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Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo President Biden ordered American flags across the country to be flown at half-staff as part of a national mourning period following the death of former president Jimmy Carter in late December. But Donald Trump, who has already loudly criticized the order for interfering with his inauguration next week, is now visibly […]

Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images Usually, it’s not news that the First Lady plans to live in the White House. But Melania Trump is a very unusual presidential spouse. So it was a bit of a surprise when she revealed in a Fox News interview on Monday that she’s “already packed” and ready to move back

Photo: Al Drago/Getty Images With the 2025 mayoral race slowly coming into focus, one name has loomed over the growing field of candidates, and it’s not the incumbent. Former governor Andrew Cuomo has been mulling a potential bid for City Hall as Mayor Eric Adams attempts to navigate a reelection campaign against the backdrop of

Photo: David Butow/Redux The Los Angeles wildfires are still far from completely contained. But even as swaths of the city remain under threat for at least a few more days, it’s hard not to wonder what comes next. How will insurance companies, already hesitant to provide coverage in fire-prone neighborhoods, respond to the multibillion-dollar disaster?

Photo-Illustration: Nathan Howard/Reuters Pete Hegseth is, by every measure, an abysmal nominee to run the American military. The Army National Guard veteran and former Fox News commentator has no experience managing enormous, complex organizations like the Pentagon and would, as Secretary of Defense, be in charge of an $850 billion budget and three million active

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images In 2025, there are two main ways you can expect to encounter self-driving technology. One is in your own new, or even relatively new, car: While Tesla has the most comprehensive and widely used driving-assistance features, lots of automakers — Ford, GM, Mercedes, and BMW to name a few — now

Photo: AP Photo By some measures, Anita Bryant almost lost everything. The singer and former beauty queen enjoyed a high-profile entertainment career and a lucrative stint as the spokeswoman for the Florida Citrus Commission until the late 1970s, when she sacrificed it all on the altar of anti-LGBTQ+ hatred. Bryant, whose death from cancer last

Photo: Courtesy of the Writer I am not a worrier, not given to hear the call of catastrophe. In the middle of the night on Monday, amid the squeal of the wind, my husband got up to take down some chimes ringing through the dark. I laughed: What a ridiculous time to have wind chimes.

Photo by Alex Kent/Getty Images Rudy Giuliani has to be setting some kind of record for legal drama. At the very least, he has to be the only former New York mayor to be held in contempt of court twice in one week. Giuliani’s current predicament began late last year, when election workers Ruby Freeman and

Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images We justifiably hear a lot about the Christian Nationalist belief system of many key figures in the MAGA movement and the Republican Party. No less a figure than House Speaker Mike Johnson is very cozy with those who think America is nothing if not a bastion of officially recognized conservative