Karine Jean-Pierre, former White House press secretary for President Joe Biden, has left the Democratic Party to become an independent, she writes in a new book that will be released this fall. In her upcoming book "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines," Jean-Pierre shares "why Americans must step beyond party lines to embrace life as Independents," publisher Hachette Book Group says in a summary of the book released June 4. "Jean-Pierre didn't come to her decision to be an Independent lightly," the teaser for the book adds. "She takes us through the three weeks that led to Biden's abandoning his bid for a second term and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his decision."
BREAKING: Donald Trump has a nuclear meltdown after Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation report is released " revealing that the evidence was "sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction" if the trial had gone to court.
Ukraine has been invited to a NATO summit in The Hague this month, Mark Rutte, the military bloc's chief, said on Wednesday, without specifying whether this meant Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy would attend.
Trump administration officials delayed and redacted a government forecast because it predicts an increase in the nation's trade deficit in farm goods later this year, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Donald Trump Jr. is launching an online firearm retailer, 'GrabAGun,' which he and his partners have described as the "Amazon of guns." The platform aims to provide a streamlined shopping experience for firearms and accessories while adhering to federal safety regulations. "There's women coming into the marketplace for self-defense," the obnoxious Dauphin said. "There's a younger generation that's shifting to the conservative side that understands the need to exercise their Second Amendment." 'GrabAGun' will allow customers to purchase firearms online, though federal law requires the weapons to be picked up from authorized and licensed dealers, where standard background checks will be conducted. However, accessories such as scopes and ammunition can be shipped directly to consumers' homes. Read more
NEW YORK (AP) -- Final results from a long-running US-based experiment announced Tuesday show a tiny particle continues to act strangely -- but that's still good news for the laws of physics as we know them. "This experiment is a huge feat in precision," said Tova Holmes, an experimental physicist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville who is not part of the collaboration. The mysterious particles called muons are considered heavier cousins to electrons. They wobble like a top when inside a magnetic field, and scientists are studying that motion to see if it lines up with the foundational rulebook of physics called the Standard Model.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Five countries won seats on the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday in uncontested elections and will start serving two-year terms in January on the UN's most powerful but deeply divided body. The 193-member General Assembly held a secret-ballot vote for the five rotating seats on the 15-member council. Bahrain received 186 votes, Congo 183 votes, Liberia 181 votes, Colombia 180 votes and Latvia 178 votes. This will be the first time on the council for Latvia, which was forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union and gained independence again after its collapse in 1991.
EUROPOL is offering a 200,000 euro reward for information that could lead to the arrest of Joseph Johannes Leudekkers (34). The fugitive is a key player in international cocaine trafficking and large-scale money laundering of Euros and gold. In less than six months, the dangerous kingpin spent 47 million euros on 975 kg of gold and bought a hotel in Turkiye as well as apartments in Dubai. Leijdekkers is also involved in serious cases of excessive violence, torture, and murder. Jos Leijdekkers was sentenced to 24 years in prison on 25 Jun 2024, for six drug transports totaling almost 7,000 kilos of cocaine, an armed robbery in Finland, and ordering an execution. Read more
Patrick Waite (77) calmly called police moments after he allegedly shot his wife, mother-in-law, and two stepsons " killing three of them " to report the horrific crime. Waite is accused of methodically shooting his wife Alma (61) and her family, going from room to room to blast each victim in the Haubstadt Indiana home they shared. He is facing several murder charges. After he opened fire on all four victims, Waite called 911 to explain what he had done, where he would be when officers arrived, and where investigators could find the .45-caliber Smith & Wesson he used. "I shot them all. I'm certainly not proud of that fact," he said in a chilling but casual confession. The surviving stepson remains sedated in critical condition. Map of Indiana Read more
The Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), set to take off from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida next week, will be piloted by an Indian as it soars towards the International Space Station (ISS). Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian air force is among the four-member multi-country crew of Ax-4 that will be spending two weeks on the ISS. The flight, scheduled for 10 June at 08:22 EDT (12:22GMT; 17:52IST), has generated a huge interest in India as Group Captain Shukla will only be the second Indian ever to travel to space and the first to visit the ISS. Read more
In terms of fraud, generally, we didn't find any examples of fraud, fraud meaning someone who broke the law, who was getting money they shouldn't have been getting. We did have one case where we were asked to look into something. We were asked to look into someone who I think some other agency or something found out was 137 years old. Read more
Immigration authorities have arrested the wife and children of the man suspected of carrying out Sunday's attack in Boulder, Colorado, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Tuesday. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, has been charged with attempted murder, assault and possession of an incendiary device after a dozen people were injured at a march calling for the release of Israeli hostages. "We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack, if they had knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it," Noem said on X.
Newly released undercover video shows a university administrator in North Carolina boasting about DEI efforts still taking place at the school despite state and federal efforts to roll back the policies, prompting the school to sever ties with that employee. "I mean we probably still do anyway ... but you gotta keep it quiet," UNC Asheville Dean of Students Megan Pugh tells an undercover journalist in a video released by Accuracy In Media and exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, after being praised for continuing to do "equity work" at the school. "Keep it on the down low?" the journalist responds, to which Pugh says, "Yeah."
It's worth asking. Does Trump ... think he's God? OK, he almost certainly doesn't think he's God " but does he think he's ... God-like? Divinely sanctioned or inspired or empowered?
Does he think he's somehow imbued with some special, sacred purpose for some special, sacred reason? Or did he just see and seize an opportunity to stamp his world-upending agenda with the ultimate justification " a mandate from God?
The Washington Post is being mocked online and by the White House for "pathetic" reporting on what the liberal-leaning news outlet calls a "mysterious" decline in fentanyl flowing across the border. Fentanyl is a dangerous drug that is often trafficked into the United States across the southern and northern borders by cartels and other criminal elements. In 2024, fentanyl was linked to the death of 48,422 persons in the United States, according to the CDC. During his campaign, President Donald Trump vowed to wage a war against fentanyl traffickers through increased border security and by cracking down on illegal immigration. Since taking office, Trump has deployed U.S. troops to the southern border, targeted cartels and transnational criminal groups as "foreign terrorist organizations" and hit cartel leaders with sanctions.
The president spreading bonkers conspiracy theories and unleashing vicious personal attacks against his political opponents is certainly more newsworthy than when he manages to read prepared remarks. But major media also ignored how he often fails to execute that bare minimum task. Consider Trump's West Point commencement speech on May 24 " a rambling, garbled mess where he ranted about Al Capone, large yachts, drag queens, and "trophy" wives. The reality is that Biden was old but governed normally. Trump governs erratically because he's unglued. That's the true cover-up, one the media is enabling when they seem more concerned with the mental condition of a former president than the escalating madness of the current one.
