Media Bubbles

Phoenix Suns star forward Kevin Durant signed a lifetime contract with Nike on Friday, according to Boardroom, the media entity he co-owns.

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The Florida Legislature passed an elections bill on Friday clarifying that Gov. Ron DeSantis would not have to resign early if he runs for president.

Mike Pence finally testified to the Jan. 6 grand jury, Trump comforted a Jan. 6 defendant, saying she’d end up “happy.”

President Joe Biden, whose own press releases refer to him as a “car enthusiast,” may have just signed a death warrant for the gas-powered car. On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection ...

Zegler’s character must deal with a “mentor” — the future President Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) — and Hunger Games creator Casca Highbottom (Peter Dinklage), who informs Snow that “your role is to turn these children into spectacles, not survivors.”

Katie Sorensen posted a widely shared Instagram video in which she claimed that a couple tried to kidnap her two children at a Michaels craft store in Petaluma.

In a front line state in the escalating US culture war over transgender rights, a son made a personal plea to his powerful father on behalf of the LGBTQ community.

But new data suggests that, at least by some measures, Twitter has become more compliant with government authorities than before he took over. Musk’s promises to shepherd Twitter into a new era of radical free speech are looking phonier by the day.

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On Wednesday, in a rare news conference, Biden took a question about his age from ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce.

The staff dedicated to investigating disease outbreaks for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received a reminder this week of the pandemic’s persistence: confirmed covid cases at their own conference.

In late-afternoon trading First Republic Bank's stock price, which topped $200 in 2001, was down 43% on the day to $3.54. The shares have fallen 97% this year.

President Joe Biden is considering a visit to Finland, NATO’s newest member, to coincide with the 30-member bloc’s July summit in Lithuania, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the discussions.

OpenAI restored access to its ChatGPT chatbot for Italian users after the artificial intelligence researcher said it has addressed concerns raised in March by that country’s privacy regulator.

Access to gender-affirming care is taking center stage in state governments across the U.S., with some states passing restrictions and others protections. The debates and lawsuits have raged throughout 2023 so far.

A steep decline in advertising is forcing an historic shakeup in digital news and social media, and leading some to imagine navigating the internet without the likes of Google or Facebook.

When the super PAC supporting Ron DeSantis turned its fire on Nikki Haley, it said volumes about the shifting dynamics of the 2024 campaign.

Feds say companies colluded to submit multiple applications for favored foreign candidates to up their odds of receiving the coveted visa.

Echoes of the ethnic clashes and genocide of 20 years ago have also erupted in the western Darfur region in battles between ethnic Arab and African armed groups.

In Pittsburgh and in auto-industry development centers in Detroit, Tokyo, Frankfurt and Silicon Valley, automakers’ expectations for and demands on self-driving technology have gotten a lot more modest in one sense — and stronger in another.

"I've known about them for years but I found a lot of them that day," photographer Josh Coogler told Newsweek.

While Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is the trilogy's most "unruly and excessive" instalment, it's also "sweetly touching", writes Nicholas Barber.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday reduced the prison sentences of 31 people convicted of drug-related crimes, using the powers of the presidency to ease punishment for non-violent offenses.

Paraguay’s presidential election Sunday could create regional ripples as top candidates diverge on whether to keep recognizing Taiwan or look to China.

Twelve Democrats and eight Republicans crossed the aisle on Friday with their votes on a resolution that seeks to restart tariffs on solar power imports that were suspended by the Biden

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito believes the leak last May of a draft opinion that ended the nationwide right to abortion was meant to "intimidate" the court into changing its decision, the conservative justice told the Wall Street Journal.

Nearly half of Americans struggle with obesity, and weight loss drugs like Ozempic have become increasingly popular.

A family fleeing Sudan say they are among thousands stuck at the border with Egypt because drivers are demanding £40,000 ($50,000) to hire a bus to travel across. Only people travelling on buses with special permits can cross the border. Crossing on foot is banned.

Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill Friday that allows Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president without resigning as governor, part of sweeping changes to the state’s election laws that come as DeSantis is reportedly expected to announce his entrance into the race in mid-June.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has subpoenaed officials from three federal agencies for documents and information related to the committee’s investigation into how the government coordinated with private companies and other third-party groups to censor speech.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) won't be supporting what's been dubbed the “strongest border security package" that Congress has ever considered when it comes to the floor for a vote next month.

The Federal Reserve’s banking supervisors failed to take forceful action to address growing problems at Silicon Valley Bank before it collapsed last month, the central bank’s top regulator said, signaling a broad push to toughen rules on the industry.

The legislation, whose authors say two-fifths of prisoners are locked up without a "compelling public safety justification," would reward states that take a more discriminating approach.

The government will release the employment-cost index and the price gauge watched by the central bank.

A Jan. 6 rioter who served prison time embraced former President Donald Trump during his visit to New Hampshire on Thursday.

A growing share of teenage girls considered and attempted suicide in 2021 as their mental health deteriorated in the second year of COVID-19 restrictions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

I've grown completely numb to the daily reporting on alleged ethical problems at the Supreme Court. All of these

Despite the wealth of information at our fingertips in the information age, there is a glaring emptiness that plagues us in our storytelling.

Washington requested the extradition of Sergey Cherkasov, amid talk of potential prisoner swaps following Russia’s detention of a Wall Street Journal reporter.

Here are the five key quotes from Justice Samuel Alito's shocking interview this week, in which he gave his thoughts on the leak of the draft decision on Roe v. Wade.

CNBC reporter Hadley Gamble had a romantic relationship with billionaire Tom Barrack that was exposed to her coworkers way back in 2020 — after the prominent Trump backer accidentally loafed on camera while she was filming her show, The Post has learned.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom accumulated a lot of additional power during the COVID years in his state. Now it seems he will do anything to hold onto it with endless emergency declarations.

The cult leader/novelist husband of “Doomsday Mom” Lori Vallow Daybell referred to his first wife as “clearly dead” and “frozen” in an eerie 911 call played in court Friday morning.

Legislation proposed in Montana ban the use of TikTok on personal devices is on hold, and the state's 90-day legislative session ends next week.

Broken marriages are ugly. In them, people do ugly things, myself of course included, and I would never claim otherwise,” Crowder said.

A federal judge in Illinois issued a temporary injunction blocking the enforcement of a gun law which bans some semiautomatic rifles as well as high-capacity magazines.

To put its biases to the test, The Post recently asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT system to generate cliches about people from different countries — many of which would offend.

An Austin man who pleaded guilty to indecent exposure and attacking a jogger in broad daylight, causing her to break her leg, will avoid jail in a plea deal.

Cohen reportedly hired an army of lobbyists to persuade local officials to grant him a license to operate one of three casinos planned for downstate New York.