A jury on Jan. 30 found a psychologist and surgeon liable for malpractice after they supported and performed breast removal surgery on a 16-year-old girl who at the time identified as transgender. Fox Varian, now 22 and no longer identifying as transgender, was awarded $2 million in damages, with $1.6 million for past and future pain and suffering, and another $400,000 for future medical expenses.

Mayor Mamdani said Friday he still will only force homeless New Yorkers off the streets "as a last resort" — even as his office revealed 13 people have now died outdoors, with even colder temps coming this weekend. The Democratic socialist continued to insist that city workers will compel homeless people to get indoors only if they pose a danger to themselves or others. He dug in his heels as the real-feel temperature was forecast to dip as low as -1 degree Saturday into Sunday.

A former journalism intern is charged with pepper-spraying a conservative Philadelphia influencer during a heated, viral altercation on a SEPTA bus, per court records obtained by Axios. The big picture: Paulina Reyes, a 22-year-old former WHYY intern, drew national attention after a video showed her calling Surge Philly founder Frank Scales a "fascist," attempting to grab his phone and spraying him in the face, allegedly with pepper spray. The clip — filmed by one of Scales' colleagues — racked up millions of views and fueled backlash across conservative media, prompting a response from Elon Musk, who said Reyes had "violence issues."

Democrats scored a stunning upset on Saturday in a special election runoff for Texas Senate, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ, giving the party a major boost ahead of the November midterms. Fort Worth Democrat Taylor Rehmet, a machinist and Air Force veteran, defeated Southlake Republican Leigh Wambsganss to fill the vacant state Senate District 9.

A federal judge has struck down a Hawaii law banning "materially deceptive" media and advertising in state elections, handing another First Amendment victory to the Babylon Bee. U.S. District Judge Shanlyn Park found that the 2024 law known as Act 191 violates the First and Fourteenth amendments with its ban on "materially deceptive media" that present a "risk of harming the reputation or electoral prospects of a candidate in an election" or changing "voting behavior."

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has for years said that he didn't know convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein very well. In 2019, shortly before Epstein died in a New York jail cell, Musk told Vanity Fair magazine that he considered Epstein a "creep" and said that Epstein "tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island" but that Musk had declined to do so.

The mother of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani, filmmaker Mira Nair, attended a party hosted by convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, according to the just-released trove of documents linked to deceased serial abuser Jeffrey Epstein. Nair's name was on an email sent by publicist Peggy Siegal to the late pedophile Epstein about an afterparty in 2009 for the film Amelia, which Nair had directed. The email alleges no wrongdoing and simply records attendance.

President Donald Trump on Thursday declared a national emergency via an executive order over Cuba, accusing the communist regime of aligning with hostile foreign powers and terrorist groups while moving to punish countries that supply the island nation with oil. Thursday's executive order states that the policies and actions of the Cuban government constitute "an unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."

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