Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts resigned on Tuesday, four days after federal agents detained him over his immigration status. The Des Moines School Board accepted the resignation, saying he is ineligible to work for the district “in any fashion.” Roberts, a native of Guyana, faces a deportation order for overstaying a student […]
In this Media Miss Minute, a new report shows the TSA’s watchlist under the Biden administration included COVID-19 mask resisters and those with ties to the Jan. 6 insurrection. Plus, the U.S. has downgraded two countries on its human trafficking watchlist, putting them at risk of facing sanctions. Catch Media Miss Minute every weekday at san.com. […]
Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel pulled off a late-night crossover Tuesday night. The two TV hosts swapped chairs — and swapped stories — about their careers and cancellations. In episodes taped for “The Late Show” and the second night of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in Brooklyn, New York, the longtime friends took turns interviewing each other. […]
Pope Leo XIV weighed in Tuesday on a controversial plan by Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago to honor Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., with a lifetime achievement award despite the lawmaker’s support for abortion rights. Several bishops had objected to the honor because the Catholic Church officially holds that abortion violates the Fifth Commandment that “thou […]
The European Union is preparing a “drone wall” along its eastern flank — a network of radar, jammers, sensors and interceptors, not a physical barrier — to counter incursions by unmanned aircraft. Spanning from Finland to Bulgaria and drawing on Ukraine’s battlefield technology, the plan gained urgency after recent drone incidents in Poland, Estonia, Romania […]
Simon & Schuster revealed Tuesday that former Vice President Kamala Harris’ memoir: “107 Days” is on pace to become the best-selling memoir released this year. The publisher announced that the book has sold 350,000 copies across all platforms after its first week in stores. The book publisher noted it has ordered a fifth printing of […]
New York, October 1, 2025—In Sudan’s vast western region of Darfur, journalists in El-Fasher are trapped under siege, enduring violence, hunger, and relentless bombardment alongside the people whose lives they report on. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a group that evolved from the notorious Janjaweed militias accused of atrocities in earlier Darfur conflicts, have […]
The leader of Iowa’s largest school district has been sidelined after federal immigration officials detained him last week. Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts is now on unpaid leave, after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement accused him of being in the country illegally. His status is drawing attention to how he came to oversee Des […]
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has asked the Pentagon to authorize up to 1,000 Louisiana National Guard members to help local law enforcement tackle violent crime across the state. In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Landry said Louisiana faces “a convergence of elevated violent crime rates in Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans coupled […]
Almost immediately after ABC announced the temporary suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, social media erupted with calls to boycott Disney and all its entities. According to an independent journalist’s report, 1.7 million subscribers canceled Disney-owned services, including Disney+, Hulu and ESPN, in response. Cancellations tracked to Kimmel suspension […]
