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Television mogul Oprah Winfrey is to leave the board of WeightWatchers in the wake of her admission she used weight-loss drugs as a “maintenance tool.”

Put Western troops on the ground in Ukraine and get a global nuclear war in return. That was the clear threat issued Thursday by Russian President Vladimir Putin as he told the West to keep out of the fight between Moscow and Kyiv.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will stand down as Senate Republican Leader in November, leaving his post as the longest-serving Senate leader in history.

Apple’s hitherto secret effort to develop its own self-driving electric vehicle (EV) has reached a dead end. Multiple sources confirmed to news outlets Wednesday the iPhone maker has dumped the project after a decade’s work delivered little return on investment.

Tom Brady’s ex-wife Gisele Bündchen’s relationship with boyfriend Joaquim Valente “began years ago,” something the NFL star has reportedly “accepted.”

Pro wrestling icon and member of the original Four Horsemen, Ole Anderson, died on Monday. He was 81.

France has chewed over the issue of vegetarian food makers claiming carnivore terms to describe their plant-based wares and banned the use of the term “steak” on anything but the animal product.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorist group knocked out four undersea communications cables linking Saudi Arabia and Djibouti, a report by an Israeli news outlet claimed Monday.

Former President Donald Trump filed a notice of appeal Monday in the matter of the New York civil judgment finding him liable for fraudulently inflating his net worth on years of financial statements.

Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman Ronna McDaniel announced Monday she will leave her post on March 8, thus drawing to a close seven years at the helm of the GOP.

Fighters in places such as Congo, Gaza, Myanmar, Ukraine, Haiti, and Sudan are turning a “blind eye” to international law in general and the United Nations in particular, the globalist organization’s chief Antonio Guterres despaired Monday.

Kenneth Mitchell, the Canadian actor best known for roles in Jericho, Captain Marvel and Star Trek: Discovery, has died, his family confirmed Sunday. He was 49.

Shane Gillis returned to his well-worn impression of former President Donald Trump on the latest outing of  “Saturday Night Live” in a fake movie trailer centered on Trump’s recently released line of sneakers.

Half of promised Western military aid to Kyiv is failing to be delivered on time, Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov despaired on Sunday as he issued a call for benefactors to make haste to save his country from potential ruin.

President Joe Biden’s approval rating fell to 38 percent in February, hovering one percentage point away from his all-time low, a Gallup poll released Friday reveals. The figure is well below the 50 percent threshold typically needed for incumbents to achieve reelection.

Combined U.S. and British forces carried out a fresh wave of strikes Saturday against 18 Huthi targets in Yemen, hitting back after weeks of attacks on Red Sea shipping by the Iran-backed rebels.

President Joe Biden’s unabashed reliance on pre-prepared notes to help him explain his own policies in response to questions he knows are coming is sparking concern about his age from party donors.

Good riddance. That was the farewell message from former President Donald Trump to late night host Jimmy Kimmel as it appears the latter’s talk show could be coming to an end.

The Enhanced Games is set to be an Olympic-style, drug-fuelled event that allows competitor doping when it debuts in 2025. Founder Dr. Aron D’Souza couldn’t be happier.

The Animation Guild (IATSE Local 839) on Wednesday became the first Hollywood union to formally call for a Gaza ceasefire as it signed a labor movement petition addressing the conflict.

President Joe Biden sees a host of malign influences challenging his 2024 reelection efforts, using a private fundraiser in San Francisco on Wednesday night to take swipes at Russian President Vladimir Putin, former President Donald Trump, and MAGA Republicans while ostensibly addressing “climate change.”

Comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish has upset some of her fans by revealing she is heading to war-torn Israel “to have some fun.”

Former CNN senior political analyst and host John Avlon has filed to run for Congress just two weeks after revealing his departure from the struggling news network.

Meet Ashwath Kaushik. He’s an eight-year-old with all the right moves. So many in fact the Singaporean defeated 37-year-old Polish chess grandmaster Jacek Stopa in the fourth round of the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open in Switzerland over the weekend.

Russia’s main security agency arrested a dual citizen of Russia and the United States alleging she committed high treason for donating funds to an appeal to help Ukraine.

Jon Stewart damage control was in full effect Monday night as he went after ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson, lambasting Carlson for his interview with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The sneering attack appeared to be the The Daily Show host’s belated effort to reassert his left-wing credentials after being mocked for daring to criticize President Joe Biden in a previous show.

A lack of foreign aid deliveries from Western allies makes life “very difficult” for Ukraine’s fighters, a despairing President Volodymyr Zelensky said late Monday.

Instagram model Corinna Kopf’s Los Angeles home was burglarized last week, the latest in an increasingly long line of criminal events defining the City of Angels.

Adam Sandler accepted his People’s Choice Icon Award on Sunday night with a self-mocking speech that divided the immediate audience with its appeal to “the ugly folk out there.”

A verse from the Quran that explicitly calls on Muslims to kill and take Jews captive was reportedly recited last week inside the walls of the Belgian parliament building.

If the shoe fits, wear it. That is the message former president Donald Trump hopes his supporters will heed after he launched an exclusive, signature brand of shoes Saturday at “Sneaker Con,” modestly self-titled as “The Greatest Sneaker Show on Earth.”

Nurses and a phlebotomist at a Las Vegas hospital were allegedly attacked by Outer Banks actor Austin North before he was struck in the head with a metal tray and subdued, police said.

The $60 billion package of U.S. aid stuck in Congress wouldn’t “fundamentally change the reality” on the ground in Ukraine, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) argued Sunday at an international security conference in Munich, Germany.

Nikki Haley on Saturday said the death of “hero” Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny demands a response from former President Donald Trump.

Two people were killed in Israel on Friday when a terrorist gunman opened fire on a crowded bus stop near the southern town of Kiryat Malakhi.

Psssst. Wanna’ buy a new electric vehicle (EV)? No, me neither, but some people do and they’re being greeted by desperate car dealers willing to slash prices by anything up to a quarter in an effort to shift stock.