Donald Trump once hosted a party with a guest list made up of just himself, Jeffrey Epstein, and "28 girls," according to The New York Times, and ignored an organizer's warning about Epstein's conduct. The "calendar girl" event is reported to have taken place at Trump's Mar-a-Lago in 1992. George Houraney, who ran American Dream Enterprise, claimed in an interview that he organized the event after a request from Trump. "I arranged to have some contestants fly in," said Houraney. "At the very first party, I said, Who's coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.' It was him and Epstein." Houraney added that he warned Trump about his friend's conduct, recalling: "I said, Look, Donald, I know Jeff really well, I can't have him going after younger girls.'
Boar's Head Provisions Co., Inc., a Jarratt, Va., establishment, is recalling all liverwurst product produced by the establishment that is currently available in commerce because it may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The company is also recalling additional deli meat products that were produced on the same line and on the same day as the liverwurst and, therefore, may be adulterated with L. monocytogenes. The company is recalling approximately 207,528 pounds of products. read more
When President Biden said he was dropping his reelection bid, the sudden upheaval in U.S. politics came as a blow for many in the Russian elite who closely track relations between Moscow and the West. Biden's withdrawal in favor of Vice President Harris has upended a race that the Kremlin and its backers believed Donald Trump could win, creating "a window of opportunity" to settle the war in Ukraine on Russia's aggressive, expansionist terms, according to analysts and current and former Russian officials.
"There is some question about whether or not it was a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear," FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday. read more
The Biden administration on Friday announced it plans to phase out the use of single-use plastics from all federal operations by 2035, as part of its broader strategy to tackle plastic pollution. The phase-out would start with a goal to end federal procurement of single-use plastics from food service operations, events, and packaging by 2027. read more
The former president was introduced at the Charlotte rally by NASCAR great Richard Childress, whom he praised from the podium and then veered off into a reverie about Indianapolis 500 legend Roger Penske that led him to propose racing team owners and football coaches as advisers to military commanders.
"How you do it is amazing, it's so amazing," Trump told Childress from the stage. "We should send you into " I've always said, we should get some of those guys. I have a lot of friends in that world. I don't know, I think, isn't Roger Penske, like, a great guy, too? Guy won, he won 20 Indianapolis 500s. This guy wins all the time."
"I mean, we appreciate talent, I said, let me use these guys to guide our military a little bit," Trump told his rally supporters. "When you can win so many races, that's okay, you know, you guide. Same thing with coaches, you take some of the great football coaches, you put them at the table. 'What do you like, coach?' Because, in its own way, it's not so much really different."