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Jeffrey Toobin, the Supreme Court scribe at The New Yorker who became the talk of the town last month when he exposed him during a video call with coworkers, lost his job at the magazine on Wednesday.
Good thing firefighters don’t have to knock.
Pot sale and possession, consensual sex work and other offenses wouldn't be prosecuted by Quart if he wins the June Democratic primary for Manhattan DA.
The far-right leader used the Portuguese word "maricas," which translates to the English-language "f--got," while whining about the deadly outbreak in remarks Tuesday.
Mother Nature must be a horror fan. A wild new photo shows the gruesome moment a snake eel burst through the stomach of a heron midair — a scene that looks fit for the movie “Alien.” The one-in-a-million shot, snapped by amateur photographer Sam Davis in Delaware, shows the eel dangling from the bird’s gut...
Todd Locke Johnson, 51, was recovered from the overturned sports car Tuesday morning in Lake Lee in Polk County, news station WFLA reported.
The only photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon, and the first ever “space selfie,” are going up for auction alongside thousands of other rare photographs from the “golden age” of space exploration. The 2,400-photo “Voyage to Another World” collection, up for grabs at British auction house Christie’s, include the first images of the Earth...
A missing Kentucky man’s family believes his body has been recovered from a Texas creek. Benjamin Cowley, 30, of St. Matthew, Kentucky, was last seen Nov. 4 on a raft near a campsite at Lake O’ the Pines in Marion County, Texas, the Longview News-Journal reported. “The raft turned up the next day without him,”...
John Lennon's widow -- who has been using a wheelchair and previously spoke of a mystery "illness" -- now appears to have stopped working as she remains out of the public spotlight, The Mirror said.
The Lincoln Project, a group of prominent “Never Trump” Republicans who organized a media blitz against their party in the last two election cycles, is shifting its focus to the lawyers representing President Trump in his legal challenge of the 2020 election outcome. The effort will involve TV and digital ads as well as heavy...
The U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is set to ask food manufacturers to add sesame to food-label allergen warnings, as reactions rise to the tiny seed.
It could’ve been a hairy situation.
Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis has a new plan to curb racial injustice and police brutality protests in the Sunshine State: expand the “Stand Your Ground” law.
The 74-year-old music titan will mix traditional carols and tracks from her new album, “A Holly Dolly Christmas,” on the Dec. 6 show, according to CBS.
An Italian hospital overwhelmed by a surge in COVID-19 cases has resorted to having people line up in their cars to receive medical attention and supplemental oxygen.
Texas has become the first US state to exceed 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University early Wednesday. The Lone Star State has now recorded 1,010,364 coronavirus cases with 19,337 deaths since the pandemic began in early March, the figures show. The morbid milestone comes after the nation’s second-most populous...
An Atlanta principal drowned while trying to save his wife while on vacation in Puerto Rico. Westlake High School principal Jamar Robinson was swimming with his wife, Ann Marie, in the ocean behind the Condado Hotel in San Juan on Sunday when his wife began to struggle against the current, Telemundo Puerto Rico reported. He...
- MF Doom, masked rapper known for complex lyrics, dies at 49 (Category: USA, Maryland)
- MF Doom, masked rapper known for complex lyrics, dies at 49 (Category: USA, Iowa)
- MF Doom, masked rapper known for complex lyrics, dies at 49 (Category: USA, Maine)
- MF Doom, masked rapper known for complex lyrics, dies at 49 (Category: USA, Mississippi)
It’s the Democrats’ fault Kyle Rittenhouse went to a protest where he killed two lefty demonstrators with an illegal gun, his mom claimed Wednesday, as she revealed she didn’t even know her teenage son was at the out-of-state rally in the first place. “No one should have been there … the protesters should not have...
The term “superspreader event” has become a frequent refrain amid the global coronavirus pandemic — with the latest incident occurring at a Long Island wedding that has seen more than 40 people infected. But what exactly does it mean? What is a COVID-19 superspreader event? Superspreader events are gatherings in which one infectious person infects...
- Ohio couple open up about wedding turned COVID-19 superspreader event (Category: USA, New York)
- Ohio couple open up about wedding turned COVID-19 superspreader event (Category: USA, New York)
- Ohio couple open up about wedding turned COVID-19 superspreader event (Category: USA, New York)
- Ohio couple open up about wedding turned COVID-19 superspreader event (Category: USA, New York)
A Florida middle school teacher has been missing for more than two weeks – and investigators are asking for help from the public to find him. Robert Heikka, 70, was last seen on Oct. 25 at his home in Port Orange. He may be driving or in possession of a 2012 white Chevy Impala with...
A North Carolina teen was gunned down outside of a funeral church service in a drive-by shooting targeting mourners, police said. Fredrick Cox Jr., 18, was fatally shot Sunday afternoon outside Living Water Baptist Church in High Point, where mourners were paying their respects to another “young man,” police told The Raleigh News & Observer....
How’s this for a parenting lesson? An elementary school in France had to ban late-arriving parents from hurling their kids over its closed gate when dropping them off. Some tardy moms and dads “were literally throwing their children” over the 6-foot fence outside the Trillade school in Avignon, principal Sanaa Meziane told local outlet La...
A Japanese company has sold around 1,000 full-rubber face masks in the likeness of the U.S. president-elect — right down to his hand-painted blue eyes and bright white smile.
“I’m ... glad to finally see action taken toward realizing this goal, but cognizant of the reality that if the administration were not so resistant to reform, we would have advanced much further by this point,” Williams said in a Wednesday statement.
Voter fraud allegations don’t come cheap. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Tuesday he will pay up to $1 million “to incentivize, encourage and reward people to come for and report voter fraud” in the 2020 presidential election. People who have evidence that leads to an arrest and conviction will get a guaranteed payout of...
Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials are warning pet owners to be careful after a mountain lion took a family’s dog while they visited a popular tourist spot. The southern Idaho family was visiting the Wild Rose Hot Springs near Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve on the evening of Nov. 5...
YEREVAN – Armenian police arrested an opposition leader and several others who tried to stage a rally on Wednesday demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resign over a ceasefire deal that ended fighting with Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh. The protesters briefly chanted “Nikol is a traitor!” before they were detained in the capital Yerevan, but others started...
HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers announced Wednesday they would resign en masse after four of them were ousted from the semiautonomous Chinese territory’s Legislature in a move one legislator said could sound the “death knell” for democracy there. The resignation of the 15 remaining pro-democracy lawmakers will ratchet up tensions over the future...
- Steve Stark cartoon: Beaten, not broken (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Steve Stark cartoon: Beaten, not broken (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Steve Stark cartoon: Beaten, not broken (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Steve Stark cartoon: Beaten, not broken (Category: USA, North Dakota)
A Tennessee man was wrongfully convicted in connection to a 1998 Nashville slaying, and has been released from prison, authorities said this week. Joseph Webster, 41, was let go Tuesday from the Downtown Detention Center in Nashville, nearly 15 years into a life sentence he received in 2006 for the first-degree murder of Leroy Owens...
The “Deliverance” actor posted a creepy monologue to Twitter Wednesday urging Americans to join him in battling “this lie that Biden has been chosen" as the next president.
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