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Zelenskyy visits Saudi Arabia as Ukraine provides expertise against Iranian drones
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived Thursday in Saudi Arabia on an unannounced visit, days after revealing that Ukraine is helping five countries in the Middle East and Gulf region counter drone attacks on their territory during the Iran war.
Josh Duhamel: Celebrities who preach politics are making a bad business decision
Josh Duhamel is pushing back against celebrity political grandstanding, and he's framing it as simple common sense.
Matzo brei is Passover comfort food fried up in a pan
The traditional Passover food matzo brei (rhymes with fry) is essentially matzo fried with eggs, or scrambled eggs with matzo, depending on how you look at it.
Verdicts against Meta, YouTube validate concerns long raised by parents, child safety advocates
For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people's mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide.
Judge Judy’s son Adam Levy set to star in his own CBS courtroom show
CBS has announced that Mr. Levy, 57, will star in a new courtroom series titled "Adam's Law," set to premiere this fall as part of the network's 2026/2027 programming slate.
Netflix’s MLB debut draws fan backlash over scorebug, missed moments and heavy self-promotion
Netflix made its long-awaited entry into Major League Baseball on Wednesday night, streaming the New York Yankees' 7-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park to kick off the 2026 season.
Comedian Druski dons whiteface to mock conservative women
Comedian Druski set social media ablaze Wednesday after posting a sketch on X in which he donned full prosthetics to portray a conservative white woman -- a character so closely associated with Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk that even X's own AI chatbot was fooled.
Democratic lawmaker asks judge to take Trump’s name off Kennedy Center
A Democratic lawmaker is asking a federal judge to force the Kennedy Center to block and reverse efforts to attach President Donald Trump's name to the historic performing arts venue.
Seven months later, the government still hasn’t fixed CDC’s shot-up windows
The federal government has not yet replaced the bullet-pocked windows that serve as a grim reminder of an attack at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention more than seven months ago, the agency's acting chief acknowledged Wednesday.
Parents see hope in back-to-back rulings that social media providers failed to protect young users
Walker Montgomery was just 16 when someone pretending to be a teenage girl messaged him through Instagram and seduced him into cybersex.
Are tampon dispensers being put in Maryland men’s rooms? A look inside HB 941
Maryland lawmakers are debating a bill that would require menstrual hygiene products to be stocked in all public restrooms inside state-owned or state-operated buildings, including men's bathrooms.
Savannah Guthrie in NBC News interview appeals for help finding her missing mother
A tearful Savannah Guthrie, in her first interview since her 84-year-old mother was apparently abducted from her Arizona home, said that "someone needs to do the right thing" and come forward with information to help the investigation.
Most voters want to bring back in-person medical visits for abortion pills, poll shows
More than two-thirds of Americans support reinstating the abortion pill's in-person medical visit requirement, the longtime Food and Drug Administration safety protocol that was jettisoned during the Biden administration.
Record airport security lines among long list of DHS shutdown impacts
With the current partial shutdown and the record 43-day governmentwide shutdown last fall, most DHS employees have gone without pay for half the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
Easter chocolate, other candy expensive despite drop in cocoa prices
Consumers looking to buy chocolate and other sweets for Easter will still be dealing with high prices, despite a fall in the cost of cocoa.
Jury finds Instagram and YouTube liable in landmark social media addiction trial
A jury found both Meta and YouTube liable in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that aimed to hold social media platforms responsible for harm to children using their services, awarding the plaintiff $3 million in damages.
