Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy is resigning from Congress and will leave at the end of this year, he announced the Wall Street Journal in an op-ed published Wednesday.

Via a law announced Tuesday, Venezuela will create a new province or state in the disputed territory, having already appointed a single provisional authority: Major-General Alexis Rodríguez Cabello

Norman Lear, who revolutionized American comedy with popular early-‘70s sitcoms “All in the Family” and “Sanford and Son,” has died. He was 101.

The Army’s head sexual assault prosecutor has been relieved of his duties over a 2013 email in which he appeared to express doubt over sexual assault claims and downplayed the seriousness of assault allegations.

Peru's constitutional court ordered the "immediate release" of imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori, according to a court document published on Tuesday, marking the latest chapter in a dizzying legal saga for the controversial former leader. Fujimori, 85, is serving a 25-year sentence for human right abuses and corruption during his decade-long rule through the 1990s. The country's highest court ruled that an appeal to restore a 2017 pardon for the ailing Fujimori on humanitarian grounds was "founded," the document said. The constitutional court previously issued a ruling in Fujimori's favor in 2022, but the ruling was later suspended amid pressure from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR). Fujimori, convicted in 2009 of ordering the massacre of 25 people in 1991 and 1992 while his government was fighting against the Shining Path guerrillas, received a pardon on Christmas Eve in 2017 from former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

Panera Bread’s highly caffeinated Charged Lemonade is now blamed for a second death, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. Dennis Brown, of Fleming Island, Florida, drank three Charged Lemonades from a local Panera on Oct. 9 and then suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on his way home, the suit says. Panera has advertised its Charged Lemonade as “Plant-based and Clean with as much caffeine as our Dark Roast coffee.” At 390 milligrams of caffeine, a large, 30-fluid-ounce Charged Lemonade has more caffeine in total than any size of Panera’s dark roast coffee, the legal complaints say. The large cup contains more than the caffeine content of standard cans of Red Bull and Monster energy drinks combined, plus the equivalent of nearly 30 teaspoons of sugar, the complaints say.

McHenry, 48, served as House speaker pro tempore for three weeks this year after conservatives ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy from the top House job.

Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday dropped his nearly 10-month hold on hundreds of senior military promotions amid growing pressure from GOP and Democratic colleagues who asserted the move was endangering national security.

What a strange spate of "gas attacks" tells us about what was really lurking in mid-century America.

His quirky HBO show made him a star. Now, at the height of his powers, he’s landing on a fresh way to shock audiences: walking away to try something new.

And other fake news from the Supreme Court’s Purdue Pharma hearing The first hour and a half or so of Monday morning’s Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement, which shields from liability every member of Purdue’s OxyContin-peddling Sackler family, and a 24-page list of related parties, in exchange for their contribution of some $6 billion to the estate of the opioid empire, went about as you’d expect. Attorneys for both sides went back and forth variously over whether the settlement was “appropriate” under, and/or “not inconsistent” with, the bankruptcy code. The judges poked and prodded and showed off their intelligence. It was another day at the office. And then came Pratik Shah, an Akin Gump attorney who purported to represent the real “victims” of Purdue’s malfeasance, retained to offer a final ten minutes of discussion by the official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Purdue, which includes some 130,000 people who either personally experienced, or lost an immediate family member to, the OxyContin scourge. “Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the court, the U.S. Trustee does not speak for the victims of the opioid crisis,” Shah began his melodramatic oratory. “Quite the opposite. The Trustee appointed the official committee, my client, as the fiduciary representing their interests. Every one of the creditor constituencies in this case comprising individual victims and public entities harmed by Purdue overwhelmingly supports the plan. Indeed, it was the creditors that insisted on the release of the creditor claims against the Sacklers for the same injuries.”

The group had cited an estimate of the financial impact of organized retail crime that turned out to be a six-year-old survey of aggregate inventory losses for all reasons, including those unrelated to theft. On Friday, after the publication of Retail Dive’s story, the group said it had updated its report. It no longer includes any estimate of organized retail crime’s overall impact in dollar terms, the assertion that nearly half of shrink is attributable to ORC, or any mention of the National Coalition of Law Enforcement. In the original report, dedicated to organized retail crime and conducted with risk, compliance, investigations and monitoring firm K2 Integrity, the group had said that shrink was $94.5 billion in 2021, “nearly half of which was attributable to ORC, according to NRF survey data and research by the National Coalition of Law Enforcement.” ... Trevor Wagener, the chief economist at the Computer & Communications Industry Association, who has conducted research on these issues, found that using the NRF’s methodology ORC’s contribution to retail shrink is probably closer to 5%, in contrast to the 50% that results from using Dugan’s number. However, calculating the scope of ORC is an onerous task, he told Retail Dive.

A significant portion of demand for George Santos' Cameo videos appears to have come from Democrats, including John Fetterman.

A disinformation scholar who left Harvard University in August has accused the school of muzzling her speech and dismantling her research team.

The Boy and the Heron is as peculiar as life itself.

When Feeld shut down for updates last week, users lost their matches, missed out on dates, and generally descended into turgid madness.

From launching a historic strike at the Big Three automakers to calling for a cease-fire in the war on Gaza, the UAW has had a big year. And 2024 might be even bigger: the union is pushing to organize 150,000 workers at nonunion automakers across the US.

An attempted search warrant turned into a house explosion in Arlington County Monday night, police claim.

Some hallucinations could ‘potentially induce cardiac incidents in Legal,’ according to internal documents

A quest to uncover the truth about Bobi, named the “oldest dog ever” by Guinness World Records, led to dog fur experts and conspiracy theories, and left me with serious questions about how world records are verified.