Domestic airfare up 40% from start of the year: Hopper
Erlon Silva – TRI Digital via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Domestic airfare is up 40% from the start of the year and is expected to climb another 10% next month, according to online booking platform Hopper.
Last month, average airfare in the U.S. went …
Police capture ‘aggressive’ fox prowling for prey on Capitol Hill
GETTY/cuppyuppycake(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — The return of tourists to Capitol Hill — and their discarded food and trash — should have been a “telltail” sign.
Following several “aggressive” incidents, Capitol Police warned the public Tuesday not to appr…
LGBTQ refugees fleeing Ukraine fear persecution, death
ABC News(NEW YORK) — The flashlights of the Ukrainian army followed Zi Faámelu, a transgender woman from Ukraine, as she walked through a swamp and hid from the military while crossing the Romanian border.
Tall, sharp bushes scratched the singer’s fa…
Defense secretary, GOP congressman clash over alleged ‘wokeism’ in military
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin got into a fiery exchange with Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz during a House Armed Services Committee budget hearing Tuesday, as Gaetz accused the Pentagon of strategic failures due t…
Germany shuts down world’s largest darknet market with US help
seksan Mongkhonkhamsao/Getty Images(BERLIN) — German authorities took down the world’s largest illegal marketplace on the darknet with the help of U.S. law enforcement agencies, they said.
Hydra Market was a Russian-language marketplace that had oper…
Paramount+ announces four-part series: ‘Ghislaine — Partner in Crime’
Paramount+Paramount+ has announced a four-part docuseries called Ghislaine — Partner in Crime, about Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted ex-girlfriend of politically connected sex trafficker and abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
The show will be available to str…
Oklahoma passes bill that would make performing abortions a felony
Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE(OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) — Oklahoma passed a bill Tuesday that would make performing an abortion a felony, punishable by up to several years in prison.
The bill was passed in the state House 70-14 without a single Democratic…
Life imitates art: Netflix gives Pete Davidson the “short a** movies” he craved in ‘SNL’ sketch
NBC/Rosalind O’Connor(NOTE LANGUAGE) Last weekend’s installment of Saturday Night Live featured a music video starring Pete Davidson in which he decried the trend of overly long movies, particularly when surfing Netflix, saying he “craved some ‘Short-A…
Large tornado touches down in Mississippi amid weather threats in South
ibusca/iStock(NEW YORK) — Severe weather continues to strike the South with damaging winds, tornados and huge hail.
Chunks of hail the size of golf balls were reported Monday night in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
On Tuesday afternoon severe thu…
“He’s not that guy” — ‘Bad Boys’ director Michael Bay thought Will Smith slap “was a setup” before Oscars outburst
L. Cohen/WireImageBad Boys and Bad Boys II director Michael Bay didn’t want to talk about the Oscar moment everyone has been talking about — but like the rest of us, he found himself doing it anyway.
After initially telling Yahoo! Entertainment he di…