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Kaine didn’t seem to get it when a Fox News reporter asked him about the outrage over the verdict on his side. “I have a hard time understanding why they would say that,” Kaine said about claims that the verdict was racially charged. All right, then: What about specific claims by Crockett and others? “I know what they’re saying, but I have a hard time understanding,” Kaine said.

🇮🇪⚔️ An armed Irish group has issued a direct warning to politicians: “You have flooded our communities with military-age migrant men. We will not sit back and watch our culture and religion destroyed.” The pushback has begun. Ireland is waking up.

Explanation: To see Venus and Jupiter together this month, you won't need binoculars or even a telescope. Just look up after sunset and you'll find them emerging as the sky grows dark near the western horizon. In fact, on June 9 the two brightest planets were in close conjunction, separated on the sky by less than 2 degrees from our perspective. Since (brighter) inner planet Venus orbits the Sun faster than outer planet Jupiter, it catches up with and passes the outer planet along the ecliptic roughly every 13 months. But every three years or so their resulting conjunction can...

There’s a type of crime story that has unfortunately begun to crop up with increasing frequency. I don’t even need to read past the headline to know with shocking accuracy who the perpetrator is. The stories have certain qualities in common. They involve a bloody crime, committed without the aid of a firearm, or even the all-American pastime staple, the baseball bat. Rather, the weapon is usually a knife, but an unusual one — a kirpan or a machete, for example. The recent high-profile barbarism in the UK comes to mind. Sometimes it’s not even a knife at all. These...

Former college football head coach Urban Meyer has never been shy about where Tim Tebow ranks in the history of the sport. On a recent episode of The Triple Option, the three-time national championship coach made the case for his former quarterback again. This time, the focus shifted to managing the circus that surrounded Tebow's storied Florida career. Meyer called Tebow "a very polarizing figure," which was meant as a compliment. Because in the same breath the former Florida coach said Tebow "was the best player in college football history."

Welcome football fans and welcome to the third world! Maybe not the U.S. as much, but el mundo is watching the World Cup, and those fans from el tercer mundo are probably thinking, as they take in the sights of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, "Damn, what a s**thole country this is." And they'd be right. about the Golden Gate Bridge, when they finish painting it, they have to start over again. The U.S. plays Paraguay tonight at SoFi Stadium, where no flights or drones are allowed in the airspace over the stadium, and blocks around the area are...

Vice President JD Vance hit back at critics on Friday over what the Trump administration claims is an emerging deal with Iran to end the war. Vance blasted critics who “say you can’t trust a word said” by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, just over an hour after Trump declared “there is no such thing as dealing in good faith” with Iran. Iranian state media published what it claimed were details from the potential agreement, which showed heavy concessions from the U.S. in the form of a $300 billion payment for reconstruction, the removal of U.S. troops from the region,...

In a darkened convention hall in Chicago on May 31, a Harvard oncologist named Brian Wolpin stood at a podium and in a voice that sounded as if he was reading from the phone book, recited a set of numbers that brought a roomful of cancer doctors to their feet for 42 seconds. Adam Feuerstein, a biotech correspondent for the health news site Stat who has covered cancer conferences like this for two decades, said he had never witnessed anything like it. The applause lasted so long that Wolpin, caught off-guard, ad-libbed: “That time was not built into my talk.”...

HOUSTON (CW39) — The internet’s favorite international tourist is officially making his way to Houston, and Texans legend J.J. Watt is already stepping up to roll out the welcome mat. A German soccer fan known online as “Freddy the German” has gone wildly viral for documenting his 2026 World Cup road trip across the American South, and his latest stop is bringing him right to the Bayou City. What to know Freddy (@FreddyLA7) has gained a massive following documenting his six-week World Cup road trip on X (formerly Twitter). He recently went viral for his hilariously positive reactions to Southern...

The gunman in Friday's deadly mass shooting in Texas shot at a police officer days earlier, authorities confirmed to Newsweek on Friday. The suspect, Victor Mata Villarreal, 45, of Odessa, had been sought by police for attempted capital murder of a peace officer after firing multiple shots at a Midland police officer during a traffic stop late Wednesday.

The European Union announced it would resume membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova on Monday. “All member states agreed to open the first accession negotiations cluster with Ukraine and Moldova,” EU President Antonio Costa said in a social media post on Friday. The announcement came after the new government in Hungary agreed to drop its longstanding veto against Kyiv. The European Union formally opened entry negotiations with Ukraine back in June 2024, kickstarting a complicated undertaking that usually takes years and involves negotiations on anything from agriculture to the rule of law. Launched as a powerful statement days after Russia’s...

We've been covering the story of Europeans in the U.S. for the World Cup, traversing America, finding the wonderful things that we have here, and maybe take for granted. It's been a joy, especially as we celebrate our 250th birthday, to see just how much love visiting Europeans like Freddy from Germany have for us. Freddy even made it to those quintessential American spots — Waffle House and Buc-ee's, even getting a picture with the Beaver. German Tourist Charms the Internet As He Discovers the Wonders of the U.S. Freddy has continued to make his way through the south, driving...

Texas Tech swaps its soul for a QB. It learned by watching Maine Dems | Opinion By Ryan J. Rusak June 11, 2026 College sports is degrading so fast, it’s hard for any particular indignity to stand out. When a prominent coach sanctions anything short of murder, though, that breaks through. Texas Tech University is marshaling its clout and wealth to protect the playing eligibility of transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby, who, a couple of stops ago, gambled on his own sport and team. That was once the unforgivable sin for an athlete, but Sorsby found a Tarrant County judge willing...

Elon Musk is now a trillionaire thanks to the record-breaking IPO price, which also minted a new billionaire and boosted the fortunes of many others. SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 per share Thursday, implying a $1.8 trillion market cap for the company. That boosted Musk’s net worth by $188 billion to an estimated $982 billion, according to Forbes’ calculations. If Tesla’s share price remains unchanged and SpaceX’s stock climbs to $138.50 per share when trading starts Friday, Musk will become the first trillionaire in world history. He’d also become a trillionaire if Tesla’s stock rises from $399 to $424...

Donald Trump has agreed to a major concession to end the war in Iran: allowing the Islamic Republic to retain some of its civilian nuclear program. 'Now, on the civilian nuclear program, I think that we have to be very careful and very precise here,' a senior White House official discussing the pending memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran told reporters on a call Friday afternoon. 'We're not bothered at all by the idea of civilian power plants in Iran; what we're bothered by is the type of infrastructure that would allow them to jump from civilian power...

Jennifer Byrne, the mother of the two kids, said the incident left her children traumatized. "My daughter called me, I'm at work. She was in hysterics, crying, saying, 'Somebody put a gun to us and took all of our money,'" she said.

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A plane hit a radar pole at a Turkish airport on Thursday, frightening its 267 passengers as the aircraft taxied to its gate. The Turkish Airlines Boeing 777 had departed Istanbul and landed at Antalya Airport when its right wing smashed into the pole, the New York Post reported Friday. Video footage showed the plane surrounded by emergency vehicles as the passengers exited, and the jet appeared to have a huge hole in its side:

On Friday, in Midland, Texas, an as-yet unidentified gunman opened fire, resulting in one victim killed and at least nine wounded. The shooter, as of this writing, has barricaded himself in a building, which is surrounded by police. At least one person is dead and others were injured in an active shooting situation while the suspect has barricaded himself inside a building in downtown Midland, Texas, Midland Mayor Lori Blong said in a Friday press conference. Midland Mayor Lori Blong said there were 11 victims in total, and that police have established a perimeter and are asking residents to avoid...

A volunteer’s ‘SOCIALISM’ bracelet was a hint that New York City’s public turnout campaign for rent-control hearings might not live up to its own rules of neutrality. Against my better judgment and the advice of Oscar Wilde, I let socialism in New York City take up another one of my evenings. This time, I was curious to see a new, taxpayer-funded canvassing machine in action before this month’s crucial decision on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign promise to freeze the rent on the apartments where about 2.4 million New Yorkers live. Six weeks ago, Mamdani announced the launch of Organize NYC,...