The Global Update

The final days of Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard’s term appear to be unfolding with less acrimony than the controversies that marked much of her tenure in office. The scandal-plagued and self-described “super mayor,” a Democrat, failed to show up for her final village board meeting on Monday, marking her fourth consecutive absence, according to reports….

Tony Blanco, a former Major League Baseball player who played for the Washington Nationals, was credited with saving a teammate before he died in a Dominican Republic roof collapse. Former MLB player Esteban Germán told MLB reporter Héctor Gómez he had just returned to the bathroom and sat down at their table when Blanco noticed…

Biden administration State Department officials held private talks with Beijing counterparts about the Chinese spy balloon that intercepted U.S. airspace in 2023, and discussed the implications the balloon’s publicity would have on the relationship between the U.S. and China, according to Trump administration officials.  U.S. officials identified the spy balloon infiltrating U.S. airspace on Jan….

Vice President JD Vance spoke out against Sen. Mitch McConnell’s, R-Ky., vote against confirming Elbridge Colby to serve as undersecretary of defense for policy. “Mitch’s vote today—like so much of the last few years of his career—is one of the great acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen,” Vance declared in a post on X….

A former member of the Washington Post editorial board accused a colleague of robbing him of his humanity and confessed to going to HR over a line in an editorial he disagreed with, according to a review of his upcoming memoir.  Jonathan Capehart wrote he was sent into an “eye-popping rage” that caused him to…

Zack Peter, host of the popular pop culture podcast “No Filter,” has been following the downward spiral of “Snow White” from the beginning.  Though some estimates from February predicted the film to make upwards of $85 million domestically in its opening weekend, “Snow White” opened in the U.S. and Canada to only $43 million in…

Before you can reap an abundant harvest, you have to put in the hard work of tilling the soil, sowing good seed, and waiting for it to take root. No one understands that better than our farmers. In my 50 days as USDA secretary, I’ve become convinced American farmers, ranchers, and producers have been some…

Lawyers for Massachusetts murder suspect Karen Read are asking Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to put her trial on hold until after the nation’s highest court considers her petition to review a lower court’s decision not to toss out two of the three charges she is facing. Read filed a writ of certiorari this…