Ethan Guo spent two months detained in Antarctica after landing his Cessna without permission, but charges were dropped and he was released with a $30,000 penalty.

Joseph Emerson, an off-duty pilot who attempted to cut fuel to engines during a flight carrying 84 people, accepted plea deals to avoid additional jail time.

A California woman is facing felony charges after she illegally registered her dog to vote and cast two ballots under the canine's name, according to officials.

Professional Bull Riding kicked off its stay in Anaheim, California, with a bang on Friday night as the cowboys came to town and put on a wild show.

The Indiana Fever have fought to keep postseason hopes alive despite losing Sophie Cunningham, Caitlin Clark and other key players to injury this season.

Samuel McLennan spent two years salvaging for his ocean-going vessel and has slowly made his way to Victoria. Otis Filley jumps aboard for part of the journey

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Word spread through French Island’s WhatsApp group before we’d even docked – there was a boat made of rubbish heading their way. By the time Samuel McLennan secured his vessel built from marine debris at Tankerton Jetty, a small crowd had formed. Alan Pentland, editor of Off-the-Grid, the island’s newsletter, was already waiting to get a photo and eager for a story.

A constant stream of people came down over the next two hours – to have a chat, come onboard, ask questions and share their excitement.

French Island residents gather to inspect the unusual vessel after word spread through the islands WhatsApp group about the arrival of a boat made of rubbish.

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© Photograph: Otis Filley

© Photograph: Otis Filley

Toronto film festival: the Oscar nominee makes for a compelling heroine in a solid and intermittently suspenseful tale of a professor stuck in a nightmare

The specific brilliance of Lesley Manville had been on display for those who knew where to look long before her first Oscar nomination. She’d been part of the enviable Mike Leigh troupe (her first nomination should have been for Another Year) and a permanent small-screen fixture, even if the size of her roles hadn’t correlated to the size of her talent. But after Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson’s singular magnum opus, Manville has enjoyed a spectacular boom, a long-deserved reward for her and an even bigger one for those of us watching.

The role came as she was entering her 60s, a period that can often leave female actors with grimly limited options, but she’s bucked the trend, not just through the sheer amount of work she’s found but also the unusual variety. She’s avoided the post-Book Club subgenre of mostly patronising comedies that squander older actors on pained pratfalls and found herself in far more interesting, and challenging, territory. She was a wife experiencing later stage sexual dissatisfaction in I Am Maria, a vicious Ma Barker type reigning over a North Dakota family of criminals in Let Him Go, a gun-toting ayahuasca-farming jungle doctor in Queer, the devious antagonist of the spy series Citadel, a cleaner turned fashionista in Mrs Harris Goes to Paris and an OnlyFans stripper in Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie. It’s hard to think of many post-Oscar recognition careers that have been quite so uniquely rewarding.

Winter of the Crow is screening at the Toronto film festival and is seeking distribution

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© Photograph: Toronto film festival

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The enraged Phillies fan incident made its way onto “SportsCenter.”

Even with Adams present, guests urged Catsimatidis to run for mayor of New York again. He politely declined.

"The comments became flooded with people discussing my body,” she confessed.

Things got heated between Ryan Clark and Peter Schrager on ESPN Friday.

The Yankees won a vital game Saturday because Aaron Judge did not play right field.

In a social media post, President Trump said Chicago was “about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” Illinois officials condemned the message.

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University officials confirmed that Noah Snyder and Scott Michaud were the players who died in the wreck.

Going back to the glory days of Tammany Hall, New York has had some wacky mayoral elections.

The stand-up comedian and winner of the show “Last Comic Standing” has been charged with sexually exploiting a minor, according to reports.

The U.S. squad, which featured a large number of MLS players, fell behind early and didn’t create much offense during the 90-minute affair. 

We’re at the point of the season when we’re looking for any advantage we can find.

Gosselin famously got pregnant and gave birth to six babies -- Aaden, Alexis, Collin, Hannah, Joel and Leah -- in 2004.

For Brandon Sproat and the Mets, perhaps this is just the beginning.

Dozens of operators have suspended service to the US until a solution is implemented on parcels worth $800 or less

Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said Saturday.

The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling out new measures that can help postal operators around the world calculate and collect duties, or taxes, after the US eliminated the so-called “de minimis exemption” for lower-value parcels.

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© Photograph: Nati Harnik/AP

© Photograph: Nati Harnik/AP

Missing from the outing was their daughter Violet, who's away at college.

Syracuse might have won its first game of the season, but that didn’t mean the Orange’s coach was all that thrilled with the effort. Quarterback Steve Angeli’s touchdown pass in overtime helped Syracuse survive, 27-20, over UConn, but head coach Fran Brown said afterward it was not the overall result he was mad about. It...

Justin surprisingly announced the release of his "SWAG" follow-up Thursday.