GOP wins control of House — giving party all three branches under Trump

Karlia Sofia Gascon is extraordinary in the title role.

Will Senate Republicans get in the way?

The man is still hospitalized with a brain bleed. A community leader says its the latest instance of police mistreating Vietnamese Americans in Oklahoma.

Lich Vu has been in the hospital since the Oct. 27 incident that left him with a brain bleed and a broken neck. The altercation with the police officer involved a dispute over a traffic ticket.

An influencer living in Bali has been shamed for complaining on social media that her flight to Australia had been canceled and she needed to get back for a hen’s party on the weekend.

The diplomatic dustup comes amid threats from President-elect Donald Trump to impose tariffs, deploy U.S. troops to go after cartels and conduct mass deportations.

A former military combat instructor says a fellow Marine veteran misused a combat move when he fatally choked a homeless man on the New York subway.

A right royal cry.

Credit card interest rates stand near a record high.

Actor Josh Brolin admitted he will sleep with nicotine pouches in his mouth and once had seven cavities due to using nicotine lozenges too often.

The number of daily Hezbollah rocket strikes against Israel have fallen by nearly half as officials say they are as close as they'll ever be to reaching a cease-fire deal in Lebanon.

Hosts at rival Chicago sports talk radio stations have a very difference sense of what's going on at Halas Hall.

If you’re gonna be a diva, you better be a diplomat too. Vocal powerhouses Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande made a “pact” before filming the “Wicked” movie to prevent any drama between them. Page Six Senior Reporter Carlos Greer is revealing why they made this agreement. Subscribe to our YouTube for the latest on all your favorite...

John Tesh is reportedly complicating negotiations with NBC to bring back his famous theme song "Roundball Rock" when the NBA's new media rights deals begin in the 2025-26 season.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute used underwater technology for two decades to gather more information on a mysterious sea slug.

A breast cancer vaccine could be closer to reality, according to Cleveland Clinic, as its researchers have announced some encouraging results. Researchers and doctors weigh in.

Berkshire Hathaway also owned 404,000 shares of Pool, a distributor of swimming pool supplies.

President-elect Trump nominated the former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton, to serve as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Martha Stewart has made several public complaints about her Netflix documentary, 'Martha,' and wanting a second chance to tell her story fully.

LGBTQ rights supporters gather at the Texas state Capitol to protest state Republican-led efforts to pass legislation that would restrict the participation of transgender student athletes on the first day of the 87th Legislature’s third special session on September 20, 2021 in Austin, Texas. | Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have made clear — including through stated policy positions and chosen campaign surrogates — that his administration intends to bar trans athletes from playing on school sports teams that match their gender identity.  “The president bans it,” Trump said at a Fox News event in Georgia last month. “You just don’t let it happen. Not a big deal.” Trump and other Republicans have primarily threatened the participation of trans girls in K-12 sports programs, though college athletes wouldn’t be immune from any action Trump decides to take.  Trump’s threats raise the question: Could he challenge trans athletes’ right to compete in school sports? How would Trump enact such a ban? The short answer is yes. Trump could strip away civil rights and nondiscrimination protections enumerated under the Biden administration, which specifically apply to trans students. The executive branch has a lot of control over what counts as discrimination in education, thanks to Title IX, a civil rights law originally meant to advance women’s equality. The Biden administration took the position that the law’s protections against discrimination “on the basis of sex” mean that discrimination against trans students on the basis of their trans identity qualifies as sex discrimination.  That interpretation of the law faced legal challenges and has been rejected by about half of the states. The Trump administration can — and likely will — simply take the stance that Title IX offers no protections to trans students.  The Trump administration’s interpretation of Title IX could go even further by arguing that “​​it is discriminatory against girls to have trans athletes participating in girls’ sports,” according to Jon Valant, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.  There could be new legal battles over Title IX if Democratic governors and attorneys general moved to stop the new interpretation — essentially the reverse of the current Title IX landscape. Ultimately, the administration could go through Congress and try to rewrite Title IX, explicitly stating those positions rather than merely interpreting the current law that way, Valant said. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) already proposed a law in July undoing the Biden-era regulations. Trump has also said he will ask Congress to pass a bill stating that only two genders exist.  Republicans will hold narrow majorities in both the House and the Senate. It’s possible that such a bill could pass, though it would likely face some difficulty in the Senate, where Republicans lack a filibuster-proof majority.  Outside of federal action, some states like Florida already have bans against transgender students participating in school sports. Under that law, only people assigned female at birth can play on girls’ sports teams.  These kinds of laws could be stepping stones in dismantling trans people’s right to nondiscrimination in schools and the workplace, as well as their ability to access health care, Gillian Branstetter, communications strategist at the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project and LGBTQ & HIV Project, told Vox.  “I can’t think of a single state or politician that has adopted this issue that has decided that they’re just going to narrowly focus on the rights of transgender athletes,” Branstetter said. “They have, using the exact same legal arguments, using the exact same legislative language, and usually using the exact same lawyers, also used these [tactics] to ban gender-affirming health care, to restrict what bathrooms trans people can use, and a long litany of other restrictions.”

Let’s call a crank a crank.

Sweetgreen is testing fries ahead of a nationwide rollout as the company looks to broaden its appeal beyond salad-seekers.

The "Real Housewives of New York City" alum first sued Cohen and Bravo earlier this year, claiming her substance abuse issues were exploited for ratings.

Brad Pitt's legal claims against Angelina Jolie can be brought to trial, a judge ruled. The "Fight Club" star sued Jolie in 2022 over her sale of Château Miraval.

President-elect Trump tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Florida congressman lacks the character, record or ability to lead the Justice Department, confirming the president-elect's intent to dismantle the rule of law.

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is planning to kill the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation.

The TikTok star revealed on her podcast that she was moving to LA because she found that Miami wasn't "a great hub" for the influencer industry.

It’s a quiet night Thursday in the Association, as there’s just one game on the card with the Dallas Mavericks visiting the Jazz.

The sprawling limited series stars Virginia Madsen, John C. McGinley, Dennis Haysbert, Loretta Devine, Rachelle Lefevre and Lucille Soong.

A severe drought watch with no rain in sight has gripped the Northeastern U.S., creating “unprecedented” conditions for fire, say experts.

Vance will be Trump's "eyes and ears" in the Senate, a source said.

The film begins streaming on Netflix on Jan. 17.

About a half inch should fall locally. A bit more is possible southwest.

Rep. Matt Gaetz was accused of having sex with a teenager in the House Ethics Committee's probe.

Joe Biden's "environmental justice" mandate was a Trojan horse designed to smuggle unpopular progressive social goals into broadly supported environmental programs.

Lisa Guarino claimed the TV personality expressed how "grateful" she was to have a friend like her in prison and vowed to give her $1 million when she was released.

The Biden administration is facing backlash after it was revealed that a top official would be participating in a forum hosted by a group with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Democratic senators are fast-tracking Biden's judicial nominations before President-elect Trump takes office in January and after several of his nominees have come under fire.

Former NBA player Desmond Mason was arrested in Oklahoma on Wednesday, according to a report from TMZ Sports. 

“It essentially leaves us powerless when we're talking about adding initiatives that people actually care about on the ballot."

The hundred or so mostly limestone pebbles were unearthed at the Nahal-Ein Gev II dig site in Israel.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul says he was briefly detained after becoming "disoriented" from mixing Ambien and alcohol before a flight earlier this month, calling his actions "a poor decision."

Security officials rushed to stop the fighting.

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. If confirmed, Kennedy would be in charge of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Food and Drug Administration. CBS News political reporter Olivia Rinaldi has more.

Andrew Tate’s soaring popularity with young men is a reaction to the “feminization” of culture, according to 28-year-old political commentator and author Coleman Hughes.

Not long before President Donald Trump, in his first term, issued his so-called “travel ban” on 13 countries, Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove a Honda Civic into a crowd of fellow Ohio State University students.

Spot the difference: “The former president falsely accused the Biden administration of . . . neglecting [hurricane victims in] areas that had voted for Republicans.” — The New York Times, Oct. 4 vs. “FEMA Fires Employee for Telling Milton Relief Workers to Skip Houses With Trump Signs” – The New York Times, Saturday We say:...