The Global Update

Just days after President Donald Trump sent a warning to California about letting a transgender athlete compete in the girls’ track and field state championship, the state allowed a trans athlete to take two titles against female competitors on Saturday.  AB Hernandez, a transgender student athlete for Jurupa Valley High School, took first place in…

Clint Eastwood declared that he has no intention of slowing down as he marks his 95th birthday. In a recent interview with the Austrian newspaper Kurier, the legendary actor and director, who turned 95 on Saturday, revealed that he is in pre-production on a new movie, dispelling rumors that 2024’s “Juror #2” would be his…

The Indiana Pacers are going to the NBA Finals after defeating the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals, and they had a marquee fan in attendance to watch it all go down. WNBA phenom Caitlin Clark sat courtside during the Pacers’ 125-108 Game 6 victory alongside Indiana Fever teammates Sophie Cunningham and Aliyah…

Elon Musk confirmed on Saturday he is not taking ketamine, an anesthetic drug, after suspicious reports from news outlets and a bizarre video of Musk playing with a spoon at dinner resurfaced online. The video, filmed in March, appears to show the 53-year-old tech mogul balancing spoons at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. “Watch the…

There was no mistake when the beloved but forlorn accountant Norm Peterson chugged his way into the fictional TV bar “Cheers.” “Norm!!!” hollered the regulars in unison, ranging from mail carrier Cliff Clavin to “Mayday” Sam Malone, the former Major League pitcher-turned barkeep. If only former House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, or late Rep. Buz…

The Baltimore Orioles’ Coby Mayo took some heat Saturday during his team’s 4-2 win over the Chicago White Sox.  In the bottom of the fourth inning, with two outs and a runner on second, Mayo hit a single to left field for his first career MLB RBI.  When Mayo attempted to advance to second base…

ICE agents confiscated a knife from a “violent” Venezuelan migrant with possible gang ties during a tense arrest in San Diego captured on video and released by federal officials Saturday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shared the video on X, showing agents pinning the suspect to the ground outside what appears to be a…

The Trump administration recently pulled Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be NASA administrator, alluding that he was not in “complete alignment” with the president’s agenda. “The Administrator of NASA will help lead humanity into space and execute President [Donald] Trump’s bold mission of planting the American flag on the planet Mars,” White House Assistant Press Secretary…

U2 frontman and longtime global activist Bono took a swing at the Trump administration disbanding the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)) on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, blaming the cuts for a staggering 300,000 deaths. And he was swiftly fact-checked by Rogan and Elon Musk in a takedown that lit up social media. “This…