The Global Update

A man with the deadliest form of brain cancer has no signs of the disease after taking an experimental drug. Ben Trotman was 40 when he was diagnosed in 2022 with glioblastoma, the most aggressive cancerous brain tumor. Patients typically live an average of 15 months after diagnosis, and the five-year survival rate is just…

Ken Langone, the billionaire founder of Home Depot, recently said of President Donald Trump, “I think he’s got a good shot at going down in history as one of our best presidents ever.”  That’s high praise from one of America’s most successful entrepreneurs, and well-deserved. President Trump is on a roll; as Langone said, “like…

Newly displayed 1,300-year-old doodles suggest that medieval monastic life wasn’t all about solemn chants and holy scripture. Now on view at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, the scribbles are part of the “Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe” exhibit until October 24. In a release shared with…

Queen Elizabeth II’s final years were reportedly marked by sorrow after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made their exit – and for the royals, this has been “unforgivable.” The claim was made by British royals expert Hilary Fordwich, who alleged that the monarch had already been disheartened leading up to the couple’s 2018 wedding. “It…

Following 38 months of silence, legal roadblocks and grief, the board members of Uvalde CISD unanimously voted in favor of releasing the records from the horrifying mass shooting at Robb Elementary. The board’s vote follows a recent decision by the Fourth Court of Appeals ruling in favor of several news outlets that have requested both…

“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart lambasted CBS on Monday over its decision to cancel “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” dismissing the claim that it was a financial decision and not meant to appease President Donald Trump.  “Obviously, I am certainly not the most objective to comment on this matter,” Stewart conceded before revisiting…

The family of a Long Island man who tragically died in a freak MRI-related accident is claiming that the technician is at fault for their loved one’s death.  The incident occurred at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury on Wednesday afternoon, where Keith McAllister, 61, was pulled into the machine by its powerful magnetic force and…

Former Vice President Kamala Harris was mocked on Monday for commemorating the one-year anniversary of the start of her failed presidential campaign. One year ago Monday, then-President Joe Biden announced via social media that he would be dropping out of the presidential race. He shortly thereafter endorsed Harris, who went on to become the Democratic…

A judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from stripping Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood after Congress and President Donald Trump agreed to partially defund the nonprofit through passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts said in her order partially…

Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart has reportedly accepted a buyout and is leaving the Jeff Bezos-owned paper after nearly two decades. Capehart, who won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing with the New York Daily News in 1999, has served as an editorial writer for the Washington Post for over 18 years. He was a…