With summer in full swing, gas prices are shifting into high gear. States across the country are increasing their gas tax right as the Fourth of July weekend approaches — happy birthday, America. The time comes as pump prices are still 40% higher than in February.  And the state with the highest gas tax in the nation is set for another big increase. California is in the lead, according to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, but is still set to increase by 2.2 cents per gallon. This takes California’s gas tax to 63.4 cents per gallon —…

Prime Video’s Elle debut is bittersweet for the inaugural cast, as they celebrate the start of their new show while mourning the absence of costar James Van Der Beek. The Legally Blonde prequel, streaming now, marks Van Der Beek’s final TV role before his death in February at age 48. While speaking exclusively to Us Weekly, June Diane Raphael said it was “the honor of my professional life” to serve as Van Der Beek’s scene partner in season 1. “I loved acting with James,” she told Us about their characters crossing paths in the show. When fans meet Elle’s (Lexi…

The floodgates were fully open for the Lakers’ free agency moves on Wednesday morning.  After securing Walker Kessler, Sandro Mamukelashvili and Quentin Grimes on long-term deals, the Lakers agreed to terms on two-year deal with veteran guard Collin Sexton. ESPN first reported that Sexton is signing a two-year, $19 million deal.  This story will be updated.

Marissa Hart thought she was joining a fitness club. Instead, she ended up with a reason to keep calling New York home. It all began on a sunny morning in August 2020, when she spotted a pack of runners in matching “West Village Athletics” T-shirts bounding down the West Side Highway. The recent transplant was eager to break into the city’s group fitness scene, but was struggling to find a class she connected with. After finding the crew on social media, she reached out — and was invited to join them on a run that ended with a trip to…

The first dinosaur found in Antarctica belonged to a group that included the largest animals ever to walk the planet, a new study finds.A backbone from the 82 million-year-old giant was discovered more than 40 years ago, but at the time, researchers assumed it came from an ancient marine reptile. Now a new study, published June 29 in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, has revealed that it was actually a titanosaur — the group of long-necked sauropods that included the largest land animals on record.”At first glance this appears to be an unremarkable fossil, but it holds an important place…

CNN’s chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid has decided to leave the network rather than remain through David Ellison’s looming takeover of parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, according to a report. Reid, one of CNN’s most prominent legal journalists, informed management last week that she would not renew her contract when it expires later this summer despite receiving what Status described as a generous renewal offer. According to the newsletter, Reid privately raised concerns with CNN executives about Paramount Skydance’s pending $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and the uncertainty surrounding the future of the network under Ellison’s ownership.…

A registered child sex offender in California who sparked outrage earlier this year with his failed bid for Fresno City Council is celebrating after state lawmakers killed a bill that would have barred him — and others like him — from running for public office. Rene Campos, who failed to collect the 20 signatures needed to qualify for the Fresno City Council ballot in March, hailed the demise of the legislation as a victory for constitutional rights. “The First Amendment does not belong to the comfortable,” Campos told Fox26 News. “Today, the Senate Committee did what Fresno refused to do.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York City’s mayor is again under fire after spewing outlandish claims that his socialist policies are to credit for a balanced budget in the Big Apple, just after the city received a multi-billion dollar bailout from the state.”In January, our administration inherited a $12 billion budget deficit — a fiscal crisis greater than the Great Recession,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a Tuesday post on X announcing that the debt had been cleared.”We balanced the budget by taxing the rich and making government more efficient,” Mamdani continued. “We did not balance…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NEW YORK — Even some invited guests didn’t know the location of the wedding between Taylor Swift and her Super Bowl-winning beau Travis Kelce as recently as Sunday, according to a source with knowledge of the event — while New York City authorities are preparing for days of nuptials at Madison Square Garden this week.Details about the wedding remain scarce, but Fox News Digital reported Tuesday that the NYPD is preparing for an event spanning Thursday to the wee hours of Saturday morning and involving street closures, hundreds of VIPs and more,…

Get ready to be fully tanked this Fourth of July weekend. With gas prices up by nearly 40% since February, some of your favorite retailers and grocery stores have done the unthinkable — become charitable by offering giant savings. Ahead of July 4, companies like Amazon, JCPenney, Walmart and more are giving customers some much-needed extra mileage help. As of July 1, the national average is $3.84 for regular gas, according to data from AAA. Hawaii leads the US with its average pump price of regular gas at $5.48 a gallon. For the cheapest fill, head to Indiana, as the…