The Texas education board on Friday approved a required reading list for more than 5 million public school students that includes Bible passages, widening conservative efforts to push Christian teachings in U.S. classrooms. The Texas State Board of Education, which is controlled by Republicans, approved the list of over critics who argued the titles lack diversity and blur the separation of church and state enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Supporters say Judeo-Christian traditions were fundamental to the nation’s founding and that should be reflected in the public school curriculum. The proposal, which mandates literary works such as Charles Dickens’ “Great…
Luxury retailer Saks Global on Friday emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy after nearly five months, under a new ownership structure and corporate name and with a smaller store footprint and lower debt. The company will operate under the name Exemplar Luxury Group (ELG), and will focus on luxury retail, after Saks closed most of…
Soccer legend Lionel Messi was honored with an 85-foot statue in his home country of Argentina (in the small town of Cutral Có, in the country’s Patagonia region), marking the biggest Messi statue ever made. However, the pose that Messi is in for the statue is raising eyebrows, especially when…
Prime Day is here again, but the best value on Amazon is its Prime Video streaming service. For a reasonable price, you can stream some of Hollywood’s biggest hits from the past and present. The streamer just added several compelling titles in June, with the effective horror film, Escape Room,…
President Trump on Friday urged Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt to dispute his loss in the primary. The Republican president repeated claims he’s been making in recent days that he believes California’s elections were “rigged.” “Spencer Pratt…He shouldn’t go away quietly. He should protest because it was, in my…
It’s no secret that there has been some tension between the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani and Dalton Rushing. But could it be a bit overblown? Joe Maddon, Ohtani’s former manager, believes it is and called the disconnection between the two “a bad look.” “The solution to this is [to put] Shohei,…
Love Island USA’s Gabriel Vasconcelos questioned how taboo sex is in America after discussing his hookups in the villa. “I was not worried about anybody else [having sex in the villa]. I was focusing on myself in the moment,” Gabriel said on the Thursday, June 25, episode of “The Viall…
US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Friday that American forces conducted military strikes on Iran in a “powerful response” to an Iranian drone attack on a commercial ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian drone storage facilities and coastal radar sites were hit by US warplanes in retaliation for the Thursday…
The wealthy husband and wife co-founders of the plant-based supplement brand Cymbiotika and their young children came face-to-face with armed home invaders in Cannes who escaped with millions, The California Post has learned. Shahab Elmi, Durana Elmi and their two minor children had rented a home in France for The…
QUICK FACTSName: Socotra ArchipelagoLocation: Northwest Indian Ocean, off the coasts of Yemen and SomaliaCoordinates: 12.48, 53.85Why it’s incredible: It is a biodiversity hotspot that hosts hundreds of species found nowhere else on Earth.The Socotra Archipelago is a cluster of four islands and two rocky islets belonging to Yemen. It is…
Matt Stafford is about to do something new for the first time in his professional football career. Serve as a mentor. When Stafford appeared as a guest on the Green Light Podcast, hosted by Chris Long, Stafford was asked what he hopes rookie quarterback Ty Simpson will say about him…
TLC star Deon Derrico broke his silence in an exclusive interview with Us Weekly after ex-wife Karen Derrico was arrested for threatening him and their 14 kids. “I still love her as a mother of my children. But I do not like her at all. I don’t like what she’s…
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was the target of an anonymous report that police determined was false and that he says forced him to spend a night away from his four-year-old twins. Buttigieg wrote in a Substack post that a Michigan State Police officer told him they found nothing to…
Google is reportedly looking to bleed publishers yet again — threatening to exclude them from a lucrative new artificial-intelligence partnership unless they allow the tech giant to train its AI bots on their valuable content. In recent months, Google has been pitching news and entertainment publishers on a new pilot…
With the aid of AI, scientists have identified a potential new antibiotic to treat gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted bacterial infection that’s increasingly resistant to drugs. The newfound antibiotic has shown promise in lab experiments involving a “vagina on a chip,” researchers report in a new study.”There’s an urgent need to…
Pass the patch. The US is in the middle of an estrogen patch shortage, with menopausal women struggling to get ahold of hormone therapy to stave off their symptoms — and experts don’t think the problem’s likely to resolve any time soon. But a study recently published in the New…
Pesach Osina, an Orthodox Jew who won the Democratic primary for a state Assembly seat to represent parts of Queens on Tuesday, doesn’t think that the party whose nomination he secured, which has embraced some politicians with antisemitic and anti-Israel views, is the same party that he has known his…
MS NOW is overhauling its weekend lineup by leaning harder into podcasts, taped programming and outside partnerships — a shakeup that will also mark the end of longtime anchor Alex Witt’s nearly three-decade run at the network. MS NOW chief Rebecca Kutler informed staff Friday that the network is revamping…
Who is responsible for AI’s output? Artificial intelligence (AI) companies like OpenAI maintain that they are not. In fact, their terms and conditions in 2023 stated that responsibility lies solely with the user. A German court disagrees.On June 9, a Munich court (subject to appeal) ruled that Google can be…
Matt Miller got candid about next steps following a horrific crash Wednesday that led to the amputation of his left arm. The ESPN NFL draft analyst shared Friday morning that he was set for surgery, with the procedure being “a big one.” “To find out if my shoulder can be…
Nearly a decade after The Vampire Diaries came to an end, Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley are reuniting for a new show. The former costars will executive produce and star in Hulu’s You Deserve to Know, which is based on the 2025 thriller book of the same name by Aggie…
Sephora is about to be as quiet as a library. The beauty retailer is rolling out “Quiet Hours” to all locations after a successful try in 32 of its stores. The inclusive initiative is aimed at anyone who “enjoys a more peaceful and calmer shopping environment,” the company said earlier…
Israel and Lebanon signed a framework peace agreement on Friday — icing out Iran and its proxy group Hezbollah — following four days of negotiations in Washington. “In this performance-based trilateral framework agreement, Iran is out, Hezbollah is out, and the road to peace between Israel and Lebanon is in,”…
Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and several top CEOs will travel to China with President Trump as he lobbies President Xi Jinping to invest in America. Meta’s Dina Powell McCormick, BlackRock’s Larry Fink and Boeing’s Robert Kelly Ortberg are also part of the US delegation, a White House official told The…
The Trump administration is engaged in a targeted effort to censor Disney and its ABC network through a series of sweeping regulatory actions, the sole Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission said Monday. “What Disney and ABC are facing is not a series of coincidental regulatory actions but a sustained, coordinated…
Sergey Brin’s “MAGA girlfriend” is pushing back on claims that she dragged the Google co-founder to the political right, insisting the billionaire tech mogul’s political change of heart can be laid squarely at the feet of Democrats. “The Democrats red-pilled him. I didn’t have to do anything,” Gerelyn “GG” Gilbert-Soto…
Refresh 2026-05-11T16:42:15.036Z “I hope it’s fine” — President Trump says “we’re in very good shape” on hantavirus President Donald Trump speaks during a Maternal Healthcare Event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2026.(Image credit: Getty Images) President Donald Trump was asked about…
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Missouri football player Ahmad Hardy is recovering after being shot at a concert in Mississippi early Sunday morning, the school announced on Monday. Hardy, a 20-year-old running back, is in stable condition according to a statement from the football program, who added that the student-athlete had underwent surgery. “Ahmad is…
Dwayne Johnson cracked several raunchy jokes about his pal Kevin Hart’s wife, Eniko Parrish, while Hart was just inches away from him. On Sunday, May 10, Johnson, 54, was among the celebrities who took part in Netflix’s live The Roast of Kevin Hart special, poking fun at his Jumanji costar’s…
President Trump said Monday that the cease-fire with Iran “is on massive life support” after Iran’s latest peace offer contained several inflammatory provisions and no nuclear concessions. “It’s on life support,” Trump said at a maternal health event in the Oval Office. “Dr [Mehmet] Oz, life support is not a…
Airbnb is reportedly launching a political war on Mayor Zohran Mamdani over New York City’s crackdown on short-term rentals — enlisting Rev. Al Sharpton and other influential black leaders in a bid to loosen restrictions ahead of next month’s World Cup. The home-sharing giant has hosted town halls and outreach…
It’s a case of ocular extortion. A British woman is sounding the alarm on the dangers of wearable cameras after she was allegedly filmed without her consent by a man in smart glasses — who later refused to hand over the footage without payment. The woman, using the alias Alice,…
Researchers have created a new type of “quantum operation” that is dramatically more stable than previous methods. The achievement brings one hardware design, in particular — neutral‑atom qubits — a step closer to powering useful quantum computers.Quantum computers use qubits that can exist in a state of 0, 1 or…
From snack bars and “proffee” to carnivore diets, protein consumption is being hyped up everywhere these days. Getting enough is crucial not just to build bigger muscles, but to help fight infection, provide energy and support wound healing as well. And the newest addition to “protein-maxxing”? Clear protein, a superstar…
Joel Embiid and 76ers brass don’t seem to be on the same page. In the wake of the team’s ugly second-round sweep at the hands of the Knicks, which finished Sunday with a 144-114 drubbing in front of a pro-Knicks crowd in Philadelphia, The Athletic reports that the oft-injured Embiid…
Actor Nick Pasqual, whose credits include a role on How I Met Your Mother, was convicted of the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hollywood makeup artist Allie Shehorn. Following a jury trial, Pasqual, 36, was also found guilty on Friday, May 8, of injuring a spouse or partner, first-degree burglary…
A law that was brought in under Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to give all candidates an equal chance at the ballot is now being contested. In California, the primaries — dubbed the “jungle primaries” — work in a way where the two candidates, regardless of party, who secure the top two positions…
A specialty chocolate company on Friday expanded its recall of pricey candy bars to include the entire product line over fears of possible contamination with salmonella. Spring & Mulberry – a Raleigh, N.C.-based company that sells date-sweetened chocolates for $10 a bar, or $95 for a variety pack – said…
A tsunami that struck an Alaskan fjord in 2025 sloshed higher than the height of the top floor of One World Trade Center in New York, new research shows.The study, published May 6 in the journal Science, found that the tsunami reached 1,578 feet (481 meters) up the slopes of…
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When Halle Berry arrived at the London premiere of her new film “Crime 101” in January, red carpet watchers praised the 59-year-old Oscar winner’s bejeweled skirt and plunging V-neck bodysuit, worn with a striking silver pendant. But few noted the stunning vintage sparkler she had on her ring finger. It…
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