Britney Spears has been arrested in California under suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. The singer was detained by California Highway Patrol (CHP) at around 21:30 local time (05:30 GMT) on Wednesday. A representative for her told the BBC: "This was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable." Spears was reported to authorities for driving her BMW "erratically at a high rate of speed" on a motorway, CHP said. She "showed signs of impairment" and submitted to a series of field sobriety tests after she was pulled over.
The U.S. is even looking to Ukraine to help its operations against Iran -- as Trump rages at Starmer and Snchez for refusing to back his war.
President Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is telling his advisers to bring ideas to the Oval Office to lower gasoline prices in the wake of the U.S. attack on Iran, according to two energy industry executives familiar with the conversations.
President Trump told Axios in an interview Thursday that he needs to be personally involved in selecting Iran's next leader " just as he was in Venezuela.
Trump acknowledged that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of assassinated supreme leader Ali Khamenei, is the most likely successor " while making clear he finds that outcome unacceptable.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is expected to release the measure next week as Democratic Party lawmakers search for a sharp economic message to counter last year's Republican tax law. Under Van Hollen's proposal, workers making at or below a "living wage" - $46,000 for taxpayers filing individually, or $92,000 for married couples filing jointly - would not have to pay federal income taxes. Tens of millions of additional middle-class workers would also receive a tax cut under the proposal, but they would still have to pay taxes. The measure would be paid for by a new surcharge on millionaires that would raise roughly $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years.
The U.S. Interior Department said a database revealing how President Donald Trump's administration planned to revise information on key phases of American history at national park sites was deliberative and the employees who released it "will be held accountable."
Episcopalian pastor Lisa Levy (48) of Hamden CT was arrested for allegedly abusing multiple rescue animals she adopted, leaving them with severe chemical burns, broken bones, skin lesions, and neurological issues, some of them dying from her cruelty.
America is Thoroughly Infected
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said Dunkin' and other companies will need to prove that their ingredients are safe, prompting Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) on Wednesday to reply back, "Come and take it."
Deputy US Marshals arrested 6 January insurrectionist Jonathan J. Munafo (36) in Richmond VA for absconding from court-ordered supervision in the Northern District of New York (NDNY). Munafo was one of ~1,500 miscreants pardoned by Donald Trump.
US Capitol, 6 Jan 2021
The USDA informs that 36,987,575 pounds of various Trader Joe's ready-to-eat and frozen chicken and pork fried rice, ramen, and shu mai dumpling products were being pulled from shelves nationwide because they may contain glass.
Tainted Products
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If 168 people, overwhelmingly little girls, were killed in a school bombing in Israel, there is little doubt it would have been plastered all over major newspapers, led nightly broadcasts, and been asked about on the Sunday News programs. But"as the over 20,000 dead Palestinian children killed by a US-backed, Israeli genocide in Gaza affirm"Muslim and Arab life is simply not important, their children's deaths are simply factored in, they're collateral damage in a noble War on Terror, a perhaps regrettable "claim" that's always "being investigated" but never held to account, much less elevated to moral outrage or sustained media scandal.
A newly revealed series of group chats obtained by The Floridian shows Republican officials in Miami fantasizing about genocide and spamming racial slurs. In another segment of the chat, the person identified as "William" spammed fantasies about killing and mutilating Black people in various ways, including "crucify filthy blacks," "curb stomp pregnant black n------," "exterminate n------ in the gas chamber," "feed n------ to alligators," "stomp n----- skulls with steel toed boots," and "drown n------ in fried chicken grease."
A federal judge has cleared the way for thousands of businesses to receive refunds for tariffs that the Supreme Court struck down last month. The US Court of International Trade on Wednesday ordered Customs and Border Protection to issue refunds for levies US President Donald Trump introduced last year under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). "All importers of record whose entries were subject to IEEPA duties are entitled to the benefit" from the high court's ruling, Judge Richard Eaton wrote. Read more
Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy of Montana assisted several police officers in physically ejecting a man who interrupted a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday to object to the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran.
Your latest chat transcript could be bought and sold. Data brokers are selling access to sensitive personal data captured during chatbot conversations, despite claims that the data is anonymized and obtained with consent.
