The Vatican has launched an investigation into how Pope Francis’ official Instagram account “liked” a sexy photo of a bare-bottomed Brazilian model, according to a report. Sources told Catholic News Agency that an internal probe is underway into the act involving Natalia Garibotto’s Instagram pic of her dressed in a racy schoolgirl uniform. News reports...

A former Sri Lankan fisheries minister chomped on a raw fish at a Tuesday press conference as seafood sales in the nation have plummeted over coronavirus concerns. “I am making an appeal to the people of this country to eat this fish. Don’t be afraid. You will not get infected by the coronavirus,” Dilip Wedaarachchi...

The list includes the names of prominent boosters of Taiwanese independence, Beijing-backed newspaper Ta Kung Pao and Bloomberg News reported.

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned an order requiring that election observers be allowed within six feet of ballot-counting operations. In its decision, the court said state law only requires that observers be allowed “in the room” where ballots are counted and does not mandate a minimum distance, NBC News said. The 5-2 majority opinion...

Pfizer’s top executive denied in an interview Tuesday that the drugmaker intentionally held major news about its experimental coronavirus vaccine until after the election to hurt President Trump’s reelection bid. CEO Albert Bourla flatly rejected the evidence-free rumor, saying the timing of last week’s encouraging vaccine announcement had nothing to do with politics.

A 71-year-old man died in Georgia after he fell into a campfire in a “freak accident,” officials said. The unidentified man had been staying as a guest on the property Saturday in Franklin when authorities believe he fell into the fire while trying to get out of his camping chair, news station WXIA reported. The...

Once a person develops immunity against COVID-19, it could last for years, a new study suggests. The promising research comes on the heels of the news of two vaccines with potentially remarkable effective rates — all of which combine to offer significant hope to beat back the pandemic, experts say. Scientists at the La Jolla...

Promising news out of two drug manufacturers working on a coronavirus vaccine has the International Olympics Committee going for the gold.

Senator Ted Cruz on Tuesday blasted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey over his company’s censorship of an exposé published by The Post that implicated President-elect Joe Biden in his son Hunter Biden’s business deals in China and Ukraine. Dorsey denied that the company acts as a publisher when it selectively censors distribution of news stories —...

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President Trump’s campaign on Monday attacked a news report about its legal strategy in Pennsylvania — calling the coverage a “complete mischaracterization” of the facts. The campaign accused the Washington Post of “erroneously claiming the campaign had dropped its legal claim of nearly 700,000 ballots processed illegally and in secret.” Instead, the campaign sa...

The Hermit Kingdom despot "stressed the need to keep a high alert" for any outbreaks at a meeting Sunday of the politburo of the ruling Workers Party, state news agency KCNA reported.

Only in Alaska. A brown bear crossing a runway in Yakutat was killed when it was struck by a landing Alaska Airlines flight Saturday evening, The Anchorage Daily News reported. Its roughly 2-year-old cub survived and no one was injured on the Boeing 737-700, which was left with a damaged left engine cowl after the...

Claudia Conway announced on Sunday that she is auditioning to be on the next season of “American Idol.” The 16-year-old daughter of former President Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway shared the news in an upbeat video posted to TikTok from an audition stage. “Hey guys, I’m here at ‘American Idol’ confessional,” Claudia says in the video,...

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...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX mission is getting ready to launch, and news outlets are already streaming as astronauts make the final preparations.

Travelers in Australia were greeted when their plane landed Sunday with the news that they must either quarantine for two weeks — or return home after the rules changed mid-flight. The Qantas plane arrived Sunday at Perth Airport from Adelaide in Southern Australia, which was the subject of new travel restrictions announced while passengers were...

"There’s no good way to say, ‘My mom was murdered 10 years ago,’” director Madison Hamburg told the Daily News, noting his new docuseries “is a way to get past that headline.”

A San Antonio boy who will turn 5 years old this month has been left an orphan after the coronavirus claimed both his parents within 100 days of each other, according to a report. “He misses his mom since he was a mama’s boy,” his grandmother, Rozie Salinas, told NBC News on Saturday about Raiden...

Hospitals, states and cities across the country are panic-buying freezers to store Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, which requires ultra-cold temperatures for storage, even as the Centers for Disease Control cautioned them to hold off. The scramble comes amid news from the drug giant that the new vaccine requires storage at temperatures of minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit,...

CNN International anchor Christiane Amanpour is being criticized after she compared President Trump’s four years in office to Kristallnacht. “This week 82 years ago, Kristallnacht happened,” Amanpour said on air, Fox News reported. Kristallnacht, literally the “Night of Crystal,” was a series of violent Nazi pogroms that heralded the Holocaust — its name prompted by.....

Those flouting masks after previous coronavirus infection and assumed immunity can still carry the virus and transmit it to others, doctors say. Reinfection is also possible, though these cases have been far and few between. Health experts told Fox News that, despite studies, there is still uncertainty over how long immunity lasts after infection. Not...

It’s a good thing he wasn’t a civics coach. Alabama Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville — a former Auburn University football coach — committed a series of major fumbles while discussing American government and history with a local newspaper. The Republican misidentified the three branches of government when asked by the Alabama Daily News if Democrats and...

ABC News, CBS News and NBC News, on Friday declared Joe Biden the winner of the presidential race in Georgia, with President Trump taking North Carolina.

President Trump described himself as a "realist" who knows that winning re-election against Joe Biden is a "longshot," Fox News journalist Geraldo Rivera said Friday.

An Aeroflot executive has been nabbed for allegedly spying for Britain, according to Russian news agencies. The London-based employee, Dmitry Fedotkin, is accused of passing secrets related to Russia’s social and political situation to Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service, according to an unnamed source cited by TASS and RIA news agencies. Fedotkin, however, did not...

Bigfoot has been found! A 4-foot wooden replica of the mysterious, elusive creature stolen from a California museum on Monday has been recovered, albeit with a few dings, police said. “Well some good news this morning,” Scotts Valley police posted on Facebook. “Officers responded to a suspicious figure in the roadway near Glen Canyon and...

Hollyanne Milley, a practicing nurse, told NBC News she heard a commotion just before President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and their spouses arrived at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Wednesday.

A Milwaukee news anchor is off the air for a mean-spirited social media post questioning why “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek died this year while Senate Republican leader Mitch McDonnell keeps on ticking. Ted Perry, WITI’s main anchor for its 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts, was suspended by the Fox-owned and -operated station for a...

Two Oklahoma state representatives announced Thursday that they’ve tested positive for the coronavirus, according to local reports. The GOP lawmakers, Reps. Kevin Wallace and Tammy Townley said in separate statements that they have both contracted the deadly virus, according to local television station KOCO News 5. In his statement, Wallace said he did not participate...