Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead via Flickr (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump continues to announce his picks for top jobs inside his administration, most recently naming nominees for energy secretary and to helm the Federal Communications Commission. Meanwhile, fallout continues for former Rep. Matt Gaetz, Trump’s choice to serve as attorney general. The […]
Ismail Sen/Anadolu via Getty Images (CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) — Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space when she made a remarkable discovery. Barber used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to observe the brightness of stars over time. During the […]
Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images, FILE Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused of sexually assaulting a then-39-year-old man at a 2022 house party he hosted in New York, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. The anonymous plaintiff said he attended the party and consumed alcohol that had been provided to him by other individuals there. “After consuming the […]
Earlier this offseason, you may recall that we attempted to divine who would sign free-agent outfielder Juan Soto by ranking all 30 clubs based on their perceived likelihood to strike a deal. As part of the process, we clocked the Boston Red Sox as the seventh-most likely landing spot for Soto, writing in part: “This […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it’s happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes intensified by a warming planet and drought-fueled wildfires are destroying our communities. Rising seas and flooding are swallowing our homes. And record-breaking heatwaves are reshaping our way of life. The […]
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Melissa Lucio, the death row inmate who was convicted of capital murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, is speaking out in an exclusive statement and audio recording to ABC News for the first time since a judge found last month that the Texas mother who has been behind bars […]
Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that heart surgeon-turned-TV-host Dr. Mehmet Oz would lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). “America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again,” Trump said in a statement. “He is […]
Getty Images The 2024 NBA Cup is underway, as the league continues Year 2 of its in-season tournament. The third night of games took place on Tuesday with 12 teams in action. The Cavaliers (against the reigning champion Celtics), Lakers and Thunder were among the teams trying to stay undefeated in NBA Cup action, but only […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATIONCavaliers 117, Celtics 120Hornets 115, Nets 116Nuggets 122, Grizzlies 110Pelicans 91, Mavericks 132Thunder 104, Spurs 110Jazz 118, Lakers 124 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUEOilers 5, Senators 2Lightning 3, Penguins 2Wild 4, Blues 2Panthers 3, Jets 6Ducks 3, Blackhawks 2Islanders 1, Flames 2Rangers 4, […]
Emily Fennick / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Righteous Torrance “Chevy” Hill had great plans for his future, cut short by a fatal shooting in front of his own home in February. Hill, a transgender man, left behind a budding legacy of activism as the founder of an LGBTQ-focused salon and barber shop called Evollusion. […]
