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Theresa Braine

Theresa Braine has been at the Daily News since November 2018, having previously reported for newspapers in Connecticut, been a copy editor and copy chief for several national magazines, worked as a freelance correspondent based in Mexico City, and served as environment and Canada editor for an indigenous-focused news site.

California equestrian in hitman plot against husband dies by suicide

December 24, 2025 at 7:04 a.m.

A California equestrian who tried to hire a hitman to murder her husband fatally shot herself outside a San Diego bar after being released from prison, but before facing arson...

Wrestler Mick Foley quits WWE over Trump ties after Reiner comments

December 17, 2025 at 12:35 p.m.

Wrestling great Mick Foley has called it quits with the WWE over its cozy relationship with Donald Trump, citing “incredibly cruel comments” the president made about Rob Reiner’s murder.

Elden Campbell of the Detroit Pistons stands on the court during a game with the Denver Nuggets on Nov. 11, 2004, at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by: Brian Bahr/Getty Images)

Retired NBA champ Elden Campbell’s cause of death revealed

December 5, 2025 at 5:34 a.m.

Retired NBA champion and former Los Angeles Laker Elden Campbell died in an accidental drowning, Florida officials have ruled.

US actor Eric Dane speaks about his ALS diagnosis during a news conference to discuss health insurance at the Department of Health and Human Services Headquarters in Washington, DC, on June 23, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Eric Dane talks about living with ALS, grateful to be working

December 4, 2025 at 4:03 a.m.

Actor Eric Dane got real about what it’s like to live with ALS on Tuesday as he candidly discussed the range of emotional and physical repercussions of the devastating diagnosis.

Investigators with the San Joaquin Sheriff's Department collect evidence at the site of Saturday's shooting at a banquet hall in Stockton, Calif., Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Burna Boy offers to pay funeral costs for victims killed in Stockton shooting

December 3, 2025 at 6:30 a.m.

The Nigerian singer-songwriter known as Burna Boy will foot the funeral expenses for all four victims killed in Saturday’s mass shooting at a toddler’s birthday party in Stockton.

Diane Keaton arrives at American Film Institute's 45th Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to Diane Keaton at Dolby Theatre on June 8, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Turner)

Diane Keaton’s California dream home back on market for $27 million

December 2, 2025 at 7:00 a.m.

Diane Keaton’s prized LA dream home is back on the market, this time for $27 million, after being being delisted two weeks before her Oct. 11 death.

"Home Improvement" star Zachary Ty Bryan is pictured in a January 2025 mugshot (left) and in 1994 (right). (Horry County Sheriff; Getty)

‘Home Improvement’ star Zachery Ty Bryan arrested for 6th time in 5 years

December 1, 2025 at 11:27 a.m.

Zachary Ty Bryan, fictional eldest child of Tim Allen on “Home Improvement,” was being held in an Oregon jail Monday after his sixth arrest in five years, this time for...

Laura Dern’s poignant tribute to late mom Diane Ladd on 90th birthday

December 1, 2025 at 7:36 a.m.

Actress Laura Dern posted a bittersweet tribute to late mom Diane Ladd Saturday on what would have been her 90th birthday.

The Prince of Wales, left, and his sons Prince William, third from left, and Prince Harry, second from left, view the sea of floral tributes to their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, at Kensington Palace, in background, Friday Sept. 5 1997. (AP Photos/Rebecca Naden/POOL)

Princess Diana might have lived if not manipulated into isolation: book

November 26, 2025 at 6:01 a.m.

Diana, Princess of Wales might still be alive if she hadn’t fallen prey to a slew of lies that BBC reporter Martin Bashir planted to convince her to sit for an...

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) speaks at a press conference alongside alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 3, 2025, announcing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which calls for the release of all unclassified documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case. (Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Marjorie Taylor Greene disavows ‘toxic politics,’ apologizes after Trump cuts ties

November 17, 2025 at 3:19 a.m.

Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene apologized Sunday for her role in the nation’s “toxic politics” and said she would do things differently going forward in hopes others would do...

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