Supreme Court allows Trump's sentencing in New York hush money case  —  The decision means that a sentencing hearing scheduled for Friday can go ahead as planned.  The president-elect had asked the high court to intervene.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President …

Fetterman to be first sitting Democratic U.S. senator to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago  —  Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has accepted an invitation from President-elect Donald Trump to meet with him at his Mar-a-Lago estate, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans.

Donald Trump Jr.'s Ridiculous Greenland Trip Just Took a Dark Turn  —  A MAGA visit intended to make Greenland look pro-Donald Trump appears staged from the bottom up.  —  The so-called tourism trip saw Donald Trump Jr., far-right political pundit Charlie Kirk, and Trump administration …

Inside Trump's Search for a Health Threat to Justify His Immigration Crackdown  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump's advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump is likely to justify …

Elon Musk and Donald Trump spread disinformation as wildfires rage in the LA area … As fires rage across Los Angeles and tens of thousands flee their homes, the usual suspects have decided to blame the blazes on their political enemies.  In a series of posts on Truth Social …

Judge Rejects Biden's Title IX Rules, Scrapping Protections for Trans Students  —  The decision threw out the administration's proposed regulations, which prohibited discrimination based on gender identity.  —  A federal judge in Kentucky on Thursday struck down President Biden's effort …

Thousands of homes destroyed or damaged in Palisades firestorm, LAFD estimates  —  Los Angeles fire officials said Thursday that thousands of homes appear to have been damaged or destroyed in the firestorm in Pacific Palisades, an estimate that would significantly heighten the scale of the disaster.

Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location  —  This article was produced with support from WIRED.  —  Some of the world's most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the advertising industry to harvest sensitive location data …

CNN's Scott Jennings Makes L.A. Fire Hell All About DEI  —  Scott Jennings felt the ire of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who took a blowtorch to him after he appeared to suggest on CNN NewsNight that the southern California wildfires are worse because there are not enough white men working …

'It's Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now': Employees Protest Zuckerberg's Anti LGBTQ Changes  —  Meta employees are furious with the company's newly announced content moderation changes that will allow users to say that LGBTQ+ people have “mental illness,” according to internal conversations obtained …

Karen Pence Snubs Donald Trump At Jimmy Carter's Funeral  —  This was the first time Mike Pence and Donald Trump have been together publicly since the insurrection.  —  LOADING  —  Former second lady Karen Pence appeared to snub President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday at former President Jimmy Carter's funeral.

Anita Bryant, Singer and Crusader Against Gay Rights, Dies at 84  —  She has hits with songs like “Paper Roses” and served as a spokesperson for Florida orange juice before her career came crashing down.  —  Anita Bryant, the pop singer and Oklahoma beauty queen who gained fame by convincing America that a …

Elon Musk says DOGE probably won't find $2 trillion in federal budget cuts  —  Musk previously said his Department of Government Efficiency would be able to recommend cuts to the federal budget of “at least $2 trillion.”  —  Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that his budget-cutting effort …

Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims  —  Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light to the team behind the company's Llama AI models to use a dataset of pirated e-books and articles for training.

“Pizzagate” gunman dies in officer-involved shooting in North Carolina  —  Edgar Madison Welch was stopped by officers outside of Charlotte.  —  Signs of support hang on the building at Comet Ping Pong in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 6, 2016.  The business is set to reopen after Edgar Maddison Welch …

Falsehoods around the L.A. fires are proliferating on the right  —  Anything to keep the realities of climate change from spreading.  —  There is nothing political about the wildfires that have annihilated thousands of buildings around Los Angeles this week, with two exceptions.

Trump's talk of retaking Panama Canal becomes a GOP bill … - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Tuesday she plans to introduce a bill that would rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” … - The bill authorizes the president and secretary of state to …

More than 15,000 doctors sign letter urging Senate to reject RFK Jr. as health secretary  —  Their letter calls the choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is known for promoting false medical claims, “a slap in the face” to health care professionals.  —  More than 15,000 doctors have signed …

Reality bites Trump … - “I do think that you kind of have to have some overage,” Musk, co-head of the Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE), told former Clinton pollster Mark Penn on X.  — “I think if we try for $2 trillion, we've got a good shot at getting $1 trillion,” he added …

Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking  —  Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen explosive rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will end …