Protesters did not set up new tent encampments or demonstrate against the war in Gaza at Columbia University on Thursday as planned. NBC News reported Wednesday that a group planned to set up tent encampments on the New York City school’s main campus Thursday afternoon. The encampments would have been likely to inflame tension at…
LAFAYETTE, La. — Like so many college football standouts, Jack Bech will be watching and waiting this weekend, hoping to hear his name called at the 2025 NFL draft. The TCU wide receiver will be tuning in from his high school in Lafayette, Louisiana, surrounded by family and friends. But his biggest fan will be missing….
Football great Shannon Sharpe said Thursday that he will “step aside temporarily” from his duties at ESPN in the wake of a $50 million lawsuit accusing him of rape. The 56-year-old former Denver Broncos tight end said he needs time away from the studios to fight allegations that he called “false and disruptive.” “I will…
If President Donald Trump’s 145% levy against imports from China holds, Hasbro estimates it could see as much as a $300 million hit to its bottom line. The toy maker posted better-than-expected earnings on Thursday, but investors and analysts were more focused on the ongoing trade war Trump’s White House has waged against the toy industry’s biggest…
“The Last of Us” star Pedro Pascal accused author J.K. Rowling of “heinous loser behavior” for her celebratory post following a U.K. court decision that did not recognize transgender women as women. Pascal hit hard at the “Harry Potter” author in the comment section of an Instagram video that called for a total boycott of…
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A 19-year-old from Ocean Township, New Jersey, is accused of starting a massive wildfire that prompted thousands of evacuations, burned around 15,000 acres and destroyed a commercial building. Joseph Kling was arrested and charged with aggravated arson and arson, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday. The fire, named the Jones Road Wildfire, erupted Tuesday in…
A roof that collapsed at a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic and killed 232 people this month had filtration problems for decades and had been repeatedly fixed with plasterboard, according to its owner. Antonio Espaillat, who also serves as manager of the Jet Set nightclub in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo, spoke with…
CHICAGO — And the race is officially on. One day after longtime Sen. Dick Durbin announced he would retire and not seek reelection, Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, launched her bid for his seat. She is the first contender to enter what Democrats here are expecting to be a jam-packed field for a senatorial seat…
She was joined by her friend Molly Dorman from Fair Port, Alabama. “I can stand in a line for three or four hours. I think that it’s important to do that,” Dorman said. Dorman, 19, said it was her first visit to Rome, said she thought it would be “solemn and surreal,” to see Francis…
