OCTOBER 22, 2025
Teddy Roosevelt built a tennis court in 1902 near what is now called the West Wing, in the shadow of the office building that housed the State, War and Navy departments, according to the White House Historical Association.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Standing at a podium last week in the East Room, President Donald Trump talked about two men who had advised him...
OCTOBER 18, 2025
It's official -- four years after releasing Windows 11, Microsoft ended support for Windows 10 on Oct. 14, 2025 (though it will continue to offer security updates for one more year).
While many Windows 11 holdouts are now finally making the switch, a significant number of PC owners have found that their computers don't seem to meet the minimum system requirements for updating...
OCTOBER 18, 2025
Participants in the 'No Kings' rally in Chicago (Getty Images)
John Cusack spoke out against President Donald Trump at the “No Kings” protest in Chicago today, saying the city’s message to his administration is: “Go to hell!”
The 59-year-old High Fidelity and Say Anything star is a longtime resident of the city.
In an interview with CNN at the rally, Cusack claimed that Trump misunderstands Chicago. The president has asked...
OCTOBER 18, 2025
Consumers are finding that tariffs are costly as well as tough to navigate. Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Getty Images
US consumers are feeling the pinch of tariffs on small orders shipping into the US.
The tariffs are also complicating international shipping, customers are finding.
Problems at UPS have compounded the issue, they say.
Rich DeThomas never thought ordering wine from Italy would be this complicated.
In...
OCTOBER 18, 2025
A demonstrator wearing a Cookie Monster costume holds a placard depicting U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, U.S Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson as people march down the National...
OCTOBER 16, 2025
Drone footage shows Gaza before and after war in shocking scale of destruction. (Anadolu Agency via Reuters)
As Donald Trump heralded a “new dawn” for the Middle East at his Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Facebook reminded me that exactly 11 years ago to the day, I was also in the Egyptian resort city, covering another Gaza peace summit, after another bloody war between Hamas and Israel.
The 2014 Gaza conference...
OCTOBER 14, 2025
People watch the sunset from the Washington Monument ahead of the first supermoon of the year, known as the Harvest Moon, rising above the National Mall, in view of the dome of the U.S. Capitol during the sixth day of a shutdown of the federal government in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 6, 2025.
Douglas Jackson, a service-disabled veteran...
OCTOBER 14, 2025
President Donald Trump holds a signed document during a summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. via Associated Press
A BBC Middle East expert has delivered a brutal reality check to Donald Trump’s claims that the war between Israel and Hamas “is over”.
The US president made the bold prediction as world leaders gathered in Sharm El-Sheikh in...
OCTOBER 14, 2025
Several major US airports - including Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International, Portland International, Seattle-Tacoma International, Charlotte Douglas International Airport and three in New York - are refusing to play a video of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in which she blames Democrats for the federal government shutdown.
The dispute highlights the remarkable push by the Department of...
OCTOBER 12, 2025
Andrew Ross Sorkin and Lesley Stahl at the NYSE / Credit: 60 Minutes
After nearly a decade spent studying the most famous stock market crash in history, financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin warns that the Wall Street of today echoes the market of 1929, when highs preceded a massive slump, leading to the Great Depression.
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