Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., defended her MEALS Act despite its connection to Minnesota's $250 million "Feeding Our Future" alleged fraud scheme.

FBI charges Youhuang Xiang, a post-doctoral researcher and J-1 visa holder from China, with smuggling Escherichia coli (E. coli) into the U.S.

Perfect rustic cinnamon potatoes with garlicky tzatziki are shown in this Mediterranean recipe featuring chunky wedges and Greek flavors, as shared on Fox Nation's "American Kitchen."

Ericka Kirk, widow of the assassinated Turning Point co-founder Charlie Kirk, endorses Vice President JD Vance for president in the 2028 White House election

Seven men who were arrested due to concerns that they were planning a "violent act" were released. The arrests came days after the shooting at Bondi Beach.

Your humidifier could do more harm than good this winter.

Although the city has doled out nearly 5,000 fines to homeowners and businesses over icy sidewalks since Sunday's snowfall, they've been slow to clear several of their bus stops, parks and subway stations still covered in ice.

As part of the event, a giant basketball menorah was lit during the game by the 14-year-old nephew of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was killed in the Sydney massacre.

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery.

The early backing of Ms. Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, is notable because she now leads the influential conservative group he founded, Turning Point USA.

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The man believed to be behind a mass shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and wounded several others has been found dead, officials announced Thursday. And the breakthrough came in the form of a tip that led investigators to a Reddit post. Read More

Video from a local business on the Santa Monica Pier shows Nick making his way toward the Pierside Santa Monica on Sunday around 4:10 a.m.

Now the Guardian’s Top 50 countdowns, as voted for by the whole film team, have announced their No 1s, here are our chief critic’s personal choices – in no particular order

• The 50 best films of 2025 in the UK
• The 50 best movies of 2025 in the US

The time has come once more for me to present my “Braddies”, a strictly personal awards list for films on UK release in the year just gone and, as ever, quite distinct from this paper’s collegiate best-of-year countdown. These are my top 10 lists for best film, director, actor and supporting actor, actress and supporting actress, directorial debut, cinematographer, screenplay and film most likely to be overlooked by the boomer mainstream media (or MSM).

As we look back over the last 12 months, there can be no doubt of the villain of 2025: Tilly Norwood, the female AI star. Launched in October, she is a smilingly bland and really very convincing non-human being who will work uncomplainingly and cheaply without ever storming off to her trailer. Like everyone else, I deplored the horrible simulation and opined that she is part of the AI-isation of movies that has been happening for some time now – without AI.

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© Photograph: BBC/BFI/Razor Film Produktion GmbH/Haut et Court/Santosh Film Ltd

© Photograph: BBC/BFI/Razor Film Produktion GmbH/Haut et Court/Santosh Film Ltd

What if Avatar 4 and 5 aren't actually next for the King of the World?

The wrong team is favored in Friday's Gasparilla Bowl.

New users cann make bank on the Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua fight.

The suspect in the Brown University mass shooting apparently made bizarre “barking” noises just before he opened fire and killed two Ivy League students, officials said. Some witnesses claimed to hear Claudio Neves Valent, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, uttering the canine-specific sound when he walked into the Brown lecture hall and unloaded more than 40...

Dubbed "The People’s National Championship," the 2025 Pop-Tarts Bowl will host Georgia Tech vs. BYU on Dec. 27 in Orlando, Florida, at 3:30 p.m. EST, airing on ABC.

Rams coach Sean McVay was outraged with referees after his team blew a 16-point lead on "Thursday Night Football."

Man known as ‘John’ expected to be eligible for $50,000 reward from FBI for providing details on the suspect

The authorities dealing with the mass shooting at Brown University hailed on Friday a member of the public who came forward with information that helped crack the case and lead to the suspect.

A man known publicly so far only as “John” posted key information on the Reddit platform about an encounter with the suspect that caught the attention of investigators, while Reddit users urged him to go to the police with his tips.

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Will Richards go Brad or Angelina in her next relationship?

The couple welcomed their baby girl on Dec. 12, naming the newborn Scottie in honor of the "Saturday Night Live" alum's late father.

People of Silverdale report rattling and shaking as 2.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in probable aftershock

A village in Lancashire has been hit by a “radiator rattling” earthquake for the second time in little over two weeks.

Residents of Silverdale, a small coastal village located five miles south of the Cumbria border, reported the now strangely familiar feeling of rattling and shaking in their homes at 5.03am as a 2.5-magnitude earthquake hit the area with its epicentre 1.6 miles (2.6km) off the coast.

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