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Yahoo SportsJoey Chestnut ‘felt bad’ after throwing protester down during hot dog contest
“I wish that it didn’t happen. It’s a bummer.”
- Time
A Highland Park Doctor Who Helped Save Shooting Victims Asks: How Can We Keep Letting This Happen?
"We were slapped by just pure evil. A very sick person who was allowed to purchase a high power gun," Dr. David Baum says.
- Yahoo Celebrity
'Fed up' Debra Messing says she got Biden elected during White House call about abortion rights: Report
Actress and activist Debra Messing reportedly unloads about White House's response to abortion rights in frustrated call with aides.
- Associated Press
Parents of boy, 2, found alone at parade shooting among dead
Aiden McCarthy's photo was shared across Chicago-area social media groups in the hours after the July 4 parade shooting in Highland Park, accompanied by pleas to help identify the 2-year-old who had been found at the scene bloodied and alone and to reunite him with his family. On Tuesday, friends and authorities confirmed that the boy's parents, Kevin McCarthy, 37, and Irina McCarthy, 35, were among seven people killed in the tragedy. “At two years old, Aiden is left in the unthinkable position; to grow up without his parents,” wrote Irina Colon on a GoFundMe account she created for the family and Aiden, who was reunited with his grandparents Monday evening.
- People
Bette Midler Says She Was Not Intending to Be 'Transphobic' by Tweeting About the Erasure of Women
"There was no intention of anything exclusionary or transphobic in what I said," Bette Midler wrote, addressing backlash from a previous tweet that some interpreted as anti-trans
- Politico
‘Be absolutely furious’: Dems want more from Biden after Highland Park
The president signed the first major gun bill in thirty years. He may soon get an ATF director confirmed. Some in his party still feel he’s missing the moment.
- Politico
The Southwest is bone dry. Now, a key water source is at risk.
Climate change and worsening drought have driven water stores to dangerous lows. Now the federal government is telling states to drastically cut back.
- WPXI
Police searching for 2 suspects involved in attack at Washington County Days Inn
Police are searching for two suspects they said were involved in an attack at a Days Inn hotel in Washington County.
- Hoops Hype
NBA Twitter reacts to Chet Holmgren’s Summer League debut: ‘So Chet Holmgren may very well be the best basketball player of all time’
Here's how NBA Twitter reacted to Chet Holmgren's impressive NBA Summer League debut.
- The New Voice of Ukraine
Russians suffering huge losses as Ukrainian army holds them back in Donbas — Luhansk governor
Ukraine’s army is holding back the Russian invasion force on the border of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, the head of the Luhansk Oblast Military Administration Serhiy Hayday wrote on Telegram on July 6.
- Yahoo Sports
Thunder No. 2 pick Chet Holmgren silences critics in NBA debut with game-high 23 points, 6 blocks
"I was fortunate enough to play tonight, and I never take that for granted. If I can play, I'm going to play," Holmgren said.
- Yahoo TV
Diana Ross's age creates another controversy on 'Jeopardy!'
Incorrect answers are fairly common on "Jeopardy!," but viewers couldn’t get over a couple whoppers from Tuesday’s show.
- Engadget
Amazon is giving Prime subscribers a free year of Grubhub+ deliveries
The food delivery service typically costs $10 a month.
- NBC News
Highland Park shooting suspect's past littered with 'red flags'
A portrait of Robert “Bobby” E.
- AFP
Wimbledon warrior Nadal to face Kyrgios as Halep, Rybakina make semi-finals
Rafael Nadal conjured up a mesmerising five-set recovery from a potentially tournament-ending injury on Wednesday to reach an eighth Wimbledon semi-final, where he will take on Australian firebrand Nick Kyrgios.
- People
Denise Richards Poses in Itty-Bitty Flag Bikini to Celebrate July 4th After Joining OnlyFans
Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Denise Richards staged her own beachside photo shoot in some patriotic swimwear
- The Daily Beast
Couple Slain in Parade Nightmare in Front of Their Toddler
GoFundMeA married couple in their 30s whose toddler is now terrifyingly alone. A preschool teacher. A great-grandfather visiting from Mexico. A financial adviser who rode the train daily. These are some of the lives that were snuffed out by the gunman who opened fire on the Highland Park Fourth of July parade on Monday. A little over a day after the killing stopped, officials released the names of all but one fatal victim of the latest mass shooting nightmare in America. They identified the dece
- CBS-Chicago
Highland Park mass shooting suspect's mother at center of some police contact
The mother of the suspect in Monday’s deadly mass shooting in Highland Park has been at the center of some police contact for hours on Tuesday, as well as with a SWAT team in the hours after the shooting.
- The Daily Beast
Putin’s Big Turning Point in the War Could Finally Be Here
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyRussian forces took a key region in eastern Ukraine over the weekend, thanks in part to Moscow stepping up its coordination and war planning, according to a British intelligence assessment released on Tuesday.This change in Russian forces’ approach to fighting in Eastern Ukraine could be the early signs of a brand new—and worrying—phase in Russia’s devastating war in Ukraine.While Ukrainian officials first denied that they had lost Ly
- The Daily Beast
Putin Pal Drops Menacing Hint: a ‘Cleansing’ Is Coming for Europe
IKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/Sputnik/AFP via Getty ImagesRussian President Vladimir Putin’s key ally Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has started hinting at what may be next in Russia’s war, and it doesn’t sound pretty.Lukashenko claimed this weekend that he thinks it’s time for Europe to face a “moral cleansing.”“The time has come for the forgetful Europe to give itself a moral cleansing,” Lukashenko said, without going into further detail about what that would entail, according to BelTA.Lukashenko