People had voiced concern over Olive's tendency to break into routine customer interactions with fictional details about its life and family.
Another day, another humiliating setback for President Donald Trump's Justice Department " and another awkward moment for Attorney General Pam Bondi, repeatedly tasked with executing the president's hard-edged agenda only to see it stall under judicial pushback.
Crystal Mangum, the woman who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006, was released from prison Friday morning. She was convicted of second-degree murder in 2013 for the 2011 stabbing death of her boyfriend, Reginald Daye, and sentenced to 14 to 18 years. Mangum claimed the stabbing was in self-defense. Read more at: www.charlotteobserver.com
Geometry of tread patterns determines frequency, so blocks were designed to play Star Wars music.
Donald Trump's endorsement remains the most valuable asset in GOP primaries. But after the president, it's Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and Turning Point USA leader who was killed on a Utah college campus last September. Candidates across the country, from Kentucky to Iowa to Arizona, are promoting their endorsements from Kirk's organization, hoping to use it to appeal to the swath of young, mostly male, voters that he influenced and brought to the Republican Party in recent years.
Texas Republicans could jeopardize a race they usually expect to win, as poor candidate choices could open the door to an upset, according to a new analysis on pollster Nate Silver's website.
Wholesale prices rose at a faster-than-expected pace in January, countering hopes that inflation was easing, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The core producer price index, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.8%, more than the 0.6% gain in December and well ahead of the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 0.3%. Read more
Former President Bill Clinton on Friday told members of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee investigating his ties to Jeffrey Epstein that "I saw nothing" and "did nothing wrong," and criticized the panel for making his wife sit for a deposition.
Panic erupted early Friday morning after the Trump administration issued a rare order encouraging Americans in Israel to "consider leaving while commercial flights are available," sparking speculation that an all-out war may be imminent. "Good luck to us all," wrote Israeli geopolitical analyst Nitzan David Fuchs in a social media post on X early Friday morning, according to an automatic translation of their original post that was written in Hebrew. Issued by the State Department early Friday, the directive cited threats from "violent extremists" who, according to the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, are "plotting possible attacks in Israel." The agency urged Americans to "reconsider" traveling to Israel effective immediately, and encouraged those already in the country to consider leaving.
NASA on Friday announced an abrupt change to its pathway to getting astronauts back on the lunar surface, opting to add in an additional crewed test flight before attempting to land. Space agency officials said that "Artemis III" will now be a different mission entirely, one that involves launching a crewed NASA capsule to Earth orbit to dock with at least one prototype lunar lander vehicle made by SpaceX or Blue Origin. Read more
American sympathies in the Middle East have shifted dramatically toward the Palestinians, according to new Gallup polling, after decades of overwhelming support for the Israelis.
On Truth Social late last night, Donald Trump amplified a message calling for people to be imprisoned over his 2020 election loss. Sharing a post from another account, Trump boosted the declaration "People need to be in prison," alongside a graphic claiming "THESE ARE THE STATES WE KNOW THEY STOLE." The image purported to show the 2020 electoral map but flipped key battleground states from Joe Biden to Trump, falsely suggesting the outcome was actually the opposite of reality. The map circulating in Trump's post is not authentic. It takes the certified 2020 results and digitally alters several swing states that were won by Biden, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, by recoloring them for Trump. Those states were officially certified by their respective election authorities and upheld through a slew of court challenges.
At least 10 FBI employees who worked on former Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into President Trump's retention of classified records after he left the White House in 2021 were fired on Wednesday, multiple sources told CBS News.
Pakistan has bombed Afghanistan's capital Kabul and other cities, claiming to have killed hundreds of Afghan Taliban fighters, as Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said Islamabad would now be waging "open war", while Afghanistan has also claimed to have inflicted substantial losses.
After the popular NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) secured the release of NYC ICE detainee Elmina Aghayeva this week and then held a productive meeting with President Donald Trump (R) at the White House to invest billions of dollars of funding for public housing, Islamophobe Laura Loomer took to a megaphone to irrationally attack both New Yorkers.
Laura Loomer is not a good human being.
"The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has filed federal lawsuits against five states-- Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, and New Jersey-- for failure to produce their full voter registration lists upon request. This brings the Justice Department's nationwide total to 29 states and the District of Columbia.
USAG Pam Bondi is not a good human being.
