President Donald Trump said he could legally invoke the Insurrection Act to tackle violent crime in Chicago, saying presidents have used it before.

Amazon’s biggest deals this week include Sony headphones, mini projectors, humidifiers and more.

Radio host Stephen A. Smith stood by his complaints earlier this month that Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crocket was too focused on performative outrage.

American President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron joined hands for around 26 seconds during oddly lengthy handshake in Egypt.

Social media criticized Brice Turang after he moved away from a pitch with bases loaded, costing the Milwaukee Brewers a chance to tie Game 1 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

"Golden Bachelor" star Gerry Turner warns ex-wife Theresa Nist she should be worried about his upcoming memoir, "Golden Years," releasing in November.

Russia strikes Ukrainian hospital with precision bombs, injuring six patients, as President Donald Trump threatens to give Ukraine Tomahawk missiles if Moscow won't settle.

Cody Balmer pleaded guilty to charges including attempted murder and terrorism after allegedly setting fire to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's mansion.

Israel's military said it opened fire on "several suspects" who were spotted crossing a boundary that troops pulled back to under the ceasefire deal.

During his $25 million fundraising walk across America, Pastor Corey Brooks discovers the Lancaster Central Market as a living example of American unity and diversity working together.

Republicans and Democrats remain deadlocked on federal funding as the House GOP criticizes Democratic healthcare proposals in the shutdown standoff.

UK and global GDP growth forecasts upgraded for this year but immigration controls could have negative impact

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The global economy has shown “unexpected resilience” in the face of Donald Trump’s tariffs, but the full impact is yet to be felt, and outlook for growth remains “dim”, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.

As policymakers gather in Washington for its annual meetings, the IMF has upgraded its forecast for global GDP growth this year to 3.2%, from 3% at its last update in July. Next year’s global forecast is unchanged, at 3.1%.

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A West Village townhouse once owned by Emmy- and Tony-winning actor and producer Ellen Barkin has hit the market for $23 million.

Dan and Phil had a big surprise for their fans on Monday.

Evacuations ordered in about 115 Los Angeles area homes as heavy rain and wind raise fears of mudslides and flooding

A rare October storm arrived in California on Tuesday and threatened to pummel wildfire-scarred Los Angeles neighborhoods with heavy rain, high winds and possible mudslides. Some homes were ordered to evacuate.

The evacuations covered about 115 homes mostly in Pacific Palisades and Mandeville Canyon, both struck by a massive inferno in January that killed more than 30 people in all and destroyed more than 17,000 homes and buildings in Los Angeles county.

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Dimon added that the US economy remained resilient, although he pointed to "signs of softening, particularly in job growth."

Democracy is under attack – and the watchdog agency has no quorum. It must be restored

Threats to the US electoral process keep accelerating. Donald Trump is issuing increasingly unhinged demands that his political adversaries and those who fund speech that he views as contrary to his political agenda or supports his political opponents be prosecuted. When a prosecutor balked at this political intervention, Trump simply found one who is more compliant.

In what appears to be yet another attempt to concoct support for unproven claims of voter fraud, the Department of Justice has issued exhaustive voting records requests to multiple states. Voting rights lawsuits have been dismissed. A division targeting foreign interference in our elections has been dismembered. Attempts are under way to make voter registration more onerous. Alarmingly, at least one commentator has warned that the extraordinary call-out of the military against US civilians on US soil may be a “dress rehearsal” for taking over the 2026 election from the lawful administrators in the states. Even short of a takeover, one could well imagine this administration developing pretexts for troop deployments in Democratic strongholds during voting. Indeed, Trump has already called for the military to use American cities, at least those run by Democrats, as “training grounds” and ominously talks of a “war from within”.

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Breaking both dawn and sanity, Twilight fan Jared Richards heads to the cinema to watch all five films for the 20th anniversary of Stephenie Meyer’s vampiric bestseller

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It is about 4am on a Saturday morning and a delirious energy is emerging at Randwick Ritz’s dusk-to-dawn, 12-hour marathon of the Twilight Saga. The cinema has the airs of an airport terminal after significant delays; at this point, people no longer care how they look and are doing anything they can to stay comfortable.

We’ve reached the night’s 30-minute “breakfast break”, which means we are three of five films into the romantic tale of clumsy, quiet teen Bella Swan, who moves to the foggy forest town of Forks, Washington and falls for Edward Cullen, a (permanently) 17-year-old vampire.

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The director of Sentimental Value and The Worst Person in the World made his English-language debut with this divisive family drama in 2015. It’s worth watching for Isabelle Huppert alone

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Long before Joachim Trier made the Oscar-winning The Worst Person in the World and this year’s festival megahit Sentimental Value, there was 2015’s Louder than Bombs: a far stranger, slipperier film worth watching for Isabelle Huppert’s spectral turn alone. She plays a character also called Isabelle, a renowned war photographer whose secrets haunt her family three years after her sudden death.

Her teenage son Conrad (Devin Druid) still daydreams in class about the car crash that claimed her life, imagining her final, panicked moments. His brother Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) and father Gene (Gabriel Byrne) know (and conceal) the truth: that her fateful, split-second swerve was an act of suicide.

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"I love reading so much because I feel like it's the most accessible way to get outside yourself," the "Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?" author tells Page Six.

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Donna Adelson, 75, was repeatedly slammed by the sentencing judge for her "utter lack of remorse."

In South Florida, Bal Harbour’s condo market is on fire. A corner skypad at Oceana Bal Harbour just sold for $29 million — plus an additional $1.5 million for a parking space and furniture— for a record-smashing total of $30.5 million.

The two people killed when a small plane crashed on a Massachusetts highway were a married couple who appeared to take off without a flight plan — and without the aircraft’s owners knowing why it was being flown. Thomas Perkins, 68, and his wife, Agatha Perkins, 66, of Middletown, Rhode Island, were found dead in...