Immigration
An ICE Officer Fired Seven Shots Into a Car in Manhattan with a 5-Year-Old Inside, and DHS Blames the Boy’s Father
An ICE officer fired seven rounds into Oscar Belgal's car in Marble Hill with…
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Mark Masterson
Mark Masterson has written more than 1,700 articles for Live News Chat since 2022 and files most days. His beat is the news the networks on this site are carrying live: US politics, world affairs, breaking news, and the courts, with regular work on technology, sport and entertainment. Because the site exists to point readers at live coverage, most of his reporting is written within hours of the broadcast it follows, and is sourced from primary material where one exists: the filing, the transcript, the agency release, the company statement. Originally from Canada, he has worked in online publishing for over a decade. Corrections and story tips go to security@livenewschat.eu, and the standards his work is held to are set out in the Live News Chat editorial policy.
2,354 published articles
Celebrities
Hugh Hefner’s Widow Asks Jessica Biel to Drop a Playboy Mansion Movie. Its Director Grew Up There.
Crystal Harris asked Jessica Biel to quit Playmates. The film's writer-director, Lorraine Nicholson, spent…
Education
The Education Department Froze PSLF Payment Counts Over ‘Data Issues,’ Not a Backlog
Federal Student Aid froze Public Service Loan Forgiveness payment counts two months after saying…
Law & Justice
Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Navi Pillay, a Founding Judge of the Court Trump Sanctioned
The Nobel committee's own release points at sanctioned judges. Navi Pillay sat on the…
Breaking News
Nicolás Maduro Charged with Conspiracy to Torture, a New Count Covering Americans Held in Venezuelan Prisons
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed a superseding indictment on Thursday that charges Nicolás Maduro…
Law & Justice
McDonald’s Is Being Sued Over Its AI Pricing Tool. The Company Says Franchisees, Not Algorithms, Set Your Price.
A McDonald’s regular from DeKalb, Illinois, named Michael Thomas filed a proposed nationwide class…
Breaking News
Russian Glide Bomb Kills 33 on Two Passenger Buses in Ukraine’s Kramatorsk
A Russian glide bomb hit two passenger buses on a street in Kramatorsk on…
Elections
Trump Calls His Top Political Aides ‘Outside Consultants’ After They Were Paid by Bosnia’s Pro-Russian Serb Government
President Trump spent part of Wednesday in the Oval Office explaining that two of…
Government
Hurricane Isaias Heads for the Gulf Coast as a Court Deadline on FEMA’s Staff Cuts Arrives
“I hadn’t heard about a hurricane. The hurricane is going in the vicinity of…
Breaking News
Christa Pike Is Awake After Tennessee’s Failed Execution, Not Brain Dead as Her Lawyers Feared
Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital and woke after her lawyers feared brain…
Breaking News
At Least 21 Killed as Russia Fires 70 Missiles Into Ukraine a Day After Zelensky’s Warning
Russia fired about 70 missiles at Ukraine on Putin's birthday, killing at least 21.…
Business
How to Practice Trading Strategies on an Expert Option Demo Account
A demo account lets you test a trading strategy without risking capital. Here is…
Crime
California Couple With 21 Surrogate-Born Children Charged With Child Abuse, the Case Behind Congress’s Surrogacy Bill
Los Angeles County prosecutors charged Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang on Tuesday with conspiracy…
Law & Justice
Trump Approved a Firing Squad for Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan, Though the Last Military Death Warrant Was Never Carried Out
At 1 p.m. Central on Dec. 3, the Army intends to execute Nidal Hasan…
Breaking News
Washington Man Charged with Conspiring in Canada’s Tumbler Ridge School Shooting
Prosecutors say James Cody Bryant gave the Tumbler Ridge shooter tactics, cash and a…
Gaming
Behind the live stream: how a dealer table reaches a screen
Inside live dealer tables at Pinco casino: how the stream is produced, what latency…
Politics
Trump on Iran at Nebraska Rally: ‘Let Them Take Out Los Angeles. Let Them Take Out San Diego.’
The crowd in Grand Island, Nebraska, cheered. On Monday night, in the middle of…
Technology
Toyota Wakes The Industry Up With A Battery That Lasts 40 Years
Toyota says its solid-state battery could keep 90% of capacity after 40 years, roughly…
Awards
The Physics Nobel Honors a Neutrino Detector Buried in South Pole Ice. Trump’s Budget Proposed Halving Its Funding.
Francis Halzen won the 2026 physics Nobel for IceCube. In 2025 the White House…
Elections
20.8 Million Seniors Will Get $90 From Medicare Followed by a Letter From Trump
The $90 Part B rebate lands via Social Security around Oct. 8. CMS says…
Health
23 Passengers Shared a Flight With Kenya’s First Ebola Patient Before He Died in Nairobi
Kenya's first Ebola patient passed routine screening at Nairobi's airport a month into his…
Technology
Before You Buy Your Next Phone, Check These Five Connectivity Features
eSIM-only iPhones, slower carrier unlocks and missing 5G bands can catch buyers out. Check…
Health
Did a Russian Lab Worker Die of Plague After Breaking a Test Tube?
Officials say the cause was pneumonia of unknown origin. Everything they did afterward says…
Government
After Trump Posted His Cell Number, Tom Cotton Is Still Blocking Permanent Daylight Saving Time
Posting one senator’s phone number does not move a bill whose real gatekeeper is…
War & Conflict
US Pulls All 12 B-1 Bombers From RAF Fairford, Where Six Men Were Arrested a Week Ago
The headline version: the US pulled its bombers out of Britain after an Iran-linked…
Law & Justice
Two Security Advisers Say They Told Fox News’s Benjamin Hall Not to Leave Kyiv Before the Attack That Killed Two Colleagues
Two security advisers who worked for Fox News in Ukraine told NPR that the…
Politics
A US Marine Was Arrested Over a Woman’s Killing in Okinawa. Japan’s Prime Minister Protested the Same Day.
Japanese police arrested a US Marine over the killing of a woman in a…
Cryptocurrency
473 Million XRP Set to Enter the Nasdaq Ecosystem: Evernorth Vote Passes; XRP Holders Can Earn Up to $3,000 Daily
Evernorth shareholders have approved the Armada Acquisition Corp. II combination, with the merged entity…
Gaming
Sports Parlays Cost Nearly Four Times as Much as a Single Bet. Here Is the Math on a Four-Leg Slip
A four-leg sports parlay costs nearly four times as much as a single bet…
World News
120 Million Barrels of Diesel: The US Demands Europe’s Emergency Reserves or Threatens an Export Ban
Washington wants Europe to hand over a lot of diesel, and it is attaching…