VMA's keeping it classy.
Kurt Olsen, an election denier who attempted to overturn the 2020 election results in favor of President Trump, has resigned from the Justice Department, sources familiar with his departure told CBS News on Monday. Olsen had been assigned to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, where he was working on the "grand conspiracy" investigation targeting Obama- and Biden-era officials, which has so far not resulted in any charges. CBS News has asked Olsen for comment. Earlier this month, Joe diGenova, the prosecutor who was tapped by Attorney General Todd Blanche, also resigned amid tensions with senior Justice Department officials over how the cases were being managed and their pace.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a strong warning to a major migrant caravan that crossed into Mexico and was moving north with hopes of reaching the U.S.-Mexico border. "USBP is closely engaged with its international partners to monitor their movement and any additional developments," DHS told Fox News in a statement. "[United States Border Patrol] USBP reminds migrants that under the leadership of President Trump and Homeland Secretary Mullin, the border has remained closed and secured for the last 16 months." The caravan, numbering in the hundreds as of Monday, is predominantly made up of Hondurans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Ecuadoreans and Haitians.
Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee resigned from the Legislature Monday, hours after prosecutors charged him with multiple felonies tied to an alleged scheme to fraudulently secure a home loan. The Utah Attorney General's Office filed charges in 3rd District Court accusing Lee, 35, of second-degree felony communications fraud and mortgage fraud, along with third-degree felony forgery and possession of a forgery device, according to ABC4. Lee represented Davis County's House District 16 as part of the Republican majority that has repeatedly pushed congressional maps courts later ruled were illegal partisan gerrymanders. He personally put out a statement attacking a state court for the ruling at the time.
OpenAI will not release its new AI model GPT-6.1 Astra due to safety concerns, the ChatGPT-maker confirmed on Tuesday. The AI system, which performs tasks like browsing the web and using apps by itself, "didn't quite meet the bar" of the company's standards, Saachi Jain, head of safety systems at OpenAI said.
Warnings of an El Niño unlike any other are starting to become reality.
In a groundbreaking book, an eminent psychiatrist diagnosed Donald Trump as a psychotic and paranoid manic depressive. Emil Kraepelin published "Manic-Depressive Insanity and Paranoia" in 1921.
Overall, research has found that PE involvement in health care has led to changes in the workforce, increased costs and utilization, mixed effects on quality of care, and a lower percentage of Medicare patient discharges, implying an increase in privately insured patients with higher reimbursement rates ...
The main parties involved in a parading dispute in Northern Ireland are still in a stalemate, following a day of political talks and heated exchanges at Stormont. Members of the Orange Order are still waiting to begin their permitted parade, which was due to take place on Sunday morning, and walk down the mainly-nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown. Protesters blocked the road at the weekend and after meeting the Northern Ireland secretary, a representative of the road's residents said the Orange Order should focus on a different route. The Drumcree parade, which in the 1990s sparked some of the most serious disorder in Northern Ireland's history, was due to go ahead for the first time in 30 years after legal challenges. Read more
Russia's rising hybrid activity on Svalbard is sparking fears that Moscow could spark an incident that tests NATO's Article 5 mutual defense clause.
The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories
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Abortion has faded from the headlines since the Dobbs decision of 2022, and Republicans like it that way.
In the immediate aftermath of the supreme court's overturning of Roe v Wade, as millions of women lost access to the dignity and self-determination that abortion provided them, clinics shut their doors, and the extent of Dobbs's horrendously adverse public health implications started to become clear, abortion was always, it seemed, in the headlines.
President Donald Trump's approval rating has dropped among white voters in six states he carried in 2024, including a 19-point drop in Kentucky, according to Civiqs polling.
White voters, particularly those without college degrees, have formed a central part of Trump's electoral coalition. A large drop in approval among this voting bloc could be trouble for Republican candidates in key elections, particularly in Alaska, Ohio, and Texas.
Trump won white voters nationally 57 percent to 42 percent in 2024, including white voters without college degrees 66 percent to 32 percent, according to NBC News national exit polling.
Calls Her the Apotheosis of Mediocrity'
In the 1970s, Todd Rundgren established himself as one of rock music's great experimenters, building a career as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer while working with everyone from Meat Loaf to The Band.
More than five decades later, the 78-year-old musician has some strong opinions about where popular music has gone since then, particularly when it comes to Taylor Swift.
In a new interview with Vulture, Rundgren was reminded that when he produced Meat Loaf's hugely successful 1977 album Bat Out of Hell, he once said he approached the project partly as a parody of Bruce Springsteen.
Media commentators in the MAGA movement shredded Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday over a new TV ad depicting white male gamers as the target of a state welfare fraud crackdown " and claimed the Republican hadn't injected enough race into her messaging.
Drawing the ire of the right: Sanders' promotion of new work requirements for Natural State welfare recipients, featuring a tousle-headed gamer named "Brad," shown in the advert mashing a video game controller and scarfing potato chips.
"Brad has turned relaxing into a full-time profession," Sanders tells voters in the ad. "But you, you actually work hard. You pay taxes to cover welfare for guys like Brad who just choose not to work."
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law The Firearm Printing Prevention Act (AB 2047). This groundbreaking legislation will help stop the next generation of ghost guns before they are made by requiring consumer 3D printers sold in California to incorporate technology that identifies and blocks attempts to print firearms and illegal firearm parts. With Governor Newsom's signature, California becomes just the second state in the nation to establish safety standards for 3D printers to prevent the printing of illegal guns and gun parts, and by far the largest economy to do so. As the fourth-largest economy in the world and a global center of technology and innovation, California's action sends a powerful signal to the 3D-printing industry: companies that build and sell rapidly evolving technology have a responsibility to ensure their products are not easily exploited to manufacture illegal firearms. Read more
A Florida teenager who admitted to killing his mother and her partner has been sentenced to prison after accepting a plea deal that allows for parole after 25 years. Read more
