The Sydney Opera House Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Gallo Images | Brand X Pictures | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets opened higher Friday, breaking ranks with Wall Street peers that ended lower on the first trading session of 2025, weighed down by tech stocks. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rose 0.35%, while mainland China’s benchmark…
The internet is taking shots at ESPN after the network did not show the national anthem or moment of silence on the main Sugar Bowl broadcast … after a terror attack in New Orleans delayed the important football game. Folks online are up in arms with ESPN’s decision to show studio analysts breaking down the…
Justin Baldoni‘s accusation Ryan Reynolds berated and screamed at him in a house full of stars in an ambush meeting is way overblown … this according to a source who was in the meeting. Baldoni made several accusations against Blake Lively and husband RR in a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times ……
Just hours before the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, Jack Bech got on a phone call with his older brother Martin – an avid outdoorsman and former football star mostly known to friends and teammates as “Tiger”. Jack, 22, was in Dallas visiting family members, while Tiger, a 28-year-old former Princeton alumnus who…
Four teams remain in the hunt to win a national title, as the College Football Playoff prepares for the semifinal round. Let’s check out the odds for the semifinal games at DraftKings Sportsbook as of Jan. 2, as well as what to know about each game. No. 7 NOTRE DAME (-1.5, -120) vs. No. 6…
A judicial policymaking body on Thursday rejected a request by Democratic lawmakers to refer the conservative US supreme court Justice Clarence Thomas to the Department of Justice to examine claims that he failed to disclose gifts and travel provided by a wealthy benefactor. The secretary to the US judicial conference, the federal judiciary’s top policymaking…
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has threatened to cut financial support for more than 130,000 Ukrainian refugees as a dispute with Ukraine over Russian gas supplies escalates. On 1 January, Kyiv shut off a pipeline that for decades was used to supply Central Europe with Russian natural gas. Slovakia had been the main entry point…
Jim Bob Duggar and Jill Dillard are apparently making progress. The lengthy estrangement between Jill and her awful parents is no secret. Her own father banned her from the family home except on rare occasions when he gives her specific permission to enter. Jim Bob must have given Jill his permission pretty recently, though. As…
Cops in Washington, D.C. arrested a man who was driving a car along a sidewalk near the U.S. Capitol Building Thursday morning … an incident ramping up anxiety across the nation following 2 apparent terrorist attacks New Year’s Day. Capitol police officers say a bomb squad was brought in … but no explosives were found…
Venezuelan authorities have announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of exiled opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who insists he beat President Nicolás Maduro at the polls. Police published on social media a photo of the previously little-known ex-diplomat with the word “wanted” under the image. He fled to Spain in September…
