Tarik Skubal will undergo surgery to remove loose bodies from his left elbow, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported Monday May 4, 2026. The two-time reigning American League Cy Young Award winner was scratched from his scheduled start against the Boston Red Sox, placed on the 15-day injure
Randy Jackson appeared on the May 4, 2026 episode of American Idol as a guest mentor for the Season 24 Top 5, his first significant return to the show where he served as a judge for more than a decade, and within hours of the episode airing, fan concern about his health had sprea
Delta Air Lines is changing what you get for free on its flights, and whether that change is good news or bad news for you depends entirely on how far you are flying. Starting May 19, 2026, Delta is eliminating all complimentary snacks and beverages on flights under 350 miles for
Dolly Parton posted a video to her Instagram account on Monday May 4, 2026, that contained two pieces of news, a personal health update and the permanent cancellation of her Las Vegas residency. She delivered both in exactly the way that anyone who has ever watched Dolly Parton d
Isaiah Rashad released It’s Been Awful on Friday May 1, 2026, his third studio album, the follow-up to The House Is Burning that fans have been waiting five years for, and a 16-track, 54-minute statement about what those five years actually looked like from the inside. It is out
Part 1 made the geopolitical argument for Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez. Part 2 examined the case the Biden Department of Justice put on. Part 3 is about how the prosecutors got a biased judge and an uninformed jury. The legal name for what th
NBC canceled two of its scripted series on Friday May 1, 2026, medical drama Brilliant Minds after two seasons and freshman cheerleading mockumentary comedy Stumble after one. The cancellations are the network’s first official decisions for the 2026-27 season and leave three show
National Nurses Week 2026 runs from Tuesday May 6 through Tuesday May 12, and dozens of restaurants, retailers and brands have confirmed deals, discounts and free items specifically for nurses and healthcare workers. Several deals have already started as early as May 4, which mea
Cameron Diaz and her husband Benji Madden welcomed their third child on Monday May 4, 2026, a boy named Nautas, in a surprise announcement that caught everyone off guard because nobody, not a single outlet or photographer or industry insider, had any idea the pregnancy was happen
John Sterling, the radio voice of the New York Yankees for 36 seasons whose booming baritone, personalized home run calls and gyrating victory celebrations made him one of the most recognizable and beloved broadcasters in the history of American sports, died on Monday May 4, 2026
The National Taxpayer Advocate, the IRS’s own internal watchdog, is sounding an alarm that tens of millions of Americans may be eligible for refunds or reductions of tax penalties and interest from the COVID-19 disaster period, but most have no idea the money exists and almost no
Three passengers are dead and at least three others are sick after a suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship sailing in the Atlantic Ocean, the World Health Organization confirmed Sunday May 3, 2026. The ship is the MV Hondius, a Dutch-flagged vessel operated by Oceanw
