A group publishing pro-Russia propaganda online is impersonating legitimate news outlets in an attempt to disseminate disinformation, Politico reported, citing misinformation tracking organization NewsGuard. The effort, known as Storm-1679, creates websites that mimic real news outlets and uses those sites to push fake news stories. They have published disinformation designed …

Donald Trump‘s deployment of National Guard troops to the nation’s capital and forcing a federal law enforcement takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department is not only terrorizing residents and workers, it’s also harming local businesses. Washington, D.C., restaurants are experiencing significant drops in reservations, and bars are seeing fewer customers. …

Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows food prices have spiked by 2.9 percent since last July, and wholesale prices on fresh and dry vegetables increased by nearly 40 percent last month — the biggest increase in the last three years. And rising prices are likely to continue. Why? Donald Trump‘s …

Secretary of State Marco Rubio scrambled to justify the administration’s lack of progress toward a Ukraine–Russia ceasefire during Donald Trump‘s recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. In a round of interviews on four Sunday news programs, Rubio, who used to be strongly anti-Putin, struggled to defend the …

Terence Stamp, the Oscar-nominated British actor who starred in The Limey, Billy Budd, and as General Zod in Superman, has died at the age of 87. Stamp’s death was announced Sunday by his family, who said in a statement, “He leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, both as an …

Almost three months before Zohran Mamdani’s earthquake of a victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary this summer, a substitute teacher and long-time union organizer named Alex Brower shocked Milwaukee City Hall by winning a special election for city council as a Democratic Socialist. Brower ran on highly specific …

Ronnie Rondell Jr., the longtime Hollywood stuntman immortalized on fire for the cover of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, has died at the age of 88. Rondell Jr. died Tuesday at a senior living facility in Missouri, his family announced (via The Hollywood Reporter). No cause of death was …

Conan O’Brien said that late-night shows will eventually “disappear” from television amid the “seismic change” in the industry, but that hosts like Stephen Colbert — whose Late Show run will end next year — are “too talented and too essential to go away.” Speaking at the Television Academy Hall of …

National Guard troops that President Donald Trump has sent to Washington, D.C., “may be armed” a White House official told CBS News on Saturday, a departure from a previous statement. Officials said earlier this week that the troops would not be armed, and that weapons would not be in their …

A brain, a jock, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal return to theaters in September when the John Hughes classic, The Breakfast Club, celebrates its 40th anniversary with a rerelease. The 1985 blockbuster about a group of suburban Chicago high school misfits who are forced to spend detention …