CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan has agreed to compensate the families of sailors killed in an al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole warship 20 years ago, state news agency SUNA said on Thursday, part of government efforts to remove the country from a list of state sponsors of terrorism. FILE PHOTO: The port side damage
NASHUA, New Hampshire – Joe Biden’s campaign held a victory party in a New Hampshire hotel ballroom on Tuesday evening. But there was no victory. And there was no Joe Biden. FILE PHOTO: A supporter for Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden holds a sign as Biden leaves a polling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A handful of U.S. lawmakers have a unique argument for asking President Donald Trump not to slash the food stamp program – they themselves once relied on it. FILE PHOTO: The U.S Flag flies in front of the Capitol Dome ahead of an expected vote in the impeachment trial of U.S. President
Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Michael KorsFour tracks from his debut album Pony served as the soundtrack for the show. By Pahull Bains Date February 12, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter Michael Kors’ Fall 2020 collection, which he presented at New York Fashion Week yesterday, was filled with plaid capes, cozy knits, suede riding boots and
Dave J Hogan/Getty Images Taylor Swift‘s latest look suits her well! The 30-year-old pop star attended the NME Awards 2020 at O2 Academy Brixton in London on Wednesday. Swift wore an edgy suit, or half-suit, with half of her top comprised of a black and white pinstriped blazer and the other half a white shirt, paired with
Days of Our Lives may be renewed, but not all cast members will be returning. Freddie Smith and Chandler Massey, who play Sonny and Will, have been ousted from the NBC soap. Smith took to Twitter to share a video revealing the news to fans. In the video, he admitted that “it was not our
Break On Thru: A Celebration of Ray Manzarek and The Doors Synopsis A concert documentary from a 2016 all-star performance in Los Angeles that John Densmore and Robby Krieger, the two surviving members of The Doors, developed to celebrate what would have been Manzarek’s 70th birthday. Read Full Synopsis
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said that President Nicolas Maduro had been “cowardly” by detaining his uncle after the pair arrived at the main airport in Caracas on Tuesday. Venezuelan National Assembly President and opposition leader Juan Guaido, who many nations have recognised as the country’s rightful interim ruler, arrives for a
BARCELONA/BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) – The Mobile World Congress (MWC), the annual telecoms industry gathering that draws more than 100,000 visitors to Barcelona, was canceled on Wednesday after a mass exodus by exhibitors due to fears over the coronavirus outbreak. An employee eats next to the Logo of MWC20 (Mobile World Congress) in Barcelona, Spain February 12,
FILE PHOTO: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during a joint news conference after a Normandy-format summit in Paris, France December 10, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/Pool WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three U.S. senators will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kiev on Friday, seeking to reinforce the importance of his country as a strategic U.S. ally after
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in Congress on Wednesday brushed aside calls to investigate possible political interference at the U.S. Justice Department after the agency asked for a lighter prison term for President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone. The Justice Department’s decision to back off its sentencing recommendation of seven to nine years for the
I don’t often write posts covering one book. Book Riot isn’t a review site: we’re interested in your reading life and adjacent subjects, not on putting value judgments on whatever it is sparks joy when it enters your eyeballs (provided whatever that is doesn’t hurt anyone else). Every so often, however, a very special book—an
Signage at the Unist’ot’en camp near Houston, B.C., on Wednesday, January 9, 2019 (Photo: Canadian Press) If you’ve been online or watched the news over the past few days, it’s impossible that you haven’t heard about the conflict on Wet’suwet’en territory. On February 6, in the early hours of the morning, RCMP officials outside of Houston,
We love these products, and we hope you do too. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of the revenue from your purchases. Items are sold by the retailer, not E!. The 2020 Presidents’ Day Sales are here, shoppers! And amazing furniture sales are a big part of Presidents’ Day Sales. This
Backstreet’s back, alright. But this time, they’re looking particularly dapper. The good chaps from Backstreet Boys were guests Tuesday night (Feb. 11) on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where they donned their most splendid threads for a singalong. Dressed to the nines as a barbershop quintet, the Boys, err, Ragtime Gals sang Sisqo’s “Thong
At the risk of sounding like High Fidelity‘s main character: The perfect cover version of a song is tricky to pull off, right? It has to maintain the spirit of the original, while also putting a fresh spin on it that makes you hear it in a new way. Hulu’s new take on High Fidelity