In a court filing, Jenny Cudd’s attorneys said their client “planned and prepaid for a weekend retreat” in Riviera Maya and would like to attend.

Beverly Hill salon owner Gina Bisignano, who made headlines late last year for anti-LGBTQ verbal attacks, was indicted on seven counts for her alleged role in disgraced former president Donald Trump's January 6 attempted Capitol coup. At least five people died as a result of the insurrection.The cha...

A new analysis of 11 teeth found in a cave in Jersey, an island in the English Channel, suggests that some of them could have belonged to individuals that had mixed Neanderthal and early modern human ancestry.

This could help explain why so many health care workers are refusing shots.

What on earth are we waiting for?!

China and Japan are among the diplomatic posts the well-known Democrat could be chosen for.

Six people were arrested Monday after scaling steep terrain around the iconic Hollywood sign and strategically changing two of the letters.

In 1999, 23,700 struggling Mississippi families received the welfare check – a max of $170 a month for a family of three. Today, the number of families has dropped to under 3,000, and the amount remains $170. In those two decades, as fewer and fewer families sought or qualified for the meager benefit, Mississippi had to find other ways to spend the $86.5 million annual block grant from the federal government called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Mississippi public and nonprofit officials used the money to purchase a new volleyball stadium, a horse ranch for a famous athlete, multi-million dollar celebrity speaking engagements, high-tech virtual reality equipment, luxury vehicles, steakhouse dinners and even a speeding ticket, to name a few. They were under virtually no requirement to report this detailed spending to the federal government.

Guy who probably loves telling people "combat isn't like in the movies" learns that legal systems aren't either.

When I wrote a piece last spring called “The Biden Do Not Reappoint List,” it did not even occur to me to include Cass Sunstein on the roster of Clinton and Obama horribles such as Larry Summers and Mike Froman. The return of Sunstein seemed inconceivable. For those who missed it, Sunstein under Obama headed a White House office called OIRA, which stands for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. It was created late in the Carter administration and then used under Reagan as a choke point to kill health, safety, environmental, and labor regulations. If a regulation somehow made it out of an agency, OIRA provided one more chance for industry lobbyists to weaken it or kill it altogether. But of all the heads of OIRA, Sunstein was the one who perfected the art of strangling regulations, using cost-benefit gambits and other devices. He actually bragged that under Obama, thanks to his efforts, there were fewer regulations issued than under Reagan or either Bush. He was especially the nemesis of EPA.

North Carolina is one of two states that allows children to get married as young as 14 years old. A group of state lawmakers want to change that this year. If passed, House Bill 41 and Senate Bill 35 would prevent anyone under the age of 18 from marrying. Sen. Vickie Sawyer, a Mooresville Republican, partnered with the Tahirih Justice Center to find a way to change North Carolina’s law and sponsored the bill in the Senate. A Tahirih Justice Center news release sent Monday stated that North Carolina is tied with Alaska for having the lowest age of marriage set by statute in the United States. That’s a statistic Sawyer said in the news release pains her. In North Carolina, 50 counties list 4,000 minors as married, the news release states. But that number is estimated to be closer to 10,000 if all 100 counties reported. Of those married children, 93% married an adult, with 200 being married to someone 10 years or more older than the child, the justice center reports.

A farmer who was half kidding when she suggested hiring out her goats out for Zoom meetings during lockdown has said making £50,000 shows it was no joke. Dot McCarthy, from Rossendale in Lancashire, said the number of people paying for "show goat" Lola and others to butt in on calls had been "insane". She said it had kept Cronkshaw Fold Farm open and staff in work and had also paid for improvements to the site. She added that it was "more fun" than selling manure to make ends meet.

I have no interest in revenge, but I would like people to know what happened to me and how it has been swept under the carpet – so that we are protected from presidents like Biden’s predecessor who might make someone face it again. The stain of torture can be excised from American history. Biden and his administration can’t just put their heads in the sand and pretend it did not happen. The US is currently paying $13.8 million a year just to keep me here, so he could save a lot of money by just letting me go home. I am just taxi driver from Karachi, a victim of mistaken identity. The CIA even captured the real Hassan Ghul, but after interrogating him they let him go and kept me imprisoned. Perhaps they are embarrassed by their mistake?

The shoebill stork is not actually stork. These birds stalk the marshes of South Sudan, Uganda, and elsewhere in tropical East Africa.

When tech companies created the facial recognition systems that are rapidly remaking government surveillance and chipping away at personal privacy, they may have received help from an unexpected source: your face. Companies, universities and government labs have used millions of images collected from a hodgepodge of online sources to develop the technology. Now, researchers have built an online tool, Exposing.AI, that lets people search many of these image collections for their old photos. The tool, which matches images from the Flickr online photo-sharing service, offers a window onto the vast amounts of data needed to build a wide variety of A.I technologies, from facial recognition to online “chatbots.”

Three leading champions of marijuana reform in Congress said on Monday that the issue will be prioritized in the new Democratic Senate this year and that they plan to release draft legislation in the coming weeks to begin a conversation about what the federal policy change will look like. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said in a joint statement that ending cannabis prohibition “is necessary to right the wrongs of this failed war and end decades of harm inflicted on communities of color across the country,” but that alone “is not enough.” The lawmakers, each of whom has advocated for federal legalization, said that “we must also enact measures that will lift up people who were unfairly targeted in the War on Drugs,” especially as more states opt to legalize.

Scenes of unrest from the streets of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vladivostok, and other Russian cities this weekend.

The mother of a teacher killed in the Parkland school shooting is calling on Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to publicly disavow conspiracy theories she's pushed in the past after a phone call with the Georgia representative.

Approximately one year after a team of evangelical leaders declared him “not qualified” for leadership due to “credible” allegations of “ungodly and immoral behavior,” including predatory sexual activity, Fresh Fire USA leader Todd Bentley says he’s now back after hearing from God. Stephen Powell, an estranged protégé of the controversial faith healer, first highlighted sexual misconduct allegations against the Fresh Fire USA leader. He alleged that Bentley “has an appetite for a variety of sexual sins, including both homosexual and heterosexual activity” and accused the evangelist of indulging in an open marriage with his wife, Jessa.

Attorney Alan Dershowitz, who served on the legal team representing former President Trump during his first impeachment, has nominated the former president's son-in-law and former top White House adviser Jared Kushner for the Nobel Peace