Sonam Sheth

Former President Donald Trump wanted to recreate his famous 2015 escalator descent when announcing his 2020 reelection bid.But his wife, Melania, helped talk him out of it.That’s according to The Washington Post, which published a lengthy story about the former first lady’s whereabouts.A former member of Melania Trump’s staff told the paper that Trump “would call her from the Oval all the time and ask questions.“When Trump was mulling over how to announce his reelection bid, he called his wife a…

Ukrainian soldiers are getting increasingly burned out and worried that they will run out of troops as the brutal war with Russia enters its 21st month.It will “be very, very long,” a 26-year-old soldier deployed near Bakhmut told The Kyiv Independent. “We’re already running out of people.“The outlet reported that soldiers are also grappling with the psychological toll of losing their friends fighting alongside them and are desperate to go home as the war rages on with no clear end in sight.“I’m…

A convicted Capitol rioter got into a fight with federal agents and security officials at a court appearance on Monday, prompting US marshals to clear the courtroom and rush the judge out, according to reporters who were in the courtroom.Vitali GossJankowski, 34, was convicted of multiple felonies in March in connection to his actions during the deadly January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.But earlier this month, the feds asked a judge to revoke GossJankowski’s release and order him to be pl…

Israel expanded its military operations in the Gaza territory in the early morning hours of October 28, following weeks of mobilization. Israel Defense Forces officials so far have declined to confirm the actions are part of an anticipated full-scale ground invasion, but multiple reports indicate a sharp increase in IDF troops advancing across the border into Gaza, in addition to explosions from continuous airstrikes. Internet and cellular service has been cut off in the region, limiting firstha…

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ruled this year that Joe Biden was wrong when he tried to forgive college students’ loans, but a Senate panel revealed that Thomas had a substantial loan of his own forgiven by a wealthy friend.Thomas joined a majority opinion in June that struck down the White House’s student debt relief plan and found Biden overstepped his authority.Just two months later — as ethics questions swirled around the conservative justice over his cozy relationship with rich frie…

Sidney Powell, a GOP lawyer who briefly represented Donald Trump, has flipped on the former president, striking a plea deal with Georgia prosecutors ahead of her trial on a slew of criminal charges.According to court filings, Powell pleaded guilty to six counts of conspiracy to interfere with election duties.She was one of over a dozen co-defendants — including Trump himself — in the Fulton County DA’s office’s RICO case, which accused Trump and his allies of violating the state’s racketeering s…

University of Pennsylvania’s megadonor revolt isn’t showing signs of slowing down.As the war with Israel intensifies in Gaza, UPenn’s benefactors are slamming the school for its response and actions before and after Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel.The latest figure to pull funding from the Ivy League school is billionaire hedge fund manager Clifford Asness, who said he decided to withdraw funding in response to the Palestine Writes Literary Festival at Penn, which he described as an “antisemi…

Hamas is holding nearly 200 people hostage after it carried out a deadly terror attack in Israel, according to the Israel Defense Forces.Hamas has said it has no plans to release any of the hostages, and a senior leader in the militant group said earlier this month that “this file will not be opened until the end of the battle.“The last time Hamas released a hostage was in 2011, when it freed the IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.Shalit was a young conscript in the Israeli military when he was captured b…

Russian troops have installed dozens of towers across the occupied city of Mariupol to surveil Ukrainian citizens’ conversations and track their digital activity, Petro Andryushchenko, an advisor to Mariupol’s exiled mayor, said.The Kyiv Post first reported on Andryushchenko’s Telegram post about the surveillance towers.“This is equipment for monitoring conversations and Internet traffic of Mariupol residents,” Andryushchenko wrote alongside a video. “This tower and this booth.“The Russians are…

India made history last month as the first country to land near the moon’s south pole. But several days after they were set to wake up, the Chandrayaan-3 moon lander and its sidekick lunar rover remain fast asleep.And now it seems like they may be dead for good.The robots went to sleep in early September — when night set in on the moon and their batteries drained.The next lunar day started on September 22, and the Indian Space Research Organisation hoped the two spacecraft, which run on solar po…