This past Sunday, the great state of New Jersey (lol) played host to three of the biggest names in media and entertainment. President-Elect Donald Trump, WME head cheese and new owner of UFC Ari Emanuel, and Nostradumbass himself. Though I didn’t have much choice, since I already live here. Why Trump was talking shop with...
Another milestone in Barack Obama's presidency has been set with the election of his successor, Donald Trump. The election moved Obama closer to life after the presidency. And as Politico reported back in May, the Obamas have already settled on a post-Pennsylvania Avenue house to call home. It's not the White House, but...
As incredible as it may sound to some people, American well-known actor, and former wrestler Dwayne Johnson, or The Rock, has recently announced that politics is also on the list of careers he would like to pursue in not so distant future. Namely, according to British GQ, Johnson is only toying with this idea at the moment....
Bernie Sanders has urged Democrats to put Hillary Clinton in the White House, in a speech to the party convention. The Vermont senator received a three-minute standing ovation when he took the stage in Philadelphia. "Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States," he said as the crowd erupted in...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party enjoys a fierce and loyal support among Turkey's conservative, Muslim base, while outside the country outrage grows over his silencing of critics, often by force. Turkish journalists have been investigated and put on trial, foreign journalists have been harassed and deported. Last month,...
French President Francois Hollande is to chair crisis talks with his inner security cabinet following Thursday's attack in Nice that killed 84 people. Mr Hollande, who says the attack was a terrorist act, has already extended a state of emergency by three months. On Thursday, a lorry driver ploughed through a crowd marking...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has flown in to Istanbul, after an army group said it took over the country. He was seen surrounded by cheering supporters, saying in a live TV speech that the coup attempt was an "act of treason" and the army must be cleansed. Sixty people died during overnight clashes, many of...
US President Barack Obama has urged police and black communities to come together, saying it should not be "us versus them", in a town hall meeting on race and policing. Mr Obama and ABC News held the forum amid an increase in racial tensions in the US in recent weeks. Last week a gunman killed five Dallas police at a...
Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh has told lawmakers to introduce legislation to ban child marriage. Mr Jammeh said anyone marrying a girl aged below 18 would be jailed for up to 20 years. Speaking at the Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations at the end of Ramadan, he said parents and imams who perform the ceremonies would also face...
CZECH President Milos Zeman has committed to fight against his government to give the nation a referendum on EU and NATO membership. A Czech referendum would go against the will of the nation’s government officials who oppose the idea of an in/out vote, as well as EU officials who are scrambling to keep the crumbling...
Rodrigo Duterte has been sworn in as president of the Philippines, after a landslide election victory in May. The controversial former mayor of Davao City, 71, overthrew the political establishment, promising a "bloody war" on crime and action on corruption. In his inaugural speech he promised to make sweeping changes...
BARACK Obama has backtracked on his claims Britain would “go to the back of the queue” in waiting for a trans-Atlantic trade deal if it voted to leave the EU. In a sensational U-turn, the US President’s administration is now claiming its “special relationship” with Britain “has not...