Author name: Emma Clarke

International travel rules can change quietly, but recent decisions by two West African nations have sent a clearer message to U.S. travelers. New entry requirements affecting American passport holders highlight not only visa policy shifts, but also the growing influence of diplomacy on cross-border travel. What appears to be a technical change reflects broader questions […]

FIFA has issued a firm statement following calls for Donald Trump to be stripped of the 2025 FIFA Peace Prize, which he received ahead of the 2026 World Cup draw in December 2025. Trump was awarded the inaugural prize during a ceremony in Washington, D.C., where FIFA president Gianni Infantino presented him with a trophy,

Before an NBA game in London, the atmosphere inside the O2 Arena was lively as fans gathered to watch the Orlando Magic face the Memphis Grizzlies in a regular-season matchup. As part of the pre-game ceremony, singer Vanessa Williams stepped forward to perform the U.S. national anthem. The arena grew quiet, setting a formal tone

The world is mourning the loss of Roger Allers, a visionary filmmaker whose work helped shape a golden era of animation. Allers passed away at age 76 at his home in Santa Monica following a brief illness, Disney confirmed. His storytelling left a lasting imprint on generations of audiences.Allers is best known for co-directing The

the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, recently made a deeply personal and emotional revelation during an interview with Megyn Kelly. She said that in the moments after learning her husband had been assassinated, she was “praying to God that I was pregnant” with another child. She explained that she and Charlie had hoped to

Jacob Frey’s warning was less a political statement than a plea from a city under siege. With roughly 600 local officers stretched thin and about 3,000 federal agents flooding Minnesota, Minneapolis is living in the shadow of an enforcement surge it did not ask for and cannot fully control. The latest ICE shooting—nonfatal but deeply

Trump’s move to revoke the clearances of Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor was less about paperwork and more about drawing battle lines. It signaled that disputes over election security had crossed from policy into loyalty tests, where questioning the narrative could be branded as subversion. Krebs, once praised for calming fears about 2020 interference, is

The idea was seductively simple: collapse a thousand scattered races into one roaring, televised moment of judgment. In that instant, every House district, every Senate fight, every governor’s race would be pulled into the gravitational field of a single narrative—loyalty or betrayal, strength or surrender. What began as a tactic became a test of whether

He lived as if his only purpose was to hold everyone else together. On stage, he was invincible; off stage, he was a man quietly unraveling in rooms filled with trophies and emptiness. Those closest to him now admit they saw flickers of exhaustion, moments where his smile didn’t quite reach his eyes, but the

Valentino Garavani’s passing closes a chapter that defined what elegance looked like for more than half a century. From his Roman atelier in 1960 to the global runways he conquered, Valentino didn’t just make dresses; he created dreams in silk, tulle, and that unmistakable Valentino red. His final moments, spent at home surrounded by loved