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The killing of Charlie Kirk has been followed by a string of arrests across the U.S. over alleged threats of violence in response to the assassination of the conservative activist. A Texas man who authorities say expressed support for Kirk is facing federal charges after making alleged threats online this month to shoot up a Pride parade in the city of Abilene as an act of revenge for Kirk’s killing. And in El Paso, a woman is facing an arson charge after authorities say she tried to set a church on fire and left threatening messages where a vigil was…

Shares of Electronic Arts closed up 15% on Friday following a report in the Wall Street Journal that the video game company is nearing a roughly $50 billion deal to go private.Investors including Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Silver Lake could announce the deal as soon as next week, the report said. PIF has been pouring billions of dollars into gaming, purchasing the makers of Pokemon Go and the parent company behind Monopoly Go, for example. Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners is another participating investor, according to a source familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named…

A portion of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s prized horror memorabilia collection was auctioned off Friday, with the highest-ticket item selling for $325,000. Del Toro, one of the industry’s most respected filmmakers and long-time horror buff, auctioned over 100 of the 5,000 items in his collection. The other two parts of the auction series, in partnership with Heritage Auctions in Dallas, are set to go live next year. The items were part of del Toro’s Bleak House — two and a half Santa Monica properties that house thousands of ghoulish creatures, iconic comic drawings and paintings, books and movie props. The…

Graham Potter is gone and the stats make grim reading for his reign. But big problems remain at West Ham.The head coach’s time seemed to be up as soon as West Ham fans joined Crystal Palace supporters in a rendition of ‘sacked in the morning’ as their neighbours inflicted another London Stadium loss on their side last Saturday. With a winless run at home stretching to eight games, just six victories to shout about in a total of 23 Premier League matches and a team playing dull, passive football, Potter had lost the backing of the Hammers faithful. Image: Graham…

A veterinarian who refused to return a dog to a homeless man after finding the ailing pit bull mix tied to a truck was convicted of theft Friday in western Michigan.Amanda Hergenreder took the dog on a two-hour drive to her clinic, where she cleared up a severe urinary tract infection and removed a rotten tooth last November. She named him Biggby, after a nearby coffee shop, and said the 16-year-old dog was thriving while living with her.But prosecutors filed a misdemeanor larceny charge after Hergenreder refused to bring the dog back to Chris Hamilton, a Grand Rapids man who…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Some call it a useless bureaucracy. Others praise it as a key tool of humanitarian aid, peacemaking and global diplomacy.Whatever their core beliefs, nearly every national leader agrees the United Nations is a valuable stage to make their case before the world. And it’s a stage no one enters in anything but their finest clothes, a fact on vivid display at the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week.For many diplomats and national officials, the General Assembly to provided an opportunity to show off clothing with not just elegant cuts and fabrics, but a symbolic…

Cristiano Ronaldo hit the target to help Al Nassr down reigning champions Al Ittihad and open up a three-point gap at the top of the Saudi Pro League.Both sides came into the game with perfect records after three matches, but it was Ronaldo and company who stretched their 100 percent run into a fourth as they left King Abdullah Sports City with a 2-0 win.Former Liverpool and Bayern Munich forward Sadio Mané opened the scoring in the ninth minute, hanging back in space at the far post and hammering home a volley after a tidy run and cross from Kingsley…

Sep 26, 2025, 02:05 PM ETLuis Enrique said he is not concerned by Paris Saint-Germain’s growing injury list after Marquinhos was sidelined with a left thigh issue.Captain Marquinhos scored an own goal in Monday’s 1-0 loss to rivals Marseille and even though he finished the contest, the Brazil defender reported discomfort post-match and is set to be ruled out until after the October international break.Marquinhos joins Ballon d’Or winner Ousmane Dembélé, Désiré Doué and João Neves on the treatment table. Champions League winners PSG played more than 60 times in the 2024-25 campaign, including seven matches in the summer Club…

This article, originally published by Pacific Forum, is republished with permission. If one wonders why North Korea is withholding engagement with Washington and Seoul, the optics of Beijing’s Victory Day military parade may hold the answer. Surrounded by Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and more than two dozen leaders from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Kim Jong Un appeared not as an isolated outlier but as a peer in a shifting world order. His front-row presence signaled a decisive break from North Korea’s decades-long pursuit of US recognition and the start of a calculated gamble on a post-Western order. Kim now…

Sinclair and Nexstar are returning “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to ABC affiliate broadcast stations beginning Friday, the companies said in separate statements.The announcements come three days after Disney’s ABC broadcast network returned the late night program to its air after a nearly week-long suspension. Disney had temporarily suspended the late night show following comments Kimmel made about the alleged murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement.”Our objective throughout this process has been to ensure that programming remains accurate and engaging for the widest possible audience. We take seriously our responsibility as local broadcasters to provide programming…