The Global Engagement Center, an office housed within the State Department and aiming to thwart disinformation and misinformation, has been forced by Congress to close up shop. It's no mystery why; the taxpayer-backed GEC violated its mandate to work only overseas and devolved into a partisan enabler of speech suppression in the United States. Here's how. ...
A federal appeals court has upheld the $5m verdict against Donald Trump for sexually abusing and defaming the magazine writer E Jean Carroll, dealing a legal setback to the president-elect. Read more
Linda Lavin, star of CBS' long-running sitcom "Alice" and a Tony winner for Neil Simon's play "Broadway Bound" who remained active in TV and on stage, died Sunday. She was 87. A representative for Lavin confirmed the actress died unexpectedly Sunday due to complications from lung cancer that had been recently discovered. As recently as Dec. 4, Lavin attended the premiere of Netflix's dark comedy series "No Good Deed" at the streamer's Tudum Theater in Hollywood. Lavin was also ready to co-star with Matt Bomer and Nathan Lane in the upcoming Hulu comedy "Mid-Century Modern," which is in the midst of filming its first season. The show hails from "Will & Grace" creators/executive producers David Kohan and Max Mutchnick and director-producer James Burrows for 20th Television.
Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the morning.
A former UnitedHealthcare claims representative says employees were systematically trained to deny medical claims and rush distressed customers off phone lines, revealing internal practices at the nation's largest health insurer amid growing scrutiny of the industry.
Two Oregon men were found dead in a Washington state forest after they failed to return from a trip to look for Sasquatch, authorities said Saturday. The 59-year-old and 37-year-old appear to have died from exposure, the Skamania County Sheriff's Office said via Facebook. The weather and the men's lack of preparedness led the office to draw that conclusion, it said.
Republicans made claims about illegal voting by noncitizens a centerpiece of their 2024 campaign messaging and plan to push legislation in the new Congress requiring voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship. Yet there's one place with a GOP supermajority where linking voting to citizenship appears to be a nonstarter: Kansas.
Consumers in the market for a second place to call home when they want to take a vacation may have some viable options to choose from. The vacation housing market has experienced changes in 2024 compared to last year that have made properties in specific areas more popular. Pacaso, a marketplace for luxury vacation homes for co-ownership, shared a new analysis for luxury vacation homes this year by ranking the top properties in the U.S. Data for the rankings were based on increases in second-home activity, the proportion of second homes to primary homes and demand for properties priced above $700,000.
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr, a naval officer, Nobel Peace Prize winner and peanut farm operator who became governor of Georgia and later the 39th president of the United States, has died.
Fox News host Howard Kurtz kicked off his Sunday Media Buzz program by highlighting "statutory rape" allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), President-elect Donald Trump's failed nominee for attorney general. In his opening monologue, Kurtz argued a House Ethics Committee report vindicated Gaetz's Republican opponents. "The Ethics Report found substantial evidence that Gaetz committed statutory rape by sleeping with a 17-year-old," the Fox News host noted. "The report says he generally paid $400 for young women to come to Washington or New York for sexual encounters, that he took such illegal drugs as cocaine and ecstasy, that he accepted improper gifts, that he violated federal and state laws."
Bidding farewell to your favorite navigation app could help reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease. That's according to a new study, which found taxi and ambulance drivers in the United States recorded the lowest percentage of deaths attributed to Alzheimer's across more than 400 jobs.
A Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news reporter after demanding to know whether he was a citizen, saying "This is Trump's America now," according to court documents.
An investigation was underway in Kentucky following a fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred on Monday. The incident took place at a home in Laurel County, where police mistakenly went to the wrong address while attempting to serve a search warrant. Douglas Harless, 63, was shot and killed by a London police officer on Vanzant Road, according to Kentucky State Police. Initial reports did not clarify whether Harless was armed, but three days after the shooting, London police stated that Harless "produced a firearm and pointed it at officers." During the encounter, an officer from the London Police Department shot Harless. Dispatch audio obtained by reporters revealed that police were attempting to serve a search warrant at 489 Vanzant Road, not 511 Vanzant Road, where the shooting occurred.
Elon Musk's war on MAGA has gone nuclear after the billionaire CEO blasted a social media user's comments about H-1B visas Friday, and former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon called him a "toddler" for his response. Musk liked a post that asserted Americans are too "retarded" to fill the country's tech workforce and supported the idea that top roles should be taken up by "better educated" people from overseas. A mere six minutes later, the Department of Government Efficiency co-head hit back at the commentator: "The reason I'm in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B." He added, "Take a big step back and F--- YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend."
Turkish defense and aerospace company Baykar on Friday bought troubled Italian plane maker Piaggio Aero. The Italian company, which designs, builds and supports aircraft and aeronautical engines, has been in extraordinary administration since December 2018.
Israel continues to display that children are terrorists who rely on their tiny stature to gain sympathy.
