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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are preparing to relocate their family back to the United Kingdom. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, 41 and 44, have reportedly enrolled Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, in UK schools for the…
A California lifestyle brand known for $165 sweatpants is facing fierce online backlash after an influencer posted video of a homeless man sleeping inside one of its stores. Lizzy Benichou, an Instagram influencer who goes by @basedinmalibu, recently shared footage…
The US has been quietly escorting millions of barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz in a stealth operation that analysts credit with keeping global energy markets from spiraling further. The missions, which began in May, successfully protected tankers…
“Below Deck Mediterranean” star Nathan Gallagher was arrested on domestic violence charges in Australia last December. View this post on Instagram Police officers arrested the reality star, 30, on Dec. 27 for allegedly assaulting a 29-year-old woman at an apartment…
City officials are still trying to determine why New York’s 911 call system failed for seven hours on Tuesday. A glitch in the system’s Bronx call center, one of two Public Safety Answering Centers in the five boroughs, disabled emergency…
A former top federal energy regulator is warning that the US power grid remains dangerously vulnerable to a coordinated attack that could trigger an 18-month nationwide blackout. Jon Wellinghoff, 74, who served as chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission…
Southern California Edison customers struggling with unpaid electric bills could have up to $8,000 in debt wiped away through a state-mandated forgiveness program. The utility’s Arrearage Management Plan, or AMP, allows eligible residential customers who make 12 consecutive on-time monthly…
Asia Morton was sentenced to one year in jail and one year of mandatory supervision for her role in the murder of Condor Club manager Marc Calcagni. Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Lynnette Brown handed down the two-year split term…
Francisco Garcia, 40, was arrested after allegedly shoving a 72-year-old man onto subway tracks in Midtown Manhattan. The attack occurred around 4 a.m. Wednesday at the 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center station, where the victim was waiting on the northbound F and…
A family friend has spoken out about the motive behind the killing of a 19-year-old Orange County football star in Compton. Los Angeles County deputies found William Leapart, 19, dead at the scene on the 14000 block of South Stanford…
A South Carolina mother has been arrested for allegedly allowing her young daughters to be sexually assaulted in exchange for drugs and money. Helena Nichole Hoyle, 27, of Bonneau, was taken into custody on Friday by the Berkeley County Sheriff’s…
An autopsy has confirmed that Melissa Casias, 54, died from a gunshot wound to the head, but medical examiners could not determine whether she fired the weapon herself or someone else pulled the trigger. Casias, a Los Alamos National Laboratory…
The NYPD is still hunting the hit-and-run driver who killed a cyclist in Brooklyn early Tuesday. Paulina Tec Choc, 29, of Queens, was stopped at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Cypress Hills Street around 5:50 a.m. When a 2006…
The family of Clayton Phillips, 13, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that missing seat restraints and falsified safety inspections led to his fatal fall from a Montana carnival ride. The estate of Phillips sued the city-county government of…
Kirsten Bridegan took the witness stand Monday as Mario Fernandez Saldana’s murder trial opened in Florida. Bridegan, 36, faced the man accused of plotting her husband Jared Bridegan’s 2022 roadside killing for the first time in a Duval County courtroom.…
A Tennessee grandmother was left paralyzed from the chest down after her family claims she was allegedly given a drug used in lethal injections in a reported medicine mix-up at a hospital. Glenda Dorton, 72, went into Nashville’s Ascension Saint…