The Global Update

Two years after the only known private copy of the U.S. Constitution printed by Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress, was found in a filing cabinet of a North Carolina home, the document was sold for $9 million at auction.  Until 2022, the 237-year-old document was collecting dust in a metal filing cabinet underneath…

A man claims to have spent thousands of dollars eating at his new favorite location – hospital cafeterias.  Omar Shafiq, 33, told news agency SWNS that he has eaten more than 700 meals at various hospitals throughout the United Kingdom, spending a total of £10,000 (nearly $13,000) since 2022.  And while one might think that…

While cannabis has historically been more popular with younger groups, a growing number of older adults are turning to the drug for a variety of reasons — but are the potential benefits worth the risk? A recent poll by the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging found that among people 50 years of…

After losing her husband, “Beatrice” turned to an online dating site for seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic. She quickly matched with and fell hard for a person she thought was a 66-year-old Spanish lumberjack who looked uncannily like her husband.  “I was missing not having him here to talk about, you know, what was going…

Three people were killed and eight others were wounded in a shooting at a trail ride party in Holmes County, Mississippi, as they were celebrating a school’s homecoming football win several hours after the game concluded. The Holmes County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a shooting on Highway 17 around 12:30 a.m. Saturday…

Shirley MacLaine shared candid details about her love life in her upcoming memoir. The 90-year-old actress, who previously penned her best-selling 1983 autobiography “Out on a Limb,” will release her new book “The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from This Marvelous Lifetime” on Oct. 22. During an interview with People magazine ahead of the…

The New York Yankees are going to the World Series for the first time since Obama’s first year in office.  Juan Soto hit a three-run home run on Saturday to bring the American League pennant back to the Bronx for the first time since 2009. The 25-year-old superstar outfielder worked seven pitches against Cleveland Guardians…

A guest staying at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel heard a “really loud, violent scream” coming from Liam Payne’s room before the One Direction singer’s death, according to a new report. Payne died at the age of 31 on Wednesday, after he fell three stories from the balcony of his room at the hotel in Buenos…

The New England Patriots are the latest NFL team to make the trip across the Atlantic Ocean for a game in the United Kingdom. At some point after the players arrive in London, they typically engage with the international media. Drake Maye, who will make his NFL starter debut against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday,…

Colorado head coach Deion Sanders says he likes Barack Obama, but he had to call the former president out this week.  Obama picked the Arizona Wildcats to beat Sanders’ Buffaloes in a game Saturday. During a speech in Tucson, Arizona, Friday, Obama claimed he even saw the Colorado buses when his plane landed and reminded…