Author: Anne Brown

California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter has sparked widespread controversy with an email that featured the phrase “F*** Trump” four times, including once in the subject line. This email, which went out the day after the latest assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, has quickly gained attention for its lack of sensitivity in light of the recent attack. Porter’s email, which was sent out Sunday, made no mention of the attack on Trump’s life. Instead, it featured an aggressive tone, starting with the phrase: “Today, I wanna start with one simple, powerful message we…

The Las Vegas Raiders’ top pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, quarterback Fernando Mendoza, is set to wear No. 15 as he begins his professional career. However, securing the iconic number wasn’t entirely straightforward. The issue? Tom Flores, the Hall of Fame quarterback who made No. 15 synonymous with Raiders football, still holds a deep connection to the number. Despite the significance of the number, Flores, who wore No. 15 for the Raiders from 1960 to 1966, gave his wholehearted approval for Mendoza to inherit it. The blessing comes as Mendoza looks to follow in Flores’ illustrious footsteps, bringing a…

Randolph Corrigan was doing what a good employee does: protecting the place he worked. On the afternoon of April 25, the 61-year-old Costco employee approached a man attempting to enter the store with what witnesses described as a weapon with a drum magazine visibly protruding from his pocket, and told him he could not come inside. Moments later, Corrigan was on the pavement outside the Strongsville, Ohio store, struck by multiple gunshots. He was taken to a hospital, where he died from his injuries. Strongsville police responded to the Costco on Royalton Road at approximately 5:45 p.m. following reports of…

Three days after an armed man rushed a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — in what Republicans have characterized as the third apparent attempt on President Trump’s life — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries walked into a Monday news conference and made his position unmistakably clear. He is not backing down. “I stand by it,” Jeffries told reporters, when asked about his vow last week to wage “maximum warfare” on Republicans in response to the party’s redistricting efforts ahead of the November midterms. “You can continue to criticize me for it. I don’t give a damn about…

Athens is drawing a line — and it is using one of Europe’s most cautionary tales to explain why. Mayor Haris Doukas made the city’s position explicit this week at the “This is Athens — Agora” event, where he addressed the growing tension between Athens’ record-breaking tourism numbers and the quality of life of the people who actually live there. “We must not become Barcelona,” Doukas said — a pointed reference to the Spanish city that has become the international symbol of overtourism gone wrong, where residents have protested in the streets and housing costs have been pushed to crisis…

The 2026 NFL Draft produced plenty of emotional moments across its three days — tears, embraces, lifelong dreams confirmed in a single phone call. Oscar Delp’s selection by the New Orleans Saints in the third round had all of those elements. It also had something none of the other picks could claim: a chocolate Labrador who wanted absolutely no part of any of it. When Delp — the tight end who spent his college career at the University of Georgia — got the news that the Saints had selected him, the room full of family and friends did what rooms…

For most people, coffee is a daily habit — something reached for automatically, before the day has properly begun. New research suggests that habit may be doing considerably more than providing a caffeine boost: it may be quietly reshaping the ecosystem inside your digestive system in ways that ripple outward into how you think, how you feel, and how well you manage stress. A study published in the journal Nature Communications, conducted by researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland, found that regular coffee consumption — including decaffeinated coffee — produces measurable changes in the trillions of microbes living in the human…

Less than a year after being celebrated as a community role model and a championship-winning coach, Paige Adams is now facing more than three dozen criminal charges — and the institution that praised her is grappling with how it missed what a grand jury says happened inside its walls. Adams, 35, was arrested Tuesday following a 32-count grand jury indictment charging her with multiple sex crimes allegedly committed against a student while she served as the girls basketball coach at Cold Springs High School in Alabama. The charges were filed less than a month after she resigned from her position…

When Michael Dell founded his technology company in a University of Texas dorm room more than four decades ago, his connection to UT Austin began in the most modest of settings. On Monday, that connection reached a milestone that no donor in the university’s history has ever achieved. Dell and his wife, Susan Dell, announced a $750 million gift to help fund the construction of the UT Dell Medical Center — a planned “AI-native” hospital that university officials say will be built from the ground up to integrate artificial intelligence into every aspect of patient care. The gift pushed the…

The return of “Euphoria” was one of the most anticipated television events of the year. After a prolonged hiatus, the HBO drama that helped define a generation of prestige teen television was back — and the response from its own audience has been swift, loud, and largely negative. The first two episodes of Season 3 have ignited a backlash that, by the standards of a show long accustomed to controversy, feels qualitatively different. Viewers are not simply debating whether the content goes too far. Many are questioning whether the show has any coherent direction left at all — and some…