Ex-"Squad" Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a former Bronx middle school principal and lefty soulmate of Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, could land on a short list to be the next New York City schools chancellor.

"We thought it was a bomb or something, because we are all panicking around here," one witness said.

“It can be a very peaceful, sometimes religious, sometimes cultural and sometimes social experience,” one researcher said.

The four-page dissent letter, posted on the website for anti-Trump activist group Standup for Science, lays out several concerns EPA employees have with Administrator Lee Zeldin. 

It's poignant that this about face was forced by Thomas because he was the figure who took the debate of trans athletes in women's sports from a niche issue to a full-on nuclear culture war battle.

You wouldn't know it from the Democrats' caterwauling, but President Trump is riding high on a series of wins.

The scorned homeowner is seeking over $1.4 million in damages – valuing each mutilated tree at roughly $486,000.

They’re flushing millions down the toilets.

The best pitchers to hit the market could be Seth Lugo and Joe Ryan. And realistically, neither of them is all that likely to be out there, either. 

Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani is the front-runner to win the general election for mayor but could be vulnerable if anti-Mamdani voters coalesce around one opposition candidate, a new poll released Thursday claims.

Democratic socialist New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim immigrant, identified as both Asian and African American on his college application, a report claims. The 33-year-old checked both “Asian” and “Black or African American” on his Columbia University application, which was ultimately rejected, when he applied to the elite institution as a high...

The team battled a notoriously strong current and used the stars as their guide to reach an island in an unstable vessel made of Japanese cedar

Dr Yousuke Kaifu was working at an archaeological site on the Japanese islands of Okinawa when a question started to bubble in his mind. The pieces unearthed in the excavation, laid out before him, revealed evidence of humans living there 30,000 years ago, arriving from the north and the south. But how did they get there?

“There are stone tools and archaeological remains at the site but they don’t answer those questions,” Kaifu, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Tokyo, says.

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Luka Doncic’s future is hanging over the NBA offseason. 

"Orlando and Katy have been shifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on coparenting."

China's foreign minister touted the three-year war as keeping the US focused on Ukraine, claiming that if the war were to end, Washington would start putting its full attention in the Pacific and could enter into conflict with China.

Three years ago, Mike Brown assumed the Kings coaching reins and Sacramento’s offense completely changed.

The soccer star had reportedly opted to take the longer route because he’d been advised by doctors not to get on a plane while recovering from a lung-related surgery.

The brand's flattering jeans, pretty summer dresses and elevated leather accessories are a hit with celebs like Taylor Swift and Katie Holmes.

President Trump is at the height of his political power following Thursday's passage of his “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”.

Since Google rolled out AI Overviews in May 2024, the percentage of web searches without a click to a news site has jumped from 56% to nearly 69%.

Harvard University's campaign of defiance against the Trump administration could cost the Ivy League university up to a $1 billion a year in revenue if the president follows through with his threat to cut off all federal grants and research funding.

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans propelled President Donald Trump's big trillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final passage Thursday in Congress, overcoming multiple setbacks to approve his signature second-term policy package before a Fourth of July deadline. Read More

Costa Rica-based inter-American court of human rights says states have obligation to respond to climate change

There is a human right to a stable climate and states have a duty to protect it, a top court has ruled.

Announcing the publication of a crucial advisory opinion on climate change on Thursday, Nancy Hernández López, president of the inter-American court of human rights (IACHR), said climate change carries “extraordinary risks” that are felt particularly keenly by people who are already vulnerable.

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The Reservoir Dogs and Donnie Brasco actor had a rare, sometimes scary power, as well as a winning self-awareness and levity

• Michael Madsen, star of Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill and Donnie Brasco, dies aged 67

• Michael Madsen– a life in pictures

Until 1992, when people heard Stuck in the Middle With You by Stealers Wheel on the radio, they might smile and nod and sing along to its catchy soft-rock tune and goofy Dylan-esque lyrics. But after 1992, with the release of Quentin Tarantino’s sensationally tense and violent crime movie Reservoir Dogs, the feelgood mood around that song forever darkened. That was down to an unforgettably scary performance by Michael Madsen, who has died at the age of 67.

Stuck in the Middle, with its lyrics about being “so scared in case I fall off my chair”, was to be always associated with the image of Madsen, whom Tarantino made an icon of indie American movies, with his boxy black suit, sinister, ruined handsomeness and powerful physique running to fat, playing tough guy Vic Vega, AKA Mr Blonde. He grooved back and forth across the room, in front of a terrified undercover cop tied to a chair, dancing to that Stealers Wheel number, holding his straight razor, which he had removed from his boot – smirkingly preparing to torture the cop (that is, torture him further) by cutting off his ear.

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Court halts ruling that allowed migrants to challenge removal to countries where they could be in danger

The supreme court has allowed the Trump administration to deport the eight men who have been held for weeks at an American military base in Djibouti to war-torn South Sudan, a country where almost none of them have ties.

Most of the men are from countries including Vietnam, South Korea, Mexico, Laos, Cuba and Myanmar. Just one is from South Sudan.

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• An initial £45m bid was rejected by Forest last week

• Newcastle look to bolster squad for Champions League

Newcastle United are optimistic of striking a deal to sign the Nottingham Forest forward Anthony Elanga after submitting an improved offer worth about £55m. Last week Newcastle had a £45m bid rejected but have returned with an increased offer.

Newcastle and Eddie Howe are long-term admirers of Elanga, who featured for Forest in every Premier League match last season, scoring six goals and providing 11 assists as Nuno Espírito Santo’s side qualified for the Europa Conference League, returning to European competition for the first time since 1995-96. Newcastle qualified for the Champions League after finishing fifth.

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Early-morning negotiations proved enough to persuade hardline House conservatives to back bill in 218-214 vote

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The US House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill on Thursday, handing the president the first major legislative victory of his second term and sending to his desk wide-ranging legislation expected to supercharge immigration enforcement and slash federal safety net programs.

The 218-214 vote came after weeks of wrangling over the measure that Trump demanded be ready for his signature by Friday, the Independence Day holiday. Written by his Republican allies in Congress and unanimously rejected by Democrats, the bill traveled an uncertain road to passage that saw multiple all-night votes in the House and Senate and negotiations that lasted until the final hours before passage. Ultimately, Republicans who had objected to its cost and contents folded, and the bill passed with just two GOP defections: Thomas Massie, a rightwing Kentucky lawmaker, and Brian Fitzpatrick, who represents a Pennsylvania district that voted for Kamala Harris in last year’s election.

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The Supreme Court will hear cases on trans athletes in women's sports, and former NCAA athletes advocate for state laws preventing biological males in women's sports.

Prince Khalid bin Salman's secret White House meeting with Trump focused on Middle East peace efforts, including Iran de-escalation and finalizing a US-Saudi defense and trade deal.

Ukrainian president also expected to raise subject of future arms sales during planned talks on Friday

ICE set to receive more funds than the FBI, bureau of prisons and others combined, according to non-profit

The least expensive policy by far is to give the country enough now to win the war

The Supreme Court cleared the way for Trump officials to deport eight migrants from Djibouti to South Sudan, lifting a lower court’s block on the removals.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation denied allegations in an AP report that American contractors fired on aid-seeking Palestinians, stating it will pursue legal action.

In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.

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The apparent impasse came during a roughly hourlong conversation between the leaders on Thursday morning.

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Layoffs and departures after pressure from the Trump administration have left sites struggling, with the remaining employees each doing the work of two or three people.

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Ethan Guo, 19, had been documenting his attempt to fly solo to all seven continents on social media. He is no longer in custody but has no easy way to leave an island off Antarctica’s coast.

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Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat running for mayor of New York City, was born in Uganda. He doesn’t consider himself Black but said the application didn’t allow for the complexity of his background.

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He brought order and profits to Marvel in the 1980s and helped establish the genre as a popular-culture tent pole for decades to come.