Owen Lavine

PETER NICHOLLSSen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) slammed Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the group of bipartisan congressional leaders who invited the embattled leader to address a joint-session of Congress, in a statement released by the senator on Saturday. “It is a very sad day for our country that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited—by leaders of both parties—to address a joint meeting of the United States Congress,” Sanders opened the letter. “I certainly will not attend.”Sanders lambasted the decision, referring to Netanyahu as a “war criminal” responsible for “clear and outrageous violations of international law.” Sanders similarly supported the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Netanyahu and other top Israeli and Hamas officials. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Joe Skipper/ReutersBoeing’s Starliner spacecraft was halted only four minutes before launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Saturday afternoon after technicians discovered a problem in part of the craft. The $1.4 billion craft, which was going to be Boeing’s first manned space flight to the International Space Station, ran into issues on Saturday after technicians discovered a helium leak in the capsule’s propulsion system, according to CBS News. This is the second time within 30 days that the flight was delayed, after technicians delayed a May 6 flight just two hours before takeoff due to an issue with a pressure valve. Read more at The Daily Beast.

YouTubeOn his way out of a press conference about the Israel-Hamas war on Friday, President Joe Biden simply offered a big grin when asked for his reaction to former President Donald Trump’s claim that Biden was behind his felony conviction for paying off a porn star. The Associated Press’s camera slowly zoomed onto the president as a wide grin enveloped his face, and then he walked off. In his opening remarks, however, Biden slammed Trump’s aspersions that the trial was politically motivated, calling the statements “reckless” and “irresponsible.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty ImagesActor Johnny Wactor, who starred in ABC’s General Hospital, heroically defended a friend and co-worker shortly before he was murdered in Downtown Los Angeles last weekend, the friend has revealed.Anita Joy, Wactor’s friend of eight years, relived the harrowing ordeal in an Instagram post on Wednesday, detailing how the two were walking back to their cars at 3 a.m. on May 25 when they spotted three men attempting to steal parts from Wactor’s car. Wactor approached the men, putting himself between the men and Joy, and told them to get away from his car. Read more at The Daily Beast.

GoFundMeActor Mamie Laverock, who has starred in Hallmark Channel series When Calls the Heart and This Means War fell five stories from a Canadian hospital balcony on Sunday, her family revealed. The actor, who plays Rosaleen Sullivan in When Calls the Heart, was admitted into a Winnipeg hospital on May 11 after an unspecified, life-threatening medical emergency. She was then moved to a hospital in Vancouver, according to a GoFundMe created by her parents Nicole and Rob Compton.On Tuesday, the family updated the page, informing fans and donors that Laverock had been in the intensive care unit for two weeks and was being “escorted out of a secure unit of the hospital and taken up to a balcony walkway” on May 26 when she suddenly sustained the fall.Read more at The Daily Beast.