Donald Trump turned 78 years old on Friday, surrounded by loyal fans (who he charged to be there) for a campaign rally in West Palm Beach, Florida. 77 was a big year for the candidate — he clinched the Republican nomination for president a third time, racked up 34 felony convictions, and lost his right to serve […]
CAIRO (AP) — Human rights experts working for the United Nations on Monday urged Yemen’s Houthi rebels to release five people from the country’s Baha’i religious minority who have been in detention for a year. The five are among 17 Baha’i followers detained last May when the Houthis raided a Baha’i gathering in the capital […]
Anyone who believes in facts knows Donald Trump spouts lies like a high-pressure sprinkler squirts water. But watching him lately, and given the way his supporters believe every dishonest word, I have to ask: Why isn’t this unrelenting dissembler telling bigger and bigger lies? Why isn’t he raising the stakes above their already shocking height? […]
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak was in high school the first time he left his home state of California. He was boarding a flight to Boulder to check out the University of Colorado campus with some friends. The electronics prodigy had designed his first computer at age 13, and by the time he applied to colleges, […]
Editor’s Note: Sign up to get this weekly column as a newsletter. We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. “We are most deeply asleep at the switch,” wrote Annie Dillard, “when we fancy we control any switches at all. We sleep to time’s hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if we […]
Andrew Tate may be facing a mounting number of international charges for alleged sex crimes, but this doesn’t mean we’ve seen the end of “masculinity influencers” who make big bucks by preying upon the the insecurities of young men. On Tuesday, Ben Terris of the Washington Post profiled Nick Adams, a self-described “Alpha Male” who […]
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with James Tignanelli, with the Police Officers Association of Michigan as he attends a campaign event on April 02, 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Spencer Platt via Getty Images A Michigan police union has become the second to back Donald Trump, who glorifies and promises to pardon individuals charged […]
Allison McCarthy would love to stop and smell the roses—but she’d rather cash them in to pay off her student loans. Last week, the 28-year-old health care worker set a challenge for herself: she would try to pay off the last of her student debt by live-streaming on TikTok. She asked her viewers to buy […]
Taylor Swift urged fans in her adopted home state of Tennessee and other Super Tuesday voting jurisdictions to exercise their democratic rights by casting ballots today. The simple message to vote might not seem impactful, but this comes from the world’s most famous pop star — with 282 million Instagram followers. “I wanted to remind […]
A Nigerian pastor has been arrested over allegations he fraudulently got people to part with their money. Theo O Ebonyi, well-known in Benue state, is accused of swindling his followers and others out of more than 1.3bn naira ($930,000; £740,000). He was detained and freed on bail last year, but this has only just been […]
Trump asked his followers on Truth Social whether he resembles the King of Rock and Roll. He shared a photo of half of his face spliced with Elvis Presley’s. The post was widely mocked on social media and sparked questions about his state of mind. Former President Donald Trump shared a strange post on social media […]
In one of Brenda Gantt’s recent Facebook videos, she demonstrated for more than 3 million followers how to turn leftover biscuits into snacks to “munch on all day long.” For her followers, it feels an awful lot like they’re sitting across the table from Gantt on any given morning. In the biscuit video, she was […]