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The man behind the massive leak of secret U.S. documents that exposed our spying on allies and the dire situation with Ukraine’s war against Russia reportedly worked on a military base and released sensitive information in an online chat forum during the COVID pandemic. Since the document dump last Friday, FBI agents have been working

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who infamously survived a nerve agent 3 years ago, has reportedly fallen ill while behind bars … and some on his team believe he’s slowly being poisoned to death. Navalny was met with an ambulance over the weekend due to stomach pains, but his lawyer Vadim Kobzez tweeted that there

The Women’s Tennis Association is returning to China … ending a one-and-a-half-year boycott imposed after tennis star Peng Shuai accused a high-ranking Chinese government official of sexual assault. Now, the WTA says after talking to their players and the tournament representatives, they’ll return to China later this year … but they’re standing by their decision

A scary situation for the people of Japan, as a North Korean ballistic missile launch resulted in an evacuation order on Japan’s second-largest island. The terrifying scene played out Thursday morning when North Korea fired a missile off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, headed for the sea off the coast of Japan. Play

Brittney Griner is ready to open up about her harrowing time spent in captivity inside a Russian penal colony. The 32-year-old, 8x WNBA All-Star has inked a deal with publisher Alfred A. Knopf to write a still-untitled memoir which they say will take a deep dive into Griner’s nearly one-year stay in a Moscow-area penal

A truck carrying a ton of toxic soil out of the train derailment zone in East Palestine tipped over in an accident this week … but the local EPA says there’s nothing to worry about in terms of contamination. Per law enforcement, a tractor-trailer was heading northbound Monday on SR-165 in Columbiana County — which

Play video content CNN Don Lemon stepped in it again Monday, apparently making what he thought was an off-mic remark about Jon Stewart and then, after an awkward pause, backtracking big time. Don threw to a clip of Jon Stewart interviewing U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, in which Stewart challenged what he called

Elon Musk appears to be flip-flopping on whether Twitter considers the nonprofit news org NPR to be state-run media — although it’s unclear if he’s gonna take that label off their account. The Twit-in-Chief was directly asked about this by an NPR reporter this past week … and when he was shown the hard numbers

Donald Trump is doing what he tends to do best in times of crisis — hitting the links to blow off some steam … with this weekend being no different for him amid his criminal case. The ex-Prez was playing a round Saturday morning at his hotel in Miami … the Trump National Doral, which

Play video content Tik Tok/@mrs.deedoubleyou Monica put a damper on her “Goonica” nickname, and a few fans’ chances of landing more punches during a fight that erupted at her show. The star singer was recently in D.C. for the R&B Experience Tour, and was bringing the house down with her hit ballad, “Why I Love

Play video content TMZ.com The thousands of Californians who’ve fled to Tennessee, Florida and Texas are having second thoughts … and many are, as they say, going back to Cali … so says L.A. real estate mogul Kurt Rappaport. Kurt joined us Friday on “TMZ Live” to fill us in on the slow reversal of

LSU hoops star Angel Reese has decided she will attend the White House visit with her team after all … days after she contemplated skipping the visit because of remarks made by First Lady Jill Biden. Remember, Reese took issue with FLOTUS saying Iowa should attend the White House, too — a tradition usually reserved

Donald Trump certainly enjoyed the support of some of his family during his big speech Tuesday night following his historic criminal arraignment — but there was one very important person missing in action: his wife, Melania. Indeed, Melania was noticeably absent from the mob of supporters who crowded into Mar-a-Lago to listen to the former

Donald Trump may be public enemy No.1 in the eyes of some … but not to Jorge Masvidal — the UFC star visited the former President at a rally in Florida Tuesday evening hours after 45 was arraigned in NYC. Masvidal says he was invited to Mar-a-Lago … the same night Trump returned from the

Tennis officials dropped the ball when they failed to ban Russian players after Putin‘s military invaded Ukraine last year, so says the world’s number 1 ranked player, Iga Swiatek. “I heard that after World War II, German players were not allowed as well as Japanese and Italian, and I feel like this kind of thing

Play video content Comedy Central Jon Stewart is the guy everyone wants to hear from these days … what he thinks of the Donald Trump indictment, how it will affect the country and the 2024 presidential election, yada yada yada — or in this case … Yoda Yoda Yoda. Stewart made a surprise appearance on

Play video content TMZSports.com Jill Biden needs to apologize to the LSU women’s hoops team ASAP … so says Sherri Shepherd, who tells TMZ Sports the first lady should have never invited Iowa to come along with the champion Tigers for a celebration at the White House. The television personality made her feelings loud and

Donald Trump might have had his worst day ever … but Stormy Daniels had her best day on a popular pornography website. The good folks over at Pornhub tell TMZ … Donald’s arrest has been a boom for Stormy’s adult videos, with searches for her pornos spiking while Trump was getting booked. We’re told Pornhub