Former President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before entering the courtroom at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, Pool)
Trump fined $1,000 for gag order violation in hush money case as ex-employee recounts reimbursements

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money trial fined him $1,000 on Monday for violating his gag order once again and sternly warned the former president that additional violations could result in jail time.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 2, 2024, in New York City. Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records last year, which prosecutors say was an effort to hide a potential sex scandal, both before and after the 2016 presidential election. Trump is the first former U.S. president to face trial on criminal charges. (Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images/TNS)
Our heroes often let us down. So choose carefully.

Let us choose our heroes carefully and never allow ourselves to be consumed by blind loyalty to anyone. Life is complex, and people are not always what they seem. There are real heroes in this world, but none deserve unqualified admiration or obedience.

Brogan Ingram, at a client’s home, says in the past she struggled to keep her own apartment tidy. Ingram, who has ADHD, kept things under control for a number of years, she says, by developing a cleaning schedule and finding methods to overcome her struggles with procrastination and motivation.
‘If you don’t keep things clean, it affects your mental health’

Brogan Ingram, who posts as @nottheworstcleaner , cleans extreme messes. What she’s learned can help anyone keep a tidier home.

A woman touches one of the name stones after King Willem-Alexander officially unveiled a new monument in the heart of Amsterdam's historic Jewish Quarter on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, honoring the 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust. Designed by Polish-Jewish architect Daniel Libeskind, the memorial is made up of walls shaped to form four Hebrew letters spelling out a word that translates as "In Memory Of." The walls are built using bricks each of which is inscribed with the name of one of the 102,000 Jews, Roma and Sinti who were murdered in Nazi concentration camps during World War II or who died on their way to the camps. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Hunger, the other enemy in Europe on V-E Day

Famine emerged in the German occupied Netherlands during the Hunger Winter of 1944-45. Even though the fighting of World War II in Europe had ground to a halt by May 7, the campaign against hunger was accelerating.

WWII veteran Charles Shay, is pictured at his home Sunday, March 24, 2024 in Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse, Normandy. On D-Day, Charles Shay was a 19-year-old Native American army medic who was ready to give his life — and actually saved many. Now 99, he's spreading a message of peace with tireless dedication as he's about to take part in the 80th celebrations of the landings in Normandy that led to the liberation of France and Europe from Nazi Germany occupation. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Schaeffer)
On D-Day, 19-year-old medic Charles Shay was ready to give his life, and save as many as he could

Veteran Charles Shay, now 99, is spreading a message of peace with tireless dedication as he’s about to take part in the 80th anniversary commemorations of the landings in Normandy.

Staff Sgt. Jesus Martinez, a culinary specialist with Task Force 15 in North Macedonia, speaks to actors Jennifer Lopez, Sterling K. Brown and Simu Liu during a troop call organized by the USO on May 5, 2024.
J-Lo and ‘Atlas’ co-stars inspire soldiers with messages in USO video call
A historical reenactor in period American military dress waves to the crowd during Liberation Festival Pilsen's parade of military vehicles, called the Convoy of Liberty, on Sunday, May 5, 2024.
Thousands turn out in Czech city to honor American and Belgian liberators from World War II

The jubilance of World War II liberation returned for four days in the Czech Republic’s fourth-largest city, as residents unfurled American flags in celebration of Pilsen’s rescue from Nazi occupation 79 years ago.

FILE - In this photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry on March 19, 2024, a Russian tank fires at Ukrainian troops from a position near the border with Ukraine in Russia’s Belgorod region. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
Russia warns Britain and plans nuclear drills over the West’s possible deepening role in Ukraine

Russia plans to hold drills simulating the use of tactical nuclear weapons, the Defense Ministry announced Monday, days after the Kremlin reacted angrily to comments by senior Western officials about the war in Ukraine.

Tokyo, Japan, October 1960: A spectator at the Asakusa Theater looks up on stage where a female Japanese actor is in the middle of a Rakugo performance. A Rakugo performance - a type of comedic storytelling popular in the Edo-era (1603 - 1869) - features a single storyteller who performs all the voices of the characters in the story as well as the narration. The storyteller wears a traditional kimono, and kneels on the stage in front of the audience using only a folding fan and small hand towel as props. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ historic coverage? Subscribe to Stars and Stripes’ historic newspaper archive! We have digitized our 1948-1999 European and Pacific editions, as well as several of our WWII editions and made them available online through https://starsandstripes.newspaperarchive.com/ META TAGS: Pacific; Japan; Asakusa; yose comedy theater; Rakugo; Japanese culture; tourism
Rakugo performance in Tokyo, 1960

Tokyo, Japan, October 1960: A spectator at the Asakusa Theater looks up to the stage where a female Japanese actor is in the middle of a Rakugo performance.

Arsonists set cloverleaf speed camera on fire