LeBron James dares to take on the NFL with bold Christmas Day declaration: ‘Our day’

Opinion columnists at The Hill called on Congress to block Trump from taking office on the basis of 14th Amendment disqualification when they convene next week.

Firefighters were battling a fire Thursday morning at a vacant four-story building in downtown L.A., according to authorities.

Murdering someone in cold blood is the most “toxic” form of masculine aggression imaginable … unless, apparently, it’s allegedly done in the name of being anti-corporate and anticapitalist.

The Coalition for the Homeless said the unidentified woman burned to death while sleeping on a Brooklyn subway train was homeless.

The elderly man with dementia was located in a field of thick brush off the side of a roadway about a quarter-mile from his home.

"It was really hard for both of my parents' parents that they were marrying each other," she confessed.

Tom Homan, the incoming border czar, on Thursday floated the idea of having the children of migrants in halfway homes as part of a mass deportation plan.

Brothers snowmobiling in Utah backcountry near Idaho on Christmas Eve triggered an avalanche that buried one in the snow, officials said.

A popular restaurant in California's Bay Area is shutting its doors after settling a costly discrimination lawsuit -- over its 'Ladies Night' promotion.

"It was a rite of passage to be whacked by Paulie Walnuts." — Chris Diamantopoulos.

Antonina Freycinet, 45, was crossing 111th Avenue near 158th Street — just outside her Jamaica home — around 9:30 p.m. when a motorist heading west on the same street rammed into her and drove off, authorities said.

Steve Davis has remained loyal to Musk for years, working across his companies and even sleeping overnight in the Twitter offices during Musk's acquisition in 2022.

A shocking series of murders stunned the rural California mountain town of Placerville in the 1980s. Authorities were under intense pressure to solve the cases, and for a while it seemed they did. But Times reporters Anita Chabria and Jessica Garrison spent more than a year reexamining the crimes and found troubling questions about both justice and the justice system.

A Florida man and career criminal was arrested for his 35th time right before Christmas, after stealing a car and attempting to escape authorities in a high-speed chase.

“I’m told you want to shoutout your family. Your husband and your son,” the host said to the contestant.

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here.“Dogs are so numerous in New York, indeed, that they have already become a nuisance,” the journalist Charles Dawson Shanly wrote in The Atlantic in 1872. He was annoyed by “all the barking … and there is a good deal of it.” Other New Yorkers feared that the dogs roaming the streets were “deleterious to health” (a reasonable concern, given the risk of rabies at the time). Eventually, Shanly wrote, anxieties escalated to the point that “weakminded people began to look upon Ponto’s kennel in the back yard as a very Pandora’s box of maladies too numerous and appalling to be contemplated without terror.”Some 150 years later, the city’s canine population is rabies free, and you’re unlikely to see any feral dogs running around. But New Yorkers haven’t stopped complaining. “I’m sorry, dog lovers. There are too many of you,” Chloë Sevigny told Rolling Stone in January. “Why Does Everyone Hate My Dog?” a writer for New York magazine wondered earlier this year.Dogs are everywhere in New York. They play, walk, and—controversially—poop in the same streets and parks that everyone else enjoys, just as they have for centuries. Today, they sometimes even eat in the same restaurants (whether they’re allowed to or not). Sharing public places with dogs might seem easy enough, but in a city so densely packed, space can feel zero sum. It’s perhaps inevitable that some wonder: Why do dogs get dominion over so much of it?Back in Shanly’s era, New Yorkers weren’t too concerned about pet dogs—but they were very worried about strays. Around the middle of the 19th century, officials devised a brutal method to deal with them: Police would round up unattended dogs, bring them to the newly created pound, and, if no one claimed them, drown whole packs at a time. “The lamentations set up by [the dogs] are pitiful to hear,” Shanly wrote after witnessing a drowning.To some, the violence was a necessary evil; humans and feral dogs truly couldn’t safely coexist. “It is better that such should be their end than that our worthy citizens should live in fear of a bite,” read an 1855 New York Times article. But as the drownings continued, early animal-rights activists protested, and by the end of the century, New York’s pound had been replaced by the beginnings of a shelter system (though for decades, those also killed most of the dogs they took in).With the stray-dog problem more under control, anti-canine attention shifted to pet dogs—specifically, to their excrement. The streets were filthy. Signs in the late 1930s encouraged owners to curb their dogs. The hope was that any waste on the curb would flow more easily to the gutter instead of dirtying the sidewalks.But the city still wasn’t clean enough. In the 1970s, a new movement emerged, pushing for laws that would require owners to clean up their dog’s poop, as the writer Kelly Conaboy reported in The Atlantic last year. Some people suspected that the movement’s leader, Fran Lee, hoped to ultimately ban dogs from the city entirely, though she denied the claim. (Lee’s anti-animal ire wasn’t limited to dogs. In 1974, she complained to The Atlantic about pigeon waste: “Pigeons are dirty, dirty, dirty animals,” she told a reporter, “and every single one of them should be taken away.”) The city never banned dogs, but a law requiring owners to pick up after their dogs passed in 1978.Today, scooping is the norm. A few skirmishes have broken out over violators (whom the Department of Sanitation pledged to crack down on in 2022, though enforcement remains minimal), but modern debates about dogs in the city are largely about more than where they go to the bathroom: Should dogs be able to play in parks alongside kids? What about if they’re unleashed, or if it’s a sports field specifically built for children? Do people really need to bring their pets with them everywhere?In some communities, dogs can feel like a bellwether of gentrification—both proof of the changes taking place in a neighborhood and another force drying up limited resources. They may not be the physical threat they once were, but in the absence of real danger, views have grown more polarized. The dog-loving faction has perhaps never been more devoted, seeing dogs as members of their family and pushing the limits of where their beloved pets can accompany them. Meanwhile, people on the other side are subject to just as much barking, shedding, and licking as ever, sometimes in places they weren’t before. The next frontier of the dog wars may be finding a way not just to coexist, but to do so happily.

Richard Perry, who produced Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain,' Rod Stewart's 'Great American Songbook' and Barbra Streisand's genre switch, dies at 82.

As many as one-third of people displaced by the August 2023 Maui fires wound up in the homes of friends and family in the weeks after the disaster.

He just won a state championship in high school and is immediately returning to the NFL.

Young Hollywood star Hudson Meek tragically died after falling off a moving vehicle. The "Baby Driver" actor was only 16 years old.

The "Desperate Housewives" alum shared sweet snaps via Instagram Thursday with her husband, José Bastón, and their 6-year-old son, Santiago.

Russia’s top security agency says it has arrested four Russians accused of making preparations to kill senior Defense Ministry officials on Ukraine's orders.

The two-time Pro Bowler could join a team for the rest of the season if he clears waivers.

New up-close images of the wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines flight JS-8243 show the doomed flight appears to have been struck by numerous fragments or other similar objects before crash-landing in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day.

Congressional Democrats are pushing for a massive overhaul to regulatory policy concerning Americans with disabilities.

Not everyone enjoyed Beyoncé's Christmas Day halftime performance.

The ideal CD deposit amount depends on your finances and goals.

The sadistic Guatemalan migrant who torched a woman to death on a Brooklyn F train in Coney Island last Sunday should be prosecuted on federal arson charges, Mayor Eric Adams said.

Fans of the Christmas classic expressed anger over Amazon's abridged version of the movie on its streaming service.

Between 25 million and 30 million real Christmas trees are sold in the US each year, according to the National Christmas Tree Association.

The A-lister is spending the holidays with her younger sister, niece and twins Emme and Max.

Living in the mountains of Johnson City, Tenn., Jerry and Sibrina Barrett were barely aware that Hurricane Helene made landfall and could reach them.

The baby hippo, who captivated the world this year, now has a big-bucks benefactor.

The suspect accused of slashings inside New York City's Grand Central subway station reportedly cried out upon seeing his mother in court.

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The packages still made it to their destinations on time, after an officer on a 2 a.m. patrol in Massachusetts spotted them and brought them to the police station.

Cooper's husband Matt Kaplan has been renovating the New England-style home so it will be "perfect" for her parents' move in 2025.

The Lost Children documents a desperate search, like trying to find a needle in a haystack made of needles.

Gov. Kathy Hochul put the brakes on the MTA’s plan to hike the price of the new Manhattan congestion toll by 25% on “gridlock alert” days after fierce backlash for the plan.

It's not yet clear how a plane traveling from Azerbaijan's capital of Baku crashed while trying to land in western Kazakhstan. This comes as questions emerge about Russia's involvement in the incident. CBS News' Chris Livesay reports.

"To ask him to face sentencing during the criminal trial of his wife, who is also in the midst of an ongoing battle against a life-threatening disease, is too much to ask of any man," his lawyer wrote.

If you need cash in the new year, a home equity loan may be your best bet.

There are early indications that a Russian anti-aircraft system may have struck the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, a U.S. official told ABC News.

The building on Bunker Hill Road NE caught fire and partially collapsed after the wreck.

Controversial Olympic boxing gold medalist Imane Khelif received four votes for AP Female Athlete of the Year and it left tennis great Martina Navratilova bewildered.

A remote Alaskan town that is so small, the entire population lives in one single building, has captivated the internet with its incredibly unique housing situation.

The odds of winning Friday's Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302 million, according to lottery organizers.

"How could they do this to my baby?" said distraught mom Donecia Davis. "You didn't have to do this to her."