Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning on Monday shot down rumors he had made plans to enter the transfer portal at the end of the season as the team prepared for its next College Football Playoff matchup against Arizona State. Rumors have swirled around Manning for the entire season as he sat as a backup to…
Following the death of former President Jimmy Carter, President Biden on Monday signed an executive order closing all executive departments and agencies of the federal government on Jan. 9. The closures, which Biden described as a “mark of respect” for the 39th president, will be in effect on the day of the late former president’s…
“Races” are now “species” in the beloved game Dungeons & Dragons, which recently marked its 50th anniversary, irking some loyal fans. “Some character traits have been divorced from biological identity; a mountain dwarf is no longer inherently brawny and durable, a high elf no longer intelligent and dexterous by definition,” a report in The New…
Justin Baldoni plans to “expose” what his lawyer calls a “false” narrative created by Blake Lively’s legal complaint against the actor. The actor’s impending lawsuit will share the “truth” after Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment leading up to filming the Colleen Hoover-adapted movie, “It Ends With Us.” “This is not a response or countersuit…
Billionaire entrepreneur and top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, touted that he has reaped the benefits of a controversial class of weight-loss drugs, after fellow top Trump adviser, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said the trendy new class of drugs is bad for Americans’ health. “Ozempic Santa” Musk posted to X, formerly Twitter, on…
A traveler took to social media to ask whether passengers could ask for a whole can of soda versus just a small cup filled with the bubbly beverage. Posted in the “r/delta” forum, the user’s comment said, “I was told once by a FA [flight attendant] on the plane you can ask for ‘a can…
Two months after Liam Payne’s death, an Argentine judge confirmed Monday charges filed against five people in connection with the British singer’s passing, according to The Associated Press. A judicial officer confirmed that two of the people were ordered to be put under preventive prison — a form of pre-trial detention — for having supplied…
South American organized crime groups were reportedly behind the break-ins at the homes of professional athletes over the course of recent months. The FBI warned professional sports leagues about the targeted home invasions in a Liaison Information Report, ABC News reported Monday. The report said the groups conduct “physical and technical surveillance” to prep for…
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said one of the things she got wrong in 2024 was thinking Americans would be more “unnerved” by Republican Vice President-elect JD Vance. “I thought people would be more unnerved by JD Vance,” Maddow told news site, Semafor, which rounded up dozens of retrospectives from media figures across the political spectrum,…
The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last week. The fact that the virus mutated within the patient suggests that it could potentially spread from human to human. The CDC…