A few years ago, the Buffalo Bills threatened to leave New York State unless a new stadium deal was secured. This kind of relocation bluff is common in the NFL, with only the Green Bay Packers standing out as a team with a municipally owned facility and a market too small to seriously consider relocation. Despite the ever-present threat of the Bills moving to a more lucrative market, Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul ultimately signed a deal providing $600 million in state funding for a new $2.1 billion stadium for the Bills, with Erie County contributing an additional $250 million. This was after team owner Terry Pegula threatened to move the franchise to Austin, Texas, where he would privately finance a stadium.
A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, causing significant damage, including to the U.S. Embassy and several other foreign missions in the capital city.
The holiday season in Philadelphia was disrupted by a devastating wave of gun violence over the weekend, with 11 separate shootings leaving 24 people injured, four of them fatally.
President-elect Donald Trump is suing the Des Moines Register and its leading pollster, J. Ann Selzer, for "brazen election interference" and fraud over a presidential election poll that showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading in Iowa.
The chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops was killed outside an apartment building when a bomb hidden underneath an electric scooter exploded.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is calling on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to eliminate or suspend burdensome regulations preventing Floridians from rebuilding their homes after the devastating hurricanes Helene and Milton. These restrictions, she argues, are forcing some residents to abandon their communities altogether.
