Doug Henning, a 43-year-old Maine man who met his biological father for the first time last week, pulled a page out of the movie “Elf” and dressed like Will Ferrell’s lovable Buddy character for the introduction, WCSH-TV reported Thursday.

“Bad boys, bad boys. Whatcha gonna do?” Those were the words a brazen “bad boy” was jamming out to during a traffic stop in southwest Florida this week, authorities said. The alleged street racer shamelessly blasted the reggae classic, which was the theme song for the hit TV show “Cops,” after getting pulled over on a highway near Naples late Wednesday night, according to the Collier County Sherif...

'I’m sorry, I’d like to keep our viewers as safe as humanly possible,' said Sorkin, whom Santelli accused of thinking he's smarter than the network's viewers

America’s three most recent former presidents have reportedly all said they would publicly take a COVID-19 vaccine once one is approved to help promote the drug’s safety. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton told CNN of their intentions — while former President Barack Obama said in an interview set to air Thursday he...

A beloved Texas nurse was fatally shot by her boyfriend, who then turned the gun on himself, authorities said. McKinney police found Marjorie Tate, 54, a nurse at Texoma Medical Center, dead from a gunshot wound in her home on Nov. 18, KTEN-TV reported. Tate’s daughter reported her missing that same day. Cops also found...

Ohio health officials are cautioning state residents to avoid traveling to … Ohio. The Buckeye State has just added itself to the state’s COVID-19 travel restriction map amid a resurgence of the global pandemic, WEWS-TV reported Wednesday. That means Ohio is among 14 states the health department says should be avoided by Ohioans — and...

The body of a 28-year-old woman was found in the trunk of a car after it crashed during a police chase in Texas, authorities said. Troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety discovered the remains of Briana Teirra Johnson on Saturday while searching a white Honda they’d been pursuing, local ABC affiliate KTRK-TV reported....

Police are warning Seattle-area homeowners about a group knocking on the doors of pricey waterfront properties claiming to be their rightful owners — and in one case, told a woman she was being evicted. The individuals identify themselves as Moorish Sovereign Citizens, CBS Seattle affiliate KIRO-TV reported. The group believes they are independent from any...

A Virginia “porch pirate” dressed as an Amazon delivery driver swiped three packages from a front stoop this week. The thief struck just before 11 a.m. Tuesday on Cary Street Road in Richmond, dropping off a package before grabbing three unattended boxes, according to Ring camera video obtained by WRIC-TV. Then the person, with an...

A deep-frying turkey may have sparked a fire that destroyed three homes in Massachusetts Thanksgiving morning, authorities said. Residents heard an explosion before the blaze ripped through several homes in their New Bedford community at around 10 a.m., WBZ-TV reported. One woman was seriously hurt and rushed to St. Luke’s Hospital. Twenty-seven people were displaced...

Penguin Random House will buy the New York-based Simon & Schuster, whose authors include Stephen King, Hillary Clinton and John Irving, from TV and film company ViacomCBS for $2.17 billion in cash.

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday expressed interest in meeting with President Trump after he formally unveiled Cabinet picks and taped his first TV interview since the election “Of course I would, if he asked,” Biden told reporters about potentially meeting with Trump. Biden is leading his presidential transition from Wilmington, Del., and filmed his first...

President-elect Joe Biden will give his first post-election TV interview to Lester Holt of NBC News, the network announced Monday. The interview will air Tuesday at 6:30 pm on “NBC Nightly News.” Additional clips will air Wednesday on the “Today” show and cable channel MSNBC. Holt hosted a controversial campaign town hall event with Biden...

The parade will still be broadcast to millions of Americans on television this Thursday, but New Yorkers hoping to catch a glimpse in person, for the most part, will be out of luck.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Sunday said that he’ll work with whoever becomes the US president — but won’t congratulate a winner until all legal avenues are exhausted or one of the candidates concedes. “We will work with anyone who has the confidence of the American people,” Putin said during an interview on state-run TV....

Four days after being ridiculed over a sudden growth of hair, presidential adviser Stephen Miller appeared on CNN as a bald man once more

The genial TV quizmaster died Nov. 8 in his Southern California home after a highly public battle with pancreatic cancer.

A 12-year-old New Orleans girl was reportedly charged with murder over the death of her 6-month-old brother, officials announced on Thursday. The juvenile was charged after the infant was found dead at the family’s St. Charles Parish home on Sunday, WWL-TV reported, citing police. “He was perfect,” the children’s aunt, Nicole Brown, told the outlet,...

A Washington man applying for a job with the state’s police force got arrested mid-interview. The 31-year-old admitted something that set off alarms as he was going through the background check and polygraph test process for a gig with the Washington State Patrol on Tuesday, local outlet KING-TV reported. “A person in the application process...

MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow dropped a bombshell on Thursday's program by stating that her longtime partner was battling COVID-19.

Spanish transgender icon Cristina Ortiz, better known as La Veneno, was a beloved television personality, sex worker, and singer who reached mainstream success in the late 1990s.

Mexican TV star Kate del Castillo slammed actor Sean Penn for using her as “bait” to get to drug cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and said he exaggerated his “full of s–t” Rolling Stone interview. Del Castillo appeared on an episode of “Red Table Talk: The Estefans” on Facebook Watch and recounted the 2015...

Mariah Carey is back to ring in the holidays.

Stern also urged the president to stop working his “loony hillbilly” followers into a frenzy with unfounded conspiracy theories about election fraud.

The state-run Global Times and China Central TV on Monday cited one of China’s top coronavirus experts, Zhong Nanshan, who said the country’s vaccine was about 90 percent effective.

A young Florida television reporter was killed in a motorcycle crash over the weekend, according to her workplace. Jenny Lenzini, 26, of NBC2 and ABC7 was riding on the back of a motorcycle Saturday afternoon in Sarasota County, when the driver lost control of the vehicle and hit a tree, the news outlet said. The...

A mother and her four young daughters were killed after a fire erupted inside their home in Illinois Wednesday morning, authorities said. The fire broke out near the staircase on the second floor where the family resided before spreading throughout the building shortly after 10 a.m. in Des Plaines, WLS-TV reported. Firefighters immediately arrived at...

The Indianapolis teen accused of gunning down five family members, including a pregnant woman, has been hit with murder charges. The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office filed six murder charges Thursday against the 17-year-old suspect — identified as Raymond Ronald Lee Childs III — in connection with the Sunday bloodbath, WISH-TV reported. Childs was also charged...

MOSCOW — Moscow police launched a series of raids Wednesday on apartments and offices of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s family and associates, arresting his brother. The searched locations included Navalny’s apartment, where police detained his brother, Oleg, and a rented apartment where Navalny’s wife, Yulia, has been living. Video on the internet TV...

American Airlines booted 20 Utah passengers – 10 adults and 10 kids, all from the same family – from a flight to Dallas over noncompliance with its face-covering policy. Family member Scott Wilson cried foul over their ouster from Flight 1214, telling KSL-TV that one mask slipped below one of the passengers’ nose but was...