Rosie O’Donnell quietly slips back into US after defecting to Ireland after Trump’s re-election

After a self-imposed political exile to Ireland after President Donald Trump’s re-election, Rosie O’Donnell quietly returned to the United States. During an interview with Chris Cuomo on his new show, “SiriusXM’s Cuomo Mornings,” the 63-year-old actress revealed she recently returned to the country to visit her family. The actress moved to Ireland with her teenage daughter in January 2025, just prior to President Trump’s second inauguration. “I was recently home for two weeks, and I did not really tell anyone,” she told Cuomo. “I just went to see my family. I wanted to see how hard it would be for…

The key factor keeping Mohamed Diawara in Knicks’ rotation

As a second-round pick with only overseas experience on his résumé, Mohamed Diawara was considered, at best, a project. On draft night, he was only a couple of months removed from his 20th birthday, just coming off averaging 5.8 points in the French league.  Those are hardly the signals of…

Newsom’s Germany jaunt funded by little-known nonprofit run by aides

Gavin Newsom’s whirlwind weekend in Germany will cost a pretty penny, paid for by a secretive nonprofit that’s run by his longtime aides and receives money from special interests, The California Post has learned. The invite-only Munich Security Conference is being held across two luxury hotels in Old Town Munich…

AOC won’t say whether US should defend Taiwan if China invades

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) stumbled over her words at the Munich Security Conference on Friday and wouldn’t commit to defending Taiwan if China ever invades. “Um, you know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is, this is of course a very longstanding policy…

Gavin Newsom calls Trump’s climate deregulation ‘death sentence’ for US automakers — as Californians reap ,400 savings

Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed the Trump administration’s sweeping environmental deregulations are a “death sentence” for the US auto industry, slamming the rollback that’s estimated to save California drivers $2,400 — while also trying to take credit for boosting “manufacturing innovation” in the country. In remarks at the Munich Security Conference…

Trump says Zelensky must ‘get moving’ with Ukraine peace talks

President Trump jabbed at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday — blaming him for a lack of progress in peace talks to end Russia’s nearly four-year invasion. “Zelensky is going to have to get moving,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for North Carolina. “Russia wants to…

Johnson & Johnson found liable for cancer in latest talc trial, ordered to pay 0K

A jury in Pennsylvania state court on Friday awarded $250,000 to the family of a woman who sued Johnson & Johnson alleging its talc-based baby powder was to blame for her ovarian cancer, according to an attorney for plaintiffs in nationwide talc litigation against the company. The jury in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas sided with family…

Why Carlos Correa turned down Bad Bunny’s WBC insurance offer

Bad Bunny offered to pay Carlos Correa’s insurance for the World Baseball Classic.  Major League Baseball, the Astros and his agent, Scott Boras, told the Astros infielder think again. “They all told me it was a bad idea,” Correa told The Athletic. “They all told me the insurance company that…

Trump told Palm Beach police chief ‘thank goodness you’re stopping’ Epstein, claimed Ghislaine Maxwell was ‘evil’ in 2006 phone call: FBI document

Donald Trump personally called the police chief of Palm Beach, Fla. in 2006 to personally thank him for investigating Jeffrey Epstein — and told him to “focus on” the disgraced financier’s “evil” accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, according to a newly released FBI document. According to the summary of an October 2019…

Long COVID may be triggering Alzheimer’s-like changes in the brain: new study

The lasting effects of long COVID rage on. Over 20 million Americans are believed to have the debilitating post-infection condition, suffering symptoms such as severe fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations, dizziness and muscle pain. Now, new research from NYU Langone Health might explain why some patients experience incessant…

Trump says he will block US-Canada Bridge unless Canada negotiates on trade

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to prevent the opening of a bridge that will connect Michigan and Canada unless Ottawa negotiates with Washington on tariffs and the exclusion of American products.  In a lengthy post on Truth Social, Trump accused Canada of taking advantage of the United States with unfair trade…

DOJ removes redactions from some Epstein files in response to Massie, Khanna’s complaints co-conspirators’ names were hidden

Several redactions have been lifted from documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) accused the Justice Department of improperly blacking out names of possible co-conspirators, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Monday night. After viewing unredacted files, the lawmakers told…

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