LOADING ERROR LOADINGRepublicans have good reason to feel uneasy about this year’s midterm elections after Democrats notched a stunning victory in Texas over the weekend, a former press secretary for President Donald Trump said. “Every one of them said, ‘This is a problem.’ One person’s direct quote was, ‘This is 8.5 on the Richter scale,’” he said. Spicer’s comments on Rehmet’s victory start around the 18:09 mark. Democrat Taylor Rehmet flipped a long-held Republican seat in Texas' 9th Senate District in a Jan. 31 runoff election. “We will come out fighting with a new resolve, and we will take this seat back in November.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGWilliam Stevenson, who was briefly married to former first lady Jill Biden more than five decades ago, has been charged with the murder of his longtime wife, Linda Stevenson, Delaware police announced Tuesday. Police said they found Linda Stevenson unresponsive in the living room, and after attempting “life-saving measures,” she was pronounced dead. William and Linda Stevenson had been married for about 40 years. Jill Biden was married to William Stevenson from 1970 to 1974. In 2020, he told the Daily Mail that he didn’t “want to harm” Jill Biden’s chances of becoming first lady.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGActor Jason Bateman had an uncomfortable moment with singer Charli XCX during Monday’s episode of “Smartless” when he questioned her about not wanting kids. While discussing her childhood, Charli XCX revealed that dealing with conflict was hard because she’s an only child. Charli XCX was Hayes’ guest, so Bateman and Arnett weren’t able to do any research. Charli XCX married musician George Daniel after three years of dating. One X user wrote, “The Charli xcx / Jason Bateman interview was so cringe and embarrassing.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGImmigration and Customs Enforcement is not following through on threats to conduct immigration enforcement operations at Sunday’s Super Bowl, The Washington Post reported Monday. The newspaper obtained a document from the host committee to elected officials in San Francisco, Santa Clara and San Jose after the committee spoke with NFL security and law enforcement on Friday. Advertisement“We have been in daily contact with the NFL, which has confirmed the following with the Department of Homeland Security: There are no planned ICE immigration enforcement operations associated with SBLX,” the committee’s letter went. “Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else. We are humans, and we are Americans.”DHS agents have received intensified scrutiny after killing two protesters in Minneapolis last month.

In it, Epstein claims he gave a person of that name antibiotics for an STI. “I think we’re having a reckoning as a society, right? She then revealed how the latest revelations have affected her personally. I remember my daughters being those ages,” French Gates said. “I did not like that he’d had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no,” she said.

Advertisement“I think it’s important that the integrity of this investigation,” she said of the Clintons’ testimony during an interview on the steps on congress late Monday. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, here with celebrity and victims rights advocate Paris Hilton on January 22, told MeidasTouch that bipartisan involvement was essential to the "integrity" of any Jeffrey Epstein investigations. “We need to get to the bottom of it,” she went on. Late Monday, the Clintons yielded to threats of criminal contempt charges as they agreed to testify about Epstein under oath. The decision was a stunning shift from the political power couple, who have spent months snubbing subpoenas from the Oversight Committee’s GOP chairman, Rep. James R. Comer (Ky.).

Enter email address Agree & ContinueHomecoming was the subject of a piece written by Times special correspondent Steve Fisher and my colleague Kate Linthicum. Let’s jump into Fisher and Linthicum’s reporting and see what’s changed and how people are adjusting. One man’s homecomingAdrián Ramírez hadn’t been to his hometown in western Mexico for more than two decades. When he finally returned there early last year after being deported, he found the place transformed. “There’s a sense, an idea for these migrants that they’re not American enough for the United States but now they’re home and they’re too American,” Linthicum said.

Spanish figure skater Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté says Universal has given him permission to use Minions-related music at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Spanish figure skater Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté said Tuesday that he may be able to skate his Minions-themed program at the Olympics after all. “Finding out about this ... so close to the most important competition of my life, was incredibly disappointing,” Guarino Sabaté wrote in his post sharing the initial news. “This season I competed with my Minions short program to bring joy and playful style to the ice while still meeting every required element to show that skating as a male Olympic figure skater can be fun. The situation has brought to attention to the complexities of music licensing and how it affects artistic sports like figure skating.

South Gate basketball players always get fired up for rivalry games against South East and Legacy. In the city of South Gate, there’s three high schools nearby one another, which draws fans to gyms, football fields, soccer fields, baseball and softball diamonds. South Gate and South East are set to play in a Friday night Eastern League basketball game. Legacy is also in South Gate. In South Gate, three high schools are battling for city bragging rights, and every matchup feels like a playoff game.

Lindsey Vonn, above during a news conference on Tuesday for the U.S. ski team in Cortina, Italy, was named to the Olympic team seven years after she retired from the sport. A partial knee replacement in her right leg wasn’t enough to stop Lindsey Vonn from pursuing her Olympic comeback. Vonn revealed Tuesday she suffered a completely ruptured ACL in a crash last week but remains focused on racing in the Milan-Cortina Olympics. “I think if anyone can do it, it’s Lindsey,” U.S. teammate Bella Wright said of competing with a torn ACL. While a torn ACL typically sends athletes straight to the operating room, Vonn said surgery was not a discussion.

Of the 230 homicides logged in areas patrolled by the LAPD, officials said that 156, or 68%, were considered solved. | WEBINAR: From response to resolution — leading police operations in the video eraFactoring in the 78 homicides from past years that were solved in 2025, the clearance rate rose to 101%, officials said. Gang killings still account for most of the city’s homicides, but are far below where they were in years past, officials said. The homicide tally marked the city’s lowest total since 1966, when the city’s population was nearly a third smaller. In the past, when homicides were down, they sometimes took detectives away from homicide investigations,” he said.

The ex-husband of former first lady Dr. Jill Biden has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of his current wife, authorities said Tuesday. William Stevenson, 77, was arrested in connection with the death of his wife 64-year-old Linda Stevenson, who was found unresponsive in December inside a home in New Castle County, Delaware, police said. He was arraigned and is being held at Howard Young Correctional Institution on a $500,000 bond. Police did not share more details about their investigation or Linda Stevenson’s cause or manner of death. Linda Stevenson was described as a “deeply family-oriented” person who enjoyed taking vacations with her daughter and granddaughter, and cheering on the Philadelphia Eagles, according to her obituary.

Chuck Negron, one of three lead singers in the original lineup of the hitmaking Los Angeles band Three Dog Night, died Monday at his home in Studio City. His death was announced by a representative, Zach Farnum, who didn’t specify a cause but said that Negron died peacefully surrounded by his family. Between 1969 and ‘75, Three Dog Night put 21 songs inside the Top 40 of Billboard’s Hot 100; three of those went to No. Three Dog Night released its first album in 1968 — among the other members were Michael Allsup, Jimmy Greenspoon, Joe Schermie and Floyd Sneed — but by the mid-’70s the band had broken up. Negron’s survivors include his wife, Ami Albea Negron; his children Shaunti Negron Levick, Berry Oakley, Charles Negron III, Charlotte Negron and Annabelle Negron; and nine grandchildren.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGSeveral more beach homes have crashed into the ocean along North Carolina’s Outer Banks, littering the shoreline with hazardous debris while raising the total number of felled homes along the barrier island to 31 since 2020. This brings the total number of homes lost to the surrounding ocean to 20 since September, and 31 since May of 2020, the National Park Service said. Debris from collapsed homes litter the shoreline in the Outer Banks village of Buxton, North Carolina, on Monday. In 2023, the National Park Trust announced a partnership with the National Park Service to purchase and safely remove two at-risk homes in Rodanthe, approximately 25 miles north of Buxton. Park officials did not respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment.