Author: Susan Hauser

The mayor of a small Virginia community has been arrested on a public intoxication charge — reportedly after appearing at the scene of a local train derailment while visibly drunk. Paul Morrison, 57, mayor of Rich Creek, Virginia, was taken into custody by Giles County Sheriff’s Office deputies on Tuesday, according to WSLS, which cited jail records. The charge: public intoxication. It is not the start to a mayoral tenure that anyone in a town of roughly 750 people would have scripted. Earlier Tuesday afternoon, a Norfolk Southern Railway train derailed near Rich Creek — a community situated along the…

James Comey has been indicted before. On Tuesday, it happened again. The former FBI Director — who led the bureau from 2013 until President Trump fired him in May 2017 — is facing a second federal indictment, this one tied to a May 2025 Instagram post that prosecutors argue constituted a threat against the life of the 45th and 47th president. Comey’s response, delivered in a video posted to his Substack, was immediate and unyielding. “Well, they’re back. This time about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina beach a year ago,” Comey said. “Nothing has changed with me.…

For anyone who has ever sat in a cab on the Van Wyck Expressway watching the minutes tick by, the premise is immediately appealing: the same trip that currently takes an hour or more — depending on traffic, time of day, and the particular indignities of New York City surface transit — completed in under 10 minutes. That is what Joby Aviation demonstrated this week, completing what it described as the first electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi demonstration flights in New York City — departing from John F. Kennedy International Airport and landing at heliports on West…

Brittany Mahomes is not the kind of person who lets a country music festival go to waste. Especially not when there is a cowgirl outfit involved, a husband who needs a reason to get out of the house, and a social media audience waiting to see the results. The 30-year-old showed up to the Stagecoach country music festival this weekend fully committed to the aesthetic — boots, the look, the whole thing — and made sure her followers were along for every moment of it. Patrick Mahomes has been working through the recovery process after suffering a torn ACL and…

When Brinah Milstein and Roy Bank paid $8 million for a 2,300-square-foot Spanish bungalow in Brentwood, California in 2023, they had a straightforward plan: demolish the deteriorating structures on the property and redevelop the site. The permits came through. The timeline looked clear. Then, in a sequence of events that began the day after their demolition permits were issued, the city of Los Angeles changed everything. The couple is now in federal court, arguing that the city’s decision to declare the property — the former home of Marilyn Monroe — a historic-cultural monument constitutes an unconstitutional seizure of private property…

LeAnn Rimes has marked many milestones publicly over the course of her career. Her 15th wedding anniversary with Eddie Cibrian this week was different — not a celebration she could fully surrender to, but one she and her husband navigated with something harder running underneath it. On Thursday, Rimes took to Instagram to share a series of photos from their getaway at Las Ventanas al Paraíso in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico — and to be candid with her followers about the emotional weight the trip was carrying. “We got to step away for three days amidst work and some very…

When The New York Times published 16 pages of internal Supreme Court memos on Saturday, the immediate political response followed a predictable script: liberals pointed to the documents as evidence of a court willing to rush major decisions for ideological purposes; conservatives argued the content was being stripped of its context. But legal experts on both sides of the debate say the more significant story is not what the memos revealed about a decade-old case. It is the fact that they were leaked at all — and what that leak was designed to accomplish. “The liberals are salivating over this.…

When Timothée Chalamet made an offhand remark about ballet and opera back in February, the blowback from arts institutions was swift. Two months later, the controversy has found a new and considerably more personal voice. Charlize Theron — Academy Award-winning actress, former dancer, and someone who has bled through her shoes in the name of her craft — has had enough. “Oh, boy, I hope I run into him one day,” Theron said during a New York Times interview. “That was a very reckless comment on an art form, two art forms, that we need to lift up constantly because,…

California’s already turbulent gubernatorial race lost another contender on Monday as the June 2 primary draws closer and the field continues to narrow in ways that are reshaping the contest’s competitive dynamics. Betty Yee — the former California State Controller and a San Francisco Democrat who had been running for nearly two years — announced she is suspending her campaign, citing a combination of stubbornly low poll numbers and a fundraising environment that had simply failed to materialize around her candidacy. The announcement came just one week after former Rep. Eric Swalwell exited the race under dramatically different and more…

The metro area — which encompasses not only the city itself but also the East Bay, Peninsula, and Marin County — recorded a population that was 2.6% lower in July 2025 than it was in April 2020, according to the most recent metro-level census data. To put that in context: among all U.S. metro areas with populations exceeding 1.5 million people, only Los Angeles recorded a steeper decline over the same period — and Los Angeles was down just marginally more, at 2.7%. The San Francisco metro area’s failure to grow stands out even more sharply given the economic environment.…