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Body camera footage shows the January 2020 moment police in Hawaii serve Lori Vallow a subpoena regarding her missing two children while she relaxes poolside.

Vivek Ramaswamy has emerged from obscurity as one of early surprises of the 2024 Republican race.

NEW YORK — E. Jean Carroll didn’t hold back her true feelings to Donald Trump’s lawyer after a jury found his client liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. “He did it — and you know it,” the longtime advice columnist said she told Joe Tacopina on Tuesday as he shook her hand and congratulated her team on winning the case. Carroll, who dedicated the verdict to “every woman who has suffered because she was not believed,” on Wednesday said she was still digesting the significance of her win. Читать дальше...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is among the progressive Democrats who has been calling for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be impeached. That is unlikely to happen, as Republicans have a small single-digit majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. And even if Thomas were impeached in the House, he would need to be convicted in a U.S. Senate trial in order to be removed from the High Court.

A Florida man has been arrested after he beat his girlfriend's 5-year-old son with a mop handle after the child urinated in his bed, Fox News reported.

CNN's town hall is set to begin Wednesday night with Donald Trump despite the years the network spent being attacked by the former president.

A new study has found a relationship between ambient air pollution and the mental health of those living in the United Kingdom. The findings indicate that when individuals are exposed to air pollution, even below the standards for air quality in the United Kingdom, they are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression. The study, which was published in JAMA Psychiatry, offers insight into the potential consequences of long-term air pollution. Mental disorders are a growing cause of disability. Читать дальше...

Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse this Wednesday where he was charged with a series of financial crimes including defrauding his donors, using donor money for his personal benefit, and unemployment fraud, New York GOP Rep. George Santos said that he will not resign from Congress and he plans to run for reelection.

Rep. George Santos (R-NY) predicted he would be chairman of a committee "in a couple of years" after being indicted on 13 counts, including wire fraud, money laundering, and theft of public funds.

As the Biden administration prepares to lift a pandemic-era rule that could bring a surge of migrants to the southwest border, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed an immigration legislative package that underscores the political tensions between the White House and the Republican governor as he prepares to run for president. With the new piece of legislation, DeSantis said Florida will be cracking down on undocumented migrant labor, ending community-funded programs that give undocumented immigrants... Читать дальше...

A far-right U.S. senator who last year promoted a racist narrative about Black people earlier this week suggested he doesn’t have a problem with white nationalists serving in the military, AL.com reports.

Critics have spent the past few weeks bashing CNN for hosting Donald Trump for a town hall after he spent years ginning up hate against the network that ultimately led to targeted violence against hosts.

If you threaten people at a polling place, it’s no trifling matter — you could go to prison. Take the example of Joshua David Lubitz, a 39-year-old Broward County native who learned this hard lesson after he threatened election workers who assisted him and other voters at a senior center in Sunrise during the primary election last August. “Should I kill them one by one or should I blow the place up?” a federal indictment accused Lubitz of saying at the polling station, then he “pointed his finger... Читать дальше...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) slammed far-right provocateur-turned Kanye West campaign insider Milo Yiannopoulos on Wednesday in the wake of news reports that he used a credit card belonging to her congressional campaign for the $7,000 purchase of Ye24.com.

Mayor Eric Adams spoke at length Wednesday about the chokehold death of Jordan Neely, a homeless subway performer who was killed after menacing straphangers a week ago, but the mayor continued to avoid discussing whether criminal charges should be brought in the case. After days of remaining relatively silent about Neely’s death, Adams refrained from saying anything about Daniel Penny, the former Marine who put Neely in the deadly chokehold, and said that the city has “no control over that process.” “Today... Читать дальше...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ tourism oversight board hired a new administrator Wednesday to run the district that oversees Walt Disney World, giving him a pay bump to $400,000 in part because of the federal lawsuit the company has filed in the escalating feud. In addition, the board also created a code enforcement system that could issue fines to Walt Disney World, which is known for meticulous care of its grounds. The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board’s actions came... Читать дальше...

A Lauren Boebert constituent is calling out the far-right congresswoman from Colorado over a measure she introduced that would lionize the weapon of choice by most mass shooters as America's "National Gun."

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) accused Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) of wanting to defund the FBI during a confrontation on Wednesday.

The outbreak of unruly passengers on flights continues, with a recent incident in which a passenger tried to take over the plane due to complaints over the menu, according to the Daily Beast.

Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) ridiculed Republican objections to block a leading investment firm from imposing its own standards on utility companies to cut emissions linked to climate change.

Now that a jury has found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming journalist E. Jean Carroll, conservative New York Times columnist David French argues that the Republican Party has an ethical duty to not nominate him for president yet again.

Eddie Brokenbough, 46, supplemented his income by working as a political canvasser. This Monday as he was knocking on doors for the progressive group One PA, he was fatally shot by another canvasser from the same organization after the two had a confrontation, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

New York City’s plan to send migrants upstate has hit a snag in light of a local judge blocking a Rockland County hotel from housing any asylum seekers for the time being. Mayor Adams’ administration initially intended to on Wednesday transport about 30 migrants to live at the Armoni Inn and Suites in Rockland’s Orangetown — part of an effort to relocate some 300 asylum seekers to upstate counties amid the city’s deepening crisis. But State Supreme Court Judge Christie D’Alessio issued a temporary... Читать дальше...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Republican-controlled Missouri House on Wednesday passed a pair of bills that would ban gender-affirming care for minors and prohibit transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports. The two pieces of legislation, part of anationwide push to regulate the lives of transgender people, are now headed to Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s desk. Parson, a Republican, had urged lawmakers to pass the measures before the end of session and has given no indication he will veto them. Читать дальше...

In 1998, I unintentionally created a racially biased artificial intelligence algorithm. There are lessons in that story that resonate even more strongly today.