Month: May 2025

The Indiana Pacers are one win away from heading to the NBA Finals. The Pacers took Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals, 130-131, over the New York Knicks to take a commanding 3-1 series lead. The Knicks trailed by as many as 10 in the second quarter, as the Pacers could not miss throughout…

The Abbotsford Canucks’ victory in a decisive Game 5 of the second-round American Hockey League’s Calder Cup playoff series against the Colorado Eagles was marred by a chair-throwing incident. Before the Canucks celebrated a 5-0 win and a spot in the Western Conference Finals, a rowdy fan got into a heated exchange with the team’s…

Politico writer Bill Scher floated a list of 21 “heavy hitters” ranging from former Biden government officials to comedians on Tuesday to form a “Democratic shadow cabinet” to take on the Trump administration. Scher sought to look beyond the “presidential wannabes” and highlight “accomplished people with the ability to speak plainly and the credibility to…

If diplomacy is theater, Justin Trudeau walked onstage in costume to greet royalty. The former Canadian prime minister made a head-turning entrance at Tuesday’s regal proceedings in Ottawa, attending King Charles III’s historic Speech from the Throne, not in the expected leather brogues or polished Oxfords but rather in a pair of turquoise and orange…

The Texas Longhorns have advanced to the College Football Playoff in each of the past two seasons.  The Longhorns are once again projected to make a run in this upcoming season’s playoff, but head coach Steve Sarkisian is doing what he can to temper some of those lofty expectations. Sarkisian also threw cold water on…

Coco Gauff was slightly ill-prepared for her first-round match at the 2025 French Open on Tuesday, but that didn’t stop the young American tennis star from cruising through to the next round.  Gauff, who won the U.S. Open in 2023, arrived at Court Philippe-Chatrier on Tuesday without her rackets, which she only realized after she began searching…

Applesauce is a food commonly fed to babies and a popular snack for children. It’s also apparently a favorite of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs. During testimony last Thursday at Combs’ ongoing sex-trafficking trial, a former employee of Combs said that the rapper “loves applesauce and eats it on the side or top of a lot…

Broadway veteran Patti LuPone lashed out at President Donald Trump for his overhaul of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and called for the building to “get blown up,” in an interview published Monday. In February, Trump fired several Kennedy Center board members, including the president and chairman, and…

Two U.S. Secret Service officers have been suspended after reportedly fighting with each other in front of former President Barack Obama’s Washington D.C. mansion last week.   The two uniformed officers were outside Obama’s residence around 2:30 a.m. on May 21 when one called for a supervisor to come immediately before “I whoop this girl’s…

The WNBA and the Indiana Fever announced that the allegations of “hateful comments” directed toward Angel Reese on May 17 were “not substantiated.” Reese and her Chicago Sky faced the Fever and Caitlin Clark, and at one point, the two had to be separated after a flagrant foul by Clark against Reese. The association announced…