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It wasn’t a losing fight for the Yankees. Rather, it wasn’t a fight at all.

Pope Leo has appointed a new archbishop of New York who has first-hand experience of countries from where millions have emigrated to the United States, signaling the potential for a more outspoken approach from bishops on immigration.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced regulatory actions to defund hospitals providing gender transition procedures to minors under Trump's executive order.

The right-wing personality said he got a tip, which he then spread on a podcast, generating conspiracy theories.

The president “knows deep down” one damning thing, said the late night host.

Inflation unexpectedly slowed in November, a seemingly welcome change for Americans weighed down by the persistently high cost of living.

Rob Reiner and wife Michele were found dead in their bedroom as son Nick Reiner faces first-degree murder charges and appeared in court in a suicide vest.

The Justice Department tried to add a third felony charge related to mortgage fraud against Letitia James when attempting to reindict the New York attorney general last week, according to court documents.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has joined the ranks of organizations that are losing funding for grants that, federal officials say, don’t align with the Trump administration’s missions or priorities.

Jake Paul facing Anthony Joshua in a professional boxing match is a scenario that no one could have ever seen coming even five years ago.

The "Last Word" host debunked numerous claims Trump made during his speech to the nation Wednesday before inviting Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to react.

Reps. Keith Self and Chip Roy launch the 'Sharia Free America Caucus' to protect "Western civilization" and push legislation banning foreign nationals who adhere to Sharia.

The Brown University mass shooter remains at large as the manhunt enters its sixth day. Follow for live news updates.

Truth Social parent company Trump Media & Technology Group announced a deal on Thursday to merge with nuclear fusion company TAE Technologies.

The double homicide charges against Nick Reiner - who is suspected of killing parents Rob and Michele Reiner - carry a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole or the death penalty.

The cavalry is not coming to save the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium subsidies before they lapse at year’s end. And while the House is expected to vote in January on a Democratic proposal to extend them for three years, the effort faces significant hurdles in the Senate.

Lawmakers and financial analysts hailed Trump’s national address, predicting a “roaring" economy and widespread gains for American consumers as 2026 approaches.

Carnival Cruise drink packages limit guests to 15 alcoholic beverages per 24-hour period, with the cruise line reserving the right to refuse service for safety.

Cedric Lodge stole parts from cadavers including heads, faces, brains, skin and hands after they had been used for research and teaching purposes, prosecutors said.

This was the finest hour of Mike Brown’s young Knicks tenure. 

Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe compared a House bill targeting gender-affirming care for minors to Nazi policies in culture war debate.

"No one should be happy to see the president like this," the CNN medical analyst remarked.

Nuclear physicist Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro was found shot at his Massachusetts home Monday and died Tuesday, prompting a homicide investigation by authorities.

King Charles and the royal family prepare for potential fallout as ex-Prince Andrew's Jeffrey Epstein connections remain under public and media scrutiny.

Catholic organization opposes President Donald Trump's consideration of reclassifying marijuana as Schedule III drug, warning of gateway drug dangers.

Visiting US, prime minister calls for urgent move to second phase as winter storms worsen humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

"How can I even consider having another baby now?"

New international study shows reversing prediabetes through lifestyle changes and lower blood sugar reduces heart attack and heart failure risk by 58% over decades.

Parents who raised kids in the '90s are "surprised by how young boys are when they first encounter it," one mom said.

Wealthy amateurs are spending big money to compete in endurance events around the world.

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has donated nearly $1 billion to causes including healthcare, prison reform and combating antisemitism throughout his career.

The Department of Homeland Security’s newest airplane has a very familiar, very Trumpian look.

FBI Director Kash Patel praised Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino after Bongino's announcement that he plans to depart the federal law enforcement agency in January.

A study from Australia finds tea consumption may be linked to higher hip bone density in older women, while coffee raises concerns at very high intake levels.

In the desert of New Mexico, under wide open skies, hundreds of trainees gather to hear from Border Patrol chiefs as they join an agency with an expanded role and new policies under the Trump administration.

Two people died and nine were injured in a Brown University shooting, exposing gaps in Providence's new $1 million real time crime center that lacked campus surveillance.

The European Union is on the precipice of a momentous decision on whether to use frozen Russian assets to finance more support for Ukraine. Critics argue the plan is legally questionable and risks retaliation by Moscow.

The congresswoman reacted to a new poll with a blunt prediction about a hypothetical race against the vice president.

Data brokers sell personal shopping information to scammers who craft convincing fake refund messages during peak holiday purchasing periods.

The Trump administration says five new "Smart Wall" contracts will add miles of high-tech barriers, sensors and water defenses along the border in Texas and Arizona.

A UCLA Health study published in JAMA shows only FDA-approved cannabinoid medications demonstrate clear clinical benefits for specific medical conditions like seizures.

A Winter Olympics event in Italy is near the site of 20,000 dinosaur footprints, officials announced on Tuesday. The prints date back about 210 million years.

Many workers fear artificial intelligence is coming for their jobs, an idea bolstered by warnings from AI leaders and anecdotes from a recent Federal Reserve report.

The source of the competing hope and worry: a recent House special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District. The Democratic candidate lost by 9 points. But a year earlier, Republican Mark Green won by 22 points. (Green resigned his seat in July.)

Trump's National Security Strategy matches public demand for military modernization and China competition but conflicts with American support for allies.

The Chicago-based artist will draw from two vast photographic archives — including vintage images from Ebony and Jet — in his commission for the center, which will open late next spring.

Ben Sauls, come on down!

The top Republican's hot take went very awry.

Within weeks of retaking the White House, President Donald Trump boasted that he had “brought free speech back to America.” But since then, he has tested the limits of the First Amendment time and again.

Could Michael Porter Jr. go from salary dump to All-Star?

European leaders gathering to decide on using frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine for the next two years.

Rep. Jim McGovern stressed that Americans are "sick and tired" of the GOP's "empty rhetoric" on the issue.

So, the most recent team to beat the Giants pointed out vulnerabilities in Jaxson Dart in the days leading up to the game?

Several insults aimed at Trump's Democratic predecessors are now featured in his "Presidential Walk of Fame."

The Kids are coming to St. Louis.

The downpour has flooded the enclave's tent camps and collapsed buildings, killing at least a dozen Palestinians that include a two-week-old baby.

The House passed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to criminalize gender transition treatment for minors in a 216-211 vote, but the measure faces hurdles in the Senate.

Two members of the Mets starting rotation are set to represent the USA in the 2026 World Baseball Classic.

The winning numbers are out for the estimated $1.25 billion Powerball jackpot, the second-largest in 2025.

New attack brings death toll to nearly 100 from US strikes on vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean.

The "Late Night" host named the "weird" thing about the White House chief of staff's comments to Vanity Fair.

The Knicks won’t be raising a banner to the rafters at Madison Square Garden to commemorate their victory in the 2025 NBA Cup, and you can count your humble narrator among the faction that wishes they’d chosen differently. I’m not quite sure when it became mandatory to rinse as much fun out of sports as possible, but we’re sure trying.

President Donald Trump delivered a rare 20-minute primetime speech from the Oval Office on Wednesday night.

Trump's end-of-year address to the nation meandered across a few of his favorite topics, but viewers were left searching for any real point to the whole thing.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would be issuing checks to members of the United States military for $1,776 – in honor of the country’s founding – calling the payment the “Warrior Dividend.”

India aims to be an additional manufacturing hub for companies wanting to expand production beyond China.

Trump delivered a national address claiming the economy is recovering from 'brink of ruin,' and announced a new, $1,776 'Warrior Dividend' for troops.

House Democrats largely opposed a controversial bill criminalizing transgender medical treatment for minors, though it passed 216-211 with crossover votes.

Gil Gerard, who played the title character in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century," from 1979 to 1981, has died at 82 from aggressive cancer.

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at 91.

Vanity Fair journalist Chris Whipple says Trump's White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was more transparent than Biden administration officials in interviews.

If passed, the bill would punish doctors and parents who provide or consent to a minor receiving gender-affirming care.

Body camera footage shows the arrest of Debra Newton in Florida, ending a 40-year FBI parental kidnapping case that began when she vanished with her daughter in 1983.

The US military conducted a strike against another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, killing 4 people, according to US Southern Command.

Republican senator's ‘Where’s WALDO’ Act aims to hold government accountable after report finds nearly 800,000 federal bureaucrats drawing six-figure salaries.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins directed Minnesota to recertify SNAP recipients in four counties as part of a federal probe into a $1B welfare fraud scandal.

Viral video shows the aftermath of rain turning Hormuz Island crimson as mineral-rich soil mixes with rainwater in the Persian Gulf.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Wednesday that his US counterpart Donald Trump had revealed his true motives toward the South American country with his claim that that it had stolen US “oil, land and other assets.”

The FBI deputy director said he'll be leaving in January, and President Donald Trump speculated it's because Bongino would rather be doing his podcast.

Federal officials reveal Yisong Huang, an illegal immigrant who allegedly caused a fatal Tennessee pileup, obtained his commercial driver's license in New York.

It’s been a rough year for job seekers.

President Donald Trump nears historic 415 confirmed nominees as Senate Republicans advance 97 of his picks, teeing up a final confirmation vote on Thursday.

White House deputy chief of staff says US ‘created the oil industry in Venezuela’ as tensions intensify with Caracas.

Rob and Michele Reiner died from “multiple sharp force injuries,” according to new records from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner listing their cause of death.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, is making another effort at overturning her conviction for child sex trafficking and other crimes, with new court filings Wednesday claiming evidence has emerged showing that she did not receive a fair trial.

Congressional Democrats face 18% approval rating while Republicans get 35% in latest Quinnipiac survey as parties prepare for midterm elections.

The US government now admits failures by the pilots of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a controller in Reagan National Airport tower during the January 29 midair collision over the Potomac River that killed 67 people.

Minnesota dtate Rep. Kristin Robbins reveals millions in alleged fraud within the state's assisted living program during a Wednesday hearing.

Another disastrous start from Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa on Monday night seemingly opened up a lane for Miami backup Zach Wilson to earn another chance under center. 

Dana Bash reacted to White House criticism in real time while talking about bombshell behind-the-scenes revelations in a new Vanity Fair piece.

He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake. 

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said Wednesday that the regulatory review of Warner’s deal with Netflix has begun, even as Paramount mounts a hostile takeover bid.

Venezuela condemns President Donald Trump's blockade order as "warmongering threats" and files complaint with U.N. Security Council over oil tanker restrictions.

Federal appeals court backs Trump administration's National Guard deployment in Washington D.C., allowing troops to remain stationed through February.

Legislation reflects Democrats’ efforts to seek tighter oversight of Trump administration’s military action.

Brown University President Christina Paxson faces mounting criticism for her response to a deadly campus shooting as the manhunt enters its fifth day.

U.S. airports are slowly reintroducing guest passes for non-passengers after the Sept. 11 security changes restricted access to only ticketed travelers with boarding passes.

Director James Cameron criticizes Trump administration's environmental rollbacks and warns humanity is going backwards in interview about "Avatar: Fire and Ash."

The maybe-drunk "Espresso" singer's awareness perked up in an awkward bit with Meyers at the bar.