2023

The government of Pakistan has taken a big step in its march toward autocracy by throwing a blanket media ban over former Prime Minister Imran Khan, its latest attempt to silence the most electable politician the country has seen in decades. It’s another move by the state aimed at crushing any chance Khan has of…

IMRAN KHAN BECAME Pakistan’s prime minister through a most unusual route. As he explained in an interview on Sunday night, Khan was for decades the nation’s most famous cricketer, before transitioning into the world of philanthropy, building hospitals and supporting universities. From there, he moved into politics, founding a party — the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or…

Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada created a hazy sunrise on the Grand Strand of South Carolina on Tuesday morning, June 6, footage shows. Michelle Jones said she filmed this footage in North Myrtle Beach on Tuesday morning. “Have you ever seen a sunrise like this? It is crazy looking!” she wrote on Twitter. READ…

New York City officials on Tuesday night urged at-risk residents to wear high-quality masks outdoors as smoke blankets the city. “If you are an older adult or have heart or breathing problems and need to be outside, wear a high-quality mask (e.g. N95 or KN95),” the office of Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement…

MIAMI — Leave it to Kyrie Iriving. Ruining basketball teams is no longer enough. Now, along with his buddy LeBron James, he’s doing his best to diminish this year’s NBA Finals, too. On Wednesday, those two players may know, the Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat will play a crucial Game 3 of a championship series…

Drew Barrymore insists she “never said” she wished her mother dead. The ‘Charlie’s Angels’ actress, 48, made headlines after she opened up about her relationship with her mother Jaid Barrymore, 77, during an interview with New York magazine published on Monday (05.06.23) in which she talked about her troubled past with her mum and told…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Tuesday that Israel’s democracy requires “an independent judiciary,” wading into the controversy over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial overhaul that has drawn mass protests in Israel. “America will continue to stand for the values that have been the bedrock of the U.S.-Israel relationship, which…

NEW YORK (AP) — Just as a trial was to begin, it was revealed Tuesday that Cuba Gooding Jr. has settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago, according to court records. The actor had insisted through lawyers that his encounter with the woman was consensual after…

A gunman opened fire as hundreds of people stood outside after a high school graduation ceremony Tuesday evening in Richmond, Virginia, killing two people and wounding five others, the city’s interim police chief said. As merriment turned to terror around Richmond’s Monroe Park, other people were hurt as they tried to escape the gunfire, including…