By all accounts, Sunday morning in Beverly Hills was a typical one. Patrick Muldoon and his partner, Miriam Rothbart, had spent time together at home. He headed to the shower. Rothbart discovered him unconscious on the bathroom floor when she went in search of him. His age was fifty-seven. A heart attack was the reason. Two days prior, he had shared on Instagram that he was thrilled to be involved in a new movie he was producing, Kockroach, which is being filmed in Australia and stars Chris Hemsworth. That particular detail is especially challenging. He was anticipating. Growing up, Patrick…
Author: Sierra Foster
Sierra Foster
Born in Kansas City, Sierra Foster writes about politics and serves as Senior Editor at kbsd6.com. She was raised paying attention to this city, not just living in it. Sierra has a strong, deep connection to Kansas City, from the neighborhoods east of Troost to the discussions that take place in the city hall halls. Sierra, who is presently enrolled at the University of Kansas to pursue a degree in Political Science, applies the rigor of academic study to her journalism. She writes about politics in Missouri and Kansas as someone who genuinely cares about what happens to the people in these communities—the policies that impact them, the leaders who represent them, and the civic forces influencing their futures—rather than as an outsider watching from a distance. Her editorial coverage encompasses state-level policy, local government, and the national political currents that permeate bi-state regional life. Whether it's a city council vote or a Senate race, she has a special gift for turning complex policy language into writing that feels urgent, relatable, and worthwhile. Sierra seldom sits still off the page. She claims that playing soccer on a regular basis has sharpened her instincts for political reporting because of the sport's teamwork, strategy, and requirement to read a changing game in real time. She's probably somewhere in Kansas City with her friends when she's not writing or on the pitch, discovering new reasons to adore a city she already knows so well.
A certain type of Washington figure accumulates quiet competence across agencies for years, is confirmed by the Senate several times without making headlines, and never quite becomes well-known until the time comes when everyone else has burned out or been escorted out of the building, and all of a sudden they are in charge of the department. That person is Keith Sonderling. He took over as Acting Secretary of Labor on April 20th, taking over one of the more contentious areas of the Trump Cabinet after Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned due to numerous misconduct investigations. By all standards, Sonderling is among…
There is a certain type of Washington story that begins with genuine promise and concludes with a social media post from a White House aide. This isn’t even a presidential statement, but rather a subtle announcement from the communications director that gets lost in the day’s commotion. On Monday, Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s term as Labor Secretary came to an end. Not much fanfare. No farewell to the Oval Office. Steven Cheung’s brief statement about her “phenomenal job” was followed by the announcement that she was leaving to pursue a position in the private sector. That phrase is doing a lot of…
The announcement was made on the morning of April 20th from Apple’s glass-and-steel campus in Cupertino, a structure that Tim Cook personally assisted in creating. It was delivered with the serene deliberateness that has always characterized him. Nothing dramatic. No abrupt resignation. No boardroom coup, no activist investors. A unanimous board vote, a meticulously crafted statement, and a succession that seemed to have taken years to prepare. In September, Allentown-born mechanical engineer John Ternus, who has worked at Apple for almost his whole career, will take over as the company’s executive chairman after Tim Cook steps down as CEO. Everyone…
Over the course of more than 20 years, Tim Heidecker has developed a career that is difficult to articulate. A comedian from Allentown, Pennsylvania, gained cult fame alongside Eric Wareheim with a show on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block that seemed to purposefully avoid being entertaining in any traditional sense. purposefully low-cost production. characters who lack logical consistency. Jokes that refused to admit they were jokes. Somehow, it worked—not for everyone, but profoundly for a certain type of person who realized that beneath its aggressively ugly exterior, the entire endeavor was quietly brilliant. Heidecker was recently appointed creative director of…
Depending on how much dark irony you can handle, there is something almost poetic about the possibility that America’s most well-known fake news source will take over Infowars, a platform based on the idea that nothing is what it seems. Not phony in the sense of Infowars. Fake as in purposefully, expertly, and creatively fake. A Texas judge has received a proposal from The Onion to temporarily take over Infowars’ digital properties, transforming one of the most divisive areas of the internet into what its new management refers to as a parody platform. The entire thing reads like a headline,…
Vedanta’s shares reached a record high of ₹795 on the morning of April 21 after rising more than 3% on the NSE. One piece of news—that the company’s board had confirmed May 1, 2026, as the effective date and record date for its long-awaited demerger—was the driving force behind the smooth, quick move. The split has finally occurred after years of delays, extensions, and navigating regulations. One share in each of the four new, independently listed companies will be awarded to shareholders who have VEDL shares in their demat accounts as of that date. This is a 1:1 ratio that…
When a stock jumps 41% on a Monday while the rest of the market is subtly declining, it attracts a certain kind of attention. People take notice. Additionally, there is a certain edge to the attention when the stock is Beyond Meat, a company that once traded close to $235, underwent a debt restructuring, and spent months trading below a dollar. Not precisely skepticism. More like a memory and a raised eyebrow.On April 21, 2026, Beyond Meat closed at $1.16, capping a six-session winning streak and surpassing 65% of its April gain. On the surface, the catalysts seem plausible. The…
Amazon announced late on Monday, after the New York markets had closed, that it would invest an additional $25 billion in Anthropic, the AI startup it has supported since 2023, as part of a new deal wherein Anthropic agreed to spend over $100 billion on Amazon Web Services over the following ten years. In premarket trading on Tuesday morning, AMZN shares had increased by over 2.8%, momentarily approaching $255. Given the magnitude of the announcement, the response was largely restrained, indicating that investors are still debating whether this is a game-changing agreement or an expensive commitment that will take years…
Deisy Rivera Ortega entered an immigration office in El Paso, Texas, on April 14 for what her husband believed to be a positive development. On his wife’s behalf, Sgt. First Class Jose Serrano, who has served in the US Army for almost thirty years, including a deployment to Afghanistan, submitted a Parole in Place application. The program is only available to spouses of active-duty military personnel who are in the nation illegally. She needed to go to an appointment. Her work permit was in effect. She was identified as the spouse of an active-duty soldier by her military ID. She…