US President Donald Trump on Tuesday extended the deadline for TikTok’s US shutdown for the fourth time in his second term ahead of a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the fate of the Chinese-owned short video app. In an executive order issued on Tuesday, Trump set the new deadline for December 16. The…
EPA Sheep walk among the dried-out bed of the Orontes River in Jisr al-Shughour, northern Syria The wheat fields outside Seqalbia, near the Syrian city of Hama, should be golden and heavy with grain. Instead, Maher Haddad’s 40 dunums (10 acres) are dry and empty, barely yielding a third of their usual harvest. “This year…
US President Donald Trump cannot oust Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook from her role, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 2-1 ruling on Monday is a blow to Trump as it means Cook can now stay in place for the Fed’s policy meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday, where it is expected to cut US…
Ryan McFaddenSep 16, 2025, 06:44 AM ET Close Ryan McFadden covers the Las Vegas Raiders for ESPN’s NFL Nation. Prior to ESPN, McFadden was a Denver Broncos beat reporter for the Denver Post. McFadden also wrote about the Baltimore Ravens and University of Maryland athletics for The Baltimore Sun. LAS VEGAS — Geno Smith‘s fearlessness…
Tributes are pouring in for Hollywood icon Robert Redford, who has died at the age of 89. The Oscar winner and Sundance Film Festival founder, star of movies such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,The Way We WereandAll the President’s Men, died early Tuesday. Redford’s long-time publicist Cindi Berger told The Hollywood Reporter he…
Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah man charged with murder on Tuesday in the shooting of Charlie Kirk, sent a text message confessing to his partner and hid a note beforehand saying he had the chance to kill one of the nation’s leading conservative voices “and I’m going to take it”, a prosecutor said. DNA on…
Watch: Key takeaways from Tyler Robinson’s first court appearance The man accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk confessed to killing the right-wing activist in a message to his roommate, prosecutors have alleged, as they announced seven charges against him. Tyler Robinson, 22, left a note under a keyboard for his roommate to discover, said Utah…
Andreas HaleSep 16, 2025, 07:32 AM ET Close Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas’ free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM’s Fight Nation. Before joining…
Giant, a play about Roald Dahl and antisemitism, will transfer to Broadway this spring. The play, starring John Lithgow, transfers to Broadway after an Olivier Award-winning run on the West End at the Royal Court Theatre. Lithgow, who won an Olivier for his performance as Dahl, will transfer with the production. The play follows the…
Adam RittenbergSep 16, 2025, 06:55 AM ET Close College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Two teams are set to meet Saturday night in front of a full-throated, sold-out crowd, with NBC broadcasting the game to a national audience. One team made the College Football Playoff in 2024, and remains a…
