Dee Brock, who led the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders to become the NFL’s premier cheerleading squad, has died at age 96. “In loving memory of Dee Brock, our founding director,” the team said in a statement. “We will forever honor her and her legacy.” Brock was the original director who first “utilized high school students with traditional cheers to lead the crowd” when the squad formed in 1961. Under Brock, the team adopted its iconic uniform that has stood the test of time—boots, short shorts and a fringed cropped top. The 96-year-old is also credited with helping integrate the cheerleading squad. “The kindness that she showed, the encouragement, the warmth to a 16-year-old high school girl, it’s amazing what encouraging words, what kindness can do.” said Eunice Cicero, an original member of the 1965 squad. “Thanks to Dee, I had the pleasure of being one of the first African American cheerleaders for the Dallas Cowboys.”

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Maine Sen. Susan Collins made sure to point out how unpopular Donald Trump is during a tense meeting with Senate Republicans.

Collins, who is at risk of being voted out of office after nearly 30 years in the Senate, took part in a private lunch with other Republicans on Wednesday, hosted by Senate Majority Leader John Thune.

The meeting gave Senate Republicans the chance to argue that they should return to session next week to pass crucial legislation that they believe could boost their chances in the Nov. 3 elections.

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U.S. reporters barred by Donald Trump remain locked out of the White House despite a federal judge ordering their access restored—while Chinese state media were welcomed onto the grounds to cover President Xi Jinping’s visit.

The bizarre reality of America’s supposedly free press was highlighted by CNN star Kaitlan Collins on Thursday, as the president rolled out the White House red carpet to welcome Xi with a lavish arrival ceremony featuring military flyovers, fawning speeches and a silent marine platoon salute.

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Meghan Markle and her friend, the former model and co-founder of the charity Alliance of Moms, Kelly Zajfen had lunch earlier this week at a low-key English pub a stone’s throw from Soho Farmhouse. The Royalist was tipped off by a Cotswold source that the pair had been seen there; Zajfen subsequently posted pictures of them on Instagram. In one, Meghan cradles Zajfen’s six-month-old son, Jack. (The caption gives thanks for the “mashed peas and fish n chips.”) The pub is extremely well-known locally and immediately identifiable. It is also Meghan’s second pub lunch to hit the media this week, after she was photographed near Burford with Ellen DeGeneres on Monday. It’s extraordinary, after all the fuss the Sussexes have made about security, that they continue to advertise their locations. Harry spent years fighting for taxpayer-funded police protection. Yet here is Meghan in one of the county’s most recognizable pubs, with the pictures on Instagram the same day.

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Dolly Parton’s younger sister, Freida Parton, 69, has spoken up about the barrage of rumors surrounding the Parton estate.

The country icon’s manager, Danny Nozell, fired Parton’s nephew and longtime head of security, Bryan Seaver, and removed his security teams from Parton’s properties on Sept. 16. Nozell filed a lawsuit against Seaver through She’s Alive, LLC, which Parton created to protect her legacy on Sept. 23.

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A Jet2 passenger tried to start a fight and open a door midflight, prompting the pilots to turn back to the departure airport. The original itinerary was Edinburgh to Larnaca, Cyprus, but the 32-year-old passenger became disruptive at about 3:30 p.m.—just 30 minutes into the flight. The plane landed just 53 minutes after takeoff and was met with officers and fire crews. The man allegedly started kicking and punching another passenger and redirected his abuse onto the cabin crew, who were trying to de-escalate the situation. He then tried to open the aircraft door after it landed while it was still moving on the taxiway. Another passenger told The Sun he was “a drunk, aggressive passenger” and the landing was “very bumpy.” The man was arrested upon arrival and charged with multiple offenses, including assault and endangering an aircraft, which are criminal offenses under national law. He’s due at the Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday. “As a family-friendly airline, we take a zero-tolerance approach to disruptive passenger behavior,” a Jet2 spokesperson said. “We will not hesitate to take appropriate action… and we will seek to recover the costs incurred as a result of their behavior,” Scottish police responded.

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Trump Avenue has hit a dead end.

The 80-year-old president stirred up big feelings over the summer after he said he was renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America as part of a wider economic and diplomatic spat with Canada.

Reprisals from folks north of the border have since followed, the latest of which is taking place in Canada’s own capital, Ottawa.

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A military training jet plunged into the Pacific after its pilot issued a frantic Mayday call reporting a total engine failure. “Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! I have lost thrust in my engine,” the pilot told an air traffic controller shortly before the single-seat Hawker Hunter crashed about six miles northwest of Morro Bay on Tuesday evening. The pilot ejected before the Cold War-era fighter hit the water. A U.S. Navy search-and-rescue helicopter located him around 7:30 p.m. and took him to a hospital in Fresno. The aircraft, operated by private contractor Airborne Tactical Advantage Co. (ATAC), was conducting training exercises for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Authorities have not recovered the wreckage of the British-designed craft affectionately nicknamed “Miss Demeanour” by airshow crowds, and they are checking for possible debris or fuel pollution. “It was already really dark at that point,” Coast Guard Southwest District spokesperson Kenneth Weise told the Los Angeles Times. “They ended up returning to base sometime after the person had already been rescued.”

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Donald Trump’s adoring aide, Natalie Harp, has taken her fawning for the president to a whole new level in a rare interview.

In emailed comments to The Washingtonian, featuring strange grammar and capitalization akin to Trump’s Truth Social posts that she also authors, his executive assistant gushed about how brilliant she believes her boss is.

Asked whether her age, 35, has harmed her professional life in Washington, she responded that “age is just a number.” She then credited Trump, 80, for not caring that she is four-and-a-half decades his junior.

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The aide accused of an affair with Lauren Boebert received a cryptic warning about secrets that would jeopardize her “current relationship” before the alleged fling was exposed.

Clarice Navarro’s ex-husband cautioned her about potential consequences if their post-marital dispute ended up before a judge in explosive filings from a bitter court wrangle.

In a letter to Navarro obtained by PunchUp, Jace Ratzlaff wrote that “there will be things exposed that would impact your current relationship.” He added that this could also affect “whatever image you think you might have left.”

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President Donald Trump has made a baffling edit to a photo of him and his Chinese communist leader pal.

Trump, 80, welcomed the “strong, vibrant, and fit” Xi Jinping to the U.S. on Wednesday by rolling out a gigantic red carpet for the Chinese president.

To add to the pomp and ceremony, a military flyover (that made Trump wince) took place, and the two men posed for photos, where POTUS proudly saluted (before, during, and after wincing).

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A reboot of the hit series Glee appears to be one step closer to becoming reality. Co-creator Ryan Murphy told Entertainment Tonight that he and fellow writers Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan “just finished the script.” “I’ve been in touch with around 10 of the original cast members, and it’s very sweet,” he said. “They’ve all had a lot of questions, but they all were very enthusiastic about the idea.” According to Murphy, “nobody’s read” the new script yet and no details about the plot or cast have been made public. The original show, which follows the members of a failing school glee club in Ohio, aired on Fox from 2009 to 2015 and won 6 Emmy Awards out of 40 nominations over its six-season run. However, a number of the original cast met untimely deaths with Cory Monteith, Naya Rivera and Mark Salling all dying young. The series also featured dozens of celebrity guest stars, including Lindsay Lohan, Idina Menzel, Britney Spears, and Sarah Jessica Parker.

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An Iowa judge has tossed out President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The Des Moines Register and its former pollster over a survey that inaccurately predicted the 2024 presidential election results.

The president had accused pollster J. Ann Selzer of “brazen election interference” after she released a survey days before the election that found then-Vice President Kamala Harris leading Trump by 3 points in Iowa.

Trump went on to win the heavily Republican state by more than 13 percentage points and later argued that the poll had intentionally created a “false narrative of inevitability for Harris,” in violation of the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act’s prohibition on deceptive advertising.

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SNL star Ashley Padilla opened up about her crazy teenage arrest on Amy Poehler’s podcast Good Hang.

When Poehler asked Padilla what kind of student she was, she responded, “awful”.

“I hated high school and almost failed,” she said.

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A first-time climber has revealed the terrifying moment he realized he could die after plunging nearly 500 feet down Mount Shasta. Zubayir Kazi, 24, had never completed an icy summit before attempting the California mountain alone on September 10. Despite scouting part of the route five days earlier, he said conditions were “much worse than I expected.” After reaching the summit around 7:30 p.m., disaster struck on the descent. “Everything I had with me just goes out of my hand and I find myself flying down the mountain,” Kazi told NBC Bay Area. He lost his food, water, phone and light during the fall. Badly injured and alone, he knew he had to keep moving. “If I stay here and fall asleep, I’m going to die,” he said. Hours later, he crawled to base camp, where another climber found him and raised the alarm. Kazi suffered severe skin and nerve damage and internal complications, and doctors told him he could have died within hours. “When the officers came in, it was the first time I really realized how badly I was injured. They said, ‘You have no skin behind your leg,’” Kazi said.

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Seth Meyers is baffled by Donald Trump’s octogenarian mind.

The late-night host picked up on the 80-year-old president’s senior moments, comparing Trump to former President Joe Biden, who Trump and his administration incessantly skewered for his age.

“The same people who said Sleepy Joe didn’t know where he was or what he was doing are now insisting that this guy is sharp as a tack?” began Meyers.

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The White House denied multiple members of the media access on Thursday morning in what appeared to be a clear violation of a federal judge’s order.

This follows a federal district judge overnight directing the Trump administration to immediately reinstate the White House hard passes for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico after Donald Trump barred them from the premises.

Crews from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico said they couldn’t return to the White House grounds and were stopped by security despite the order.

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President Donald Trump’s own lawyers have undercut his threats over the Kennedy Center’s future.

The president, 80, is hell-bent on getting his name put back onto the building’s facade, after a judge ordered that it should be removed in June. Trump, however, didn’t give up after the embarrassing legal loss and has instead threatened the performing arts institution’s future, saying that it could be “ripped down” if his name isn’t restored.

“For the Trump administration, for me, to get involved, and to take on long-term, and to carry it, or to raise money to carry it, I think that the Trump administration should certainly have recognition,” the president said last week, days after his hand-picked board voted to close the venue during $250 million renovations.

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Genre cinema endures because of its malleability—its themes and tropes are compatible with any number of psychological, cultural, and political takes.

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (September 25, in theaters) confirms this fact, embracing the conventions of both action movies and neo-noirs to tell the story of a Muslim hitman attempting to protect his children while caught between warring factions. Riven by clashing impulses, it doesn’t completely cohere. Nonetheless, it gives two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali a role of gripping intensity and (until its climax) compelling complexity—resulting in his finest performance since 2016’s Moonlight.

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An amateur archeologist has discovered Germany’s largest-ever hoard of ancient Roman silver coins. Oliver Reidl was searching a field in Wesseling, western Germany, with a metal detector when he realized something was buried beneath him. Researchers later recovered 934 silver denarii dating to the reign of Emperor Hadrian, nearly 2,000 years ago, between 39 B.C. and A.D. 459. They believe the coins, weighing around 6.8 pounds in total, were likely deliberately hidden during the second century A.D. “Of course, we can only speculate about the motives, but it’s very likely that someone wanted to keep this money safe,” Erich Classen, state archeologist and director of the office, told the Associated Press. “After all, banks didn’t exist back then.” Now displayed at the LVR-LandesMuseum in Bonn, the treasure has left archaeologists wondering who buried it — and why. One theory points to a Roman soldier. Legionaries earned about 300 denarii a year, with roughly half going on food and equipment. Researchers estimate the hoard represented around six years of savings.

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President Donald Trump has swooned over the “strong” and “fit” communist dictator of China.

Trump rolled out the gigantic red carpet for Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Thursday, treating him to a military flyover (even if it spooked the 80-year-old).

Less than 24 hours into Xi’s three-day visit, Trump couldn’t help but admire the 73-year-old’s vitality in a fawning Truth Social post.

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A taxpayer-funded ad telling Americans to “love” Donald Trump has aired on Fox News.

The fawning ad, which has been accused of amounting to “propaganda,” featured the president expressing anti-communist sentiments while presenting his policies as tax cuts and defending “law and order” policing.

The 30-second video, shown during Jesse Watters Primetime on Wednesday evening, also featured audio from UFC boss Dana White’s speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention, in which he described Trump as the “toughest, most resilient person that I’ve ever met and nothing is gonna stop him from fighting so hard for the country he loves.”

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For a president who has spent years promising he’d never let China push the U.S. around, Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington gives Donald Trump an awkward political problem: the Chinese leader gets the red-carpet treatment, while Trump does much of the accommodating.

Trump personally greeted Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday evening—the first time a president has left the White House to greet a state leader there since 1962, when JFK met British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

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Construction workers in Southern California have uncovered the remains of a giant mammal that roamed the region around 40 million years ago—but scientists still don’t know exactly what it was. The fossils, found about 12 feet underground at a water infrastructure project, include massive limb bones, ribs, and other fragments believed to belong to a single animal, the city of Oceanside said in a statement. Paleontologist Joseph El Adli has narrowed the possibilities to two extinct groups: a “thunder beast,” a huge hoofed mammal related to modern horses and rhinos, or a “swamp rhino,” a barrel-bodied herbivore that lived partly in water. Researchers made the discovery on August 31 during a routine excavation in the fossil-rich Santiago Formation, but the animal’s identity remains elusive without a skull. El Adli is hoping workers uncover teeth or a lower jaw—crucial clues that could solve the mystery. “It’s just sort of a hope and a prayer at this point, but that would be fantastic,” he told the L.A. Times.

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Jimmy Kimmel has mercilessly mocked Donald Trump’s noticeable grimace during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s arrival ceremony.

The 80-year-old president greeted the 73-year-old Chinese leader with fanfare at Joint Base Andrews. But Trump couldn’t bear one moment during the big welcome party.

“Xi was greeted with a flyover and a comb-over,” began Kimmel on Wednesday, adding: “Watch when the plane flies over.” As two B-1 bombers flew overhead and the national anthem played, the president visibly grimaced, squinting and nearly ducking as the planes glided above the two leaders.

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CNN’s resident MAGA pundit went totally blank when confronted with the massive allegations of corruption leveled against his would-be boss, Donald Trump.

Scott Jennings, 48, was speaking on The Fifth Column podcast when the topic came up on Wednesday. One of the hosts, Michael Moynihan, put it to the former George W. Bush aide directly: “Does Donald Trump and the Trump administration have a corruption problem?”

Jennings, among the frontrunners to replace Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary, very conspicuously proceeded to not answer, leaving it to hang for five whole seconds of dead air before he finally countered: “Erm… that’s a very generic question. I mean, is there something…?”

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Angie Katsanevas, 52, broke down in tears while telling Obsessed: The Podcast about her rise to fame on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.

The daughter of Greek immigrants, Katsanevas founded the salon Lunatic Fringe in 1999 with her husband Shawn Trujillo, from whom she’s now separated. The pair still work together and have expanded the business into a Utah-based salon franchise, with nine locations across Utah, Ohio, and Idaho.

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Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville has been relentlessly roasted after embarking on a truly bizarre rant about “furries”.

As part of his bid to become Alabama governor, the former football coach launched into a wild tirade full of questionable claims about fetishists flying commercial planes.

“This [mentally-unwell] furry community touts the fact that many—listen to this—that many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. Lord help us,” he said on the Senate floor Tuesday.

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An agent developed by OpenAI has breached an Australian healthcare system in what’s thought to represent the first such hack on a government site. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed the intrusion during a diplomatic visit to the United Nations headquarters in New York on Wednesday. His deputy, Richard Marles, said the Australian government had spoken about its concerns to OpenAI chief Sam Altman in “the plainest terms” since it became aware of the hack, which saw one of the company’s agents access both public and internal government files. “I want to say and acknowledge that OpenAI have been working with us very co-operatively here. They have clearly notified us of this, and engagement with them has been critical to understanding what has occurred. We are grateful for that,” he said. “That said, what has occurred here is obviously completely unacceptable.” It comes amid growing warnings from inside the industry about what development of AI platforms may mean for the future, with some voicing fears that unregulated advancements could even lead to a mass extinction event.

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Peter Byrne, the singer behind the iconic ’80s hit “Always Something There to Remind Me”, has died at the age of 74. The Naked Eyes vocalist died peacefully on September 14 in Los Angeles following a brief illness, the band’s manager told Billboard. His cause of death has not been made public. Byrne kicked off his career in the 1970s, working with different artists until he started Naked Eyes in 1982 with Rob Fisher. Their self-titled debut album made the Billboard Top 200, but the hit “Always Something There to Remind Me” really left a mark, reaching number 8 on the chart. He also lent his voice to the hit “Promises, Promises.” Despite their success, they split in 1984 and never toured together, TMZ reports. Fisher died in 1999, and seven years later Byrne restarted the group. Byrne is survived by his three children, Merlin, Dylan, and Chloe, and his siblings, Eileen, Sandy, Carol, and Steve.

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A major Republican Party benefactor has all but pulled his funding for GOP Senate hopefuls ahead of the midterms after lawmakers failed to deliver Donald Trump’s planned voting overhaul.

Timothy Mellon, 84, has made no publicly disclosed contribution supporting GOP Senate nominees this cycle, according to a New York Times analysis of federal filings. His reported giving to Republican candidates and groups in the same period has fallen to roughly $3.1 million.

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Presley Gerber was found dead near a bed in a room at a luxury rehab facility, TMZ has reported.

The son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and businessman Rande Gerber was discovered on Sunday in a bedroom in the Santa Monica recovery home he had checked himself into. Sources told TMZ he wasn’t found on a bed but didn’t disclose exactly where he was.

Gerber had checked himself into Resolutions Living, a nontraditional facility, on Saturday because he had “not been doing well,” a source told Page Six. He was pronounced dead at 9:45 AM on Sunday, just about 12 hours after checking into the home. He reportedly died of cardiac arrest and a possible overdose.

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The Beach Boys have abruptly scrapped three concerts just as they were due to return to the road. Shows scheduled for the coming days in West Springfield, Massachusetts, Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, have all been canceled. The Pennsylvania and South Carolina venues blamed “circumstances beyond the control” of the venues, while the Massachusetts show was also pulled from the venue’s schedule. The cancellations come after the band postponed almost 30 summer dates in July, saying frontman Mike Love needed time to “recharge.” The tour celebrates the 60th anniversary of Pet Sounds, the 1966 album that cemented the band’s place in pop history. The Beach Boys are now scheduled to resume touring on October 9 in Bloomington, Illinois, followed by Cincinnati on Oct. 10 and Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Oct. 11. The latest disruption comes more than a year after Brian Wilson died at 82.

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The White House is set to lose yet another top aide in the crucial run-up to the midterm elections.

Ryan Baasch, deputy director of the National Economic Council, will leave his role at the end of the month for a job in the private sector, Axios reported.

Baasch, who was previously in line for a Federal Trade Commission seat, also served as an aide to former AI and crypto czar David Sacks, as well as deputy assistant to the president for economic policy.

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A legendary NBA coach has married his former assistant’s ex-wife. San Antonio Spurs president Gregg Popovich has tied the knot with Mary Barth Budenholzer, according to marriage records seen by TMZ. Popovich, 77, worked closely with Mike Budenholzer as they went on to win four NBA Championships with the Spurs. He remarried in Bexar County, Texas, on September 16, according to the documents—a decade after her divorce from Budenholzer. Mike Budenholzer worked closely with her new husband, coaching under Popovich from 1996 to 2013. He later left to coach the Atlanta Hawks and won the coach of the year award in 2015. During their time together, the two men won four of Popovich’s five NBA titles. Exactly when the new couple got together remains unknown. Popovich’s first wife, Erin, died in 2018. The Budenholzers have four children together, according to the New York Post: William Vincent, John Bent, Savoia Elizabeth, and Hanna Louise.

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Canada quietly prepared for the possibility that Donald Trump could order military action against the country, Prime Minister Mark Carney has revealed.

Canada and the U.S., two close allies, have been embroiled in a row since Trump threatened to make Canada the 51st U.S. state.

Trump has repeatedly questioned the permanence of the Canada-U.S. border, arguing that the centuries-old boundary was an artificial line that could be redrawn through force and persuasion.

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Donald Trump has been ambushed by new evidence showing the scale of China’s support for Iran on the day he rolled out the red carpet for the nation’s president.

Trump, 80, personally met Xi Jinping, 73, on the runway at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Wednesday, in a gesture of presidential courtesy seldom shown to other leaders.

His administration has even more pageantry planned for Thursday, with almost 500 service members participating in a full military welcome ahead of a spectacular state dinner.

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Eight sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group tried to take their own lives, the Navy’s top official confirmed in a humiliating admission for Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth.

The Nimitz-class carrier and a flotilla of warships comprised the bulk of the strike force for Donald Trump’s war against Iran and the counter-blockade around the Strait of Hormuz.

The Lincoln was put to sea for almost 300 days, raising concerns about deteriorating conditions aboard that culminated in reports that some sailors had tried to take their own lives.

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Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall is drastically softening his stance on ICE as he faces the prospect of suffering a shock loss in the midterms.

Marshall, who is up against Democratic candidate Adam Hamilton in the Nov. 3 Kansas Senate race, has decided now is the time to express concern about the actions of masked federal immigration agents, with the potentially pivotal election less than six weeks away.

ICE agents swarmed parts of the Sunflower State this week as part of President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies, targeting meatpacking plants and potential family members of local children, Kansas News Service reported.

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The boss of CNN has admitted he has no idea about a key MAGA ally’s plans for the network after a controversial takeover goes through.

CEO Mark Thompson, 69, addressed staff on a Zoom call, days after Paramount Skydance struck a deal with state attorneys general that removed the last legal obstacle to its merger with CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.

Status reported Thompson telling employees on Wednesday: “I’m afraid this is one of those occasions where… you’ll find the answers are slightly scarcer than the questions.

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Legendary Democratic political strategist James Carville has revealed why Donald Trump is so hell-bent on leaving his mark on Washington, D.C.

On Wednesday, MS NOW reported that White House officials were thinking of putting Trump’s name on Ford’s Theatre, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.

This would be the latest sortie in a MAGA rebrand of D.C. that included failed efforts to carve the 80-year-old’s name onto the Kennedy Center.

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Jimmy Kimmel has exposed just how spectacularly Trump’s TV network is failing.

After banning Politico, CNN, and MS NOW from the White House in a flagrant assault on the First Amendment, the president found himself without cameras trailing him. As a bizarre contingency plan, the 80-year-old president and former reality TV star launched a 24/7 TV channel, livestreaming the White House and his public appearances.

But as the Daily Beast found, Trump TV lost a whopping 95 percent of its viewership in just three days—and hardly anyone was watching it in the first place. Kimmel displayed the report on Wednesday night in a scathing exposé of the president.

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The ex-bodyguard and lover of former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has been arrested over an alleged $200,000 rampage at her home.

Matthew Ammel, 39, became embroiled in a high-profile scandal with Sinema, 50, after his former wife sued the ex-Arizona senator over their relationship.

Sinema later admitted in a deposition that she and Ammel, who was married, began having sex in May 2024, including on a trip to New York for CNN anchor Jessica Dean’s wedding.

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The president’s “Trump TV” is being humbled on YouTube by pedicure streams and channels that loop videos of a whirring box fan.

President Donald Trump, amid much bluster, told the world he didn’t need the press when the White House launched his “channel,” which is actually just a YouTube livestream, on Monday.

That came after he unceremoniously banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, and then NBC, ABC, CBS, and even Fox News suspended their pooled coverage of Trump in solidarity.

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The Daily Show exposed Melania Trump’s upcoming “cash grab”: another Amazon docuseries that “no one is asking for.”

The first lady resurfaced in public to promote her next vanity project, appearing on Fox & Friends to discuss the two-part docuseries set to air later this year. The series is a sequel to Melania, her widely panned Amazon-MGM documentary that was labeled everything from a grift to a flop.

“This is her first big media appearance since her press tour for her Melania documentary,” began Desi Lydic.

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Donald Trump has lashed out at claims his administration is considering adding the president’s name to another building.

On Wednesday, MS NOW reported, citing unnamed sources, that officials had raised the possibility of adding Trump’s name to Ford’s Theatre, the Washington, D.C., playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.

It is unclear how Trump’s name would be added to the historic site or how seriously the administration took the idea. The 80-year-old president is already seeking to have his name permanently added to the Kennedy Center as part of his MAGA rebrand of D.C.

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CNN host Kaitlan Collins has humiliated President Donald Trump over the reality of his self-sabotaging press ban.

Trump, 80, banned CNN, Politico and MS NOW from covering the White House last Friday. The outlets prevailed in court with a dramatic 1 a.m. ruling against the president in the early hours of Thursday, but not before the media blackout backfired on the president.

Since Monday, the networks that operate the White House TV pool coverage—ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC— have declined to cover Trump’s public appearances in solitary with the banned outlets.

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President Donald Trump has been ordered to immediately restore the press credentials of the three media outlets he banned, in a dramatic early-morning ruling.

Trump, 80, banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House last Friday, leaving rival networks refusing to cover his activities in solidarity.

The outlets took legal action against Trump, claiming his ban violated the First Amendment. At approximately 1 a.m. on Thursday morning, Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly granted a 14-day temporary restraining order.

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Controversial Theranos founder—and viral movie meme star—Elizabeth Holmes will be moved from federal prison to a residential halfway house in Texas next year.

Holmes, 42, began an 11-year sentence for fraud in May 2023. In December 2025, she formally asked President Donald Trump for early release, according to Bloomberg.

The former Theranos CEO, who launched the company when she was just 19, went viral this month after a teaser from Nathan Fielder’s upcoming documentary You Can See Everything was released. In an intense clip, the convicted fraudster asks Fielder, “Why would I deceive you?”

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A right-wing TV station trying to fill the void left by the White House television pool ran into some technical difficulties Wednesday while airing Donald Trump’s comments.

Real America’s Voice is partnering with Lindell TV—whose namesake is Mike Lindell, the “Pillow Guy” turned 2020 election denier and failed Minnesota gubernatorial candidate—to provide its version of the coverage that has been on hold following Trump’s ban of CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House. Several right-wing outlets have picked up where the others left off, including The Daily Wire and The Daily Signal.

On Wednesday, when Trump returned to the White House from rolling out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, he walked up to the press pool, which no longer includes television cameras from Fox News, CNN, CBS, ABC or NBC. But as he talked about the South Lawn helipad, one of his pet projects, the feed cut out in parts, leaving him inaudible.

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Melania Trump has offered a curious glimpse into her relationship with her son Barron, appearing to let some mother-son tension slip into view.

The 56-year-old first lady appeared for a softball interview on Fox Business’s The Big Money Show on Wednesday when she was asked by co-host Taylor Riggs how much time she gets with her 20-year-old son.

“You are so busy and such an inspiration to young moms out there as well who are trying to do it all—run businesses, charities, organize state dinners, umm, run a family,” Riggs told the first lady.

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Sydney Sweeney is giving a subtle nod to her millionaire boyfriend in the star’s latest series of underwear photos.

The Euphoria actress, 29, posed for three new lingerie-clad portraits just weeks after her nude sports-themed ads for Novig sparked widespread backlash.

The sultry snaps were for the new “Send Nudes” collection by Syrn (pronounced “siren”), Sweeney’s underwear brand.

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Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for sexually assaulting his former TV production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006. The convicted sex offender begged for mercy and apologized “to anyone I have affected with my actions,” but maintained his innocence. His attorneys said he would appeal. Judge Curtis Farber said Weinstein abused his power as an influential media figure to prey on women desperate for an opportunity in the industry, treating them as “mere objects to be played with and discarded with impunity.” The sentencing follows an overturned conviction and two mistrials on the same allegation. Weinstein will next appear for resentencing in California for raping and sexually assaulting Italian model and actor Evgeniya Chernyshova in a hotel in 2013. Farber said whether Weinstein’s prison terms will run simultaneously will be up to the California judge, but said that if it were up to him, he would make Weinstein, 74, serve them consecutively—effectively putting him behind bars for the rest of his life. The disgraced Hollywood producer’s multiple accusations of sexual assault in 2017 sparked the #MeToo movement, eventually leading to his first conviction of rape in 2020.

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President Donald Trump has been mocked after pulling out his winter wardrobe to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in pleasant fall weather.

Trump, 80, gave the communist dictator, 73, a rare personal welcome as he walked off the plane after flying into Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

The weather was around 64 degrees when Trump and wife Melania walked the red carpet at the airport to meet their international guest. However, Trump was wearing thick black leather gloves and a long overcoat, while his wife opted for a light casual jacket and skirt, with no gloves or coat.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has gained a substantial bargaining chip against Donald Trump ahead of his meetings in Washington this week.

The Chinese government has acquired sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft parts that were mysteriously diverted to Hong Kong during transport from Australia to the U.S., according to Bloomberg.

The parts in question were a cockpit canopy and a weapons-bay door, both manufactured by defense contractor Lockheed Martin, that were coated with radar-absorbing material that boosts stealth capabilities, the outlet reported.

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Home Improvement star Jonathan Taylor Thomas has been arrested after cops say he resisted an officer in Southern California.

Thomas, 45, was in the passenger seat of a car that was pulled over around 12:30 a.m. Monday in Westlake Village. He proceeded to get out of the vehicle after cops ordered him to stay inside, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has told multiple outlets.

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Donald Trump used the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss a pet topic much closer to home.

The president broke with usual protocol by greeting Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews when they flew in Wednesday evening for the three-day state visit.

But he quickly returned to the more familiar subject of his half-constructed ballroom when he returned to the White House to prepare for Thursday’s State Dinner.

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President Donald Trump excessively appeases Vladimir Putin out of fear because he knows the Russian dictator likely has serious dirt on him, the author Luke Harding has alleged.

Appearing on The Daily Beast Podcast, Harding told host Joanna Coles that Trump, 80, is “afraid” of the Russian president, 73, because of the Kremlin’s sweeping surveillance operations.

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American service members were seen on their hands and knees smoothing the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s arrival in Washington on Wednesday.

Jinping, 73, exited his plane alongside First Lady Peng Liyuan to greet President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump—but not before a 100-foot-long red carpet was rolled out.

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President Donald Trump appeared to grimace in pain during a military flyover he staged during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s arrival in the United States.

Xi, 73, appeared stone-faced as the planes neared, but the 80-year-old Trump visibly recoiled at the noise, ducking and baring his teeth as B-1 bombers came screaming overhead.

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Right-wing podcasters are talking about Donald Trump less and less, a bombshell new analysis has uncovered.

A review of nearly 70,000 hours of conservative podcasts by The Wall Street Journal found substantial drops in mentions of the president, who has long operated under the mantra that all attention—even the bad—is ultimately good.

Around the 2024 presidential election, Trump’s name peaked at nearly 40 mentions per hour on conservative podcasts. By the start of the Iran war in late February, the average was just under 20. Currently, it is about 12, meaning name-drops have fallen nearly 70 percent since Trump’s reelection.

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Barack Obama is calling out Republicans for sitting on their hands as Donald Trump wages war on the press, banning top outlets from the White House.

“You can’t do that and say that you are still living in a democracy,” Obama told historian Doris Kearns Goodwin during a sold-out event at Salem State University in Massachusetts.

The 44th president said that he was “not surprised” by Trump’s move to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House over unfavorable coverage, “because he’s that guy.”

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A MAGA candidate who expressed support for ICE has cried foul over the deportation of a family member.

Paul LePage, the former Maine governor now running for Congress, revealed Monday that his son’s father-in-law has gotten swept up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

LePage said the relative was in the U.S. legally but was being deported because “he’s from a country that’s not to the liking of certain people in Washington.” He did not identify the man’s country of origin or provide any other information. LePage has previously spoken of an “adopted son” from Jamaica, Devon Raymond, although Raymond was never actually adopted legally, and it’s not clear if this is who LePage was referring to.

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Vice President JD Vance was the unnamed “senior administration official” behind one of the stories the White House used to justify banning Politico from its grounds.

The anonymous source cited in a June 2026 story about the probability of a successful Iran peace deal, which was one of the six stories the Trump administration singled out as having “threatened national security and/or spread falsehoods,” was Vance, Status revealed on Wednesday.

In a letter the Trump administration sent to Politico, made public through a government court filing, the story was included as one of the six “reporting incidents” that violated the White House’s “expectations.”

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Hollywood’s most famous agent, Ari Emanuel, has revealed his nauseating nutrition tip.

In Roll the Calls, his newly released memoir, the 65-year-old entertainment veteran shared that he eats live worms every day.

The book, which contains the stomach-churning longevity trick among other stunning and strange revelations, is co-written with J.R. Moehringer, the ghostwriter behind Prince Harry’s scandalous memoir, Spare.

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Mitch McConnell was mysteriously absent from an event where he was set to be honored as a featured guest.

The senior Kentucky senator, 84, was scheduled to attend a congressional reception on Wednesday for the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce, one of Kentucky’s largest business advocacy groups, where he was to be honored as a “featured guest,” according to a schedule of events the Daily Beast obtained.

But McConnell, now in his second week back at work after a 92-day absence, was a no-show. A source tells the Daily Beast that McConnell’s chief of staff, Terry Carmack, who is set to make $226,000 this year, attended in the senator’s place.

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A Trump-appointed judge has rebuked the president over his controversial media ban, declaring that the administration did not follow due process when it revoked reporters’ access to the White House over the weekend.

Judge Timothy Kelly began an emergency hearing on Wednesday to lift the ban, arguing that the administration failed to give journalists from CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO proper notice that they would be stripped of their White House credentials, or a chance to challenge the move before taking away their access.

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Taylor and Tay Lautner announced the birth of their first child in a joint Instagram post on Wednesday. Their daughter is pictured next to a frame with “Lennon Taylor” needlepointed in cursive with the caption, “One week loving our sweet little Lenny🤍Lennon Taylor Lautner🎀 9.16.2026.” Taylor previously dated pop star Taylor Swift in 2009 until marrying Taylor Dome in 2022. Tay started going by “Tay” more often after marrying her husband, and her family differentiates between the two by calling them “girl Tay” and “boy Tay.” The couple announced they were expecting in March and revealed the gender in June. On their podcast, The Squeeze, she said she was scared to share her pregnancy, saying she’d never put anything that personal on the internet before. She also got candid with her struggles comparing herself to other expecting mothers and how “fit” they are.

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Catherine, Princess of Wales, has brought back an iconic royal heirloom for a rare red carpet appearance.

On Sept. 22, Kate and Prince William attended the world premiere of Digger in London, where they showed their support for the Film and TV Charity.

The organization offers physical, mental, and financial help to people in the United Kingdom’s entertainment industry.

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We are standing in the spot where history was made.

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Heather Gay has commandeered my phone, expertly framing a selfie of us in front of her business, Beauty Lab + Laser.

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Stephen Curry has revealed that he won two NBA championships despite unknowingly struggling with a serious eye condition.

The Golden State Warriors star, 38, revealed in an interview with People on Wednesday that he spent years playing at the highest level of basketball with keratoconus, a progressive eye condition that can distort vision.

Curry said that by 2018, blurred vision and distorted images had become so normal that he didn’t realize anything was wrong.

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A Trump-loving talk show host is completely melting down over warning signs that Republicans are going to get clobbered in the midterms, even in Trump country.

Steve Deace, who talks politics on Blaze Media, took to social media to sound the alarm about how bad the situation looks in Iowa, a state Trump won three times.

“Yesterday, Iowa House Republicans were informed by their own pollsters that if you are in a +15 district you’re within the margin for error, if you’re in a +10 district you’re underwater, and that this might end being an even worse midterm environment than 2006,” he wrote on X.

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The depths of Vladimir Putin’s paranoia have been laid bare by hackers who leaked secret messages from one of the Russian dictator’s top mouthpieces.

The leaked texts appear to show longtime Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in a tense exchange with fellow Kremlin official Mikhail Babich over the humiliating scrapping of Russia’s Navy Day parade in July and the embarrassing event that replaced it, the independent news site Agentstvo reports, citing messages leaked by Black8Mirror.

Instead of the usual sprawling parade featuring 200 warships on the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Putin, 73, posed in front of a giant poster of a submarine and sat for an awkward televised meeting with Navy personnel, drawing widespread mockery.

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Roseanne Barr has dropped the F-word 13 times in two minutes during a furious rant about her former TV son, Michael Fishman.

The disgraced sitcom star, 73, waved a lit cigarette between two fingers while unleashing a tirade of profanity on Fishman, who wrote on Instagram on Aug. 12 that he believes Roseanne was “rightfully canceled.”

ABC canceled the revival of the hit sitcom in May 2018 after Barr posted a racist tweet comparing Valerie Jarrett, an Iranian-African American former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, to the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”

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MAGA billionaire Rick Jackson is running to be Georgia’s next governor, vowing to tackle housing affordability and bring “the same type of business solutions that President Trump is bringing to our country.”

But the Daily Beast can reveal that one of his companies spent more than four years trying to take a Georgia couple’s home in a legal battle so brutal that court filings describe a cascade of devastating health problems for both spouses—and ultimately their deaths.

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There was a time when not drinking meant reluctantly accepting a Diet Coke or borderline flat soda water while everyone else ordered something infinitely more exciting. Thankfully, those days are long gone.

Whether you’re sober-curious, California sober, taking a temporary pause from alcohol, or simply trying to avoid waking up with a headache after one too many spicy margaritas, there’s never been a better time to skip the booze.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is losing ground in his war—and in public opinion.

Margus Tsahkna, the foreign minister of Estonia, said Putin is no longer in a “secure” position as the war he’s been waging in Ukraine enters its fifth year.

“What we see around Putin is more concerts,” Tsahkna told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour outside the United Nations building in New York on Wednesday. “Nobody around Putin, and we see very closely to the Kremlin from Estonia, is talking about victory anymore,” he said, calling it a “good sign.”

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Thomas Gigler has been identified as the man who went overboard from the Carnival Panorama cruise ship. The 56-year-old father of three went overboard on September 18, off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on the way to Long Beach, California, sparking a U.S. and Mexican Coast Guards search. His wife Michelle, 48, said Gigler went missing on Friday evening. By Saturday morning, she asked staff for help, so the crew announced his name over the PA system, issued a lockdown, and ordered passengers to their rooms. Passengers were on lockdown for an hour before CCTV cameras confirmed Gigler went overboard. The U.S. Coast Guard was alerted that afternoon, prompting it to dispatch a fixed-wing aircraft to aid the investigation. Gigler is a computer programmer who was traveling on the seven-night cruise with his wife Michelle and their three sons—ages 13, 11, and 9. He was supposed to celebrate his 15th wedding anniversary on Wednesday, September 23, according to his sister, Wendy Dowden, who said the couple was “getting along quite well.” But Dowden suspects a mental health crisis occurred. “He wasn’t in his right mind to have done this,” she said. The cruise ship arrived in California on September 20.

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A small lesbian bar in Massachusetts has spurred outrage among its patrons by dropping a mask requirement. The Boston Globe reports that Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue in Greenfield has required patrons to wear KN-95 masks “or better” since its opening last year. It has now dropped the requirement on Saturdays to bring in much-needed cash, but backlash swiftly followed. Customers raged that the move was a “mass disabling event,” with one writing that they hoped the “venue gets firebombed for robbing fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists.” A mediation session ended in tears this month after irate patrons hijacked the event. As the bar struggles to stay afloat and keep up with rent payments, owner Jackie Matellian tells the Globe that the fight is still ongoing, saying, “That’s the price you pay to be in community.” The Globe notes that Greenfield, a city of 17,768, has not reported a new COVID-19 case in over two months.

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Dolly Parton’s nephew, who revealed her death in a video message, is pushing back against her estate’s claims of threats and extortion.

Parton’s nephew, Bryan Seaver, served as the music legend’s head of security for over 20 years before appearing in the Instagram video announcing her death on August 25, at age 80. Seaver inherited the security role from his father. Soon after Parton’s death, however, Parton’s manager, Danny Nozell, fired him and then sued him for allegedly making “violent” threats against the estate.

Now, Seaver is calling the suit a “publicity stunt.”

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When it comes to concerns like shedding, breakage, excess oil, and dandruff, your scalp (not your strands) is often the culprit. We tend to forget that, just like our face, our scalp is actually skin, which means it deserves a little TLC beyond whatever shampoo happens to be sitting in the shower. Dead skin cells, excess sebum, sweat, and product buildup can accumulate on the scalp, causing follicle congestion and inflammation, which can disrupt the natural hair growth cycle.

That’s where Nutrire’s two-part scalp-care system comes in. Designed to address common concerns like shedding, flaking, dryness, and excess oil at the root, the Day & Night Duo essentially gives your scalp its own a.m. and p.m. skincare routine. “Most people respond to thinning by changing their shampoo or adding a mask,” says Kelly Alvarez, Nutrire Stylist and Educator. “That’s strand care. It’s treating the symptom. The scalp is where the work actually happens.”

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More than 100 people say they suffered traumatic brain injuries after riding a Six Flags Magic Mountain rollercoaster. Three lawsuits were filed on Monday by attorneys Gary Dordick and Christopher Bulone of Dordick Law Corporation, alleging that three people suffered “catastrophic brain damage” after riding the X2 coaster in Valencia, California, and they say they also represent more than 100 other riders who suffered brain injuries. Dordick says 400 people have contacted the firm who have “indicated they were injured on X2″. Six Flags “has been willingly gambling with people’s lives… No ride like that should be allowed to exist,” Bulone said at a Tuesday press conference. The thrilling X2 coaster is Six Flags’ ultimate test of bravery, with 360-degree rotating seats and speeds of up to 80 miles per hour. But the coaster has been closed since July, after two women were hospitalized with similar brain hemorrhages, and one remains in a coma. The ride was also previously linked to two deaths: Hilda Farias, 28, died after riding the X2 rollercoaster in 2010, and Christopher Hawley, 22, died in 2022 after riding the same rollercoaster.

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Donald Trump has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the G20 summit later this year at his Florida resort.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed the invitation was extended while speaking to reporters along the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday in New York City.

The move will further strain the U.S. administration’s relationship with European allies who have bristled at Trump’s attempts to bring Putin back into the diplomatic fold despite his continuing war with Ukraine.

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The newly minted MAGA-approved TV pool appears to have inadvertently made itself a security risk for the president.

The pro-Trump outlet Real America’s Voice became the primary television crew traveling with President Donald Trump to the United Nations General Assembly this week after he banned CNN, which was scheduled to provide a pool feed from New York on Monday, from the White House.

Real America’s Voice, now tasked with providing footage to media partners, shared footage from inside Trump’s motorcade as he was driven off of the UN campus and out of New York.

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President Donald Trump’s attempt at state-run TV is not landing with the few viewers who bother to tune in.

Trump TV, a 24-hour YouTube livestream on the existing White House channel, has drawn scathing reviews and suffered comically low viewership—regularly reporting less than 1,000 viewers—just days into its launch.

The Bulwark’s Brendan Hartnett spent six straight hours watching Trump TV and says he walked away with more questions than answers.

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Country rapper Adam Calhoun is turning on Donald Trump just days after releasing a song boasting about voting for him.

In a video shared on social media, the 46-year-old musician, who voted for the president three times, stands by a diesel pump with his finger pointed at the skyrocketing price tag.

“Just getting some gas here, got a quick question. Hey, uh, what the f--i are we doing here, guys?” Calhoun says in the video Tuesday. “Hell yeah, drink up, boys. Drink it up!”

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Elon Musk could potentially have a stake in CNN.

Semafor reported that Musk is one of several investors being considered for a cash infusion into Skydance Paramount, as the company’s Trump-friendly CEO, David Ellison, looks to ease the financial burden of taking over Warner Bros. Discovery.

Citing people familiar with the matter, the site said that the size of Musk’s potential investment could not yet be determined. Ellison has already tapped the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi to help fund the merger.

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Tim Janus, a champion eater and former Amazing Race contestant, has died of cancer at 49. His diagnosis and death on Sept. 16 were confirmed by Major League Eating, although the type of cancer was not disclosed. Janus competed against Joey Chestnut in season 30 of The Amazing Race in 2018 after losing to him in the Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest in 2010, when Janus downed 45 hot dogs, just missing Chestnut’s 54. Notably, Janus was crowned the world nigiri-eating and ramen-eating champion after gorging on 10.5 pounds in less than eight minutes. Janus was not camera-shy, also winning $1,600 on Cash Cab and $100,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The lifelong competitor is survived by his mother, father, and sister. Major League Eating announced a celebration of his life in New York City in October and posted a quote from Janus: “I tell people that I learned a lot about life by eating hot dogs, and I mean it. If you care about something and work hard at it, it makes you better.”

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John Goodman is showing off his fit physique and youthful glow at 74.

The Golden Globe winner arrived at the global premiere of his latest film, Digger, on September 22 in London. He posed for photos with his castmates, including Tom Cruise and Jesse Plemons, wearing a sharp black suit and a black bowtie.

The red carpet appearance comes just a month after a candid photo of the actor prompted fans to deem Goodman “unrecognizable.”

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The photographs from Leicester Square might look, at first sight, like a pretty standard royal engagement: the Prince and Princess of Wales walking into a movie premiere alongside Tom Cruise, still one of the biggest movie stars on the planet at the ripe young age of 64.

But given the incredibly fraught situation inside the family generated by Prince Harry’s return to the United Kingdom, nothing is that simple. And if you compare this appearance with the Duke of Sussex’s fortnight of big “public engagements,” well, Harry’s events look pretty boring.

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Jon Stewart, 63, gets why first lady Melania Trump, 56, works fewer days than he does.

A listener wrote into The Weekly Show podcast asking whether the disparity concerns him.

“It doesn’t concern me; she’s younger than me,” Stewart said. “What is she going in now, once every two weeks?”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

Tom Cruise has surprised longtime fans with his bold new hair color and an even bolder set of height-boosting boots.

The 64-year-old action star swapped his traditional chocolate-toned hue for a deep reddish-brown shade, debuting it on Sept. 22 at the London premiere of his upcoming film, Digger.

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The Looker has launched on Substack! Each week, the Daily Beast’s beauty hub will send its top stories about beauty and wellness stories straight to your inbox.

The Looker is a destination for those interested in living longer, feeling better, and looking their best, one change at a time. The place where we talk about what it means to be seen, and how to feel good about it.

Substack subscribers get exclusive access to must-shop deals, extended gift guides, honest reviews of treatments and products, and stories of real-life transformations, both inside and out.

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A legendary passenger plane pilot has opened up about his Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Sully Sullenberger shot to fame after pulling off the miraculous Hudson River emergency landing in 2009 following a bird strike. Seventeen years later, in June, he revealed he had been diagnosed with the early stages of the disease. Speaking to Good Morning America on Wednesday, the 75-year-old said that his experience during the famous incident helped him handle the news. “We had to devise a plan, execute that plan flawlessly for the first time, never having done it before, and save every life in 208 seconds. So I think we’re doing the same thing here. We’re focusing clearly on the highest priority items first.” Still, he admitted the news had profoundly affected him and his loved ones. “We felt all those emotions, the shock, the anger, why me? We’re part of this community who are trying to make the best of a bad situation,” he said. He is undergoing treatment, but admitted that the disease is “continuing to progress,” describing it as “inevitable.” His wife, Lorrie Sullenberger, told the show: “My plan right now is to just take it one day at a time. I have no idea what’s coming.”

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Katie Miller has revealed her favorite conspiracy, one that her husband literally believes and peddles for his boss.

Miller sat down with Iranian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist Noosheen Hashemi for the latest installment of her barely-watched podcast, Katie Miller Pod.

The pair discussed all MAGA’s favorite topics, including motherhood, Silicon Valley, Iran, Artificial Intelligence and the Democrats.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

Jon Hamm, 55, is expecting his first child with his wife Anna Osceola, 35—and he is admittedly nervous.

Hamm made the admission during his appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers after Osceola debuted her baby bump at the Emmys earlier this month.

“She timed the red carpet for peak pregnancy,” Meyers quipped.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

Republicans are rushing to distance themselves from Donald Trump as they’re seeing an increasingly ugly landscape heading into the midterms.

Facing the prospect of a disastrous election cycle, even MAGA candidates have been jumping ship to avoid being dragged down by their leader’s unpopularity.

The president’s approval rating is an abysmal 33 percent, according to a new CNN poll released on Wednesday. It shows just 27 percent of Americans approve of his handling of the economy overall and 20 percent approve of his handling of inflation.

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A devastating new poll shows Donald Trump’s approval collapsing as Republicans face mounting trouble ahead of the midterms.

The latest CNN/SSRS poll, conducted between Sept. 16-17 among 1,206 U.S. adults, shows that just 33 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s performance, compared with 67 percent who disapprove—a nine-point increase in disapproval since September 2018, during his first term.

Only 13 percent strongly approve, another career low, while just 24 percent believe Trump has the right priorities.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

Star Jones says losing more than 160 pounds over two decades ago didn’t just change her body—it allowed her to have the life she has now.

The attorney and former View co-host, 64, reflected on the lasting impact of her 2003 gastric bypass surgery during a guest appearance on the daytime talk show this week, saying she believes she would be dead without it.

“I was 307 pounds at my heaviest sitting at this table,” Jones said. “I saved my own life.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

Mitch McConnell is set to make his first appearance outside the Senate chambers in nearly a hundred days.

In his second week back at work after months away, the 84-year-old senator is scheduled to be a featured guest at a D.C. event for the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce, one of Kentucky’s largest business advocacy groups.

The chamber of commerce’s annual fly-in to Washington, D.C., closes out with a 4:30 p.m. reception at the Russell Senate Office Building on Wednesday featuring “special guest” McConnell, according to a schedule of events obtained by the Daily Beast.

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