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New Kids on the Block’s Step by Step hits the Official Album Download chart for the first time as … More the boy band reissues the decades-old set. The members from the rock group New Kids on the Block (l-r) Joe McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, Jon Knight, Danny Wood and Jordan Knight. (Photo by Robin Platzer/Getty Images)Getty Images New Kids on the Block is one of the rare boy bands from decades past that is not only still together, but which continues to release new music. The group reunited in mid-2024 to drop Still Kids, its eighth proper full-length and first…
The United Kingdom will buy 12 F-35A fighters from Lockheed Martin so the country can join NATO’s nuclear mission, becoming what might be called the world’s only dual-sovereignty nuclear-armed nation. British pilots will crew U.S.-made jets carrying American tactical nuclear bombs in support of the NATO nuclear mission, the UK government announced at the alliance’s summit this week. The F-35 is designated dual-capable, meaning that as well as the nuclear mission it will be able to perform regular warfighting duties as well. The government said in a statement: “The purchase represents the biggest strengthening of the UK’s nuclear posture in a…
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) engendered backlash on Wednesday for mocking first lady Melania Trump and the means by which she attained an “Einstein visa” to enter the United States. Crockett mentioned the first lady and her entry into the United States during a U.S. House hearing on Wednesday. “Since we’re talking about integrity, I’m confused as to why my Republican colleagues aren’t talking about the lack of integrity when it comes to the president’s family’s visas,” she said. “Let me remind y’all that Melania, the first lady, a model — and when I say model, I’m not talking about Tyra…
Sara Duterte has condemned the detention of her father Rodrigo Duterte as illegal The International Criminal Court (ICC) was acting outside its jurisdiction when it arrested former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, his daughter Sara Duterte, currently vice president of the Philippines, has told RT. In an interview on Wednesday, Duterte slammed the court for denying her father’s petition for interim release and accused the organization of serving political interests rather than justice.Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in March 2025, six years after the Philippines left the ICC, at Manila’s international airport. He was extradited to The Hague on charges of crimes against…
On the night of June 22, riel Jesús Sarmiento Rodríguez, a brave 25-year-old Venezuelan influencer, was brutally murdered in his home in El Piñonal, Maracay, while livestreaming on TikTok. On the night of June 22, Gabriel Jesús Sarmiento Rodríguez, a brave 25-year-old Venezuelan influencer, was brutally murdered in his home in El Piñonal, Maracay, while livestreaming on TikTok. Two armed men broke into his home, shooting him at least nine times and seriously injuring his mother with a shot to the abdomen. The crime, captured in real time, has shocked Venezuela and exposes the rot of a system where organized…
John Powell’s How to Train Your Dragon debuts on the Official Soundtrack Albums chart and on the … More Official Album Downloads chart, earning the composer his new career peak. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 07: John Powell attends Universal Pictures presents the Los Angeles premiere of DreamWorks “How To Train Your Dragon” at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on June 07, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)Getty Images Since being released in mid-June, How to Train Your Dragon has quickly become one of the highest-grossing movies of 2025 globally. The live-action remake of the animated…
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA – JUNE 29: People walk on the campus of the University of North Carolina … MoreGetty Images When it comes to paying for college, common wisdom says to apply for as much financial aid as you possibly can. This includes scholarships and grants that come from institutions and government agencies, and private scholarships, too. Unfortunately, colleges and universities have policies that can rob students of aid they may have spent weeks or months pursuing on their own. They do this through something called “scholarship displacement,” which reduces aid awards based on outside scholarships a student receives.…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” Atlantic Council Senior Fellow, former World Health Organization Adviser, former NSC official during the Clinton administration, and Deputy Staff Director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under then-Sen. Joe Biden Jamie Metzl praised the strikes on Iran and stated that the reaction to the strikes at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) rally was like the strikes were “9/11 by the mourning of these people who were clearly rooting against America.” And “we should be against people who are attacking our government, people who are undermining our government, just as…
Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight” that President Donald Trump was using “dangerous” authoritarian tactics by attacking the press. Van Hollen said, “The President of United States, the Secretary of Defense, has essentially declared that anybody who has a different explanation or different narrative is somehow a traitor to our country, which is just a way of saying to all the folks in our professional Intelligence Community that if you tell the truth, you’re going to be punished. That’s very dangerous.” He added, “This is exactly what Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth and others are doing.…
The White House has accused the opposition of selective disclosure of a classified document for political gain US President Donald Trump has called for the prosecution of members of the opposition he holds responsible for the leak of classified information about recent US attacks on Iran. The Pentagon struck three of Tehran’s nuclear facilities last week, building on Israeli attacks earlier this month.While the Trump administration has maintained that the targets in Iran were “obliterated,” CNN and several other news outlets on Tuesday cited a preliminary military intelligence assessment indicating only moderate damage to the facilities, despite the reported use…