Government shutdown looms as Senate Democrats break truce over DHS funding after border patrol agent fatally shot Alex Pretti with Friday deadline approaching.

Angel Reese of the WNBA's Chicago Sky posted "Praying for our country" on social media after a fatal Border Patrol shooting in Minneapolis.

The number of applicants has risen more than 40 percent over the last two years, despite new limits on student loans and uncertainty over how artificial intelligence will affect legal work.

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Aryna Sabalenka takes on Victoria Mboko; Carlos Alcaraz to face Tommy Paul
Updates from Sunday’s day session at Melbourne Park | Email Joey

We had a big few stories yesterday but a contender for the biggest fortune, and a enforced heat break, coming to the aid of Jannik Sinner (2) as he struggled with full-body cramps in the stifling conditions against 85th-ranked American Eliot Spizzirri.

Tumaini Carayol was there for that one and recapped what became a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 win for the Italian.

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Police said group breached HMP Wormwood Scrubs grounds where Umer Khalid is being held

A group of protesters supporting a Palestine Action prisoner on hunger strike have been arrested after they breached prison grounds, the Metropolitan police has said.

The force said on Saturday evening that it had detained a group of protesters outside HMP Wormwood Scrubs, in west London, and was in the process of making a number of arrests.

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First off, the trio of Jonathan Drouin, Emil Heineman and Max Shabanov owe Mathew Barzal a nice dinner Sunday night in Philadelphia.

New video obtained by The Post shows NYPD officers shooting a raccoon three times after the animal charged at people on a Queens boardwalk, police said Saturday.

Everyone in New England knows the numbers and hopes history will reverse itself.

"We want to make sure that the residents of New Jersey are safe."

Pitino went straight home after win No. 1, crawled into bed, and fell fast asleep. 

Fifty years ago this week the Yankees as we know them — and as we knew them — were reborn. George Steinbrenner — still more a curiosity than a personality as he neared the end of his first suspension from baseball — gathered his baseball people at the Carlyle Hotel at Madison Avenue and 76th...

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was fatally shot by federal agents on Saturday while being allegedly armed at an anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis.

OG Anunoby saved the day – and then almost ruined it – and then saved it again. 

The Dolphins have found their next offensive play-caller.

SEATTLE — Maybe it would be different if Cooper Kupp had even one vindictive bone in his body.  Maybe then the Seattle Seahawks wide receiver would lean into the scorned lover angle of Sunday’s NFC Championship game matchup between his Seahawks and former flame, the Rams. The same Rams for whom Kupp spilled blood and...

The party of four were photographed making their way to Kaspia restaurant in Paris on Saturday night.

Major airlines canceled flights across the Middle East as anxieties mount that the US is preparing to strike Iran.

One of Moscow’s top universities is offering plush signing bonuses to encourage students to enlist in non-combat military positions, but legal experts warned the recruitment efforts rely on deceptive tactics that instead are thrusting the young academics into the throes of war.

Yu Darvish is hanging up his cleats — or is he?

“Someone call the ambulance! Somebody call 9-1-1! I can’t believe they just did that!”

"Mercy" beat out all its box office competition on its opener Friday, raking in $5 million.

Bartenders reveal the most common request that could lead them to not receive a tip.

Dangerous weather engulfing large area of country as 16 states plus DC declare states of emergency

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A powerful winter storm with more than 140 million Americans in its crosshairs started sweeping across much of the US on Saturday, packing heavy snow and sleet as well as freezing rain and causing widespread power outages.

Snowfall was already being reported on Saturday morning across parts of the plains, the south and the midwest, including in areas of Oklahoma, Iowa, Tennessee, Kansas, Texas and Missouri.

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