FBI Director Kash Patel has taken an agency jet to Italy, where he has plans to hold official meetings and watch Olympic hockey games, CBS News first reported. read more
Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter drama is finally headed to trial"but first came the harder task: finding jurors who don't loathe the world's richest man. Nine jurors were seated Thursday in San Francisco federal court after the judge spent more than five hours slicing through a pool of 93 prospective jurors in the investor class action suit against Musk, according to reporting by Bloomberg Law. Musk's attorney, Stephen Broome of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, argued the hostility in the jury pool was extraordinary. "We have so many people in the venire who hate him so much that we're becoming desensitized," Broome said. In most cases, he added, a juror admitting they "hated" the defendant would be immediately excused.
More than a year after U.S. President Donald Trump casually joked about absorbing Canada and repeatedly threatened debilitating tariffs on its goods, many Canadians are convinced their former pals to the south have lost the plot. New results from The POLITICO Poll suggest a lasting chill has settled over the world's former bosom buddies. Americans are rosy as ever about their northern neighbors, but Canadians don't share the love. Their message to America: It's not us, it's you. A large plurality of Canadians (43 percent) see the U.S. as "mostly a threat" to global stability. Another 34 percent say Americans are "sometimes a force for stability, sometimes a threat."
A state legislator's former chief of staff faces charges of child sexual exploitation and child sex trafficking. Federal agents arrested Craig Scott Valdez, 36, early Friday in Juneau, according to court documents. Valdez is an Anchorage resident listed as having served as Republican Wasilla state Sen. George Rauscher's chief of staff since November. Valdez was terminated Friday hours after the charges were made public, according to a press secretary for the state Senate minority caucus, of which Rauscher is a member. Valdez was also elected as chair of the Anchorage Young Republicans in January 2025 and became the group's state committee chair last month, according to social media posts. A grand jury on Tuesday indicted Valdez on charges of sex trafficking a minor, sexual exploitation of a minor " for both allegedly producing and receiving child sexual abuse material " and coercion and enticement of a minor.
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Another impressive achievement for the orange diaper sniper.