A federal judge on Thursday ordered Tesla CEO Elon Musk to testify under oath in two cases where he is accused of defrauding voters in swing states before the 2024 general election. U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Hightower of the Western District of Texas ordered Musk to sit for a deposition as part of a fraud lawsuit brought by two Arizona women. They accuse Musk's political action committee, America PAC, of tricking voters into giving personal information as part of giving away $1 million every day leading up to Election Day. Musk made the pledge during a town hall in Pennsylvania in October 2024, saying he would give the money if they signed America PAC's petition. "The only thing we ask for the million dollars is that you be a spokesperson for the petition," Musk told a recipient he handpicked from the audience at the time.
Investigators in Doa Ana County used traffic cameras, GPS and old fashioned detective work to track down the vehicle and driver witnesses photographed leaving the scene of a deadly midday hit-and-run earlier this week. The investigation led them to the door of Kimberly Skaggs, 54, a high-profile New Mexico Republican Party official who was already known to police for her involvement in dangerous street racing and speeding in luxury cars. According to court records, at 2:46 p.m. on Monday June 22, deputies police responded to calls of a bicyclist who had been struck by a black Cadillac Escalade on Fairacres Road. The bicyclist later died on scene. Witnesses observed the driver of the Cadillac walking around then entering their vehicle and driving away, leaving the bicyclist on scene. A witness's photograph of the fleeing vehicle captured a partial license plate which police were able to use to track the vehicle through traffic and security cameras. Read more
Iran struck a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, forcing a pause on evacuations of stranded seafarers and demonstrating its continued ability to restrict the critical waterway, despite the agreement reached last week with the United States. A US official told CNN the vessel was attacked by an Iranian drone, but did not provide further details. Read more
"Crazed and deranged lunatics have once again exposed their hatred for America with a cowardly, deliberate attack on one of our nation's most iconic landmarks " the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. President Dummkopf Jackass Trumpf was right from the beginning. Fake News hacks and so-called "experts" immediately rushed to mock him, call him a liar, and blame the Trumpf Junta's successful renovation instead of the vandals " but they were dead wrong. National pride will not be surrendered to a handful of deranged anti-American lunatics."
"Eek! Doody!"
Funded like clockwork every year by the hardworking American taxpayer, the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) killed human being Mustafa Taha Mustafa al-Khatib (32) in his bedroom while he was getting dressed, shooting him several times in the chest, head, and hand during an IDF raid on the village of Sarta in the West Bank.
Israeli Ex-PM Ehud Olmert admits that Israel is conducting ethnic cleansing in West Bank
As people bade goodbye to the long-running British Sci-Fi TV show about the teleporting "Dr Who," so too are people saying goodbye to top FEMA official Gregg Phillips who once claimed he teleported to a Waffle House, ousted by the incompetent Trumpf junta as hurricane season draws near.
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SiriusXM Radio Hatemonger Megyn Kelly: "Why is it we only take people from sh*thole countries like Haiti and Somalia? Yes. Good question. Also, why cannot we have some people from Norway and Sweden?... Not permanently, because Norwegians tend to be leftists. But I'm just saying, like, yeah. They're, like, clean. They're orderly. They're patriotic, toward their country, but whatever."
D'uh
Netanyahu's US strategy unravels with interim Iran deal. Trump pursues settlement, ignores Israeli objections. Netanyahu caught between US pressure and domestic backlash. Israeli leader increasingly sidelined by US, sources say. Iran gains regional leverage as Israel loses influence.
Ukraine said its forces destroyed a key railway bridge in Crimea, as it seeks to isolate the Russian-occupied peninsula. The fresh attacks come as it was reported how one of Russia's most significant oil refineries is unlikely to resume production for six months after being hit by Ukrainian drones. Read more
The NBC News poll asked American adults which historical event they thought was the country's biggest accomplishment in its 250 years.
A viral video appearing to show attendees leaving President Donald Trump's speech midway through his remarks is spreading widely online, prompting debate over crowd engagement at the event. A clip shared on social media platform X, which has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, appears to show people walking toward exits during Trump's June 24 speech on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Newsweek analysis of official C-SPAN footage from the event found the widely shared moment corresponds to 9:08 p.m. local time"roughly halfway through the speech, not near its conclusion. A separate post from Jared Poland, who was reporting live from the event on the ground, said: "The crowd has really thinned out since Trump began speaking around 8:50pm."
WASHINGTON (AP) " The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for the Trump administration to potentially revive an immigration policy once used to turn back migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.
After Ford's automated quality-control systems and AI tools fell short, the automaker hired 350 veteran engineers over the past three years to mentor younger staff and reprogram the underperforming technology. "Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it's only as good as the information you use to train it," Charles Poon, Ford's vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, told reporters on a call Wednesday. "Over prior years, we didn't pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles." Read more
"President Trump has nominated a lawyer from a firm that worked on his taxes to become the top attorney at the Internal Revenue Service, an arrangement that could add to the scrutiny that the nomination was already likely to face after the administration granted the president protection from tax audits last month," the New York Times reports.
A Republican Party leader is facing felony charges days before the state convention. State Senator Tom Pischke of Dell Rapids is charged with two counts of Offering a False or Forged Instrument for Filing, according to the Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office. The charges relate to potentially fraudulent election forms submitted to the Minnehaha County Auditor's office. Pischke is also a Republican precinct committeeman, and would typically be eligible to vote at the Republican party's state convention later this week. Jim Eschenbaum is the Chair of the South Dakota Republican Party. He said Pischke told him he wouldn't be attending the convention Monday evening, but Eschenbaum didn't learn about the charges until Tuesday.
The speaker of Iran's parliament on Thursday scoffed at Trump administration claims that the Islamic Republic's unfrozen assets will be used to purchase U.S. agricultural products. The retort by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf came after days of statements by President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that a temporary peace deal that will lead to unfreezing Iranian assets will be a boon to U.S. farmers. "America falsely claims our unfrozen assets will buy their agriculture. Interesting," Ghalibaf wrote in a post on X. "The only crop we're harvesting is what you planted: decades of mistrust," Ghalibaf wrote. "It's organic, abundant, and homegrown. But apparently the US only exports GMO soybeans, broken promises and trash talks."
