Former Canadian alt-right YouTuber Lauren Southern has accused manosphere influencer and alleged rapist Andrew Tate of sexual assault.

Southern alleges in her memoir, “This Is Not Real Life,” that Tate assaulted her after the two met in 2018 when she was 22 years old.

She released several chapters from her self-published book for free on ...Read more

Public broadcasting and a swath of foreign aid programs are on track to lose federal funding after the Senate voted to advance a $9.4 billion package of cuts on a 51 to 50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance breaking a tie.

The procedural vote is a strong sign the bill will pass the Senate after a marathon amendment session planned for ...Read more

Experts are warning that cuts the One Big Beautiful Bill Act makes to Medicaid pose a significant threat to rural hospitals, but hospitals across Virginia are bracing for the impact.

Chesapeake Regional Healthcare, for example, projects a loss of more than $20 million as a result of the cuts.

“While the fiscal impact on our organization is ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The family of Narciso Barranco was reunited with the 48-year-old landscaper on Tuesday, July 15, after bureaucratic delays postponed his bond release from the Adelanto U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center.

Barranco, of Tustin, whose detainment by ICE agents late last month in front of a Santa Ana business ...Read more

Maryland joined nearly two dozen states and the District of Columbia in suing the Trump administration for withholding $6.8 billion in previously authorized education grants intended for K-12 and adult education programs.

According to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, the federal Department of Education notified states on June 30 that ...Read more

The number of flights coordinated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement out of King County International Airport has gone up significantly in recent months, according to a report from La Resistencia released Tuesday.

Yet the efforts to track the number of flights have been shrouded by a lack of transparency from the county and secretive ...Read more

Undocumented immigrants will no longer be able to access Head Start, the federal preschool program for low-income children, under a notice Thursday from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Head Start, a project of the Johnson-era war on poverty, marks its 60th birthday this year, and about 15,000 children in Washington ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A 22-year-old man has been arrested in the fatal shootings of longtime “American Idol” music supervisor Robin Kaye and her rock musician husband, Tom Deluca.

The couple are believed to have been killed after walking in on the suspect inside their $4.5 million Encino home, which is heavily secured, with a large wall and ...Read more

Yogurt that includes pieces of beloved candies might also have sharp pieces of plastic, causing the latest not-food-in-your-food recall.

In a plastic dome atop recalled YoCrunch yogurts, you find M&Ms, crumbled Oreos, granola, pieces of Snickers, Twix and cookie dough to add for texture. But, Danone U.S.’s recall notice states, customers ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Pentagon on Tuesday announced that half of the 4,000 National Guard troops who have been deployed to Los Angeles will be released from their duties.

Sean Parnell, Pentagon spokesperson, said that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had ordered 2,000 of the National Guard troops released from what they called a “federal ...Read more

Elmo returned to X on Tuesday with a message of love, two days after a hacker used the beloved “Sesame Street” character’s account to spread antisemitic bile.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok — also known to produce content sympathetic to fascist icon Adolf Hitler — met Elmo with open arms.

“Thank you for being kind to Elmo and all ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Millions of federal grant dollars are returning to the Philadelphia area after a federal judge ruled that sweeping cuts to medical research funding by President Donald Trump’s administration were discriminatory.

New Jersey and Delaware will also claw back millions in funding lost at public universities when dozens of National...Read more

U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, a Florida Republican who has advocated for creating a legal pathway for immigrants who have been living and working in the U.S. for years without a criminal record, on Tuesday announced a renewed version of her 2023 Dignity Act, which would provide deportation protections to some migrants and allow them to work in...Read more

NEW YORK — Thirty-one rookie police officers who the NYPD is trying to fire because of alleged oversights by a rogue commander during the hiring process will remain on the job while their union fights for them in court, a Manhattan judge ruled Tuesday.

At a hearing, state Supreme Court Justice Phaedra Perry-Bond denied a request from the city...Read more

The Miccosukee Tribe is seeking to join a lawsuit against the state and federal governments over the hastily built migrant detention facility in the Everglades — a place the Miccosukee call home.

The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida filed a motion on Monday to join nonprofits Friends of the Everglades, Center for Biological Diversity ...Read more

The sudden death of a 54-year-old man who was on tour with Annabelle, said to be the world’s most haunted doll, is being mourned by the paranormal world.

Dan Rivera was the lead investigator for the New England Society for Psychic Research or N.E.S.P.R., an organization founded by famed, late Connecticut paranormal investigators Ed and ...Read more

A Georgia sheriff’s deputy was fired this week after a police dog was left in a hot car for too long and died.

The Dade County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that a K-9 officer, a bloodhound named Georgia, was allegedly left in a closed patrol car with a malfunctioning air conditioner on Sunday while the heat index was over 100 degrees. ...Read more

Massachusetts health officials are reporting the first confirmed case of West Nile virus in an animal this year, as people are urged to take precautions against mosquito bites.

A goat was recently exposed to the virus in Lunenburg in Worcester County, the Department of Public Health announced on Tuesday.

“With this evidence of an animal ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — An unsealed search warrant accompanying a federal indictment against alleged political assassin Vance Boelter on Tuesday revealed troubling new details despite a murky motive, including a rambling letter addressed to the FBI claiming he was instructed to carry out deadly violence against Minnesota lawmakers under threat of harm. ...Read more

University of California, Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons on Tuesday forcefully defended his university against accusations that it has tolerated antisemitism as Republicans on a congressional education committee grilled him and two other university leaders. All three top administrators pushed back on assertions that they have not done enough to ...Read more