• Health
    USA TODAY

    Coronavirus live updates: Trump breaks quarantine; 86% of people test positive without showing symptoms

    President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office Wednesday. A medical journal issued a stunning anti-Trump editorial. A second wave looms.

  • News
    Miami Herald

    Strippers agreed to a private dance for $1,000, but the men wanted more, Miami Beach cops say

    A $1,000 private dance involving two hired strippers in a Miami Beach hotel room turned into a car chase and a shooting after the two women refused to have sex with their clients, Miami Beach police said.

  • Celebrity
    Entertainment Weekly

    Katharine McPhee and David Foster are expecting their first child together

    The 'Smash' star, 36, married the music producer, 70, in June 2019. The couple first met in 2006 when Foster mentored her and other contestants on season 5 of 'American Idol.'

  • Lifestyle
    People

    Inside the Deceptions of Chris Watts Before He Murdered His Wife and Children

    Watts, 35, is serving a life sentence for murdering his entire family

  • Politics
    Refinery29

    Nancy Pelosi Says It’s Time To Talk About Donald Trump & The 25th Amendment

    U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, listens during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin raised the prospect of restarting talks on a broad stimulus package in a conversation with Pelosi today despite President Donald Trump saying he was ending negotiations. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s been a wild week for the Trump administration, which is reeling after President Donald Trump announced he and First Lady Melania Trump both tested positive for COVID-19 last Friday. The president’s health has been on everyone’s minds, including Congressional leaders who plan to talk about whether to invoke the 25th Amendment — the legal blueprint that allows the transfer of power from the president to the vice president in the case of the president’s inability to serve, his death, removal, or resignation.  “We’re going to be talking about the 25th Amendment tomorrow,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters during her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill. In a follow-up interview with Bloomberg TV, she added, “The president is, shall we say, in an altered state right now. I don’t know how to answer for that behavior.” Along with the president and first lady, at least 34 White House staffers, aides, and other contacts have tested positive for the virus in the last week, making the highest office in the land a COVID hotspot. Pelosi on Thursday questioned why the White House would not reveal when the president last received a negative COVID test, and stated discussions would begin around whether to invoke the 25th Amendment.  So, what exactly does this mean? The 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967 in response to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination four years earlier. The amendment states that the vice president, followed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, will assume presidential “powers and duties” in the event that a sitting president is unable to. Only nine times in U.S. history has the amendment been invoked: eight times due to a president’s death, and once due to a resignation.  In order to transfer powers over to Vice President Mike Pence, Trump would have to write a declaration to the president pro tempore of the Senate, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, and the House Speaker, Pelosi, that he agrees to do so until he is fit to resume office or another president is elected. If the president refuses to transfer power himself, the vice president and Congressional leaders can send a written declaration to Grassley and Pelosi in his place.  Despite the president’s adult son Donald Jr. making light of Pelosi’s remarks and suggesting it’s a “good [joke],” the matter is actually very serious. For days, conflicting reports about the president’s health have come out of the White House, leaving the American public mostly in the dark.  Medical experts working on limited information say that Trump at some point experienced severe COVID-19 symptoms, with “impairment of the lungs and a blood oxygen level below 94 percent, which is a cutoff for severe disease,” The New York Times reported. After returning to the White House on Monday from the Walter Reed Medical Center, Trump’s breathing appeared labored, and as he enters his second week with the virus, his symptoms could take a turn for the worse at any time.  As the Trump administration continues to keep pertinent information about the president’s health from the public and Congress, political leaders have a responsibility to discuss next steps, including when to transfer presidential powers.  Whether it’s through the election or not, we just might end up with a new president either way. Like what you see? How about some more R29 goodness, right here?Trump Just Couldn't Resist Calling Kamala NamesTrump Refuses To Participate In A Virtual DebateTrump Blocks Stimulus Bill Until After Election

  • Politics
    The Wrap

    Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt Shuts Down Ted Cruz’s Attack on Chris Wallace: ‘He’s Part of Our Family’

    Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt shut down Sen. Ted Cruz’s attack on colleague Chris Wallace Thursday morning during “Fox & Friends.”“Look, I think the president’s right on this,” said Cruz of President Donald Trump’s announcement he wouldn’t participate in a virtual debate. “And unfortunately, I think this is a pattern we’ve seen play out throughout the debates, where the moderators and the debate commission have behaved like arms of the Joe Biden campaign. I think at the first debate, I think Chris Wallace did a terrible job moderating. Last night, I think Susan Page did a better job moderating. She didn’t interrupt as much.”He went on with his discussion of how, in his mind, a virtual debate “benefits” Democratic nominee Joe Biden.Also Read: Chris Wallace: Trump 'Bears the Primary Responsibility for What Happened' at Debate (Video)When she got to respond, Earhardt addressed the comments on Wallace: “Well, just to defend Chris Wallace, he’s part of our family and it’s not easy to debate — to moderate a debate — and I’ve watched other moderators say sometimes when you’re up there on stage — all the time when you’re up there on stage — and you’re in charge of asking the questions, you see something different than what the audience is seeing at home and it’s a difficult situation. I thought Chris did a fine job and he’s one of our friends and he’s part of our family, Ted Cruz.”The Republican senator said he understood and Earhardt went on, “All right. I just wanted to clarify that because we love him.”After last week’s debate, Wallace said he’d “never been through anything” like it and reflected on the “desperation” he felt from the moderator’s seat to gain control over the evening.“I’m a pro. I’ve never been through anything like this,” Wallace told the New York Times last Wednesday. “I never dreamt that it would go off the tracks the way it did.”Watch Earhardt and Cruz above, via Fox News.Read original story Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt Shuts Down Ted Cruz’s Attack on Chris Wallace: ‘He’s Part of Our Family’ At TheWrap