Sports media jumped on the Baltimore Ravens on Monday after the team released a statement saying it would cut kicker Justin Tucker. He faces multiple sexual misconduct allegations.

Concern continues to mount about the government's new REAL ID requirements, but for those unable to get one in time there are other options.

A resurfaced clip from Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar sparked controversy on social media this week in a firestorm that included a scathing response from Vice President JD Vance.

A federal judge ordered the North Carolina elections board to certify state Supreme Court election results showing Democrat Allison Riggs as the winner.

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A painting of the monarch in the regalia of the crowning ceremony is a royal tradition. An official painting of Queen Camilla was also revealed.

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Three years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, antiwar parents and some teachers say they are going to great lengths to shield children from state-mandated patriotic education classes.

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We have photos from the biggest night in fashion.

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Plus, the Met Gala’s unforgettable looks.

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Supporters of the former corporate lawyer say he is well-prepared and thoughtful, but critics accuse him of failing to think more than one step ahead and breaking promises.

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Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman Catholic Church might take.

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On “Meet the Press” and social media, President Trump gave the hosts a lot of material to choose from, even by his standards.

New audio captured the tense moment air traffic controllers lost all contact with planes approaching New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport -- leaving one pilot asking, “Approach, are you there?”

While previously carrying her and A$AP Rocky's sons, RZA and Riot, Rihanna made headline after headline for her daring pregnancy fashion.

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Tottenham’s Premier League visit to Aston Villa has been brought forward by 48 hours in order to help them prepare for a Europa League final they have not reached yet.

Ange Postecoglou’s side were originally scheduled to visit Villa on the afternoon of Sunday 18 May but the encounter will now take place on the evening of Friday 16 May after the Premier League accepted a rescheduling request from the London club.

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Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old reporter and anchor for Telemundo based in Kansas City, Missouri, was found dead Feb. 5 in his hotel room in the New Orleans suburb

Protests from furious factory workers in China demanding back pay are spreading across the country after President Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports begin impacting the communist nation's economy.

When the Sainsbury Wing opened, it was called ‘vulgar pastiche’. Now, after an £85m revamp, it has become the famous gallery’s main entrance. But have its spiky complexities been tamed? And why all the empty space?

Few parts of any city have seen so many style wars waged over their future as the north-west corner of Trafalgar Square. Nelson may be safely ensconced on his column, but another Battle of Trafalgar has been rumbling for decades beneath his feet, seeing architectural grenades hurled to and fro at the western end of the National Gallery.

A 1950s competition first produced a bold brutalist plan to extend the gallery, formed of crisscrossing cantilevered planes jutting out into the square, but it was deemed too daring. The 1980s saw a glassy, hi-tech proposal, crowned with futuristic pylons, but it was famously dismissed by the then Prince Charles as a “monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend”. Finally, emerging victorious in the 1990s were the US pioneers of postmodernism Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Their high mannerist mashup combined corinthian pilasters and big tinted windows with witty abandon. “Palladio and modernism fight it out on the main facade,” declared the architects, as they immortalised the battle of taste in stone and glass. The Sainsbury Wing was Grade-I listed in 2018, one of the youngest ever buildings to receive such protection.

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Amid outrage over ‘far-fetched’ plans to revive Alcatraz, Trump is pushing to expand Ice detention to other closed lockups marked by scandals

Donald Trump’s proposal to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison shuttered more than 60 years ago, sparked global headlines over the weekend. But it isn’t the only notorious closed-down jail or prison the administration has sought to repurpose for mass detentions.

The US government has in recent months pushed to reopen at least five other shuttered detention facilities and prisons, some closed amid concerns over safety and mistreatment of detainees. While California lawmakers swiftly dismissed the Alcatraz announcement as “not serious” and a distraction, the Trump administration’s efforts to reopen other scandal-plagued facilities are well under way or already complete, in partnership with for-profit prison corporations.

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A British company is producing mosquitoes that carry a ‘self-limiting’ gene that kills off female offspring, limiting the spread of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever

In an unassuming building on an industrial estate outside Oxford, Michal Bilski sits in a windowless room with electric fly swatters and sticky tape on the wall, peering down a microscope. On the slide before him is a line of mosquito eggs that he collected less than an hour previously and put into position with a brush.

Bilski manoeuvres a small needle filled with a DNA concoction and uses it to pierce each egg and inject a tiny amount.

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President Trump posted on Truth Social that he wants to "reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt” prison on San Francisco's Alcatraz Island to “house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.” Alcatraz expert said, "It would be a teardown."

The party doesn't end when celebrities depart the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Five years ago, Kenny Atkinson got fired in Brooklyn. On Monday, he got feted as NBA Coach of the Year.

‘Wagatha Christie’ battle inches towards end, but judge told Vardy is still resisting payment of £300,000

The long-running legal feud between Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy has inched closer to its end, with Vardy agreeing to pay almost £1.2m of Rooney’s legal costs.

But the high-profile Wagatha Christie libel battle is not yet finished, a judge has been told, with Vardy still resisting payment of a further £300,000.

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“You should have the death penalty, but we showed mercy.”

"These [diagnoses] greatly impact my speech, my reading, my listening, my focus, my memory and my self-confidence," she writes in "Manual Not Included," out now.

Former first lady Michelle Obama has revealed she's in therapy to help "tune up" for the next phase of her life -- as she continues to shoot down rumors that she and husband Barack are headed for divorce.

California governor Gavin Newsom announces a $7.5bn tax incentive scheme as Trump’s announcement of 100% tariffs on films ‘produced in foreign lands’ is mocked by Jimmy Kimmel and Fallon

Donald Trump appears to be softening his tone after widespread dismay in Hollywood and further afield at his bombshell announcement of 100% tariffs on films “produced in foreign lands”, saying he was “not looking to hurt the industry”.

In remarks reported by CNBC, Trump said he was planning to discuss the plan with film industry leaders. “I’m not looking to hurt the industry, I want to help the industry.”

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The most dynamic unit at even strength in 2023-24 — Artemi Panarin, Vincent Trocheck and Alexis Lafrenière — wasn’t even a semblance of itself in 2024-25.

Applicants will be targeted by Home Office due to suspicions they are most likely to overstay and claim asylum

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Nigerians, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans applying to work or study in the UK face Home Office restrictions over suspicions that they are most likely to overstay and claim asylum, Whitehall officials have claimed.

The government is working with the National Crime Agency to build models to profile applicants from these countries who are likely to go on to claim asylum.

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On Monday's the who's who of Hollywood assembled at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to pay homage to the “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” theme of the night.

Michael King played with Aaron Judge for the better part of four years from 2020-23 and witnessed first-hand Judge’s record-setting 2022 season.

The Trump administration’s funding cuts to the NIH could destroy a wave of approaching research breakthroughs

Since Robert F Kennedy Jr assumed control of the US health department in February, with a mandate to “[lower] chronic disease rates and [end] childhood chronic disease”, he has moved quickly to remake the US’s federal health infrastructure. But the Trump administration’s actions on medical research are already threatening that goal – and could end medical progress in this country for good.

Kennedy’s office oversees the National Institutes of Health, the control center of disease research in the United States. Kennedy’s agency has killed almost 800 active projects, according to Nature, affecting medical research into HIV/Aids, diabetes, women’s health, heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s and more. The administration wants to cut the NIH’s budget up to 40% while consolidating its 27 agencies – separated by disease area – into just eight. Elon Musk’s Doge has been reviewing previously awarded grant funding, reportedly requiring researchers to explain how they are using their grants to advance the Trump administration’s political goals. (Audio obtained by the Washington Post suggests this “Defend the Spend” initiative may be a smokescreen, with one NIH official admitting: “All funding is on hold.”) Separately, Donald Trump has aggressively targeted universities such as Harvard and Columbia over alleged antisemitism and diversity initiatives, using federal contracts that fund research as leverage. And just recently, the NIH passed a new rule banning any university from receiving future federal grants if the universities use DEI programs or boycott Israeli firms.

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With tipping reported at self-checkouts, drive-throughs and even vending machines, some consumers are pushing back

When Garrett Petters, a 29-year-old architect in Dallas, and his girlfriend travelled to Paris last year, one of their favourite parts was eating out. They enjoyed French duck, andouillette, plenty of bread, cheese and coffee and even escargot.

But it wasn’t just Paris’s cuisine they admired. It was also the different tipping culture. “We were talking about how nice it is in Europe that they pay their waiters and waitresses and we don’t have to tip because of it, and isn’t that cool,” Petters said. It felt very different from back in the US, where tipping culture felt “out of control”.

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Ethan Elharrar remembers having a single month of normal college life at Toronto Metropolitan University. He was anxious about leaving Montreal for Toronto, living on his own for the first time in a new city, beginning a new program. He was nervous but excited. Read More

OTTAWA - Quebec's "top diplomat" in the nation's capital retired last week as a new prime minister was elected, a new delegation of Quebec Liberal MPs is about to arrive in town, and when the province wants to play a bigger role in Canada-U.S. relations. Read More

"They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger ... What crap," Balthazar restaurateur Keith McNally writes of his stroke — which led to a suicide attempt — in his new memoir.

"I know that many people do not have a problem with abortion, and though I have supported it in the past, it eats away at my soul," the "Frasier" star writes.

The protective effect was strongest in the two to three years after vaccination and especially pronounced in men, people younger than 60 and those who smoke, drink alcohol or avoid exercise.