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Abe Lichy stopped by the Page Six studio to chat with “Virtual Reali-tea” podcast hosts Evan Real and Danny Murphy. He opened up about the issues he faced this year with wife, Erin Lichy, and clears up what viewers saw on “The Real Housewives of New York City.” Check out the full unedited interview! Subscribe...

A mom is facing court action and could lose her job for refusing to pay a school fine after her daughter was banned from lessons for having her ears pierced.

Giuliani got a tongue lashing Thursday in federal court after missing a deadline to turn over valuables to two election workers he defamed. He owes the women $148 million in damages.

The AFC North will take center stage Thursday as the Baltimore Ravens host the Cincinnati Bengals.

*Blink 182 voice* Small things. Like these!

Trump’s victory is a referendum on feminist progress

From the fairways to the pages of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit.

"This is the look of a guy who just watched his carjacker get t-boned by a garbage truck," one user mused.

Editor-in-chief Katherine Viner urged journalists in the UK and Australia offices to contact their colleagues in the US to "offer your support."

Police say residents of Yemassee, South Carolina, should keep their doors and windows locked until the primates are found.

News of his death was confirmed by his former employer, a local TV station in Cleveland, Ohio.

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville expressed frustrations that tens of millions of Americans would vote for President-elect Donald Trump this week.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem spoke to Fox News Digital in an interview about Vice President Kamala Harris' loss of support from women compared to President Biden in 2020.

After an offseason that saw them add more than 30 players from Rock Creek Christian, the Crusaders are on the verge of an undefeated season.

Susie Wiles, longtime Republican political operative, is being floated as a top contender for the position of Trump's White House Chief of Staff.

The Federal Reserve announced an interest rate cut of 0.25 percentage points as inflation continues to cool. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger breaks down the announcement and CBS News correspondent Natalie Brand has more from the White House.

CNN host Ana Cabrera suggested on air that Project Veritas' Twitter ban was for "promoting disinformation."

In New Jersey, the lack of significant rainfall since August contributed to dry conditions that have allowed two major wildfires to erupt.

A movement among moderate Republicans to throw their support behind Vice President Harris didn't work with similarly minded voters, who broke for President-elect Trump.

It's not just for fringe environmentalists.

Fans pointed out the pair's "chemistry" and encouraged Cavallari, 37, to give Flay, 59, a shot after he appeared on her "Let's Be Honest" podcast.

Two years ago, the actor found herself in an Oscars controversy after being snubbed for 'Till.' Now she returns with 'Piano Lesson' — and awards watchers predict payback.

Feeling sleepy and lacking enthusiasm during the day could increase the risk of developing a cognitive disorder leading to dementia, a new study found. Sleep expert Dr. Wendy Troxel discusses.

Brazilian Claudia Oliveira, now 52, said she was "depressed" before her weight loss, but bodybuilding saved her life.

A position player this good, this young does not get out into the market that often and if you are waiting for it to happen again, well, grab a seat because it is going to be a while.

The rapper recently claimed that he turned down $3 million to perform at Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City late last month.

Halle Bailey is going into mama bear mode. The singer is calling out her ex-boyfriend DDG for live streaming  with their 10-month-old son, Halo, without her consent. Watch the full video to learn more about Halle looking out for her child.  Subscribe to our YouTube for the latest on all your favorite stars.

Another Fed rate cut is now official. Here's what that could mean for mortgage interest rates.

America’s central bankers have slashed the country’s key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, lowering borrowing costs for companies and consumers in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory. The Federal Reserve announced the second consecutive rate cut earlier on Thursday to the 4.50%-4.75% range amid uncertainty over Trump’s plans to...

Another interest rate cut was just issued. Here's why you should still pursue credit card debt forgiveness anyway.

Scammers impersonating as companies or recruiters try to trick people into giving money or personal information.

Ofri Bibas Levy writes about the year of anguish she has faced since her brother and his family, including a newborn boy, were kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7. Her sister-in-law's parents were murdered on the same day.

The Federal Reserve announced its second interest rate cut of 2024, but Trump's economic priorities could impact future policy.

It's the perfect time of year to start exploring the desert near L.A. These hikes are closer than Joshua Tree National Park, and a lot less crowded.

Plus: parent-teacher conferences, picky eating, and taking it personally.

President-elect Donald Trump pardons a turkey named Corn as part of the traditional presidential turkey pardon ceremony in 2020. Donald Trump has won a second term in the White House, and if his next administration is anything like his first, he’ll likely further weaken what few legal protections exist for animals.  During his first four years in office, Trump’s Cabinet:  Increased already excessively fast line speeds at pig slaughterhouses, endangering both animals and workers, and sought to do the same for poultry Killed a rule to improve animal welfare under organic food standards Reduced enforcement of the already weakly enforced Animal Welfare Act Launched a massive expansion of hunting and fishing on public lands Removed Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves and grizzly bears Disrupted wildlife habitats across the country Deleted violation records for puppy mills, zoos, factory farms, and animal testing laboratories  When slaughterhouses became Covid-19 hot spots in the early days of the pandemic, Trump — at the behest of the meat industry — demanded they remain open, even as schools and offices closed. In a second term, with what could well be a unified Republican government, Trump could go further in weakening animal protections, given his corporate-friendly, deregulatory tendencies. This story was first featured in the Processing Meat newsletter Sign up here for Future Perfect’s biweekly newsletter from Marina Bolotnikova and Kenny Torrella, exploring how the meat and dairy industries shape our health, politics, culture, environment, and more. Have questions or comments on this newsletter? Email us at futureperfect@vox.com! “He now has much more active involvement from intelligent and strategic people whose mission is to reduce — if not eliminate — federal regulation of businesses, including animal-using businesses that already get a light touch” from regulators, Delcianna Winders, director of the Animal Law and Policy Institute at Vermont Law and Graduate School, told me. (Disclosure: Last summer, I attended a media fellowship program at Vermont Law and Graduate School.) And while most federal regulatory employees in agencies like the US Department of Agriculture are civil servants, Trump has promised to reclassify them as political appointees so he can fire and replace them with loyalists to advance his deregulatory agenda. However, some of the people high up in Trump’s orbit, despite their reactionary views on other social issues, have indicated relatively pro-animal welfare or anti-factory farming beliefs. Some in a second term could wind up in positions to advance animals’ interests, like Lara Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — though Kennedy could do plenty of damage to human beings if put in a position of authority on health. Whether they’ll use their influence to help animals in a second Trump term is unknown to unlikely. But there’s a sliver of precedent they could build on, as Trump’s first term wasn’t all bad for animals. For example, his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Secretary Andrew Wheeler sought to significantly reduce animal testing with the goal of replacing most of it with alternative methods by 2035, and other federal agencies cut back on kitten, dog, and monkey testing.  And for all the very real differences between President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the truth is that when it comes to animal welfare, there’s not much daylight between the parties. President Joe Biden’s EPA last year reversed the Trump EPA’s animal testing phase-out, while his Justice Department sided with the pork industry in a Supreme Court case over a landmark California law that banned locking pigs in tiny cages. Biden’s US Fish and Wildlife Service recently sought to revive a Trump-era rule that eliminates protections for gray wolves after environmental groups had successfully sued to stop it. Minnesota Gov. and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, as I wrote previously, also has a long, cozy relationship with the factory farm industry. That animal protection remains a politically homeless cause was further underscored elsewhere in Tuesday’s election, as animal issues on the ballot in state and local jurisdictions across the US lost resoundingly, illustrating that voters may not be ready for more ambitious animal welfare laws. Animals lost big at the ballot box  In Denver, 64 percent of voters rejected a ballot measure to ban slaughterhouses, which would have closed the largest lamb slaughterhouse in the US. A recently released investigation of the facility, conducted by an animal rights group, documented injured lambs unable to walk being kicked and pushed toward slaughter; lambs hanging upside down on the slaughter line and still thrashing after their throats were slit; employees laughing and spanking animals; and the alleged use of “Judas sheep” — adult sheep used to lead lambs to slaughter. Fifty-eight percent of Denverites also voted against a ban on the sale of fur.  Despite the losses, Pro-Animal Future, the group behind the Denver ballot measures, celebrates the fact that more than a third of the city’s voters were willing to vote for such a far-reaching measure as banning slaughterhouses — even as the campaign was outspent six to one by a coalition of national and state meat industry groups, restaurants, and labor unions. “This was a bold campaign, and no one said changing the status quo was going to be easy,” wrote Pro-Animal Future spokesperson Olivia Hammond in a press release. “Over a hundred thousand meat eaters voted for a world without slaughterhouses, and that’s a foundation we’ll continue building on. Voters aren’t used to seeing animal rights on the ballot, and we are paving the way with this campaign.” The CEO of the lamb slaughterhouse called supporters of the ban “losers.” At the state level, meanwhile, with three-quarters of the votes counted, Coloradans voted 55.5 to 44.5 against a prohibition on trophy hunting mountain lions, lynx, and bobcats.  And in Sonoma County, California, where nearly 75 percent of voters cast ballots for Harris, only 15 percent supported Measure J, an initiative to phase out large factory farms, which would’ve closed as many as 21 operations. “While the opportunity to alleviate animal suffering and move our society in a better direction fell short today, we’ve always known that this will take time and we trust that people are going to get there,” read a statement from the Coalition to End Factory Farming campaign, which advocated for Measure J. The campaign was outspent eight to one by the measure’s opposition, which was funded by large meat and dairy companies and trade groups.  In Florida, 67 percent of voters — with more than 95 percent of votes counted — supported an amendment to enshrine a constitutional right to hunt and fish. Both of these activities are already protected by Florida law, and environmental advocates argue that the measure’s vague language could enable hunters to use more violent methods of trapping and killing wildlife.  While voters have in the past overwhelmingly supported bans on tiny cages for farmed animals (I worked on one of these in Massachusetts in 2016 when I worked for the Humane Society of the US), the proposed outright bans on factory farms and slaughterhouses in Sonoma County and Denver were too much even for some of the bluest parts of the country. The rejection of the fur sales ban in Denver came as more of a surprise, considering that voters in nearby Boulder passed one in 2021. California’s legislature, along with localities in Massachusetts, Michigan, and Florida, have also banned fur (though not via ballot initiatives).  The agricultural measures faced criticism from both the agricultural industry and some fellow anti-factory farming advocates, who argued that they’d just displace meat production elsewhere. They likely faced cultural headwinds, too, given that Denver is in a state proud of its ranching industry, and Sonoma County — an area with both higher-welfare organic farms and conventional factory farms — takes pride in its farming heritage.  Some critics of the Sonoma County ballot measure argued that, despite its good intentions, it was poorly crafted and went far ahead of where voters stand on the issue. Dena Jones, a former farm animal program director at the nonprofit Animal Welfare Institute, told Vox the Denver slaughterhouse and Sonoma County factory farm bans were “ill-advised.” “I found it very hard to believe in either case that either one of those could be successful,” she said, “and I thought the backlash might make it more of a loss than a gain.” Whatever the shortcomings of these ballot measures, the fierce opposition they faced in blue strongholds highlights how resistant Democratic voters can be to more ambitious meat industry reforms, even though meat production heavily contributes to issues central to progressives’ agenda: climate change, environmental pollution, and labor exploitation.  How to prevent animal cruelty, whoever’s in office The losses should come as a sobering moment for the animal rights movement. Voters have been able to stomach modest reforms, like bans on cages for farm animals, which ask little of them besides slightly higher prices for meat and eggs. The economic effects of such measures are also diffused throughout entire industries, as opposed to one city or county — or in the case of Denver, a single slaughterhouse — which may make voters more fearful of impacts to their local communities.  These dynamics ought to weigh heavily into how activists plan future ballot measures. Currently, animal rights groups in Oregon are collecting signatures for a 2026 ballot initiative that would dramatically curtail — if not outright eliminate — animal farming, animal testing, and other business activities that rely on animals in the state. That’s an unpopular proposition to everyone but the most strident vegans, though the theory behind the ballot measure is noteworthy: It works by removing many of the sweeping exemptions carved into Oregon’s anti-animal cruelty laws for agriculture and other animal-using industries, thereby revealing how these businesses depend on legalized animal abuse. As to how animal advocates should approach the next Trump administration, Jones said, the prospects for new federal animal welfare legislation or regulations are dim. But there are opportunities to improve enforcement of the few federal laws that do protect animals, like the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act and the Animal Welfare Act. These are primarily enforced by civil servants, not political appointees, so enforcement would be less politically charged than lobbying for new policies altogether.  “I’ve done policy work for animals for 30 years,” said Jones, “and it is possible to make progress for animals” in both Republican and Democrat administrations. But that progress will be harder to forge if Trump follows through on his vow to mass fire civil servants and replace them with sycophants.  Jones also challenges animal advocates to view their issues from a conservative mindset to better appeal to both parties. Anti-animal testing nonprofit White Coat Waste has found success — like the phasing out of some cruel animal studies — by working with both Republican and Democratic members of Congress. The group advocates for reductions in animal testing on the basis of not just compassion for animals, but also conservative values like reducing taxpayer waste.   “You need to look at issues where the interest of the agency, the industry, and animal protection or environmental protection overlap,” said Jones. “There always are some.”

The main idea: What would you tell your younger self, given the opportunity?

For nearly a quarter-century, voters in Clallam County, Wash., have gone with the winner in 11 straight presidential elections. The streak ended on Tuesday as voters favored Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.

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Cardi B keeps her heart on her sleeve. The rapper put a stack of bling on display on her Instagram that features the name of her children. Watch the full video to learn more about Cardi revealing the names of her three kids.  Subscribe to our YouTube for the latest on all your favorite stars.

Prime Minister Xi Jinping called Donald Trump to congratulate him on his election win, and warned the president-elect the U.S. would "gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation" with China.

Simpson, 51, vanished on Oct. 6.

The 33-year-old revealed she is "thinking Australia," asking her social media followers who else is "down" to flee the United States.

El gobernador demócrata de California, Gavin Newsom, un crítico acérrimo del expresidente Donald Trump, el jueves pidió a los legisladores que convoquen una sesión especial más adelante este año para proteger las políticas progresistas del estado sobre cambio climático, derechos reproductivos e inmigración ante otra presidencia de Trump.

Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East and a perversely charming Hugh Grant commit to a deftly acted, somewhat predictable horror movie set in a remote house with secrets.

Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District faced a highly anticipated race between longtime Republican Rep. Scott Perry and Democratic challenger Janelle Stelson.

Houston, we’ve got too many relievers.

Victims thought to be female were male and not related to one another, showing "the story that was long spun around these individuals" was wrong, researchers said.