Alina Habba snapped back at Senate lawmakers on Sunday, asserting she “won’t be intimidated,” days after a federal judge ruled her appointment as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey was unlawful. At the center of the fight is the Senate’s blue slip tradition — a bipartisan custom, applied to both …

Shedeur Sanders posted an optimistic message on social media on Sunday as he wrapped up the first preseason of his career with the Cleveland Browns. Sanders posted a carousel of pictures, showing eager fans hoping to convince the rookie quarterback to sign their memorabilia and one with his teammates huddled …

Vice President JD Vance is a big fan of the Backstreet Boys'”I Want It That Way.” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt gets pumped up with Beyoncé’s”Run the World (Girls).” And former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi? She cranks Nelly’s”Hot In Herre.” That’s all according to Panama Playlists, a website …

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held warm meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, sending Washington a clear message after President Donald Trump’s heavy tariffs against India went into effect last week. Xi hosted Modi, Putin and other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization …

GLP-1 agonists — including semaglutides like Ozempic and Wegovy and tirzepatides like Mounjaro and Zepbound — were originally intended to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity. But in recent months, studies have shown that these popular medications can have numerous other health benefits. Some have even claimed that GLP-1s could …

PRAGUE – Pope Benedict XVI begins a three-day pilgrimage Saturday to the Czech Republic, where people increasingly have become cool to religion since overthrowing a communist regime that ruthlessly persecuted the Roman Catholic Church. Scores of pilgrims poured into Prague on the eve of the nation’s first papal visit in …

MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. – A judge has cleared professional wrestler and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle of charges he violated a protection order and illegally possessed human growth hormone. Police in suburban Pittsburgh stopped Angle last month after he allegedly violated the protection order his then girlfriend, Trenesha Biggers, had …

JERUSALEM – Israeli President Shimon Peres was discharged from a Tel Aviv hospital on Sunday, a day after fainting on stage during a talk. The 86-year-old Peres passed out briefly Saturday, then revived on his own a few seconds later. Initially he had resisted hospitalization, but later agreed and was …

NEW YORK – A small-time money manager who did business out of a shabby storefront in Brooklyn was charged Tuesday with running a $40 million Ponzi scheme that secretly diverted client money to unauthorized ventures, including a mail-order pornography business. Federal prosecutors and the Securities Exchange Commission said Philip Barry, …

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Defending a Yale University lab technician charged with murder against what appears to be a mountain of forensic evidence might mean trying to convince jurors that the crime scene was contaminated because police didn’t immediately shut down the lab where the victim was found, legal experts …