Reactions were rolling in Friday night after the Freedom 250 Great America State Fair cut the performance for rapper Vanilla Ice.The 90s star was slated to play his hit songs at the event, which was reportedly having low attendance and mixed reviews.The Freedom 250 announced the fair's pause in a post on X, adding that the event would reopen at 10 a.m. Saturday."Due to inclement weather in the area, the Freedom 250 Great American State Fair and FIFA World Cup 2026™ Fan Zone will be closed for the rest of the day — Friday, June 26, 2026. The safety of our guests, staff, and partners remains our top priority. We are actively monitoring conditions and will provide updates as they become available."People on social media were quick to comment."Vanilla [on] Ice," NBC News senior justice reporter Ryan J. Reilly wrote on X."Turns out the lights (And I Glow)," MeidasTouch chief Washington correspondent Scott MacFarlane wrote on X."God says 'f--- no' to Vanilla Ice," author and photographer Joe Flood wrote on X."Weep with me, for Vanilla Ice has cancelled his Freedom 250 concert at America’s State Fair," frequent political commentator Wolfgang Baur wrote on Bluesky.Vanilla [on] Ice https://t.co/Ugns8Rk7lt— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) June 26, 2026
Liberal comedian Bill Maher on Friday said the rise of socialism in the modern-day Democratic Party is increasingly pushing him towards Republicans, during an interview with Vice President JD Vance. Maher invited Vance on his HBO show, Real Time with Bill Maher, where he complained that major Democrats, including leading socialists, have declined his invitation […]
Unaffordable home prices are not the kind of thing billionaire President Donald Trump has had to worry about his whole life, but his voters are having a hard time with it in his economy. Locally elected Republicans are feeling more heat over the economic situation than Trump in his gold-plated Oval Office, however, and this is pressing Columbia, SC. Mayor Daniel Rickenmann to plead Trump for mercy. “I think it's terrible for the Republican Party, to be quite honest,” said Rickenmann, speaking to an MS NOW “Weekend” panel Saturday morning about the possibility of Trump vetoing a popular housing bill to force Senate Republicans to pass the SAVE Act. “… When you have Senator (Rick) Scott and Senator (Elizabeth) Warren working together, this is what this country is based on, so we're really excited. You know, look, in 10 days this bill will be law. And I don't think the President would be wise to even think about vetoing something like this. This is monumental. This is the beginning. First housing bill in 30-plus years.”Trump is facing a likely disastrous midterm election threatening to remove his protective Republican buffer in the House and Senate — which is the only thing protecting him from numerous investigations into claims of fraud and various tampering. Knowing this, Trump is determined to pass the SAVE Act, an election bill that critics say will make it harder to vote.But passing the SAVE Act means also means nuking the Senate filibuster and removing the Senate parliamentarian, which Senate GOP leaders are loathe to do. For this reason, Trump is holding all bills hostage until the Republican majority commits to passing the SAVE Act to the White House for a signature.But Trump may have other reasons behind his indifference to the Housing Bill, said MS NOW Eugene Daniels, who played footage of Trump dismissing the need for lower housing prices.“I made billions of dollars with housing. I know housing better than anybody. Maybe anywhere. It is all about the interest rate. Lower the interest rate. You can have all the housing you want. But you have to understand: I don't want to … hurt people that own houses too. These people, for the first time in their lives, they have valuable houses, they become rich. I don't want to hurt them either.”“What's interesting is several weeks ago, a month ago, he talked about how this is important,” responded Rickenmann. “This is the number one issue across America in every city. … If you're a Democratic city, Republican city, whatever, there's three and a half million units needed across this country. … We had over 1,800 [building permits issued] in our city. We're pushing everything we can. But to say that it's just interest rates is not true. And to say this isn’t monumental as also very disappointing, in my point of view.”“It is very important for us to protect the integrity of elections,” Rickenmann insisted. “But at the same time, we can't hold one bill for other. We've got to work on thousands of things together, and I don't like the impression that one bill is being held up for another. That's just not the way things need to work.”
Vice President JD Vance struggled to answer pointed questions about the Trump administration's tentative peace deal with Iran during a tense appearance Friday on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher,” particularly when asked about the supposed destruction of Iran’s nuclear capabilities, Mediaite reported Saturday.Maher pressed Vance on what the administration had actually achieved, noting that a central demand going into negotiations was sending inspectors into Iranian facilities, something that has yet to happen."We've got to get in there and we've got to get the dust," Maher said, referring to past comments from President Donald Trump. "And we didn't get in, so how do we get the dust?"Vance attempted to draw a distinction between Iran's ability to enrich uranium – which he claimed had been destroyed – and its existing stockpile of highly enriched material, which he acknowledged the United States has not secured."If we never get it... it's buried deep underground and they don't have the ability to turn it into a nuclear weapon," Vance said. "So the program is functionally destroyed."Maher continued pressing."How do we know that?" he shot back.“Well, because you need functioning centrifuges that can actually spin,” Vance responded.Maher pressed him again.“But what was all the talk about, we’ve got to get in there and we’ve gotta get the dust?” Maher said. “We didn’t get in, so how do we get the dust?”Vance repeated his previous assertion that Iran’s supply of highly enriched material was inaccessible, an answer that didn’t appear to satisfy Maher, who promptly shifted to another topic.
Bahrain said that Iran launched a drone attack against the Gulf country and a ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, after the United States carried out retaliatory attacks targeting Tehran for violating a 60-day ceasefire. The development signals further challenges for the memorandum of understanding that Washington and Tehran signed last week. The […]
A US Air Force pilot survived being shot down twice during the Iran War -- first by friendly fire from a Kuwaiti jet, then by an Iranian surface-to-air missile.
Iran launched a drone attack against Bahrain early Saturday, hours after the U.S. military carried out strikes on Iranian military sites. Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, said it was attacked by a number of Iranian drones and condemned the latest strikes as a blatant violation of its sovereignty. It accused Tehran of…
Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. Across the country, data centers have become a flashpoint in local politics. Residents have questions about […]
