July 14 (Reuters) -- Warren Buffett has stopped donating to the Gates Foundation, ending a two-decade philanthropic partnership following revelations about interactions between Microsoft (MSFT.O) co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Read more
Elon Musk's xAI has installed far more gas turbines without federal permits at its Colossus 2 data center project in Tennessee than it has publicly acknowledged, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest, a Reuters analysis found.
California voters will decide in November whether politicians can receive taxpayer-funded campaign money under a ballot measure that would repeal the state's decades-old ban on public financing. Proposition 4, titled the Allow Public Financing of Election Campaigns measure, will appear on the Nov. 3 statewide ballot. If approved, the measure would allow local governments across California to establish programs that use taxpayer dollars to finance political campaigns, repealing the ban established in 1988 by Proposition 73, which prohibited the use of public funds for election campaigns. Critics say the proposal would force taxpayers to subsidize political campaigns at a time when many Californians are struggling with affordability. Several California cities, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, already operate campaign financing programs,
The federal government is warning users of home and small office routers to secure their devices as Russia state hackers continue to mass-compromise them for use in obscuring nefarious actions against sensitive organizations in the public and private sectors.
Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.
President Donald Trump questioned why federal agents are investigating Sen. Lindsey Graham's death on Tuesday, following unfounded rumors of possible foul play that have circulated on social media.
"So I don't see a lot of evil there. I know there's all sorts of conspiracy theories going along," Trump said, speaking with reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
"I think the FBI's wasting their time if they're doing that."
Viral alligator video draws visitors to Silver Springs, raises wildlife concerns
OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) " A viral video of a woman petting a wild alligator at Silver Springs State Park is drawing online attention and prompting visitors to seek out gator sightings of their own, even as wildlife experts warn the trend could prove fatal for the animals.
The lead investor in a South Korean aluminum company that has challenged Commerce Department penalties on certain exports from South Korea to the United States made a $2 million payment last year to President Trump's holding company. The payment by the parent company, Base Group, was revealed for the first time in Mr. Trump's annual financial disclosure form released in late June.
President Trump has paid the writer E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million that was owed to her as a result of a jury's finding that he was liable for sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s and then defaming her, federal court records show. The money, which had been held in escrow while Mr. Trump appealed the 2023 jury award, was disbursed to Ms. Carroll last week, according to a note added to the online court docket in the case on Tuesday.
What appear to be tire tracks have become visible on the floor of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after the landmark was drained for a second round of repairs, adding another point of intrigue to the Trump administration's troubled renovation project.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military to remove diversity-related content in accordance with President Donald Trump's executive order to end diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs across the federal government. Hegseth's order reportedly gave the Pentagon a deadline of Wednesday, March 5, to complete the task, but it looks as though the hasty effort had the unwanted side effect of erasing some of America's greatest heroes -- including at least one Medal of Honor recipient from World War II. Content related to the Tuskegee airmen, the storied Black fighter pilots who helped pave the way for desegregation in the U.S. military, also appeared in the database despite the public outcry over their removal from Air Force training materials and subsequent reversal in January. And among those files flagged for removal was a photograph of Pfc. Harold Gonsalves, who received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
Three years after a jury concluded President Trump should pay $5 million in damages to the writer E. Jean Carroll for sexual abuse and defamation, she has at last been paid. For Carroll, it's a wait that began long before her federal civil lawsuit went to trial in 2023. The writer first went public with her story in 2019, accusing Mr. Trump of assaulting her in a department store dressing room three decades ago. The jury unanimously concluded a preponderance of evidence supported her claim. Court records show Carroll received $5.62 million, including interest. Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, hailed the writer's victory in a statement to CBS News. "Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll," Kaplan said.
The cooperation of Todd Blanche will be a flashpoint in his confirmation hearing to be attorney general on Wednesday.
Senior ICE officials are blaming President Donald Trump's demand for mass arrests for a wave of deadly shootings by immigration agents"with one warning that officers "pushed to the breaking point" are being forced into fatal confrontations, PunchUp reports.
US Treasury Secretary mega-oligarch Scott Bessent unveiled America's new paper currency which will tout Dummkopf Trumpf's signature, as well as a new $1 coin featuring the Dotard-in-Chief. The new dollar coin is not the vulgar 24-karat commemorative gold shekel, rubber-stamped by the Trumpf junta's federal Commission of Fine Arts featuring the morbidly obese draft-dodging geriatric president with an affinity for handsome young men and homicidal dictators who also happens to be blocking the release of the Epstein files.
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The homicidal Muhammad Bin Salman-led Saudi regime -- which decapitated 356 prisoners last year and is responsible for the man-made famine in Yemen -- ordered airstrikes on Yemen's Sanna Intl Airport while an Iranian Mahan Air passenger plane carrying a senior Houthi delegation that attended Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's massively-attended funeral was making its approach to the tarmac.
Famine is a Saudi weapon against the Houthi tribe of YemenRead more
