A coalition of 130 congressional Democrats filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to support transgender athletes in two Title IX cases.

Joy Behar claimed on the "Behind the Table" podcast that a conservative woman could have a better chance of winning the presidency than a liberal woman.

Masked California teenagers have caused hundreds of dollars in damage as part of a twisted TikTok challenge, making a resurgence among the youngsters.

Perfect for camping, hunting or just scoping out the neighborhood.

The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee was called out by the Trump White House Tuesday for shrugging off a colleague's texts with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein as merely "taking a phone call from her constituent."

Would you rather focus on the bleak present or take a break from this misery and consider what might be a brighter tomorrow?

Karoline Leavitt had an awkward conversation with her parents when she revealed she was dating a man who was nearly their age, the White House press secretary revealed to The Post.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended her new press rules in an interview on "Pod Force One" out Wednesday.

The Guardian published an investigation into Nigel Farage’s time as a schoolboy at Dulwich College, a private school in south London

Healey is now taking questions.

Q: How close are are we to war?

It is Labour that is the party of defence.

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"Republicans need to get off their butts and move and that's what the president wants to see them do and that's what the American people are expecting," Leavitt said.

• Starc: ‘They don’t listen – we would have liked Brisbane’

• Groundsman says wicket not affected by Metallica gig

Mitchell Starc has admitted that Australia’s players are upset at the decision to shift the opening Ashes Test from its traditional home of Brisbane’s Gabba – nicknamed “the Gabbatoir” because of its reputation as the graveyard of touring sides, and a ground where England have won just two of their last 20 games dating back to 1946 – to Perth Stadium.

Asked whether his side could expect to enjoy a similar advantage at the game’s new home, Starc said: “We’ll find out in a week, won’t we? They don’t listen to the players, we would have liked to start in Brisbane, too.” England’s Gus Atkinson meanwhile said that though “there are no scars for me” from his country’s previous failures in Brisbane given he is a first-time Ashes tourist, “history would say it’s probably a good thing we’re not starting at the Gabba”.

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The government gets to keep stacks of cash found by police on an Ontario man’s property — including $1.2 million buried in a tub under the floor of his garage — even though the owner was found not guilty of possessing the proceeds of crime and other charges. Read More

SHEJAIYA, Gaza City —  On the desolate edge of Shejaiya, where kilometres of concrete rubble, blackened window frames and twisted steel still divide Gaza from Israel, the international agreement meant to end hostilities is instead interrupted by daily incursions that test the fragile ceasefire. Read More

Much in politics is unpredictable, but some things are very predictable. For example, when Mark Carney unveiled his “Spend Less, Invest More” slogan and proposed to separate federal finances into an “operating budget” which he would balance in three years and another “capital budget,” it was entirely predictable that he would actually spend more but try to disguise it by re-categorizing spending as capital investment according to criteria invented by him that does not conform to any sort of accepted accounting principles. Read More

Since the October 7 pogrom by Hamas in southern Israel, Canada has seen a staggering surge in antisemitism, up 670 per cent in 2024, and in terrorism charges, up 488 per cent from April 2023 to March 2024. In both cases, the salient factor is Islamism. Read More

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Two of the world’s leading cult interventionists live (with their parrot) in Philadelphia. They explain the art of coaxing people out of the most pernicious cults in the world

When the phone rings at Patrick Ryan and Joseph Kelly’s home in Philadelphia, chances are the caller is desperate. One couple rang because their son was about to abandon his medical practice to follow a new-age guru in Spain. Another call came from a husband whose wife was emptying their life savings for a self-proclaimed prophet in Australia. Yet another family phoned about their niece, who was in a relationship with a man stealing from her, maybe drugging her, probably sexually assaulting her.

These families had tried everything else. When nothing worked, they heard there were two men in Philadelphia who might still be able to bring their loved one home.

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How are people expected to handle increased health insurance costs when everything else in life has become more expensive? I think the answer is: they’re not

I’ve got a genius business idea for people with few discernible skills. First you establish a “health insurance” company and get people to pay you large sums every month. Then, when a customer tries to use their insurance to cover medical costs, make a habit of denying their claim. While doing that, pay lobbyists to keep politicians amenable. Repeat this strategy until your company is worth billions.

I’m not saying this is exactly how the US health insurance industry works, but it’s close enough. There is a reason Americans spend the most on healthcare in the industrialised world, but have the worst health outcomes, according to an analysis by the Commonwealth Fund. Privatising a public good is great for a few well-remunerated executives but rarely benefits the masses.

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Design Museum, London
The Fantastic Mr Fox’s snappy outfits, an intricate model of the Grand Budapest Hotel and dozens of stop-motion puppets are all among the 700 objects in this sugarcoated quirkfest

Terrible things happen in Wes Anderson films. In his latest, The Phoenician Scheme, a man is casually split in half in an aircraft crash. In The Royal Tenenbaums, the patriarchal protagonist feigns a terminal illness in order to weasel his way back into his estranged and dysfunctional family. In The Grand Budapest Hotel the “heroic” concierge Monsieur Gustave is essentially a killer and the fictional Republic of Zubrowka is in the tightening grip of a fascist regime.

All this is played for knowing comedic effect (the splatted bisection resembles a Tom and Jerry cartoon; Zubrowka is a brand of Polish bison grass vodka), while lavishly sugarcoated in a set dressing of eccentric curios, outlandish costumes and saturated colour. Anderson aficionados will be familiar with the drill, a bit like finding a gnat in a cupcake, delivered in a series of perfectly composed vignettes.

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Data sharply contradicts officials’ portrayal of immigration sweeps as effort to fight ‘worst of the worst’ criminals

More than 97% of immigrants detained in the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago had no criminal conviction, according to federal court records.

The data, released on Friday and first reported by the Chicago Tribune, sharply contradicts the Trump administration’s portrayal of the immigration sweeps as an effort to fight crime and, as Trump himself has described it, targeting the “worst of the worst”.

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You can reject a budget. It’s not an inevitability, as much as the presiding government wants it to be. And on Monday, it would have been worth it, based on numbers alone. Read More

New parents quickly develop a keen understanding of the gains to be had from anything that helps avoid waking the baby. Peace and quiet for one thing. A period of calm. A moment to think. Read More

Chips giant to report financial performance in the face of market ‘angst’ about an AI bubble

Former friends told The Post that Chung was a designer-clad regular on the city's glittering social scene before cutting them off — only to reappear with a rap sheet.