Viral video shows Chicago mother and 9-year-old son brutally attacked by elementary school children, sparking community outrage and calls for change.

Prominent rabbis joined the Lemkin family in urging Pennsylvania officials to review an institute using a genocide scholar's name to accuse Israel of genocide.

Department of Health and Human Services report warns of risks from transgender medical procedures for children as Democrats continue supporting such treatments.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr sent a letter to the BBC, NPR and PBS on Wednesday over the BBC "intentionally distorting" President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, speech.

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Betty Markowitz has taught tap to senior citizens for more than two decades. "Seniors don't have to stop and lie on the couch and watch TV," she said. "Get up, get dressed, and get out!"

A Canadian Jewish advocacy group is demanding answers after an anti-Israel tribunal was held at the Senate of Canada over the weekend. Read More

The Transportation Department rolled out the design for a "first-of-its-kind" advanced female crash test dummy, aimed at improving safety standards to curb the higher injury rate women endure from certain car accidents.

Karoline Leavitt says Trump doesn’t want to execute Democrats after president’s earlier social post suggesting their behavior is ‘punishable by DEATH’

The Trump administration presented a new plan to roll back regulations in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) on Wednesday, a move experts fear will accelerate the extinction crisis if adopted.

The proposed changes would allow the federal government more power to weigh economic impact against habitat designations, remove safeguards against future events – including the impacts from the climate crisis – and rescind the “blanket rule” that automatically grants threatened species the same protections as those designated as endangered.

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Cracker Barrel shareholders spared CEO Julie Felss Masino after a branding crisis that wiped out hundreds of millions of dollars in value.

The two employees allegedly forcibly removed the teen's pants and shoved an air compressor tube into his anus — causing severe internal organ damage.

If multiple Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal is on the trade market, it’s being kept quiet so far.

The bandleader and Kimmel's best friend died of cardiogenic shock on Nov. 11.

Senate majority leader, John Thune, and others push the attorney general to release Epstein records within 30 days

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Within hours of Donald Trump signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, Republican senators were on the ground to issue a pointed message to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi: don’t bury these documents.

The bill’s passage marked a rare moment of bipartisan support in an otherwise ideologically fractured Congress as it now sets a 30-day deadline for the release of Department of Justice files related to the actions of convicted sex offender of minors and financier Jeffrey Epstein, dubbed by a judge “the most infamous pedophile in American history”.

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She dipped her toe into the trend almost 25 years ago and has never looked back.

“It’s 100% for fame and attention. The more the cops get called on her, the more famous she can get out of it," said Ross, a staffer at Hole In The Wall restaurant in Williamsburg.

• Wright says ‘someone like Jude frightens these people’

• ‘They cannot get to this guy. He’s a winner’

Former England striker Ian Wright has defended Jude Bellingham, insisting some people are not “ready for a black superstar”.

Bellingham has come in for criticism in some quarters for his reaction to being substituted during England’s World Cup qualifying win in Albania on Sunday, amid some suggestions he is a disruptive influence in the squad. However, Wright says some people are “frightened” of Bellingham’s success.

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Olympic gymnast Suni Lee dished about what she looks for in a man.

A sobering report is out from NYU's Furman Center -- and it comes amid forthcoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani's proposal to freeze rent of stabilized homes.

A baby boy was found dead in a black bag, ditched in a pile of leaves behind a Brooklyn public housing development Thursday, cops and law enforcement sources said.

The late vice president died on Nov. 3 “due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease,” his relatives said in a statement.

A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo of her asleep in a bed could make history Thursday when it goes on sale by Sotheby’s in New York.

Liz Kendall and Jo Stevens intervene after about 20 people claim they witnessed or were victims of Farage’s behaviour

Cabinet ministers have described detailed and multiple allegations of racism by Nigel Farage as a teenager as “repulsive” and doubled down on Keir Starmer’s call for Farage to address the claims.

Liz Kendall, the secretary for science and innovation and technology, said she was appalled by the descriptions reported by the Guardian.

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