Former Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz said in a LinkedIn post that he and his wife are moving from Seattle to Florida after more than four decades in the city, where he helped build the coffee chain into a global brand. Read more
Between hearings for deposed Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro and accused CEO shooter Luigi Mangione, the U.S. federal court in Manhattan was recently asked to consider an important question: When is salsa too spicy? The precipitating event was a 2024 trip to a Times Square taqueria by a German tourist. The plaintiff, Faycal Manz, said he suffered "severe physical symptoms" following a single bite of Los Tacos No. 1's green salsa, and sued for damages. Read more
A watched pot never boils. It's true of birthing calves, too. Leave a cow you've watched for hours for five minutes, and you'll miss the whole performance.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was mocked this week for wearing oversized shoes after it was reported that President Donald Trump had gifted his officials dress shoes they were then too "afraid not to wear." Photos of Rubio's feet on Tuesday went viral on social media after they showed him seemingly wearing a pair of shoes that were too big. The photos were taken just one day after the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was guessing his allies' foot size and then ordering them $145 Florsheim shoes they were subsequently too "afraid not to wear." "All the boys have them," said one unnamed White House official, while another told the Journal, "It's hysterical because everybody's afraid not to wear them."
A court hearing for Cher's son Wednesday over allegations he broke into a New Hampshire home this month has been canceled. Elijah Allman's arrest on March 1 was his second in New Hampshire in a matter of days. Allman, the 49-year-old son of the iconic singer and actress, was also detained Feb. 27, accused of acting belligerently at a prestigious prep school in Concord. It is unclear if Allman, of Malibu, California, has any connection to the home in Windham, New Hampshire. He is being held in the Rockingham County Department of Corrections, Superintendent Jonathan Banville said.
The rising threat of notably strong tornadoes has prompted the highest severe thunderstorm risk in months to be issued in parts of the Midwest. It's all part of a more widespread potential outbreak of powerful storms across the Central US on Tuesday as a new storm system develops and strengthens over the region. A Level 4 of 5 risk of severe thunderstorms is in place for more than 2 million people in northern Illinois and northwest Indiana, including Peoria and Bloomington, Illinois.
While all eyes look up to the sky for more bimvs to fall on Iran, another object may fall on Iran. With a 1 in 4,200 chance of falling on Iranian child or teenager, Trump will be blamed for it. Read more
A former D.C. police officer is accused of sexually assaulting nearly a dozen women across the D.C. area. Timothy Valentin is accused of drugging and assaulting women he met on dating apps. So far, police say they've identified victims in Alexandria, Prince George's County and Takoma Park. Valentin left the Metropolitan Police Department in 2022. He's accused of assaults in 2024 and 2025. In at least one case, investigators say he told a victim he was in law enforcement, and police found a gun and badge in his car. News4 found disturbing details in Alexandria court documents filed in connection with his arrest in December. Detectives found dozens of explicit videos on his cellphone. "I want to acknowledge the enormity of this moment," Alexandria Chief of Police Tarrick McGuire said at a news conference Monday. Valentin faces charges related to four victims in Alexandria. Read more
Iran's tiny community of 10,000 Jews are trying to stay safe from barbaric IDF and US air and missile strikes, as well as spreading toxic fumes and acid rain caused by Israel's destruction of Iran's oil facilities.
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Trump's sons are using their father's fame to invest in war drones Read more
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) blandly discussed "our tone and our message" with two Republican congressmen who made hideous anti-Muslim remarks, but nevertheless defended the right of these lawmakers to oppose "the imposition of Sharia law" on the United States of America.
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Last week, the New York Times ran an alarming house editorial called "Politicians Are Trying To Control The News," outlining how the "shadow of press repression" is now expanding to "onetime bastions of press freedom" like Hong Kong, Israel, and Donald Trump's United States. Written in the grave tone the paper brought when it published a history-altering essay by Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov fifty years ago, it was all true, except it left out our country's strangest and most shameful example, one in which the Times played a regrettable part: the case of Dimitri Simes. In August, 2024, the FBI raided the Virginia home of Simes, who defected to the United States in 1973 after being expelled for protesting Soviet involvement in the Vietnam War. A huge team of agents swooped into the empty home " both Simes and his wife were away " and took almost everything ...
Minutes later, Rep. Dave Pinto, DFL-St. Paul, the committee co-chair, compared blaming higher work pay for causing higher prices to the impact shoplifting has on higher prices. He started by mentioning a presentation on the impact of organized retail theft he'd heard in a public safety committee the day before. "There was a presentation of a group seeking to change how we address organized retail theft," he said. "And it actually had not occurred to me to ask, it probably would have been good, to make sure that they would study the benefit of shoplifting and of retail theft. Because perhaps people are relying on that and using that, and maybe it's assisting them in some way." Read more
Recent retiree Reinaldo Jesus Lefonts was charging his EV in a Downey library parking lot when he was attacked in a stabbing that severed both carotid arteries and both jugular veins. He was alive when an ambulance arrived at the parking lot " but that emergency vehicle was then stolen. The driver of the ambulance, according to police, led officers on a pursuit that ended in a crash miles away. "In that moment, every second mattered," Lefonts' family says in a legal claim against the city. "The City's paramedics and rescue vehicle were Reinaldo's only realistic chance of survival. Read more
SACRAMENTO " Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to spend $19 million promoting California and dispelling "myths driven by misinformation and political rhetoric" in a marketing campaign that would run through the final months of his administration as he weighs a potential run for president. The new contract, which is in the bidding process, comes as Newsom's political future and national standing are closely tied to how voters view California's economy, crime and quality of life " issues that have become central to attacks from President Trump and conservative media outlets. Read more
Jello Biafra, the outspoken co-founder and former frontman of the seminal San Francisco punk band Dead Kennedys, was hospitalized over the weekend after suffering a stroke.
