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Mark Cuban delivers brutal reality check on California billionaire tax: ‘Ideology is not a strategy’

2026-08-15

“If this passes, only idiot startup founders stay in Cali,” Cuban said.

Trump's critics say he's a misogynist, others praise his promotion of women to top posts. As president's press chief quits, insiders reveal what it's REALLY like to be a White House Glamazon

2026-08-16

To pull back the curtain on life as a Republican ‘glamazon’ at the heart of US politics, several former female staffers have described, in confidence, what it is really like to The Mail on Sunday.

Yemen’s government says Houthi strikes hit residential areas in Marib

2026-08-15

Yemen�s Ministry of Information denounces attacks on Marib as �escalation� that threatens lives and increases suffering.

Meet Jinny Lu, the World’s Ugliest Dog of 2026

2026-08-15

The rescued pug, who likes to dip her protruding tongue into the food bowls of everyone at home, emerged as the winner of the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest on Friday.

Ex-detective who served fraction of 102-year sentence faces new charges after cold case review

2026-08-15

Former Los Angeles vice detective Michael Douglas Brambles, paroled in 2020 under California's elderly inmates law, faces new kidnapping charges.

Stolen Picasso print found in vacant Milwaukee apartment after eight years

2026-08-15

A print by Pablo Picasso, initially stolen from a Milwaukee gallery in 2018, was found by a landlord and turned in to the local police.

Are robotaxis finally here?

2026-08-15

Fully self-driving cars for hire have been hailed as the technology of the future for years now. That future has finally arrived – but only in some cities.

Had Article 370 stayed, PoK may have sought to rejoin J&K: Omar Abdullah

2026-08-16

CM Hails Sheikh Abdullah, Invokes 1947 Resistance

Depleted strategic oil reserve nears level that raises concerns about damage to caverns, operations

2026-08-15

The rapid drawdown of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve could damage the caverns that store the oil, experts warn.

Palestinians Stream Back to Northern Gaza on Foot

2025-01-27

Israel allowed displaced Gazans to begin crossing a military zone that bisects the enclave after a deadlock over hostage releases was broken.