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Two people were shot during in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday morning, police confirmed, and it is believed the shooting took place during a naked bike ride. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers responded to the corner of Temple and Alameda streets around 11 a.m. “A male suspect, wearing all black clothing and on a scooter, shot two victims with a BB gun,” a department spokesperson confirmed to KTLA.

Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham isn't pleased with the way teammate Caitlin Clark has been officiated as of late. "Unfortunately, this type of ---- happens every single game to her and the league and the refs do absolutely nothing about it," Cunningham said on her Show Me Something podcast (2:41 mark). "You see the videos of literally kneeing and cheap-shotting C in the throat," she added. "If she did that to any of our teammates we would be pissed. But they're definitely targeting her and the league and the refs do nothing to protect her."

Audiobook industry sales revenue grew 9% in 2025, hitting $2.43 billion, according to the Audio Publishers Association's annual sales survey, conducted by Toluna. Publishers reported more than 750,000 active titles last year, a 43% increase from 2024. General fiction accounted for the largest share of audiobook revenue at 27%, with science fiction/fantasy, romance, and mysteries/thrillers/suspense rounding out the top genres. The fastest-growing genres in 2025 were humor, general fiction, and children's, including YA. ... AI-narrated audiobooks remain a marginal interest, representing just 0.03% of sales in 2025. Curiosity about AI-narrated books also appears to be in decline, as those expressing...

The City of Los Angeles, California spent over $5.5 million to construct a new tiny home village for the homeless in Van Nuys. The project was only able to produce 100 beds for those who would use them. The tiny home village is the fourth site of its type in Council District 2 and was made in an effort to help with the huge homeless population in LA. The city had allocated $5,578,379 to spend on construction for the project, according to city documents. [snip] The tiny home village, equipped with 100 beds, mean that each spot cost approximately $55,000...

U.S. forces struck Iranian targets again on Sunday local time, U.S. Central Command said. The new strikes follow Bahrain's claim that Iranian drones struck the Gulf state Saturday, which the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed targeted a "U.S. terrorist army," after U.S. retaliatory strikes on Iran and an earlier attack on a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump on Friday called Iran's attack a "foolish violation" of the ceasefire, as Tehran and Washington appear to remain at odds on even basic points in their memorandum of understanding, including control of the strait and how Iran will spend...

Zuckerberg joins several high-profile individuals who are moving out of California because of the proposed billionaire tax, including Google co-founder Larry Page. The 2026 Billionaire Tax Act would see residents with a net worth of more than $1 billion pay a one-time tax worth five percent of their assets. The bill has been championed by Democratic Representative Ro Khanna who said in a statement to the Daily Mail: 'We must balance making sure we keep the Silicon Valley miracle and dynamism with ensuring that the working-class benefit from the prosperity with healthcare, education, and childcare. 'Jensen Huang understands this, and...

After Gov. Josh Shapiro said Pennsylvania would not participate in President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair, the state’s two U.S. senators have announced that the Keystone State will be represented. Sens. Dave McCormick, a Republican, and John Fetterman, a Democrat, said in a joint statement on Saturday that they struck agreements with several Pennsylvania groups to give the state a “strong presence” at the fair on the National Mall and a “showcase worthy of its singular place in our nation’s history.” The senators said they were coordinating the effort with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins with the involvement...

EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage told Fox News Digital that mass migration has radically changed the country's makeup. The Reform UK leader argued that Britain’s political system is "completely broken" following Prime Minister Keir Starmer's resignation. Farage is calling for a new general election, predicting his party has "every chance of winning." Speaking exclusively from the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London this week, a forum focused on debates over culture, Western civilization and Judeo-Christian values, Farage said Starmer’s downfall was not an isolated political event, but the latest aftershock of the Brexit revolt that upended British politics a decade ago....

Alex Witt, 65, is leaving MS NOW after nearly 30 years with the network. The anchor currently hosting the weekend program, Alex Witt Reports, plans to depart later this year, according to a memo sent to staff by network president Rebecca Kutler. Her exit marks the end of a long career that made her one of the channel’s most recognizable and enduring faces. Witt joined the network, then known as MSNBC, in 1999 and went on to anchor across multiple time slots while covering some of the biggest news events of the past three decades. During her tenure, she reported...

The rise of the artificial intelligence era is changing expectations about careers. While earlier, there were concerns that arts and humanities subjects would be more impacted, the trend appears to have shifted. According to The Economist, AI companies are actively recruiting philosophers, sometimes even before graduation. This rise in recruitment of philosophers at AI companies is a result of the broader understanding that philosophy offers useful tools for AI development. There is a belief that AI training may be able to benefit from some of the ancient lessons of philosophy. For instance, the Socratic method, developed in ancient Greece by...

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (CBS12) — A Florida woman was arrested Tuesday after deputies say she removed her pants, spat on a deputy, and was struck by a deputy during a confrontation. According to the Hernando County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the Texaco gas station at 101 Ponce De Leon Blvd. around 2 p.m. after receiving reports of a disorderly woman causing a disturbance outside the business. Deputies say employees reported that 33-year-old Iesha Field was yelling at customers, behaving erratically, and disrupting the business. Employees requested that she be trespassed from the property, and deputies issued a trespass warning....

The Knicks have fired off a “cease and desist” letter to America-hating state Senate candidate Aber Kawas, threatening to slap her with a lawsuit for ripping a page out of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s playbook and using the NBA champs’ iconic logo to boost her campaign, The Post has learned. Kawas – a Mamdani-backed, Democratic Socialist of America member who once described 9/11 as a terror attack that a “couple of people did” – tried to win over voters by using a doctored version of the Knicks logo on social media posts and campaign stickers throughout her primary run, which...

Billionaire Democratic kingmaker George Soros spent a staggering $102.8 million in the midterm election cycle — reportedly making him the largest individual donor to date and chief architect of the party’s seismic shift toward the radical left. With the November elections still more than four months away, Soros could shatter his own spending record of $128 million set during the last midterms four years ago, when he was the biggest single donor. “Money talks, and Soros money says the most insidious, unconstitutional, costly tax hikes in American history are on the table,” said Douglas Kellogg, state projects director for Americans...

Although Donald Trump’s defenders describe the Russia hoax and other efforts to frame the president as a "grand conspiracy," RealClearInvestigations has learned that the man now leading the probe of that scandal is pursuing multiple conspiracy prosecutions that are smaller and more manageable, according to several sources with direct knowledge of the probe. Since taking over the Justice Department’s far-flung investigation in April, veteran prosecutor Joseph diGenova and his team quickly concluded that combining all of the alleged wrongdoing, which ranges from falsifying evidence and committing perjury to leaking classified information and obstructing justice, into one unified plot and trying...

I am very pleased to announce that I have nominated Lance Schroyer to be our next ICE Director. Lance has over 29 YEARS of Law Enforcement experience in Oklahoma — A State where I WON all 77 Counties in 2016, 2020, and 2024! Lance is a former Oklahoma State Trooper, and United States Marine. He is a PATRIOT with real operational experience, and proven leader with DECADES of experience locking up the worst of the worst, including spearheading 287g Law Enforcement partnerships with ICE! Lance has firsthand experience getting Illegal Aliens OFF our streets and, just like ME and our...

You thought munchies came after getting high? Think again! In Florida, you can do both at the same time. Apparently smoking weed and eating Doritos is too complicated for the youth of today so they had to combine them. pic.twitter.com/98KJIpTwPi— Branch Floridian (@JackLinFLL) June 23, 2026Duuuuuuuude. From Local 10: Homestead police officers seized more than 70 pounds of marijuana, nearly 1,000 vape cartridges, and drug-laced gummies and snacks after an undercover bust. Homestead detectives said a 'trap house' in a residential neighborhood was at the center of a setup for the illegal sale of drugs. What was most disturbing about...

SACRAMENTO, CA — Governor Gavin Newsom opened up his laptop and fired up ChatGPT this morning to find out what his political positions will be this week. The day after proposing a billionaire tax while simultaneously working to defeat a billionaire tax, Newsom checked in with ChatGPT for further guidance on what to do next. "Okay, Chat. What do I believe today?," typed Newsom. "Let's maybe talk law enforcement. Is it good or bad right now? I could go either way, to be honest. What's the vibe out there on the streets about criminals? What's the scuttlebutt?" Newsom has bragged...

The author of a new book about William Shakespeare is claiming that the works of the famed playwright were actually written by a black, Jewish woman. The book, The Real Shakespeare: Emilia Bassano Willoughby by Irene Coslet, argues that Shakespeare was actually Emilia Bassano, a dark-skinned Jewish woman who was an English poet during the Elizabethan period. The Amazon description for the book, which says it is set to be released on March 30, questions if Shakespeare was indeed “a white man from Stratford.” “Debate still rages over the identity of the most beloved poet of all time and ‘father’...

Two juveniles have been arrested after investigators accused them of sparking a devastating six-alarm blaze that tore through an empty Pennsylvania factory before leaping across the street and destroying houses, leaving dozens of people homeless. The two youths, whose names have not been released due to their young ages, are being held on charges including arson, conspiracy, recklessly endangering another person and causing a catastrophe. The arrests came two days after the massive inferno erupted in Allentown, sending towering flames and thick black smoke into the night sky as more than 100 firefighters battled to stop the blaze from swallowing...

A Florida police officer is winning nationwide praise for his message to an illegal alien p*dophile that he busted earlier this week. On Thursday, the Jacksonville Police Department arrested a 34-year-old Mexican illegal alien named Jose Malagon after he used an online site to chat with two different people who he thought were teenage girls and solicited them for sex. But unbeknownst to Malagon, the people at the other end of the line were Jacksonville police detectives. The Jacksonville Police Department's US Marshals Task Force then found Malagon in Neptune Beach, where he initially resisted arrest. Once they had him...