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Pop star Rihanna teamed up with Elon Musk’s estranged transgender child Xavier Alexander Musk — who now goes by the name Vivian Jenna Wilson — for her lingerie brand’s salacious Pride campaign. The 22-year-old was seen modeling in the latest Savage x Fenty campaign — a Pride-themed collection — appearing in a black bra and matching panties adorned with pro-queer messaging, including “Love Is Gay.” Musk’s son completed his outfit with a pair of open-toe stiletto heels and beaded accents hanging from his bra. “@vivllainous is exactly who she said she is,” Rihanna’s lingerie brand declared in the caption of the Instagram post. In…

The Institute for Supply Management said that its manufacturing index rose 1.3 points to 54, the best reading since May of 2022. This beat the highest estimates in Econoday’s survey of economists. The median expectation was for a reading of 53.4 percent. The index of new orders, a closely watched measure of demand, signaled expansion for the fifth straight month and rose 2.7 percentage points to 54.3 percent in May. The production index rose nine-tenths of a point to 54.3 percent, the seventh consecutive month of expanding production.Readings above 50 in the headline purchasing managers index indicate expansion for the…

Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner’s wife admitted to his campaign that he had sent sexually explicit texts to women early in their marriage, according to multiple reports. “People familiar with the matter” told the Wall Street Journal that Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, reportedly shared with an aide in August that she had found the sexually explicit messages “early in their marriage in the spring of 2025.” Gertner’s admission to sending the messages came as “some aides were conducting opposition research on their own candidate.” The aides’ opposition research on Platner came as “the campaign had been preparing for a…

Tehran has also reportedly ordered the Strait of Hormuz to be blocked over the ongoing Israeli offensive in Lebanon Iran has halted negotiations with the US over the ongoing Israeli offensive in Lebanon, moving to block maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, Tasnim news agency has reported, citing sources.Israel has intensified its bombing campaign in Lebanon in recent days, against what it describes as sites used by the Hezbollah militant group. The Israeli military has pushed deeper into the country’s south, seizing Beaufort Castle, a 900-year-old Crusader fortress and a key vantage point in the region.While Iran made an…

UNITED STATES – APRIL 28: Secretary of Education Linda McMahon at a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. The Education Department is launching new repayment plans for student loans this July. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesThe Education Department is preparing to launch two new tiered repayment plan options for federal student loans. The new programs, which are expected to debut on July 1, will be much different from any other current student loan repayment plan in several key ways, and they will also operate very differently from…

Rayann El Houli, part of the “ISIS Brides” group of Australian women, renounced the Islamic State and “violent jihad” her lawyer claimed during a Monday court appearance. El Houli, a 34 year-old mother of four children, is one of the Australian “ISIS Brides” women that moved to Syria so they could marry Islamic State fighters before the collapse of the so-called ISIS “caliphate” in 2019. She reportedly returned to Australia with her sister in September. She was arrested months later on Thursday and formally charged with travelling to a declared conflict zone and joining the Islamic State terrorist organization. Both offences carry maximum…

Actor Mark Ruffalo has endorsed billionaire Tom Steyer in California’s governor race, even though the movie star regularly rails against billionaires. The Disney-Marvel star delivered his endorsement of Steyer in an Instagram post on Thursday. “Tom has spent the last two decades working to stop climate change. Becerra is bought and paid for by Big Oil and other corporations that have spent nearly $50 million to elect him,” Ruffalo declared. Though Ruffalo admitted that he is no “fan of billionaires,” adding that he sees “no reason for people to have that kind of wealth,” he sidestepped that issue by attempting…

Hard-left Turkish-American influencers Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker have been banned from entering the United Kingdom ahead of planned public appearances after the government ruled their presence in the country would not be “conducive to the public good”. The Young Turks broadcaster Cenk Uygur and his nephew, the live streamer Hasan Piker, were informed that their electronic travel authorisation (ETA) visa-free travel permission to come to the United Kingdom had been revoked just hours before flying to Britain, they said. The men had been booked to appear at speaking events in Britain, including the ‘Techno-Feudalism is Here. Who are the Lords?’ panel at…

A manhunt is underway for a killer following a Friday night fatal shooting of Carroll County, Virginia, sheriff’s deputy Logan Utt. WSLS reported that deputies were dispatched to the home of Michael Timothy Puckett around 9:30 p.m. for a welfare check. Upon arriving, the deputies came under fire and Utt was fatally wounded. Puckett was able to flee the scene and now “a massive multi-agency manhunt is underway across Carroll County,” according to WTVR. The law enforcement offices/agencies involved in the manhunt include the ATF, the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office and the Virginia State Police. Puckett…

Welcome back to the bad place. After leaving town late last month for a one-week recess, House and Senate GOP leaders are returning to a slew of familiar problems threatening to leave their midterm-year agenda stalled in perennial limbo. Republicans’ party-line immigration enforcement bill is stuck because of President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and there’s a mini-rebellion brewing over an Iran war powers resolution that, if adopted, would be politically embarrassing for the president (more on that below). That’s to say nothing of the full-time task of managing internal GOP frustrations after a trio of incumbents fell to…