passed by more than 25,000 votes, is set to increase sales taxes by half a…
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Summer football notebook: Crescenta Valley found its new QB in a strange way
Paul Schilling has taken over as football coach at Crescenta Valley High, and one of his first decisions was turning running back Julian Savery into a quarterback. It’s not as if Savery, a 5-foot-11, 200-pound senior, was giving hints he wanted to play quarterback last season. In fact, he missed all of 2025 because of…
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Ugandan army chief orders the closure of a major news platform
KAMPALA, Uganda — The offices of a major news organization in Uganda were shut down on the orders of the military chief, who warned Sunday that all media “will follow the rules” while asserting his authority as the East African country’s de facto ruler. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the eldest son of President Yoweri Museveni, has served as…
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Khadijah Farrakhan, ‘first lady of Nation of Islam’ and wife of famous pastor, dies at 90
Khadijah Farrakhan, longtime wife of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, died Saturday, the Nation of Islam has announced. She was 90. “Mother Khadijah” worked alongside her provocative and charismatic husband for decades, helping lead their religious and sociopolitical movement, which espouses Black self-reliance. Its home base was Mosque Maryam on the South Side of…
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Miranda Devine: Dems are in desperate need of a new leader as communists overrun their party — but all they got is Obama
Just as his party is overrun by communist revolutionaries, Barack Obamahas decided to take center stage in a frenetic public relations campaign, ostensibly to promote his so-called library. He’s here, there and everywhere, silkily opining about everything under the sun, except the only thing that matters: the disintegration of his party. Like Nero playing the…
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Biggest Battles ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘House of the Dragon’ Skipped Over
“House of the Dragon” Season 3 kicking off with The Battle of the Gullet has catapulted it into the highest echelon of battles seen in the HBO franchise, but not every skirmish gets its due. The second episode of Season 3 finds Daemon (Matt Smith) celebrating a major win thanks to his Riverlands army teaming…
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Wife, kids of Dodgers’ Miguel Rojas in Caracas when earthquakes hit Venezuela
Less than two hours before the Dodgers took the field in Minneapolis on Wednesday, a pair of powerful earthquakes rattled Venezuela, where the wife and two kids of Dodgers shortstop Miguel Rojas were visiting and where his sister lives. The successive magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes left the country’s northern coastal state of La Guaira…
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‘House of the Dragon’ Shocker: Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke Unpack That Episode 2 Ending
Note: This story contains spoilers from “House of the Dragon” Season 3, Episode 2. “No one’s having a good time.” That’s how “House of the Dragon” star Olivia Cooke put Season 3 when speaking to TheWrap, especially after the shocking actions that ended Episode 2, aptly titled “Rhaenyra the Cruel” — with Rhaenyra ascending the throne…
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Sam Reid Goes Deep on Lestat and Armand’s Sick Symbiosis: ‘They Give Each Other Meaning’
Listen up, Lesmand lovers – Sam Reid has a lot to say. The polarizing “Interview With the Vampire” and “The Vampire Lestat” pairing (Lestat + Armand = Lesmand) has one of the prickliest and most puzzling bonds in a story full of toxic-yet-tantalizing relationships. It’s also one of the longest-running in the story so far,…