San Jose State volleyball team with transgender player says no more future matches have been forfeited

Using an airplane lavatory is risky enough, owing to the germs, tight space and lack of ventilation. But there’s nearly no greater gamble than squatting over the seat while your precious phone is in your pocket, and hoping it doesn’t meet a watery grave. 

Don't mess with the Raiders or you'll have to answer to Larissa Lima!

Quinn Glabicki / ReutersFormer President Barack Obama is stumping for Kamala Harris, making two stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Thursday. The first took him to a Harris campaign office in the swing state, where Obama delivered a pointed message to the Black men in the room: Don’t let gender guide your vote.“We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running,” he said, according to The Guardian. “You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses. I’ve got a problem with that.”As his source on this supposedly slack enthusiasm, Obama cited unspecified “reports I’m getting from campaigns and communities,” but one recent poll suggests that Harris isn’t getting the same traction with Black voters that Joe Biden did. Additionally, an NAACP poll from September suggests that about 25 percent of Black men under the age of 50 may support Donald Trump over Harris.Read more at The Daily Beast.

"We had planned this trip to go to Florida during fall break," the mom-of-four said.

After four thrilling, sometimes nausea inducing games, it all comes down the Game 5 between the two best teams in the league.

Gluten-free flour blends can do a lot, but they’re not all created equal and they’re not for every baked good.

The Yankees should be quite happy there's a Game 5 in Cleveland on Saturday.

"A lot of that's improv."

Cardi B is single… okurrr? As dirty details continue to trickle out about the “WAP” superstar and her estranged husband, Offset, she’s also rumored to be getting cozy with Houston Texans wide receiver Stefon Diggs. It’s been a busy year for Cardi. She filed for divorce from Offset in July and welcomed her third child...

Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesElon Musk’s X social media platform has reportedly worked with Donald Trump’s campaign to censor material that could be harmful to the former president’s White House chances as part of a pattern of election interference that is unprecedented in U.S. history.According to The New York Times, Trump told one associate that Musk was pumping $500 million into his campaign. The two men are said to speak “multiple times a week.”The Times reported that the Trump campaign “connected with X” to prevent the spread of hacked information supposedly from a dossier drawn up by GOP staffers tasked with vetting running mate JD Vance.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Florida sees roughly 50 tornadoes in a typical year. But Floridians saw nearly half of that in the hours before Milton made landfall. Multiple twisters touched down in just 30 minutes in St. Lucie County.

The former "Osbournes" star gave birth to her baby boy in November 2022, naming the little one Sidney after his Slipknot rocker dad.

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese activist organization of survivors of the atomic Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

The Post was the first to report on Tren de Aragua's infiltration of the city of 390,000 — where several apartment complexes were taken over by the violent Venezuelan prison gang.

Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city.  What’s making our luxury list this week? Andrew Scott on stage, Axel Arigato’s opens their first U.S....

The WNBA is looking to expand on the historic success of this season and will add extra games to the regular season and move to a best-of-seven series final in 2025.

Donald Trump’s affection for oppressive and bloodthirsty dictators is by now so familiar that it might go unremarked, and yet also so bizarre that it goes unappreciated or even disbelieved.Sometimes, though, a vivid reminder surfaces. That was the case this week, when stories from Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book, War, became public. In the book, the legendary reporter writes that in 2020, in the depths of the pandemic, Trump prioritized the health of Vladimir Putin over that of Americans, sending the Russian president Abbott COVID-testing machines for his personal use, at a time when the machines were hard to come by and desperately needed. (The Kremlin confirmed the story; Trump’s campaign vaguely denied it.) Meanwhile, Trump told people in the United States they should just test less. So much for “America First.”[Read: Why the president praises dictators]“Please don’t tell anybody you sent these to me,” Putin told Trump, according to Woodward.“I don’t care,” Trump said. “Fine.”“No, no,” Putin said. “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me. They don’t care about me.”U.S. relations with Russia have deteriorated since Trump left office, especially since Russia launched a brutal, grinding invasion of Ukraine in 2022. But the former president has stayed in touch with Putin, according to Woodward, who says an aide told him that “there have been multiple phone calls between Trump and Putin, maybe as many as seven in the period since Trump left the White House in 2021.”[Conor Friedersdorf: Trump’s ‘great chemistry’ with murderous strongmen]Trump’s public line on the war in Ukraine is that Putin never would have invaded on his watch, because of his strength. Yet evidence keeps piling up that Trump is weak to any Putin overture—that Putin can get Trump to do what he wants, and has done so again and again. It happened when Trump sided with Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies at the horrifying Helsinki summit in 2018, it happened when he declined to bring up election interference during a phone call in 2019, and it happened when Putin got Trump to hush up the transfer of the testing equipment. If Trump is so effective at pressuring Putin, and he remains in touch with him to this day, why isn’t he exerting that influence to pressure Russia to withdraw and end the war?Putin is hardly alone. Trump’s record shows a consistent pattern of affection for dictators, with them doing little or nothing for America’s benefit in return. Russia’s apparent moves to interfere in the 2016 election by hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee and leaking them—right after Trump made a public appeal for just that—is a rare example of reciprocity, though not to the benefit of the nation. Trump was drawn to the Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, even though Erdoğan blithely defied Trump’s requests to stop an invasion of Syria and purchased Russian weapons over U.S. objections. Trump also can’t say enough good things about North Korea’s Kim Jong Un (when he’s not confusing his country with Iran), but failed to achieve nuclear disarmament despite a splashy summit with Kim.[David A. Graham: Yes, collusion happened]Some people still seem unwilling to believe that Trump admires these dictators, even though he keeps telling us just that. During his first term, his advisers tried to conceal this affection, warning him in writing before a call to Putin after a corrupt election, “DO NOT CONGRATULATE.” (He did, of course.) When Putin warned Trump not to disclose the sharing of COVID tests, he showed a more acute grasp of domestic political dynamics than the American president. Yet Trump keeps blurting out his love for authoritarians, including one very strange moment during last month’s presidential debate. Kamala Harris charged that “world leaders are laughing at Donald Trump.”“Let me just tell you about world leaders,” he replied. “Viktor Orbán, one of the most respected men—they call him a strongman. He’s a tough person. Smart. Prime minister of Hungary. They said, Why is the whole world blowing up? Three years ago, it wasn’t. Why is it blowing up? He said, Because you need Trump back as president.”Orbán is not widely respected—he’s a pariah or at least an annoyance in most of the world. (Lest there be any doubt that Trump understands who Orbán is, he helpfully noted the Hungarian’s reputation as a strongman.) Orbán’s endorsement is not reassuring—my colleague Franklin Foer in 2019 chronicled some of his damage to Hungary—and the moment suggests how easily Trump can be manipulated by flattery.Many people also persist in believing that stories about Trump’s collusion with and ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign were a hoax. This seems to be an unfortunate by-product of Special Counsel Robert Mueller not establishing any criminal conspiracy. Yet the evidence of improper relationships with Russia was out in the open long before Mueller completed his report. Not only was it not a hoax then, but Woodward’s reporting shows that Trump’s secretive dealings with the Kremlin continue to this day.[Tom Nichols: Donald Trump is the tyrant George Washington feared]At one time, commentators seemed perplexed and puzzled by Trump’s love of dictators, because it ran so counter to typical American notions about rule of law and reverence for the Constitution and the country’s founders, to say nothing of the country’s interests.But no reason remains for feeling confused. Trump attempted to overturn an election he lost; he denies that he lost—though he conclusively did—and he was comfortable with violence being committed in an effort to keep him in power. He has no remorse for this assault on American democracy. He has said he wants to be a dictator on day one of his second term, and though he claims it’s a joke, he’s also raised the idea of suspending the Constitution. If he returns to office, his legal team has persuaded the Supreme Court to grant him immunity for anything that can be plausibly construed as official conduct. Trump is drawn to dictators—he admires their power, their inability to ever lose—and he wants to be one.

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Gerrit Cole had a storybook ending to his heroic night on the mound, which led the Yankees to a 3-1 victory over the Royals in Game 4 of the ALdS.

We’ve all heard that sky-high home prices in the U.S. are due in part to a major housing shortage.

14 new contestants are heading to Banker's Island!

Fine cookware. It's on the menu.

Kimmel declared on last night's show, "What a stupid time to be alive. Has anyone thought about unplugging America and plugging it back in again?"

A woman has exposed a “trivial” household act that can lead to divorce – and it’s worryingly common. Are you guilty of it?

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"Got to go to the Zoo today and see some behind the scenes amazing things Like feeing [sic] a baby giraffe," the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model wrote.

Analysts estimate Hurricane Milton could have caused up to $50 billion in insured losses for Florida property owners. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger explains what to do about filing a claim.

At a hearing on Thursday for Sean "Diddy" Combs, prosecutors revealed more indictments could be filed against Combs as the investigation continues. His federal trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges is set to begin in May 2025.

The weather experts have reported copping a torrent of abuse in recent weeks -- mainly from those spouting claims that meteorologists and government officials are among those controlling the devastating weather events.

A new book by Bob Woodward details the emotional turmoil President Biden faced over his son Hunter's legal controversies, weighing heavily on his decision to exit the race.

It’s more convenient, more climate friendly, and globally more popular.

North Korea says South Korea flew propaganda-dropping drones over its capital city, warning the "safety lock on our trigger has now been released" in response.

Nathan Hochman has a strong lead among likely voters over incumbent D.A. George Gascón, according to a new poll.

As Israel's battle against Hezbollah continues, an Israeli airstrike in Beirut has killed 22 people and wounded dozens more, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. It was the deadliest strike since Israel ramped up attacks in Lebanon last month.

"Relationships come with tests. But not always."

"He was a kind of beacon, it was like a wild animal." — Andrew Garfield

The former chief nominations counsel for Republicans during Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation is crying foul on a report from Democrats alleging the Trump administration constrained the FBI's probe.

The viral Florida man known as "Lieutenant Dan" is safe after riding out Hurricane Milton on his sailboat in Tampa Bay. He told CBS News that the Category 3 storm was "pretty mellow," despite smashing his boat up against a wall. "I'm not scared of anything," he said, adding that if another hurricane comes, "I'd remain on my boat no matter what."

In Colorado, 23 people were rescued after an elevator malfunction at an old gold mine. One person was killed and four others were injured while visiting the attraction. Another dozen people remained trapped underground for about six hours before they were rescued.

Pope Francis met Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican on Friday, the latest step to win support for his proposed “victory plan” aimed at ending the war with Russia.

This pup had a ruff day. Dogs like to sniff around and get a bite of anything they can get their paws on. But after a Colorado dog found a colorful snack, Orbeez, he ended up pooping out a rainbow of colorful balls. After a Colorado dog found a colorful snack, Orbeez, he ended up...

Hurricane Milton's historic rainfall submerged communities as first responders spent Thursday rescuing people stranded in homes and apartment buildings. The storm is responsible for at least 16 deaths.

With November 5 just weeks away, we asked swing state voters whether or not they’ve been enjoying the election season.

The safest thing for most farm animals during a hurricane is to leave them outside rather than in a barn.

A woman has written into a parenting advice column after she and her husband adopted her SIL's twins. 

"There have been a lot of things that have been kind of confusing. It hasn't been a great situation for the Jets this year. You can kind of feel there's been kind of a chill."

Five people were killed in a plane crash on California’s Catalina Islands after the small aircraft took off from the airport without clearance. The twin-engine Beechcraft 95 crashed just after takeoff around 8 p.m. Tuesday night about a mile west from the Catalina Airport near the island city of Avalon, according to the Federal Aviation...

While the Mets still have a lot to do this season, including perhaps reaching their first World Series since 2015 and winning their first since 1986, the final calculation for the qualifying offer at $21.05 million does remind us just how close so many key offseason issues are. And here is one that should be...