Trump shatters diplomatic etiquette on eve of UK visit:
The US President described one of the newest royals, the
Duchess of Sussex — the former Meghan Markle — as “nasty” when he was told the American had once described him as “misogynistic.”
“I didn’t know that she was nasty,” Trump replied in an interview with “The Sun” newspaper. He then tweeted Sunday morning:
“I never called Meghan Markle ‘nasty.'”
What to know about Douglas Emhoff, Kamala Harris’ husband, after that onstage protester moment:
By the time Emhoff confronted the protester in a man-bun who was addressing the crowd with the microphone he’d grabbed from Harris, the California senator had already calmly walked off stage; and Karine Jean-Pierre, the president of MoveOn and a veteran political operative, had stepped in between the protester and Harris to de-escalate the situation that occurred midway through the MoveOn forum in San Francisco.
A Maryland couple was found dead in their Dominican Republic hotel room:
A statement from the Dominican Republic National Police said that an autopsy concluded that the couple had respiratory failure and pulmonary edema, a condition caused by excess fluid in the lungs.
Edward Nathaniel Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Ann Day, 49, missed their scheduled check out time at the Bahia Principe Hotel in La Romana.
Hotel staff members went into their room and found the couple unresponsive Thursday, said spokesman Frank Felix Duran Mejia of the Dominican Republic National Police. There were no signs of violence in the room.
The $344.6 million Powerball jackpot has a winner in North Carolina:
The winning numbers were white balls 6, 15, 34, 45, 52, plus Powerball 8, and Power Play multiplier 2X.
The winner may choose between 30 graduated payments over 29 years that total $344.6 million or a lump sum payment of $223.3. million. These amounts are before taxes.
A stack of $100 bills totaling $344.6 million would be taller than the 1,063-foot Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Powerball website says.
The ticket holder has 180 days to claim the prize. North Carolina does not allow winners to remain anonymous.
We’ve been saying Rihanna’s name wrong:
Raise your hand if you were today years old when you discovered you may have been mispronouncing Rihanna’s name all this time.
The singer, who was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty, has been on the scene for years and most of us have been calling her “ree-AH-nuh.”
But the singer, when identifying herself, pronounces it “ree-ANN-uh.”
Wait, we want you to “Stay” while we explain how this grand discovery came about.
