10+ min ago (558+ words) Queens Borough President Donovan Richardspredicted both planned casinos in the World's Borough will get licenses when bidders face a make-or-break vote on Monday. "I feel confident. I feel bullish. Bet on Queens," Richards said Sunday, a day before the New York Gaming Facility Location board is set to decide whether to issue up to three downstate casino licenses " with two bidders pitching locations in Queens. "Why go to Manhattan? You can stay in Queens! Queens becomes a global entertainment hub," Richards said. New York Mets owner Steve Cohen is leading a group that wants to build a gaming complex near Citi Field while Genting's Resorts World is bidding for a casino at Aqueduct race track. Bally's is also bidding for a casino complex at Ferry Point, President Trump's former golf course in The Bronx. The proposed $8 billion Cohen-Hard Rock Metropolitan…...

10+ min ago (805+ words) By midweek, as a handful of reporters watched his every move, Nico Iamaleava looked like someone on the verge of the offseason, not a rivalry game. In the early stages of practice Wednesday, the UCLA quarterback threw one pass softly before shifting into observer mode for the rest of the open viewing period. Three days later, as thousands of probing eyes watched his every move, Iamaleava was slinging passes with considerably more zip. His efficiency in completing one pass after another against No. 17 USC on Saturday helped the Bruins take a halftime lead, silencing a Coliseum crowd and triggering a brouhaha between the teams on one corner of the field as they headed for the tunnel. It was the kind of moment Iamaleava had dreamed of growing in Long Beach and attending the cross-town rivalry as a kid. "Meant a…...

19+ min ago (269+ words) Lane Kiffin wanted to leave Ole Miss for LSU, and has done so. But he did not want to leave now, and he is blaming the University of Mississippi athletic director for it. " Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) November 30, 2025 In his announcement that he is bolting for Baton Rouge, Kiffin called out AD Keith Carter for not allowing him to remain with Ole Miss through the College Football Playoff. Such was the reported source of dispute at a meeting on Sunday. Ole Miss, 11-1 and almost certainly bound for the CFP, wanted Kiffin to either stay or to leave immediately. It also wants a reason for the coaching staff under Kiffin to remain. Kiffin, meanwhile, wanted to finish the job with the Rebels and then say goodbye after they were eliminated or after they had won a title. Kiffin reportedly threatened to do his…...

20+ min ago (694+ words) The most important college football story in these parts is about the downtrodden program from Westwood and whether it will leave its dump of a stadium in Pasadena. UCLA's incompetence has overshadowed every team in this market outside of the Dodgers and Lakers, and that includes USC. Which speaks to where USC stands right now. The Trojans have become afterthoughts in a market they once owned, and they only have themselves to blame. Their 29-10 victory over the Bad News Bruins at the Coliseum on Saturday didn't change that. The 17th-ranked team in the country, the Trojans are by no means a bad team. USC literally can't afford to buy out coach Lincoln Riley's contract, which means that until further notice the Trojans will be known as the team that's good enough to not embarrass itself but not good enough to…...

24+ min ago (413+ words) The Nov. 19 front-page article "Boomers" vast wealth will be hard to replicate" reported that baby boomers hold an estimated $85 trillion in assets. At my 50th high school reunion, I reflected on fortune and fragility. My father helped write Medicaid and Medicare law, and our family benefited from inheritance. Not everyone has that kind of safety net. Fiscal awareness is not optional; it is the lifeblood of democracy. Each day, the dollar in your pocket loses value while Washington funnels wealth upward. Without accountability and restraint, debt and inflation will continue to hollow out the middle class and mortgage the future. We have moved from the Greatest Generation " who understood sacrifice and value " to a society that knows the price of everything and the unintended costs of nothing. Prosperity depends on stewardship of our economy and our environment. Transparency, outrage and reform…...

25+ min ago (229+ words) Wale is notorious for his social media habits. He's gotten into tons of arguments and made dozens of snarky comments Wale is notorious for his social media habits. He's gotten into tons of arguments and made dozens of snarky comments online to people. Sometimes, it can feel like he enjoys indulging the internet haters just as much as he loves rapping. Then, Folarin receives the catharsis that comes with blocking an annoying person from engaging with you. It seems pretty masochistic and unhealthy, but that's the nature of his "LoveHate Thing" with social media. Now, he's opening up about his trigger finger with the block button. Recently, Wale spoke on the Effective Immediately podcast to promote his latest album, everything is a lot. There, he opens up to hosts DJ Hed and Gina Views about the odd relationship he has…...

30+ min ago (375+ words) After an action-packed Saturday, the ever-changing College Football Playoff picture took yet another massive shift. Two teams that seemed to be trending in the right direction were No. 12 Miami and No. 19 Vanderbilt. The Hurricanes closed out conference play with a 38-7 win over No. 22 Pittsburgh. Vandy took care of in-state rival, Tennessee, defeating the Vols 45-24. Both of these games took place in the early portion of Week 14, with Miami's game starting at noon and the Commodores-Vols contest at 3:30 p.m. ET. As of Saturday midday, the Hurricanes had +150 odds to make the CFP, with Vandy slightly behind at +350. Over the course of 24 hours, oddsmakers have made a considerable shift for both Power 5 hopefuls. Miami odds to make playoff Saturday at 3:30: +150 Sunday morning: +820 JMU odds to make playoff: Saturday at 3:30: +1260 Sunday morning: +138 Vandy odds to make playoff: Saturday at 3:30: +350 Sunday morning: +4000 " Mackenzie Brooks (@kenzbrooksbets)…...

35+ min ago (265+ words) Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed across the United States on Sunday after a winter storm battered the Midwest over the weekend. About 240 flights into or out of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport were canceled as of 11 a.m. ET on Sunday. Another seven were canceled at Midway Airport, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware. Hundreds of others were delayed in the Chicago area, one of the country's busiest flight hubs. Another 1,500 flights were canceled on Saturday as heavy snow and strong winds swept across the Chicago region, according to FlightAware data. The winter storm " and the subsequent flight cancellations and delays " come as Americans travel following the Thanksgiving holiday, typically some of the busiest travel days of the year. The Transportation Security Administration had predicted that Sunday would be one of the busiest days in its history. The agency said it would…...

39+ min ago (405+ words) President Donald Trump made a decision that's hurting residents in a stronghold of support that helped propel him to re-election. "It could be tens of millions of dollars left on the backs of the members," said Allan Berg, the CEO of Presque Isle Electric & Gas, known as PIE&G, in northeastern Michigan. Great Lakes Energy, in northwestern Michigan, warned on its website that "all storm-related costs not reimbursed by state or federal disaster aid will be paid for by the cooperative's entire membership." Politico's E&E News obtained documents showing the Trump administration documented $90 million in damage to utility infrastructure, which is about five times the federal threshold to qualify for disaster aid, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency informed Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that assistance was "not warranted." That decision "could make the co-op actually go broke if something…...

40+ min ago (528+ words) A Massachusetts woman gained two long-lost sisters through a DNA test " then tried to net a fortune when she sued them a month later over a malpractice settlement involving their dad. Carmen Thomas, 28, took a 23andMe DNA test in February, 2023 and learned she had two biological sisters, Kali and Abigail Brown, whose father, Joe, died in 2018 from an undiagnosed aortic aneurysm. Joe was 43 when he was admitted to Salem Hospital that January after complaining of pain spreading from his upper abdomen to his chest and back, according to court filings. After Joe spent nearly an entire day of pain and struggling to breathe, doctors determined he was suffering from an aneurysm. But it was too late to save him, and he died the next day. Kali, Abigail and their mother, Kristin, sued the hospital, claiming its failure to diagnose Joe in…...