David Letterman knew 'right away' that Oprah-Uma joke at the Oscars had bombed
David Letterman reflects on that awkward moment 25 years ago when while hosting the Oscars, he introduced Oprah Winfrey and Uma Thurman to each other.
David Letterman reflects on that awkward moment 25 years ago when while hosting the Oscars, he introduced Oprah Winfrey and Uma Thurman to each other.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Monday for an expansion of the 5G mobile network in Europe at the Nordic summit on security and competitiveness in Stockholm. "We have to make it happen, that this progressive technology is the typical one very soon in Europe and that we are not falling behind other continents," Scholz said. He said that Europe should take advantage of having the "the most progressive technology companies in telecommunications in Europe," in a reference to Swedish company Ericsson and its Finnish competitor Nokia, "which are so successful not just in Europe but also globally."
Donald Trump's hush money trial reached a pivotal moment Monday when Trump's onetime loyal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, took the witness stand to testify against his former boss. As the prosecution's case enters its final stretch, Cohen is providing jurors with an insider's account of hush money payments at the center of the trial — payments he says were directed by Trump to fend off damage to his 2016 White House bid. Cohen is the most important witness for prosecutors, who are trying to prove that Trump engaged in a scheme to buy up and bury unflattering stories about himself to illegally influence the 2016 election.
Members of Donald Trump's entourage including a potential vice presidential pick live-tweeted from the ex-president's historic criminal trial Monday, an unorthodox effort to discredit the star witness, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen.That includes Cohen and Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who says she received a $130,000 hush money payment from Trump lawyer Cohen to stay quiet during the 2016 presidential campaign about her alleged sexual tryst with Trump.
Doctors are more likely to push long-term contraceptives when treating Black, Latina, young, and low-income women.
A collection of silver and gold coins unearthed in Poland may have belonged to notorious fraudster Anthony Jaczewicz.
The reappearance of a digital folk hero has many small-scale investors excited—and could signal another meme stock era.
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Vice President Kamala Harris used a profanity on Monday while offering advice to young Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders about how to break through barriers. Harris was participating in a conversation moderated by actor and comedian Jimmy O. Yang when he asked her what it means to be the first vice president of Asian descent and how that heritage has informed her views and roles as a leader. Harris' mother was from India and her father was from Jamaica, and she's the first woman elected vice president.
A group of Atlantic City casino workers asked a judge Monday to ban smoking in the gambling halls, citing the toxic effects of working in a “poisonous” atmosphere, while the state said ending smoking could jeopardize a half-billion-dollar pot of money for senior citizens and the disabled. A ruling banning smoking in the nine casinos would be a seismic event for the city's gambling industry, whose core business — money won from in-person gamblers — still has not returned to where it was before the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. Whether to ban smoking is one of the most controversial issues not only in Atlantic City casinos, but in other states where workers have expressed concern about secondhand smoke.
Shares in GameStop, the company at the center of the "meme stock" craze that throttled Wall Street in early 2021, soared Monday in a move that recalled the earlier speculative frenzy.Shares were up more than 63 percent at $28.52 near 1730 GMT. AMC Entertainment, another "meme stock" from that period, jumped nearly 50 percent.
Anthony Martin Landry, 57, turned himself in to police after he allegedly shot and killed attorney Jeffrey Limmer on May 4 at a McDonald's in Houston.
This weekend's ouster Sergei Shoigu as Russia's defense minister follows a corruption scandal and a calamitous start to Russia’s invasion of Kraine.
OpenAI on Monday released a higher performing and more efficient version of the artificial intelligence technology that underpins its popular generative tool ChatGPT, making it free to all users.For now less performing versions of OpenIA or Google's chatbots are available to customers for free, with questions still lingering over whether the public at large is ready to pay a subscription to maintain access to the technology.
Smoke from wildfires in western Canada has triggered air quality alerts and warnings in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota.
A Florida fisherman, Marlin Wakeman, shares how he survived a terrifying shark attack in the Bahamas and maintained his composure through the ordeal.
A diver failed to resurface on Sunday after diving near a World War II-era shipwreck off the coast of Florida, officials said.
Firefighters in western Canada on Monday battled a large wildfire just outside the largely-evacuated remote town of Fort Nelson in British Columbia, a local official said. Fort Nelson is in the line of one of the season's first major wildfires that have spread to roughly 10,000 hectares (24,710 acres) across Western Canada and are sending plumes of smoke across five Canadian provinces, as well as parts of northern Minnesota. Mayor Rob Fraser of the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, where Fort Nelson is located, said the fire moved closer overnight to the town of about 3,500 residents and was now about 1.5 km (0.9 mile) away.
Georgia's prime minister on Monday vowed to ram controversial "foreign influence" legislation through parliament the next day despite mass protests against the law criticised for mirroring repressive Russian legislation.A month of tensions over the bill that has been dubbed the "Russian law" by its critics is approaching a critical point, with Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze confirming lawmakers would pass the bill on Tuesday.
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Crews are expected to conduct a controlled demolition Monday evening to break down the largest remaining steel span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, a major step in the cleanup as officials seek to fully reopen the port’s busy shipping channel by the end of the month. It landed on the ship’s bow after the Dali lost power and crashed into one of the bridge’s support columns shortly after leaving the Port of Baltimore. The demolition was postponed Sunday because of thunderstorms.