Suffolk County DA Ray Tierney touts work on fentanyl crisis, Gilgo Beach murders as he announces reelection campaign

Former Democratic Rep. Susan Wild admitted on Wednesday that she had real concerns about President Biden's speaking abilities and said that the presidential race was "unwinnable."

Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has indicated that he is mulling the possibility of mounting a Florida gubernatorial bid.

One of three wealthy brothers accused of drugging and raping dozens of women in multiple states reportedly missed his court hearing on Tuesday after a mix-up in the case.

Two Americans have been arrested in Venezuela, with President Nicolas Maduro claiming the charges relate to an intent to "practice terrorism against the Venezuelan people."

The funding will provide federal reimbursements for up to 75% of “eligible firefighting costs" incurred as California seeks to shore up its firefighting force and put out the wildfire.

In the past year, we have seen radical Islamist sympathizers marching on college campuses and through the streets of our nation’s cities spewing antisemitic hate speech.

Tom Brady's relationship with Bill Belichick hasn't soured, after all.

Tennis star Naomi Osaka and her rapper boyfriend Cordae have split, she announced on Monday. The two have been together for nearly six years and have a daughter together.

For many Jewish high school students, the increase in antisemitism has created a desire for connection and community, and has also impacted students’ college choices.

Jackson's Catfish Corner, Bel Gatto, The Jilted Siren, Plum Bistro and Rapport wine bar have shuttered in recent days, according to Seattle outlets.

Cracker Barrel has rolled out several new menu items for 2025, including Nashville hot chicken tenders, a new chicken sandwich and a chicken and dumplings soup.

The FBI and Las Vegas police said Tesla Cybertruck explosion subject Matthew Livelsberger plotted with ChatGPT and emailed podcasted Shawn Ryan.

Well, it depends on who you ask.

President-elect Donald Trump made clear again this week that he’d like the semiautonomous territory of Denmark to come under U.S. control.

President-elect Donald Trump slammed California Gov. Gavin Newsom for the wildfires raging in California, pinning blame for the fire on his environmental policies.

Nicole Kidman referenced the infamous milk scene in "Babygirl" at the 2025 National Board of Review Awards Gala.

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“It Ends With Us” director and star Justin Baldoni is now seemingly in a public tiff with Blake Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds. 

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The coach is fed up.

Kansas City Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce vehemently denied that the Chiefs lost to the Broncos on purpose to keep the Bengals out of the playoffs.

California restaurants have no choice but to continue buying eggs en masse for their breakfast omelettes and baked goods despite soaring prices – sending their bottom line under.

Ben Affleck reportedly fled his $20 million bachelor pad because of the Palisades Fire.

The Justice Department says it will release special counsel Jack Smith’s findings on Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election but will keep the rest of the report under wraps for now.

Annie Harvilicz runs two veterinary hospitals and is taking in animals that have been displaced by the fires raging around Los Angeles.

Extreme winds from the north and northeast will continue to blow into the Los Angeles region through Wednesday morning, bringing gusts of up to 80 mph.

Olivia Culpo, the wife of San Francisco 49ers star Christian McCaffrey, posted on social media early Wednesday thanking the "heroes" battling the wildfires raging through southern California.

Legendary NFL head coach Tony Dungy maintained on Wednesday that "fatherlessness is a national problem" after receiving criticism two years ago for remarks about it.

Gov. Gavin Newsom cancelled his trip to Washington D.C. to attend the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter after wildfires broke out across Los Angeles County.

Tanner Charles and Orly Israel tried to save Israel's home from the Palisades fire on Tuesday morning, but gave up as the backyard fence caught on fire.

The nominations for the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced. The SAG Awards will be held Feb. 23 and streamed live on Netflix.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis offered to assist California as it copes with at least four wildfires ripping through neighborhoods in Los Angeles County.

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Prosecutors in Mexico say that authorities are offering famed regional singer Natanael Cano and other artists state protection.

The CFP semifinal goes down at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium on Jan. 9.

A medical student from Melbourne who was missing in a remote Australian mountain range for two weeks survived on two muesli bars, foraged berries and creek water, police said.

The "Good Will Hunting" star, who shares three kids with the "Alias" alum, was photographed driving to Garner's home with his arm hanging out of the window.

The cause of the deaths is "unknown at this time."

Sunny, who is a co-host on The View, has yet to address the allegations against her husband.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the principle of inviolability of borders applies to every country, however powerful.

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A dos días de la toma de posesión en Venezuela, el líder opositor venezolano Edmundo González está en Panamá en la cuarta escala de una gira hemisférica con la que pretende sumar respaldo a su alegada victoria electoral, mientras Nicolás Maduro perdió un respaldo clave en la región luego de que el presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro anunciara que no asistirá a la posesión presidencial tras el arresto de un defensor de derechos humanos.

When all the votes in November’s race for North Carolina’s state supreme court were counted, the incumbent, Allison Riggs, had won more. The question is whether that will be enough for her to take office.The race began as a heated yet normal battle over political control for a key judgeship. But the challenger, Jefferson Griffin, is asking the state’s courts to throw out about 60,000 ballots and hand him victory. This has transformed the contest into something more fundamental: a test of democracy’s basic mechanics. Now it’s up to the state’s Republican-led supreme court to decide whether to side with voters or with a fellow Republican judge.Yesterday, the court issued an order staying the certification of Riggs’s election while it considers Griffin’s petition. (Riggs, a Democrat, recused herself; the court’s other Democrat dissented.) Certification had been scheduled for Friday.Riggs didn’t win the election by much: She garnered just a few hundred votes more than Griffin, who sits on the state’s court of appeals. The race was a major focus for both parties; in 2022, the GOP gained control of the state supreme court, which has been involved in many high-profile political decisions. On Election Night, Riggs trailed by thousands of votes, but as absentee and provisional ballots were counted, she ended up with a lead of 625 votes of the more than 5.5 million cast.[Read: We’re entering an era of ‘total politics’]Griffin requested a machine recount, in which ballots are run through tabulators once more. That process actually expanded Riggs’s lead to 734 votes. Griffin then requested a second recount, in which officials take a random sample of ballots and examine them by hand, comparing their tally to the machine count. If clear discrepancies appear, a candidate can request a full, statewide hand recount; the state board of elections concluded no such evidence existed.By this point, Republican attempts to keep contesting the race had started to appear desperate. In 2020, when sitting Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, a Democrat, requested recounts in a race she lost by 401 votes, Republicans ridiculed her as a sore loser wasting her dignity and everyone else’s time. (Beasley eventually conceded.) Yet now Griffin was going further. He filed a request with the state board to throw out some 60,000 votes, arguing the voters were not properly registered.The largest group of registrations that Griffin has challenged are North Carolina residents whose voter registrations don’t include driver’s license numbers or Social Security numbers. This is now required by law, but these voters registered using old forms that didn’t include the requirement. (They were not required to re-register.) The second set is overseas residents who have not lived in North Carolina, such as the adult children of North Carolinians who live abroad. A third is overseas voters who didn’t submit a photo identification with their ballot.[Read: We drew congressional maps for partisan advantage. That was the point.]The first is the most notable tranche. These voters likely understood themselves to be legally registered, and elections officials had concluded they were registered. Prior to the election, the Republican National Committee challenged 225,000 registrations on the same basis, but a federal judge dismissed the case. The state board also concluded that the registrations were valid, and said that fraud was virtually impossible. For one thing, voters are required to show photo ID before voting, in accordance with a state law that went into effect this year. (The group includes both of Riggs’s parents, as well as a politics editor at WUNC, a public-radio station in Chapel Hill.)Now that the election has been completed and the votes have been counted, Griffin wants these votes to be thrown out after the fact. It’s exceedingly hard to justify this as anything other than pure partisan power politics. Doing such a thing would violate not only precedent, but any basic sense of fairness. As ProPublica’s Doug Bock Clark reported, the theory that Griffin is using was considered and rejected earlier this year by election deniers who deemed it too extreme.The state board of elections, which has a 3–2 Democratic majority, rejected all three arguments, and pointed out that they should have been made far earlier. Griffin then appealed the decision directly to the state supreme court. The state board had the move shifted to federal court, but on Monday, the federal judge Richard Myers, a Trump appointee, sent the matter back to the supreme court, deeming it a state matter. In their order yesterday, the state supreme court justices set a schedule for briefing later this month.[Read: The Supreme Court finds North Carolina's racial gerrymandering unconstitutional]North Carolina is not new to vicious election fights. (Riggs rose to prominence as a progressive attorney focused on voting-rights cases.) In 2013, after the U.S. Supreme Court demolished key elements of the Voting Rights Act, Republicans passed a sweeping law restricting voting. A federal judge eventually struck the law down as targeting “African Americans with almost surgical precision.” The state has also seen decades of battles over redistricting; after previous maps were struck down as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders, the GOP instead pursued an aggressively partisan map. In the previous Congress, both Democrats and Republicans from North Carolina held seven seats; under a new GOP-drawn map, Republicans won 10 seats to Democrats’ four in November.Even so, the reaction to Griffin’s attempted maneuvers has been sharp, and not only on the left. In a recent article, the conservative writer and former GOP operative Andrew Dunn wrote that while he had often criticized Democrats’ “dishonest nonsense” about Republicans in the past, he could not do so now. “If the Supreme Court sides with Griffin, the fallout will be immediate and brutal,” he wrote. “This isn’t just bad optics; it’s potentially a credibility-shattering disaster for the court, the party, and conservatism in North Carolina. Overnight, this becomes a national story about Republicans ‘stealing’ a Supreme Court seat. The allegation would be impossible to defend against.”Dunn is right. If the court ultimately sides with Griffin and throws the votes out, it will be a plain message that the Republican majority is more interested in grabbing power by any means available and adding an amenable colleague than in letting voters have a say. Faith in its objectivity has already been shaken by a pair of 2023 decisions, in which the new Republican majority reversed decisions about gerrymandering and the voter-ID law that had been made by the prior court. (The GOP-led state legislature also stripped powers from incoming Democratic Governor Josh Stein late last year, passing the changes just before Democrats broke a veto-proof supermajority. Stein has challenged the moves in court.)[Read: North Carolina's deliberate disenfranchisement of black voters]What happens in the North Carolina Supreme Court race is worth watching for voters around the country for reasons other than moral outrage. For the past 15 years, the Old North State has been an early indicator for national trends, including the 2013 voting law and the battles over partisan gerrymandering. The independent state legislature theory, floated by Trump allies as a way to overturn the 2020 presidential election, first reached the U.S. Supreme Court via a North Carolina case. Republican legal challenges to the 2016 election for governor were a template for Trump’s challenges to the 2020 presidential election. As goes North Carolina, so goes the nation.

Cockroaches were seen buzzing around inside the fries, furniture, a bin, and on the floor in exclusive footage released from the Broadmeadow store, in Australia's Newcastle area.

The royal couple have been residing in the 18,000-square-foot home with their two kids — Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3 — since 2020.