The end of smallpox was ... the beginning for mpox

The "Cruel Summer" singer and the tight end attended the post-game celebration after sharing a private moment inside his VIP suite to celebrate his win.

It was "a tug-of-war for the baby between at least one of the dogs and the little girl," the sheriff said.

Seized “ghost guns” on display at LAPD Headquarters during a news conference to announce a reward program focused on getting unserialized ghost guns off the street. | Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Few things are as chaotic as this Supreme Court’s gun cases.  Just last June, the Court’s Republican majority legalized “bump stocks,” devices that effectively convert ordinary semi-automatic weapons into machine guns. The Court’s landmark Second Amendment decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022) requires courts to strike down any gun law that is not “consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation,” a test so confusing that more than a dozen judges have published judicial opinions begging the justices to explain what, exactly, Bruen means. Yet, while this Court’s approach to guns is frequently hostile to gun laws, a majority of the justices appeared to meet a gun regulation on Tuesday they are actually willing to uphold. Tuesday morning’s oral argument in Garland v. VanDerStok involves “ghost guns,” ready-to-assemble kits that can easily be used to build a fully operational firearm. These kits appear to exist to evade two federal laws, one of which requires guns to have serial numbers that can be used to track them if they are used in a crime, and the other which requires gun buyers to receive a background check before they can make that purchase. Under federal law, the background check and serial number requirements apply to “any weapon … which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive.” They also apply to “the frame or receiver of any such weapon,” the skeletal part of a gun that houses other components, such as the barrel or firing mechanism. Ghost gun kits seek to evade this law by selling a kit with an incomplete frame or receiver, though it is often trivially easy to convert this incomplete part into a fully operational one. Some kits can be turned into a working gun after the buyer drills a single hole in the frame or receiver. Others require the user to sand off a single plastic rail. The most right-wing appeals court in the federal system, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, concluded that a single missing hole is enough to exempt a gun from regulation. Frames missing a hole, that court claimed, are “not yet frames or receivers.” The Fifth Circuit also argued that ghost gun kits cannot “readily be converted” into a working gun because this phrase “cannot be read to include any objects that could, if manufacture is completed, become functional at some ill-defined point in the future” — even though some ghost gun kits can be converted into a firearm in a matter of minutes. In any event, at least five members of the Court — and possibly one or two more — appeared to reject the Fifth Circuit’s reasoning on Tuesday. All three members of the Court’s Democratic minority seemed like clear votes for the government, which is arguing ghost guns need to be subject to the same rules as any other gun, as did Chief Justice John Roberts, who barely spoke during Tuesday’s argument, and who spent the bulk of his question time seeming to mock Peter Patterson, the lawyer for the ghost gun manufacturers. Meanwhile, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, seemed particularly unconvinced by Patterson’s arguments, at one point telling him that a key part of his proposed legal framework “seems a little made up.” If these five justices hang together against ghost guns, that won’t be a particularly unexpected plot twist. This same case already reached the Court in 2023 on the justices’ “shadow docket,” a mix of emergency motions and other issues that the Court deals with on an expedited basis. The first time VanDerStok reached the Court, it voted 5-4 (with Roberts and Barrett joining the Democrats) to temporarily leave in place a federal rule establishing that ghost guns are regulated like any other firearm. Now, the question is whether that temporary decision will be made permanent. After Tuesday, it appears likely that it will. VanDerStok turns on Barrett’s definition of an “omelet” Tuesday’s argument started to go off the rails for the ghost gun makers before Patterson even stepped up to the podium.  Early in the argument, while Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar was making the government’s case, Justice Samuel Alito asked her a series of hypotheticals about incomplete objects. Is a pen and a blank pad of paper a “grocery list?” Does a bunch of uncooked eggs, ham, and peppers constitute an “omelet?” Alito’s point appeared to be that, just like untouched ingredients don’t constitute an “omelet,” an incomplete firearm is not a gun. But Barrett seemed unconvinced. Almost immediately after Alito finished grilling Prelogar, Barrett asked about a slightly different hypothetical. What if someone purchased an omelet kit from Hello Fresh, a service that delivers ready-to-cook meal kits to people’s homes. Barrett’s point was pretty clear: While a bunch of uncooked ingredients may not always constitute an “omelet,” the answer is different when someone buys a kit whose sole purpose is to be put together into an omelet. The same rule, Barrett suggested, should apply to ghost gun kits. Roberts, meanwhile, was more direct than Barrett. “What is the purpose of selling a receiver without the holes drilled in it?” the Chief Justice asked Patterson. In response, Patterson claimed, somewhat implausibly, that people may buy a ghost gun kit because they enjoy the experience of building a gun much like some hobbyists enjoy working on their own car. But Roberts didn’t buy this argument at all. “Drilling a hole or two,” he dryly responded to Patterson, “I would think doesn’t give the same sort of reward that you get from working on your car on the weekend.” Later in the argument, after Prelogar was back at the podium, she stuck the knife in Patterson’s argument. Federal law, she noted, doesn’t ban ghost gun kits, it merely requires ghost gun sellers to follow the same background check and serial number laws as any other gun seller. So, if there were a market for law-abiding hobbyists who want to drill a couple holes before they fire their gun, those hobbyists could still get a ghost gun if they submitted to a background check. But what actually happened is, once the government issued a rule stating that ghost guns are subject to the same laws as any other gun, the market for this product dried up. Turns out, hobbyists weren’t interested in buying almost-complete guns with missing holes. The biggest wild card in the case is Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who revealed that he voted in favor of ghost guns in 2023 because he was concerned that a gun seller who was ignorant of the law might accidentally sell an unregulated kit without realizing it was illegal to do so and then be charged with a crime. But, as Prelogar told Kavanaugh, a gun seller can only be charged with a crime if they “willfully” sell a gun without a serial number or if they knowingly sell a gun without a background check. So Kavanaugh’s fears appear unfounded. Will that be enough to bring Kavanaugh into the government’s camp? Unclear. But, ultimately, Kavanaugh is likely to be the sixth vote against ghost guns if he does flip. After Tuesday, it does seem like there are five solid votes for the proposition that ghost guns are subject to the same laws as any other firearm.

The "Stranger Things" star gushed to chef Nobu Matsuhisa about the experience, and joked it's his new gig.

Vice President Kamala Harris got grilled in a tense “60 Minutes” interview Monday night for alienating “millions and millions” of US voters by calling former President Donald Trump a “racist.” CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker took Harris to task for portraying Trump as “racist and divisive.” “You have accused Donald Trump of using racist tropes...

MANDEL NGAN/Getty ImagesMelania Trump has revealed how Donald slipped away from his glamorous blonde date to ask for her number the first time they met at a New York Fashion Week party in 1998.Then 28, Melania refused to give the smooth-talking tycoon her number but agreed to take his business card after chatting to him about her family back in Slovenia.A few weeks later, she contacted Trump, then 52, and they went out on their first date. By 2005, the couple were wed and the Slovenian model was the third Mrs Trump.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The perception that the Islanders are a franchise stuck in neutral is well-hardened after another season without winning a playoff series and another offseason without an overhaul of the roster.

When a guy you know texts you, it has to be real.

President Biden privately raged that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a “f--king liar” when Israel invaded Rafah — and seethed to the PM’s face that he had “no strategy,’’ a blistering new book says.

Stars from the 1991 blockbuster movie "The Addams Family," reunite at the 2024 Los Angeles Comic Con.

Kamala Harris gave us a glimpse into her mind, and there’s not much there.

Here are our Opening Night best bets to help celebrate the return of the NHL on Tuesday.

ABC/screengrabKamala Harris pulled no punches on Tuesday when she went after Donald Trump for what The View co-host Ana Navarro characterized as blatant “lies” about the Biden administration’s efforts to help hurricane victims.“It’s profound and it is the height of irresponsibility and frankly callousness,” Harris said on the show in her first live interview since accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. “This is so consistent about Donald Trump,” she added, “He puts himself before the needs of other [people].”Trump has said repeatedly on the campaign trail that the Biden administration was redirecting relief aid from Florida to pay for migrants. “Kamala spent all of her FEMA money—billions of dollars—on housing for illegal migrants,” he said at a Michigan rally. “They stole the FEMA money just like they stole it from a bank so they could give it to their illegal immigrants who they want to have vote for them.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

The airline is dropping the temperature on food served to economy-class passengers on all transatlantic flights.

"He doesn’t go on any interviews now because he’s afraid they’re gonna fact-check him."

"My mom might be embarrassed by that," she confessed.

It is the latest target of Hindenburg, whose reports have knocked shares of companies owned by billionaire-investor Carl Icahn and India's Gautam Adani.

These days, you can find some of the best gnocchi at a takeout-only spot in the East Village — no white tablecloths in sight. In fact, no tables at all.

The request for proposal no longer requires the Bibles include U.S. historical documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Former President Trump is holding a rally Saturday at a polo field in the Coachella Valley, even though he will likely lose California by millions of votes.

The Trump campaign has tried to tie Harris to the Biden tenure, with the 46th president averaging 41.3% job approval, according to RealClearPolitics.

Welcome to Sphere, such a lovely place.

So, which CUSA team has emerged from the non-conference portion of its schedule with momentum?

It didn't take long after Robert Saleh's stunning Jets firing Tuesday for the finger-pointing to begin.

Decades after it aired on Japanese TV from 1989-1992, Ranma 1/2 returns with a fresh adaptation ready to make a splash with viewers old and new.

Ginormous Hurricane Milton is churning toward Florida’s Gulf Coast, where it’s expected to have a devastating impact when it makes landfall. Meteorologists are warning the monster storm could be one of the biggest hurricanes in history.

A Florida meteorologist and hurricane specialist became emotional on air while reporting on Hurricane Milton’s monstrous growth just days before expected landfall. Storm expert John Morales had to briefly pause in the middle of an NBC broadcast while discussing the storm raging over Yucatan, Mexico, and other states along the Gulf of Mexico.

A Nantucket mansion that sold for $19.2 million just months ago might soon be demolished now that it's in the hands of a new owner.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday told Florida residents to have a safety plan for Hurricane Milton that’s expected to make landfall with devastating impact. Milton was downgraded to a Category 4 with maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour — after topping 200 mph as a Category 5 on Monday. But Milton is...

“Shut the f–k up talking to me, bitch! Please!” the Delaware Blue Coats player told his ex, as their toddler son climbed a set of stairs nearby.

The transit agency is proposing a new funding model where jurisdictions will get more money for cracking down on fare evasion.

Federal prosecutors have turned over evidence showing that a key witness in the criminal case against Mayor Eric Adams lied, his defense attorney said. High-profile lawyer Alex Spiro, in a breathless statement released Monday night, accused the feds of slow-rolling the disclosure of so-called “Brady material” — evidence that could be favorable to a defendant....

Chris Olave's brother had the same thought as anyone hoping the Saints' No. 1 receiver would hep them win any fantasy matchups Monday.

Doctors told the king that he could take 11 days off from treatment for the Australian tour, according to reports.

Sydney woman Nirmeen Noufl has been accused of committing one of the city’s most horrific crimes, with police alleging she murdered and dismembered her husband over a suspected love triangle.

A 19-year-old mum said she brought her two-year-old daughter, Amelia, to her friend's child-free wedding and was taken aback by the groom's mother's comments. 

"I love my boy's big forehead! I loved it on his mother. Listen to 'Jukebox Joints,'" the rapper said of his 2015 song in a new interview with W Magazine.

Monday's game was the third Chiefs contest Taylor Swift attended this season.

The next president will have to manage a delicate situation as the threat of an all-out war escalates.

President Biden had been scheduled to leave for Germany and Angola on Thursday.

The head of MI5 says Britain is facing a staggering rise in attempts at assassination, sabotage and other crimes backed by Russia and Iran.

HuluAfter six episodes of mounting insanity, “Valley of the Dolls” offers its characters a much-needed reprieve. There are no gunshots or death threats here; there’s just the trio hanging out in the doll-infested home of Charles’ sister Doreen (Melissa McCarthy). Granted, this is arguably even scarier.(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)Like a lot of McCarthy’s comedic characters, Doreen is unhinged. She veers wildly from one emotion to another, is quick to resort to violence, and her horniness for Oliver manages to nearly ruin (and then save?) his relationship with Loretta (Meryl Streep). She’s a fun character, and her final heart-to-heart with Charles provides some heartwrenching insight to both of their dysfunctional childhoods. Still, it’s hard to get too invested, because she feels like a filler character. We’ve got a big murder to solve, so why are we spending so much time on a character who’s clearly not a suspect?Read more at The Daily Beast.

Chris Cuomo, who was fired by CNN in late 2021, told his NewsNation audience on Monday that perhaps his sibling should pass on being Big Apple mayor.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban was interrupted at a news conference by an activist and municipal councilor from the opposition Democratic Coalition party.

Democrats may have frittered away their edge in states they need to win

"I walked away from the biggest paycheck of my life, but that’s fine."

Meghan Rita Rouns, 27, was last seen alive on Friday before she went riding in near Bozeman, Montana. Although her unaccompanied horse and phone have been recovered, she has not.

Vice President Kamala Harris told "The View" that she couldn't think of anything she would have done differently than President Biden in the last four years.