LOS ANGELES — A statewide ballot initiative that would require voters to show photo ID at the polls has hit more than 1 million signatures, organizers say — enough to potentially get it onto the ballot. Republican California state Assemblymember Carl DeMaio, who is leading the push, said he hopes to add an additional 200,000...

Before his murder in The Traitors Season 4, Rob Cesternino said Michael Rapaport was either a bad Faithful or a bad Traitor.

Influential billionaire John Catsimatidis said he’s been left with “tears in my eyes” amid a bitter feud with his longtime “brother” Rudy Giuliani — that escalated when the former mayor filed suit against him Monday. Catsimatidis told The Post that news of Giuliani’s lawsuit over his firing from his WABC radio gig in 2024 upset...

The Washington Post editorial board defended women's sports in an opinion piece on Sunday ahead of a Supreme Court case hearing on transgender athletes.

The Mets’ interest in Kyle Tucker is serious enough to have warranted a meeting.

When the in-person interviews get underway, there is a chance the team that impresses Harbaugh might be able to create a “don’t let him get out of the building’’ scenario and try to get a deal done that day.

Government shutdown looms as Senate passes first funding hurdle but faces Jan. 30 deadline. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., says continuing resolution likely needed.

The "Marty Supreme" actress' interaction with the reality star went viral on social media.

Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”

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• Allen wins five frames in a row against Mark Williams

• Zhao Xintong cruises to 6-2 win over Gary Wilson

Mark Allen shrugged off a bout of food poisoning to beat Mark Williams 6-2, winning five successive frames, and book a Masters quarter-final with Judd Trump or Ding Junhui, who play on Wednesday.

Speaking to the BBC, Allen, the 2018 champion, said: “I prepare properly for these events, but I couldn’t prepare for this at all as I’ve been lying in bed all week with food poisoning. I just thought: ‘Go out there and give my best.’ I wouldn’t have had much left if it had got much closer.”

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One of the biggest stories from wild card weekend didn’t take place on the field and the reporter at the center of it all has a message for those lobbing criticism her way. 

Greenland will not accept a US takeover under "any circumstance" and demanded NATO insure its defense Monday amid President Trump’s desire to acquire the autonomous territory of Denmark.

The suspect, Stephen Spencer Pittman, was turned in by his father, who said his son had laughed as he confessed to the fire that damaged the synagogue, investigators said.

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"While there is no security deposit being put down today, Rama and I intend to strive each day to be the best possible custodians of this beautiful home, because we know that we are only its temporary occupants," he said.

Former ambassador to US had earlier declined to give apology for keeping in touch with sex offender after his conviction

Peter Mandelson has issued an apology for his association with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – after declining to do so in an interview broadcast on Sunday.

The Labour peer, who was sacked as US ambassador when details of his support for Epstein emerged in September, gave an interview to the BBC in which he suggested that as a gay man he knew nothing of the disgraced financier’s sex life.

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The Customs and Border Protection officers are joining 2,000 other officers and agents at the Department of Homeland Security who have recently been deployed to the Minneapolis region.

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The top House Democrat is accusing the DHS secretary of "depraved indifference" after an ICE agent shot U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good during a Minneapolis operation.

The Federal Reserve is likely to hold interest rates steady when it meets at the end of the month, keeping tensions high with President Trump.

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Backlash builds as Trump administration’s prosecutors target head of US central bank

The war secretary’s remarks – part of his “Arsenal of Freedom” tour – come the week after Trump paired his request for a record $1.5 trillion in military spending with stinging criticism of defense contractors over CEO pay, stock dividends and purportedly being slow to fill orders.

What. A. Weekend.

“We want Iran to be liberated, to become a free society,” he said. “A lot of people here left their land, their businesses, their livelihood. With the regime there it’s impossible.” 

A Maryland man used his government job to order new cellphones worth over $150,000 and then sell them to a pawnshop, federal prosecutors said.

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This was a rare opportunity in a busy NHL schedule, and one that was apropos for a team whose mantra all year has been playing with joy. The Islanders and a handful of support staff, all out on the pond, playing 17-on-17 hockey on a sun-soaked January day like they were children.