Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said he would vote to confirm his former political opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator if Oz plans to protect the government programs.  “If Dr. Oz is about protecting and preserving Medicare and Medicaid, I’m voting for the dude,” Fetterman tweeted. Fetterman defeated Oz, a Republican, in Pennsylvania’s 2022 U.S. Senate race. “Our politics are obviously different, and we do have a history, but I don’t have any bitterness. I don’t hold anything against him,” Fetterman said, according to CNN’s Manu Raju.  President-elect Donald Trump announced Oz as his pick to…

Business magnate Elon Musk expressed interest in meeting Alex Soros, who replied that he would be open to it. Alex Soros is a son of nonagenarian liberal megadonor George Soros.”I would be curious to meet and understand your goals better,” Musk wrote to Alex Soros on X.”I often learn most from people whose views are different than my own. Open to meeting,” Soros replied.ELON MUSK BLASTS JOHN BOLTON AS ‘STAGGERINGLY DUMB WARMONGER’ AFTER CRITICISM OF TRUMP AG PICK MATT GAETZ Elon Musk, left, speaks at a rally for former President Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York, Oct. 27,…

They almost caught him with his pants down.An illegal immigrant from Venezuela with suspected ties to the Tren de Aragua gang has been arrested outside a New York City migrant shelter after allegedly breaking into a Manhattan prosecutor’s apartment, pleasuring himself and robbing her, according to a new report.Brandon Simosa, 25, followed the unidentified 38-year-old woman into her apartment building near the intersection of 44th Street and Ninth Avenue around 2 a.m. Sunday, according to the NYPD.Once inside, he demanded cash and stole credit cards and a cellphone from her purse. Then, he allegedly “performed a lewd act in front…

Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships. We receive compensation when you click on a link and make a purchase. Learn more! The time has finally come: it’s officially Wicked release week. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m ridiculously excited for the movie. I’ve been eating up all of the behind-the-scenes teasers and interviews with the cast, but my favorite videos to watch are the makeup chair transformations. It often took hours for Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande to transform into their characters, but Grande managed to stay cozy during the process thanks to the Barefoot Dreams CozyChic Robe. In true Glinda…

Police believe a South American crime ring is behind the October burglaries that happened at the residences of Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, according to Fox 4 in Kansas City. A police report said Kelce had roughly $20,000 in cash stolen and his back door received damage, according to TMZ. “It doesn’t surprise me at all that this crime spree that is going across the entire country is designed by some very sophisticated people in somewhat of a cartel,” security expert Mike Barbieri told the outlet. Cops received notice of a burglary at Mahomes’ Belton, Mo., residence around…

Editor’s note: This article is part of a special package written for the 50th anniversary of the discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old A. afarensis fossil (AL 288-1), nicknamed “Lucy.”From a distance, it might have looked like a small child was wending her way through the waving grass along a vast lake. But a closer look would have revealed a strange, in-between creature — a big-eyed imp with a small head and an apelike face who walked upright like a human.She may have looked warily over her shoulder as she walked, on alert for saber-toothed cats or hyenas. She may have…

South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace doubled down on her push to prohibit transgender women from utilizing female private spaces on Capitol Hill by introducing legislation to bar it on all federal property, even as she claims critics are “threatening to kill me over this issue.” Mace, 46, announced the “Protecting Women’s Private Spaces Act” on Wednesday to restrict “individuals from accessing or using single-sex facilities on federal property other than those corresponding to their biological sex.” “Oh you thought threatening me would silence me? No. I just doubled down and filed a new bill to protect women and girls…

Sen.-elect Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., said Democrats need to ditch identity politics if they want to win over voters in future elections, telling reporters the ideology needed to “go the way of the dodo.”Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democrats who won Senate races in the 2024 elections held a briefing for reporters at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) on Tuesday, during which they explained how they managed to get elected despite President-elect Trump winning in their state. According to Slotkin, who represents a swing district in the House of Representatives that she initially flipped from red to blue, identity…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams pleaded with state leaders in Albany for help involuntarily relocating the mentally ill homeless from the city’s streets and into care, characterizing a Monday stabbing spree as the latest casualty of New York’s inaction.”Everybody said I was inhumane, that we just want to institutionalize people,” Adams said during a press briefing Tuesday. “Well, this is the result. This is the result of not taking actions and ignoring people who need help.”Adams said city officials will analyze how shortcomings in the criminal justice and mental health systems failed accused killer Ramon Rivera, who had been…

Matthew McConaughey is opening up about why he left Hollywood for Texas. The Oscar winner, 55, earned critical acclaim for his roles in True Detective and The Dallas Buyers Club, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he was best known as a leading man in rom-com movies such as How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Wedding Planner and Failure to Launch. In a new interview on the “Good Trouble With Nick Kyrgios” podcast, which is set to drop in full Wednesday, November 20, McConaughey recalled how he found himself on “autopilot” in his career and…