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Earthquake rattles Las Vegas area; no injuries reported

A minor earthquake rattled the Las Vegas area Thursday afternoon, shaking homes and businesses across the valley but causing no immediate reports of damage or injury.

June 4, 2026

Bret Michaels’ guitarist unloads on fans who turned on singer over Freedom 250

Bret Michaels' guitarist unloads on fans who turned on singer over Freedom 250: "I'm not saying you have to openly support him. But those that called us friends four days ago and have used and abused us and have now turned on us: F--- OFF."

June 4, 2026

Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk’s trans daughter, walks off red carpet after reporter asks about her father

Vivian Jenna Wilson abruptly ended a red carpet interview in Ibiza on Tuesday after a reporter asked her about her estranged father, Elon Musk, in a moment that quickly spread across social media. Wilson, 22, and Musk have been publicly estranged since 2020. In 2022, she filed to legally change her name and gender marker, saying in court she did not wish to be related to her biological father "in any way, shape or form."

June 4, 2026

‘The Odyssey’ ticket rush crashes AMC app, leaves buyers waiting over an hour

Christopher Nolan's next film hasn't opened yet, but it's already causing chaos at the box office.

June 4, 2026

Ted Danson renews apology for 1993 blackface performance at Whoopi Goldberg roast

TED DANSON apologizes for blackface performance during 1993 roast of Whoopi Goldberg: "Arrogant and stupid"

June 4, 2026

Fetterman dares Platner to release Kik messages, offers to wear suit daily in return

FETTERMAN to PLATNER: "Let me make a deal. I'll tell [Platner] I'll wear a suit every day, if he releases all those texts and messages that he's had ... [with] the dozen women."

June 4, 2026

Viral TikTok video raises $146,000 for 85-year-old Tennessee AMC Theatres worker

An 85-year-old movie theater employee learned this week that strangers across the country had pooled more than $146,000 to help her retire -- after a young woman filmed her quietly pushing a cleaning cart and posted the video to TikTok.

June 4, 2026

Karmelo Anthony murder trial opens with no Black jurors seated

The murder trial of Karmelo Anthony got underway Thursday with opening statements after a racially charged jury selection process concluded without a single Black juror on the panel, delivering an early blow to the defense in a case that has gripped the nation since a fatal stabbing at a Frisco high school track meet more than a year ago.

June 4, 2026

Pence warns GOP against ‘populist right,’ urges return to conservative roots

MIKE PENCE on the current GOP: "I wanted people to know around the country that a new threat to conservatism has emerged from within our movement. And it's -- I call it the populist right. And essentially advances policies of protectionism, isolationism, marginalizing traditional values."

June 4, 2026

Tarantino calls Hollywood a ‘flavorless sausage factory’ in scathing essay on modern cinema

QUENTIN TARANTINO on modern movies: "Flaws, implausibilities, audience pandering, miscast performers or just plain stupid s--t usually torpedoes every new movie coming out of the flavourless sausage factory that used to call itself Hollywood."

June 4, 2026

Robert De Niro takes veiled shot at Trump at Tribeca Film Festival opening

ROBERT DE NIRO takes aim at Trump during Tribeca Film Fest: "Monstrous leaders ... are trying to force us apart for their own immoral, cruel and corrupt purposes."

June 4, 2026

Marjane Satrapi, ‘Persepolis’ author, dies ‘of sadness’ at 56

Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author and filmmaker whose graphic memoir "Persepolis" brought the human cost of Iran's Islamic Revolution to millions of readers around the world, died Wednesday. She was 56. A statement from close friends and family said Satrapi "died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life."

June 4, 2026

Flesh-eating screwworm detected in Texas for first time in decades

Federal and state officials confirmed Wednesday that the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly whose larvae burrow into the living tissue of warm-blooded animals, has been detected in a 3-week-old calf in Zavala County, Texas, marking the first confirmed case in U.S. livestock in decades.

June 4, 2026

MAVEN mission ends after more than a decade studying Martian atmosphere

NASA announced Wednesday that its MAVEN spacecraft is unrecoverable more than a decade after it launched to study the Martian atmosphere.

June 3, 2026

Feds charge tech CEO with funneling $15M in illegal Iran equipment sales

A dual U.S.-Iranian national and CEO of an Iran-based technology company was arrested on federal charges that he spent more than a decade acquiring and smuggling American networking, security and encryption equipment to Iran -- including to the Iranian regime's nuclear and military establishments -- in violation of U.S. sanctions law, prosecutors said.

June 3, 2026

Man gets 54-month sentence for hate crime knife attack on Black woman on Seattle bus

A Washington man was sentenced to 54 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to a federal hate crime for a racially motivated knife attack on a Black woman aboard a King County Metro bus, the Justice Department announced.

June 3, 2026

Trump’s second term is calmer than his first — so why have 4 female Cabinet members already left?

No modern president has lost four Cabinet secretaries this fast. All were women. Yet Donald Trump's overall staff turnover is historically low -- here's how both things are true.

June 3, 2026

Spencer Pratt tells Bill Maher he’d arrest him for smoking pot near kids

SPENCER PRATT to Bill Maher: "I don't want you smoking in front of kids at the park. You know, I'll be enforcing if you're smoking that in front of a kid at a swing. I'll be getting you as mayor."

June 2, 2026

Tucker Carlson’s 2028 presidential odds jump to nearly 10% on Polymarket

Tucker Carlson's chances of winning the 2028 Republican presidential nomination jumped to nearly 10% Monday on the prediction market platform Polymarket, which noted that traders holding shares in Carlson saw their value rise 50% over the course of a single hour.

June 2, 2026

Black Crowes singer booed after mocking fans’ ‘U.S.A.’ chant

Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson sparked a backlash Sunday night after shutting down a patriotic chant from the crowd at a Florida concert and questioning what the audience had to be proud of as Americans.

June 2, 2026