Antelope Valley residents say community is 'dumping ground' for sex offenders. They want to stop that

There is a concerning development brewing in the Packers' wide receiver room.

A Realtor.com listing for the five-bedroom, seven-bathroom home shows it was sold on Oct. 2 for $3,340,000.

Israel expanded its bombardment in Lebanon, hitting Beirut’s southern suburbs with airstrikes and striking a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.

While her work has primarily been limited to commissions by fellow sports stars, she's offering fans the chance to win one of her personalized pieces.

Six-time All-Star Will Clark laments his frustrations with starting pitching, 'stat nerds' involvement in today's baseball during an appearance on OutKick's "The Ricky Cobb Show."

For one tortured fan, Jayden Daniels and these Commanders are making it okay to care again.

Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson explores how you can help troubleshoot a computer issue remotely on Windows or a Mac. There are a variety of options.

Dodgertown gets a new fan-friendly pizza joint. The ultimate English Premier League bar guide.

These chicken and eggplant parms give you the same vibe as the classics with various takes on cooking technique and flavor profile.

"After [Shelby] got through her anxiety of swapping bodies, she started to feel the empowerment," O'Grady recently told Decider. 

"I've had nightmares about this," Noel said, summing up the chaos nicely.

The Mets have a ton of familiarity going up against Wheeler since his move inside the division to Philadelphia.

Join bet365 Sportsbook today using the bet365 bonus code POSTNEWS to unlock either $200 in bonus bets or a $1,000 First Bet Safety Net offer.

New leases on large restaurants are propelling New York's real estate scene to new heights.

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Sources claim that Prince Harry is taking his "fall from grace" quite hard as he faces fading friendships but is attempting to repair his public image with numerous solo public appearances over the last few weeks.

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A Queens pol is demanding the state Department of Health revoke the medical license of NYC’s disgraced ex-COVID czar Dr. Jay Varma.

"We kind of shook our heads and said, 'How polarized are we that someone would do something this unhinged,'" one of the event's attendees said.

More than one beloved brand came in for its share of criticism on the piping hot list.

"I think he's got that one wrong, isn't that the one you're supposed to hit," Trump said.

In 1978, Christopher Reeve made the world believe in superheroes with his portrayal of Superman in the eponymous film. The star died in 2004, nearly a decade after suffering a tragic accident that re-shaped his life and his family's. Now, the documentary "Super/Man" shows us just how heroic Reeve was in real life. Michelle Miller has more. "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story" will be in theaters on Friday, October 11.

Jane Fonda is going door-to-door to help local candidates win their races.

Hollywood celeb photo agency Backgrid is suing Interview magazine for copyright infringement for posting a “valuable” exclusive photo of the popular musician Grimes on its Instagram page without permission in October 2021, a federal lawsuit says.

The L.A. County district attorney is reviewing the case involving the brothers, who were convicted of shooting their parents to death in their Beverly Hills home.

In Scotland, the river known as the Water of Leith cuts a path through Edinburgh's port, an area that dates back to the 12th century. That's where a young spirits company recently opened a distillery that's both turning heads and forging new traditions for Scotland's national drink.

Jane Fonda is no stranger to activism. During a career that has spanned seven decades, she has voiced her opinions on many issues, especially those related to climate change. Now, she's getting involved at the grassroots level and helping campaign for local political candidates.

Jones, a former upstate congressman, is currently locked in a tight race against GOP Rep. Mike Lawler in New York's 17th district

Edward Siedle, an ex-US Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer privately hired by worried educators, has just published a bombshell 113-page report titled, “Minnesota Mirage: Sleight of Hand.”

MIKE NELSONRosie O’Donnell says she believes her friend Lyle Menendez and his brother Erik may be out of prison in the next 30 days and revealed her plans to take him to Nobu for a celebratory dinner.On Thursday, Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor George Gascón said his office was reviewing new evidence in the case of Lyle and Erik Menendez, which could lead to a retrial or resentencing for the brothers who were convicted of the 1989 murder of their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez.The brothers were sentenced to life behind bars without the possibility of parole in 1996 but Gascón says a letter Erik wrote to his cousin Andy Rano months before the murder of his parents detailing the alleged sex abuse by his father as well as allegations made by former Menudo member Roy Rosselló that Jose Menendez drugged and raped him as a teenager in the 1980s needs to be assessed.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Shania Twain set sail in the latest episode of 'Doctor Odyssey!'

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Israel has sharply expanded its strikes on Lebanon in recent weeks after nearly a year of exchanging fire with the Iran-backed Hezbollah.

Jessica Alba was bashed by fans for posting an awkward video of Kamala Harris speaking to her about the power of Latina small businesses.

Vice President Harris is still insisting that employees of her 2024 presidential campaign be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus — even as most other institutions in American life have abandoned vaccine mandates.

A majority of likely voters nationwide are either very or somewhat concerned cheating will affect the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, a Rasmussen Reports survey found. The post Poll: Majority Very or Somewhat Concerned Cheating Will Affect 2024 Election appeared first on Breitbart.

President Joe Biden's Homeland Security chief is now refusing to send home the more than 500,000 foreign workers he has imported via a "humanitarian" parole program that was supposedly limited to two years.  The post Mayorkas Pretends to Cap ‘Parole’ Migration Before Election appeared first on Breitbart.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Warner BrosThis week:More Like Joker: Folie á Poo, Amiright?“Bad” is on a spectrum.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The United States is trapped in a cycle of disasters bigger than the ones our systems were built for. Before Hurricane Helene made landfall late last month, FEMA was already running short on funds; now, Alejandro Mayorkas, the Homeland Security secretary, told reporters on Wednesday, if another hurricane hits, it will run out altogether. At the same time, the Biden administration has announced that local expenses to fix hurricane damage in several of the worst-affected states will be completely reimbursed by the federal government.This mismatch, between catastrophes the government has budgeted for and the actual toll of overlapping or supersize disasters, keeps happening—after Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Maria, Hurricane Florence. Almost every year now, FEMA is hitting the same limits, Carlos Martín, who studies disaster mitigation and recovery for the Brookings Institution, told me. Disaster budgets are calculated to past events, but “that’s just not going to be adequate” as events grow more frequent and intense. Over time, the U.S. has been spending more and more money on disasters in an ad hoc way, outside its main disaster budget, according to Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia Climate School.Each time, the country manages to scrape by, finding more money to help people who need it. (And FEMA does have money for immediate Helene response.) But each time, when funds get too low, the agency winds up putting its other relief work on hold in favor of lifesaving measures, which can slow down recovery and leave places more vulnerable when the next storm hits. In theory, the U.S. could keep doing that, even as costs keep growing, until at some point, these fixes become either unsustainable or so normalized as to be de facto policy. But it’s a punishing cycle that leaves communities scrambling to react to ever more dramatic events, instead of getting ahead of them.The U.S. is facing a growing number of billion-dollar disasters, fueled both by climate change and by increased development in high-risk places. This one could cost up to $34 billion, Moody’s Analytics estimated. Plus, the country is simply declaring more disasters over time in part because of “shifting political expectations surrounding the federal role in relief and recovery,” according to an analysis by the Brookings Institution.Meanwhile, costs of these disasters are likely to balloon further because of gaps in insurance. In places such as California, Louisiana, and Florida, insurers are pulling out or raising premiums so high that people can’t afford them, because their business model cannot support the current risks posed by more frequent or intense disasters. So states and the federal government are already taking on greater risks as insurers of last resort. The National Flood Insurance Program, for instance, writes more than 95 percent of the residential flood policies in the United States, according to an estimate from the University of Pennsylvania. But the people who hold those policies are almost all along the coasts, in specially designated flood zones. Inland flooding such as Helene brought doesn’t necessarily conform to those hazard maps; less than 1 percent of the homeowners in Buncombe County, North Carolina, where the city of Asheville was badly hit, had flood insurance.For Helene-affected areas, after the immediate lifesaving operations are done, this is the question that most haunts Craig Fugate, the FEMA administrator under President Barack Obama: “How do you rebuild or provide housing for all those folks?” The Stafford Act, the legislation that governs U.S. disaster response, was written with the idea that most people will use insurance to cover their losses and was not built for this current reality of mass damage to essentially uninsured homes, he told me. “The insurance model is no longer working, and the FEMA programs are not designed to fill those gaps,” Fugate said.Fugate would like to see major investments in preparing homes and infrastructure to withstand disasters more gracefully. This is a common refrain among the people who look most closely at these problems: Earlier this week, another former FEMA administrator, Brock Long, told my colleague David A. Graham that the country should be rewarding communities for smarter land-use planning, implementing new building codes, and working with insurance companies “to properly insure their infrastructure.” They keep hitting this note for good reason. A study by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that every dollar of disaster preparedness saves communities $13 in damages, cleanup costs, and economic impacts. But since 2018, the government has set aside just 6 percent of the total of its post-disaster grant spending to go toward pre-disaster mitigation.That actually counts as a major increase in federal funding for resilience, Fugate told me, but it’s still nothing compared with the trillions of dollars needed to protect infrastructure from current risk. Disaster costs are only going to keep growing unless the country invests in rebuilding its infrastructure for the future. Martín put it to me like this: “If I were to have a heart attack, heaven forbid, and I survived it, I would say, Okay, I’m going to start eating better. I’m going to start exercising. I’m going to do all the things to make sure it doesn’t happen again.” The country keeps sustaining shocks to its system that won’t stop without work.But some of these measures, such as adopting stronger building codes, tend to be unpopular with the states that hold the authority to change them. “There is a sort of quiet tension between states and the federal government in terms of how to do this,” Schlegelmilch said. The way things work right now, states and local governments would likely end up shouldering more of the cost of preparing for disasters. But they know the federal government will help fund recovery.Plus, spending money on disaster recovery helps win elected officials votes in the next election. “The amount of funding you bring in has a very strong correlation to votes—how many you get, how many you lose,” Schlegelmilch said. But the same cannot be said for preparedness, which has virtually no correlation with votes. Nonprofits working on disasters face a similar problem. Schlegelmilch told me that some have websites that they keep dark, and then fill in “like a Mad Libs” when disasters inevitably hit. “Insert the disaster name here, insert a photo here, and then they’re up and ready to go, in terms of fundraising, because that’s when people give.” That is natural enough: People want to help people who are obviously in distress. It’s more abstract to imagine helping before any danger arrives, even if that would be more effective.None of these dynamics are going away, and Schlegelmilch thinks changing them could mean rethinking federal emergency management altogether, “the way we reimagined homeland security after 9/11,” he said. He counts as many as 90 disaster-assistance programs across as many as 20 different agencies; a reorganization into a central disaster department would at least streamline these. “I say this knowing full well that the creation of the Department of Homeland Security was a mess,” he told me. But, he added, “We have to get ahead of this with a greater investment in preparedness and resilience. And greater efficiency and coordination.”Fugate’s expectations are more pragmatic. “Have you ever seen a committee chairman in Congress willingly give up their program areas?” he asked. (Notably, even after DHS was created, its first secretary, Tom Ridge, had to navigate 88 congressional committees and subcommittees that took an interest in the department’s work.) He would like to see the U.S. establish a National Disaster Safety Board, similar to the National Transportation Safety Board—an organization funded by Congress, and separate from any executive agency—that would assess storm responses and make recommendations.But he isn’t sure the country has gone through enough yet to fundamentally change this cycle of expensive, painful recoveries. “Every time I think there’s some event where you go, Okay, we’re going to come to our senses, we seem to cope enough that we never get to that tipping point,” he said. Some catastrophic failures—Hurricane Katrina, for example—have changed disaster policy. But Americans have yet to change our collective mind about preparing for disaster adequately. People still can’t even agree about climate change, Fugate notes. “I mean, you keep thinking we’re going to get one of these storms, that we’re going to hit the tipping point and everybody’s going to go, Yeah, we got a problem.” So far, at least, we haven’t reached it yet.

Scott Biski, 50, was removed from Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences High School in 2022, but remained on the city payroll -- collecting $93,200 last fiscal year.

Marine biologists are taking a closer look after the remains of a young minke whale washed ashore in New Jersey Friday — less than 24 hours after another dead whale was found floating off Staten Island.

A private chef accused the staff at a Midtown steakhouse of a sweet betrayal the restaurant blasted as “completely false.” 

Supporters of former President Donald Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, ahead of his speech as the 45th president returns to the site where he was almost assassinated in July. The post Watch Live: Trump Supporters Rally in Butler, Pennsylvania appeared first on Breitbart.

“October is the month of painted leaves,” Thoreau wrote in 1862. “Their rich glow now flashes round the world.”

Five years after HBO's "Game of Thrones" came to an end, fans have a chance to call part of the hit fantasy series their own. Heritage Auctions opens bidding on more than 2,000 props and costumes from the show starting next week. Dana Jacobson has more.

A cousin of the Knicks owner is among the frontrunners to replace Sen. J.D. Vance in the senate should Vance be elected vice president in November.

A Manhattan woman is taking Amtrak to court over hot tea she says spilled on her legs and left her physically and emotionally scarred.

The age-old debate – and “friendly” banter between states – on whether Sydney or Melbourne is better just got a lot more complicated.