National
Posted on
Jun 16, 2026, 9:50AM
The struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain will be sold for $2.7 billion by parent company Yum Brands. Yum Brands said in February that it was considering selling Pizza Hut and the chain looked to close 250 U.S. restaurants.
Posted on
Jun 15, 2026, 9:56AM
President Donald Trump marked his 80th birthday on Sunday by hailing an initial agreement to end the war in Iran and staging a once unfathomable cage-fighting show on the White House’s storied South Lawn.
Posted on
Jun 11, 2026, 4:22PM
A Minnesota man who pounded on Democratic lawmakers’ doors in the middle of the night while posing as a police officer, killing the state House speaker and her husband and wounding a state senator and his wife, pleaded guilty to murder Thursday so that federal prosecutors would not seek the death penalty.
Posted on
Jun 11, 2026, 11:02AM
The opening of a Canadian-U.S. bridge across the Detroit River that President Donald Trump previously threatened to block was delayed on Thursday due to unresolved issues.
Posted on
Jun 10, 2026, 9:46AM
Rising gas prices pushed inflation to its highest level in three years last month, a headache for the Federal Reserve and a potential political challenge for the Trump administration as midterm elections near.
Posted on
Jun 9, 2026, 4:55PM
NASA on Tuesday revealed the crew for its Artemis III mission, the next step in the space agency’s plan to eventually land astronauts on the moon.
The announcement came two months after Artemis II’s record-breaking trip around the moon that surpassed the distance record of Apollo 13.
Posted on
Jun 9, 2026, 4:51PM
Federal health regulators on Tuesday signed off on the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more than 25 years, giving Americans access to a skin-protecting chemical long used in Europe and other parts of the world.
Posted on
Jun 9, 2026, 10:06AM
The findings of the study, in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, were in line with years of research, saying that health risks go up with just one drink a day and no level of alcohol has a protective effect on mortality.
Posted on
Jun 9, 2026, 9:54AM
He wrote a memoir called “The Guy You Loved to Hate.” He’s dabbled in rap, releasing a song called “I’m a Celebrity.” He started a company selling crystals claimed to have healing properties. But Spencer Pratt was not able to pull off his latest venture — an improbable bid to become mayor of Los Angeles.
Posted on
Jun 5, 2026, 9:41AM
The American job market continues to show surprising strength, shrugging off the high costs of the Iran war. Employers added 172,000 jobs in May – roughly double what forecasters had expected – and the unemployment rate remained at a low 4.3%.