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PresidentDonald Trump— who has called the media “the enemy of the American people” — is being criticized as a “hypocrite” after he condemned Thursday’snewsroom shooting that took the lives of five peoplein Annapolis, Maryland. “This attack shocked the conscience of our nation and filled our hearts with grief. Journalists, like all Americans, should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job,” Trump said at an event touting his tax cut plan on Friday....

A portion of the uncompleted border wall.Photo: Micah Garen/Getty The government under Trump completed about 452 miles of border wall since the project began in 2017, though almost all of that involved upgrading existing barriers. TIME reports that the previous administration built only47 miles of new wall. There were some 650 miles of wall before Trump took office,according to the BBC. (The southern border also features geographic obstacles, including the Rio Grande....

Tulsa Massacre Graves.Photo: City of Tulsa via AP Excavators have found 24 new graves that could be linked to the 1921Tulsa Race Massacre, officials for the Oklahoma cityannounced Wednesdayin a statement. The excavation for mass graves began in July 2020, nearly a century after the massacre. The newly found coffins and the remains will be examined to see if they are victims of the massacre. “This is going to part of our process of discriminating which ones we’re going to proceed with in terms of exhuming those individuals and which ones we’re actually going to leave in place,” Oklahoma State Archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said in a video statement,according to the Associated Press....

Army veteran Jamie Willis suffered for years with PTSD and a nagging back injury after an accident in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle during Operation Desert Storm, in which he served as a cavalry scout. The injury, which rendered him briefly paralyzed and now disabled, left him feeling lost and without purpose.But three years ago, after Willis began hand-crafting canes for other disabled vets like himself, this woodworking labor of love turned his life, and his outlook about humanity, around....

Chynna Deese and Lucas Fowler.Photo: Facebook Two bodies found Wednesday in rural Manitoba may be those of two missing teen suspects wanted in the murder of an American woman and her boyfriend, who werediscovered shot to death last monthafter their car broke down on a Canadian road trip. Victims Chynna Noelle Deese, 24, of Charlotte, North Carolina, and her boyfriend Lucas Robertson Fowler, 23, of Australia, were traveling through British Columbia in their 1986 Chevrolet van when their bodies were found on a desolate stretch of highway on July 15, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police saidin a statement....

According toCBS News, U.S. satellites detected two surface-to-air missile launches that occurred shortly before the plane exploded. Missile components were apparently found near the location of the crash, a source who was inside an intelligence briefing told CBS News. The crash occurred just hours after Iran hadlaunched missiles at two military basesin Iraq that house U.S. troops. Sources toldNewsweekthat Iran’s anti-aircraft missile systems were likely active after their attack on the military bases in Iraq....

Megan Rapinoe.Photo: Paul Currie/BPI/ShutterstockAfter swiftly taking down Chile, Thailand, and Sweden in the group stages of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the U.S. women’s soccer team was victorious once again on Monday, this time over Spain.The Americans cruised through their first match of the tournament’s knockout round, defeating Spain 2-1. They now advance to the quarterfinals.Both goals came from Megan Rapinoe, who scored twice on penalty kicks.This marked Spain’s first appearance in the World Cup....

Sinead O’Connor and Bono of U2.Photo:Andrew Chin/Getty; Dominique Charriau/WireImage Andrew Chin/Getty; Dominique Charriau/WireImage U2took a moment out of theirLas Vegas residencyto pay tribute to the lateSinead O’Connor. During their Saturday concert at the new Sphere venue in Vegas, the rock band broke into a snippet of O’Connor’s 1990 song “Nothing Compares 2 U,” honoring the singer who also hailed from the group’s native Ireland anddied at age 56in July. Fanscaptured footageof the heartfelt tribute....

01of 1070 Years of the Queen’s Style"The Queen shows us how she feels through her clothing," says Bethan Holt, author of the new book,The Queen: 70 Years of Majestic Style. “Once you delve beneath the surface a little bit, you can see what an incredible amount of research and thought has gone into creating her iconic looks.” 01of 10 70 Years of the Queen’s Style “The Queen shows us how she feels through her clothing,” says Bethan Holt, author of the new book,The Queen: 70 Years of Majestic Style....

An unvaccinated TikTok creator who died ofCOVID-19spent her final days desperately pleading with her followers to get the vaccine so they “won’t end up in the hospital like me.“Megan Alexandra Blankenbiller died on Aug. 24, just nine days after she hadmade her final TikTok videothat urged viewers to get quickly vaccinated and protect themselves from COVID-19.The two-minute video, which was filmed from Blankenbiller’s hospital bed and shared to her@atasteofalex account, showed the 31-year-old struggling to get her words out as she said, “I shouldn’t have waited....

When you purchase through links on our website , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . Two letter written by Albert Einstein detailing his thoughts on some of the most famous theories in physics are locomote up for auction this week , accord to Nate D. Sanders Auctions , which is auction off the letters . Einstein wrote the two letters to his champion and scientific sounding board Michele Besso ....

Urban Meyer’s wife is speaking out after viral photos and videos showed her husbandgetting close to another woman at a bar in Ohio over the weekend. Avideofrom the bar posted on social media appears to show a blonde woman dancing on Urban’s lap. Another picture shows Urban’shandon or very near the woman’s bottom. On Thursday, Shelley Meyer shared what she said will be her “last post on Twitter” in the wake of the controversy, explaining that she’s decided to delete her social media because of the “hate, vitriol, slander, [and] trash” being directed toward her....

Valerie Harper‘s husbandTony Cacciottiis giving fans an update on the longtime actress’ health. In aFacebook post shared on Tuesday morning, Cacciotti, 78, revealed how doctors had advised that his wife of 32 years be moved to hospice care amid her battle with cancer. Despite their professional opinion, Cacciotti said he was not willing to listen to them because of how much he adored Harper, 79, and vowed to keep his wife as comfortable as possible in some of the final moments of her life....