When I got my first tattoo at 20, my dad offered me $1,000 to wait a year before getting it. Obviously I did the rock ‘n’ roll thing and screamed, “You can’t control my life, Dad!” Not actually. But after two days of pondering how much I could use the money, I decided to turn...
President Donald Trump made history during his first term by meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in two summits and a brief third encounter. The United States and North Korea turned the dangerous escalation of 2017 into summit diplomacy in 2018. But after a promising first meeting in Singapore in June 2018, the two...
Confusing adversaries and allies is a basic foreign policy mistake. Leveraging enemies to attack friends is a deeper failure. President Trump committed both errors on Sunday when he announced that he was ordering the Pentagon to “substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises” with South Korea. According to his post on social media, the president’s justifications...
Actress Hayden Panettierre, best known for roles in “Nashville” and the NBC drama “Heroes,” has died at the age of 36. A representative for the actress confirmed the news on Sunday in a statement delivered first to ABC News: “It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She...
President Donald Trump said Sunday he has directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” joint military exercises with South Korea, citing his “very good relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and what he said was Seoul’s refusal to help the United States denuclearize Iran. “Based on my very good relationship with Kim...
NYPD officers shot and killed a man who police say charged at them with a butcher knife inside a Lower East Side apartment building Sunday afternoon, according to police. Officers responded to the building around 4 p.m. following multiple 911 calls reporting a domestic dispute, assault, and a person armed with a weapon. When officers...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) handed her party a problem it spent Sunday morning refusing to answer when she laughed off a slate of far-left policy positions as the excesses of “Woke 1.” Two of the biggest Sunday shows put Ocasio-Cortez’s remark to Democratic guests as a loyalty test, and both guests gave a near-identical non-answer....
Outgoing Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is giving Americans a closer look at her heavily tattooed arms as she launches a new YouTube show following a string of political setbacks. Mace, 48, appeared sleeveless in promotional material for her new program, “Get Maced,” showing both arms covered in tattoos she had largely kept out of public...
A 19-year-old man was arrested Saturday in connection with a shooting that wounded five people at Virginia State University after authorities found him hiding inside a campus dormitory closet, police said. Camron Harris of Henrico, Virginia, was found hiding in a closet inside Seward Hall at approximately 4 p.m., more than 14 hours after the...
One person is dead, homes have been swept off their foundations and more than 130,000 customers are without power as Tropical Storm Lala grinds westward across the Hawaiian Islands, a day after it brushed the Big Island as a Category 1 hurricane. Gov. Josh Green (D-HI) said Saturday evening that one person was killed in...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) drew a sharp distinction Sunday between the Democratic Party and the agenda of the Democratic Socialists of America, saying he does not support the organization’s positions on issues including policing, immigration and the Senate. “I don’t support the DSA agenda as has been articulated by the DSA itself,” Jeffries...
A socialist member of the New York state Assembly said Thursday that people who steal basic necessities such as toothpaste and soap should not be arrested, arguing that prosecuting such theft punishes people for having a “biological need.” Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher, who represents Greenpoint, Williamsburg and neighboring sections of northern Brooklyn, made the remarks outside...
