Fox News host Howard Kurtz kicked off his Sunday Media Buzz program by highlighting "statutory rape" allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), President-elect Donald Trump's failed nominee for attorney general. In his opening monologue, Kurtz argued a House Ethics Committee report vindicated Gaetz's Republican opponents. "The Ethics Report found substantial evidence that Gaetz committed statutory rape by sleeping with a 17-year-old," the Fox News host noted. "The report says he generally paid $400 for young women to come to Washington or New York for sexual encounters, that he took such illegal drugs as cocaine and ecstasy, that he accepted improper gifts, that he violated federal and state laws."
An investigation was underway in Kentucky following a fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred on Monday. The incident took place at a home in Laurel County, where police mistakenly went to the wrong address while attempting to serve a search warrant. Douglas Harless, 63, was shot and killed by a London police officer on Vanzant Road, according to Kentucky State Police. Initial reports did not clarify whether Harless was armed, but three days after the shooting, London police stated that Harless "produced a firearm and pointed it at officers." During the encounter, an officer from the London Police Department shot Harless. Dispatch audio obtained by reporters revealed that police were attempting to serve a search warrant at 489 Vanzant Road, not 511 Vanzant Road, where the shooting occurred.
Elon Musk's war on MAGA has gone nuclear after the billionaire CEO blasted a social media user's comments about H-1B visas Friday, and former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon called him a "toddler" for his response. Musk liked a post that asserted Americans are too "retarded" to fill the country's tech workforce and supported the idea that top roles should be taken up by "better educated" people from overseas. A mere six minutes later, the Department of Government Efficiency co-head hit back at the commentator: "The reason I'm in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B." He added, "Take a big step back and F--- YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend."
Elon Musk hit back on Friday at the "contemptible fools" that he argued must be removed from the Republican Party amid a MAGA civil war over immigration. Vivek Ramaswamy and Musk irked the hard right of the GOP and MAGA base when they defended the use of H-1B visas to bring high-skilled migrant workers into the U.S. Ramaswamy sparked the MAGA world infighting on Thursday when he made the argument that the U.S. needs to import high-skilled workers as American culture has led to mediocrity in the population. "Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer)," wrote Ramaswamy after several MAGA influencers slammed President-elect Donald Trump's hiring of a prominent Indian American tech executive into his administration.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a "tragic incident" following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people. read more
The adult son of the Republican North Dakota US senator Kevin Cramer has been sentenced to serve 28 years in prison in connection with a wild chase in which he fled from a hospital and drove into a deputy's vehicle, killing the deputy. Ian Cramer, 43, pleaded guilty in September to all of the charges against him, including homicide while fleeing a peace officer, preventing arrest, reckless endangerment, fleeing an officer and drug- and driving-related offenses.
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