THERE ARE TWO ways of looking at the situation the ACC faces entering Saturday's championship game in which Duke, a 7-5 team with multiple losses outside the Power 4, could win the conference and, in doing so, keep the league out of the College Football Playoff altogether. The first is that it's simply a quirk of modern college football -- sprawling conferences with limited crossover between teams inevitably leading to a scenario where esoteric tiebreakers come into play.
The reason that the Epstein story has been such a huge scandal is the same reason the files may not contain any bombshells: Law enforcement's pursuit of Epstein was long insufficient. "I honestly think these files may not be as explosive as what people hope, because the FBI just didn't dig hard enough into this case," Brown told me. Although the files reportedly include tens of thousands of pages, some may be repetitive.
(Kelvin Kuo/Los Angeles Times) The California secretary of state's website appears to have been compromised with advertisements for pornography and cash apps. The breach is part of a nationwide cyberattack pattern; a researcher has tracked at least 38 government agencies across 18 states targeted by similar attacks in recent weeks. The researcher warns bad actors could exploit the vulnerabilities to access citizen information or impersonate government agencies in fraudulent communications, raising urgent questions about government cybersecurity.
I have a customer here that some other customers were suspicious of, that he looks like the CEO shooter from New York, the manager could be heard saying in audio of the call that was played in court on Monday.They're just really upset and they're like coming to me, and I was like, Well, I can't approach him.'
Kennedy told Boston.com that a man on a mountain bike spooked Pops as they approached railroad tracks that the trail crossed. When Kennedy first caught a glimpse of something speeding through the trees out of the corner of her eye, she said, she wasn't sure what it was. Whatever it was, it frightened Pops, who spun around and reared, retreating towards the field.
There's an aggressive assault suspect on the loose in Watertown. It doesn't have any warrants, but it does have whiskers and a tail. Watertown Animal Control warned residents Tuesday to be on the lookout for a rogue raccoon in the area of 140 Arsenal St. The furry fiend allegedly lunged at a woman and bit her pants before being kicked and running away, the department said on Facebook.
The Truman carrier group departed its home port in Norfolk in September 2024 - and by the time it returned in May, the carrier itself had collided with a merchant vessel; its cruiser had shot down one of its fighter jets, another warplane was lost when it slid overboard as the carrier performed an evasive maneuver to dodge an incoming missile; and a third jet was lost when an arresting cable failed as the pilot attempted to land.
I spend a lot of time in Haitian and immigrant communities across the United States. In Brooklyn, Miami, Chicago, and the Midwest, I keep seeing the same thing: the people keeping their communities informed aren't reporters. They're the pastor who delivers immigration updates before the sermon. The barber who streams local politics on Facebook Live. The neighbor who translates every school notice and distributes it through five different group chats. The teacher who explains American bureaucracy to families who arrived last week.
At approximately 7:39:27 p.m., the COLE CELLPHONE interacted with a particular sector of Provider tower 59323, which faces southeast (approximately 120˚) from its location at 103 G Street, Southwest in Washington, D.C. ("Sector A"). Also at 7:39:27 p.m., the COLE CELLPHONE interacted with a particular sector of Provider tower 126187, which faces east (approximately 90˚) from its location at 200 Independence Avenue, Southwest in Washington, D.C. ("Sector B").
The Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission pulled Trooper Michael Gagnon's law enforcement certification Tuesday, a week after he was arrested and charged with domestic assault and battery and assault and battery on a child causing injury. The POST Commission suspension order directs Gagnon to surrender his agency-issued credentials and equipment, including his uniform, badge, firearm, cruiser, and Taser. A State Police spokesperson previously said Gagnon has been relieved of duty and suspended without pay.
A Chicago man has been charged after allegedly posing as a 17-year-old boy and sexually exploiting a Brookline teen. Joshua Rogers, 30, was arrested in Chicago on Wednesday morning and is charged with one count of sexual exploitation of children, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. In July 2025, Brookline law enforcement were notified of an individual posing as a 17-year-old boy named "John," who was allegedly later identified as Rogers, engaging in sexually explicit conversations with a 14-year-old girl on Snapchat, according to officials.
In a complaint filed on November 25 with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Monitoring Analytics, LLC, an independent market monitor for PJM, requested that the regulator mandate that the energy wholesaler only add large data centers to its system if all customers can be reliably served. "PJM is currently proposing to allow the interconnection of large new data center loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require load curtailments (black outs) of the data centers or of other customers at times," the complaint read.
In something of a Pyrrhic victory for Boston drivers, the city improved its standing in a 2025 ranking of the most congested urban areas - even as the average Bostonian spent a whopping 83 hours languishing in traffic. Compared to last year, INRIX found that Boston drivers lost an additional four hours to traffic jams in 2025, costing about $1,529 per driver. Those 83 hours would be more than enough to log two full-time workweeks, or to watch the entire extended-cut "Lord of the Rings" trilogy seven times over - with minutes to spare.
Gleason leaves behind a wife and three children, and a fundraising effort for the family's needs going forward is underway. Dozens of people -- including Siena players in uniform, school officials and members of the University at Albany athletic community -- lined a hospital hallway Wednesday afternoon to pay tribute to Gleason as he was being wheeled into surgery to donate some of his organs, Siena officials said. The school announced his death a couple hours later.
Before the sun was fully up and long before the rest of his family stirred, William, a 5-year-old boy in Jacksonville, Florida, quietly climbed out of bed and decided his parents deserved a little more sleep. He felt hungry, and rather than wake anyone, the preschooler settled on a plan that made perfect sense to him: he would take himself out for breakfast.
The US dollar was relatively flat today, stabilizing after a second week of declines. Weaker US labour data reinforced expectations of a Fed cut next week. Yesterday's ADP report showed a surprise 32,000 drop in private-sector jobs, signalling that the job market is losing steam and fuelling concerns about the economy. Markets are still pricing close to an 87% probability of a 25 bps rate cut at the December FOMC meeting, in addition to more cuts during 2026.
The price comparison tool within T-Mobile's T-Life app uses AT&T's password-protected software without permission, AT&T told a Texas federal judge on November 30. AT&T is asking for a temporary restraining order. AT&T is accusing T-Mobile of unauthorized scraping of AT&T customer data and says T-Mobile "violates several prohibitions in AT&T's publicly available Terms of Use." It sent a cease-and-desist order to T-Mobile on November 26, but T-Mobile has refused to comply.
The dump truck then veered left into a Nissan Maxima (sideswipe), which was driving next to it, before continuing south across the eastbound lanes of Cactus Rd into and through the residential wall. Fox 10 Scottsdale reported Wednesday that the truck was carrying more than 20 tons of rocks and left a large hole in the residential wall. The homeowner of the assisted living facility described the crash like an explosion, according to Fox 10.
Have you ever shaken a wrapped present to guess what's inside? Well, that's what happened to mortgage rates this week. They bounced around as markets wondered if the Federal Reserve will give us a rate cut at its next meeting. The average rate on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell eight basis points to 6% APR in the week ending Dec. 4, according to rates provided to NerdWallet by Zillow. A basis point is one one-hundredth of a percentage point.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's administration warned on Tuesday that it will withhold money for administering SNAP food aid in most Democratic-controlled states starting next week unless those states provide information about people receiving the assistance. In response, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey called the withholding "truly appalling and cruel" and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said, "I wish I were surprised." "The Trump Administration is once again playing politics with the ability of working parents with children, seniors and people with disabilities to get food," Healey said in a statement.
