The burly, easygoing Chicago native became a staple of living rooms for more than a decade as one of America’s favorite barflies. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/arts/television/george-wendt-dead.html Author : Alex Williams Publish date : 2025-05-20 21:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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After Grenell and President Trump attacked the Kennedy Center’s former leadership at the White House, former center president Deborah Rutter called the claims false. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/05/20/trump-kennedy-center-claims-financial-mismanagement/ Author : Travis Andrews Publish date : 2025-05-20 20:35:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
The Trump administration on Tuesday took steps to begin enforcing a law that requires truck drivers to speak English.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was in Austin, Texas, where he signed an order to direct the Department of Transportation to enforce the law.Duffy framed the move as a safety issue for America's roadways. TRUMP TO MAKE ENGLISH OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF US IN NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER"For too long, misguided policies have prioritized political correctness over safety of the American people," Duffy said. Under federal law, a driver must "read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic
A lawmaker is introducing a bill named for Artemis Ghasemzadeh, an Iranian Christian convert, that seeks to stop the expedited removal of people fleeing countries that persecute religious minorities. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/world/middleeast/us-bill-iran-panama-asylum.html Author : Farnaz Fassihi and Hamed Aleaziz Publish date : 2025-05-20 18:39:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Ukrainian chef Yevhen Klopotenko spent years researching his homeland’s foodways in the wake of Soviet erasure. Now he wants to share them with the world. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/05/20/ukrainian-cuisine-war-russia-klopotenko/ Author : Olga Massov Publish date : 2025-05-20 15:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry issued a fiery statement after the U.K. suspended free trade talks over Jerusalem’s handling of the war in Gaza. The U.K. simultaneously imposed new sanctions on the West Bank as it condemned the "persistent cycle of serious violence undertaken by extremist Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank."The ministry claimed that talks for a new U.K.-Israel free trade agreement were already at a standstill before London’s announcement on Tuesday. Additionally, it accused the U.K. of harming its own citizens due to its "anti-Israel obsession and domestic political considerations.""Even prior to today’s announcement, the free trade agreement negotiations
A maintenance worker shut off water at the jail, allowing the inmates to remove a toilet and sink fixture from a cell wall, according to the Louisiana attorney general’s office. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/new-orleans-jail-escape-worker-arrested.html Author : Michael Levenson Publish date : 2025-05-20 15:57:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
A small group of menders are fixing damaged clothing to preserve the lifespan of articles of clothing. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/20/clothes-repair-fashion-meding-circularity/ Author : Shane O’Neill Publish date : 2025-05-20 10:30:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
"The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart called out CNN on Monday for relentlessly promoting Jake Tapper's new book on former President Joe Biden's mental acuity, slamming the network for advertising "a book about news they should’ve told you was news a year ago for free."Stewart opened his show with a montage of the CNN anchor promoting the book that both he and Axios' Alex Thompson wrote, "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," and questioned why Tapper hadn't previously reported the information in the book to the public."Don’t news people have to tell
Britain, France and Canada, all powerful supporters of Israel, called plans for an escalation of the Gaza war “disproportionate” and “egregious.” Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/world/middleeast/israel-allies-denounce-gaza-offensive.html Author : Aaron Boxerman Publish date : 2025-05-20 13:37:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
The bombing outside an American Reproductive Centers clinic in Palm Springs, California, shows how difficult the diffuse movement is to combat, say experts. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/19/nihilistic-extremism-threat-fertility-clinic-bombing/ Author : Jonathan Edwards Publish date : 2025-05-19 22:31:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Former Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said Monday that Americans weren't "smart enough" to keep President Donald Trump away from the White House. "And yes, The Wall Street Journal may say America is smart enough to know better. I will tell The Wall Street Journal this: America, I believe, clearly was not smart enough to keep this guy from the White House. He is causing confusion and uncertainty in a segment of our economy that desperately needs certainty. And by doing that, he is going to get higher prices. And that’s when America will finally get smart, but they’re not smart now
As a federal investigation began, officials said the Cuauhtémoc backed into the bridge, killing two, less than five minutes after leaving a Manhattan pier. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/nyregion/nyc-ship-brooklyn-bridge-mexican-navy.html Author : Ed Shanahan and Joseph Goldstein Publish date : 2025-05-20 11:08:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Documents reviewed by The Post call for leveraging foreign assistance accounts to return migrants to conflict-afflicted nations, even as officials seek to cut such spending. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/20/trump-deporations-ukrainians-haitians/ Author : Adam Taylor, Martine Powers Publish date : 2025-05-20 10:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wants to put the kibosh on President Donald Trump's plan for the U.S. military to accept a Boeing airplane from Qatar to be used as Air Force One.The Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill that would prohibit utilizing Defense Department funding to procure, modify, restore, or maintain an aircraft for presidential flight if that aircraft was previously owned by a foreign government, foreign government-controlled entity, or foreign government representative."None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2025 or fiscal year 2026 for the Department of Defense may
The British police said they had charged a Romanian national, Stanislav Carpiuc, with conspiracy to commit arson. Fires struck two buildings and a car linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/world/europe/fires-keir-starmer.html Author : Lizzie Dearden Publish date : 2025-05-20 08:32:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the Republican-led Congress. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/19/trump-presidency-news/ Author : Patrick Svitek, Amy B Wang, Mariana Alfaro Publish date : 2025-05-20 00:09:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Jurors in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial were introduced to a number of witnesses in the government's case against the disgraced music mogul.The U.S. Attorney's Office called Dawn Richard to the stand, a former member of Diddy's Danity Kane girl group, who claimed the "Last Night" rapper threatened her to remain quiet about the alleged abuse of his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura. Los Angeles litigator John J. Perlstein exclusively told Fox News Digital that Richard's testimony could possibly support the government's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) charge.CASSIE VENTURA EMERGES AS ‘STAR WITNESS’ IN DIDDY'S FEDERAL SEX CRIMES TRIAL: EXPERT"Corroborating Cassie
The manhunt for six men, including some accused of violent crimes, has alarmed the city and brought new attention to New Orleans’s troubled jail. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/new-orleans-louisiana-jail-escape.html Author : Rick Rojas Publish date : 2025-05-20 05:48:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
The president clearly wants to end the bloodshed. He needs a better-organized strategy. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/19/trump-ukraine-putin-phone-call-peace-talks/ Author : David Ignatius Publish date : 2025-05-19 23:13:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
A Florida man was arrested for allegedly shooting his neighbor's pregnant cow several times after it wandered onto his property, making good on his threat to shoot any animals that entered, according to deputies.Hung Trinh, 54, was charged with animal cruelty and grand theft of a commercial farm animal after he allegedly shot the two-year-old cow five times in its gut, chest and rear leg, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office wrote on social media.Deputies were called to a North Fort Myers home on May 13 and found the animal alive but struggling to stand or walk. The neighbor had reported
President Trump’s tariffs on auto parts are already causing job losses in Windsor, Ontario, the heart of an industry that makes components for vehicles bound for the United States. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/world/canada/trump-tariffs-ontario.html Author : Ian Austen Publish date : 2025-05-20 02:35:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Highs Tuesday into the weekend only reach the 60s to near 70. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/05/19/dc-weather-live-updates-cool/ Author : Jason Samenow Publish date : 2025-05-20 00:02:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Two South Texas gang members have been sentenced for human smuggling, following a series of high-speed chases at the border that involved one of the gang members crashing his car into the Rio Grande and swimming to Mexico to escape.A Monday statement by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said the two human smugglers, Juan Miguel Regalado, 28, and Samuel Grajeda Jr., 21, are members of "Puro Tango Blast," a local Texas gang.The two were sentenced on May 15 after being convicted of conspiracy to transport undocumented immigrants, following an investigation by ICE, U.S. Border Patrol Laredo Sector and the
The Department of Justice also announced it was dropping a trespass charge against the city’s mayor stemming from the same episode. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/nyregion/new-jersey-congress-ice-charges.html Author : Luis Ferré-Sadurní Publish date : 2025-05-20 01:01:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.