Alex Kent/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., held Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for violating a court order that barred him from making false and defamatory statements against two Georgia election workers after they secured a $148 million defamation judgement against the former NewRead More →

Megan Varner/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — A massive winter storm is blanketing the South with ice and record-breaking snow, with some cities seeing the most snowfall from a single storm in decades. Twenty states, from Texas to Delaware, were on alert Friday for snow and ice as the storm continued toRead More →

Ethan Miller/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Vince McMahon, the former head of WWE, will pay $1.7 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to disclose two settlements he had with employees while he ran the formerly publicly traded company. One settlement agreement, signed in 2019, obligated McMahon toRead More →

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — A majority of justices on the Supreme Court on Friday appeared inclined to uphold a federal law that would ban the video-sharing app TikTok in the U.S. after Jan. 19 unless its Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance divests from the platform. The momentousRead More →

Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Hundreds of passengers were forced to evacuate on slides during a snowstorm after their Delta flight aborted takeoff from Atlanta due to an engine issue Friday morning, the airline said. Delta Flight 2668 was traveling from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Minneapolis-St. PaulRead More →

Photo by DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — At least 10 people are believed to be dead — with the Los Angeles County sheriff saying he expects that number to rise — as devastating fires spread across Southern California amid dry and windy conditions, leaving officials scrambling toRead More →

(Photo by Justin Lane-Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday morning in his New York hush money case after a jury in May convicted him on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in orderRead More →

The Federal Reserve Board Building. Via Douglas Rissing/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. hiring grew at a robust pace in December, far exceeding economists’ expectations and demonstrating the health of the nation’s economy days before it transfers to the stewardship of President-elect Donald Trump. Employers added 256,000 workers last month, surpassingRead More →

Jefferson Siegel-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A panel of judges on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a ruling Thursday night, denied an effort to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his two investigations into Donald Trump. U.S. Judge Aileen Cannon, who dismissed Trump’s classifiedRead More →

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest on December 22, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Rebecca Noble/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Ten days ahead of his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced Friday morning in New York for committing what the judge in hisRead More →