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Comedian turned talk show host Bill Maher savaged his alma mater, Cornell University, and called for the entire Greek system to be abolished in the wake of a former student’s lawsuit allegation that she was gang-raped at...Read more

Tobey Maguire closed off one chapter of his love life by helping ex-wife Jennifer Meyer enter a new one.

The "Babylon" and "Spider-Man" star, 51, officiated Meyer's marriage to music executive Geoff Ogunlesi at the Four ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday is expected to announce a sweeping review of the NYPD’s use-of-force policies while announcing changes he says will improve police accountability.

The changes include the ...Read more

Sean 'Diddy' Combs was reportedly rushed to hospital after suffering a head injury in the New Jersey prison in which he has been serving his 50-month sentence.

The 56-year-old rapper, who was convicted of two counts of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A trio of storms since early September has put considerable strain on the historic Long Beach boardwalk, which collapsed further between 64th and 65th Place on Seaside Walk during a weekend of heavy surf.

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Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home Monday.

Homeland Security Investigations agents conducted the search, according to The Associated Press and Fox News. The Department of Justice said in a ...Read more

Pope Leo XIV will not present an inaugural Villanova University sustainability medal in his name, as he is slated to undergo surgery in the coming days to remove a small growth discovered in his lung.

The 71 year-old ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel damaged coastal homes in Long Beach and brought flooding and debris flows to the Coachella Valley, National Weather Service forecasters project the worst has ...Read more

Edward Lovelace "stalked" Adam Pearson before approaching him about featuring in Zero Intention of Living Quietly.

The filmmaker has helmed the new documentary - which sees the actor, who suffers from the genetic ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is on a collision course with President Donald Trump, who is increasingly looking at Kyiv’s battle against Russia primarily through the lens of energy prices ahead of U.S. midterm ...Read more

CHICAGO -- The handwriting is messy, the spelling faulty. Some cried as they wrote. Others were so excited that they struggled with what to say. Some did not know how to write at all, and, in those letters, only a few ...Read more

CHICAGO -- By the time one of Chicago’s immigration judges was called in to the court supervisor’s office and asked about a case they had recently shelved, the city’s immigration court had replaced Operation Midway ...Read more

BOSTON -- Federal prosecutors are renewing a motion to call three witnesses who allegedly had affairs with ex-Stoughton cop Matthew Farwell to the stand during his federal murder trial.

A judge had ruled against admitting...Read more

Venice, Telluride and Toronto have wrapped, and the New York Film Festival is winding down. Ovations have been meticulously timed. Existential crises have been parsed, not including the trauma induced by Tom Cruise's "...Read more

Mr. V felt tightness across his chest. His deepest breaths felt shallow. He sought help at an emergency department, where a resident physician found several worrying signs, including swelling of his hands and legs as ...Read more

When Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of ...Read more

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.

How much rain can a hurricane make, and how much do big ...Read more

A wave of anti-transgender legislation has appeared in statehouses across the country over the past few years. Now, transgender issues are a recurring topic on the 2026 midterm campaign trail.

As a scholar of ...Read more

More than 119 million Brazilians voted on Oct. 4, 2026, in the national elections to select the country’s next president and the governors of all 27 states, among other government officials.

That’s nearly 75...Read more

Celine Dion has been training "as if she were a professional dancer" for her Paris residency.

The 58-year-old singer stepped out of the public eye after being diagnosed with the neurological condition stiff-person ...Read more