President Joe Biden won’t enforce a ban on the social media app TikTok that is set to take effect a day before he leaves office, a U.S. official says.

Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.

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WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden delivered a vigorous defense of his record and warned of an American "oligarchy" in a primetime address from the Oval Office as he bid farewell to four years in the White House and a five-decade political career. Biden, who will be replaced by President-elect Donald Trump in five days, said a "dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few, ultra-wealth people" poses enormous risks for the nation "if their abuse of power is left unchecked." "Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead," Biden said behind the Resolute Desk. "We've seen the consequences all across America, and we've seen it before."

"Drug-addicted rats" are eating narcotics seized and stored by Houston police, prompting a change in how long the police department is required to store the evidence, officials said. Houston Mayor John Whitmire, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare and Houston Police Chief J. Noe Diaz announced new steps Friday to dispose of drugs and other evidence kept at police headquarters downtown, some of which has been sitting there for decades, attracting rodents, even though cases they are linked to have long been adjudicated. About 1.2 million pieces of evidence are kept in the evidence room downtown and at a second location, a property warehouse, including hundreds of thousands of pounds of drugs, officials said. “We got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage,” Whitmire said. “The rats are the only ones enjoying it.”

Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Department.

The widely reported agreement must hold. We haven’t begun to understand the full scope of the horrors Israel wrought. And Palestine is still not free.

The UK environment secretary, Steve Reed, is pursuing legal action against a group of anglers who are trying to restore the ecosystem of a river. Lawyers for Reed will argue on Tuesday in the court of appeal that cleaning up individual rivers and streams devastated by pollution is administratively unworkable. The appeal was begun by the previous Conservative administration, after Pickering Fishery Association, a fishing club in North Yorkshire, won a landmark legal case against the government and the Environment Agency. The anglers successfully argued that the government and the Environment Agency had failed in their legal duties to protect the Costa Beck, a former trout stream near Pickering which has been devastated by sewage pollution and runoff from fish farms. The judgment ruled that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Environment Agency had devised plans for the Costa Beck that were so vague and lacking in commitment to real, on-the-ground action they would inevitably be ineffectual. It followed more than a decade of action by Pickering Fishery Association over the failure of the agency to restore the health of the river. Reed’s decision to continue the legal action flew in the face of Labour’s stated commitment to clean up rivers, according to Penny Gane, of NGO Fish Legal.

The governor laid out her latest subway safety plan in her State of the State speech.

Justin Baldoni is demanding Disney and Marvel preserve all documents relating to Nicepool from 'Deadpool & Wolverine' amid Blake Lively legal battle.

Becerra v. Braidwood Management threatens to make your health insurance worse.

This time, however, the attacks on Mann’s work have escalated to police seizing her photographs off the walls of The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and an investigation by Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare. This follows an article by right-wing publication the Dallas Express claiming the photographs constituted “child pornography.”

US President-elect Donald Trump’s contentious nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, was grilled Tuesday by lawmakers about past controversies he has been embroiled in, while expressing support for Israel killing all remaining members of Palestinian terror group Hamas in the war in Gaza.

Aurora Innovation is taking federal safety regulators to court in a case that could have far-reaching implications for self-driving truck companies operating in a regulatory environment designed around humans. The fight centers around the rather commonplace practice of placing physical warning triangles around semi trucks stopped along highways. The court denied Aurora’s request to be exempt from that safety requirement. Aurora, which plans to launch a fully autonomous commercial trucking operation in April, has turned to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to push regulators to green-light its exemption

Right now, Los Angeles seethes with the collective trauma of a metro area of millions buffeted about by hurricane-force winds that began last week. People whose lives and livelihoods were swallowed by an unrelenting blaze have been forced into the sort of stasis that accompanies the first few days after a crisis erupts. You can feel this tension everywhere: in the furtive questions asked softly over the coffee counter; in the far-off gazes of bar patrons who lost everything and don’t know how to resurface from the grief long enough to connect with concerned friends; in the familiar notification tones of the Watch Duty app ringing out on phones. With gusting winds returning, the smoke and ash that Angelenos have inhaled for a week is now mixing in their chest with another wave of dread. Which neighborhood will be next? It seems as if everyone knows someone who lost it all, whose friends lost it all, whose family lost it all. We personally know more than a dozen people who have lost their homes. Social media is awash with GoFundMes, spreadsheets of evacuation shelter needs, calls for cleanup volunteers, desperate requests for pet fosters, Red Cross form explanations and FEMA aid applications. Image after image of the monstrous inferno whipping through quiet Altadena streets, of the blackened silhouettes of Pasadena businesses, or rows and rows of homes reduced to ash in the Palisades roars past our timelines, assaulting the mind with what seems like unending devastation in communities all across Los Angeles. Amidst the destruction, there are glimmers of hope, too. Angelenos everywhere have heard the call for aid and stepped up in remarkable, even miraculous ways.

Negotiations between House DFL and GOP leaders failed to reach a deal before the Legislature convened at noon Tuesday.

Polestar says the rule would ban it from selling EVs in the US.

As the threat of a TikTok ban looms, some U.S. TikTok users are flocking to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu – making it the top downloaded app in the U.S.

Researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris Basin. The research is published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

The nonprofit organization, which has seen a drastic increase in users over the last week due to the L.A. fires, has a clear mission: “Watch Duty right now has one purpose, and that's life and safety.” As Watch Duty gains notoriety, some have speculated whether or not the company will stay a nonprofit. Mills is extremely clear about the future of Watch Duty. “No reason to change,” he says, adding that as long as he can pay his reporters and engineers a living wage, the rest doesn’t matter. Mills says he’s been very blessed to have made money in his career. “I don’t need the money right now. I’ll get paid again later,” he says, explaining his last company was a retail food service software that he sold to Chipotle and Sweet Greens. “I don’t want to sell this. To who? No one should own this. The fact that I have to do this with my team is not OK. Part of this is out of spite. I’m angry that I’m here having to do this, and the government hasn’t spent the money to do this themselves,” Mills says. “So, no, it’s not for sale. No, I’m not open to change all of a sudden, and I just don’t give a shit.”