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Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a Brooklyn mother's emergency bid to enroll her Asian-American son at an elite New York City high school, alleging that a city program geared toward admitting students from economically challenged neighborhood into the school discriminates against Asian students.The lawsuit centers on allegations by Yi Fang Chen, whose son was denied admission to Stuyvesant High School, that New York City’s revised admissions requirements intentionally discriminate against Asian students while increasing enrollment among Black and Hispanic students. Chen filed the lawsuit in April, accusing the city of violating the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause and Title VI of

1. Netanyahu praises heroic bystander for preventing ‘another 9/11’2. Iran leaders 'overstayed their welcome' in US after talks stalled3. GOP senator joins push for AI liability  EXECUTION CHAOS — Tennessee inmate Christa Pike still alive after two lethal injections, lawyer says. Continue reading …DOUBLING DOWN — Lindsay Clancy lawyer pushes back on claims he shifted strategy after mistrial in new interview. Continue reading …VICTORY LAP — Right erupts in celebration after White House post showing huge Trump win on key issue. Continue reading …PERILOUS PLUNGE — Frantic 911 call captures moments after UGA student falls from eighth floor. Continue reading …SHOW GOES

It was like stepping into a time machine and going back 62 years. One of the Beatles was singing rock songs, playing two instruments, making jokes and having a grand old time. The Ringo Starr concert here in Washington got me thinking about the impact that he, John, Paul and George had on the music business, the country and the culture — and how Americans are still fascinated by the Fab Four and even their grandchildren are listening to their ancient albums.Ringo is 86 and touring again, bringing more energy to his shows than most of his Boomer-heavy audience. RINGO STARR HAS EATEN

Dramatic video shows an Arizona sheriff's helicopter crew rescuing a man stranded on top of his overturned truck as rapidly moving floodwaters surrounded the vehicle.The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said its Fox 1 aviation crew responded Tuesday morning to a flooded wash in Tonopah, where deputies found the man sitting atop the overturned vehicle with water rushing around him.Video released by authorities shows the man perched on the truck as muddy floodwaters rush past him.Because of the dangerous conditions, first responders determined that directly reaching the man was too risky and decided a "hoist rescue" would be the safest option.TRAGEDY

Wednesday afternoon had plenty of potential for drama, with all four wild card series offering the potential for teams to advance into the division round of the Major League Baseball playoffs.The first game of the quadruple-header, the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies, delivered in spades. A Bryce Harper misplay in the 7th inning allowed two Braves' runs to score, putting the Phillies on the brink of elimination. But Schwarber and Harper hit back-to-back homers in the 8th to tie it, and a 10th inning homer for Alec Bohm won it for Philadelphia to force a winner-take-all game three on Thursday.Then

Reparations advocates are insisting that the federal government provide direct cash payments to Black descendants of American slavery, warning that broadening the eligibility scope risks diluting the movement amid growing resistance from conservatives and the Trump administration."Cash payments — that’s just a little solution to it, but it’s a big solution because without cash payments, there’s no reparations," Rev. Phyllis Coachman, a supporter of the U.S. Freedmen Project, told Fox News Digital." ended in 1865, but so many other things happened after that," Coachman added. "After slavery, the collapse of Reconstruction, we had Jim Crow, we had legal segregation, disenfranchisement,

John Cusack clarified persistent rumors this week that he had once been offered the role of John Bender in John Hughes’ "The Breakfast Club.""No, I think there was one time at one point where I think he thought he wanted me to do it and I think I would I would have done it," the "Say Anything" star told Josh Horowitz on his "Happy Sad Confused" podcast on Monday about the 1985 teen classic. "I thought it was a cool script, but it didn't go that way."Judd Nelson ended up playing Bender alongside Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy,

Fox News Channel continued to dominate ahead of its 30th anniversary, finishing the third quarter of 2026 ahead of CBS among weekday primetime viewers while crushing all of cable.Fox News averaged 2.4 million weekday primetime viewers to beat CBS for the quarter while continuing to lead the broadcast network year-to-date among weekday primetime viewers.When it comes to cable, Fox News averaged 1.3 million total-day viewers to finish as the only network to crack the one-million viewer benchmark. MS NOW finished second with an average audience of 592,000 followed by ESPN, CNN and HGTV.FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP, FOX CORPORATION ANNOUNCE LANDMARK

The political right celebrated after a White House X account posted a graph showing that legal immigration to the U.S. from nations with Muslim majority populations has all but halted.The account highlighted a 96 percent cut in legal immigration from majority-Muslim countries since 2024 and attached a graph from the Cato Institute, a notoriously pro-immigration think tank.The graph showed a drastic decline in quarterly admissions of immigrants from those countries beginning in January 2025, when President Donald Trump officially took office. It also declined in late 2024, the last year of former President Joe Biden's tenure in office.AMERICA NEEDS WORKERS,

DALLAS — A competitive Senate race is testing whether Texas is still safely red, with Black and Hispanic voters at the center of Democrat James Talarico's path to victory.Talarico is seeking to become the first Democrat in more than 30 years to win a statewide race in the Lone Star State."I definitely do think, if there’s any time for Texas to get a Democrat elected, this is the time to strike," Mike, a military veteran from Dallas, told Fox News Digital. "I think it depends on whether the Black and brown voters come out for Talarico."POLL: TALARICO TIES PAXTON IN

NASCAR has dropped the hammer on the crew that jumped, attacked, and beat two-time Cup Series winner Corey Heim in front of a Martinsville hot dog shack last weekend.The series issued several major penalties and suspensions to both Chad Bryant and Steve Civatarese, suspending both indefinitely from NASCAR events — as well as the 2027 event at Martinsville. Both are also on probation for a year.Bryant, the team owner at the center of last Saturday's confrontation, was fined $2,000 and must attend anger management through a NASCAR-approved program. Civatarese was fined $1,000. Five others were also fined and put on

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy’s defense lawyer made a surprise shift in strategy Tuesday, according to legal analysts — shifting gears from his argument at trial that she was not criminally responsible because she suffered from postpartum psychosis."Where’s the evidence that she did this?" Clancy's defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, asked Judge William Sullivan in court Tuesday. "Where is the evidence she did this?"Reddington made the argument while asking Sullivan to enter a not-guilty finding after the jury deadlocked.LINDSAY CLANCY HOLDOUT JUROR ASKS FOR ONE THING IN NEW VIDEO AFTER MISTRIAL DRAMA"I submit to the court there is no evidence she

An Ohio woman is suing after her surgeon allegedly amputated the wrong leg when she underwent a below-the-knee amputation that the lawsuit says was required because of cancer in her right leg.Sharon Jacks, who is now a double amputee, was scheduled to have a below-the-knee amputation of her right leg at Selby General Hospital in Marietta, Ohio, on Sept. 19, 2025, but she woke up to her left leg missing, according to the lawsuit, WBNS reported."She went into surgery, and when she woke up, the wrong leg had been taken off," Jacks’ attorney Brad Layne told the outlet. "It defies

A Utah man who has spent decades on death row after he was convicted of killing a police chief's aunt has been released after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence excluded him as the source of DNA recovered from key pieces of evidence in the case.Douglas Stewart Carter, 71, was let out on bail late Monday over objections from the victim's family. He must wear a GPS monitor while he awaits a new trial in the killing of Eva Olesen, who was found tied up, stabbed and shot inside her Provo home on Feb. 27, 1985, during what investigators suspected

The Houston Astros entered the 2026 Major League Baseball playoffs as the worst team, by win-loss record, to ever reach the postseason. On Tuesday evening at Daikin Park, they played like it.Needing a win in game 162 to reach October baseball, the Astros delivered, winning 9-0 behind a bullpen game and the 29th homer of the season from Christian Walker. On Tuesday, they tried to run that same formula back again, starting long reliever A.J. Blubaugh, backed up by Bryan King and Miguel Ullola.Against the most powerful offense in the American League, it didn't work. Two first inning walks for

John Goodman and his wife, Anna Beth Goodman, had a rare date night out at the Los Angeles premiere of "Digger."The "Roseanne" actor wore a simple black suit, with a stripped-collared shirt and a grey tie. Anna Beth was photographed wearing a deep plum gown with a black clutch.John and Anna Beth have been married since 1989, after meeting at a Halloween party in New Orleans. The couple welcomed their daughter, Molly Evangeline, in 1990 and chose to raise her in New Orleans away from the Hollywood spotlight.NICOLE KIDMAN, RACHAEL RAY, TED DANSON KEEP MARRIAGES HOT WITH UNCONVENTIONAL RULESThe "Digger"

The NCAA defended its record on women’s sports after a federal judge dismissed Riley Gaines’ Title IX lawsuit against the organization, emphasizing its current compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order without directly addressing the allegations underlying the case."The NCAA is proud to continually invest in and expand women’s sports and the NCAA is in full compliance with the Trump administration’s executive order on women’s sports," the organization said in a statement.The Independent Council on Women's Sports (ICONS) responded to the NCAA statement in a social media post later on Tuesday."No promises to women. No assurances. No accountability. The weakest

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin addressed reporting about her identifying herself as a holdout juror in a gruesome murder case in the 1990s during the show's podcast Monday after resurfaced reports from multiple outlets said it was a man who was the holdout juror."Someone on the internet dug up a Daily News article from 1991 that profiled another, different person that was a holdout juror. You were quoted in this article too, but they were talking about a man that other people pointed to as saying this is the reason we couldn't come to a verdict," Brian Teta, the producer

An Oxford, Mississippi vape store clerk told a confidential informant that "people were dying" from the kratom being sold there, according to court records showing that one of the two Ole Miss students found dead had bought products from the same store.Ole Miss students Aidan Hamilton, 18, and Robert Strang, 20, were found dead on Sept. 21, both with similar packages of kratom or synthetic kratom found to be in their possession, according to the court documents. Officials detailed that Hamilton "could have died due to a Pulmonary Edema," which would be consistent with a drug overdose. Strang was found

In my time on the South Side of Chicago, I’ve asked people to look at what we’re losing. I have pointed out the root causes of gun violence, set up programs to counter it, confronted gangsters and brought them to truces, and helped many enter mainstream society as productive citizens. I’ve created after-school programs to counter our failing public schools so that kids won’t give up on themselves. But lately, I’ve been looking at another problem that may just be equally dangerous: the smartphone.When you look at a smartphone, it doesn’t look like a threat. It looks like a tool

WWE "Monday Night Raw" came to a raucous end in Milwaukee as the 946 and Bloodline factions came to a crashing head.It had been weeks of mind games between the two sides. Royce Keys, Bronco Nima and Lucien Price set Jey and Jimmy Usos’ car on fire and, last week, kidnapped Solo Sikoa before dropping him off near a beach. Jacob Fatu tried to get his family to simmer down and wait for the right moment to strike, but for him, kidnapping Sikoa was the last straw.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK PRO WRESTLING COVERAGEThe Bloodline started the night calling out

At least 40 people were rescued in open waters by the U.S. Coast Guard and two people died after their boat capsized several miles from a tiny, uninhabited island west of Puerto Rico following a fight that involved a machete, officials said on Monday.Survivors said there was an estimated 60 people aboard, according to the Coast Guard.The Coast Guard said the makeshift boat capsized late Sunday after a fight in which some people were severely injured by a machete, forcing the group to jump into the water despite not wearing life vests.Survivors had spent more than 12 hours in the

The State Department is assessing how it could grant state and local officials access to federal passport records to verify voters' citizenship status ahead of the midterm elections in November.The department is weighing how to share passport information with state and local officials, as well as some nonprofit groups, as part of the initiative that aims to ensure registered voters are U.S. citizens.The objective of the plan is to share the information in a way that "protects Americans' data, deters fraud and supports the integrity of U.S. citizenship," a department spokesperson said in a statement to NewsNation.The Justice Department disclosed

Case Keenum turned back the clock, as the 38-year-old quarterback led the Chicago Bears to a resounding 27-7 win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night.It was Keenum’s first start since Week 16 of the 2023 season, but you wouldn’t have guessed that with how well he executed head coach Ben Johnson’s offense on his way to a performance to remember with his family and the rest of the NFL looking on.Keenum’s performance was so good that the Bears need to be told one thing (if they weren’t thinking so already): don’t rush back Caleb Williams.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK

A reparations activist with a grassroots organization called the U.S. Freedmen Project told Fox News Digital that their group expects no financial compensation from New York state officials after lawmakers quietly delayed a high-profile study into historic remedies."What the mainstream reparations movement is really about ... is spinning your wheels until to whom the debt is owed tire out, give up, and give in," U.S. Freedmen Project President Devine Prince told Fox News Digital. "That's the only reason why you would pursue race-based policies within a system and within a country that has the 14th Amendment, which bans and prohibits