Ultra runner, 55, completed a marathon every day last year, sets sights on Guinness World Record: ‘I’m glad it’s over’
GENT, Belgium — On Tuesday, the last day of 2024, the cancellation finally neared — Belgian ultrarunner Hilde Dessaugne did everything she could to set a world record as the first woman to run a marathon every day of the year. I felt that. Exhausted but seemingly not worn out by the constant weight of […]
Potential 2028 Dem hopeful follows Biden lead, commutes 15 death-row sentences on final day as governor
On his way out the door, then-North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates in the Tarheel State. Cooper, a Democrat who has been named as one of his party's front-runners in the 2028 presidential election, is expected to take similar action to outgoing President Biden, who took heat last […]
Trump has made a lot of Day One promises. Which will he keep?
Let's see if this is correct. President-elect Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland, take control of the Panama Canal, and perhaps even make Canada the 51st state – if he can pull it off. The good news for Panama, Greenland and Canada is that he won't start doing any of that until at least his […]
Here’s what Congress’s first day will look like
The 119th Congress opened Friday with a packed first day as lawmakers returned to Washington with a long to-do list for January. Confirmation hearings for President-elect Trump's Cabinet nominees are expected to begin in the coming weeks, and Trump himself is expected to be sworn in within three weeks. But first, House Republicans have some […]
NYC TikToker Chris Olsen ‘survives’ stabbing on subway car on New Year’s Day
A social media influencer and singer said he was almost killed in an assault and stabbing incident on a subway train early in the new year. TikToker Chris Olsen said he was riding the subway with a friend when two men started shouting at each other, thinking it was a typical New York City subway […]
Everything has changed for written-off Ohio State and Ryan Day
Everyone was writing obituaries. Predicting Ohio State's new coach. We call this group of Buckeyes a $20 million failure. They had just lost an unthinkable game to rival Michigan in Columbus, Ohio, as 20.5-point favorites. Tennessee and its fans should have been looking to dominate the Horseshoe in the opening game of the expanded College […]
Defiant revelers return to Bourbon Street day after Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s deadly rampage
NEW ORLEANS — Defiant revelers as the iconic street reopened ahead of the Sugar Bowl on Thursday, just 36 hours after a bloody New Year's terrorist attack killed 14 people and injured dozens more. flocked to Bourbon Street in New Orleans. “The big reason we came is to piss them off,” Mark Beeden, a Mississippi […]
Notre Dame upsets Georgia in Sugar Bowl day after New Orleans attack
NEW ORLEANS — Riley Leonard had a touchdown pass, Jaden Harrison returned a kickoff 98 yards for a score and Notre Dame's defense held on, giving No. 2 Georgia a 23-yard lead in Thursday's Sugar Bowl. They won -10 and scored the third goal. – Guided the Fighting Irish to the semifinals of the College […]
Seattle minimum wage hike forces queer waffle shop owner to shut down business: ‘I’ve cried every day’
A self-identified queer business owner in West Seattle says he has to close his waffle shop because of the far-left city's minimum wage hike. Corinna Luckenbach told KCPQ-TV. Wage hikes, along with rising costs due to inflation, spelled doom for Bebop Waffle Shop, which had been open for more than a decade. The City of […]
‘Extraordinarily grotesque’ Hawaii fireworks explosion causes New Year’s Day ‘war zone’ carnage; 3 dead, over 20 injured
Three people were killed and more than 20 injured in a fireworks demonstration in Hawaii on New Year's Day. Authorities said the horrifying explosion compared the carnage to a “war zone.” A fireworks demonstration took place in Honolulu's Salt Lake neighborhood just after midnight Wednesday. “It really looked like a war zone, like a bomb […]