Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) on Thursday finally conceded the US Senate race in Pennsylvania to Republican David McCormick. “I just called David McCormick to congratulate him on his election to represent Pennsylvania in the United States Senate,” Casey said in a video posted on X. Bob Casey finally conceded his race, weeks after his Republican … Read more
Author Cormac McCarthy had a young “secret muse” who revealed herself this week. (Evan Agostini / Associated Press) Great American novelist Cormac McCarthy was defensively private and didn’t share much about the inspiration behind his books — or about himself. However, the author, who died in 2023, apparently lived out much of his bestseller “All … Read more
Walmart Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey warned that President-elect Trump’s proposed tariffs could lead to higher prices for Walmart shoppers. “Tariffs are going to be inflationary. There’s no disputing that,” Rainey said during an interview with Liz Claman on “The Claman Countdown” on Thursday. “Likely consumers are going to pay more for the items that … Read more
Yoenis Cespedes is pining for a Mets reunion. The former big league outfielder expressed his desire to play in Queens once again during a live stream from the Instagram account NYM_news on Wednesday. “I’m ready to play but just for the Mets,” Cespedes wrote from his official Instagram account. New York Mets Yoenis Cespedes takes … Read more
A Manhattan federal judge will hold a hearing over whether to freeze the hotly contested congestion pricing plan — just two weeks before the first-in-the-nation toll is set to take effect. Judge Lewis Liman said Thursday that he’ll rule on whether to stop New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Jan. 5 rollout of the plan — … Read more
Cristian Fernando Gutierrez-Ochoa, son-in-law of the reputed Mexican drug lord known as El Mencho, shown here in a wanted poster, was arrested in Riverside after he allegedly faked his own death. (K.C. Alfred/TNS) When a man who called himself Luis Miguel Martinez moved into a $1.2-million home in an exclusive Riverside neighborhood in 2023, he … Read more
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into a shadowy left-leaning advertising cabal over whether it participated in a “coordinated plan or conspiracy” to boycott “certain social media platforms,” his office said Thursday. Paxton is probing whether the powerful World Federation of Advertising and its now-defunct nonprofit wing, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media … Read more
Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. (Michael Owen Baker/For The Times) California voters have approved Proposition 34, a measure from an apartment trade group that aimed to restrict spending by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has bankrolled several rent control initiatives and criticized the measure as unconstitutional revenge. The Associated Press called the … Read more
The Tigers are interested in star free-agent 3B Alex Bregman, which would give him a chance to reunite with manager A.J. Hinch from their Houston days — and yes, the incumbent Astros are in with an offer. Ultimately, Bregman might be pricey for Detroit. The Red Sox inquired and could be a fit for Bregman … Read more
A raging bull stomped on the chest of a teenage rodeo star during an event in Florida – leaving the champion rider fighting for his life as he suffers a brain bleed and mini strokes. Walker ‘Hollywood’ Smith, 17, was taking part in the Space Coast State Fair in Viera on Friday when he was … Read more
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