The animated series, "Win or Lose," centers around a group of kids on a softball team as they prepare for their championship game. Disney has decided to remove a transgender storyline from its new Pixar show "Win or Lose." The upcoming series, set to be released on Feb. 19, follows a group of kids on a softball team as they prepare for their championship game. Each episode centers around a different character, showcasing their personalities, helicopter parents and more. Ahead of the show's debut, a Disney spokesperson confirmed the removal of the transgender storyline. "When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline," the spokesperson said on Dec. 17.
Former President Clinton,78, was hospitalized in Washington, D.C., this afternoon, his spokesperson said in a statement. Clinton was admitted for "testing and observation after developing a fever," Angel Urea, his deputy chief of staff, said on X.
Mass graves uncovered in Syria in the days since President Bashar al-Assad was overthrown are exposing evidence of some of the worst abuses since the Nazis, a top international war crimes prosecutor said. More than 100,000 people were tortured and killed in the state-run "machinery of death," Stephen Rapp, former U.S. war crimes ambassador at large, told Reuters on Tuesday after visiting two mass grave sites in the towns of Qutayfah and Najha near Damascus. "We really haven't seen anything quite like this since the Nazis," Rapp said of the evidence emerging from the mass graves. "From the secret police who disappeared people from their streets and homes, to the jailers and interrogators who starved and tortured them to death, to the truck drivers and bulldozer drivers who hid their bodies, thousands of people were working in this system of killing," he said.
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said in an interview that aired Sunday that President-elect Trump "takes his Christian faith seriously." "I've had talks with him before in the past where he's pretty blunt about, you know, he can't say that he was raised as a, as a very zealous Christian, but he takes his Christian faith seriously," Dolan told host Maria Bartiromo on Fox News's "Sunday Morning Futures."
Krishnan has a close relationship with billionaire Elon Musk, with whom he worked to rebuild Twitter (now X) following Musk's acquisition of the company in 2022. Musk co-leads the Department of Government Efficiency, a policy group to recommend government restructuring and cuts to federal spending.
The Parker Solar Probe will zoom by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface during humanity's closest approach to a star. The uncrewed spacecraft will fly at 430,000 miles per hour (692,000 kilometers per hour), which is fast enough to reach Tokyo from Washington, DC, in under a minute, according to NASA. The speedy flyby will make the probe the fastest human-made object in history, the agency shared December 16 during a NASA Science Live presentation on YouTube.
President-elect Trump again floated buying Greenland as he named PayPal co-founder Ken Howery as his pick for U.S. ambassador to Denmark on Sunday. The big picture: Trump said during his first administration that he was looking into the U.S. buying Greenland and canceled a state trip to Denmark after Danish officials said the world's largest island that's not a continent was not for sale. Read more
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A research team has developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that could power next-generation wearable devices using body heat, eliminating the need for batteries.
No, this isn't the return of Marvel's Iron Man; Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has announced plans to build the world's first grid-scale fusion power plant near Richmond, Virginia.
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday resurrected his first-term infatuation with obtaining Greenland for the United States. Trump slipped the idea into an evening news release announcing PayPay co-founder Ken Howery as his pick for ambassador to Denmark. Greenland is an autonomous Danish territory. "For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity," Trump said in the release.
Gov. Kathy Hochul met with transit riders and saluted safety patrol during a morning commute Thursday, a day after she decided to deploy 250 additional National Guard personnel to reinforce security measures in the subway system and reduce crime. The city pol hopped on the M train at the Lexington Avenue-53rd Street station in Midtown, and headed east to Queens " greeting National Guard and police officers on duty, and chatting with riders along the way. New York Metro was invited along the trip with the governor and had the opportunity to speak with her about subway safety. Building on a pilot program that began last March, which saw the placement of 1,000 National Guard members, state police, and MTA Police across the subway to stop an early crime spike, Hochul believes that bolstering the presence of these forces is vital for maintaining public safety.
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President-elect Donald Trump's team is assessing multiple options to fulfill his long-promised pledge to end birthright citizenship, according to two sources familiar with the discussions, teeing up a legal fight with the expectation that the Supreme Court would ultimately have to rule on the matter. Trump has railed against birthright citizenship, which is protected by the 14th Amendment, for years and suggested he'd use executive action to ban it. Read more
A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies like Home Depot and Wayfair. It didn't matter that Jake Jones once had escaped or that he had failed two drug and alcohol tests while in lockup -- he was unsupervised and technically in charge.
After more than a month of sightings across multiple states, lawmakers and the general public are no closer to finding out what the mysterious drones are spotted in New Jersey and a handful of other states. An unexplained large number of drones began flying over sensitive military sites in New Jersey in mid-November, and while the White House and the Pentagon insist they don't pose a threat, lawmakers are demanding answers.
