The Global Update

After a full pardon from President Donald Trump, Todd and Julie Chrisley are making a return to reality television.  The Lifetime network previously greenlit a docuseries — “The Untitled Chrisleys Project” — on the family prior to Todd and Julie’s release from prison. The project, which is set to premiere later this year, showcases how…

The Austin Police Department has issued a Be On the Lookout (BOLO) alert for an inmate who escaped while on hold at a psychiatric hospital in Texas. McArthur Mathis was transported to The Cross Creek Psychiatric and Addiction Hospital on Wednesday after being in custody in Grimes County since he was arrested Jan. 2 on…

Graphic content warning Twenty years have passed since 18-year-old Natalee Holloway of Alabama disappeared on May 30, 2005, during a senior trip to Aruba with her high school friends, but the Holloway family’s private investigator says there are still many unanswered questions in the case. In 2023, 36-year-old Dutch national Joran van der Sloot, the…

Rudy Giuliani, who served as mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001, mourned the death of former New York City Police Department Commissioner Bernard “Bernie” Kerik on Thursday, describing the grief of losing his “best friend” and a “true patriot” as “inexpressible.” Kerik died at 69 years old “after a private battle with…

Karen Read’s defense team of heavy-hitting attorneys is ready to begin tearing down the prosecution’s murder case against her after the state rested its case this week. Read is accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, outside an acquaintance’s house party just after midnight on Jan. 29, 2022. The prosecution alleges that…

Elon Musk is finishing his official role in the Trump administration, but if President Trump’s latest Truth Social post is any indication, the billionaire isn’t going far. “I am having a Press Conference tomorrow at 1:30 P.M. EST, with Elon Musk, at the Oval Office,” Trump posted Thursday. “This will be his last day, but…

Anthony Weiner, the disgraced ex-congressman seeking to return to politics as a member of New York’s City Council, quipped during an interview that “women are crazy about me” despite going to prison and being required to register as a sex offender. “Oh for sure, for sure, my god, they’re crazy about me. Women are crazy…

A Maryland teen who allegedly broke into 121 cars in a single night was released within five hours of his arrest and local authorities say they are furious because the state considers the crimes to be “lower level,” so consequences are not expected. The unidentified 16-year-old boy was arrested last week by the Laurel Police…

The University of Texas at Austin’s athletic department has long been heralded for its access to seemingly unmatched financial resources.  The Texas Longhorns football program maintains arguably some of the best — if not the top — amenities in the nation. Since the advent of name, image and likeness (NIL), there has been a noticeable…

Sir Ian McKellen will be introducing a UK performance of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” featuring a cast entirely of transgender and non-binary performers this summer.  The Trans What You Will theater group will soon be globally livestreaming their performance of a rehearsed reading of Shakespeare comedy “Twelfth Night” at The Space theater in London on…