John Oliver has a knack for turning political absurdity into something you can’t help but laugh at, and he did it again when he dug into Donald Trump’s fixation on ballrooms. What set him off this ...

A painting Bob Ross created in Muncie, Indiana, set an auction record last week with the help of TV show host John Oliver. “Cabin at Sunset” was sold for $1,044,000 through an auction by HBO’s “Last ...

John Oliver poked fun at President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroom at an event highlighting that 12 million children in the U.S. grow up in poverty each year. “It is wild... to get a news alert ...

WALLINGFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Comedian and host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” John Oliver is making a stop in Connecticut as part of a run of performances across the Northeast in late 2025 and early 2026 ...

Andy Zaltzman, comedian and cricket stats wizard Ed Datsun/TradePhotographer The Athletic has launched a Cricket WhatsApp Channel. Click here to join. In the summer of 2006, Andy Zaltzman was part of ...

In 2009, after the death of Walter Cronkite, Time magazine conducted a poll asking Americans who they trusted most for news. The winner wasn’t a traditional journalist. It was Jon Stewart from The ...

The Republican National Committee (RNC) sued Maryland election officials on Friday over their alleged failure to maintain their voter rolls. Registration in several Maryland counties is “impossibly ...

WASHINGTON — The Virginia man charged with planting pipe bombs at the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican National Committees on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot confessed to the ...

As the playoffs draw nearer, a key Buffalo Bills’ defensive player continues to trend toward a possible return. Ed Oliver was placed on Injured Reserve on Oct. 28 and had surgery to repair a torn ...

Republican National Committee chairman Joe Gruters said the GOP “is facing almost certain defeat” in the 2026 midterms. “The party in power always gets crushed in the midterms,” Gruters said this week ...

When Oliver Sacks arrived in New York City, in September, 1965, he wore a butter-colored suit that reminded him of the sun. He had just spent a romantic week in Europe travelling with a man named Jenö ...

WASHINGTON — A man was arrested Thursday in the FBI’s nearly 5-year-old investigation into pipe bombs placed outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on ...