Donald Trump.Photo: Mike Roemer/AP/REX/Shutterstock PresidentDonald Trump, habitual Twitter-er, found himself this week in a common predicament for some of the platform’s most avid users: facing down a copyright flag. On Tuesday the president tweeted a re-election campaign video celebrating himself that he (or more likely his team) apparently first came across on Reddit. The since-blocked video, accordingto BuzzFeedandVariety, included the text “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you....

Donald Trump’s former casino — which opened in 1984 and operated for 30 years as one of the businesses that defined Trump’s rise and fall in real estate and hospitality — was home to numerous boxing world title fights before its fortunes soured. Icahn filed to demolition it last year. Atlantic City mayor Marty Small.Michael Candelori/Shutterstoc Trump Plaza casino.Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Around 9 a.m. Wednesday, after the dynamite ignited, the building came down within 20 seconds, leaving a huge dust cloud over the beach and boardwalk,according to the Associated Press....

Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Top public health officials have revealed how PresidentDonald Trump’s administration hindered efforts to communicate and provide guidance to the American people during theCOVID-19 pandemic, which has taken almost 760,000 lives in the U.S. During an early briefing on Feb. 25, 2020, when U.S. cases were still very low, the Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Nancy Messonnier, told reporters that measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus would not remain successful for long, and that “disruption to everyday life may be severe....

Housden and her African American co-anchor, Jason Hackett, were discussing a gorilla at the Oklahoma City Zoo when she joked the animal “kind of looks like you” to Hackett. After her comparison sparked outrage, Housden sat beside Hackett on-air the next day and delivered a tearful apology. “I am here this morning, because I want to apologize, not only to our co-anchor Jason, but to our entire community,” Housden said as she began to get choked up....

Best friends Yariselle Andujar, 17, and Daniela Moreno, 15, decided to sign up for their school’s robotics team their freshman year, and without realizing it, began their journey towards changing lives for the better.The now-juniors at Davis Aerospace and Maritime High School in Cleveland, Ohio began working with 3D printers to create parts for their robots, but knew they wanted their impact to be greater.“It started off with a team idea,” Andujar tells PEOPLE for the Girls Changing the World package in this week’s issue....

Photo: Maryland LotteryA two-time lottery winner thinks his long locks are his lucky charm.William Daniels Jr. of Middle River, Maryland, credited his long hair with helping him win $50,000 on aMaryland Lottery Gold X50scratch-off ticket last week, after he previously won $100,000 in November 2015 on aBaltimore Ravens scratch-off.“I’m going to stick with long hair when I play scratch-offs,” Daniels, 31, joked to Maryland Lottery officials, detailing that he wore his hair long when he won the lottery the first time around in 2015, and didn’t win again until he grew his hair back out recently....

Tyrese Gibson and Zelie Timothy.Photo: Chris Millard/Warner Bros. TheFast and the Furiousactor appeared on Tuesday’s episode ofThe Jennifer Hudson Show, where he gushed about his relationship with the influencer and entrepreneur. “I’m a sucker for love,” Gibson, 44, told Hudson when asked if he’s a romantic guy. “So many people think that they’ve got to do a lot in order to represent love or romanticism. I believe holding hands, walking — even if you’re walking in the neighborhood, it’s really the conversation you’re having while holding hands that makes a difference....

Photo: GREATER MANCHESTER POLICE/HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The most prolific rapist in British history will “never be safe to be released,” a judge in Manchester, England said Monday Geography PhD student Reynhard Sinaga, 36, was found guilty of a total of 159 counts of sexual offenses — including 136 rapes — against 48 men at Manchester Crown Court following the conclusion of four separate trials. He will serve a minimum of 30 years in jail before he’s considered for parole....

Kabul airport.Photo: Bashir Darwish/UPI/Shutterstock On Monday,Reuters publishedan interview with former U.S. Embassy security guard Mirza Ali Ahmadi, who told the outlet the situation unfolded while he and his wife, Suraya, were with their five children outside the Kabul airport on Aug. 19 attempting to leave the country inthe wake of the Taliban takeover. As Taliban fighters began pushing out potential evacuees, the scene grew tumultuous, according to Reuters. The couple says they haven’t seen him since....

Late U.S. Rep. Donald McEachin.Photo: Allison Bailey/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Democratic Rep. Donald McEachin of Virginia died Monday after a nine-year battle with cancer. He was 61. “We are all devastated at the passing of our boss and friend, Congressman Donald McEachin,” Tara Rountree, his chief of staff,said in a statement. “Valiantly, for years now, we have watched him fight and triumph over the secondary effects of his colorectal cancer from 2013. Tonight, he lost that battle, and the people of Virginia’s Fourth Congressional District lost a hero who always, always fought for them and put them first....

Photo: Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Health officials have announced the first death linked to theZika virushas occurred in Puerto Rico. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday that a Puerto Rican man in his 70s died from internal bleeding related to a rare immune reaction to the Zika virus infection in late February. The reaction, calledimmune thrombocytopenic purpura(ITP), has caused three deaths among people infected with Zika in Colombia, one death in Suriname and four deaths during French Polynesia’s 2013-2014 Zika outbreak, reports theWashington Post....

An upcoming match kept the U.S. women’s national soccer team from theSummer Olympicopening ceremony on Friday — but that didn’tprevent them from celebrating. “No Opening Ceremonies for us as we get ready for Game Day,” the official team Instagram wrote in one post, along with a photo from the training ground. “But these views.” Ahead of the opening ceremony on Friday night, Morgan, 32,tweeted: “We won’t be there in person but we WILL be parading around the hotel in our opening ceremony outfits while prepping for game 2 tomorrow!...

Usher in Inglewood in August 2023.Photo:Kevin Winter/Getty Kevin Winter/Getty BeforeUsherrevealed he was headlining the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show in September, he trusted one person with the big news. Duringan interview withExtra’s Mona Kosar Abdi on Thursday, the “Good Good” singer opened up about how hard it was to keep his halftime show performance a secret. “My family didn’t know. My sons did not know. I tried to tell my daughter....