Talk show host Stephen Colbert made headlines on Feb. 17, 2026, when he wrapped a network statement in a dog-waste bag and tossed it in the trash.

He did it live, while on air.

The move came after CBS lawyers reportedly told him he could not broadcast a scheduled interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico ...Read more

Blizzard warnings are in effect for the Philly area and all of New Jersey and Delaware Sunday through Monday as a storm forecast to match the intensity of a Category 1 hurricane generates “potentially historic” snowfall amounts, the National Weather Service is warning.

A forecast that looked scary Saturday got scarier Sunday morning.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared a state of emergency Sunday as forecasts estimated the blizzard bearing down on New York City could bring nearly two feet of snow.

As of 9 p.m. Sunday, all streets, highways and bridges will be closed until noon Monday, Mamdani announced. Only essential and emergency vehicles will be allowed to travel city streets....Read more

An armed man who got onto the property of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach was shot dead overnight by U.S. Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputy, the agencies said.

A federal source familiar with the investigation identified the man as Austin Tucker Martin, a 21-year-old whose family had...Read more

Secret Service agents and a sheriff’s deputy have shot and killed an armed man near Mar-a-Lago. It wasn’t the first time President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate has faced intrusions and scandals.

Here’s a rundown:

SUV sprayed with bullets at Mar-a-Lago

In February 2020, law enforcement officers sprayed an SUV with bullets while it ...Read more

Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to the negotiating table with Donald Trump with a boost in bargaining power, after the U.S. leader lost his ability to quickly raise tariffs for nearly any reason.

Weeks before Trump lands in Beijing on March 31, the first trip by an American president since his last visit in 2017, the Supreme Court ...Read more

The Transportation Security Administration said it will continue to operate the PreCheck program after the Department of Homeland Security earlier said it will temporarily pause several programs that speed up some travelers’ progress through airports.

DHS originally said that it would suspend the operations of PreCheck lanes starting Sunday ...Read more

SpaceX padded the record for its most-flown rocket booster late Saturday with its 33rd trip to space.

A Falcon 9 flying 28 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 10:47 p.m.

The first-stage booster first launched in June 2021 and has been the pace setter for SpaceX’s reusability ...Read more

The U.S. Secret Service said an armed man was shot and killed after entering a secured area at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida even as the president spent the weekend in Washington.

The Secret Service said in a statement posted on X that a man in his early 20s was seen entering the property “carrying what appeared to ...Read more

Russian forces attacked Ukraine’s capital and other targets with missiles and drones overnight, days before the Kremlin’s full-scale war on its neighbor enters a fifth year.

Strikes with some 50 missiles of various types and nearly 300 attack drones “targeted Kyiv and the region, and the Dnipro, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava and ...Read more

New estimates are forecasting New York City might see nearly two feet of snow, as the five boroughs brace for a blizzard that could rival the record books.

The storm will start with light snow at first but the squall will “worsen rapidly,” with the severe weather hitting about 9 p.m. Sunday and persisting until 9 a.m. Monday, city Office of...Read more

President Donald Trump’s tariff-policy defeat in the U.S. Supreme Court won’t unravel individual deals the administration has sealed with its trading partners, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said.

Those deals, which the administration made with China, the European Union, South Korea and others, remain in place, Greer said Sunday ...Read more

When you open the refrigerator and find a wedge of cheese flecked with green mold, or a package of chicken that smells faintly sour, it can be tempting to gamble with your stomach rather than waste food.

But the line between harmless fermentation and dangerous spoilage is sharp. Consuming spoiled foods exposes the body to a range of ...Read more

Taylor Swift’s latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” generated a cultural whirlwind: chart-topping success, social media saturation and frenzied debate over her artistic evolution.

Nonetheless, despite this warm reception, opinions on Swift are deeply polarized by party. Democrats are far more likely to view her positively; ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Wendy Bohon approached a table at the California Geological Survey library in Sacramento and began to give Puck’s closing speech from William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Only this time, some of the speech was adapted to be about earthquakes. Once again, Bohon was making her worlds converge.

Bohon ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An effort in the Florida Legislature sounds simple and straightforward: ensure that only U.S. citizens vote in state elections.

Republicans who control the state Senate and House of Representatives are advancing legislation they say would do just that, brushing aside warnings that they are about to create a logistical ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Hundreds of schools, child cares, parks and other care facilities around San Diego County are located near idle oil wells, which can emit toxic gases, a new study finds.

They’re among the nearly 4,500 wells statewide that an analysis of state data by the Center for Biological Diversity found are within 3,200 feet of such ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore officials say they’ve boosted the number of 911 calls diverted to mental health professionals, but acknowledge that long wait times and continued police involvement show the city’s crisis response system remains a work in progress.

An investigation by The Baltimore Sun in July 2025 found a sharp drop in emergency ...Read more

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed the idea of immigration cuts or tighter border checks, even as electoral polls show a surge in support for the country’s hard-right One Nation Party.

“We have tight checks,” Labor leader Albanese said in an interview with Sky News aired on Sunday, when asked if he planned to harden ...Read more