Ex-Defense official Kash Patel emerges as a top contender for CIA director

The boy was blasted in the leg near NYCHA’s Stapleton Houses, police said. 

The rapper was arrested in August after police allegedly found four ecstasy pills on his person at Hollywood Casino & Hotel in Maryland Heights, Missouri.

Was Pharaoh Tutankhamun a “cast-off king”? Evidence shows that his shimmering golden death mask was made for someone else.

"It's upsetting. We keep building glass towers, so it keeps happening, which is really awful."

The school district placed the teacher on leave after a profanity-filled anti-Trump lecture he gave to his history students. Some students have pushed back.

Timothée Chalamet said Bob Dylan has "sort of retreated from the public eye" in recent years.

"A few days prior she referred to my husband as ‘evil’ and a ‘liar,’" the once and future first lady said.

Bad sisters. Good show.

Donald Trump's firm is making a comeback bid to run the Wollman ice skating rink in Central Park again -- just a week after winning back the presidency, The Post has learned.

New Yorkers wanting to bet on Iron Mike's return to the ring will have to get creative.

Colleen Jo Matarico, 43, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to five felony counts of lewd acts upon a child under age 14.

Republicans have won enough seats to keep control of the House of Representatives, ABC News projects, clinching a unified GOP government in Washington.

Red Hook is best known to today’s New Yorkers for the blue and yellow glow of its IKEA store, pulling in urban furniture shoppers from all five boroughs. But the hardscrabble dock area has played a pivotal part in Brooklyn’s history, as a place where goods – and, of course, contraband – first enter the...

Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. However, a new case in a British Columbia teenager has experts worried.

Nick Young took a trip down memory lane while recalling his infamous beef with D'Angelo Russell.

Bohm’s fifth year in the league was a microcosm of the Phillies' 131st season in franchise history.

Thousands of people were stranded at airports in Indonesia and Australia due to the eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano. media reports say.

No needles, no mess.

With inflation on the rise again, savers may have a small window of opportunity to lock in a high CD rate again.

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have discovered Bathydevius caudactylus, a new species of glowing sea slug that lives deep in the ocean.

The "Queen of Hallmark Christmas" Lacey Chabert joins "CBS Mornings Plus" to discuss her new holiday film "Hot Frosty" and "The Christmas Quest," which is her 15th Hallmark Christmas film.

Listen up, Desperadoes.

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce talked about the Denver Broncos having a White cornerback during a recent episode of his "New Heights" podcast.

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The total amount of credit card debt nationwide just keeps climbing. Here's how to get rid of your card debt now.

The Guardian says benefits of being on Elon Musk's social media platform X are outweighed by its "often disturbing content."

Swing States Reporter, Cameron Arcand, reflects on his experience covering the 2024 presidential election in Arizona where VP Kamala Harris and President-elect Donald Trump focused on issues like the border, inflation, and abortion rights. Some of Cameron’s most memorable moments include covering both Kamala Harris and JD Vance’s visits to the border, as well as...

Emilia Pérez features not just one but three of the year’s best performances.

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A new study has established a link between superstitious beliefs and a decreased ability to manage stress.

President-elect Donald Trump said last year he plans to block federal agency programs that support "gender-affirming" care, aiming to reduce availability of such services for minors nationwide.

"Brilliant Idiots" podcast co-hosts Andrew Schulz and Charlamagne tha God criticized pop star Taylor Swift for not having a major impact on the election with her Harris endorsement.

One move under consideration is doling out severance packages. Businesses do this all the time.

No need to wait until after Thanksgiving to shop major markdowns.

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Two senators are pushing a bipartisan bill, opposed by the "Squad," that would ban immigrants involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel; it is expected to pass.

Some Democrats worry the bill could give the incoming Trump administration broad new power to leverage the IRS against nonprofit organizations seen as political opponents.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — President-elect Donald Trump made unprecedented gains among Michigan’s Middle Eastern and Muslim population this year thanks to a months-long effort to woo voters disillusioned with the Biden-Harris administration’s foreign policy. The crown jewel of this endeavor might be Dearborn — America’s most Muslim city — where Trump won 43% of the vote...

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks to guests during a rally at Clinton Middle School on January 6, 2024, in Clinton, Iowa. | Scott Olson/Getty Images While campaigning, President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to dismantle the US Department of Education (DOE), on the basis that the federal education apparatus is “indoctrinating young people with inappropriate racial, sexual, and political material.”  “One thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, DC, and sending all education and education work it needs back to the states,” Trump said in a 2023 video outlining his education policy goals. “We want them to run the education of our children because they’ll do a much better job of it. You can’t do worse.” Closing the department wouldn’t be easy for Trump, but it isn’t impossible — and even if the Department of Education remains open, there are certainly ways Trump could radically change education in the United States. Here’s what’s possible. Can Trump actually close the DOE? Technically, yes.  However, “It would take an act of Congress to take it out,” Don Kettl, professor emeritus and former dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, told Vox. “It would take an act of Congress to radically restructure it. And so the question is whether or not there’d be appetite on the Hill for abolishing the department.”  That’s not such an easy prospect, even though the Republicans look set to take narrow control of the Senate and the House. That’s because abolishing the department “would require 60 votes unless the Republicans abolish the filibuster,” Jal Mehta, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, told Vox.  Without the filibuster rule, legislation would need a simple majority to pass, but senators have been hesitant to get rid of it in recent years. With the filibuster in place, Republicans would need some Democratic senators to join their efforts to kill the department. The likelihood of Democratic senators supporting such a move is almost nonexistent. That means the push to unwind the department is probably largely symbolic. And that is the best-case scenario, Jon Valant, director of the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy, told Vox. According to Valant, dismantling it would simultaneously damage the US education system while also failing to accomplish Trump’s stated goals.  Closing the department “would wreak havoc across the country,” Valant said. “It would cause terrible pain. It would cause terrible pain in parts of the country represented by congressional Republicans too.” Much of that pain would likely fall on the country’s most vulnerable students: poor students, students in rural areas, and students with disabilities. That’s because the department’s civil rights powers help it to support state education systems in providing specialized resources to those students. Furthermore, much of what Trump and MAGA activists claim the agency is responsible for, like teaching critical race theory and LGBTQ “ideology” isn’t actually the purview of the DOE; things like curriculum and teacher choice are already the domain of state departments of education. And only about 10 percent of federal public education funding flows to state boards of education, according to Valant. The rest comes primarily from tax sources, so states and local school districts are already controlling much of the funding structure of their specific public education systems. “I find it a little bewildering that the US Department of Education has become such a lightning rod here, in part because I don’t know how many people have any idea what the department actually does,” Valant said. Even without literally shutting the doors to the federal agency, there could be ways a Trump administration could hollow the DOE and do significant damage, Valant and Kettl said.  The administration could require the agency to cut the roles of agency employees, particularly those who ideologically disagree with the administration. It could also appoint officials with limited (or no) education expertise, hampering the day-to-day work of the department. Trump officials could also attempt changes to the department’s higher education practices. The department is one of several state and nongovernmental institutions involved in college accreditation, for example — and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) has threatened to weaponize the accreditation process against universities he believes to be too “woke.”  Finally, Trump could use the department’s leadership role to affect policy indirectly: “There’s power that comes from just communicating to states what you would like to see” being taught in schools, Valant said. “And there are a lot of state leaders around the country who seem ready to follow that lead.” Trump’s plans for the department will become clearer once the administration nominates a Secretary of Education. Once that person is confirmed, Kettl said, “They’re just gonna be off to the races on the issue again.”

A CIA official has been charged with leaking highly classified US documents about Israel’s potential plan to strike back against Iran over a missile attack. Asif W. Rahman, who worked overseas for the agency and held a top secret security clearance, was arrested by the FBI in Cambodia on Nov. 12 over the leaks, the...

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President Biden announced a new initiative to triple American nuclear energy from 2020 levels by increasing capacity to 200 gigawatts by 2050.

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