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JOHN FOSTER, BREANNA NIX, JAMAL ROBERTSDisney American Idol crowned its Season 23 winner on Sunday, May 18, during a live, star-studded finale filled with stellar performances and lots of special guests. Read on for a recap of the grand finale, including who was named the American Idol 2025 winner and runner-up. Judges Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie, and Carrie Underwood all performed during the finale, joined by the Top 14 and special guests including the Goo Goo Dolls, Good Charlotte, Jessica Simpson, Patti LaBelle, Salt-N-Pepa, Jennifer Holliday, Josh Groban, Brandon Lake, Cody Johnson, Myles Smith, and Kirk Franklin. The night kicked…
Think of much further your retirement income would go if it was tax free? We share how to get … Moregetty Taxes are often one of the biggest expenses retirees incur. With our progressive tax system, theoretically, the more you make, the more taxes you must pay. One of the biggest exceptions is income in your Roth IRA. Keep reading as we share how you can save $70,000 or more in this type of retirement account every year. This retirement income strategy could make you a Roth IRA millionaire. Picture your parents or grandparents complaining about the huge amount of…
Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, has claimed that the head of France’s foreign intelligence agency asked him to ban Romanian conservatives ahead of the country’s elections, a request he says he refused. Reuters reports that Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder of the popular messaging app Telegram, has accused Nicolas Lerner, the head of France’s foreign intelligence agency DGSE, of attempting to interfere in Romania’s recent presidential election. Durov, who is currently under judicial supervision in France and residing at a luxury hotel in Paris, made the startling revelation on Elon Musk’s X. According to Durov,…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia overnight into Sunday launched its most intense drone attack on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion in 2022, after the first direct talks between Moscow and Kyiv in years failed to yield a ceasefire. Russian President Vladimir Putin spurned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s offer to meet face-to-face in Turkey after he himself proposed direct negotiations – although not at the presidential level – as an alternative to a 30-day ceasefire urged by Ukraine and its Western allies, including the U.S. Talks in Istanbul on Friday broke up after less than two hours without…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has defended the multibillion-dollar AI partnerships between U.S. companies and Gulf nations brokered by former President Donald Trump, labeling critics of the deals as “naive.” TechSpot reports that during his recent tour of the Middle East, Trump announced a series of agreements with Gulf states, particularly the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, related to exporting advanced AI chips and developing AI infrastructure in the region. The deals have drawn criticism from those who fear they could provide a backdoor for China to access restricted AI technologies, as the UAE and Saudi Arabia have close…
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that President Donald Trump should not accept a jet from Qatar to use as the next Air Force One. Pence said, “First, we’ve got to remember who Qatar is. We’ve got a military base there. I have members of our immediate family that have deployed to the region. But Qatar has a long history of playing both sides. They support Hamas. They supported Al Qaeda. Qatar has actually financed pro-Hamas protests on American campuses across the United States.” Host Kristen Welker said, “So you are saying President Trump…
The country’s intelligence agency insists it spoke with the Telegram CEO to protect children, not to interfere in elections France’s foreign intelligence service has denied claims that its director pressured Telegram founder Pavel Durov to censor political content on the messaging platform.Durov claimed on Sunday that the government of a Western European country – which he hinted was France – had asked him to block conservative Romanian content on Telegram ahead of the country’s presidential runoff. After Paris denied involvement, Durov identified Nicolas Lerner, head of the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), as the official behind the request.On Monday, the…
The US Supreme Court on Monday lifted a lower court’s block on President Trump’s order to revoke ‘protected status’ for hundreds of thousands of migrants living in the US. Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone Supreme Court justice to dissent. BREAKING: A 8-1 Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to rescind Biden-era temporary deportation protections for Venezuelan migrants while the policy is challenged in court. Jackson is the only noted dissent. pic.twitter.com/AZRNBQtx2u — Katie Buehler (@bykatiebuehler) May 19, 2025 In March, a federal judge issued a stay on Trump’s order to revoke Temporary Restricted Status (TPS) for Venezuelans who…
Topline The House Budget Committee approved President Donald Trump’s signature legislative agenda in a Sunday night vote after conservative holdouts, who had blocked its passage on Friday, agreed to move it forward as they claimed to have secured changes to the bill. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol.Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Key Facts The bill was passed with a vote of 17-16, after four of the committee’s conservative deficit hawks voted present while all Democrats on the panel opposed it. Shortly before the bill’s passage, House Speaker…
I just wanted to bring this story to everybody’s attention…not because it is weighty or scary, just because it’s interesting. The Independent reports: Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold – Physicists have made an unexpected breakthrough The headline is actually inaccurate, the development is neither a “breakthrough” nor entirely unexpected. Scientists in America turned bismuth into gold back in the 1980s. Rumoured reports of nuclear reactors changing lead into gold go back to at least the 1970s, when Soviet scientists found some lead shielding on a nuclear reactor had turned into gold. The science is relatively simple as…