The New York Times examined thousands of pages of documents and interviewed lobbyists, executives, lawmakers, regulators and others to understand how the sports-betting industry grew so big so fast.

The surgeon general’s guidance against the vaccine for young men ignored results showing infection was a greater risk for cardiac-related deaths.

Environmental law professor Jody Freeman urged to cut ties with ConocoPhillips, which pays her more than $350,000 a year

Jonathan Wohl was arrested for conducting a one-man protest against his union. When he was taken into custody, his phone kept recording.

The pro wrestling body said it moved quickly after learning about the offensive gaffe, adding: "We apologize for this error.”

Rupert Murdoch built an empire by giving viewers exactly what they wanted. But what they wanted — election lies and insurrection — put that empire (and the country) in peril. Dominion is now arguing in its seismic defamation lawsuit against Fox that the network had by then made its choice: It would amplify a lie to maintain its audience. Dominion is now seeking $1.6 billion in damages from the news network and its parent company in a defamation trial that — barring a settlement — is scheduled to start in Delaware this month. (Smartmatic is also suing, seeking $2.7 billion, with a trial date pending. In both cases, Fox is arguing that its actions are protected by the First Amendment.) Losses in either or both cases would represent a big hit to the balance sheet of the Fox Corporation, which reported a net income of $1.2 billion in 2022. But the case is about matters more existential than Fox’s bottom line.

Classified documents detailing secret American and NATO plans have appeared on Twitter and Telegram.

Republicans voted to kick Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson out of the legislature, while a vote to oust Rep. Gloria Johnson failed by one vote.

Jeff Lumpkin, 64, and his wife Patty Lumpkin, 68, of Fishers, Indiana, along with Rick Beaver, 60, and and his wife Bethe, 57, of Noblesville, Indiana, all died in the crash off the coast of Venice, Florida.

A new report on sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore details the horrors of life in some of the hardest-hit parishes and schools.

Former executives of Magellan Diagnostics are accused of knowingly selling faulty lead test devices for years.

For decades, casinos scoffed as mathematicians and physicists devised elaborate systems to take down the house. Then an unassuming Croatian’s winning strategy forever changed the game.

There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. This supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a never-before-seen 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars, twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy. It's likely the result of a rare, bizarre game of galactic billiards among three massive black holes. Rather than gobbling up stars ahead of it, like a cosmic Pac-Man, the speedy black hole is plowing into gas in front of it to trigger new star formation along a narrow corridor. The black hole is streaking too fast to take time for a snack. Nothing like it has ever been seen before, but it was captured accidentally by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Five years ago a Supreme Court ruling lifted a ban on sports betting. New York Times reporter Eric Lipton tells of the lobbying, favorable deals, partnerships and human impact following that decision.

After hours of fiery debate, the House expelled Reps. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, on a 72-25 vote, and Rep. Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, by 69-26, in a move that put the nation's eyes on Tennessee and its politics. But the House failed by one vote to achieve the two-thirds majority needed to kick Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, out of the chamber. The effort to expel Johnson failed on a 65-30 vote, as chants "Gloria! Gloria!" rang out in the House chamber. Republicans removed two of the youngest Black lawmakers from the General Assembly, further reducing an already small minority caucus.

Cristal, 31, was one of many to speak up against sexual violence in federal prison, but at the end of her sentence was taken by Ice

A Republican-backed bill to create a “jungle primary” that would box-out third party candidates in the next U.S. Senate race in Montana has advanced. Senate Bill 566 would create a primary system in which the top two candidates who win the most votes advance to the general election, regardless of party. Right now, each party has separate primaries and advances a winner. Hertz called his bill a test run as it includes a sunset date in 2025. The bill would take effect ahead of the 2024 campaign, when U.S. Sen. Jon Tester is up for reelection. Tester is the last remaining statewide elected Democrat and his bid to hold office is expected to be highly competitive. In 2012, Tester faced both a Republican and Libertarian candidate. Rep. Hertz highlighted that election saying Tester won with less than 50% of the vote. Senate Minority Leader Pat Flowers pointed out that in 2022, U.S. Congressman Ryan Zinke also won with less than 50% of the vote due to a third-party candidate, but the bill won’t address U.S. House races. Flowers said it’s obvious the bill is targeted at Tester. “Let’s not kid ourselves, this is just brazen partisanship targeting a single race. This isn’t fair, this isn’t what Montanans want, they don’t want one party rule,” Flowers said.

German director Uwe Boll was filming an NYPD drama in New York City last month. On the third day of shooting, crew members say that his producer showed up with a gun. Within a week, they were on strike.

The Biden administration on Thursday proposed new regulations that would allow schools to bar transgender athletes from participating in elite high school and college sports, but disallow blanket bans on the athletes that have been approved across the country. Specifically, the department’s proposal requires schools that wish to limit trans athletes’ participation to show that the decision relates to an important educational objective and minimizes harm to others. “The proposed rule … recognizes that in some instances, particularly in competitive high school and college athletic environments, some schools may adopt policies that limit transgender students’ participation,” the Education Department said in a fact sheet. It said the proposal would give schools “the flexibility to develop their own participation policies.”

Oklahoma's new attorney general on Thursday agreed death row inmate Richard Glossip's murder conviction should be overturned. Glossip currently is set to be executed May 18 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester for the 1997 murder of his boss. "The State has reached the difficult conclusion that justice requires setting aside Glossip's conviction and remanding the case to the district court," Attorney General Gentner Drummond told the Court of Criminal Appeals in a seven-page filing. His 2015 lethal injection was called off after a doctor realized the wrong heart-stopping drug had been delivered.