Author: Alex Maschino
As China carried out live-fire drills and rehearsed a military blockade in the waters surrounding Taiwan this week, 70-year-old Liao said she wasn’t worried about war. She was enjoying life as a retiree, playing mahjong with her friends and keeping an eye on the stock market.“Everyday life hasn’t been impacted,” Liao told Al Jazeera as she was having her hair shampooed and cut in time for the new year at a salon in New Taipei City. “I’ve lived in Taiwan for 70 years. I’m used to it. We all still have to wash our hair.”“We’re not scared,” Liao’s hairstylist agreed.…
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George Clooney is looking back on his past friendship with President Donald Trump. “I knew him very well,” Clooney, 64, told Variety in an interview published on Tuesday, December 30. “He used to call me a lot, and he tried to help me get into a hospital once to see a back surgeon. I’d see him out at clubs and at restaurants.” The Oscar-winner added that Trump’s demeanor changed once politics came into his life. “He’s a big goofball,” he told the outlet. Well, he was. That all changed.” (Trump was elected president in 2016 and again in 2024.) Clooney,…
The delayed end to Derek Chisora’s career may yet prove a blessing in disguise.The popular British heavyweight had been expected to bow out in 2025 with a 50th and final professional contest, drawing the curtain on one of the sport’s longest and most unpredictable careers. Instead, his February victory over Otto Wallin has so far proved to be his only outing of the year after a provisional December date fell through.Both Chisora and heavyweight sensation Moses Itauma had been pencilled in for separate fights on a Queensberry show scheduled for December 13 in Manchester. That card was ultimately scrapped and…
By Adam Entous Adam Entous conducted more than 300 interviews over more than a year with government, military and intelligence officials in Ukraine, the United States, Britain, Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Turkey. Dec. 30, 2025 The train left the U.S. Army depot in the west of Germany and made for Poland and the Ukrainian border. These were the final 800 miles of a trans-Atlantic supply chain that had sustained Ukraine across more than three long years of war.The freight on this last day in June was 155-millimeter artillery shells, 18,000 of them packed into crates, their fuses…
European shares steady in holiday-shortened session ahead of New Year
Kathy Griffinis opening up about some uncomfortable truths in her family. The comedian and actress revisited the story of her eldest brother, Kenneth, who is deceased, and revealed that he was a pedophile who struggled with drug problems. Griffin’s revelation comes shortly after the Epstein files were released, which showed “disturbing” images of the late convicted sex offender hanging out with President Donald Trump.Article continues below advertisementKathy Griffin Can’t ‘Get Over’ Her Late Brother’s Dark PastAs she spoke about the incident, she also began to reflect on growing up with a troubled family member. “I’m going to open up to you about something…
Andrew Mangiapane’s role has diminished, and a change of scenery might be welcomed Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – Roster Shakeups Around the NHL episode, on Edmonton Oilers forward Andrew Mangiapane. The Oilers are getting healthy, and AHL forwards Isaac Howard and Quinn Hutson are playing well and could eventually be recalled. Mangiapane’s ice-time has been decreasing, and the fit hasn’t been as both sides had hoped. He’s got a no-trade clause, but a change of scenery could be welcomed. ** NHLRumors.com transcription “So we’re in a situation where there’s going to be some extra bodies. And…
Thomas MackintoshandNicky Schiller,London St Pancras InternationalKelly North and Bethany Massey-Chase tell the BBC how they’ve had to re-book their Eurostar service to ParisEurostar has cancelled all trains out of London towards Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels until further notice after a power outage in the Channel Tunnel caused a Le Shuttle train to fail.Staff at London St Pancras International station have told Eurostar passengers to postpone their travel plans and re-book for a later date.By midday, at least a dozen Eurostar services between the UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands had been cancelled – many more had also been delayed or…
The modern internet is less interested in demanding attention than in simply occupying it. Adavia Davis understands that better than perhaps anyone else. Since dropping out of Mississippi State University in 2020, the 22-year-old has built a thriving content-creation business out of what has come to be called “slop”— that high-volume, AI-generated background noise that thrives in the gaps of our focus. Davis’ most successful videos aren’t meant to be watched, shared, or even remembered. Often, Davis told Fortune, his viewers are asleep. Davis has assembled a sprawling network of YouTube channels that operates as a near-autonomous revenue engine, requiring only…