Liberal candidate Lee Jae Myung has won Tuesday’s presidential election in South Korea, with conservative rival Kim Moon Soo conceding defeat, Yonhap news agency reported.Lee, the candidate of the liberal opposition Democratic Party, assumed the presidency in the early hours of Wednesday after the National Election Commission confirmed his victory, Yonhap reported.He took office immediately as Tuesday’s election was held to replace former president Yoon Suk Yeol, who was ousted over a failed bid to impose martial law at the end of 2024.According to Yonhap, Lee won 49.42% of the votes, while Kim received 41.15%. Voter turnout was extremely high…
Two of California’s Democratic hopefuls for the 2028 presidential election — former Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom — were notably absent from the state’s 2025 Democratic convention.Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris’ former running mate from last year, was the headliner at the convention on Saturday.Walz, who is…
Mayor of Flavortown Guy Fieri sells Lake Worth Beach home for less than he hoped…
DENVER, Colo. — In her classroom at Swansea Elementary School in Denver, Katya Lopez is known as “Miss Kat.” But outside of school, she has another title.Lopez was crowned “Miss Denver” in October of 2024, just two months after moving to Denver with Teach for America. Lopez, who is originally…
Rep. Elise Stefanik called Staten Island “Trump Country” ahead of a fiery speech to local Republicans Monday as she eyes a 2026 run against Gov. Kathy Hochul. The upstate congresswoman bashed Hochul as an “accidental” governor in comments to the pro-Trump crowd — with some attendees decked out in MAGA…
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy was on the receiving end of an antisemitic comment as he filmed a pizza review in Toronto. Portnoy, doing a review at Terrazza for his ever-famous “One Bite” reviews that was posted Monday, was outside the shop with a box containing a pizza pie as…
Nearly a decade after his twitchy Twitter fingers helped him shock the world by defeating Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump’s social media habit is playing an even larger role in his messaging and governing during the opening months of his second term.Since returning to the White…
Parks and Recreation fans have mourned the deaths of some of the show’s most memorable cast members — and their loved ones — over the years. NBC viewers tuned in weekly to watch the mockumentary series, which aired from 2009 to 2015, about employees working for the parks department in…
Feds charge U-M student from China with voting illegally, fleeing US
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a highly rare move that will strip the ship of the moniker of a slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War. US officials say Navy Secretary John Phelan put together a…
Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud is launching new ventures at two of New York City’s most prized skyscrapers – an expansion that dovetails with a push by companies to lure workers back to the office five days a week. Boulud – whose culinary empire in the Big Apple includes high-end haunts…
President Trump is poised to extend the TikTok ban deadline – for the third time – as the White House and China prepare to hold trade talks, On The Money has learned. The previous extension to the law — which forces TikTok’s Chinese parent company Bytedance to sell the popular video-sharing app…
The suddenly-not-quite-so-safe-and-smug Joni Ernst. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Up until now, Iowa has been the poster state for Donald Trump’s alleged electoral revolution. Prior to Trump’s first race, it went Democratic in six of the seven presidential elections (and went Republican only by an eyelash in the other). Then…
Celebrity chef Bobby Flay’s restaurant Bobby’s Burgers is expanding beyond Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, with multiple new standalone locations opening across metro Phoenix over the next couple of years.The restaurant made its Arizona debut in 2023 inside Terminal 4 at Sky Harbor Airport. The new locations will make Bobby’s…
Stephen A. Smith isn’t happy with Knicks president Leon Rose’s “weak ass statement” attempting to justify Tom Thibodeau’s firing. “I think we all as New Yorkers should find Leon Rose’s statement offensive,” Smith said Tuesday on “NBA Today.” “Get the hell in front of a microphone and a camera and…
Mariska Hargitay is on a quest to learn more about her parents in her upcoming documentary, My Mom Jayne. “I’ve spent my whole life distancing myself from my mother,” the Law & Order: SVU star, 61, said in the official trailer for My Mom Jayne, which dropped on Tuesday, June…
A Chinese national couple was hit with criminal charges Tuesday for allegedly smuggling a dangerous fungus into the US capable of destroying crops and poisoning humans and livestock. Zunyong Liu, 34, was caught by US Customs and Border Protection officers attempting to smuggle Fusarium graminearum – a biological pathogen considered…
A majority of Warner Bros Discovery shareholders voted against the 2024 pay packages of CEO David Zaslav and other top executives at the media conglomerate’s annual stockholder meeting, a Tuesday regulatory filing showed. The board of directors had recommended shareholders to vote in favor of the 2024 executive compensation; however, more than 59%…
Living 150 years could not just be possible – it could soon be inevitable, according to human biologist and biohacker Gary Brecka. “If you’re alive in five years, I believe it will be your choice whether or not you want to live to 120 to 150 years old,” Brecka told…
Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung will be South Korea’s next president following a snap election, with official results showing him well ahead of his main rival who conceded defeat early Wednesday morning.Kim Moon-soo, of the ruling conservative People Power Party, conceded the race to Lee in a speech, congratulating him on…
Wild cockatoos in Sydney, Australia have learned to drink from twist-handle water fountains, turning the knob with their feet and using their body weight to keep it open. They even queue to have a drink, waiting to take turns on the fountain, footage shows.The behavior qualifies as a new local…
Turns out that fecal transplants are No. 2. It’s hard to imagine, but these transplants are really hot right now. Clinical trials have shown promising results for treating cancer, reversing the effects of aging and healing the gut. Luckily, a new study suggests there’s a much simpler and more appetizing…
Minnesota Vikings legend Jim Marshall died Tuesday after a “lengthy hospitalization,” the team announced. He was 87. Known as “The Captain,” Marshall joined the Vikings in their inaugural season in 1961 after being traded to Minnesota from the Browns after his rookie season. The defensive end would then play 270…
Hoda Kotb is focusing on her own wellness journey while helping others kickstart their own. The former Today host, 60, shared clips of her impressive workout routine via Instagram on Tuesday, June 3. “Let’s start this day! Happy Tuesday XO,” she captioned the post, the first slide of which featured…
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The traditional definition of soul food has to do with dishes with an African American cuisine. Of course, there is nothing traditional to the way chef and best-selling author Deborah VanTrece prepares soul food.Season two of “Global Soul Kitchen” – that has just launched on the basic…
After half a year of political turmoil, uncertainty and division, South Koreans voted Tuesday for a new president to succeed Yoon Suk Yeol, the disgraced former leader who plunged the democratic nation into chaos by declaring martial law in December.Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung is projected to win, according to a…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening is hosting the more than 3,000 political appointees in his administration for one of the largest events ever held on the White House lawn to celebrate their work, Fox News Digital has learned. The event will be the first time ever that the president has invited all individuals hired…
The Psaki bomb has turned into a major Psaki dud for left-leaning MSNBC. The embattled cable news network — which is expected to be spun off by parent company Comcast later this year — has seen ratings plunge nearly 50% in the pivotal 9 p.m. slot since Jen Psaki took…
After nearly a decade in orbit, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has, for the first time, directly observed the process that scientists had long suspected was responsible for stripping Mars of its atmosphere.The findings, published May 28 in the journal Science Advances, could help answer a longstanding question about how Mars transformed…
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy might help you ditch the food baby, but they could also affect your ability to make a real one. Ayla Barmmer, a registered dietitian and reproductive health expert, told The Post that about 15% of her patients using the medications have struggled to conceive. …
The list of culprits to blame for the failures of the 2024 Jets is like a CVS receipt. It seems to just keep going and going. Aaron Rodgers gets blamed. Robert Saleh gets blamed. Jeff Ulbrich is on the list. Woody Johnson was a popular target by the end of…
Pamela Hemphill, a former supporter of President Donald Trump who served two months in prison for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has formally rejected the president’s pardon.Hemphill told USA TODAY that she filed documents to turn down the pardon earlier this year with the U.S. Department of Justice’s…
Luann de Lesseps broke her silence after sparking engagement rumors with a huge diamond ring. De Lesseps, 60, was spotted on Monday, June 2, riding a scooter in Sag Harbor, New York, but it was the ring on her left hand that caught Us‘ eye. Just hours prior, De Lesseps…
Seoul, South Korea — Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung was elected president of South Korea in a snap election sparked by the impeachment of the country’s former leader, Yoon Suk Yeol. As of early Wednesday, Lee had a lead over his conservative rival Kim Moon-soo that was mathematically impossible to…
Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was slapped with an ethics complaint filed Tuesday by a watchdog group accusing her of potentially accepting illegal travel and hospitality gifts on at least three long-haul jaunts — including to Qatar, the Masters golf tournament, and President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. The Foundation for Accountability…
Nearly a decade after his twitchy Twitter fingers helped him shock the world by defeating Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump’s social media habit is playing an even larger role in his messaging and governing during the opening months of his second term.Since returning to the White…
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday voted to scrap a near-$2 trillion asset cap imposed on Wells Fargo over a 2016 scandal that uncovered millions of fake accounts and other consumer abuses. The decision closes the door on a decade of regulatory woes for the nation’s fourth-largest lender and is a…
The wait is almost over.McDonald’s confirmed to USA TODAY on Tuesday that the Snack Wrap will officially be coming back to restaurants permanently beginning Thursday, July 10.The Snack Wrap features one of McDonald’s new McCrispy Strips – a juicy chicken strip made with all white meat – topped with crisp…
Because eating a cannabis-infused brownie or gummy does not involve inhaling smoke, it may be tempting to think of edibles as a relatively harmless high. However, new research suggests that similar to smoking cannabis, consuming edibles containing the compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) may worsen cardiovascular health over time.The study found that…
Strokes are on the rise among younger people, with a recent CDC report revealing a 14.6% increase among people aged 18–44 from 2020 to 2022. While the alarming trend has been stumping medical professionals, one expert has shared some intriguing theories with The Post. “We’ve never had patients so young,”…
Most WWE releases can be explained away. R-Truth felt different. Most of the time, when a wrestler is let go, it can be justified — somewhat — by not being used on television enough, being too often injured or not selling enough merchandise. R-Truth announcing Sunday that his contract would…
Feds charge U-M student from China with voting illegally, fleeing US
Lori Harvey is so ready for summer. Harvey, 28, showed off her figure via Instagram on Monday, June 2, while soaking up the sun on a yacht. For her seaside adventure, Harvey slayed in a shimmery bikini top featuring triangle cups adorned with stylish ruching and halter straps. Lori, who…
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