Stephen Colbert: Your Backstage Pass to the Finale
Katie Couric was at the finale of “The Colbert Report” last night and captured some backstage footage. Her video and blog are now LIVE.
Katie Couric was at the finale of “The Colbert Report” last night and captured some backstage footage. Her video and blog are now LIVE.
Twenty Cambodian soldiers have been killed in an ammunition explosion at an army base, Prime Minister Hun Manet said Saturday.In his statement, Hun Manet said he had ordered the defense minister and the commander-in-chief of Royal Cambodian Armed Forces to urgently arrange funerals for the soldiers who died.
NEW YORK — Donald Trump is a thrice-married man accused of covering up a sex scandal with an adult film actor after the world heard him brag about grabbing women by their genitals. But when Trump’s lawyers introduced him to a jury at his Manhattan criminal trial this past week, they dwelt on a different dimension: “He’s a husband. He’s a father. And he’s a person, just like you and just like me.” That half-hour opening statement encapsulated the former president’s influence over his lawyers and
Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saturday claimed shooting down another of the U.S. military's MQ-9 Reaper drones, airing footage of parts that corresponded to known pieces of the unmanned aircraft. The Houthis said they shot down the Predator with a surface-to-air missile, part of a renewed series of assaults this week by the rebels after a relative lull in their pressure campaign over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
US intelligence agencies believe that while the Russian president was ultimately responsible for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, he didn't order it to take place when it did, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.While the new finding does not question Putin's responsibility for Navalny's death, the CIA and other US intelligence agencies believe he probably didn't order it "at that moment," the Journal said, quoting people familiar with the matter.
Five livestock experts who study infectious diseases in the dairy industry explain the risks.
Police in Benin fired tear gas to break up a protest over the cost of living called by trade unions and they arrested several senior union figures on Saturday, witnesses and union officials said. Police used tear gas to disperse them. Moudassirou Bachabi, who heads the General Confederation of Workers of Benin (CGTB), and Anselme Amoussou, head of union CSA-Benin, were arrested alongside 16 other demonstrators, according to CGTB deputy general secretary Anita Bossoukpe.
Shaima Refaat Alareer, the daughter of a prominent Palestinian poet, was killed alongside her family in an Israeli airstrike on a house west of Gaza City on Friday, according to multiple sources, four months after her father died in a similar attack.
Following a volatile eruption of severe weather across the Plains on Friday, resulting in nearly 80 preliminary tornado reports, the pattern setting up across the nation's midsection on Saturday may be eerily similar to Friday, bringing hazards such as damaging wind gusts, large hail, flash flooding and large tornadoes. To put into perspective how numerous the storm reports were on Friday, AccuWeather Meteorologist Alex Duffus noted that the last day that there were more than 75 filtered tornado
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, a reported Donald Trump Vice President contender, admitted to killing her own dog.
This week, an analysis of ancient DNA sheds light on a bygone empire, Voyager 1 is back in touch with NASA, what to do now that the cicadas are here, and more.
Police in riot gear detained about 100 people as they cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment at a Boston university Saturday, the latest in a series of clashes on US campuses triggered by protests over Israel's war against Hamas.Meanwhile, Columbia University in New York, where the protests originated, announced Friday that it would not be calling police back to campus after more than 100 people were arrested last week.
Nearly 50 years after robbing and fatally stabbing three men while high on drugs as a teen in New Orleans, Warren Harris Jr. sat at a table at the Louisiana State Penitentiary and apologized for the suffering he caused.
Destructive tornadoes gutted homes as they plowed through Nebraska and Iowa, and the dangerous storm threat could escalate Saturday as tornado-spawning storms pose a risk from Michigan to Texas.
BERLIN — President Vladimir Putin of Russia is about to institute a rare tax increase on corporations and high earners, a move that reflects both the burgeoning costs of his war in Ukraine and the firm control he has over the Russian elite as he embarks on a fifth term in office. Financial technocrats in Putin’s government are searching for new ways to fund not just an expensive war in Ukraine but also a broader confrontation with the West that is likely to remain costly for years. Russia is all
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — In a first, a military judge at Guantánamo Bay on Friday crossed into the security zone containing the wartime prison and inspected a former CIA “black site” facility at the center of a dispute over the taint of torture in the Sept. 11, 2001, case. It was a noteworthy moment in the arc of the two-decade history of the Guantánamo trials. No war court judge had before made the 5-mile trip to look at the detention operations, where the military maintains the only known, still
Thousands of supporters of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez rallied at the headquarters of his Socialist party imploring him not to step down over a graft investigation against his wife.If he resigns, an early election could be called from July -- a year after the last one -- with or without Sanchez at the helm of the Socialist party.
The push from a GOP lawyer to move protesters farther from RNC facilities comes as demonstrators have sought to have closer access to venues.
NEW YORK — For decades, few people had access to Donald Trump like Rhona Graff. Now, Graff, his former personal assistant at the Trump Organization, became the second person to testify against Trump in his criminal trial in lower Manhattan. At Trump Tower, Graff served as Trump’s gatekeeper. She had an office right outside his door, placing her within earshot of Trump’s requests to get someone on the phone. And when someone wanted to reach Trump, they first had to go through Graff, often requiri
One of the men, a young Briton known for his hawkish views on China, worked as an aide to a prominent member of the British Parliament. Another, a German citizen of Chinese descent, was an assistant to a member of the European Parliament representing Germany’s far right. While from different countries and seemingly divergent backgrounds and outlooks, both men became ensnared this week in accusations of espionage on behalf of China — and a widening pushback in Europe against malign Chinese influe
A British ship to house hundreds of US troops building a jetty to boost aid deliveries to Gaza has set sail from Cyprus, a UK defence source said Saturday. "It is critical we establish more routes for vital humanitarian aid to reach the people of Gaza and the UK continues to take a leading role in the delivery of support," Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said.