NYC drivers devise clever ways to conceal license plate numbers as congestion toll takes effect

Calling it a “one-time courtesy,” the judge granted George Santos' request to push his sentencing -- but not by as much as the former New York representative requested.

The Knicks know how delicate a task it is to keep a team whole, and Karl-Anthony Towns' injury is just another reminder of that.

The gala for the National Board of Review was held on Tuesday.

Megyn Kelly sounded off on Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley and Mayor Karen Bass — charging that the officials’ preoccupation with diversity, equity and inclusion programs distracted them from the city’s fire-combating duties. “In recent years LA’s fire chief has made not filling the fire hydrants top priority, but diversity,” Kelly said in...

Williams admitted to authorities that she used the spicy snack to start the fire knowing it would combust due to its high grease content, according to court documents.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham calls out the Democrats' response to wildfires in California on "The Ingraham Angle."

Levi Strauss heir and nonprofit executive Daniel Lurie was sworn in Wednesday as the 46th mayor of San Francisco. He vowed a "new era of accountability, service and change."

The NFL announced its backup plan if SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles can't be used for the Rams-Vikings wild-card game Monday night as wildfires continue to rage.

Los Angeles remains in a state of emergency due to the deadly wildfires spreading across the county. CBS News correspondent Elisa Preston reports on the ground in Malibu.

FBI Houston says bottles of sulfuric acid were found inside a cooler at a Harris County storage facility rented by the Bourbon Street terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar.

MTA boss Janno Lieber is gaslighting New Yorkers, claiming that subway crime is in our heads.

Josh Hart’s relationship with the referees is a work in progress but headed in the right direction.  Leading the Knicks in techs this season by a wide margin — Hart had six before Wednesday — the forward said he reached out recently to an official to better understand the problem and how to fix it. ...

Actor James Woods broke down in tears, saying 'I'm sorry, I thought I would be stronger than this," as he talked about evacuating. "One day you're swimming in the pool and the next day it's all gone," he said.

The Fox News Health Newsletter brings you trending and important stories about health care, drug developments, mental health issues, real people's triumphs over medical struggles, and more.

After 100 years serving the local Jewish community, the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center was destroyed in the Eaton Fire. The congregation says it will rebuild.

“I’d be lying if I said I’m not embarrassed to share this very intimate information." — Brooke Shields

"I wish I could have gone back and got more," Montag said.

A photo gallery showing the devastation caused by the Pacific Palisades wildfire that has wreaked havoc across Los Angeles.

The actress previously said that she and the film producer were "going through the motions" of life together.

A wave of AI-powered gadgets, “smart home” devices and futuristic personal wearables wowed attendees at CES 2025 on Wednesday – and the impressive demonstrations suggest that many of them are more than just a passing fad.

The Justice Department is pushing for the release of special counsel Jack Smith's final report on the investigation into President-elect Donald Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. CBS News political reporter and attorney Katrina Kaufman reports. Then, CBS News political correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns has more on Trump's meeting with Republican Senators on Wednesday.

The rules ban credit agencies from including medical debts on consumers’ credit reports and prohibit lenders from considering medical information in assessing borrowers.

As thousands of acres burn across Southern California, wildfire smoke is causing poor air quality in the region and beyond.

Miles Soboroff and his wife were building a home in Pacific Palisades — but don't know its fate after making a quick evacuation Tuesday amid a devastating inferno.

Matt Rempe has been in this situation before.

A white Toyota Rav 4 can be seen on the dashcam footage ramming the back of the victim’s vehicle from behind, causing it to spin out of control into oncoming lanes.

Intense wildfires are devastating Los Angeles County, killing at least five people and destroying over 1,000 structures. CBS News' Kris Van Cleave reports. Then, Gregg Champion tells "The Daily Report" about miracles amid the fires, a Pasadena couple recounts losing their home and CBS News Sacramento meteorologist Ashley Nanfria has the latest wind predictions.

Karl-Anthony Towns’ knee injury is very common among basketball players and most often treated conservatively. But it can also be debilitating and lead to further damage or surgery.

Details of Jerod Mayo's brief stint as the New England Patriots head coach were revealed in a report just days after his abrupt firing.

The man suing CNN for defamation, Zachary Young, warned a CNN correspondent his story about him was inaccurate and he would "seek legal damages" if it was published.

David Wright was drafted by the Mets out of high school in 2001, made his MLB debut with them in 2004 and played the final game of his career wearing the same uniform in 2018.

David Wright believes the Mets in the World Series won’t be such a rare occurrence going forward, thanks to the spending prowess of owner Steve Cohen.

The water shortage was the result of years of mismanagement of LA's water system — including a federal indictment of a leader and high profile resignations — as well as major operational problems that drained reserves too quickly.

As they searched for refuge in hotels and shelters, panicked residents awaited the fate of their homes, many of which had burned to the ground overnight.

U.S. longshoremen reached a contract agreement with ports and shippers Wednesday, averting a potential strike that could have damaged the American economy

The Southern California wildfires have destroyed Will Rogers’ historic Los Angeles home in Will Rogers State Historic Park and buildings at Topanga State Park.

The two sides said the agreement protects union jobs and allows ports on the East and Gulf coasts to modernize with new technology.

Yesterday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would end fact-checking on its platform. In the process, a partnership with the network of third parties that has provided review and ratings of viral misinformation since 2016 will be terminated. To some observers, this news suggested that the company was abandoning the very idea of truth, and opening its gates to lies, perversions, and deception. But this is wrong: Those gates were never really closed.The idea that something called “fact-checking” could be (or could have been) reasonably applied to social-media posts, in aggregate, is absurd. Social-media posts can be wrong, of course, even dangerously so. And single claims from single posts can sometimes be adjudicated as being true or false. But the formulation of those distinctions and decisions is not fact-checking, per se.That’s because fact-checking is, specifically, a component part of doing journalism. It is a way of creating knowledge invented by one particular profession. I don’t mean that journalists have any special power to discern the truth of given statements. Naturally, people attempt to validate the facts they see, news-related or otherwise, all the time. But fact-checking, as a professional practice linked to the publication of news stories and nonfiction books, refers to something more—something that no social-media platform would ever try to do.[Read: This is how much fact-checking is worth to Facebook]Here at The Atlantic, every story we put out goes through a fact-checking process. That usually takes place after the story has been reported, written, and edited. Some of that process is pretty straightforward: A quote from a source might be verified against an interview recording or transcript; dates, locations, or statistics might be compared to the sources from which they were drawn.Other aspects of the process are more discursive. Is the writer’s sentence fairly paraphrasing someone’s statement? Does it—and the publication—mean to present that person’s statement as informative, dubious, or something else? Sometimes additional research, follow-up interviews, and internal negotiations will be required. In some cases, fact-checking has more to do with evaluation, judgment, and wordsmithing than getting any single line “right” or “wrong.” The process can be very strange. It’s often time-consuming.Outside of newsrooms, though, fact-checking has come to have a different meaning, and a smaller scope. It may describe the surface-level checks of claims made by politicians in live debates—or of assertions appearing in a dashed-off post on social media. Small-bore inspections like these can help reduce the spread of certain glaring fabrications, a potential benefit that is now excluded from Meta’s platforms by design. But that’s a whack-a-mole project, not a trust-building exercise that is woven into the conception, research, authorship, and publication of a piece of media.Fact-checking, in this broader sense, assumes its practitioners’ good-faith effort to find or construct truth, and then to participate in the interactive process of verification. When done seriously and deliberately, it imbues a published work with an ethos of care. Journalists retain detailed records of their reporting, annotate them, and submit them with the stories they file. They may be asked to provide additional support or to consider possible objections. The scope of each claim undergoes consideration. Scene-setting—writing that describes a situation or environment—will be subjected to the fact-check, too. “Even the bathroom wallpaper had a bovine theme,” I wrote about a filling-station bathroom in a profile of the children’s author Sandra Boynton, who puts lots of cows in her books. The fact-checker asked if I could prove it. Having anticipated the question, I had taken a photo in the filling-station restroom. Would we have printed the line had I not done so? That’s not the point. Rather, such evidentiary concern suffused the entire effort, not just the part where someone made sure I wasn’t lying.This process sometimes fails. It may be foiled by sloppiness or haste. But many posts on social media lack even the aspiration to be true. Some people posting may intend to mislead, coerce, or delude their audiences into believing, buying, or simply clicking. Others are less malicious, but still, as a rule, they are not engaged in journalism and do not necessarily share its values. That makes their content not lesser, but different in kind. On social media, people share their feelings, the things they saw, the images they made of the activities they performed (or pretended to perform). They comment, like, and share posts that spark delight or fear, and they may do so without too much concern for their effects on other people’s choices or opinions.As I’ve written before, giving everyone with a smartphone the ability to say anything they want, as often as they want, to billions of people, is a terrible idea. In the deluge that results, verification is impossible. Sure, one might take the time to affirm or reject the truth of a tiny subset of the claims posted to a platform, but even modest efforts run afoul of the fact that different people post for different reasons, with different goals.The effort Facebook attempted under the name fact-checking was doomed. You can’t nitpick every post from every random person, every hobby website, every brand, school, restaurant, militia lunatic, aunt, or dogwalker as if they were all the same. Along the way, Facebook’s effort also tarnished the idea that fact-checking could be something more. The platform’s mass deployment of surface-level checks gave the sense that sorting facts from falsehoods is not a subtle art but a simple and repeating task, one that can be algorithmically applied to any content. The profession of journalism, which has done a terrible job of explaining its work to the public, bears some responsibility for allowing—even encouraging—this false impression to circulate. But Facebook was the king of ersatz checking. Good riddance.

La máxima ganadora de los Globos de Oro se enfrenta a un camino complicado a las puertas del Oscar debido a su polémica representación de México

The Palisades Fire which has burned thousands of acres in Los Angeles has threatened several landmarks which many Americans have come to know from television and in movies. Tom Hanson reports.

Los Angeles Fire Capt. Erik Scott spoke to "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell Wednesday about how firefighters are faring in their battle against multiple wind-driven fires, which have caused major destruction across the region. Scott addressed some of the issues facing firefighters, including water shortages and erratic winds.

Mourners from as far away as Maine and California waited in the freezing cold for the chance to say goodbye to former President Carter.

Powerful Santa Ana winds, coupled with bone-dry conditions, created the perfect conditions for the wildfires that have scorched Los Angeles County this week. Downtown L.A. has received just over a quarter-inch of rain since May, its second-driest stretch in nearly 150 years. Rob Marciano explains.

Tony Dokoupil spoke with evacuees of the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles who are coming to grips with the destruction wreaked by the blaze, which has destroyed at least 1,000 structures.

With the explosion of fires across the L.A. area, tracking app Watch Duty, which has 7.2 million active users annually, told The Times it counted 600,000 new sign-ups in the last 24 hours.

The Palisades Fire burning in the once vibrant Los Angeles coastal enclave of Pacific Palisades has destroyed at least 1,000 structures and sent tens of thousands of residents fleeing for safety. Firefighters faced water shortages as they tried to battle huge flames. An estimated 15,000 homes were still at risk from the flames. Jonathan Vigliotti reports.

Los Angeles Fire Department captain Sheila Kelliher joined "The Story" to explain the difficulties facing firefighters as they work to extinguish the flames surrounding the city.

Now's the time for warming bowls of broths, bisques and chowders.