Paul Burrell was a footman to Queen Elizabeth II from 1976 to 1987, and then an eyewitness to the marriage of Prince Charles, who is now King Charles III, and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, who is now beatified as a human sacrifice to the House of Windsor. The Royal Insider is a cattily camp, tittle-tattling tell-all in the finest traditions of royal biography. It is also an autobiography, self-serving in its shameless autotherapy. Serious scholars of Windsor whispering may be tempted to skim the story of Burrell’s lonely childhood and troublesome prostate, the faster to gorge on his generous dollops of behind-the-scenes gossip. That would be a mistake. The Royal Insider is a study in the psychology of service.

Since its inception as an academic discipline, criminology has concerned itself first and foremost with the question of why people commit crime. Beginning with their earliest research, criminologists gathered extensive data on large groups of people to try to disentangle which variables predicted offending. With sufficiently large samples and adequate measurements, these criminologists thought, they could determine why some people commit lots of crime, while others commit none at all.

Ever wonder what the six teeth on all Venetian gondolas signify? (The six districts of Venice.) Or why and how chicken wing flats are stripped out to form a "meat umbrella" during competitive eating contests? (Much easier to consumer them faster.) Or why some movie stars are credited as "with" or "and"? (They indicate a major star playing a small but significant role.) Or where the "V for Victory" originated? (Occupied Belgium in 1941, as a warning to the Nazis.) Then Ben Schott's Significa is just the book for you.

Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei was killed Saturday during joint U.S.-Israeli military operations across the Islamic Republic, ending his 36-year reign as the country's bloodthirsty theocratic dictator, President Donald Trump confirmed Saturday afternoon.

President Donald Trump on Saturday sounded a confident note about the U.S.-Israeli barrage of airstrikes against the Iranian regime in a phone call with the Washington Free Beacon.

Trump said he was feeling "fine" after the opening round of attacks on the regime and told the Free Beacon that the operation against the Islamic Republic was "going very well." The conversation marked his first reported statement on the status of the ongoing "Operation Epic Fury" since his remarks soon after the United States and Israel launched a sweeping aerial campaign aimed at toppling the hardline regime and destroying its military capabilities.

The United States and Israel launched a sweeping attack on the Iranian regime early Saturday morning, targeting senior Islamic Republic officials in a wide-scale operation aimed at toppling the hardline regime and destroying its military capabilities.

In Tehran, the U.S. attack on the regime, dubbed "Operation Epic Fury," was met with cheers and dancing from civilians who were overjoyed at the sight of a strike on the home of an Iranian regime official. "I love Trump," they chanted. In Washington, D.C., left-wing pundits expressed dismay and called for President Donald Trump's impeachment.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas—President Donald Trump declared that the United States is "witnessing a historic American energy boom like we've never seen" during a speech he delivered from a Southern Texas oil and gas port on Friday afternoon. "This port is right at the center of the action," he said.

Paramount is closer than ever to acquiring CNN parent company Warner Bros. after Netflix declined to raise its bid for the media conglomerate. That's bad news for the failing network's stable of overpaid hacks, many of whom will be first in line for layoffs (or drastic salary reductions) once the acquisition goes through. Not surprisingly, the Trump administration has already signaled its support for the move.

ROCK HILL, S.C.—Gavin Newsom, who is definitely running for president, is probably—inscrutably, appallingly—the early favorite to win the Democratic nomination in 2028. On a Monday night in South Carolina, several hundred angsty boomers have turned out to hear the greased-up California governor talk about his favorite subject: himself. The early primary state is one of the first stops on Newsom's book tour for Young Man in a Hurry, his recently published "memoir of discovery."

NEW YORK CITY—Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D.) highly touted "Rental Ripoff Hearing" went off the rails on Thursday as public housing advocates, who said City Hall was ignoring them, caused a scene outside the Brooklyn high school where the hearing took place.

Failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has joined the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) in backing Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas) for U.S. Senate.

In a robocall released Friday, Harris implored Texas voters to send "a fighter like Jasmine Crockett" to the Senate.