The Hollywood talent manager with ties to major entertainment figures has died after a prolonged health struggle. Brandon Blackstock, the former husband of singer Kelly Clarkson, died on Thursday, August 7, 2025, at age 48 after a more than three-year battle with cancer, an illness that had previously prompted the singer to cancel several high-profile concert dates. Kelly Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock attend the STX Films World Premiere of "UglyDolls" at Regal Cinemas L.A. Live on April 27, 2019, in Los Angeles, California | Source: Getty Images In a statement to People, the family announced...
President Donald Trump's tantrum over the weak jobs numbers and termination of the Bureau of Labor Statistics director is in many ways a repeat of history, as former President Richard Nixon similarly became paranoid that federal data was being cooked to sabotage him. But there's a big difference in how far each president was willing to go, at least in public, to twist the civil service to their will, historian Tim Naftali wrote for The Atlantic. Trump's move against BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer — which he justified by baselessly claiming that Democratic operatives fraudulently manufacture...
By Valentina Dimitrievska in Skopje Thousands of Kosovo Albanians took to the streets of Pristina on August 7 to protest against the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague, in a demonstration organised by the Kosovo Liberation Army War Veterans Organization. The protest reflects rising frustration among segments of Kosovo society over the perception that the Specialist Chambers is biased and lacks legitimacy. The court was established in 2015 with the backing of the EU and Kosovo’s own parliament, with the mandate to investigate war crimes allegedly committed by KLA members during and after t...