WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice has expanded its review of documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to 5.2 million as it also increases the number of attorneys trying to comply with a law mandating release of the files, according to a person briefed on a letter sent to U.S. Attorneys. The figure […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a prosecutor with a history of dismissing Black jurors for discriminatory reasons. A federal judge had previously overturned the murder conviction of the inmate, Terry Pitchford, but an appeals court reversed that ruling. […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Trump administration can continue to withhold Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood and other health centers that provide abortions as a coalition of mostly Democratic states challenges the cuts, a federal appeals court ruled. The decision on Tuesday is one of multiple lawsuits filed after President Donald Trump signed tax breaks and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks hung up the effort. Trump said in a social media post Wednesday that he’s removing the Guard troops for now. “We […]

Originally posted on Nerdist  |  By Rotem Rusak  |  Last updated Dec 30, 2025 10:56 AM ET Rumor has it that Avengers: Doomsday will have more than one trailer coming for us. We already saw Chris Evans return as Steve Rogers in one teaser trailer for the next Avengers movie. And now, we can confirm the rumors are true. Because we officially have a second Avengers: Doomsday trailer, and this one […]

Originally posted on Nerdist  |  By Eric Diaz  |  Last updated Dec 30, 2025 9:13 PM ET James Gunn’s Superman became the fan-favorite superhero movie of 2025, officially launching the new DCU on the big screen. And in 2027, we’ll get our first continuation, which DC Studios has called the next chapter in the “Super Family Saga.” Here is everything we know so far about the […]

Nikola Jokić’s hyperextended knee all but eliminated him from the MVP race. That would be true in any rational world. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was neck-and-neck with him already. If two players are reasonably close but one misses a month or more due to injury, the other would and should win. We really didn’t need a rule to tell us that. And […]

Now that NIL regulations have tightened, however, can the Red Raiders continue to build upon the playoff foundation that’s been built in 2025? By Brandon Marcello Getty Images A few hours after Texas Tech won an outright conference championship for the first time since Dwight Eisenhower was in office, the billionaire architect behind the playoff-bound Red Raiders’ multimillion-dollar transformation was […]