The murder counts in the deaths of former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, could carry the federal death penalty. He allegedly shot the senator nine times, and Yvette Hoffman eight times, but they survived. Boelter allegedly fled and left behind his car, which contained notebooks listing dozens of Democratic officials as potential targets with their home addresses, as well as five guns and a large quantity of ammunition. Boelter also faces state murder and attempted murder charges in Hennepin County, but the federal case will go first. Tim Walz, Harris’s running mate on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket, eulogized Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”

July 16, 2025 16:11 UTC

https://www.tompetty.com/Kendrick Lamar’s performance at the Super Bowl Halftime Show was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction. https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2025-emmy-nominees-music-categories-list-1236021589/For years, there have been rumors that Stevie Wonder can actually see. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stevie-wonder-addresses-blindness-rumors_n_68757fffe4b02462fe7a5a54TVThe nominations for the 2025 Emmy Nominations were announced on Tuesday. It’s called “ 100 Sound Effects “. And yes, it’s a comedy album of real sound effects.

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July 16, 2025 11:54 UTC

Seth Meyers Actually Agrees With Trump’s Latest Boast, But For A Brutal ReasonSeth Meyers on Tuesday skewered Donald Trump’s latest wild brag. “Yeah,” the “Late Night” host initially agreed. But then he added, “That’s not why everyone’s talking about it. That’s like saying, ‘Everyone is watching ‘Love Island’ because it’s so free of controversy.’”ADVERTISEMENTMeyers also mocked Trump’s gate-crashing of English soccer side Chelsea’s lifting of the FIFA Club World Cup trophy and his addition of more gold embellishments to the Oval Office. Watch Meyers’ full monologue here:Related...

July 16, 2025 10:13 UTC

LOADING ERROR LOADINGDon’t click that remote, this year’s Emmy nominations have arrived. Apple TV+’s office enigma “Severance” earned the most nominations with 27 while the streamer’s Hollywood satire “The Studio” tied the record for a debut season comedy with 23. AdvertisementHBO Max’s dark comic book limited series “The Penguin” and the Thailand-centric season of its biting vacation anthology “The White Lotus” earned 24 and 23 nominations, respectively. Rounding out the front-runners are HBO Max’s post-apocalyptic drama “The Last of Us” and the Disney+ “Star Wars” saga “Andor” with 16 and 14 nods each. Set to be hosted by comic Nate Bargatze, the 77th Primetime Emmys will take place on Sept. 14 and air live on CBS.

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July 14, 2025 15:35 UTC

Jessica (played by Megan Stalter) in Too Much on Netflix Netflix / Too MuchIt hasn’t even been out for a week yet, but Too Much has already given us plenty to talk about. AdvertisementWhen the trailer for the show came out last month, viewers were scandalised over one intimate scene in particular which showed Felix spitting into Jessica’s mouth. Shocked YouTube comments ranged from “that spitting scene is not gonna leave me for a while now” to “the spitting in mouth scene violated me”. Ahead of the official release on Thursday, Megan reacted to the unexpected response which had left viewers clutching their pearls. Anything by Adrienne Lenker plays over the sequence which shows Jessica and Felix becoming more intimate in their relationship.

July 14, 2025 15:29 UTC

Here's What No One Is Telling You About The Tragic Texas Floods. Despite the horror, these children were not the first young Americans to have their futures destroyed by climate change. That’s just one of the ways that climate change is quietly rewriting our priorities. Climate change is already reshaping childhood. The Texas floods highlighted another blind spot: Every summer, 26 million American children attend camps, often in areas particularly vulnerable to floods or extreme heat, with almost no oversight or preparation for the new climate realities.

July 14, 2025 11:02 UTC

AdvertisementBut between Reagan and the second Bush came a sea change in how the party viewed federal debt. In the end, his tax increases effectively undid about half of his tax cuts. Embracing debtThe irony of the debt explosion in recent years is how quickly the country’s long-term financial outlook has changed. The presidential candidate who won the 2000 election had promised sweeping tax cuts and immediately worked to enact them after taking office. Advertisement“We have a problem of Republicans beginning tax cuts on a partisan basis, and then Democrats being afraid not to extend them,” Kogan said.

July 14, 2025 00:23 UTC

The tour came after some Democrats were blocked earlier from viewing the 3,000-bed detention center that the state rapidly built on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland. Advertisement“There are really disturbing, vile conditions and this place needs to be shut the hell down,” Rep. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat from Florida, told reporters after visiting. “It’s a detention center, not the Four Seasons.”Journalists weren’t allowed on the tour, and lawmakers were instructed not to bring phones or cameras inside. Five Democratic state lawmakers tried to visit the site when it opened July 3 but said they were denied access. The lawmakers have sued over the denial, saying that DeSantis’ administration is impeding lawmakers’ oversight authority.

July 13, 2025 19:10 UTC

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“She’s dismissive of Wendy’s beauty because of stereotypes about what a conventionally attractive woman might be experiencing in her inner life. But before belong, Megan came to view Jessica as “a version of me and Lena together, with her own thing going on”. “I clicked with [Lena] immediately, and I just was obsessed with wanting to be around her,” she quipped. Advertisement“I clicked with [Lena] immediately, and I just was obsessed with wanting to be around her,” Megan Stalter, right, said. Lena Dunham's husband Luis Felber, left, is a co-creator and executive producer of Too Much.

July 13, 2025 06:29 UTC

In a way, she was intoxicating ― 35 little windows into alternate versions of my life, reflecting different choices, different turns taken, different worlds inhabited. I mean that in the way that we always look better in our headshots or any studio photos thanks to optimal conditions and a skilled photographer, but this person was also better better. In our own photos ― our real photos of our real selves ― lie our stories: moments in time captured, life’s details memorialized to be looked at later and remembered. Support HuffPost Already contributed? Support HuffPost Already contributed?

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