The Day of Exploding Devices

The musician and record producer was arrested in New York months after raids on his Holmby Hills and Miami homes as part of a federal inquiry.

A now-ended adoption program created the perception that Chinese girls weren’t valued. Once hidden in a grocery bag, an adoptee found there was more to her own story.

The AR-924 pagers that exploded were manufactured by BAC Consulting KFT, based in Hungary’s capital, Taiwanese company Gold Apollo said.

At least 9 people were killed and thousands injured across Lebanon when pagers belonging to members of the Iran-backed militant group blew up almost simultaneously.

The pagers, deemed by Hezbollah to be safer than cell phones, were likely rigged with explosives before they were delivered to Lebanon, experts said.

The AR-924 pagers that exploded were manufactured by BAC Consulting KFT, based in Hungary, Taiwanese company says.

A friend of Andrew’s says, “He has given up his HRH, his military titles, his role in public life... I think he sometimes just wonders how long the punishment will go on for.”

“If anybody is gatekeeper, Kristina would know everything,” a source told The Post.

When Brittany Mahomes, the co-owner of a professional soccer team and the wife of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, liked an Instagram post from former President Trump last month, a debate quickly picked up on social media about her game day-pal, Taylor Swift. How could Swift -- who had endorsed Joe Biden in 2020...

California has a film and TV production problem. Industry professionals and experts are trying to determine what can be done to fix it.

The apparently successful drone attack comes as Ukraine is pushing its Western allies to lift restrictions on the missiles they have supplied for similar attacks inside Russia.

Mayor Rob Rue would prefer that Trump doesn’t travel to the city and bring more chaos with him.

Forty-seven days remain until Election Night, but the 2024 election is already underway. The earliest ballots went out to voters at the beginning of this month and more are soon to follow with millions of Americans expected to cast their votes early and by mail ahead of Nov. 5. Mail voting saw an unprecedented boom...

A picture began to emerge of a highly complex attack carried out by Israel, after thousands of pagers carried by members of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah exploded around the same time a day earlier.

At least 12 died and 2,800 were injured after pagers belonging to members of the militant group in Lebanon exploded

Pager firm Gold Apollo denied all involvement with the explosive pagers, telling NPR outside its offices in Taiwan that it was a Budapest-based company called BAC Consulting which manufactured the devices.

By targeting so many pagers at the same time, Israel demonstrated technical prowess. But its long-term intent is unclear, according to analysts.

Nearly 3,000 people were also wounded when the hand-held devices started exploding near-simultaneously on Tuesday afternoon in a deadly attack that Hezbollah and the Lebanese government have blamed on “Israeli aggression.”

Former President Trump, in light of the second apparent assassination attempt, praised the Secret Service agent who spotted the suspect at his golf club over the weekend and reacted quickly, contrasting it with the first attempt in July where a bullet grazed his ear. “And, in this particular case, you had a very sharp agent,...

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A Taiwanese firm's name appeared on Hezbollah's pagers that blew up in Lebanon, but the company says they were made by a Hungarian partner.

Harris appears to have slightly improved her position after her debate with Donald Trump, leading the former president by a few points in nationwide polling.

Nearly 3,000 people were also wounded when the hand-held devices started exploding near-simultaneously on Tuesday afternoon in a deadly attack that Hezbollah and the Lebanese government have blamed on “Israeli aggression.”

If state Republicans were genuinely concerned about election security, they would be pushing for better election infrastructure across the board, not zeroing in on student IDs.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) said Tuesday that unsubstantiated comments from former President Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) about Haitian migrants eating household pets are “not helpful” and “very hurtful” to the people of Springfield. DeWine, who supports the Republican presidential ticket, was asked in an interview on NewsNation’s “Cuomo” what...

In a new video, the former first lady called out the media and likened her nude photos to sculptures of ancient gods.

In a self-published book, social-media posts and interviews, Ryan Routh described Taiwan as a vulnerable democracy that deserves stronger support from the U.S.

After decades of devastating increases driven by fentanyl and other toxic street drugs, overdose deaths are dropping sharply in much of the U.S. The trend could mean roughly 20,000 fewer deaths in 2024.

House Republican leadership is slated to deliver remarks Wednesday following a closed-door meeting amid the party's effort to avert a government shutdown. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told The Hill that his decision to reschedule a vote on his partisan spending plan is leaving Congress seemingly no closer to passing a stopgap funding bill ahead of the Sept....

The former first lady finally speaks out about her risqué pre-Trump career choices.

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The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York unsealed the federal indictment against disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, which alleges more than a decade of abusing, threatening, and coercing women and others, racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice, among other crimes.

A new poll has found that more than half of all Americans support the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, with a large number of Democrats also supporting the effort.

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More than 100 Republican former national security figures, as well as members of Congress, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, citing former President Trump’s “demonstrated chaotic and unethical behavior.” The letter lists a litany of rationales for endorsing Harris and criticizes Trump, saying “she possesses the essential qualities to serve as President and Donald Trump...

A second wave of blasts rocked Hezbollah on Wednesday as radios and other devices used by the terror group were detonated across Lebanon, security sources and witnesses said. Additional explosions were reported throughout the capital of Beirut…

Vice President Harris's campaign unveiled a new ad Wednesday with a Kentucky rape surviving sharing her story and squarely blaming former President Trump for restricting abortion access. The new 30-second spot entitled “Monster” is narrated by Hadley Duvall, a Kentucky woman who was impregnated as a child by her stepfather. Duvall recalls being abused starting...

The AR-924 pagers that exploded were manufactured by BAC Consulting KFT, based in Hungary, Taiwanese company says.

A day after a pager attack killed 12 people and injured thousands across the country, state media reports more blasts

The Department of Justice is pursuing a civil negligence case against the owner and operator of the Dali, a ship that rammed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in April, causing millions in damages and temporarily shutting down one of the country's busiest ports. The DOJ's complaint argues the tragedy, which claimed the lives of...

Vice President Harris is addressing the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) on Wednesday as part of the D.C.-based nonprofit's annual leadership conference. The Democratic presidential nominee has shown signs of robust support from younger Latino voters, according to María Teresa Kumar, CEO of the youth-focused group Voto Latino. Her campaign has also recently bolstered its...

Police found explosives in car on Long Island on Wednesday near former President Donald Trump’s rally scheduled for Wednesday evening, according to a report.

Reports say Israel's security services intercepted the pagers during shipment to Hezbollah and rigged them with small explosives.

The latest attack comes a day after thousands of pagers exploded, with investigations into Tuesday’s detonations pointing to explosives planted in devices by Israel.

The death toll from the exploding pagers in Lebanon has risen to a confirmed 12, including two young children, Lebanese authorities said Wednesday, with the terrorist organization vowing revenge against Israel.

New explosions linked to electronic devices killed at least one person and injured at least 100, a day after pagers used by Hezbollah exploded, wounding thousands.

The death toll from the exploding pagers in Lebanon has risen to a confirmed 12, including two young children, Lebanese authorities said Wednesday, with the terrorist organization vowing revenge against Israel.

Reports say Israel's security services intercepted the pagers that exploded Tuesday during shipment to Hezbollah and rigged them with explosives.

The second wave of explosions come a day after an apparent Israeli attack targeting pagers used by Hezbollah killed at least 12 and wounded nearly 3,000.

The Fed is expected to start cutting interest rates on Wednesday — marking a milestone in the central bank's long-running battle against inflation.

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At least 2,800 people were injured Tuesday, Lebanese health officials said.

Young Americans want to feel listened to by an authentic and genuine political candidate, according to a new survey from American University’s Sine Institute of Policy & Politics, providing insight into the key voting demographic weeks out from the presidential election. The results were unveiled at the Sept. 17 event “What’s America Thinking: Young Voters...

Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) said she was the subject of a “very serious shooting threat,” and she blamed "rhetoric" coming from "the left."  "Over the last few weeks, I have received an increasing number of threats and doxxing attacks. An online page was encouraging strangers to send threatening packages to my home,” she said in a statement Wednesday. “This weekend, it escalated...

The pagers, deemed by Hezbollah to be safer than cell phones, were likely rigged with explosives before they were delivered to Lebanon, experts said.

Vice President Harris leads former President Trump by one percentage point in Wisconsin, according to a survey released by the AARP and conducted by the bipartisan polling team Fabrizio Ward and Impact Research. The latest polling, released Wednesday, has Harris at 49 percent on a head-to-head ballot with Trump, who sits at 48 percent among...

Hezbollah officials and Lebanon’s state media say explosions went off in Beirut and multiple parts of Lebanon one day after pager attack killed at least 12.

Several blasts were heard at a funeral for 4 people killed in the previous day's attack

The death toll from the exploding pagers in Lebanon has risen to a confirmed 12, including two young children, Lebanese authorities said Wednesday, with the terrorist organization vowing revenge against Israel.

When Breitbart’s own singer/songwriter Jon Kahn sat down at the piano recently, he had one simple thought: What kind of man could withstand the relentless barrage of attacks that have been leveled at former President Donald Trump? The answer was as simple as the question: a FIGHTER.

Hezbollah officials and Lebanon’s state media say explosions went off in Beirut and multiple parts of Lebanon one day after pager attack killed at least 12.

Vice President Harris is leading former President Trump in Pennsylvania and Michigan by at least 5 points but has a smaller lead in Wisconsin, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University. The poll finds Harris winning 51 percent of likely voters in Pennsylvania, compared to 45 percent for Trump. Green Party candidate Jill Stein...

The Montana Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling which allowed the state’s Green Party Senate candidate to remain on the ballot in November, a blow to Democrats’ efforts to prevent what they expect could be a spoiler in the close race between incumbent Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and his challenger, Tim Sheehy...

Israel was responsible for the pagers blowing up, sources told ABC News.

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For a second day, hand-held communication devices exploded across Lebanon. At least 14 people were killed and 450 injured, Lebanese officials said.

Martin County Sheriff deputies signed and donated the handcuffs used to apprehend Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the second assassination attempt of former President Trump. “That's good-looking human beings," Trump said about local law enforcement officials while walking into the arranged lunch meeting on Tuesday. The officers met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday said that former President Trump should "tone it down" in an interview on MSNBC, following a post on X by Trump that blamed Democratic rhetoric for political violence. "I would suggest to Donald Trump: tone it down. Let's have a debate on issues, let's have honest disagreements, but don't...

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If the Fed cuts interest rates today, borrowers will likely see interest rates ease off their peaks on things like credit cards and auto loans.

The U.S. military has moved almost 130 soldiers and mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels approaching American land.

The source of Wednesday’s explosions was not immediately clear but the blasts came a day after thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah blew up across Lebanon.

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The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to tennis legend and equal rights advocate Billie Jean King, bestowing the nation’s highest civilian honor on a female individual athlete for the first time. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) introduced the bill to recognize King last September...

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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters will not issue an endorsement in the presidential election for the first time since 1996. Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said "neither major candidate was able to make serious commitments to our union to ensure the interests of working people are always put before Big Business." “We sought commitments from...

For a second day, hand-held communication devices exploded across Lebanon. At least 14 people were killed and 450 injured, Lebanese officials said.

The rate cut could deliver relief to borrowers saddled with high costs.

The Teamsters union said Wednesday it won't endorse either Harris or Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

“Sean Combs has never evaded, avoided, eluded or run from a challenge in his life,” his lawyers said, claiming he wouldn’t run away before trial.

Taiwanese-based Gold Apollo said the pagers that exploded in Lebanon were made by another company licensed to use its brand.

Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman became the first Fed official since 2005 to vote against the central bank’s interest rate decision, when she dissented Wednesday against the Fed’s move to cut rates by 50 basis points. Bowman was the only Fed governor to break with the 11 other voting members who cast their ballots in...

A California Superior Court has cracked down on state regulators for penalizing a key agricultural region's water managers, chastising officials for potentially unlawful behavior. Judge Kathy Ciuffini, of Central California's Kings County Superior Court, last week issued a preliminary injunction that prevents the State Water Resources Control Board from requiring fees and reports from growers who over-pump...

In a new video that she shared on social media on Wednesday to promote her new book, former First Lady Melania Trump defended her past professional work as a high-end nude model.

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The Fed's decision will lower borrowing costs from a 23-year high as the central bank pivots to shoring up economic growth.

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a half-percent Wednesday and is projecting another half-percent cut over the course of its remaining two meetings this year, signaling a faster pace of monetary stimulus than analysts had been expecting over the summer. The Fed expects the interbank lending rate to drop to a median level of...

Federal Reserve officials kicked off rate cuts with a half-point reduction, confident that inflation is cooling and eager to keep the job market strong.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday for the second time blocked a Democratic bill that would have created a federal right to in-vitro fertilization and guaranteed insurance coverage of IVF and other fertility treatments. Republicans blocked the same bill in June, and the outcome this time around was never in doubt. Just like in June, the GOP...

The U.S. central bank kicked off rate cuts with a half-point reduction, confident that inflation is cooling and eager to keep the job market strong.

Vance must have suffered a memory lapse about Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sacks and a host of other Silicon Valley royalty that have backed his and Donald Trump’s campaign.

Manhattan federal Judge Andrew Carter, Jr. said Combs’ proposal for home detention and electronic monitoring on $50 million bail were “insufficient.”

Just one day after pagers used by hundreds of members of millitant group Hezbollah exploded, more electronic devices detonated in Lebanon Wednesday in what appeared to be a second wave of sophisticated, deadly attacks that targeted an extraordinary number of people.

Sean "Diddy" Combs was denied bail a second time after his lawyers argued for his release Wednesday, according to multiple reports.

Vice President Harris will travel to Georgia on Friday to highlight her support for abortion rights, likely focusing on the stories of two women whose deaths she blames on the state’s abortion ban passed by Republicans after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.  “The Vice President will highlight the stark contrast between her commitment to...

L.A. Sheriff’s Department announces policy it says will ban deputy gangs, hate groups

Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien told The Hill that the union did not endorse Vice President Harris or former President Trump “because both candidates didn't commit on the core issues that we need to get accomplished on behalf of our members.” This is only the third time the union hasn’t endorsed a presidential candidate since...

Here's a look at what the Federal Reserve's rate cut will mean for those looking to buy — or sell — a home.

The FBI and other intelligence agencies revealed Wednesday that Iran sent information stolen during its hack on the Trump campaign to the Biden campaign and continues to send material to various media outlets. “Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that...

Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith acknowledged Wednesday there are "real and serious" threats of foreign actors attempting to wield influence on the 2024 election as November quickly approaches. "We know that there is a presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, but this has also become an election of Iran versus Trump...

At their meeting on Wednesday, the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a half percentage point, satisfying investors who had been expecting a strong move given the weakening employment picture.

Additional explosions linked to electronic devices caused more deaths and injuries a day after pagers used by Hezbollah exploded, wounding thousands.

House Republicans voted down Speaker Mike Johnson's proposal to fund the government, leaving the path to averting a shutdown unclear and putting Johnson in danger of disappointing former President Trump and his conference's right-flank.

The interest-rate setting body has not cut rates so close to an election since 1992.

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"We cannot have a government shutdown," Mitch McConnell, said. "It would be politically beyond stupid for us to do that right before the election."

Democrats and some Republicans opposed the measure, but for different reasons.

Whoopi Goldberg, along with her co-host, Sunny Hostin, attacked Kansas City Chiefs football wife Brittany Mahomes on the talk show “The View” after she indicated support for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on social media.

The Republican nominee made an appearance blocks away from New York University, where his son Barron just started his freshman year.

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The Republican chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in Arizona has endorsed a Democrat to replace him. "I am endorsing Joel [Navarro] because he is a man of integrity, because he is a dedicated public servant who fights for what's right, and because he has a record of serving the interest of all...

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Former President Trump pledged to travel to Springfield, Ohio, after false claims that he and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), have made about Haitian immigrants eating pets in the city. Trump said at a rally in New York on Wednesday that he would go to the town in the next two weeks and...

Researchers believe the remains found in a lead coffin in 2022 are those of the French Renaissance poet Joachim du Bellay.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) government funding bill was sunk through the combined efforts of Democrats and Republicans in the lower chamber on Wednesday. Fourteen members of Johnson’s own party voted alongside most Democrats against the Louisiana Republican’s spending plan, which joined a six-month stopgap bill with a measure aiming to require proof of citizenship...

The wave of exploding electronic devices used by Hezbollah members could be a prelude to a wider attack by Israel.

The Israeli government did not tamper with the Hezbollah pagers that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say. It manufactured them as part of a ruse.