(WASHINGTON) — After a sweeping victory over Vice President Kamala Harris on Nov. 5, President-elect Donald Trump is now set to become just the second ever to serve nonconsecutive terms in office. Trump has wasted no time in moving to assemble his team for a second term in the White House — naming Susie Wiles as his […]
Kevin Carter/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Aviation Administration has banned U.S. flights to Haiti for 30 days in the wake of Monday’s gunfire incidents, according to a Notice to Air Mission issued Tuesday. “U.S. civil aviation operations in the territory and airspace of Haiti below 10,000 feet” will be prohibited, according to the FAA. […]
Jerritt Clark Amazon Music and the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective are back with the fourth annual Your Future Is Now scholarship program, created to give students at historically Black colleges and universities a chance to explore the music industry. The program provides a $10,000 scholarship to five HBCU students and a $10,000 grant to two […]
ABC/Paula Lobo Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson wasn’t holding back in a GQ Man of the Year cover story interview, which addresses some reports of seemingly odd behavior on the set of his upcoming holiday movie, Red One. Evidently, that includes him not holding back on set, either: “I pee in a bottle,” he confirmed to the magazine, […]
Welcome to Snyder’s Soapbox! Here, I pontificate about matters related to Major League Baseball on a weekly basis (it might be slightly more irregular during the offseason). Some of the topics will be pressing matters, some might seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things, and most will be somewhere in between. The good thing […]
(LONDON) — President Joe Biden hosted Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the White House on Tuesday as the outgoing administration seeks cease-fire progress in Gaza and Lebanon before President-elect Donald Trump takes power in January. “I know that you’re working very hard to make sure that this war will end,” Herzog told Biden as they met in […]
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Louisiana’s new law requiring all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments was temporarily blocked on Tuesday by a judge who called it “unconstitutional on its face and in all applications.” A multi-faith group of Louisiana families with children in public schools sued the state to challenge the law, […]
Photo by Arik Mazur/FilmMagic Daniel Hernandez, the rapper known as Tekashi 6ix9ine, was sentenced Tuesday to a month and a half in prison for several violations of his supervised release. The sentence is slightly more than what federal prosecutors sought. “Your breach of the court’s trust is profound,” Judge Paul Engelmayer said. Hernandez pleaded guilty […]
With the NFL concluding its international series Sunday with the Panthers and Giants in Germany, international expansion in the coming years continues to be at the top of mind for league executives. Outside of London, where the NFL has for years centered its international operations, the country seeing the greatest investment from the NFL is […]
(NEW YORK) — The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it’s happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes intensified by a warming planet and drought-fueled wildfires are destroying our communities. Rising seas and flooding are swallowing our homes. And record-breaking heatwaves are reshaping our way of life. The good news […]
